First of all, he said that he had once been an "unemployed striver" in Flint, Michigan, and he remembers what that was like. Second, when he did make money, he paid all his taxes in full, gave a significant amount to charities, and refused to buy stock, which gains from other people's work.
"I make my money the old school, honest way by making things. Some years I earn a boatload of cash. Other years, like last year, I don't have a job (no movie, no book) and so I make a lot less. 'How can you claim to be for the poor when you are the opposite of poor?!' It's like asking: 'You've never had sex with another man -- how can you be for gay marriage?! I guess the same way that an all-male Congress voted to give women the vote, or scores of white people marched with Martin Luther Ling, Jr. ...Michael speaks truth in his own, sometimes excessive way -- but he gets it. And he cuts through to the truth with refreshing candor.
It is precisely this disconnect that prevents Republicans from understanding why anyone would give of their time or money to help out those less fortunate.
Ralph
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