Chelsea Clinton can't bring herself to care about money

[BernieforPres2016]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/10902554/Chelsea-Clinton-interview-I-will-always-work-harder-than-anyone.html

<“I’ve tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about money on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t. That wasn’t the metric of success I wanted in my life.>

Is she saying that money is the metric of success for her parents given that is where she chose to draw the contrast between herself and her parents?

The funny thing is Chelsea talking about how she just can't care about money. NBC paid her $600,000 for a little bit of work. IAC pays her $300,000 plus stock options to sit on a corporate board. She and her hedge fund husband recently moved from a $4 million New York City residence to a $10 million New York City residence.

I guess you don't need to care about money when you know it will always fall in your lap.

[cantbeserious]

1. Funny That - Since Her Mother - Is Owned By The Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-27/snowden-sums-presidential-campaign-just-one-tweet

[Ferd Berfel]

47. How many corporate boards of directors was she placed on, just because

her mommy and daddy are who they are?

[cantbeserious]

50. More Than Most Of The 99%

eom

[erronis]

58. Correction: more than most of the 99.99 percenters.

I'm in the top 20% of wage earners in the US (around 60K) but have no appreciable wealth.

Wealth is what the parasites want, not wages. I haven't been asked to sit on any board or even shake a hand. The grip of the really wealthy on this planet is absolutely scary. And these people have no more intelligence than anyone else - in fact they are tainted by their golden bubbles.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

56. That's where I went wrong

I wasn't born into royalty.

[Csainvestor]

2. Chelsea made 15mil by the age of 30

Her hedge fund husband is worth another 15 mil

[BernieforPres2016]

5. I would suggest that she was given much more of it

than she made legitimately.

[noamnety]

10. She's a bit like Trump in that way. nt

[roguevalley]

24. she's on the board of the daily beast, an attack bernie at all costs rag. when I hear this kind of

bullshit from rich people I could break something. I know someone who has four jobs to support herself and her four kids. She works TWENTY hours a day. I have two jobs besides my pension. I care about money. I care that she will always have it and the people her mom shills for will make sure I and everyone else doesn't. What a clueless contemptuous clown.

[renate]

44. well said

I'm sure Chelsea means very well when she says that she doesn't care about money--I really believe that. Which is what makes her so utterly clueless. It's not her fault, but she's still wrong.

I think she honestly doesn't realize that not caring about money is a luxury that only those who will always be secure can have. It's probably the greatest luxury of all, and (except for monks and nuns who renounce worldly goods but at least know they'll always have a roof over their head) you need a lot of money to have it.

[INdemo]

59. i feel sorry for her kids....all the Motherly talks and one can

bet they will be raised by a Nanny...thats too bad.

[erronis]

61. Ditto for Mommie Dearie - Hillary doesn't realize that she's artificially privileged

which makes her feel like she's part of US.

Money corrupts. Power corrupts.

Welcome to the world of the Caesars, Clintons.

[yourout]

3. Easy to say when you get her kind of coin.

Lets see how you feel on $35k a year.

[daleanime]

40. Too rich, let her survive on the SS minimum.

[Snotcicles]

75. Hunger pangs, is a good cure for that. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Rich people are also fond of telling the proletariat that "hard work is good for you".

That is You as opposed to Me.

[haikugal]

8. That is so true...

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

60. There's working hard for low wges

and then there's working smart in a union.

[bigtree]

6. Jane Sanders can't either

Allan Brauer @allanbrauer

Jane Sanders overstated donation amounts in loan application for Burlington College http://vtdigger.org/2015/09/13/jane-sanders-overstated-donation-amounts-in-loan-application-for-burlington-college/ …

[grasswire]

16. tell me the net worth of the Sanders today.

Probably under half a million, and largely the equity in their home.

Your insinuation is really poor.

[bigtree]

21. yours is worse

...expecting working class people like myself to feel sorry for 'poor' Bernie and his wife.

You're out of touch with your own rhetoric. Do you really know how we live out here?

[grasswire]

23. maybe you live like I do

a small modest apartment, supporting a disabled adult offspring. Month to month.

So now you are telling me that the Sanders are too rich to understand poor working folk?

Crazy, crazy.

[bigtree]

25. what does it take to 'understand' something?

...such a dishonest argument.

At any rate, none of their incomes are something we can readily relate to.

[roguevalley]

26. it is. when you got nothing you have to say something. I wonder how Chelsea manages with only

six and a half bathrooms.

[bigtree]

33. when you can't promote your candidate

...attack his rival's family members.

It's no wonder this navel-gazing revolution is failing.

[phazed0]

65. You're a hypocrite, see 5 posts above...

Allan Brauer @allanbrauer

Jane Sanders overstated donation amounts in loan application for Burlington College http://vtdigger.org/2015/09/13/jane-sanders-overstated-donation-amounts-in-loan-application-for-burlington-college/

So it's OK for you to attack BS family members but Hillary's family is off-limits. Gotcha.

[Electric Monk]

73. Bazinga! Stick a fork in them, they're done :)

[bigtree]

83. I didn't start this goddamn thread attacking Hillary's family, or one attacking Sanders'

...but I'll be damned if her family is going to be a target without giving as good as your crew here is dishing out.

Call it what the fuck you want, but I didn't start this.

[Autumn]

67. Irony much?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511425734#post6

Star Member bigtree (61,717 posts)
6. Jane Sanders can't either

Allan Brauer @allanbrauer

Jane Sanders overstated donation amounts in loan application for Burlington College http://vtdigger.org/2015/09/13/jane-sanders-overstated-donation-amounts-in-loan-application-for-burlington-college/

Wow

[noiretextatique]

35. Hillary was "poor"...did you felel sorry for her?

She's talked about it quite a bit. Not so much anymore.

[Cleita]

7. i guess she's never had to wonder how she was going to pay the rent

after losing a job; wonder what she was going to eat when there was only enough money until payday to either buy food or pay bus fare to get to work; how she was going to pay unexpected medical expenses when her insurance denies coverage or even how she's going to pay for insurance when her job won't. When she's had to face these and the many money problems the average working class person has to face, then she can say that. I don't think she's ever had to worry about money. It's easy then to say you don't care.

[Hydra]

17. Exactly

I don't care about money either, but I don't have the luxury of not having to. Must be nice.

This is also a good illustration of the 1% bubble. Everything is great up there, why change anything?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. If Chelsea were to be magically transported

to a third-story walkup apartment in the Bronx and given $25K a year to support herself and her child, she'd be caring about money tout suite. Somebody who could sit by the pool clipping bond coupons while sipping a Mai Tai and having her toenails painted ought not to pronounce that she doesn't care about money.

[Orsino]

20. She means she can't care about *real* money. n/t

[Blue_Adept]

11. It's june 2014 all over again!

I'm eagerly looking forward to the hundreds of responses this will get. Again.

Where's my dead horse being flogged smilie when I need it.

[roguevalley]

28. its relevent. She's on the board of the Daily Beast currently attacking Bernie 24/7. I wonder how

many millions she gets for that? I imagine sharpening pencils pays well if you're a clinton.

[Blue_Adept]

51. It's simply tiring seeing the same attacks month after after month

It doesn't do anything to draw anyone to Bernie's side in the slightest.

[phazed0]

74. Funny, that's how I feel about Hillary's same, month-after-month, attacks.

Pot calling the kettle black?

[Lizzie Poppet]

12. "I don't care too...much for money..."

"...money can't buy me love. For everything else, I have a damn-near unlimited supply of it."

Whoop-de-fucking-doo.

[BernieforPres2016]

13. Good job, you've even got the pauses in the right places. n/t

[Lizzie Poppet]

15. Thanks!

I looked at that for a bit, trying to figure out how to get it to scan right...then thought of the ellipsis.

[Hiraeth]

14. Can't never could do nothing, Chelsea. Bring yourself some emphathy. I got some right here.

[FlatBaroque]

18. She is a Clinton through and through.

Let me go on record as already stating that I will never vote for Chelsea either.

[Orsino]

19. That which we achieve too easily we esteem too lightly. n/t

[AzDar]

22. Nauseating.

[PatrickforO]

27. OK, laughing uproariously!

I'm sorry, Chelsea, but try not having enough!

[Fairgo]

29. This is how we fund an aristocracy

Fantasy salaries build the myth that they are somehow gifted in other ways. She doesn't care about money because she truly believes she earned her position.

[Fuddnik]

30. The poor girl grew up in public housing.

[unapatriciated]

80. that's too funny

[hollysmom]

31. holy mackerel, that is tone deaf.

[Jenny_92808]

32. Disgusting!

Clintons!

[Dems to Win]

34. Don't want the Clintons as First Family

Don't want the Sexual Harasser in Chief to return to the White House as First Gent, don't want a Hedge Fund Shark as first son-in-law, don't want a former Hedge Fund Shark as First Daughter.

Not a good family for America's White House.

[BernieforPres2016]

36. You left out convicted felon

As first father-in-law.

[Cleita]

79. Or BFF Henry Kissinger sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom and

giving advice on foreign policy.

[Svafa]

37. It's easy to not care about money when you never have to worry about money.

[MisterP]

38. past $300K money's just something you HAVE, that lets you buy literally anything and anyone;

it's not a numerical amount that income adds to and expenses subtract from

[Vinca]

39. That's pretty much the difference between the 99% and the 1%.

I've just spent an hour tracking down a mistake in my checkbook because I have no choice but to care about money.

[tabasco]

41. Yeah, you really don't even think about money

when you've always had plenty of it.

[McGovernGirl]

42. Inanity personified

"Is she saying that money is the metric of success for her parents given that is where she chose to draw the contrast between herself and her parents?"

No, she's saying that money is NOT her parent's metric of success, therefore she tried to care about it to be different. While certainly tone deaf, the truly inane part of her comments is trying to suggest that her parents don't care about money...Laughable and inane.

And, hello DU. I've lurked here for years and never felt a need to join since usually, someone says what I'm thinking anyway. This time, I had to speak up. Let's not miss an important point here: In ostensibly talking about herself, Chelsea is promoting yet more Clinton mythology: Bill and Hillary are just plain folk to whom money means nothing. Anybody want to buy a bridge?

[renate]

46. welcome to DU!

I hope you keep writing now that you've started! You're good!

[McGovernGirl]

49. Thanks! nt

[Duval]

53. I second that "please stay", McGovernGirl. nt

[McGovernGirl]

55. Stuck with me now, Duval.

Just have to try to not get thrown out within my first 10 posts

[valerief]

43. It's hard to care about water in a monsoon. nt

[dana_b]

45. easy to say when you're privileged like she is

the rest of us have to scrape for that which she blows off.

[sarge43]

48. If she were a single mother existing on minimum wage,

she'd care about money. No empathy at all.

[liberal_at_heart]

64. +1000000

[840high]

66. +10

[NCjack]

52. She never missed a meal, never went to school in the rain with holes in the soles of her shoes, and

never had a kid with the same prospects. And she can lecture on the unimportance of money.

[sarge43]

68. She really should zip it.

She's doing the House of Clinton no favors.

[Duval]

54. Poor little rich girl. nt

[monicaangela]

57. You don't have to care about money

when you know you are never going to be without while you are still alive. Why care about it, that's something the little people do. Sounds like she has Leona Helmsley syndrome.

[AtheistCrusader]

62. An interesting data point.

One that requires some reflection.

[Faygo Kid]

63. Mom cared about money - raised two sons alone without it

We were poor, but always well fed and taken care of. Mom worked hard every day doing laundry to support us. That was her motivation, and it took money (however meager) to do it.

She demeans my mother and all like her by her "let them eat cake" comment.

[ananda]

69. Sheesh.

How callow.

You don't have to care about money if you have it.

[Half-Century Man]

70. Perhaps Ms. Chelsea would take on a social experiment.

Fling a dart at a map of the United States to get a state. Fling another dart to select a city. Take three thousand dollars and move there to live under an assumed identity. Claim no more than an undergrad degree and get a blue collar job and document your life.

Now imagine having to do that without the three thousand dollars, the AAS, and white skin.

[Autumn]

71. Funny how people who have a shit load of money, don't care about money.

Let her lose her money, she'll sing a different tune.

[braddy]

72. Money just seems to flow to her, without her ever having to do anything.

[BernieforPres2016]

76. Moving from a $4 million "starter pad" to a $10.5 million 5000+ sq ft residence in Manhattan

With 20% down and a 4% mortgage, that is a monthly mortgage payment of about $52,000. My guess is that they probably had banks standing in line to make an interest only loan with a rate closer to 2%.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2293195/Chelsea-Clinton-buys-new-10-5-million-apartment-street-husbands-4-million-starter-pad-bought-just-married.html

[phazed0]

77. Great! Now we just need to get her Mom off the money-wagon...

Which will never happen... which means our voices will never be heard by her... which means I'm not voting for her.

[orpupilofnature57]

78. You are what you eat, our lunch. I wonder where she got that sense of entitlement ?

[silenttigersong]

81. Maybe she sould disavow all $

Move in with a poor family,tell her buddy Ivanka Trump-she does not roll with people like her,have her baby in a new york cab.Just saying

[silenttigersong]

82. What me worry?

[Arazi]

84. $52,000/month mortgage??!! More than I make in 2 years