The Schumer Shutdown is coming, and we can expect a great flood of whining from Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the architect of this whole thing. He and other Democrats will be whining and crying about the shutdown – that they caused – and the effect that the Schumer Shutdown will have on ordinary Americans.
While that effect may be overblown – and when Democrats are creating global warming with their hot-air emissions on the topic, it certainly will be – it’s important to note that Chuck Schumer is free to cause just such effects. They may hurt ordinary Americans in one way or another, but they won’t hurt Chuck Schumer.
Why? Because he is stinking and suspiciously rich.
Chuck Schumer’s net worth is estimated to be in excess of $60 million, with much of that money coming from opportunities out of his relatively modest Senate salary.
Instead, that money comes from savvy real estate investments that he made early in his career, some of which he was afforded because of his political connections.
Savvy real estate investments? What kind of real estate investments? But it’s the second part, vague yet revealing, that speaks more loudly: “Some of which (money) he was afforded because of his political connections.”
For his work in the Senate, Schumer is paid $174,000 per year, which is certainly not a small salary, but doesn’t account for his massive net worth.
Over the more than 25 years since he was first elected to the Senate, Schumer has seen plenty of change and upheaval in Washington. His long term in office is part of why he has risen up the ranks to become the minority leader, but it also means that he is now 74 years old and likely approaching the end of his political career.
Either Chuck Schumer is the present-day equivalent of King Midas and everything he touches turns to gold, or some shenanigans are going on here. There are few people in the world with enough business and financial acumen to turn a $174,000 annual salary into a net worth of $60 million, but if one’s last name is Schumer (or Biden, or Pelosi, or others we could name) it seems almost impossible not to accumulate huge piles of cash while supposedly doing the people’s business.
This is how we arrive here, with Chuck Schumer piously intoning his concern for ordinary Americans while forcing a shutdown, the effects of which he is shielded from by his inexplicable wealth.
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Senator Schumer is, of course, not alone in all this. From Her Imperial Majesty Hillary I’s suspiciously lucky turn in cattle futures to Nancy Pelosi’s unbelievably prescient stock trades, these long-term “public figures” seem to grow enormously wealthy while bemoaning the effect the wealthy have on politics. Even the daffy old Bolshevik from Vermont, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), has managed to amass a considerable enough fortune that he has had to change his ranting about “millionaires” to ranting about “billionaires” to avoid exposing himself as an even bigger hypocrite than he already is.
This gives these people license – they are insulated from the effects of their horrible policies and their own self-serving advocacy of stupid ideas. Chuck Schumer is, in this, one of many – but he’s one of the worst.
There are exceptions, of course; I can think of one political figure who, in his first term in office, left with a lower net worth than he started with. His name is Donald Trump.
It looks like the Schumer Shutdown could be on its way.
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