TruthNotBS
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Trump hasn't done anything significant or life-changing for the working class, the fact that you assert otherwise makes you the one who is full of it, not me. Trump is for Trump, his family, and his wealthy class interests (his rich buddies). This crap doesn't work:
You said you are 78 years old. You're older than my mother, who was born in 1947. My father is 83, born in the "silent generation", right before the post-war "baby boom" (I'm 51). You were born and raised in the golden age of the American economy, after WW2, when our country became the world's manufacturing hub, rebuilding Western Europe and Japan through its Marshal Plan. This was FDR's New Deal economy when 35% of the American workforce was unionized. They were "class conscious", fully aware of their importance to the nation's success, and had much more leverage (power).
My maternal grandfather migrated here with his family (my grandmother, mother, uncles), from Cuba, in 1961, with a few pesos in his pocket (about $20 bucks). He got a blue-collar job at Bertram Yachts in Miami, Florida, spraying yacht hull molds with fiberglass. He supported everyone in the family and in five years of working that job, he bought a house, cash, without a mortgage in Homestead, Florida (South - Miami Dade). The house had a large front yard, and backyard, with fruit trees (mangos, oranges, lemons, avocado). It's about a mile away from Bayfront Park and its beach. Those were different times.
The American "Middle Class" (i.e. Working Class), enjoyed the highest standard of living in the world. Our workforce was the "aristocracy of labor", the highest paid, with the most benefits. The average CEO of a large company made no more than 20 times the average salary. Big business was obligated to serve the country, it wasn't all about the "bottom line" or profits. Today the average Fortune 500 CEO makes 300 times the average salary in their company. Some CEOs make 1000 times more:
CEOs of Major US Companies Who Are Paid 1000 Times More Than Their Employees
CEOs of companies listed on the S&P 500 earned an average of $18.8 million last year, up about 21% from the previous year, Times recently reported. This jump in executive pay came despite an 18% drop in the market index in 2022. Many of these CEOs were gifted generous stock options by their...
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You don't consider that obscene, because you lack class consciousness. You're completely bereft, ignorant, of how a capitalist-run market economy works and what is required for it to benefit everyone, not just the wealthy (6% of the population).
Capitalism rests on wage labor and when big-money capitalists, simply don't care in what condition their workers are living in, that hurts them in the long term, but unfortunately they're only interested in short-term profits. The now, not tomorrow. Well, we're now in 2024, at the "tomorrow" stage, when American workers are powerless (10% are unionized - 1/10th rather than the 35% - 1/3rd as in the 1950s and 60s) and struggling to survive. Under our current form of capitalism, the future doesn't look good for the American worker:
Trump isn't doing anything significant to address any of the above challenges. He's not a pro-working class populist, he's a master manipulator and unfortunately, most of the older generation and many gen-Xers as well, have fallen for his populist act. I fell for it in 2016 and voted for him, but I realized just a few months into his presidency that he wasn't going to "drain the swamp" or serve the interest of the working-class. He filled his administration with swamp people:
Goldman Sachs Executives & Wall Street Investors:
- Gary Cohn - Former Director of the National Economic Council. Cohn was previously the President and COO of Goldman Sachs.
- Steve Mnuchin - Secretary of the Treasury. Mnuchin worked at Goldman Sachs for 17 years before becoming a hedge fund manager and investor.
- Dina Powell - Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy. Powell was a partner at Goldman Sachs and led the firm’s Impact Investing business.
- Steven Bannon - Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor. Bannon worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker before moving into media and politics.
- Anthony Scaramucci - White House Communications Director (briefly). Scaramucci founded SkyBridge Capital, an investment firm, and also had connections to Goldman Sachs early in his career.
Neoconservative War Hawks:
- John Bolton - National Security Advisor. Bolton is known for his hawkish foreign policy positions, particularly on Iran and North Korea.
- Mike Pompeo - Secretary of State and former Director of the CIA. Pompeo has taken hardline stances on Iran, China, and other foreign policy issues.
- James "Mad Dog" Mattis - Secretary of Defense. Mattis is a retired Marine Corps general who resigned when Trump withdrew some American forces from Syria. He was pissed off.
- H.R. McMaster - National Security Advisor. McMaster is a career military officer with a reputation for his strategic military thinking and his hawkish views on global threats.
- Nikki Haley - U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. War Hawk.
- Elliott Abrams - Special Representative for Venezuela. Abrams is a veteran diplomat and foreign policy expert known for his hardline views and role in the Reagan administration.
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