Mnuchin on Greta: Get an economics degree Greta, then let's talk

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-davos-meeting-greta/get-an-economics-degree-greta-then-lets-talk-u-s-treasury-chief-idUSKBN1ZM0ZL

JANUARY 23, 2020 / 3:32 AM / UPDATED 4 HOURS AGO

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Just when the Swiss mountain spat between U.S. President Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg seemed to have blown over, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took a new dig at the young climate activist on Thursday.

Asked during a news conference about Thunberg’s call to divest from fossil fuels, Mnuchin said: “Is she the chief economist? ... After she goes and studies economics in college, she can come back and explain that to us.”

Mnuchin’s quip came two days after Trump and Thunberg sparred indirectly at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. After Trump said the U.S. had committed to joining the one trillion tree initiative, Thunberg retorted that fixing the climate crisis was not only about trees.

Before he left Davos, however, Trump seemed to extend an olive branch, saying he wished he had seen Thunberg speak.

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Hey Mnutsack, try getting a degree in Earth Science and Meteorology first.

[2naSalit]

1. Better yet...

why don't you go drop dead? What a waste of good air that should be put to better use by endangered species.

[GoCubsGo]

2. Ooooh! Another tough guy going after a little girl!

She probably knows more about economics than that asshole, even without a degree in it. These people are so disgusting, I can't stand it. Our government is being run by the dregs of humanity.

[AJT]

3. From the administration that brings you trillions of

dollars added onto the debt and deficit.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Clearly male hair dye has some debilitating effects on the brain...

But this self-fluffing corrupt clown never had a heart to begin with

[NewJeffCT]

20. wasn't there a recent study

that said that all, or at least most, hair dyes weren't healthy? I mean, beyond not being good for the health of your hair.

[chowder66]

24. K&R.

[underpants]

27. Sekulow too

[dubyadiprecession]

5. Should anyone really care about what Mnuchin says?

[gordianot]

6. Exactly

[Sherman A1]

7. Precisely

The man like his boss is truly the South End of A North Bound Horse.

[tanyev]

9. As if. Mnuchin doesn't talk to anybody that doesn't have a private jet he can mooch rides on.

[safeinOhio]

10. Sure, she should get a degree and learn how

to screw vets out of their homes when there is a downturn in the economy, like you did assh***.

[wendyb-NC]

11. What a soulless kleptocrat.

[treestar]

12. Munich should get a degree

In climatology before he again opens his pie hole on the subject.

[greenjar_01]

13. She seems to understand resource limitation and negative externalities quite well, actually

What's the current budget deficit, Mr. Secretary of the Treasury?

[samnsara]

14. those trump* 'men' are so scared of a little girl. its funny...

[spanone]

15. hey mnuchin...get a fucking brain

[Cicada]

16. $73 trillion cost repays in less than 7 years

A new article says it will cost $73 trillion to go 100% renewable, and that fuel cost savings will recover that cost in less than seven years.

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/the-global-price-tag-for-100-percent-renewable-energy-73-trillion

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

17. Hey Mnequin, try being a normal human first. Then let's talk, you

creepy ass weirdo.

[2naSalit]

18. What good is money going to be

when nobody can breathe?

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. He graduated from Yale in 1985 but I can't find

anything about what he actually studied. Degree from Yale by a rich kid. We all know what that is worth. He was another wealthy man that was s Trump supporter. He worked for Goldman Sachs and as a hedge fund guy. Mostly he was rich and liked Trump.

Greta probably know knows more about just about everything than he does.

[bullwinkle428]

22. Classic example of a "legacy success". His daddy Robert was a partner at

Goldman Sachs, having worked there from 1957 to 1990. Gee, I wonder how Stevie managed to get his foot in the door? BTW, here's Daddy's full bio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Mnuchin

[dalton99a]

26. +1. Just like Kushner's admission to Harvard

[C_U_L8R]

21. His daughter might despise him too.

What a creep.

[cbdo2007]

23. Maybe the survival of our planet shouldn't revolve around "U.S. economic growth"

That's the problem is there is an expectation that our country should always be growing financially and we are failing if we don't constantly show positive economic growth.

[moondust]

25. Hey Mnuchy.

A real economics degree would have taught you that there is a lot more to economics than the planet-destroying, unbridled, neoliberal greed blindly worshiped by short-term profit-seeking Republicans like you, pig boy.

[Yavin4]

28. So you're a tough guy

Like it really rough guy
Just can't get enough guy
Chest always so puffed guy

[WA-03 Democrat]

29. Money!

Just bow down to what serve Stevie. One dimensional fuck wad.

[gademocrat7]

30. Mnuchin is a disgusting lying weasel.

Greta has more integrity in her little toe than Mnuchin will ever have.

[dawg day]

31. Goodness, these "grown men" are vicious little brats

Young Greta is more mature than all of them put together.

[gratuitous]

32. There's always a reason to avoid hearing things you don't like

Jesus tagged it a long time ago. Talking to a bunch of people who were following him around, he noted that some of them had also followed John the Baptist. Why did you go to hear him? Because you thought he was a prophet? But you didn't listen to him. Why? Was he too "out there," living in the desert and wearing a hair shirt? And here you are listening to my message, which is the same as John's. But instead of living out in the desert, I'm living among you, eating and drinking just like anyone else. Oh, a glutton and a drunkard! We don't have to hear his message.

There's always a reason to ignore disagreeable facts. If climate scientists say it, they're a bunch of eggheads, elitists, with their fancy facts and measurements and evidence. Nobody should listen to them even if you can understand what they're saying, which people can't because it's too high-falutin. If Greta Thunberg says it, she's not an economist! Nobody needs to listen to her.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

33. Get an economics degree Greta, then you can run a crooked bank and lead the world on foreclosures.

[roamer65]

34. Go fuck urself, Munchkin.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

35. There are so many failed companies whose CEO's had economics degree's

This is the dumbfuck who's pushing for another tax cut when we're running record deficits.

He's clueless in his chosen field so why should I trust his judgement on climate science?

[Girl powers]

36. Why don't men (R)

Get a medical degree before they craft laws regarding my body. GGP

[ElementaryPenguin]

37. You become Time Magazine's Person of the Year, Mnuchin!

And then Greta might return your call!