Pelosi complains about “crumbs”

Perhaps the reason the Trump haters have become so shrill lately is because every time they wade into a real policy critique they come off looking ridiculous. Case in point is Democratic Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s now infamous observation that the $1,000 plus bonuses offered to rank and file employees by companies such as Home Depot, Fiat Chrysler, Wells Fargo and Starbucks, not to mention raises in the minimum wage and the expansion in investment that will lead to more domestic production and jobs, all a direct result of the Trump tax cuts, are “crumbs.”

Certainly, for Pelosi, one of the richest members of Congress with an estate worth over a billion dollars, a thousand dollars is a “crumb” but this is not the case for a working family. Indeed, an extra thousand dollars might mean new clothes for a child starting school or a meal at a restaurant other than McDonalds. Perhaps Pelosi should be asked if she plans to offer a “crumb” to her non-union employees at her California vineyards and hotels.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is worth $15 million, and who earned an estimated $325,000 teaching one class at Harvard University, joined disgraced Senator Al Franken for a series available on Youtube in which she predicted that workers would see no benefits from the Trump tax cuts since “it never works that way, it hasen’t worked that way.” Warren erroneously declared in the interview that the tax cuts would only benefit the investors and CEO’s, that the benefits would not be applied toward expansion. Every democrat voted against the biggest tax cut since World War II, a tax cut that is having massive positive reverberations across the economy. They ought to be held accountable in the mid-terms.

The Democrats like to claim they champion the cause of the middle class and the working poor but what, really, do they have to offer? They mask their lack of a coherent agenda with an ugly appeal to class envy. Rather than pay attention to our own plight, the fact that we pay upwards of 40% of our hard-earned income to the government in taxes and other fees, they hope we look covetously at our more successful neighbor as they indirectly promise to rip that neighbor off and transfer some of the loot to us. While they appeal to the darker side of our nature, they use their own political positions to enrich themselves.

They hope that we don’t notice how rich they became in office. The Clintons, Barack Obama, and an extensive list of mostly Democrats and some Republicans left office a lot richer then when they entered. Meanwhile, they criticize Republicans like Donald Trump and Mitt Romney who earned their wealth in the private sector. Ironically, the annual Forbes Magazine list of richest Americans shows that liberal Democrats make up the majority of the richest. The top ten richest include notable liberals such as Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and others.

Pelosi, Warren and their ilk sanctimoniously talk down to the rest of us peasants while they not only rake in the big dough but while they support regulations that favor their corporate benefactors over the smaller businesses where conservatives are more likely to reside. President Trump, the self-made businessman who took very little corporate money during his campaign for the presidency, in stark contrast to Hillary Clinton and her corrupt foundation, is calling the bluff of the left and they are going bezerk in response. He is dismantling their top heavy corporate financed nanny state by returning power, and cash, to the people. The more successful Trump becomes, and the more the rest of us benefit, the more shrill they will become. Sit back and watch the fireworks!