{"id":25044,"date":"2012-01-03T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T01:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/on-being-rich.html"},"modified":"2012-01-04T09:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T16:09:53","slug":"on-being-rich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/on-being-rich.html","title":{"rendered":"On Being Rich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting look at what folks say is necessary for someone to be considered &quot;rich&quot; &#8212; and how different demographic factors change those numbers. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mint.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F12%2FThe-Rich-Index.png' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.mint.com\/blog\/consumer-iq\/the-rich-index-how-much-money-do-americans-need-to-be-considered-rich-122011\/?display=wide'>The Rich Index: How Much Money Do Americans Need to Be Considered Rich? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News &amp; Advice<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHow much money do you need to be rich? Like beauty, it seems that wealth is in the eye of the beholder. Check out this infographic for some insight on how Americans define wealth.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting look at what folks say is necessary for someone to be considered &quot;rich&quot; &#8212; and how different demographic factors change those numbers. #ddtb Embedded Link The Rich Index: How Much Money Do Americans Need to Be Considered Rich? | MintLife Blog | Personal Finance News &amp; Advice How much money do you need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/03\/on-being-rich.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Being Rich&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,77,21],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-economy","category-job-jollies","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26559,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/romneys-contribution-support-is-almost-all-from-the-rich-and-its-maxxing.html","url_meta":{"origin":25044,"position":0},"title":"Romney&#39;s contribution support is almost all from the rich, and it&#39;s maxxing&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Feb-12 2:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Romney's contribution support is almost all from the rich, and it's maxxing outThe vast majority of money that Romney has brought in has been large donations, and a substantial portion of same have contributed their annual max to the campaign ($2500).Of course, Romney has $200MM of his own money to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27042,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/11\/its-not-easy-rolling-in-green.html","url_meta":{"origin":25044,"position":1},"title":"It&#39;s not easy, rolling in green","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Mar-12 12:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Having a lot of money -- and a lot of rich donors -- can be a big advantage in a political campaign. 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