2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: I don't fucking care how much they paid her. [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)But at $7.25 an hour, it represents 82,758.62 hours of work. At 2,800 hours a year, that is 29 and a half years. If you start working at $7.25 per hour at the age of 20, you are nearly 50, around 49 by the time you have earned $600,000. Hillary earned that in a few hours.
Just to put things in perspective.
If you earn $50,000 per year, it takes you 12 years to earn $600,000.
So everything depends on your perspective.
And the question is whether Hillary's perspective distances her too far from people who are earning $7.25 per hour or $50,000 per year, their problems, their broken hearts, their unreachable goals, their faded dreams.
I think so. I do not think that her views on things like single payer, like free tuition at state schools, like our military budget, like what is a living wage in America, like whether the money donated to her campaign and paid her for her speeches and given to her foundation are bribes or not reflect a perspective that represents most of us.
Somehow FDR was able to see things from the perspective of the common person. Hillary does not seem to be able to see things as FDR did. She would have different views on a lot of issues if she did.
She says we as a nation cannot afford what ordinary people need. That is a matter of perspective. We can afford the things that we as a people believe we really need. It is a question of who is to forego what. Are young people to forego education so that a very wealthy man can have a bigger yacht and a larger private plane?
Somehow, it boils down to a question of values. What do we just want? What do we really need -- as a nation?
That I think is the perspective and those are the questions of most of us, especially the youth.
It all depends on your perspective.
I seriously doubt, on the other hand, that Hillary said anything questionable or that will embarrass her in any of her public or private speeches.