Bernie and Hillary's Monopoly Game

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UTOPIA as envisioned by a few of our posters. Shared MISERY!

SheWrites wrote:True?  

Markle says I'm a progressive.  So I want to go on record as a progressive saying I like this redistribution of wealth version of Monopoly.  I think Trump should have to give me some of his properties.

Bob wrote:Markle says I'm a progressive.  So I want to go on record as a progressive saying I like this redistribution of wealth version of Monopoly.  I think Trump should have to give me some of his properties.

LOL Mr. Bob, thanks for the grins.  We can all use some!!     But you're really not too far off the mark here.  I think (and have said before) that many of Trump's supporters may have it in the back of their minds that he will make us all (especially his supporters) rich. Boy will they be in for a surprise.

RealLindaL wrote:

Bob wrote:Markle says I'm a progressive. So I want to go on record as a progressive saying I like this redistribution of wealth version of Monopoly. I think Trump should have to give me some of his properties.

LOL Mr. Bob, thanks for the grins. We can all use some!! But you're really not too far off the mark here. I think (and have said before) that many of Trump's supporters may have it in the back of their minds that he will make us all (especially his supporters) rich. Boy will they be in for a surprise.

I have never heard personally or one any TV show, express any thought that somehow Donald Trump, personally, will make them rich.

As you know, a former president, now Lame Duck President promised to SPREAD THAT WEALTH AROUND. Remember "Joe the Plumber"?

How did that workout?

WORKERS, not those who have given up and demand to be supported by hard workers, but people who simply want to see a clear path to success if they are willing to work hard. We do NOT have that today.

If returning higher tax rates on the wealthiest Americans is socialism, and those rates were in existence in the fifties, sixties, and seventies our largest period of economic growth, then please sir.....can America have some more socialism.

Joe the plumber

A lot of folks are having fun with the news that “Joe the Plumber,” the Ohio man who famously tangled with Obama over his “spread the wealth” comment back in 2008, has now gotten himself a union job with Chrysler Group LLC. Ever since that encounter with Obama, Joe has enjoyed years of national recognition as the leading regular-guy critic of Obama’s penchant for seizing people’s hard earned money and giving it away to others.

As the Toledo Blade reports, Joe the Plumber — a.k.a. Samuel Wurzelbacher — says he was required to join the United Auto Workers, now that he works for a union shop, and claims he’s been called a “Tea Bagger” by at least one pro-union co-worker. “I’m a Republican who was cast into the limelight for having the temerity to confront Barack Obama on the question of redistributing wealth,” Joe says. “But I’m a working man, and I’m working.”

The union angle is fun, but it’s worth noting another interesting and amusing irony to this tale.

It appears plausible that Joe the Plumber may not have gotten this auto job if it weren’t for the hated bailout of the auto industry, which was first championed by George W. Bush and then became a leading symbol for years of Obama’s penchant for big-footed government intervention in the private market.

Sean McAlinden, who has studied the auto-bailout as the chief economist for the non-profit Center for Automotive Research, tells me it’s likely Joe’s new job is at one of two Chrysler plants currently operating in Toledo, Ohio, Joe’s home town. (I’ve emailed Joe asking for more info.)

“He wouldn’t have gotten a job in Toledo if Chrysler hadn’t been bailed out,” McAlinden tells me. “The unemployment rate in Toledo would have been at 15 percent.”

The Center for Automotive Research recently released a report finding that the federal bailout of Chrysler, GM, and auto parts suppliers saved 1.5 million jobs. McAlinden, the chief author of the report, says the bailout was one of the “most successful” government interventions “in U.S. economic history.”

These jobs saved by the bailout almost certainly would have included the one Joe the Plumber now has,” McAlinden tells me.