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That was a reversal from an earlier comment he made in a debate, saying the current wage level was too high That line is about the president. Current wage leve

• belltaco 7y ago
  He's a businessman. Of course business feels that any minimum wage is too high and that it should be abolished.
• krapp 7y ago
  > How out of touch are the people running for (and holding) office? "I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars..."
  • akhilcacharya 7y ago
    To make matters worse, he had been getting direct cash transfers from his parents starting as a child so even $1 million 1970's money is understating it significantly.
  • dragonwriter 7y ago
    > "I started off in Brooklyn, my father gave me a small loan of a million dollars..." To be fair, that loan was small compared to the $400+ million his father funneled to him later in tax-evading fake business. But, yeah, thinking that getting a “small” million-dollar loan would make him look like a everyman turned self-made success is pretty out-of-touch.
    • krapp 7y ago
      >But, yeah, thinking that getting a “small” million-dollar loan would make him look like a everyman turned self-made success is pretty out-of-touch. The weird thing is, it still worked. And you could probably fill a book with things he's said that would have killed anyone else's political career. He should get out of real estate and politics altogether and sell DuPont whatever it is that keeps shit from ever sticking to him.