Rubio's financial fiasco

[mikegriffith1]

And I would rank being so incompetent as to get four Americans killed in Benghazi as being a lot more troubling than having some financial problems earlier in life.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Rubio hasn't only failed to write ONE autobiography, but he has failed to write TWO autobiographies (or have them ghost written for him by any bomb throwing anarchist buddies).

Lazy.

Clearly, he's unfit to even run for President.

Maybe it would help if he could get his own publicist to claim that he was born in a foreign land?

i don't know what point you're trying to make, but rubio has written two books. neither of them sold.

OF COURSE you don't know -- ANY points. And I don't car what you grasp or what you fail (as usual) to comprehend.

UNLESS Sen. Rubio gets down to the VERY difficult business of having TWO autobiographies ghost written for him (preferably by some terrorist anarchist) (and maybe he gets a publicist to claim he was born overseas) then he's just not working HARD ENOUGH to earn the Presidency.

again, rubio has written two books. combined they've sold about 40k copies.

39,990 of them were bought by somebody at the Las Vegas Sands...

Same guy who bought Palin's books?

 

[Wry Catcher]

And I would rank being so incompetent as to get four Americans killed in Benghazi as being a lot more troubling than having some financial problems earlier in life.

Gee, how do you rank GWB, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld and Rice for costing 4,500 American service personnel and countless other human beings a premature death?

 

[IlarMeilyr]

And I would rank being so incompetent as to get four Americans killed in Benghazi as being a lot more troubling than having some financial problems earlier in life.

Gee, how do you rank GWB, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld and Rice for costing 4,500 American service personnel and countless other human beings a premature death?

THAT would require buying your false premise. Which no rational person does.

 

[Political Junky]

It seem that..a few years ago, Marco Rubio was..."dead broke".

And...he had to use a friend...to get a home loan.

To Democrats, that sounds like street cred!

i don't blame people for using their business connections - but this isn't really about that.
an average of $238k over ten years and to come out the other side with a net worth of $50k? that's insane.

11. Marco Rubio
Net worth: $57,018-$829,999

According to USA Today. Quite a range with the upper end being in line with his earnings and the fact that it costs a lot to be a Senator in Washington.

But none of that matters this is just BS, BS, BS. Hillary lied her ass off about her finances if you really cared you would be pointing that fact out. But no partisan BS is what we get.

He got $a million from his book.

 

[washamericom]

hillary wipes state email, and they go after rubio for having to work his way through school.

this has nothing to do with working his way through school. i can applaud him for that, even though it seems more like he borrowed his way through school.

what worries me is his inability to manage his own finances. He has made some very good money but would be bankrupt if it weren't for a generous book deal and billionaire donor.

why doesn't that concern you?

because he's a good guy, and the insinuation is mean and petty. i would trust rubio with my life, i wouldn't trust bill or hillary to get me coffee. did you read the part where they ripped off shit from the (peoples) white house, pretty classy folk. sandy berger and the benghazi affair....lewinsky, sniper fire. and and and.

this election ain't going down easy, i can tell you that.. glass houses being what they are...

 

[Wry Catcher]

And I would rank being so incompetent as to get four Americans killed in Benghazi as being a lot more troubling than having some financial problems earlier in life.

Gee, how do you rank GWB, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld and Rice for costing 4,500 American service personnel and countless other human beings a premature death?

THAT would require buying your false premise. Which no rational person does.

My false premise? Oh, of course, it was HRC who voted for and sent our troops to invade and occupy Iraq.

Silly of me to expect any honesty from the former LIEability.

 

[ogibillm]

hillary wipes state email, and they go after rubio for having to work his way through school.

this has nothing to do with working his way through school. i can applaud him for that, even though it seems more like he borrowed his way through school.

what worries me is his inability to manage his own finances. He has made some very good money but would be bankrupt if it weren't for a generous book deal and billionaire donor.

why doesn't that concern you?

because he's a good guy, and the insinuation is mean and petty. i would trust rubio with my life, i wouldn't trust bill or hillary to get me coffee. did you read the part where they ripped off shit from the (peoples) white house, pretty classy folk. sandy berger and the benghazi affair....lewinsky, sniper fire. and and and.

this election ain't going down easy, i can tell you that.. glass houses being what they are...

Insinuating? I'm flat out stating. He makes very poor decisions and appears to be owned by a donor that subsidizesnot just his campaigns but his personal life as well.

 

[boedicca]

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but this concerns me about the senator from Florida. He doesn't seem to handle his money well, and the way he earns some of it seems suspect. Here's some of the highlights

• While making $90k annually he had to sell of a car and move in with his mother-in-law for financial reasons
• Somehow, despite his bosses frustration at his job because of his lack of focus tied to his political career, he manages to land a $300k job
• A campaign donor got him a job as a college instructor to help with his finances. He also hires Rubio as a lawyer and employs Rubio's wife. Sounds like a purchased senator to me.
• He neglected to pay the mortgage on a home for 5 months.
• His wife neglected to pay the local taxes on the PAC she runs that seems to be a way to subsidize the Rubio's lifestyle
• In 10 years of total earnings of $2.38 million he managed a net worth of only about $50k
• He has more than once "accidentally" used party money for personal expenses

Throw in some really stupid moves like buying a half million dollar home, a luxury speed boat, and some stupid car leases and you begin to wonder if he has any sense at all. Frankly if a publisher had not been stupid enough to pay him an $800k advance on a book that didn't sell 40k copies (that's right, he's made more than $20 per book. check your local Everything's $1 store for copies) you have to wonder where his finances would be today.

Can someone so obviously indebted to others and so obviously irresponsible be trusted in the white house?

sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/us/politics/marco-rubio-finances-debt-loans-credit.html?_r=0
Ben Carson Has Sold More Copies Of His Book Than Every Other 2016 Republican Combined — By A Lot

This REEKS of Prog Flop Sweat.

Rubio is like MILLIONS of Average Americans who have had to juggle student loans, mortages, child rearing expenses etc.

So he got a book advance. If that gets your panties in a twist, then consider the book deals given the Clintons (including Chelsea).

I'll take Rubio's perfectly ordinary experiences over hiLIARy's claim of being poor while she and her philandering spouse have raked in over $100M.

 

[ogibillm]

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but this concerns me about the senator from Florida. He doesn't seem to handle his money well, and the way he earns some of it seems suspect. Here's some of the highlights

• While making $90k annually he had to sell of a car and move in with his mother-in-law for financial reasons
• Somehow, despite his bosses frustration at his job because of his lack of focus tied to his political career, he manages to land a $300k job
• A campaign donor got him a job as a college instructor to help with his finances. He also hires Rubio as a lawyer and employs Rubio's wife. Sounds like a purchased senator to me.
• He neglected to pay the mortgage on a home for 5 months.
• His wife neglected to pay the local taxes on the PAC she runs that seems to be a way to subsidize the Rubio's lifestyle
• In 10 years of total earnings of $2.38 million he managed a net worth of only about $50k
• He has more than once "accidentally" used party money for personal expenses

Throw in some really stupid moves like buying a half million dollar home, a luxury speed boat, and some stupid car leases and you begin to wonder if he has any sense at all. Frankly if a publisher had not been stupid enough to pay him an $800k advance on a book that didn't sell 40k copies (that's right, he's made more than $20 per book. check your local Everything's $1 store for copies) you have to wonder where his finances would be today.

Can someone so obviously indebted to others and so obviously irresponsible be trusted in the white house?

sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/us/politics/marco-rubio-finances-debt-loans-credit.html?_r=0
Ben Carson Has Sold More Copies Of His Book Than Every Other 2016 Republican Combined — By A Lot

This REEKS of Prog Flop Sweat.

Rubio is like MILLIONS of Average Americans who have had to juggle student loans, mortages, child rearing expenses etc.

So he got a book advance. If that gets your panties in a twist, then consider the book deals given the Clintons (including Chelsea).

I'll take Rubio's perfectly ordinary experiences over hiLIARy's claim of being poor while she and her philandering spouse have raked in over $100M.

There is nothing ordinary about earning $2.38 million and having a net worth of $50k

 

[Ernie S.]

Why doesn't hillary clinton's numerous "errors in judgement" concern you?

who says they don't? but hillary isn't the subject of this thread.

the guy claims that he had to cash out a retirement account recently to replace a broken refrigerator. he's paid $174k/year for his work as a senator, has money from book sales, and is a "lawyer" for a billionaire

i could cash flow a new refrigerator on much less. why can't he?

Are you running for POTUS?

 

[boedicca]

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but this concerns me about the senator from Florida. He doesn't seem to handle his money well, and the way he earns some of it seems suspect. Here's some of the highlights

• While making $90k annually he had to sell of a car and move in with his mother-in-law for financial reasons
• Somehow, despite his bosses frustration at his job because of his lack of focus tied to his political career, he manages to land a $300k job
• A campaign donor got him a job as a college instructor to help with his finances. He also hires Rubio as a lawyer and employs Rubio's wife. Sounds like a purchased senator to me.
• He neglected to pay the mortgage on a home for 5 months.
• His wife neglected to pay the local taxes on the PAC she runs that seems to be a way to subsidize the Rubio's lifestyle
• In 10 years of total earnings of $2.38 million he managed a net worth of only about $50k
• He has more than once "accidentally" used party money for personal expenses

Throw in some really stupid moves like buying a half million dollar home, a luxury speed boat, and some stupid car leases and you begin to wonder if he has any sense at all. Frankly if a publisher had not been stupid enough to pay him an $800k advance on a book that didn't sell 40k copies (that's right, he's made more than $20 per book. check your local Everything's $1 store for copies) you have to wonder where his finances would be today.

Can someone so obviously indebted to others and so obviously irresponsible be trusted in the white house?

sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/us/politics/marco-rubio-finances-debt-loans-credit.html?_r=0
Ben Carson Has Sold More Copies Of His Book Than Every Other 2016 Republican Combined — By A Lot

This REEKS of Prog Flop Sweat.

Rubio is like MILLIONS of Average Americans who have had to juggle student loans, mortages, child rearing expenses etc.

So he got a book advance. If that gets your panties in a twist, then consider the book deals given the Clintons (including Chelsea).

I'll take Rubio's perfectly ordinary experiences over hiLIARy's claim of being poor while she and her philandering spouse have raked in over $100M.

There is nothing ordinary about earning $2.38 million and having a net worth of $50k

His family's average annual income was $238K during that period. They had student loans and were raising a family. Hardly a surprise that you sneer at that.

 

[Ernie S.]

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but this concerns me about the senator from Florida. He doesn't seem to handle his money well, and the way he earns some of it seems suspect. Here's some of the highlights

• While making $90k annually he had to sell of a car and move in with his mother-in-law for financial reasons
• Somehow, despite his bosses frustration at his job because of his lack of focus tied to his political career, he manages to land a $300k job
• A campaign donor got him a job as a college instructor to help with his finances. He also hires Rubio as a lawyer and employs Rubio's wife. Sounds like a purchased senator to me.
• He neglected to pay the mortgage on a home for 5 months.
• His wife neglected to pay the local taxes on the PAC she runs that seems to be a way to subsidize the Rubio's lifestyle
• In 10 years of total earnings of $2.38 million he managed a net worth of only about $50k
• He has more than once "accidentally" used party money for personal expenses

Throw in some really stupid moves like buying a half million dollar home, a luxury speed boat, and some stupid car leases and you begin to wonder if he has any sense at all. Frankly if a publisher had not been stupid enough to pay him an $800k advance on a book that didn't sell 40k copies (that's right, he's made more than $20 per book. check your local Everything's $1 store for copies) you have to wonder where his finances would be today.

Can someone so obviously indebted to others and so obviously irresponsible be trusted in the white house?

sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/us/politics/marco-rubio-finances-debt-loans-credit.html?_r=0
Ben Carson Has Sold More Copies Of His Book Than Every Other 2016 Republican Combined — By A Lot

This REEKS of Prog Flop Sweat.

Rubio is like MILLIONS of Average Americans who have had to juggle student loans, mortages, child rearing expenses etc.

So he got a book advance. If that gets your panties in a twist, then consider the book deals given the Clintons (including Chelsea).

I'll take Rubio's perfectly ordinary experiences over hiLIARy's claim of being poor while she and her philandering spouse have raked in over $100M.

There is nothing ordinary about earning $2.38 million and having a net worth of $50k

I made about that before I retired and I don't have a hell of a lot more left over. He's pretty average, actually. Borrowed a bunch for a degree, married and had some kids and got a good job in the private sector.
How much money did bill clinton piss away because he couldn't keep his dick in his pants?
And you want to make Marco Rubio out to be some less than perfect human. Hypocritical bastard, you are, son.

 

[Ernie S.]

And I would rank being so incompetent as to get four Americans killed in Benghazi as being a lot more troubling than having some financial problems earlier in life.

Gee, how do you rank GWB, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld and Rice for costing 4,500 American service personnel and countless other human beings a premature death?

Not even apples and oranges... More apples and orangutans.

 

[ogibillm]

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but this concerns me about the senator from Florida. He doesn't seem to handle his money well, and the way he earns some of it seems suspect. Here's some of the highlights

• While making $90k annually he had to sell of a car and move in with his mother-in-law for financial reasons
• Somehow, despite his bosses frustration at his job because of his lack of focus tied to his political career, he manages to land a $300k job
• A campaign donor got him a job as a college instructor to help with his finances. He also hires Rubio as a lawyer and employs Rubio's wife. Sounds like a purchased senator to me.
• He neglected to pay the mortgage on a home for 5 months.
• His wife neglected to pay the local taxes on the PAC she runs that seems to be a way to subsidize the Rubio's lifestyle
• In 10 years of total earnings of $2.38 million he managed a net worth of only about $50k
• He has more than once "accidentally" used party money for personal expenses

Throw in some really stupid moves like buying a half million dollar home, a luxury speed boat, and some stupid car leases and you begin to wonder if he has any sense at all. Frankly if a publisher had not been stupid enough to pay him an $800k advance on a book that didn't sell 40k copies (that's right, he's made more than $20 per book. check your local Everything's $1 store for copies) you have to wonder where his finances would be today.

Can someone so obviously indebted to others and so obviously irresponsible be trusted in the white house?

sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/us/politics/marco-rubio-finances-debt-loans-credit.html?_r=0
Ben Carson Has Sold More Copies Of His Book Than Every Other 2016 Republican Combined — By A Lot

This REEKS of Prog Flop Sweat.

Rubio is like MILLIONS of Average Americans who have had to juggle student loans, mortages, child rearing expenses etc.

So he got a book advance. If that gets your panties in a twist, then consider the book deals given the Clintons (including Chelsea).

I'll take Rubio's perfectly ordinary experiences over hiLIARy's claim of being poor while she and her philandering spouse have raked in over $100M.

There is nothing ordinary about earning $2.38 million and having a net worth of $50k

I made about that before I retired and I don't have a hell of a lot more left over. He's pretty average, actually. Borrowed a bunch for a degree, married and had some kids and got a good job in the private sector.
How much money did bill clinton piss away because he couldn't keep his dick in his pants?
And you want to make Marco Rubio out to be some less than perfect human. Hypocritical bastard, you are, son.

Im not surprised that you also make poor decisions. And i don't think i believe you made that kind of money in that time span

 

[my2¢]

That was the problem with last night's debate, it was the ideal setting to get answers to type of questions brought up in the OP . One would figure a business channel would have dug deep into the candidates economic policies, touched on personal finances and related the two and brought up inconsistencies. From what I could stand to watch before switching it off the debate was entirely mishandled by CNBC. As far as Rubio's financial history goes, it's interesting but I'm not making any judgments.

 

[Ernie S.]

I don't know if this has been brought up before, but this concerns me about the senator from Florida. He doesn't seem to handle his money well, and the way he earns some of it seems suspect. Here's some of the highlights

• While making $90k annually he had to sell of a car and move in with his mother-in-law for financial reasons
• Somehow, despite his bosses frustration at his job because of his lack of focus tied to his political career, he manages to land a $300k job
• A campaign donor got him a job as a college instructor to help with his finances. He also hires Rubio as a lawyer and employs Rubio's wife. Sounds like a purchased senator to me.
• He neglected to pay the mortgage on a home for 5 months.
• His wife neglected to pay the local taxes on the PAC she runs that seems to be a way to subsidize the Rubio's lifestyle
• In 10 years of total earnings of $2.38 million he managed a net worth of only about $50k
• He has more than once "accidentally" used party money for personal expenses

Throw in some really stupid moves like buying a half million dollar home, a luxury speed boat, and some stupid car leases and you begin to wonder if he has any sense at all. Frankly if a publisher had not been stupid enough to pay him an $800k advance on a book that didn't sell 40k copies (that's right, he's made more than $20 per book. check your local Everything's $1 store for copies) you have to wonder where his finances would be today.

Can someone so obviously indebted to others and so obviously irresponsible be trusted in the white house?

sources: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/10/us/politics/marco-rubio-finances-debt-loans-credit.html?_r=0
Ben Carson Has Sold More Copies Of His Book Than Every Other 2016 Republican Combined — By A Lot

This REEKS of Prog Flop Sweat.

Rubio is like MILLIONS of Average Americans who have had to juggle student loans, mortages, child rearing expenses etc.

So he got a book advance. If that gets your panties in a twist, then consider the book deals given the Clintons (including Chelsea).

I'll take Rubio's perfectly ordinary experiences over hiLIARy's claim of being poor while she and her philandering spouse have raked in over $100M.

There is nothing ordinary about earning $2.38 million and having a net worth of $50k

I made about that before I retired and I don't have a hell of a lot more left over. He's pretty average, actually. Borrowed a bunch for a degree, married and had some kids and got a good job in the private sector.
How much money did bill clinton piss away because he couldn't keep his dick in his pants?
And you want to make Marco Rubio out to be some less than perfect human. Hypocritical bastard, you are, son.

Im not surprised that you also make poor decisions. And i don't think i believe you made that kind of money in that time span

I don't particularly give a shit what you think, hypocrite.

 

[dcraelin]

Look Rubio's apparent inability to manage his own personal financial responsibilities IS a valid issue for a presidential candidate. If you tell me these are lies made up by the left okay but if these are real its valid to question electing someone like that President.

Rubio wasn't born on third base. His struggles are no different than the tens of millions of people whose votes he is seeking. He has more in common with the voters than any other candidate.

His "struggles"?, how do you know it isnt a gambling problem and hes not in hock to ....someone.

 

[Ernie S.]

That was the problem with last night's debate, it was the ideal setting to get answers to type of questions brought up in the OP . One would figure a business channel would have dug deep into the candidates economic policies, touched on personal finances and related the two and brought up inconsistencies. From what I could stand to watch before switching it off the debate was entirely mishandled by CNBC. As far as Rubio's financial history goes, it's interesting but I'm not making any judgments.

You really think Marco Rubio's student loans and Dick Cheney's blind trust are/were relevant, but foreign contributions to the Clinton Foundation while hillary was Secretary of State isn't.
The hypocrisy of the Liberal/Progressive/Democrat is stunning!

 

[Ernie S.]

Look Rubio's apparent inability to manage his own personal financial responsibilities IS a valid issue for a presidential candidate. If you tell me these are lies made up by the left okay but if these are real its valid to question electing someone like that President.

Rubio wasn't born on third base. His struggles are no different than the tens of millions of people whose votes he is seeking. He has more in common with the voters than any other candidate.

His "struggles"?, how do you know it isnt a gambling problem and hes not in hock to ....someone.

Why would you even consider something like a gambling problem when you see no problem with contributions to the Clinton Foundation from foreign interests when your candidate was Secretary of State?