One-time bestselling author Barack Obama is just a backlist nobody these days, as income from the sales of his fictional biographies has dropped from more than five million a year to less than a million. Sure, that’s more than Joe Biden makes, but Joe Biden just works for his “pauper” government paycheck of $230,700 a year. How does Biden survive? Anyway, the White House released the Obamas’ tax return info to celebrate Tax Day, and it shows Barry & Michelle’s income has dropped from $5.5 million to a measly $1,728,096. Again, how do these people survive? Lots of leftovers and washing out ziplocs, that’s how!
The New York Times reports on what the White House told them to report:
Income for the Obama household continued to slip in 2010, tax returns show, as proceeds from President Obama’s best-selling books tapered off. But just as he has said, his income is easily high enough to make the family eligible for a tax increase under his own deficit-reduction proposals.
Thank the Kenyan God of Fiscal Conservatism that these rich people still have enough to potentially help America’s most neediest: the Federal Deficit. [NYT]
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Anyone got a copy of Palin's return?
I suspect she's suffered a much more major drop in income from the 12 million hill billy dollars she made last year.
Trig is still coloring on it, so she had to get an extension.
Not wanting to reveal her income is probably one of the reasons she hasn't started officially running for President yet (see also Trump).
Speaking of Palin books, has teh Wonkettes reported on this upcoming insider tell-all yet?
(Appropriately mentioned in the "Entertainment" section of my local paper.)
Yes, this has been all over the intertubes. I don't think any of the book hasn't been published on all the blogs already.
Where's his Kenyan long form tax return?
Huh? Huh? AnSWeR Me111!!!!
Siily Mr. Norton. Kenyan's don't pay taxes.
Nothing's going right for Barry these days. He and Michelle will probably be reduced to penury after leaving office, just like the Clintons were.
I'll bet he didn't even sell as many books as dead person Ayn Rand.
Are you sure? Have you seen her DEATH CERTIFICATE?
Little known fact: Ayn Rand died in Kenya, having been shot by an Indonesian.
yeah, but it'll make a better movie…
Eh, the White House kitchen probably gets a sizeable discount on hobo ribeyes.
How much is that in renminbi?
Hahaha, as if dollars could be traded for real money! You funny.
That will still buy a lot of ribs for Michelle to eat while our kids have to eat government mandated veggies.
We really need a recall now. The guy is truly not an American, what with his,"I could easily pay more taxes and help out the country" nonsense…
Kenyan!
His plan is to let it drop to $249,999 before he sticks it to the man.
Quit reading my mail. You just described my entire workweek-lunch routine.
Rinsing out the ziplocs cuz I carry spent coffeegrounds from the office Bun-O-Matic home in 'em for my ecofriendly compost, if you must know!
/indignance
I'm glad I'm not alone in pilfering the office compost…..
Don't forget to get your friendly neighborhood letter carrier to stop by and make a compost contribution "Go Green by Giving Brown"
I do that too! (Save up compost-y things from work – coffee grounds, apple cores – and take them home.)
Got-darned treehuggin' hippies!!!1!!
Looks like Barry and the girls are gonna have to help Michelle with the garden. How will they afford groceries on that pittance? Maybe they'll end up on food stamps or at the local food pantry.
If he's from Kenya, where'd he learn how to write?
You mean if he's from Hawaii, where'd he learn how to write?
People from Hawaii learn how to write in sunscreen at an early age…
Twenty dolla make ya holla!
perhaps if someone in his family get banged, pregnant and become abstinence advocate , his family will have more income …
OMG, Mrs. weejee washes out zip-locks like Michelle. Well she is my first, last & only lady.
More power to her. Garbage Patch kids we ain't, she & I. (Not exactly part of the cure, but at least forestalling the inevitable?…)
He gets a company car and a gas allowance so he saves quite a bit of money on that.
Which is more than the state senators in CA get now.
This is all over the place today. Fuck that. Release the gigantic infant's tax returns so we can see how little he actually made. Hell, he's probably paying the highest tax rates, the lions share, like the rest of us working poors.
He's certainly got a long way to go before he catches up to the world's two bestselling authors, Anonymous and Various.
Utterly tangential, but a headline on America's Greatest News Outlet, Drudge, says:
"Haley Barbour undergoes surgery for campaign-related ailment…"
Guess all that blubber was actually weighing him down in the polls.
"campaign-related ailment…"
He confused a sack of campaign buttons for his box of Ritz Crackers (again)?
haha. That ritzy cracker.
Guess he really did blow it out his ass.
campaign-related ailment=lap band surgery
exactly what I was set to type!
I was gonna go with lobotomy, you know, just to establish some cred with the base.
Cranio-rectal dissection?
Precarious balance of those Chef-Boy-AR-Dee microwaveable meals, there. Barry may need to move, lest he get clocked in a Save-A-lot avalanche.
Did he report how much Iran is paying him to set up the Muslim Caliphate here in the US?
Oh, he just does that for free.
Ain't paying him Shi-ite, me-an!
It's called "The Audacity of Constant Compromise".
Instead of selling books, he can sell autographed laminated copies of his birf certificate to the birfers for $100.00 a pop.
# WIN
How can we expect a president who is making less than $5 mil/year to understand the terrible burden this country places on the rich.
This is good news for that John McCain kid, obvs.
His mother-in-law takes care of the kids in return for 3 hots and a cot.
No wonder Republicans hate him, he's so poor.
Meawhile, last year's mohel had the foreskin to put a little something away, in the event the economy turned south.
Doesn't Biden do oil changes and tune-ups on the weekend to pick up a few extra bucks?
You make fun, but that's a BIG FUCKING DEAL….
This makes me wonder how Coulter reported her 5 cartons of marlboros and year's worth of hormone injections for her latest book.
"but Joe Biden just works for his “pauper” government paycheck of $230,700 a year. How does Biden survive? "
Jill helps. How much does she make as a professor?
It'll come out around the same time as Duke Nukem 3D.
and Atlas Shrugged 2: The Search For More Money.
Book sales go up, book sales go down. How do you explain it?
I hope he doesn't get blacklisted. Oh, wait.
hur, dur, CRUNCH *fishes loose coffee ground from between molars*
It also sucks when you don't rinse the bags enough, and next day's sandwich chafes your gumline like a grain of sand. (I know. sand…wich…)
Elitist. You can afford to recycle Ziploc bags, as well as have a "sandwich" for lunch. Is this thing, this "sandwich" canned?
We eat sand when we run out crawdad and the rest. How longsuffering has your meal-taking been compromised? You haven't exactly convinced me yet you're in a tight spot!
That stack of Spaghetti-Os is a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Have you seen the price of arugula at Whole Foods these days? Them Obama's is one step away from homelessness….
Can we stop hating on Barry for every slightest thing, please?
Mmm, Elizabeth, I think in this particular case Ken is just being, you know, ironic.
The hate is usually easier to spot.
Well now, that's a sigh of relief. I only have to work 31.9 years now to make what the First couple make in a year. Beats the hell out of the 100 years I was looking at last year.
Time for Bo to write a tell-all??
The joke is on everyone else, as Obama only accepts payment in gold.
Obama's next book will be titled:
"How I vilified the 'rich', did nothing to raise their taxes, then went on to become one"
Oh. My. God. Ken. Are you serious? Are you this petty with that fucking ridiculous title?
You are so behaviourally weak.
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