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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,920 posts)
Mon May 25, 2020, 03:34 PM May 2020

Trump's Economic Adviser Calls Americans Facing Unemployment 'Human Capital Stock'

President Donald Trump’s senior economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, presented a cold view of the U.S. economic system Sunday, referring to American workers as “human capital stock.”

In a Sunday interview on CNN, Hassett predicted that business would pick up again soon.

“Our human capital stock is ready to get back to work,” he said, while admitting at the same time that the nation will continue to struggle with unemployment as high as 23% this month.

The smiling Hassett seemed blithely calm about an unemployment rate “north of 20%” in May, which may be higher in June and will likely be in the double digits by November, he said.

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/kevin-hasset-economy-human-capital-stock-133549862.html

Moo

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Trump's Economic Adviser Calls Americans Facing Unemployment 'Human Capital Stock' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2020 OP
Moo! underpants May 2020 #1
Yupper,this sucker drank all the Kool Aide Wellstone ruled May 2020 #2
Saying the quiet part out loud... chia May 2020 #3
"Our human capital stock" J_William_Ryan May 2020 #4
Don't count me in... Newest Reality May 2020 #5
Our human capital stock is ready for the slaughter. hedda_foil May 2020 #6
Property keithbvadu2 May 2020 #7
It's not anything, Corgigal May 2020 #8
Fuck him. smirkymonkey May 2020 #9
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Yupper,this sucker drank all the Kool Aide
Mon May 25, 2020, 03:41 PM
May 2020

offered by his Supply Side Economics Course of study. . William Buckley would use that phrase on his Right Wing PBS show.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
5. Don't count me in...
Mon May 25, 2020, 04:34 PM
May 2020

I am not going to be anybody's Serf and I totally reject the ideas that the new Feudal Lords want to impose in their imaginary Fiefdom.

Ain't gonna' happen. This is to be opposed vociferously and without fail. I don't think any of us want to live in that kind of country, but we are getting closer and closer now. Without any opposition, it can become enforced and we may not find a way out again.

Meanwhile, the freedumb fighters imagine that their conspiracy theories and not wearing masks amounts to something other than harming their fellow Americans in someway. The are distracted and totally off the mark. They won't expect the imposition of their enforced Fiefdom until it is far too late. So much for them.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
8. It's not anything,
Mon May 25, 2020, 04:59 PM
May 2020

we really don’t know, however I was impressed with the amount of views on this YouTube video.
Maybe, the kids are waking up.

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