Man, wait until people find out where he went to scohol. Then they'll vote for Bachmann (William & Mary: Law), Cain (Purdue: Computer Science), Perry (Texas A&M: Animal Science), or Romney (Harvard: Law/MBA). Well, they'll vote for Perry anyway. That's a real degree.
They won't believe Obama gets a private jet and plays golf! Totally unsuitable for a President. And to top it off, when he's done being President, people will pay to hear what he says like he's something special or something. It's so angrifying! I'm going to email this image I made in the foe toe shop to all my patriots.
If you were under the impression that former presidents of the US were poor, you just got a told. Better put your shades on for the next graphic then, because you will be stunned to find out even lowly Congressmen qualify for the top 1% giftbasket of foie gras and virgins kidnapped from the bottom 40%.
US Supreme Court Justice salaries are higher than the congress people. In both cases, the salaries themselves aren't enough to push people above the 1% threshold ($380,354), but we can safely presume that to become a congress person or supreme court judge you spent several years in a lucrative job which allowed you to get all up in investments and that capital gains shit. So it's not that the top levels of government make people rich, but that to get there you basically need to be rich.
A lot of time the condition of being rich is caused by having a stellar education and/or the network from attending a stellar institution. Therefore if we want to end the domination of higher government by monied people, we would elect poor people from top schools because they have willfully refused the benefits that accord people who attend top schools. Someone who does that will be qualified to make the kinds of ineffable decisions which feed the Satire?blog monster.
So, in an ironic sort of way, the laughable failure of the Obama picture is not so; it's completely right. It says to the non-critical legion of Obama supporters (as opposed to the sometimes-critical, frequently-critical, and always critical legions of Obama supporters) that Obama looks to be on the other side of the wealth gap from the 99%. And from that we can conclude that...I dunno, it's impossible to try and narrow the gap except from the slacker side? Look...the point isn't that it makes sense, the point is that some enterprising individual, noting data on congressional, executive, and judicial wealth decided to hide his argument in a handwriting photo and send it to a partisan blog for its non-skeptical readers to lap up. And that asks--but not begs--the question, is it actually satire?
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