Well-connected? Like Obama bundlers who are rewarded with ambassadorships?
(CNSNews.com) – As the White House treats “income inequality” as one of the nation’s most pressing problems, a new phrase has entered the political lexicon.
At a news conference on Thursday, White House spokesman Josh Earnest used the phrase “wealthy and well-connected” four times. Two other times, he used “well-connected” as a synonym for the wealthy.
The implication is that wealthy people get that way through their connections — who they know — rather than through discipline and hard work. (As the minimum wage debate shows, the Obama administration uses the adjective “hard-working” only for low-wage earners.)
In his first reference to “the wealthy and the well-connected” on Thursday, Earnest was criticizing Republicans for refusing to “even consider the possibility of raising some revenue by closing some loopholes that benefit only the wealthy and the well-connected.”