The Clintons are having quite a week, aren't they? After Hillary's train wreck of a book tour, we had to endure her assertion that she's not really "well off" despite the fact that her husband has earned somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million in speaking fees since leaving the White House. If the former First Lady's parade of tone-deaf, out of touch, whining wasn't enough, now her daughter is getting in on the act.
Chelsea Clinton gave an interview to the Telegraph, in which she discussed her many, many, career changes - an employment history that culminated in the decision to go home and work for her millionaire family. In it, she described her heroic effort to care about money, and the sad realization that she just couldn't.
The Daily News broke it down like this:
“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,” she told UK’s The Telegraph, explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family’s philanthropic foundation.
Comparing her experience to the average millennial, the 34-year-old former first daughter defended jumping around to different careers — from consulting to a hedge fund to academia to journalism — before finding her true calling working with her parents.
“It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents? I’ve tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents … it’s a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work, both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make,” she continued about her reluctant status as a boomerang kid.
Bless her heart. At least she tried.
Most people would prefer not to "care about money," but then they realize that they'll need to care about it if they want to feed their babies, buy a house, clothe themselves, etc. The only people who are arrogant enough to suggest they're above these concerns are, well, people like Chelsea - people who have enjoyed a gloriously free ride. Her life of luxury is largely owed to the taxpayers who spent decades footing the bill for her scheming parents. Thanks to that forced largesse, she'll probably live out her days blissfully free of the month to month worries which prey upon ordinary, average, Americans - you know, the ones who don't have a global charity organization to fall back on.
More power to her. After all, she's become accustomed to a certain "unearned lifestyle." She's been living like this since she was born....
“One of my earliest childhood memories is being three years old and on the campaign trail with my dad,” says Chelsea, who was born when her father was governor of Arkansas. That day, a woman approached her and asked, “‘Do you want to grow up and be governor one day too?’ And I looked at her and said, ‘No, I’m three. I’m just waving the flag. That is my job right now.’ Flag-waving extraordinaire.”
Obviously, that quote is 100% true and totally-not-at-all-made-up. Every three-year-old talks like that.
