the son or daughter of a miner or steel worker or something like that?
miners and steel workers make a LOT!!! to me when a politician makes this claim it does just the opposite and proves to me their ignorance of the real working class.
where is the politician who was raised (or who was him/herself) a single parent who worked two jobs at christmas while simultaneously battling cancer? these politicians know absolutely nothing about the real true american workers.
where is the politician who spent the first 5-10 years of his adult life scraping by a living like a rat working at a temporary agency? making $6.25 and being a pariah of society. where is the politician who worked in a **** factory.
does anyone else agree with me about this? or do you understand what im talking about?
2006-11-09 00:07:22 · 5 answers · asked by sean_mchugh6 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
king, if you walked into a factory with temps and said were gonna pay you $20 an hour to be a miner... every single last one of them temps would be a miner.
but being a miner is a coveted job. lots of times you have to know somebody just to get in.
2006-11-09 00:17:35 · update #1
one more thing i feel i should add. if you have 100,000 miners and 5 of them die... it makes big headlines. mining today is relatively safe but people (who dont think) are like "o mining is so unsafe". when in reality its probably more dangerous being a pizza delivery boy on a friday or satuday night. (sigh because of the drunk drivers idiot).
so... cmon man, use a logical argument...not one that im gonna have to spend time explaining to you why its wrong. i really dont like to but i cant just leave your stupid comments hanging out there in the air.
2006-11-09 00:20:51 · update #2
barbig didnt bill clinton go to an ivy league school and spend a semester at oxford?
2006-11-09 00:22:40 · update #3
That's what unions are for. So, if you are in this situation, form a union. Then 1/2 of your dues can fund a Democrat.
2006-11-09 00:10:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, I agree with you and that is why Bill Clinton was such a good president...he knew what it was like. He had lived the life and made his life better from the "bottom" up.
I would love to show any interested politician my bills, my income, my schedule...have them come live my life for a month or two..see what the bottom of middle America is really like. Or better yet, give them food stamps, some cash and have them live in section 8 housing for a couple of months...no credit cards, or drivers, or fancy lunches...working at the local Burger King or Walmart to try to make ends meet and see how the world treats you. Have their children attend the local schools and try to give them all you didn't have...knowing that you don't have enough cash for that one thing they want for Christmas because you had to spend the money you had scraped up on a large car repair....or worse yet you had to dig into your savings all year to pay for the increase in the price of gas so you could get to work....I would love to see all the politicians who think they "understand" walk in my shoes for a while...I wonder how long they would last!
2006-11-09 08:19:49 · answer #2 · answered by Barbiq 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Reid is about as close as they come, even though he's successful now. He came from a very poor background and his dad never finished grade school. If someone rises from the working class to the ruling class they usually spend their young adult life in college and graduate or professional school picking up credentials and contacts. They can remember the lives of the adults who raised them and their early family life, but as adults themselves, they have almost always been above the hard scrabble existence that most of us face every day.
2006-11-09 08:14:58 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Understand what you are talking about but there are alot of p[oliticins that came from poor or blue collar family's. It is once they get elected the problems start. Have you not heard the Cliche about power and corruption?
2006-11-09 08:13:24 · answer #4 · answered by mark g 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm...no friggin temps are trapped in mine shafts and left to die horribly, or contract black lung disease. Miners power our country. Steelworkers...well, I think I read about American steelworkers in a book once...I don't think they actually exist in this country anymore.
I disagree with you. It is hardly despicable.
2006-11-09 08:12:11 · answer #5 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋