She earned about $165,300 from September 2010 through August 2011 as a special adviser to President Obama, setting up the consumer protection agency she helped establish.
Before that, she collected a total of $192,722 for leading the congressional panel that oversaw the US bank bailout. That government salary covered a period that began before her latest disclosure report, spanning from November 2008 through September 2010.
Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor and consumer advocate challenging Republican Senator Scott Brown, took home more than $700,000 in compensation from teaching and consulting fees over a two-year period from 2010 to 2011, according to her most recent financial disclosure form.
I don't understand how you can in good conscience make criticisms like that while collecting millions of dollars serving the American people and working in academia.
“When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.”
That would be a great retort except for the fact that there are people who care about inequality but aren't willing to take money from a system which is the very driver of inequality they preach against. Human beings are great at justification, no matter who they are.
Do as I say but not as I do? That seems to be a problem with politics as a whole. It'd be better if we didn't defend it.
>That would be a great retort except for the fact that there are people who care about inequality but aren't willing to take money from a system which is the very driver of inequality they preach against.
You know, I don't think anyone has ever deliberately kept themselves at minimum wage to make a point about capitalism.
I guess it's possible. Wikipedia doesn't have any information on on her work between getting her Comp Sci B.Sc in 1994 and her economics PhD sometime around ~2003.
She didn't move to Seattle until 2006, unless that's missing from her 1994-2003 bio; after she had left the CS field. Maybe not Microsoft then, but still tech money.
You're expressing an ad hominem sentiment that has become increasingly common in my experience, that policy advocates should "practice what they preach" -- this is, when you think about it, ridiculous. If a politician is in favour of a particular tax, should he pay said tax voluntarily until it becomes law? I feel we need more "don't hate the player, hate the game" thinking in society in general.
Why should politicians not practice what they preach?
If their job is to be a public servant, if their job is to convince people to do something, why would they not do that themselves?
I don't think it's hypocrisy because that's unfair and it's not intentional, but how do you justify taking 190k and 160k respectively "consulting" government before you are even holding office if you care so much about the poor? It wasn't a full time job because her full time job was at Harvard where she was making 400k.
Sure, those small amounts don't hurt anyone's bottom line but when everyone is doing it you end up in the financial situation we are discussing.
Maybe if politicians practiced what they preached people would believe what they are saying. You can keep "playing the game" like everyone else, but then the game is gonna remain and nothing changes.
Taking this argument to the extreme men who push for equality for women should become women?
I think legislators should be judged on what bills they author / sponsor, how much they are able to convince / cajole their legislative peers, what legislation they support / amend / reject in committees, and what legislation they vote for and against. That's their job.
Her argument isn't that no one should be well paid, but that poor people shouldn't get screwed over. You don't have to be poor to recognise that poor people have a bad time and pay a disproportionate amount of the cost of running society.
Who cares? If she's right, then she's right regardless of being a hypocrite. If she's wrong, then she's wrong regardless. Do you have an argument that involves the ideas, or just the person?
She earned about $165,300 from September 2010 through August 2011 as a special adviser to President Obama, setting up the consumer protection agency she helped establish.
Before that, she collected a total of $192,722 for leading the congressional panel that oversaw the US bank bailout. That government salary covered a period that began before her latest disclosure report, spanning from November 2008 through September 2010.
Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School professor and consumer advocate challenging Republican Senator Scott Brown, took home more than $700,000 in compensation from teaching and consulting fees over a two-year period from 2010 to 2011, according to her most recent financial disclosure form.
I don't understand how you can in good conscience make criticisms like that while collecting millions of dollars serving the American people and working in academia.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/01/13/elizabeth-warre...