{"id":292,"date":"2012-02-13T00:11:52","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T05:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2012-02-09T21:35:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T02:35:50","slug":"ultrarich-mitt-romney-one-percent-of-the-one-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/ultrarich-mitt-romney-one-percent-of-the-one-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-Rich Mitt Romney in 1% of the 1%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toppun.com\/Political\/Buttons\/Wall-Street-Bankruptcy-POLITICAL-BUTTON.html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" src=\"http:\/\/TopPun.com\/Political\/Wall-Street-Bankruptcy.gif\" alt=\"Wall Street Bankruptcy POLITICAL BUTTON\" width=\"173\" height=\"173\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/a>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/wealth\/2012\/01\/24\/mitt-romney-is-in-the-top-0-0025\/tab\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney had an income of $21.7 million last year.\u00a0 This puts Mr. Romney in the category of the ultra rich, the super rich, the mega rich, the 1% of the 1%.\u00a0 In fact, Mr. Romney is in the top 0.0025% of Americans in income.\u00a0 He makes the 1% look like the 99%.\u00a0 His earnings are over 800 times that of the median American wage earner.\u00a0 Scientists and political philosophers alike speculate that it may be existentially impossible for Mr. Romney to be anything other than a Republican.\u00a0 Poor Mitt, so much for the freedom to choose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney had an income of $21.7 million last year.\u00a0 This puts Mr. Romney in the category of the ultra rich, the super rich, the mega rich, the 1% of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/13\/ultrarich-mitt-romney-one-percent-of-the-one-percent\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,15],"tags":[52,115,282,191,66,17,107,119,106,4,192],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-political-and-philosophical-musings","tag-class-warfare","tag-freedom","tag-income","tag-mitt-romney","tag-money","tag-political","tag-poor","tag-republican","tag-rich","tag-wall-street","tag-wall-street-journal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ultra-Rich Mitt Romney in 1% of the 1% | News, Political and Philosophical Musings | Top Pun&#039;s Poetry, Funny Puns, Free Posters, Public Health Radio Show! 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