Yes Walker did nail it with that - and Cruz has been saying similar things for years. I think ultimately it will come down to those two, because that IS THE message of 2016.
And yes, it’s opulent. I’ve been in DC twice in February - and let me tell you, it’s rich on both sides of the tracks. There is no bad side of the tracks. It’s God Awful expensive - for those of us who earn outside the beltway.
“Spent a couple of days in DC being stunned by the opulent prosperity.”
Next time you see stats on government employee salaries and how much higher they are than the private sector, remember what you saw because that’s why. I am a federal civil servant and when my coworkers and I hear that info the first thing we say is that it must be nice to work in the DC area because no civil servants we know makes $$ like that. Had a guy I worked with just transfer there 2 months ago, got a 10% pay increase right off the bat.
The Hunger Games