[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.

[OttawaFreeper]

[Ouderkirk]

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

[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.

[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.

[SharpRightTurn]

Hey, Corey, you blockhead. Educate yourself (assuming that is possible). The way to lift poor kids out of poverty is not to hand them money, but to train them for a job. It helps if they have parents who will instill a strong work ethic in their kids. So if you really want to help out, go lecture the parents of the poor kids rather than rob other people of their money.

You blockhead.

[mcenedo]

Do the children have to be citizens?

No mention of that in the write ups I've seen.

[Chickensoup]

Booker’s got to do something to take the attention away from that dead girl/live boy problem he has as a sex abuser.

[Ikeon]

I think cory booker should donate his marvelous brain to science TODAY!. The scientific community could learn alot from his freshly harvested brain. Its a travesty that brain is barely used by him and it would be such a great gift to humanity!

[GoldenPup]

Not much in the fake news, lame stream media about Bookers sexual assault accusations. Wonder why? /S

[BilLies]

If they give the kids money, what will be the kids’ reason for the playing Knock Out Games and assaulting of old people?