Just working for a livin’
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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”:
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…
He’s not a bad man for having a business, he’s dingleberry for claiming he’s a middle class guy.