Marty Ozinga and Dick Cheney: Middle Class Guys
Just working for a livin’
His biggest worry is how to pass a multi-million dollar business to his son.
The worries of the workin’ man.
Kudos to Debbie for keeping a straight face.
While Ozinga certainly does collect a paycheck, it’s a far cry from the median Illinois household income, which hovered around $54,000 last year.
As president of Ozinga Bros., the Homer Glen businessman earned $457,000 in 2007 and $256,000 between January 2008 and April 2008, according to his personal financial disclosure filed with the FEC (which also showed him owning $2.4-$3.1 million in assets).
That salary boils down to about a $19,000 bi-monthly paycheck, before taxes. According to the Wall Street Journal‘s 2007 “Rich-O-Meter,” it also puts him in the top 0.5 percent of American wage earners.
In response to his claim at a separate appearance with Halvorson that he runs “a small business,” Southern columnist Kurt Erickson took issue with Ozinga’s attempt to bill himself as “just a little a little concrete guy”:
October 14th, 2008 at
Because yes he is obviously a bad man for having a family business.
But they do both have something in common, getting their kids on their employers payroll. The only difference is I am not the guy who funds his payroll.
But why have foresters on the staff of DNR when you can hire the children of state senators…
October 14th, 2008 at
He’s not a bad man for having a business, he’s dingleberry for claiming he’s a middle class guy.