> Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D): "Let us look at it, right here, choosing how we spend $280 billion. Are we going to invest it in our kids or are we going to invest it in a few millionaires who already have made it? I might add, to anyone who thinks that everyone who has made a million dollars earned it, let me just say something. I made a million dollars, and I did not earn it. I was given it by my parents and my grandparents. Know what? Wealth is now transferred from the rich to the rich."

I think it's funny and refreshingly honest. Of course, his type of millionaire is extremely rare--the vast majority make it to seven figures by just being careful with their money, and lucky. This doesn't hurt his argument at all, because his anecdote is contradictory and really didn't have anything to do with his point anyway. But then, I'm enormously picky about politics.

gab"Never heard anyone complain about politicians being too self-deprecatory"by