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are really a frightening window into this idea that income inequality is a problem but not my income. it s always there s someone richer than me and they re the one that s the problem. that s frightening when that s coming from a person who s been in a position with a great deal of power of secretary of state. okay, salim is coming at this from a purely political angle, and it s fine. it s fine. i just want to get to the root of the question, so jason, i will ask you this question, does money change you, even if you come from a humble background? if you become wealthy, does it change you? yeah, i m less cyndi lauper about getting more money, more problems. when you make a lot of money, of course it s going to change you. there are things you can do. there is the amount of money you have where you don t have to worry about working. there s the amount of money you have where you can tell everybody to leave you alone. it fundamentally changes you as a person. now, whether that makes y
with the struggles ordinary people deal with, you are going to make comments like romney comments or clinton s comments. that is unfortunate. i don t want to see our politicians coming at power with the attitude oh, i m poor, i need to somehow make this work for me, when they are really not by any reasonable standard we have. i could not agree more. if wealthy politicians really wanted to prove they understood the middle class, perhaps they should do what senator robert graham did for 1977. he did different jobs for driving a truck, changing bed pans, teaching a class. that s a great idea, don t you? i do. here s what politicians could really do and republicans and democrats could do to show they
for so many years. i can t say i totally understand your life, but having been there once, i promise you, i ll try. wouldn t that have been simple and much more honest? because let s face it, money does change everything! let s talk about that. we have a macro economist for the heritage foundation as well as jason johnson, contributor for hln and political science professor at hiram college. welcome to both of you. good morning. thank you. good morning. okay, so, celine, does money change everything? so, people in power are always going to be able to find people with money who are willing to make a deal, and that s why power is dangerous. so, as long as we have an executive who can regulate the entire economy at will no, that s not what i m asking you. i m asking, if you become wealthy, does it change you? does money change you as a person? i don t know. i ve never been rich, but i do think the comments that you read at the beginning of the segment
american s median net worth. i knew that s why the american people are having such a hard time. that s why the idea of selecting as a campaign slogan forward is so absurd. people are having hard times in this country. the president needs to go out and talk to people, not just do fund-raisers. go out and talk to people in the country and find out what s happening. mitt romney certainly seems to be placing the blame on president obama. there s no doubt a nearly 40% drop is terrible. what s lost in the romney comments is the fact that the three years we re talking about, the three years the federal reserve study looked at, are from 2007 to 2010. president obama didn t take office till 2009. so president obama, and his supporters, say, well, you can t simply blame him. you have to look at the situation he inherited. in case you think i m simply siding with president obama here in this tit-for-tat, let me point out president obama seems guilty in similar tactics in recent at