Posted on 02/17/2020 5:34:50 AM PST by richardtavor
Democratic president candidate Michael Bloomberg drew mockery from both sides of the ideological spectrum after a viral clip of him showed the billionaire media tycoon belittling farming at a 2016 business school talk and contrasting it with the “gray matter” necessary to work in the modern information economy.
Bloomberg’s 2016 comments during a sit-down discussion at Oxford’s Said Business School gained attention after a Twitter account with the handle, Pete Mentes, posted a one-minute snippet of the former New York City mayor — who has never farmed — claiming “I could teach anybody in this room” to be a farmer.
“It’s a process,” he went on to say, referring to the agrarian economy 300 years ago, “you dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on to, add water, up comes the corn.” He then said working in the modern information economy is “fundamentally different, because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets you need to learn are how to think and analyze and that is a whole degree level different, you need to have different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.”
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Bad strategy, MiniMike. Kinda tells that it's really all about you, isn't it?
Come on down to the farm, we've got a fun day planned out for you. Don't worry about the liability though, it's all chump change and stupid people for a billionaire like yourself.
Welp.
There goes the Heartland vote.
“Study his face.
He is one of the lizards.....”
That made me laugh. That thought leaps to mind whenever I see him. Moves his eyes and heads just like a lizard. Doesn’t require much study. Has he ever held his gaze and look directly into the camera?
Mot people have nothing to do with agriculture ( 1% of GDP ) and don’t care if their steak comes form Argentina, Australia or Nebraska. This faux love affair with the corporate subsidized farmer is killing the GOP.
Interesting
I travel through Virginia often, up I 81 and I 77 and US 19.
What’s interesting is the very large numbers of beef cattle and row on row of plastic wrapped hay rolls. Beef and hay are a very large Virginia agricultural industry. Some of the enterprises are quite large.
The cattle and hay are produced in pastures pretty much unfit for crops. I think that in past years, tobacco was the crop on tillable acreage.
So do these Virginia cattle barons subsist on the public dole?
The farmer, Agriculture, horticulture, the science andf the effort, the American spirit. The work ethic
Screw you Bloominidiot you’re the essence of a condescending asshole
FARMERS USA USA USA
“Food will be the currency, and it won’t be bought for gold.”
In 1962 Pat Frank author of Alas, Babylon wrote a post-WW3 survival manual in which he predicted that
“The day will come when a pound of tobacco is worth more than a pound of gold”.
I’ve never understood William DeVane pushing gold coins. How do you spend them, and how do you stay alive when it becomes known that you have them?
Silver dollars are far more fungible. Each is currently worth about $20.00 and can be readily exchanged for food or gas.
All farmers are subsidized. Look at the tax laws. But the bigger political picture is more interesting. How did farmers ( 1% of GDP ) get all of this clout and power and manufacturing and blue collar workers ( 60% of GDP ) became political orphans?
Many family farmers today after Masters and PhDs. If a farmer isn’t up with technology, he won’t survive. Analytical skills and project management are a big part of the job.
Nope, just for the peasants. There’s a different healthcare system for the ruling elite.
I visit my brother-in-law who has always lived on a farm and he has lots of expensive equipment as well. The thing is, he has to have this equipment, but some of it, like a hay bailer, is only used for a few days a year. The rest of the time it sits idle.
My point was that the rural population in Spain - the “bread-basket” - WON the war, against people who talked like Bloomberg (and regarded them as ignorant peasants).
I counld’nt find in the article where he calls them ‘Ignorant as F*ck’, just in the headline. Did you find it?
Bloomturd, presently and obviously, (we’re still counting and waiting for more disclosures) has supreme contempt for:
Blacks,
Women,
Old people, whom he wants to euthanize,
Farmers,
Blue collar workers,
Gun owners, and
Fellow billionaires who actually like and can relate to
people who aren’t as rich as they are.
Then, out of the whole American population, who does that really leave for him to care about????
He is equating some guy growing a tomato plant in his backyard to a professional farmer. There is a vast difference between those two. Shows his ignorance and elitism. His short man syndrome is starting to surface and you will probably see a lot more come out from the Bernie, Biden and Trump campaign. You cant purchase likability. He is toast!
Agriculture, timber and fishing put together are only .8% of GDP. It just ins’t that important.
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