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In reply to the discussion: Clueless Young Billion-Heirs Get Royal Treatment at White House [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)history. FDR, JFK, RFK, the Kennedy family, Jay Rockefeller, Jimmy Carter, Buffett, Soros, and many more. All rich and all on our side. This conference is about spending money wisely. So who should they have invited? Me who has been poor my entire life? Me who is having trouble putting enough food on the table for my great grandchildren? Me who is having trouble with keeping the house warm enough? I am sorry but I do not have any money to spend wisely. I actually need these young people to give with as much as they are willing to give to some of the organizations that help people in my situation.
I also need them to be willing to start paying more in taxes and better wages to their employees, etc. but this is a start. I also hope that there were some young rich people at this conference that are Democrat and that they shared their ideas with the others. It is called recruiting. Do you really think they do not have to be educated as to what is really happening in the world? Most of them are isolated and have no idea. They know only what is happening in their own world.
Having said that since I will become the target you need to know who I am and why I feel this way: I am older, I am a socialist, I realize that this fight is going to be a long one and that we will probably not ever get back to the world that FDR created when he helped the middle class.
In the meantime I want to recruit as many people to our side as I can. This cannot be done without education and conversation. That is what this conference was about.