Posted on 12/09/2016 2:29:35 PM PST by Innovative
Donald Trump brushed away criticism after appointing a number of billionaires and millionaires to his administration by saying that he wants “people that made a fortune!”
The president-elect compared his picks, which have the accumulative wealth of around $14.5 billion, to athletes during a speech at his ‘Thank You’ campaign rally on Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa.
“A newspaper criticized me and said, ‘Why can’t they have people of modest means?'” He said to a crowd, Huffington Post reports. “Because I want people that made a fortune! Because now they are negotiating [for] you, OK?… It’s no different than a great baseball player or a great golfer.”
Trump has come under fire in recent days over putting too many members of the super-rich in top positions.
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“Trump has come under fire in recent days over putting too many members of the super-rich in top positions.”
#fakenews
No, Trump needs to get struggling minorities, GBTFAG and people on welfare to make democrats great again.
Hillary made a fortune as Secretary of State. Can she get the job back? She already has an IT Department and most of the furniture for the office too.
1. They have the financial means to give up whatever career they had and work in Washington for a salary of $1.
2. They're less likely to be corrupted by outside influences (how do you bribe a billionaire?).
In fact didn’t the American founders pledge their fortunes along with their sacred honor?
We wouldn’t be hearing that from workaday people living from paycheck to paycheck. They were of means, which is nothing wrong.
Some founders were a little more democratic in their ideals of how others should be treated civically. Ben Franklin was.
But anyhow, it tends to cut down on the temptation to be venal if one is comfortably set anyhow. Go in there hungry and ambitious like the Clintons and trouble is being wooed.
Comes down to either academia or the real world. Academia has failed a every turn at being successful. Plus they are closet Marxists.
Business people get things done. There are no politics when you are already at the top.
That very thought has crossed my mind. Loved the book!
People are going to complain, we know, that these people don’t know squat about lower class issues. Which is often untrue, given their pasts. They would know, however, how to grow past a set of lower class limitations.
There are cases like many high tech founders who have risen to crazy heights with more the good fortune of a good idea, than by systematically applied effort.
They’ll go crazy leftist, because they don’t understand that their wealth isn’t typical.
That IS a great analogy.
I’m so sick of this. No mention of Barack Obama doing a pole dance on Saint Warren Buffet’s lap.
His appointees lived the AMERICAN DREAM and are ready to use their talents to give back by making AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.
And what are Hillary and Gore and company if not millionaires? I get so sick of these whiny losers.
CBS news readers had their concern faces on tonight over this...
And the difference between them and professional athletes is that you can get them on your team for no more salary than the loser ivory tower academics the Dims like to put in positions far above their abilities.
That is the lib message — people with billions didn’t EARN it but somehow cheated or inherited their wealth.
These people obviously cheated and stole and oppressed their workers, and we certainly don’t want them anywhere near the levers of power !
Entirely in keeping with Obama’s claim that “You didn’t build that !”
LOL
oh, yeah, the prescription drug entitlement
“More importantly, they’re also harder to bribe, coerce or pressure into corrupt activities or leaking administration plans to the press.”
That would one of if not the important points to be made.
To my knowledge there are no books titled, “how to bribe a billionaire.”
Who better than the super-rich to stand up to the ULTRA-rich who are tacitly running the world, and adored by the media all the while.
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