Posted on 04/16/2011 2:26:34 PM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
Leave Jean S out of this. I answered your question twice. Now put down the beer, get sober and grow up, trumpster.
I’d say more upper middle class; it sure ain’t Central Park West.
You answered nothing. Sissy.
Was discussing these fine socio-economic nuances with the Sainted Spouse, and was reminded of the late, great Ogden Nash, and with apologies to Himself as I am going from memory ...
Here’s to Westchester County
Society’s most uppercrust shelf
Where Scarsdale speaks only to Bronxville
And Bronxville speaks but to itself.
I suggest you look way up on the posts when I gave RM a easy way out.....he wanted to throw down......so we're throwing down. The guys an Ass@ole......
Trump as the actual nominee: not great.
The average home today in Jamaica Estates sells for about $700,000. So I guess one could call it an upper middle class neighborhood both then and now. But make no mistake about it, Donald Trump's dad Fred was a self made real estate developer, who at his death was worth about $300 or $400 million.
If you feel the need to use language like that to defend your position it is definitely bedtime for you. Let’s take it up in the morning.
Fair enough.
Good post!
A lot of men made fortunes post-WWII. God bless ‘em. Queens was ripe for the picking in that era. Good for ole Fred.
But you just cannot equate that to the long line of blue bloods of the Bush/Pierce families. The way Trump talks, could ANYONE mistake him for a blue blood?
I will admit that Trump is not the perfect conservative we all want....but at least he’s pro-US, and right now, that looks pretty good.
Queens was ripe for the picking in that era. Good for ole Fred. But you just cannot equate that to the long line of blue bloods of the Bush/Pierce families.
I described Fred as "self made".
I knew that Fred was self-made. This line of discussion, tho, began with the proposition that The Donald was, of all things, born/raised in NY,NY vs. GWB being of the fine soil of TX. My intent was to return to the absurd contrast as to the socio-economic roots of the two men (both of whom I like and appreciate for what and who they are).
Suffice to say that one of them probably knew how to use a fish fork properly before he was out of the cradle; the other not until he was well out of Wharton. $$ and geography have little to do with that.
I have no idea who started using a fish fork properly, first.
My entry into the line of discussion was simply to correct the idea that Donald Trump was from a "middle-working class neighborhood" called "Jamaica".
BTW, as an odd side note, Barbara Pierce Bush of Rye, was born in....Flushing Queens.
If that is what you stand for then why do you constantly advocate and vote for Republicans? If the Republican party is defined by RINOs why do you support them? Do you think the founders of our Republic who would most likely agree with your definition of conservatism would vote for Republicans? I don’t think they would. Why do you?
That all sounds great and I agree 100%. I do not know one politician who supports a constitutional limited gov’t though except Ron Paul and he gets soundly thrashed on this site.
“BTW, as an odd side note, Barbara Pierce Bush of Rye, was born in....Flushing Queens.”
I think Flushing was also Nancy Reagan’s home town as a child. Small world, ain’t it ? A couple of my nephews and a niece were born in Flushing. Obviously a great place to be born.
I’m guessing Flushing was pretty close to rural (or as close to rural as anything in the 5 boroughs has been for the past century) when BPB an NDR lived there.
The Donald grew up in Jamaica Estates which is the ritzy side of Jamaica, Queens. Mario Cuomo had a house there too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Estates,_Queens
Other parts of Jamaica can be slummy. Some are middle class
I won't vote for him in a primary if Palin, Bachman or West runs but I will damn well vote for him against Obama without hesitation.
One thing I would like to know though. If Trump becomes president and a bill is passed to repeal ObamaCare makes it to his desk, will he sign it?
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