Sanders Mocks Wealthy In 2010: 'How Can I Get By On One House? I Need 5 Houses, 10 Houses'

    In December 2010, Senator Bernie Sanders famously railed against Wall Street wealth in an eight hour speech on the floor of the Senate.  Developments in Senator Sanders's life and career in the intervening decade have led to choices that might raise the eyebrows of 2010 Senator Sanders. One passage in the 2010 speech is particular is noteworthy. Sanders mocks Wall Streeters for what he apparently sees as their excesses in housing and travel:

What is important is that I, on Wall Street, continue to get millions of dollars in compensation and in bonuses, that I have big parties. How can I get by on one house? I need 5 houses, 10 houses. I need three jet planes to take me all over the world.

    Though Sanders falls short of "5 houses, 10 houses," as of 2016, he does own three, finding common ground with the Wall Streeters who can't "get by on one."
    Sanders's 2010 comments on private air travel might rile his own 2020 campaign also. While he excoriated those who "need three jet planes to take [them] all over the world," Sanders's campaign entourage reportedly needed three jets to take them the 95 miles from Myrtle Beach to Charleston, South Carolina a few weeks ago:

    While the above report is unconfirmed, an article last week in The New Yorker included this line: "...Bernie Sanders left South Carolina, on Friday, on one of two private jets that his Presidential campaign had chartered[.]"
    For his part, Sanders sounds more like a prototype of the gruff, swaggering Wall Street CEO that Sanders like to lampoon when asked about his penchant for private air travel. Asked last August about flying private to California, Sanders replied: “I’m not going to walk to California. We do the best we can as an example, but I’m not going to sit here and tell you that we’re not going to use fossil fuels.”
    In other words, Sanders sees his own use of private air travel as justified by the importance of his position and mission. As for the rest? Let 'em fly coach.