Christie ridicules Democrats for emphasizing income inequality

[Street Knowledge]

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CHICAGO — Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey delivered an unexpectedly blistering broadside on Tuesday against the Democratic Party’s growing emphasis on income inequality, warning that the movement would “drive America toward mediocrity” and portraying its leaders, like Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York, as local liberals unlikely to ignite a national cause.

In his most expansive, engaging and combative remarks since scandal enveloped him, Mr. Christie mocked President Obama for entering office without “a respect for the other party,” complained that George W. Bush was “grossly underappreciated” in the White House and seemed to make a novel case for his own, now-blemished candidacy for president in 2016.

The successful presidential campaigns of both Mr. Bush and Bill Clinton, Mr. Christie said, required displeased skeptics within their own parties to “suck it up and get behind” them.

The party, Mr. Christie appeared to argue implicitly, should do the same when it comes to him. “Parties tend to become pragmatic when they are powerless,” he said. “It’s time for us to get pragmatic.”

Mr. Clinton, he said to knowing laughs, “was far from the perfect candidate.”

 

[Gandolpiffini]

He's right though the whole concept of equality is a human abstraction found in no demonstratable form in the natural world besides who really wants to be equal compared to the next guy? Nobody. We all want more than him

 

[tmonster]

He's right though the whole concept of equality is a human abstraction found in no demonstratable form in the natural world besides who really wants to be equal compared to the next guy? Nobody. We all want more than him

that and bowties, bowtie wearing is not found in nature

 

[The Real]

He's right though the whole concept of equality is a human abstraction found in no demonstratable form in the natural world besides who really wants to be equal compared to the next guy? Nobody. We all want more than him

It depends on the species. Some of our closest relatives are quite egalitarian. What humans are capable of remains to be seen, but certainly no one talking about income inequality thinks we should all be paid the same and distributed the exact same resources, so Christie is to some extent operating with a straw man.

 

[Jhoon]

I see custard chrissy is back to pandering to the locals. the natives who they slaughtered, had a better economy than the savages of europe. but I wouldnt expect anything less from europeans

 

[Gandolpiffini]

No wants socialism yet people cry out for its benefits

 

[Tommy Fits]

Fat boy knows he's sinking, he's back to pandering to the base that disowned him after he hugged Obama after Sandy. With all these scandals surrounding him now, he's losing whatever moderates and democrats that supported him. Fat boy is desperate now.

 

[No_bammer_weed]

It depends on the species. Some of our closest relatives are quite egalitarian. What humans are capable of remains to be seen, but certainly no one talking about income inequality thinks we should all be paid the same and distributed the exact same resources, so Christie is to some extent operating with a straw man.

it just shows how much the supply side has cornered the debate, when their immature, nonsensical rhetoric is taken seriously as legit dialectic on our economy. Now they have the cache, and intellectual capital to shout down any discussion about wealth distribution and our economic imbalances with cries about some sort of attempt to race to the bottom, as if closing loopholes and shelters, raising taxes a few percentages, reducing crony capitalism and subsidies, strengthening unions, raising the minimum wage, eliminating lobbying, etc is championing 20th century stalinism.

What kills me is how the rich act as if the barriers against poor are meaningless to success, but a convo on wealth inequality is some sort of bane on their existence. 25% of our goddamn workforce qualifies for public assistance --- nobody is asking for a cashier to earn as much as a CEO. Just sanity. Sheesh

Look how at the rhetoric of these two socialists!

 

[tmonster]

It depends on the species. Some of our closest relatives are quite egalitarian. What humans are capable of remains to be seen, but certainly no one talking about income inequality thinks we should all be paid the same and distributed the exact same resources, so Christie is to some extent operating with a straw man.

start at the 9:00 mark, keep watching until the rat example which starts at 11:40, the vid will give you hope for humanity...I think


(truly mind blowing, these animals are better human beings than capitalists, libertarians and republicans )

(and Evolution clearly gave us morality not religion )

 

[tmonster]

it just shows how much the supply side has cornered the debate, when their immature, nonsensical rhetoric is taken seriously as legit dialectic on our economy. Now they have the cache, and intellectual capital to shout down any discussion about wealth distribution and our economic imbalances with cries about some sort of attempt to race to the bottom, as if closing loopholes and shelters, raising taxes a few percentages, reducing crony capitalism and subsidies, strengthening unions, raising the minimum wage, eliminating lobbying, etc is championing 20th century stalinism.

What kills me is how the rich act as if the barriers against poor are meaningless to success, but a convo on wealth inequality is some sort of bane on their existence. 25% of our goddamn workforce qualifies for public assistance --- nobody is asking for a cashier to earn as much as a CEO. Just sanity. Sheesh

Look how at the rhetoric of these two socialists!

rep

 

[Mr. Somebody]

So he believes in demonic filth. The people who need the most help should get it and people that perform the same job functions and have the same level of skill should be paid the same.

 

[Slystallion]

only issue is that they could take 100% of the income of the top earners and it still wouldn't be enough to pay for all the government programs

I wonder if a minimum salary was implemented say every individual or family would get a check every quarter if they didn't make the minimum and people who made over that would also get some funds to cover things like healthcare and school costs for children if they want to go private...at the same time eliminating a lot of the specified programs since then people would have enough to make their own decisions as to what they need and it could be more efficient that way by the government would be spending the same amount or less and combining it with a 10% flat tax for all incomes over 50grand

 

[The Real]

only issue is that they could take 100% of the income of the top earners and it still wouldn't be enough to pay for all the government programs

The government programs would be greatly reduced in size if economic inequality were reduced. A lot of these small gov types don't realize that the only real way to "starve the beast" is by improving quality of life for people at the bottom.

 

[tmonster]

only issue is that they could take 100% of the income of the top earners and it still wouldn't be enough to pay for all the government programs

this is impossible
money is simply the collected sum of our energies, this is akin to saying we can't take care of ourselves
Now maybe I would buy this idea, in the future, in a country like Japan whose rate of aging seems to be on course to outpace its birthrate
proper allocation is the solution and that only happens when we start treating the dreadful condition of money hoarding

 

[Brown_Pride]

He's right though the whole concept of equality is a human abstraction found in no demonstratable form in the natural world besides who really wants to be equal compared to the next guy? Nobody. We all want more than him

history would like a word with you

So if we look at this the GOLDEN AGE of american progression and technological superiority, e.g. when american really was #1 was a time when the top 1% received the least amount of money.

The ability to NOT be animals and fall prey to our basic instincts of fuk everyone else it's all about ME ME ME ME is one of our redeeming qualities as a species; we should do that more.