$42 million in two years, really? I’ll admit that he must be a good businessman, but along those lines, it’s pretty hard to do well in business without screwing people over. I don’t think someone who is supposedly worth half a billion dollars can relate to the needs of the American public. When you have that much money, your only worries in life is how to keep your money and make more, he cannot relate to our daily problems and I doubt he cares. Here’s the article the NY Times ran this morning about his released tax documents
The other thing that concerns me is the top contributors to his campaign.Pulled from http://www.opensecrets.org/pres12/contrib.php?id=N00000286 You’ll notice that most of them are banks. Compared to Ron Paul’s top ten, it looks pretty bad. (Ron Paul’s top ten are Army, Air Force, Navy, Mason Capital Management, Microsoft, Boeing, Google, Overland Sheepskin, IBM, US Govt, Dunn Capital Management, Corriente Advisors, Greenstreet Co, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Intel, US dept of Defense, United Technologies, Federal Express Corp and Entergy Corp)
| Goldman Sachs | $367,200 |
| Credit Suisse Group | $203,750 |
| Morgan Stanley | $199,800 |
| HIG Capital | $186,500 |
| Barclays | $157,750 |
| Kirkland & Ellis | $132,100 |
| Bank of America | $126,500 |
| PriceWaterhouseCoopers | $118,250 |
| EMC Corp | $117,300 |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | $112,250 |
| The Villages | $97,500 |
| Vivint Inc | $80,750 |
| Marriott International | $79,837 |
| Sullivan & Cromwell | $79,250 |
| Bain Capital | $74,500 |
| UBS AG | $73,750 |
| Wells Fargo | $61,500 |
| Blackstone Group | $59,800 |
| Citigroup Inc | $57,050 |
| Bain & Co | $52,500 |
