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So now Trumps remark about 'poor people' is causing yet more hyperventilation ?

Does anyone know anybody who has worked for a poor person or had a poor person sign their pay check? Would you go to plumber to have a root canal or crown done? Would you go to a brothel for a hair cut? Would you bet on a horse with a four hundred pound jockey? Is there any rationality or reason behind the emotional indignation by some of the mainstream media over Trumps remark about a poor person running the economy? What in the name of sanity is wrong with these people?
Sicarium · 46-50, M
Trump could say the Sun is hot and idiots will hyperventilate themselves into a triggered rage to rival the wrath of Zeus.
Sicarium · 46-50, M
@GlassDog: 🤔
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Sicarium · 46-50, M
@silmarilion456: Jew hater? Nah, afraid you're going to have to find someone else for your fetish. Until I shoot you at least.
bookerdana · M
To start with, let's be clear that we aren't talking about actual poor people. No one's suggesting that the President ought to pluck someone working for minimum wage at a fast-food restaurant to be the next chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. When Trump says "poor," what he really means is "not rich."
And that's what has happened in his administration. Trump promised to take power from the "elite" and give it back to the people, but what he was really after was removing the influence of expertise and consolidating all power in the hands of the wealthy. It isn't just the billionaires at the top; in one department after another, he has made his intention clear to sweep away civil servants and experienced experts, and turn things over to lobbyists and the corporations looking to government to help them make even more money.
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CaptainCanadia · 41-45, M
Because being rich isn't a job qualification for crafting economic policy. Trump's line is controversial because it flies against the idea that democracy is about empowering regular people - he's instead saying only rich elites like him should have power and not regular folk.
CaptainCanadia · 41-45, M
I'm an IT Project Manager and a union negotiator. Also not Mexican; far, far worse.

I'm doing pretty well. You know what happens when a CEO gets fired for incompetence? He gets to be a CEO somewhere else. Also, I love that you're asserting everyone who makes more money than you is smarter and harder-working. I hope you have a lot of staff.
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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
I don't know what the remark was but from my point of view they have no right to hyperventilate about anything. I hear from liberals all the time tell me how they THINK that the "poor and uneducated" voted for Trump. [b]They often lump[/b] in "white and working class" with that same stereotype.

Just another case of them trying to appear as if they are better people than what they actually are.
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berangere · 80-89, F
@silmarilion456: Well that should be a lesson for the US! And to the snow flakes who support islam and turn a blind eye to its barbarity.
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TheProphet · M
He was absolutely right. We don't want the poor making our economic policy.
TheProphet · M
@puck61: That's very true.
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berangere · 80-89, F
A poor person could not run the economy because a poor person was never able to acquire wealth in the first place for whatever reasons.If you put a poor person in charge of the economy chance are we all would be bankrupt in no time,they are poor for the most because they simply do not have economic acumen.
berangere · 80-89, F
@silmarilion456: You cannot blame the poor for their disadvantaged positions,there are many,many reasons why people are poor,and often they are not entirely to blame for it and in some case they are not to be blame at all.
Lack of education: some children are born disadvantaged in abusive families who teach them nothing,give them no encouragements and keep putting them down,they develop a low self esteem or they become very angry people,their schooling is limited as the parents want them to find work and bring in money or the parents cannot afford the college fees,those children soon become disillusionned and turn to drugs and alcohol to escape the terrible feelings they experience,the lack of love and recognition for the quality they might possess.
Some children leave home soon because of domestic violence against their mother and themselves and end up on the streets,once on the streets they get stuck there become they have no one to turn to.They will not become wealthy,I can assure you!
Some people have had bad luck,like being cheated by a business partner and lose everything they possess and often they too end up on the streets.
Some people become ill and their families if they cannot afford private insurance or if the private insurence refuses to pay up for their treatment they have to fork out from their own pockets and have to sell everything.That happens in America.Where I live we have a national health service that covers everyone.If I needed an operation for example I would not have to sell my home to pay for it and end up living in a cardboard box on the streets like it happened to an elderly person,I read about and quite believe it as prices for medical care and surgical procedures in America are astronomical!
People suffer from mental illness,post traumatic stress like war veterants who end up on the streets and are greatly neglected by their government,those people cannot hold down a job.
There are many reasons why people are poor,they are not scums.Some rich people are scums for many reasons, but I will not go there.
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berangere · 80-89, F
@silmarilion456: I don't know whay to say about your reply.Soldiers are not losers they put their lives and limbs in dangers to fight for your country and came back,if they came back at all with physical and mental defects and scars acquired because of the appaling experiences they had to face on active duty,they deserve our respect and our support and sadly have been let down by the system and the people they served.People need support and inspiration,they need to feel they are loved,as I said poor people are not to blame,they are often victims of circumstances and bad people and sadly in this world the victims tend to get the blame.
Here is a good man who helped homeless people and gave them back some dignity.

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therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
Obama could lead this idiots by their noses into slave camps feeding them BS all the way and they would thank him for it. Trump could hand each one of them a million dollars and they would kick him in the teeth.

Don't you get it by now? The left is beyond gone, they are willing to kill themselves and destroy this country in order to defend their vile ideology of hating themselves and destroying this country. That scumbag Obama shifted the reality paradigm and turned his sycophants into a psychopathic cult.
@therighttothink50: Well, to be blunt, Obama was the political manifestation of white guilt, and that was about it.
therighttothink50 · 56-60, M
Anybody who voted for Obama out of guilt doesn't understand reality. Feeling good about handing the keys of a country to a Marxist globalist ideologue is just plain nuts. If the media took the time to really investigate this foreign piece of crap, he would have never even been a state senator.
@therighttothink50: Many people voted for Obama for no other reason, than to feel 'socially enlightened'. From 'Fast and Furious' to 'Iran Payola', Obama's malfeasance sent millions into deep denial, because it could not be psychologically reconciled that a darker skinned person could actually be as corrupt and deceptive as a lighter skinned person. Especially one who was 'cool' and could talk all purdy like.
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They have to know that what you say is true in their hearts, but their talking points are window dressing for their constituents. Fact: Rich people and corporations can hire more people and provide better salaries. Obviously, a rich person will have a better perspective on getting the economy going. I'm not rich, but I'm not ignorant of this, either.
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5thApprentice · 31-35, M
As sad as it is to say poor people are sometimes poor for a reason. If you were good with money, you wouldn't be poor?
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GlassDog · 41-45, M
I think it's probably because in the land of opportunity, people don't like the idea that some people are barred from opportunity. Surely you'd want the best person for the job, regardless of how much wealth they'd yet been able to accumulate (or inherit, in the case of some)?

I'm not sure winning a lottery makes someone a fiscal expert.
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GlassDog · 41-45, M
@silmarilion456: That doesn't sound very opportune for women or other genders. I wouldn't have called it the land of opportunity if I meant the land of limited opportunity, unless I was employing some kind of duality of meaning or irony, which - in this case - I wasn't. Online people often don't get it, so I've starting stooping to the LCD more often than not.
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Xuan12 · 31-35, M
To me the bigger point about it, is how much he talked up that Hillary's connections to Goldman-Sachs are bad, and then he goes and stuffs his cabinet with them. It barely means anything at this point, but if one had placed bets on Trump going back on his word, I think they'd have won most those bets.
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thatscottishguy · 26-30, M
Marx was poor and even pure capitalists look to his works today to help them understand economics. He certainly knew more than Trump.
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GunSmoke9 · 56-60, M
The Looney left and logic don't mix. A 400 pound jockey, what a payout that would be.
Northwest · M
I know, right? good thing we picked a President who knows everything that needs to be known, about running a country, instead of someone who will say "who knew it was going to be so complicated" as he tackles every major issue.

And don't get me started on those "poor" deplorables, right?
MsMontgomery · 51-55, F
You said it... sanity.

 
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