Carol Shea-Porter is earning over 170,000.00 dollars per year as a member of the US House. (That’s $120,000.00 more per year than the national average for the rest of us.) Her husband, whose income remains a mystery–perfectly legal as I understand it–has an extensive military background (for which he deserves our thanks) and appears to be employed by the government as well. So it is safe to say that he’s making good money. In fact, odds are good he is making twice as much as his private sector counterpart.
Is he making $80,000.00 per year or more? I bet he is. And if he is, by the left wings definition, the Shea-Porters are rich, and therefore not eligible for the distinction of "being part of the middle class." And until such time as we know for certain, it is safe to assume that every time someone in the Shea-Porter campaign claims she is just part of the middle class, including Carol, they are lying to you.
Until we know why they don’t report any regular bank accounts we should also be suspicious; suspicions that Carol’s "I feel your pain" street cred is a white wash hiding a family income in excess of the evil $250,000.00 mark, with income piling up somewhere out of site. Is she hiding it her mattress? Who knows? Is it illegal, probably not, but it is curious that she is unwilling to reveal every source of income from which she personally benefits when to do so would legitimately contradict her political rhetoric. It reeks of hypocrisy and it’s intentionally dishonest.
Carol is living well ladies and gentleman while her policies have sewed uncertainty into a stalled economy that has 15 million people unemployed or underemployed, with little or no sign that the job situation will be improving under her watch. (And you can’t have a jobless recovery–every unemployed person will tell you that themselves.)
Nothing she has said or promised about jobs or recovery has come to pass. And she is committed to moving income and authority away from towns and states and entrenching it into the impregnable DC bureaucracy. Carol has said out loud, that she continues to believe that government is the best answer to every question, despite the failures of the past few years. That’s not going to change if you send her back to Washington. It’s going to continue.
This is as disconnected from reality as you can get. Carol is drunk on central planning and the accumulation of power, as far from the people as possible. She is not only NOT part of the middle class, she is just another rich DC elitist. She votes like them, she hangs out with them, she thinks like them, and is dismissive of us in the process. She is not interested in what’s good for New Hampshire, she is interested in what one-third of the electorate wants–the progressive democrat third–regardless of its impact on the entire district or the state.
So the next time she rolls out the "Middle class" meme, call her on it. She can’t or won’t prove you wrong, and if I’m not mistaken the progressives rules now state, "if you can’t prove me wrong, then I have to be right. And even if I’m not, the suspicion alone is damning enough."
