Bloomberg: digs a hole, grows a cow

Presidential candidate, former New York City Mayor and billionaire Michael Bloomberg is not only short in stature, he's short in character. One could also make the argument that he's short in foresight because he has said things that have come back to bite him in the butt and should hurt his chances at winning the Democratic nomination.

In 2016, Bloomberg made ignorant comments that belittled both farmers and factory workers, [not to mention his history of making misogynistic and anti-African-American comments]:

"The agrarian society lasted 3,000 years and we could teach processes. I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer. It's a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that. Then we had 300 years of the industrial society. You put the piece of metal on the lathe, you turn the crank in the direction of the arrow and you can have a job. And we created a lot of jobs. At one point, 98 percent of the world worked in agriculture, now it's 2 percent in the United States. 

"Now comes the information economy and the information economy is fundamentally different because it's built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets that you have to learn are how to think and analyze, and that is a whole degree level different. You have to have a different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter. It's not clear the teachers can teach or the students can learn, and so the challenge of society of finding jobs for these people, who we can take care of giving them a roof over their head and a meal in their stomach and a cell phone and a car and that sort of thing. But the thing that is the most important, that will stop them from setting up a guillotine someday, is the dignity of a job."

That works great if you want to grow one corn stalk, but it shows Bloomberg's ignorance about farming and factory work. Just because he is a manure spreader doesn't make him an expert on farming.

He concluded his point, saying, "the problem is not the redistribution of wealth, it is the job where you go in every day."

Bloomberg was speaking at the Distinguished Speakers Series at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School. He was answering a question about whether it's possible to unite middle America with the coasts.

One of the issues standing in the way of the unification, Bloomberg said, was the inability of blue-collar workers to adapt to the information economy even if they have their education subsidized.

Social media exploded with anger over the video that went viral. The Bernie Sanders socialist organization "People for Bernie" tweeted:

"Time and again we see Bloomberg insulting the middle class and the working class, union members and not yet union members. Maybe it's time for pundits to stop pretending he's just another candidate. Bloomberg is an oligarch spending his play money to buy the White House."

Since an oligarch generally pertains to Russian rulers, Bernie's bros should be supporting Bloomberg, but they obviously want a different potential oligarch named Bernie Sanders.

Bloomberg, who said that he is willing to spend $1 billion or more on his presidential campaign, is counting on his advertising advantage to put him over the top in Super Tuesday states after deciding to skip Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina.

Sanders, who never had a real job outside of his taxpayer funded government job, is willing to spend the people's money to get elected. Now that he is a millionaire, he no longer goes after millionaires in his stump speeches, he only attacks billionaires, as if they are evil and communism, which is responsible for the deaths of a hundred million people, is merely a form of charity.

Ironically, Bloomberg is apparently thinking of making another misogynist, Hillary Clinton, his running mate. He is grasping at straws, and California has outlawed them.

Bloomberg dug his own hole and all he grew was a cow.

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