Comments by "JLH" (@Kyarrix) on "CNN" channel.

It's very difficult listening to Trump talk. he does this sing song while he tries to come up with the next word, with a painfully limited vocabulary. He's playing to his base, it astounds me that he has a base, that even voters without a lot of information I would think he is an appropriate person to run the country.
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You lost me when you singled out white women as the problem. Had you talked about all of society, you're absolutely right but the narrowing of your focus to blame women specifically is another problem in and of itself.
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Another establishment figure attempting to explain why we can't have healthcare and a living wage in this country. The truth is very different from what he is saying. We can't afford to not make these changes. Our country has fallen so far behind, deaths due to depression, drugs and alcohol are at an all-time high and the suicide rate is at its highest since world war II. We have tens of millions of families in this country who are food insecure. You can work a full-time job and still qualify for food stamps. People have to choose between life-saving medications and food or paying their electric bill. When money is needed for the military it is quickly found, but the idea that the masses of people should be able to live with dignity is somehow extreme. When other countries were extending and strengthening their social safety nets we did the opposite. For example, a corporation has a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders to make as money as they can. You might have a corporate manager who wants to pay a living wage, who wants to pay their employees what they are worth but he or she cannot do that under the law as it presently exists. The only real consideration that has to be made is to the shareholders and frequently that means paying the minimum under the law. There is something very wrong with a system where a handful of people have more wealth than 50% of the population of the country. These are the people who own the businesses, who benefit from the labor of the people working full-time and yet are unable to buy food for their families. Bernie Sanders is not an extreme leftist. A social Democrat or Democratic socialist is not someone who is seeking to seize the means of production. He is a capitalist but one who believes that the system must have some checks and balances. It is difficult to see how anyone could reasonably disagree with this.
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@p1b1harper It is very depressing to respond to something with factual information and have someone parrot back a talking point. I admit that the frustration causes me to sometimes be less than patient. Corporations and the wages they pay have nothing to do with immigration. The fiduciary responsibility that is owed to shareholders under the law as it currently exists mandates that the company make as much money as it can, that is what a fiduciary responsibility is. There is no similar responsibility to employees, to the country as a whole, there is no responsibility to behave as a responsible corporate citizen. If the corporation wants to pay a higher wage they have to justify it to the board of shareholders. The shareholders have the law on their side. They can and do sue. Immigration made this country strong. You are being manipulated if the news you are watching or reading is telling you that it's all someone else's fault. This is a tactic used by those who do not want to be questioned. If you can be manipulated into blaming someone else for the problems you have, for the problems facing the country, then those who are really responsible continue to have free rein. This is an effective tactic, and one that comes with a terrible cost. And because human beings are stubborn, it is very difficult to guide someone through it. We assume that the person we disagree with is wrong, or bad, or trying to get something from us. Those who are actually responsible encourage this distrust because as long as people continue to be divided they won't work together for the real change that would benefit everyone. The ironic part of this is that these changes would even benefit those people long term.
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@p1b1harper You aren't refuting what I am trying to tell you. I'm an attorney, I know how the law works and I'm trying to share that knowledge with you. It isn't a talking point, it is a fact. Of course corporations want cheap labor but that has nothing to do with the fiduciary responsibility that exists to shareholders. I understand that you are here to argue and possibly to troll (edit: I said this because of your tone, if I'm wrong, I apologize) you aren't interested in finding out how you have been misled. You want to tell someone that they are wrong and you want to blame it on leftists and immigration. I'm sorry, it is a tired argument. Because you aren't interested in learning and because you assume that you already know what you need to know, anything I say will be met with resistance. I understand that it's human nature and not necessarily something you're doing to be more contrary than anyone else, but I still hope for better. It should also be noted that I am not blaming corporations as such. I am putting the blame where it should be, human greed. The problem is when you have wealth concentrated into fewer and fewer hands, with tremendous power, that power and wealth have a disproportionate voice. A corporation is not an bad thing in and of itself. The laws that govern it have to be fair and currently those laws benefit the few at the expense of the public in general. The corporation ends up paying almost no taxes, they are allowed, required under the law to pay their employees the minimum resulting in those employees receiving public aid that the corporation doesn't pay for. We pay for it several times over.m I have been courteous to you and your tone has lacked that same courtesy. I am not interested in having a conversation with someone if they cannot treat me with respect - don't twist what I'm saying and have the intellectual honesty to look at the things you believe with a critical eye.
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He's ridiculous. He doesn't know what high dudgeon means? He is a hypocrite. Trump openly mocked Serge Kovaleski and they don't react with horror to that.
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And who has the best words!
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The guest who is explaining is smirky and irritating. instead of explaining it with a sense of humor she does it with condescension and smugness.
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Whenever she talks I think I'm watching a Saturday Night Live skit, her lies and delivery are so over-the-top that it can't be taken seriously.
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