Thom Hartmann debunks "Poor people don't create jobs"

Thom Hartmann takes on the lie that poor people don't hire people...

Partial transcript below;

I have a conservative, or sort of libertarian friend, and he came up with the old "I've never seen a poor person hire anybody". What would be a good argument for him.
Very simply, most small business people, who hire people, might not be below the poverty level, but many of them are. I can tell you, when I started my first company,

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[ghiisga]

Has to be one of the most pathetic responses I have ever heard, even from Thom. Why can't Thom just be honest and admit that it takes MONEY to create a job, because nobody works for free? Then, proceed to make points about tax policy and how tax cuts don't always lead to job growth. Instead, he fumbles around for answers that end up making NO SENSE. Thom...if you had a business with employees, YOU HAD MONEY to pay them. Therefore you weren't poor!!

[17R3W]

@ghiisga

He's saying HE personally had little or no money.

I have a friend who own's her own animal hospital. She is personally poor (or maybe middle class) but the business is worth something.

She's got enough credit for 3 months worth of payrol. Her employees aren't getting paid out of her pocket, it's via the business (and the bank).

This a distinction too often missed.

[ghiisga]

@Tuathalful Youtube has to be filled with the dumbest people. Read my response again, then comment. You totally ignore what I write and proceed with the usual liberal talking points. I even STATED that tax cuts don't always lead to jobs. Go somewhere else with your libtard talking points.

[ghiisga]

@17R3W I know what he's trying to say, he's just ignorant and apparently so are you. Whether it's his own "personal" money from his own checking account, or not, makes no difference. Thom had access to capital. Poor people do not have access to capital. If they did, by definition they aren't poor. Your friend is perhaps cash poor in her own personal bank account, but she's got wealth in her business...assuming she's the 100% owner of it. Therefore, she's not poor.

[Tuathalful]

@ghiisga Jobs, occupations, vocations, professions all predate the modern speculative "money" system. You never heard of "barter" I suppose, being an ignoramus... or currencies with fixed or innate value such as coins made from gold? I suppose you've never heard of subsistence agriculture or agrarian collectives? You only need to look at the real word to see tax cuts do not create jobs; its an empirical fact.

[Tuathalful]

@ghiisga Why can't you admit you're libertarian and utopian idealist who can't think outside the box or see the forest for the trees?