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Trump's Hands

Trump's hands symbolize for me everything I hate about him, and it isn't their size. It is the fact that the most substantial thing they have ever held is golf club. His hands have never used a hammer, saw or shovel, they have never tied steel, baked a cake, poured concrete, planed a board, gutted a chicken, dug coal, sewed a sleeve on a shirt, or filed a book on the shelf of public library. They are the hands of a 'taker' as the Republicans like to call people on welfare. His hands take what other people do for him and he doesn't pay them for their efforts. His are the hands of a person who has no respect for the value that workers add to the world. What is my evidence for these statements? Trump has gone bankrupt six times. Did he suffer personally from any of these failed business ventures? No. The people who suffered were the men and women who work for him, the waitresses, the brick layers, the accountants. Sure bankruptcy is legal, but is it right to not pay ...