The tax returns are out. Mitt and Ann Romney received $21,600,000 in 2010. Received is the most neutral verb I've found for the previous sentence. Earned has a moral sense. Collected implies some effort. Acquired doesn't add useful nuance. Income is a noun. I'll stay with received.
And received they did. $59,000 spewed through the Romney spigot on an average day. Every day, for a full year. In 2010, one day of being Romney -- just one day -- brought in more money than the median US household earned in an entire year. Or, think about the four days of Thanksgiving. Mitt and Ann received almost a quarter of a million dollars: $237,000 from the time the turkey was slid into the oven until the last leftovers were eaten. In just those four days, the Romney's got more money than 98% of Americans get in one year.
Ooops. I had to put this post on hold while running an errand. The little trip took 20 minutes and, in that time, Mitt sucked up another $820.
America has reached banana-republic-magnitude income disparity. Our skewed distribution of wealth is the sign of a sick society.
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