Adam Schiff wants Americans to believe the problem with this country is that some people build too much, earn too much, and succeed too much.
Here is what he said:
“Schiff: There is something terribly wrong about an economy that produces its first trillionaire, but cannot provide health care for its people. Or one in which the richest handful of families have the combined wealth of almost forty percent of the rest of the country. This is the cost of a corrupt system, where wealth perpetuates itself, and poverty, at the same time.”
Schiff is dead wrong.
The problem is not that people like Elon Musk build companies, create products, take risks, hire workers, push technology forward, and generate wealth. That is not the failure of America. That is the American dream in action.
Elon Musk, who is clearly the kind of person Schiff is targeting here, did not become wealthy by sitting in Washington, holding hearings, blaming others, and spending taxpayer money. He built companies that changed entire industries.
Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink, and his other ventures have created jobs, opened opportunities, pushed innovation, and made America stronger. That is not something to punish. That is something a healthy country should want more of.
And let’s be honest, even if Schiff and the Democrats got their dream and took every dollar of Elon Musk’s wealth, it would not fix the federal government’s spending disaster. It would not come close to solving the long-term debt problem. It would barely make a dent before Washington came back demanding more.
If Schiff really cared about the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable, he would be focused on stopping waste, fraud, abuse, corruption, and reckless spending inside the federal government.
That would make programs stronger for the people who truly need help.
Instead, he points at successful Americans and tells everyone else to resent them.
Source: Adam Schiff X account