So, Vincent Houle and I schlepped over to the Ron Johnson town hall meetup at Grazies restaurant here at Stevens Point Saturday night. I got to ask the 2nd question, which I prefaced this way I ask this as a Green Party member--not your opposition in Congress-- Stats from Federal Reserve Econometrix show that there are now 92 million people not participating in the labor force. These people wont ever get back into the workforce, because the business community arent job creators any longer, theyre job destroyers. Between robotics and artificial intelligence, the rate of job destruction exceeds even the high-skilled job creation rate. Given those numbers, are you sticking with the narrative that single working-class women on a low income should just find a man to support them? Do you want to keep defending that statement, or was it more of a wink and nod to the base, sort of a red meat type comment? Ron J. went on to first, deny that he had said anything like that. I said, OK, it was a Grothman quote, but you liked it. He then went on to talk about how the War on Poverty had been a complete failure, and how we need to spend money wisely, and then discussed Daniel Patrick Moynihans work on the rate of unwed mothers in the USA, and how that related to poverty. He said something like, Im just putting that out there for people to consider. The answer was nonresponsive, Your Honor! I suggested he publish a Clarification about his (dissing) statement on working women, because our base (Green Party) is getting younger, poorer, and more female, and they were frankly very (unhappy) about his statement. I told him perception is everything, in politics. Other peoples questions were dealt with in a similar spinful manner All in all, it was a shallow and ineffective form of interaction. https://youtube/watch?v=TVGA10Ba6RA#t=22
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:55:19 +0000
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