{"id":4042,"date":"2011-09-20T14:23:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T19:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4042"},"modified":"2011-09-20T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T19:33:00","slug":"saving-a-million-over-a-lifetime-vs-earning-a-million-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=4042","title":{"rendered":"Saving a million over a lifetime vs. earning a million a year [BIGOT ALERT]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t find the Trib&#8217;s story on American&#8217;s giving up hope of becoming millionaires on the DNT website but<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/ap-cnbc-poll-million-long-shot-us-14552399\"> this<\/a> seems to be it.<\/p>\n<p>While the GOP is hyperventilating about Obama stiring up class warfare I&#8217;d like to <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3793\">once again<\/a> note that saving a million dollars over the course of one&#8217;s lifetime (which makes one a millionaire) falls far short of earning a million bucks a year. According to this story there are currently 5.2 millionaires in America. That is a far cry from 5.2 million American&#8217;s earning a million each year. Those are multi-millionaires. Obama is only going after them for taxes. If he can raise $1.5 trillion from them I say <em>go for it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty soon we may have to rephrase that Biblical story to make it about a Republican getting to heaven being as likely as a camel passing through the eye of a needle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t find the Trib&#8217;s story on American&#8217;s giving up hope of becoming millionaires on the DNT website but this seems to be it&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,31,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}