“We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times and then just expect that other countries are going to say okay,”
So if I understand, he’s saying we’ll be more accepted to the rest of the world if we become a third world nation. Well, he’s working hard to bring that about. I guess when we’re waiting in lines for bars of soap and carrying ration cards for health care and gasoline, we can be comforted in the respect of those stalwarts like Chavez, Qadaffi and Castro, but I’m having a problem seeing how that makes us better off.
That's exactly what he's saying, and doing. It's in DIRECT contrast to Winston Churchill (paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln and others), who said ...
"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."