$200,000 a year is harly filthy rich. My family total income is not quite double that figure. Growing up I had clothes, shoes and a car when I turned 16. I didn't say I had the nicest clothes, the newest shoes or the best car.
When I turned 16, I used the car to get to the job I'd had for a while (Golf Cart Cleanliness and Quality Control Director) that my mom had graciously driven me to almost every day that summer.
Now, speaking from experience (one of the mouths they had to feed) in living in this type of family I can certainly say we were not filthy rich. We have a nice house with a 5 acre yard (Purchased in 1989, a converted farm field in a just-starting-to-develop town) that I had to help plant the grass in. This house/land was bought for less than the cost of a smaller house with a much smaller yard in a subdivision. A drawback is no pizza places deliver, but on the up side there was plenty of room to do whatever we pleased.
I could go on and on...but won't about that. I'd worked for guys that had 'more money than god' and could do what they wished when they wished. Have you ever impulse-bought a $300,000 airplane sight unseen? Bought a smurfy warbird, hired a mechanic full time to restore it for you in your hangar/garage attached to your house and demand in 6 months you have an Oshkosh/Sun 'n Fun award winner? These are those kinds of guys. Living in 8-12 million dollar homes, driving H2s and owning $800,000 motor homes. Wanna go boating? Head out to my 80 foot yacht. Skiing? "Sure, my mountaintop chalet in the swiss alps is great for that." they might say.
Could I have a lot of fun on a mere 1-2 million a year? You bet! If I had a bank account holding $30 million could I have all those things...sure! Would I? Maybe. While I'll take it as a compliment for my family and the way I grew up to have us associate with 'those' people in her mind. She's greatly misguided. She's grossly ignorant. And she's an even dumber ***** for the things she said about the U.N.
