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It has always stupefied me that we continue to vote for and elect people who are fantastically wealthy. Do these extremely wealthy individuals have any idea how to navigate through the challenges of life faced by the rest of us? Do they themselves push a grocery cart up and down the aisles or does their private chef do that for them? Do they fly coach, or do they have private jets? Do they drive their Chevy or Ford or do they have limos and chauffeurs? Do the super wealthy have to use the emergency room as their primary medical care? Do they struggle paying for a prescribed medicine? Of course not! They have access to the best medicine money can buy any place in the world. My point is: Even if these wealthy elected "servants" wanted to do the right thing for all of us is it even possible for them to do so? Their wealth allows them to be isolated from the mundane everyday lives of the rest of us.
They simply do not have the “life lived” knowledge to govern the non-wealthy in a way that is good for all. People are also reading..
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Pillen and his Columbus-based companies own $190 million in property alone. Trump brags about having billions. Then there is the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, making dangerously uninformed decisions affecting all the rest of us.
Why do we vote for the ultra-wealthy and think they can, or will, justly govern? Susan Frazier, Fairmont Catch the latest in Opinion Get opinion pieces, letters and editorials sent directly to your inbox weekly!.
