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Sorry, $hillary was the Wallstreet darling, not Trump. The establishment base is repulsed by Trump. Americans rejected the globalist scheme that the losercrats were peddling, and the Wallstreet bankster thugs getting rich at our expense.
And you don't think Mr. Trump and some of his cabinet appointees aren't? You poor creature.
G.S. was just fined again......They are no different than Hillary was. When you continually are let off the hook criminally you continue to get even more corrupt.
Why do you believe I don't already contribute to society? Because I don't have as much money as you? Yes, you paid taxes that helped you and me. And for that I sincerely thank you. As I said, once I reach your obvious level of success I hope I don't get amnesia and forget when I needed the same help others rail against.
There are a couple pieces of this that you are missing.
I grew up working class but had the societal benefit of good public schools and then being able to work my way through a State College. I appreciate that and have never voted against school budgets, even when I was paying for private schools for my kids. For a good chunk of my career I paid large amounts of Local, State & Federal taxes, more than enough to pay society back for the benefits I received plus plenty more to pay for at least a few other equivalent families that didn't make as much as I did. I never complained about it until the past 8 years when something changed in this country. I should note that I even voted for Obama the first time.
What changed? The "you didn't build that" mantra came along that dismissed the many personal sacrifices I made in my career and the decades of 50 - 60 hour work weeks, never being able to take a family vacation without the ever present Blackberry and Laptop that had to be responded to. People like me were made out to be the problem because I thought paying roughly 50% of my earnings in Local/State/Federal taxes was more than a fair share, especially when it was largely going to support people who never made the sacrifices I did and certainly didn't work as hard. That society no longer appreciated my contributions pushed me to the point where I said f. it, I'm done, I'm not going to feed the beast anymore. I retired early and am living off of accumulated assets rather than earnings so that my tax obligations are but a fraction of what they used to be. In a way I went "Galt".
The other thing you are missing that caused me and many others to tune out the social justice warriors cries of fairness in society was their incessantly pushing the memes of victimhood and identity politics. No longer are people a product of their own bad life choices but rather because others of us had unearned privileges. They were somehow the victim and people like me who pulled myself out of where I came from were to blame. Then throw in the identity politics piece in which every subset of society was worth celebrating, except those of us who are supposed to be ashamed of our European ancestors that are to blame for causing all of horrors of modern day America. For my own sanity I had to come to the conclusion that I no longer care what the SJW's think is fair or not, nor who they think the victims are or who is to blame. They are the proverbial boy who cried wolf one time too many.
That's what I said to begin with, so I don't know why you're arguing with me about this.
Because you said I acted like I knew what was going to happen and I never said that so there was no need for you to say that in the first place.
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