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

@GlassDog: Being poor doesn't qualify you for any high job.

@lastbabyboomer: That's kind of my point. Wealth isn't the measure of whether you can do a job. Actually being able to do the job is the measure.

@GlassDog: For the most part the absolute truth is that we reap what we sow. Like Dr. Carson said. You can give some people a ton of money and they will be poor in a short time, and you can take every dime away from others, and they will be back on top in a short time. A lot of people choose poverty as a lifestyle because wealth is too much work.

@puck61: I've certainly seen people win the lottery and then spend it all unwisely. The theory I've always had is that people gravitate back to what they are used to. Although, of course, not always. They need an opportunity to do so. I'd say it's easier for rich people to become poor, than vice versa.

@GlassDog: I certainly can't argue with that. I'm just saying that Trump is taking the logical and intelligent position as described by his, and Dr Carson's comments that have so upset some of the media mouthpieces.

@puck61: I think it might have been naivety on his part. Why couldn't he just have said he'd give jobs to the people best qualified? If, in his mind, he thinks personal wealth is a qualification (regardless of the means of attaining it), so be it. Although, he could equally have said he'd only give jobs to people with business brains who could, or have, the potential to make money for themselves. It all amounts to roughly the same thing. Either way, he's not acting in any way differently than most politicians. He's just been more open about it.

@GlassDog: Well, I've never denied that he has a malfunctioning filter, and I've never denied his arrogance, over sensitivity and poor choices of words..
He reminds me of Andrew Jackson. He is the perfect oaf for our current situation. I voted for him, and I think he's doing a fantastic job considering the obstruction and unprecedented hysteria that he is up against. I see promise in Trump, and I no longer see anything redeemable from the democratic party. Trump offers hope. Democrats offer blood thirsty Hollywood provocateurs and white guilt.

@puck61: Maybe being out of the country, I tend to see hysteria from both sides. I've noticed many people in that situation see the hysteria of the other side much more pronouncedly than the hysteria which supports their beliefs.

@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.