Anthony Scaramucci
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So describe what it is and then describe what the impact of it has been over 42 years.
And I'm a byproduct of this, by the way, because my dad grew up in Northeastern Pennsylvania.
Some of the family went to go work in Detroit for the assembly lines, union jobs, good wages, by the way, middle-class houses in Ferndale.
And then my father went out to Long Island to mine sand.
And so that's where I ended up on Long Island.
But I feel like there was a period of time, and maybe it was accidental or maybe it was planned,
where there was some sensibility from the rich about taking care of the poor and middle class, that there was a notion, let's go to Henry Ford as an example, a horrific guy in many ways, an anti-Semite, a Hitler sympathizer, but actually understood that by doubling the wages
at the Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, that he was gonna put people into small homes.
There's gonna be a good public school system.
His quote was, I want the people to make enough money so they can afford the car that they're making.
This way they don't come after me with a pitchfork and a torch at my mansion.
And there was a notion that we were gonna at least make sure that there was aspirational living standards in America.
Uh, we have broken from that, but we don't do that anymore.
And it's led to this rise of populism as well.
There's a tremendous amount of anger in the country.
There's white anger, there's black anger, but there's generally a very large group of people while certain people are ascending to the trillionaire status.
There's a group of people that are like WTF and you're not helping me.
So let's burn the whole system down.
That's right.
So one, what is your reaction to that?