{"id":5407,"date":"2012-10-30T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=5407"},"modified":"2012-10-29T19:42:41","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T01:42:41","slug":"forbes-estimates-the-romney-family-to-be-worth-230-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/forbes-estimates-the-romney-family-to-be-worth-230-million\/","title":{"rendered":"&ldquo;Forbes estimates the Romney family to be worth $230 million&rdquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/10\/28\/opinion\/letter-and-poor-mitt-has-only-3-homes.html\">ABQJournal Online \u00bb Letter: And Poor Mitt Has Only 3 Homes<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Without considering the royalties from his two books, his wage as president is $400,000 per year, an amount adequate to qualify for an 80 percent mortgage, if he needed it. Forbes recently estimated the Obamas\u2019 net worth at $6 million, most from book sales.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Forbes estimates the Romney family to be worth $230 million. It is clear that offshore accounts and financial legerdemain are much more profitable than writing books, unless you\u2019ve written the \u201cHarry Potter\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p>So there, Mr. Shaut, there is nothing to worry you any longer. You have a choice between a Midwest writer and law professor, or else a Wall Street leveraged buy-out artist.<\/p>\n<p>CRITZ GEORGE<\/p>\n<p>Albuquerque<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/10\/28\/opinion\/letter-and-poor-mitt-has-only-3-homes.html\">ABQJournal Online \u00bb Letter: And Poor Mitt Has Only 3 Homes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not that there\u2019s anything wrong with wealth. Oh, wait, there is something wrong with robber baron wealth. <em>mjh<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQJournal Online \u00bb Letter: And Poor Mitt Has Only 3 Homes Without considering the royalties from his two books, his wage as president is $400,000 per year, an amount adequate to qualify for an 80 percent mortgage, if he needed it. Forbes recently estimated the Obamas\u2019 net worth at $6 million, most from book sales. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/forbes-estimates-the-romney-family-to-be-worth-230-million\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&ldquo;Forbes estimates the Romney family to be worth $230 million&rdquo;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5408,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5407\/revisions\/5408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}