Significant Wealth

Yahoo! News reports They're on the government payroll, but some of President Bush's top aides have millions of dollars in stocks, real estate and other investments, according to financial disclosure forms released Wednesday. Senior adviser Karl Rove, White House chief of staff Andrew Card, Dan Bartlett, counselor to the president, Allan Hubbard, Bush's top economic adviser, National security adviser Stephen Hadley were listed.

Dr. Steven Taylor blogged And this should be a shock to no one, nor is it unusual. Typically, if one is intelligent and successful enough to be tapped to serve at the upper levels of the executive branch, one likely has already been monetarily successful in life, to one degree or another. Indeed, this underscores that in many cases, those serving in government take a pay cut to take the jobs in any given administration. The ones who worry me are those who come into government sans assets and leave wealthy.

And they earned their money honestly, and did not have to get huge 8 Million or 12 Million advances on book deals.