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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Says She Isn't 'Truly Well Off' Saturday Guardian news [View all]Warpy
(113,857 posts)and she knows just how rich that .01% really is. Of course she feels barely upper middle class when she's around them, the poor relation who is tolerated once in a while.
Putting it into context, "dead broke" meant they couldn't achieve the lifestyle they'd become accustomed to when they occupied the halls of power. There was no way they could enter the club whose admission price was the number of Congressmen one had bought.
The comments are doing her no favors at all among people who have been underpaid since the late 70s if they're lucky enough to find jobs.
Every time she opens her mouth, she's telling Main Street how ignorant she is about the food insecurity more and more people have as they realize they're one major car repair away from not being able to buy enough food to kill the pain of hunger or a rent increase away from being hungry all the time.
She's building a great deal of resentment among hard working people who would love to be that "dead broke" some day.
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