they re losing it, the reality of that. the tangibility of that far outweighs that which you re abstractly going to gain. they tend to be well off, not extremely well off, but could be 60, 70, or 80, otherwise they would be getting subsidies to help them out. and they do have political power. we have enormously good evidence that they simply do not care what the poor think. it does not hear them or listen to them. if you look at this, there is literally no relationship between the policy preferences of poor americans and what actually happens in the federal government. and so you have these folks that really need this help. but they are not politically powerful. and good at working their way through the bureaucracy or the political system to get it. and their interests don t count as much, particularly now when they don t even know what
fight through all of these other issues. it s not just unemployment rates. it s the contraction. i see $100 less on my paycheck every month. i think it s the tangibility of it. the only place money is going to come from for the infrastructure is revenue. revenue. he s called for high speed rail before. he s called for clean energy. the revenue is not there to make it happen. what is he going to put on the table in the state of the union that is going to generate the revenue or push political buttons? in the state of the union, he s adding spending in a very specific way. he makes the claim for revenue. there s been global peace, inequality. the other piece could be here is why government matters and why
otherwise. we always thought it would come to life in a physical way. sheryl kaplan is the founder, starting the company in 2014. it started as a purely e-commerce company, which was bucking the trend of traditional luxury sh luxury shoe sellers. we drop knew shoes every monday. we don t drop seasonally. you look at data, you look at reports and say, that s great, that s wonderful for us to know. next year when we do that shoe or this shoe, we ll take that into account. for us, we can do that realtime. the company hit a nerve with shoppers, who liked both the styles and the prices they were offering. but the founders knew that something in the formula was missing. one thing that e-commerce doesn t do is allow for tangibility. it doesn t allow you to touch, to feel. it doesn t allow you to interact directly with human beings. their data showed that first-time buyers were hesitant to take the plunge.