Trump: Why no, I'd rather not have a poor person as my economic advisor

One of the dopiest complaints a president will ever get is not all that surprising given the tenor of the times: How dare you appoint a billionaire as your economic advisor? That one actually got fired at President Trump yesterday in reference to his choice of Gary Cohn, the billionaire former president of Goldman Sachs, to advise him on economic policy. Now, you could cite some issues with Cohn, one of them being he has a reputation for not being all that conservative on economic policy. But that's not the complaint of the aggrieved masses. The complaint is that he's a high-powered billionaire, and how dare Trump seek his advice? Now you do understand, I would hope, that the purpose of economic policy is to create circumstances that promote prosperity. One might consider it fairly obvious that you're better off getting advice from someone who's achieved some prosperity, and knows a little something about how this is done. That will help the president develop policies that might assist others in reaching prosperity.