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Santelli's response to real income declining: "They should get a better education and earn more money"

May 07, 2009 1:11 pm ET

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Santelli also responds to tea parties being called "nonsense": "Oh, it's nonsense! It's nonsense! Forty-six percent of the population is nonsense...Let's go hug Chavez and tell tea baggers they're criminals"

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    • Author by tonyrich300 (May 07, 2009 1:13 pm ET)
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      When is CNBC going to fire this insane republican hack?
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    • Author by Leftym0m79 (May 07, 2009 1:19 pm ET)
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      The magnitude is large because Obama added the wars to the budget. Is it too much to ask that the wingnuts acknowledge this. Oh wait, I just realized what I'm asking for. Wow, Santelli got really defensive there, projecting much.
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    • Author by totallynext6230 (May 07, 2009 1:20 pm ET)
         
      delusional meet Santelli.
      46% of what population?
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (May 07, 2009 1:56 pm ET)
           
        I guess this basket case thinks that EVERY SINGLE McCain voter was at a tea-party.
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    • Author by RABBITLUVR (May 07, 2009 1:23 pm ET)
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      Santelli is such a Grade A arse. It's because of morons such as him that I wisely do not have cable or satellite. Why support these freaks? He basically gives the George W. Bush answer here in response to the issue - just work harder, dammit! Brilliant indeed.

      What this fool fails to realize is that if Bush didn't screw things up so much then Obama wouldn't have to do what he is doing. But don't ever have any expectations of hearing that from any of these chattering idiots.
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    • Author by snoopy (May 07, 2009 1:35 pm ET)
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      That's some real compassionate conservatism there...
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    • Author by harley (May 07, 2009 1:41 pm ET)
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      Apparently he didn't receive the latest reich-wing talking points that college education is just a scam.
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    • Author by ufleirx (May 07, 2009 1:48 pm ET)
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      If by get a better education he means run a Ponzi scheme on stock investors or be a "well-educated" banker who scams the whole country -- Yeah, I guess he is right you could increase your income level. Or you could just be some jackass on T.V.

      The GOP and corporatists (like Santelli) scream about class warfare unless you make close to a half-a-million a year realize the truth of the matter that they have been engaged in a class war against you for at least the last 30 years.
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    • Author by mfinn7314 (May 07, 2009 1:56 pm ET)
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      Wow, Santelli nailed it! Sometimes the best solutions are the obvious ones. Everyone suffering from real income dropping just needs to go get a better education then a better job - How simple! And now on to curing cancer: Find a cure, tell everyone about it. Done. (with credit to Monty Python)
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      • Author by nerzog (May 07, 2009 2:56 pm ET)
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        Kind of reminds me of Rush Limbaugh's "solution" for thousands of laid off autoworkers several years ago when one of those cities in Michigan lost its GM plant. He said they should just go out and start their own business. See? Social Darwinism is easy.
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    • Author by Brabantio (May 07, 2009 2:07 pm ET)
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      How does this advice for the individual help the average income? Think of the population as a deck of cards, where people near the top of the deck make more money than people at the bottom of the deck. You can shuffle it, and the two of spades goes from the bottom to the middle. Great for the two of spades, right? But that means other cards have gone down. The average remains the same. Obviously an individual has no bearing on the matter, it's a systemic issue.

      I have to nominate Santelli for the dumbest comment of the year award for something else here. "He ran for office, it was his choice", therefore he didn't inherit the situation Bush left him, was flat-out idiotic. Whoever got into office was going to inherit Bush's mess, and so anyone's choice to run for office has absolutely nothing to do with it. It's not like the situation was created by Obama because he chose to run for the presidency. Total knee-jerk stupidity.
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      • Author by roundhouse (May 07, 2009 2:29 pm ET)
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        Indeed. It is a systemic problem and your comment highlights the difference between cons and libs. With cons it's always blame the individual for an economy that's geared to honor cheap money and loose morals but not work.

        Whatever Santelli, it's never the fault of greedy bastards who keep all the profits we create and refuse to recognize the importance of working people. That's why unions are essential. Employers will keep as much as they can for their selfish desires, no matter how hard an individual works. Santelli is an idiot, a callous idiot who has no idea how dependent he is on the people who clean floors or pump gas for a living. He has no idea how these menial jobs require the greatest amounts of stamina, patience and discipline. He has no idea that these people have families and raise kids who deserve a healthy upbringing, too. He has no idea what real family values are.

        And for him to just say get an education is cheap. Don't know if he knows this, but the cost of an education is so high that too many people can't afford the debt they incur when they, for instance, want to be a teacher or maybe social worker.

        Wages have to go up.
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    • Author by nerzog (May 07, 2009 2:52 pm ET)
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      Golly Gosh... I wish I'd known it was that simple. I'd be living on my private island right now.

      I guess this came from the same think tank that formulated the Republican Health Care Reform Plan.... Don't Get Sick.
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      • Author by neon desert (May 07, 2009 3:12 pm ET)
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        It beats their global warming, pollution, energy, and overpopulation solutions - Pretend it doesn't exist.
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    • Author by humanatheist (May 07, 2009 3:44 pm ET)
         
      Perhaps if I was more educated I would not choose mustard. Right, I'll just back to school and re-educate. Let's see. Where are the courses for becoming a loud-mouthed ingnorant commentator on CNBC? What, you have to pay to go to school? I have no job!
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    • Author by markbfoot199 (May 07, 2009 4:27 pm ET)
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      What I saw is Keith really knows his talking points. I have heard those comments some many times, but give Keith credit, he did not need a teleprompter. I still like to know one thing, if a individuals borrows more then they can pay back, why should you give them more money. This government is out of control, I have an idea, lets not spend more then we make. Cut spending.
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      • Author by Brabantio (May 07, 2009 4:37 pm ET)
           
        Yes, tightening the purse strings is definitely the best way to boost consumer confidence and spending.
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        • Author by markbfoot199 (May 07, 2009 4:49 pm ET)
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          Barbantio, the problem with you, you forget it comes from our pockets, the more you take out of my pocket the less I can spend. Consumer Confidence is measured on how much we spend, not the government.
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          • Author by Brabantio (May 07, 2009 5:00 pm ET)
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            No, I know it comes out of our pockets. I also know that if we go into a depression, then people are going to have less money put into their pockets in the first place. To say "spend less" is short-sighted and naive.
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          • Author by nerzog (May 07, 2009 5:15 pm ET)
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            Well, you've got a point, but the cow's already out of the barn... part of the reason we're in this mess is people spending too much on credit. The irony is that we're now saving more and spending less, but that's tanking the economy. When consumers aren't spending, or can't spend, the government can boost demand again by spending. That's why WWII helped end the depression... government spending created demand for products... and jobs.

            Oh, by the way.... you know W's "recovery" after 9/11? That was fueled by a credit card spending spree.... not his tax cuts.


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    • Author by rwmacdonald2091 (May 07, 2009 4:47 pm ET)
         
      Wonder where Santelli was when we had the large budget surpluses. Was he screaming for for health care, more money for education, investments in renewable energy? Oh no, he was screaming for tax cuts for the wealthy.

      So much for his argument

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    • Author by big2xrube6146 (May 07, 2009 9:03 pm ET)
         
      Just another BS artist who never been out in the real world.
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