Following Donald Trump’s economic speech on Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), one of Trump’s most vocal critics in the Senate, tore into the Republican nominee’s proposals on Twitter.
She charged that Trump’s plan was written by wealthy advisers and will benefit rich Americans the most.
.@realDonaldTrump‘s econ plan was written by rich corporate insider advisors to make the economy even greater for rich corporate insiders.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) August 8, 2016
.@realDonaldTrump‘s economics plan is all about helping rich guys like Donald Trump get richer – & leaving everyone else behind.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) August 8, 2016
The American people aren’t dumb, @realDonaldTrump. We don’t trust you with our nuclear codes AND we don’t trust you with our economy.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) August 8, 2016
In particular, Warren went after Trump’s call for a moratorium on financial regulations.
“Cut regulations massively,” @realDonaldTrump? No rules & no accountability means people get ripped off & markets blow up. Remember 2008?
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) August 8, 2016
A “moratorium” on agency regulations means stopping new rules on shady payday lenders & too-big-to-fail banks, @realDonaldTrump.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) August 8, 2016
W/o rules, @realDonaldTrump, too many huge banks juiced profits by cheating ppl on mortgages, credit cards, etc, then crashed our economy.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) August 8, 2016
She also bashed his proposal for tax cuts.
And taxes? @realDonaldTrump wants billionaires & giant corps to pay EVEN LESS – so there’s less money for ed, infrastructure & research.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) August 8, 2016
Even @realDonaldTrump‘s childcare plan gives billionaires w/ a nanny a tax break while millions of low-income households get nothing.
— Elizabeth Warren (@elizabethforma) August 8, 2016
Warren has been going after Trump on Twitter and in speeches for months, once calling him a “thin-skinned, racist bully.” Trump has fired back, labeling Warren “goofy” and mocking her past comments on her Native American heritage by calling her “Pocahantas.”
Sometimes I doubt that the average person gets all worked up over tax and economic policies that benefit those already rich. Many people go day to day thinking their pot of gold is just over the hill. Sure, they’re poor, or paycheck to paycheck struggling. Yet the only way to cope is to tell themselves it’s temporary. They’re going to win the lottery, get an inheritance, find a bag of money by the side of the road, maybe marry rich or some incredible job offer will drop out of the sky. Whatever the mechanism they’re really rich, it just hasn’t quite happened. Yet. So, when it does (and it most surely will) they want the same policies and laws that benefit the rich to be there for them.
“Don’t fuck with the club I’ll be joining…er…sometime soon!!”
Give him hell, Elizabeth!
A lot of fairly normal seeming people buy off on trickle down economics. It’s probably a Fox Noose artifact.
The childcare position only helps rich peoples babies and the rest is a combo of lyin ryan’s ‘dynamic scoring’ adding Trillions to the debt and ronnie’s trickle down that has Not worked in 30 years…
More claptrap for the inattentive of the tea gop variety show from the pond scum con -clown!
I do think there’s some truth in that, as well as in the notion that a lot of permanently struggling blue-collar people possess an almost feudal sense of fealty to those who have “won”–and who has “won” bigger than The Donald? He certainly never stops reminding them of that, and they do not seem to punish him for it. They seemingly do not want to face the truth that he’s a fraud, and that he has scammed many of them of their life savings via Trump U and the way he systematically stiffs honest blue collar contractors. It’s almost as if they respect him for playing the game better than they do, even though he has reduced it to a zero sum game where they are the losers every time he wins.