Someone who inherits a successful business from their parents, receiving several million dollars in salary and bonuses annually.
Blue collar workers often successfully
parlay their wealth into political office, usually by virtue of their
eloquent and well-reasoned critiques of minimum wage-earning
elites.
As a lunch-pail carrying blue collar worker, Mayor Ford found it hard
to make ends meet on his
skimpy government pay without also retaining his private-sector
salary.
