America’s richest congressman says poor in the US are ‘envy of the world’

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California GOP Rep. Darrell Issa was challenged by CNN Money correspondent Cristina Alesci on Thursday after he seemingly downplayed income inequality issues in the US.

“America’s the richest country on Earth because we’ve been able to put capital together and we’ve been able to make our poor somewhat the envy of the world,” Issa told Alesci. “If you go to India or you go to any number of third-world countries, you have two problems: you have greater inequality of income and wealth. You also have less opportunity for people to rise from the have-not to the have.”

“I don’t think the comparison is one we want to make,” Alesci responded. “We don’t want to compare ourselves to India. We want to set the bar pretty high.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/americas-richest-congressman-says-poor-in-the-us-are-envy-of-the-world/#.VUwt3zG7Mbw.reddit

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1. ......

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2. This turd maggot is a mobbed up punk

going back to his car alarm days .

[Warpy]

3. Oh, are they making our sidewalks softer?

Have businesses put out heat lamps so homeless folks don't freeze to death in the winter?

Honestly, I hadn't noticed.

Still, I think Issa the Putz is likely talking about people who still have roofs over their heads, enjoying the landlord's refrigerator they can't fill with food to cook on the landlord's stove and the AC they can't afford to turn on because they can afford only the bare minimum in power charges per month.

I wish there was a way to call this moron on his bullshit, to have him live six months on minimum wage, even as a bachelor.

He'd squeal for rescue within the first week and we all know it.