Guest, I must disagree with you on several points.

Having personal money, for the most part recently, sometimes works against a candidate. It didn't work for Forbes and it didn't work for that Texas infomercial dude either. Both of these folks have accounts that reach somewhere out near Pluto.

Point number two. Have you ever heard of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center? It was funded by two very rich, hard working GM execs who were out on the work floor every day! Ever heard of Cyrus Eaton? He owned Eaton Industries. They made Etonics running shoes among other things. He was a socialist in Cleveland,OH and made very big bucks for himself. His goal was to die poor, which he did. He saw to it that his workers (and Retirees!) were well cared for. If you look back in the history of steel, you'll certainly find Andrew Carneighy. He's responsible for tiny little libraries in small/large town America. Look a little further back in history and you'll find Rebecca Lukens. She was a Quaker and inherited Lukens Steel when her husband died. Quakers allowed women to inherit property, unlike the rest of America. She worked hard for her company and made sure that it survived economic down turns when other steel mills were shutting down. Have you heard of Milton S. Hershey? Of the Hershey chocolate fame? He founded Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, where no patient is ever turned away. The fund is funded by his trust and other medical research foundations. He also founded the Milton S. Hershey School for Boys. It is by far the better of Choate and all the other private hoity toity private schools. It is a little different in that the boy has to be in trouble with the law, a bit of a scoial outcast, and have no father in his family. If you meet these criterion, you're in!

I could go on and on, but no sense in doing that. As Paul Harvey points out, there is always "the rest of the story."