2016: Much is being made of Marco Rubio's tight personal finances, including his purchase of $3,000 home refrigerator. But all they're doing is showing how ordinary the candidate is and how little he has to do with Congress' "honest graft" culture.
The harrumphing from the Washington Post couldn't have been more Pecksniffian in a May 20 news story: "Does Rubio Have a Spending Problem?"
The evidence? The 43-year-old senator borrowed $68,241 from his own 401(k) retirement account so he could fix the air conditioner in his Florida home, cover the $40,000 private-school tuition bill for his four kids and — the ultimate extravagance — buy a $3,000 refrigerator.
Don't know about you, but all this profligacy seems pretty normal to us, given how the Obama economy forces most Americans to live paycheck to paycheck, occasionally juggling accounts to make ends meet. That's how ordinary people live.
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The story is actually interesting for the issue it completely misses: That Rubio apparently has no connection with the political-cash culture that is Washington. What passes for normalcy there is the "legal graft" we see all too often: Congress members of modest means entering office and somehow, some way departing as millionaires.Read the rest of the story HERE.
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