Trump: "I don't want poor people in my cabinet"

[mencken]

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Personally, I would want the best qualified person, regardless of wealth to hold a position, even an economic one (just because your wealthy doesn't mean you can understand the economy). What do you think?

I find more objectionable the implication that someone is "in charge" of the economy. That description sounds more appropriate for a Soviet commissar than for an official for an ostensibly capitalist nation.

[mencken]

I would hire someone economically successful to be a economic secretary if I were POTUS. I don't see the problem.

Because "have wealthy and well-connected parents, go to Ivy League schools, then work on Wall Street" isn't readily transferable to an $18 trillion dollar economy of 325 million people.

It is amazing that one can realize this and not reject socialism and central planning on a more general basis.

[mencken]

I would hire someone economically successful to be a economic secretary if I were POTUS. I don't see the problem.

Because "have wealthy and well-connected parents, go to Ivy League schools, then work on Wall Street" isn't readily transferable to an $18 trillion dollar economy of 325 million people.

It is amazing that one can realize this and not reject socialism and central planning on a more general basis.

What's even more amazing if some people still conflate opposing further tax cuts for the top 1% with socialism, let alone Central planning.

I apologize for reaching to conclusions and assuming that someone supporting a candidate who was a self-declared socialist was at least sympathetic to the ideology.