Trump to preside over the richest Cabinet in U.S. history

[TomCADem]

Source: LA Times

Dwight Eisenhower surrounded himself in the White House with such wealthy individuals that his Cabinet was mockingly referred to as "nine millionaires and a plumber."

President-elect Donald Trump is about to do him one better.

Trump won the election by appealing to America's disaffected working class, promising to drain the Washington swamp of insiders, and railing against segments of the financial elite. But the New York businessman has tapped a slate of people very much in his own vein to serve alongside him — billionaires and multimillionaires, including Wall Street financiers, industrialists and scions of the super-rich.

"Trump's appointees will probably wind up being the most wealthy group of people who have served in a presidential Cabinet in history," said Robert Spitzer, author of five books on American presidents and chairman of the political science department at SUNY in Cortland, N.Y.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-billionaire-cabinet-picks-20161201-story.html

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Draining the swamp in order to fill it with raw sewage...

[HAB911]

1. Final stage of Corporatocracy now in position.......n/t

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Kleptocracy is more like it. nt

[HAB911]

8. Corporatocracy/Kleptocracy/Theocracy

A rose is still a rose, lol

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Idiocracy

[demmiblue]

9. I'm going with kakistocracy:

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[HAB911]

11. Leading to.....................

Idiocracy

http://time.com/4327424/idiocracy/

[tanyev]

2. You don't drain the swamp when your goal is to wallow in it.

[lagomorph777]

3. He's hiring the alligators and drinking the swamp water.

I hope he picks up several hideous parasites and gets devoured.

[world wide wally]

4. Yeah folks.

He's really "shaking things up" alright

[harun]

6. I'm noting a surprising lack of poor rural rednecks who voted for him being represented in the

cabinet.

Hmmmmm, who would have thought a billionaire who lives in Manhattan, oh wait...?

[TuslaUltra]

7. he's not draining any swamp; he's filling it with raw sewage to the point of overflow

n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. The Plumber was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Patrick_Durkin
Martin Patrick Durkin

Martin Patrick Durkin (March 18, 1894 – November 13, 1955) was a U.S. administrator. He served as Secretary of Labor from January 21, 1953 to September 10, 1953, where he was the "plumber" of President Dwight Eisenhower's "Nine Millionaires and a Plumber" cabinet.

Biography

Durkin was born in Chicago, Illinois, on March 18, 1894, the son of James J. Durkin and Mary Catherine (née Higgins). At the age of 17, Durkin became involved in the plumber's and pipe fitter's union. On August 29, 1921, Durkin married the former Anna H. McNicholas. They had three sons: Martin Patrick, Jr., William Joseph and John Francis Durkin. He eventually became president of that union, and then served as Director of Labor for the State of Illinois from 1933 to 1941. He worked closely with the President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Secretary of Labor, Frances Perkins.

Durkin served as the Secretary of Labor during the Eisenhower administration. A Democrat among Republicans, he unsuccessfully pushed for his revisions in the Taft-Hartley Act. This led to his resignation after less than eight months in office, the shortest tenure of any Secretary of Labor.

He died in Washington D.C., from complications of cancer surgery. He was interred in St. Mary Catholic Cemetery in Evergreen Park, Illinois.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

13. Did he say "drain the swamp"? He meant "drain the Treasury"

The taxpayers in Indiana are the first to feel the sting: $1 from each citizen to keep 800 people employed. And Carrier still left for Mexico.