Tim Sawinski
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They're just trying to live happy lives.
They're trying to make enough money.
And to talk about the nuances of like, well, he's enriched himself with stocks, right?
That's so far beyond what's right in front of people.
What's right in front of people is gas prices.
What's right in front of people is the cost of groceries going up.
So yeah, it's hard to talk to people about how they're enriching themselves with wealth versus income and all of the nuances of our economy.
People know a raw deal when they're in front of it.
It's a couple of things.
When you see that they're enriching themselves, you don't have to know the nuances of the stock market or insider trading.
You just see that they're getting wealthier, while at the same time, everybody else is getting, it's harder to live.
Life shouldn't be this unaffordable.
And if you say like, yes, it's because of them, but also at the same time, they're enriching themselves, that drives people crazy.
And that doesn't matter who they voted.
And for them, it doesn't matter who they voted for in the last election.
We need mandatory ethics, things like mandatory town halls, ban insider trading, making sure people have to answer to us, not big donors.