Cory Booker’s plan to fight wealth inequality: give poor kids money

Vox.com ^ | October 22, 2018 | Sarah Kliffsarah

[EinNYC]

OMG. Just when you thought Corey Booker couldn't be MORE stupid, there he is, breaking his own record. I worked summers to earn my college money and I was a work-study student while going to college. My parents worked like dogs to put food on the table and buy a house. NO GOVERNMENT ENTITY HELPED THEM. Why on earth should lower-income kids get $50,000 handed to them on a silver platter? What's to stop them from spending it on drugs, booze, fancy threads, a stainless steel grill on their teeth, a hot whip, and so on? Not everyone knows how to spend money wisely. Maybe there's a reason their parents are "lower-income". Maybe their parents cut class instead of learning how to read, write, and calculate well, the better to equip themselves to earn a decent living.

This is just SUCH a totally ridiculous idea, that I had to take a drink of water to stop sputtering and choking when I heard this first on the radio and then found it on Vox. Corey Booker, you are a first-rate dummocrap a@@.

[a fool in paradise]

correction

Cory Booker’s plan to fight wealth inequality: give poor kids YOUR money

[Huskrrrr]

Nobody is stopping you from opening your wallet, Dude.

[samtheman]

Meanwhile, demodopes lock poor kids out of jobs with minimum wage laws.

[ealgeone]

He’s welcome to give poor kids every dime from his wallet and that of the DNC.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The sleight-of-hand here is income vs “wealth.”

Wealth is nothing more than income that wasn’t spent on Escalades, bling and hoes but was saved or invested in assets like houses and or the stock market.

Two people can have exactly the same income but one can have negative wealth while the other has positive wealth.

The object here seems to be to take “wealth” away from the people who accumulated it and give it to people who will once again piss it away on Escalades, bling and hoes.

[blackdog]

Give me 50K as a young male and I’ll be dead in a week. If I don’t get robbed I will have had a fine time on hookers, fine booze, hotel rooms, and limosenes.

[Yaelle]

Um. What do they have to DO to him to get the $? (Too soon?)

[OttawaFreeper]

[Ouderkirk]

These “kids will piss it away on 22” Dayton Rims for their 82 Coup DeVille.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Just give them a gun. They’ll take care of the rest. I’ll pay for my own.

[Leep]

Booger for brains.

[CaptainK]

Oprah already did this something like this and the results were predictable:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1996-08-27-9608270239-story.html

[MayflowerMadam]

Hey, no fair! Where was he 70 years ago? I was a poor kid.

[GnuThere]

They’ll spend it on drugs and sneakers. The rest, they’ll waste.

[Track9]

Im sure that horse toothed Puerto Rican broad is on board. Like you know, like wow..

[dead]

Stay away from the poor kids, Cory.

[wally_bert]

A few years ago, my organization hired a new Chief Operating Officer.

One of the conditions that he asked for and somehow got approved was oversized rims for his company car. I don’t think I ever saw it in the parking lot but the lot was full during the day.

He lasted about a year.

[RooRoobird20]

Many years ago Oprah wanted to invest some of her wealth in helping some of the worst Chicago public middle and high schools (with nearly 100% black students). After a few years she gave up because she realized the kids literally cared more about having $200 Michael Jordan shoes and cell phones than getting a good education.

So she pulled out of the Chicago schools and directed her efforts to developing girls’ schools in African countries. She knew she was wasting her time and money trying to help the Chicago schools.

[Hootowl]

My son went to school full time, worked full time, while paying for his own apartment and upkeep. He graduated with honors and is doing quite well at 41.