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Obama Accuses Trump of Exploiting Working-Class Fears
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President Obama in an interview with Steve Inskeep of National Public Radio says that blue collar men, the white working class, have suffered in the last decade, and Trump is exploiting their fears and anxieties. Yet he made no mention of the large parts of the middle class with low levels of assets, and the extreme inequality discussed by Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen at a Boston Fed conference on inequality in October 2014. Obama addresses the war in Syria and Iraq in a similiar manner by not mentioning the millions of refugees in that region and the million that have created a refugee crisis in Europe. He attributes the problem more to media pursuing ratings than any errors of the administration in this interview with NPR, including some of it directed by pockets in the Republican Party. This ignores the many editorials and op-ed pieces on the subject from both sides of the spectrum, the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.
National Public Radio's (NPR) interview with U.S. president Obama in Dec. 2015 on his views on the white working class, Trump, and the war in Syria and Iraq
12/21/2015
U.S. president Obama says again that his approach in Syria and Iraq is working, without mentioning the millions of refugees and the refugee crisis in Europe, in an interview with National Public Radio. He says that Trump is exploiting working class white discontent about poor economic prospects, without mentioning the slipping economic condition of large parts of what was the middle class revealed in figures on median income and net assets, including by Janet Yellen at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston conference on inequality in October 2014. At that conference one of the alarming figures cited was that the average net worth of the lower half of Americans representing 62 million households was $11,000 in 2013.
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