Nation’s Wealthiest Congressman: Poor Americans Are ‘Envy Of The World’

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California Rep. Darrell Issa (R) told CNN Money on Thursday that poor people in America are “somewhat the envy of the world.”

Issa, the wealthiest member of Congress, told the outlet that while the nation still has a way to go with income inequality, it’s doing pretty well.

“America is 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 said.

He also said that because we have to compete with the rest of the world, comparing conditions in Third World countries was an appropriate barometer for our performance in the global economy.

“If you go to India or you go to any number of other Third World countries, you have two problems,” he said. “You have greater inequality of income and wealth. You also have less opportunity for people to rise from the have not to the have.”

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  1. Yes if you ask people from the Sudan, Bn]angladesh and other starving countries, I am sure they wouldn’t mind being poor americans if they could trade places.

    This shit makes me want to vomit. This filthy rich criminal car thief is the scum of the earth

  2. So Issa is saying he wishes he was poor?

    Shorter Issa: “Those getting ass raped only twice a week are the envy of those getting ass raped hourly.”

    Got it.

    I would also add, that it is nice to know Issa wants the poor in Bangledesh and other underdeveloped country, to be the yardstick for American workers.

  3. Compare apples to apples, Grand Theft Issa. How do our poor compare to the poor in Canada, Australia, Japan and Western Europe?

  4. Well, you yammering baboon, it’s going to be difficult for you to convince them they’re not the victims of all those colored people taking their jobs if you’re telling them that they’ve got it made. The Kochs have got to be pissed.

  5. So all of us Poors should just quit complaining, cause the Richies are doing a lot more for us than some coolie in China.

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