Trumps: White Angry Middleclass

[Williamsmith]

What are these capabilities you speak of? Is he not educated ENOUGH? University of Pennsylvania. Is it because he doesn't restrain his speech when others are on the attack? What kind of a person is worthy? Are we electing a spiritual leader or a politician....a President? How many of the past examples put forth by the establishment amounted to a pimple on our ass? All along we watch as bits and pieces of our heritage and tradition are given away. The left is not satisfied with their half of the country, they want to expand and take over from border to border.

This isn't a disagreement anymore......this is an insurrection. Whine and cry all you want, Trump and millions more just like him aren't going away. You are getting a glimpse of your countrymen and apparently you think they are too stupid to deserve a part in the decision making. Well, the establishment created primary rules to keep the decision making process out of the hands of the uneducated farmers and laborers but this time the rules backfired. Now the dimwits get to call a few shots.

It is incredulous isn't it?

[Ultralight]

You tell'em!

[ApatheticNoMore]

The stupid might be referring to the quality of his speech, the way he spoke was different than all the other debate contenders - basically it was incoherent.

But stupid I don't know, it's too broad. He is probably smart at some things (like manipulating people, well yes that part goes with the narcissistic personality disorder). But he is inexperienced, it's about like hiring a doctor to fly a plane and a pilot to perform an operation. Neither the doctor or the pilot is necessarily "stupid" but untrained to perform each others jobs, of course they are that. And that's about how unqualified Trump is. No Sanders is not, he has decades of political experience. Hillary isn't inexperienced and untrained either, bad yes and likely to be a complete disaster for the world, but not without some knowledge of the field.

Are we electing a spiritual leader or a politician....a President?

I kind of wish the former, or I mean I wish we were soliciting someone of high moral character (but they might still have to know something about their jobs). But that's not what people want, what they want is something else. So ....

[gimmethesimplelife]

Many countries will not let you move there unless you can prove you have a certain amount of $ and won't use their services. They don't need anymore people to take care of. Mexico is probably an exception but I can't imagine wanting to live there. I spent a few days there and will never go back.

I have some interesting news that ties into your post TT. It turns out that Pena Neito, the current President of Mexico, is trying to make same sex marriage legal in Mexico. Now who knows if it will pass.....but if it does and BIG IF- if it includes an immigration sponsorship provision or some such.....my husband is a Mexican citizen and there are parts of Mexico that remain safe and affordable and even less dangerous than US cities overall....
There are also places that justify the stereotype. I'd be up for living in Mexico legally with my husband...in one of the former places. Queretaro comes to mind as an example. I'm hopeful this may be an upcoming option. We shall see. Rob

[Teacher Terry]

Rob, how hard will it be for you two to get jobs because that is the reason they come here is for work? That would be great if they legalize SS marriage.

[JaneV2.0]

Apparently this guy agrees with your professor. http://www.topinfopost.com/2014/06/3...rks-are-coming

Good article. He's one who seems to recognize that having a peasant class is bad for business.

[jp1]

Good article. He's one who seems to recognize that having a peasant class is bad for business.

The thing that so many in the current .1% class don't seem to get is that simply hoarding money won't work. When there aren't enough people out there who can afford to buy crap the whole economy falls apart. Henry Ford understood this and paid his employees what was perceived to be an obscene wage at the time. Hindsight tells us how that worked out for him. Quite well. Rich people hoarding money doesn't work in the long run. Nobody mentions this too much anymore but 'consumption' is still 70-some percent of US GDP. If a smaller and smaller chunk of the population has enough money to actually consume anything then the economy eventually crashes and burns. WHen that happens the .1% may not become destitute but they will certainly get poorer. We may very well have to relearn that lesson at some point in the fairly near future.

[bae]

How do you "hoard" money?

Most of the extremely wealthy people I know do not keep their wealth sitting around in piles of cash and coin under their mattress like Scrooge McDuck. They invest their capital on things that produce income, generally by providing goods, materials, services, and jobs.

And what is "money" anyways?....

[gimmethesimplelife]

The thing that so many in the current .1% class don't seem to get is that simply hoarding money won't work. When there aren't enough people out there who can afford to buy crap the whole economy falls apart. Henry Ford understood this and paid his employees what was perceived to be an obscene wage at the time. Hindsight tells us how that worked out for him. Quite well. Rich people hoarding money doesn't work in the long run. Nobody mentions this too much anymore but 'consumption' is still 70-some percent of US GDP. If a smaller and smaller chunk of the population has enough money to actually consume anything then the economy eventually crashes and burns. WHen that happens the .1% may not become destitute but they will certainly get poorer. We may very well have to relearn that lesson at some point in the fairly near future.

You have faith then that the 1 percent can actually figure such a concept out? I don't. Rob

[gimmethesimplelife]

Rob, how hard will it be for you two to get jobs because that is the reason they come here is for work? That would be great if they legalize SS marriage.

I would look to do something in English online. My husband would look to start some kind of business with his savings. So looking for work would not really apply. Rob