Posted on 11/07/2017 10:39:59 AM PST by drewh
"I know words, I have the best words."
Although President Trump claims he knows the "best words," his daughter Ivanka is catching some heat for her own word choice.
In an interview discussing tax reform with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, Ivanka appears to have made two mistakes.
"Indeniably it’s very expensive to raise children that is you're a stay at home parent who's investing in potentially after school activities, mommy and me classes, food and whatever it is that they think is the best investment to help their family and their children."
If you didn’t catch them, the world of social media certainly did... "Food? As an investment? She has no idea of what the average family needs in order to put the American Dream in their children’s grasp."
And they didn’t pull any punches… "It's what happens when you've never paid for a thing in your life."
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And her second verbal faux pax… "I don’t think 'indeniably' is a word either." Because it’s not and she most likely meant to say “undeniably."
Trump decided to cut her trip in Asia short in order to come back and support the new tax reforms that she insists will support the middle class, saying, "Really it’s the central theme, middle-income Americans and supporting them."
“Corpse-men”
/thatisall
Sigh, this is coming from people who probably don't have more than three days worth of food in their homes.
What’s the fuss? You obtain food, deposit it in your kids, and it pays off in strong bodies and good health. Am I missing something here?
She’s successful because she’s the kind of person that understand food _is_ an investment.
I read what she said and the first thing I thought was that she was referring to time investment, not financial investment.
Also, buying high-quality food, which is likely to be more expensive than crappy junk food and which requires additional investment in kitchen tools and cooking utensils and in time learning and preparing the food, can certainly be seen as an “investment” that pays off in healthier kids.
You are investing in the heath of your family when you buy simple quality food and cook it at home.
You are investing in doctor's bills when you do not.
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It would not hurt Ivanka and her nest to have to live on a food stamp food budget for a year. She just isn’t getting it, how the little folk live.
Anyone who doesn’t think food is part of your investment in the next generation doesn’t know the difference between raising your kid on McDonalds and raising him on home-grown produce and meat.
You can invest foolishly or wisely.
FOOD is an INVESTMENT and should be upmost in a family’s budget.
This author is stupid.
“... whatever it is that they think is the best investment” is the last in a list of things that parents provide their children in order for them to succeed.
After school activities, parent/child classes, nourishment ... are all certainly investments, investments that cost money.
Wasn’t Mrs. Obama all concerned about school lunches? Because, presumably, high quality school lunches are an investment in children’s future?
Yup.
“the act of putting money or effort into something to make a profit or achieve a result”
I invest in food with the hope that a well-fed family will be achieved.
Even if you use the value menu at the fast food joint you are looking at six dollars a day. That would be about $42.00 a week without taxes. You can feed yourself a nice week of healthy meals for that.
The name of the program is "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program", meaning it isn't intended to account for the entire food budget.
The table of benefits have a single person getting $192/month, or $6.40/day. Where I am, in the supermarket, boneless chicken breast is $1.99/lb, thighs and drumsticks 99cents. Rice is cheap. Make meals from raw ingredients, and one can live reasonably on that.
Millions of people have directly and indirectly invested in food by owning stock or mutual funds that own stock in Monsanto, General Mills, McDonald's, Hormel, Tyson, Kraft, HJ Heinz, etc. Indeed, even Queen Hillary invested in food when she made thousands of dollars trading cattle futures.
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