Our society is built on the backs of those who work hard at things that don't raise their income. Why should they have any hope?
This is the same crowd that told all food service workers to "get a real job" and then go out and complain that Starbucks is having trouble retaining workers.
What do you think this signals to people? That he may be conservative.
> I've met plenty of people who work two or more jobs and barely scrape by. God forbid someone gets really sick.
Yeah and you could work really hard for free and not scrape by at all. It's not that all hard work results in higher income, it's that working hard __to raise your income__ tends to raise your income.