The Democratic Senate nominee, Richard Blumenthal, is the poorest of the bunch, having spent virtually his entire adult life being the state attorney general, which pays $110,000 a year.
This year, the poorest of the bunch– Robert Ludlum Robert Ludlum and Jerry Garcia Jerry Garcia –each made $5 million, and the average shot up to $15 million.
But the world's rich (rather like its poor) are a footloose bunch.
"We were a bunch of poor Cambodian, Vietnamese and Laotian kids, hanging around without much adults," he said.
This weekend, he's spiriting a bunch of poor Russian kids to London to catch a performance of Mamma Mia.
It went on to mention a bunch of poor devils who didn't have double-digit billions — among them a Lauder or two, a few Tisches, a couple of newspaper types named Murdoch and Zuckerman and some guy called Trump.
Things are going to get very, very nasty – and for the whole human race, not just a bunch of poor people in a far-off land which we wouldn't be able to find on a map.
"But the Army decided to prosecute those six G.I.'s because they thought me and my family were a bunch of poor, dirt people who could not do anything about it.
