Will the middle class and poor have a say in the richest cabinet in U.S. history? Can the $4 Billion cabinet relate to the average citizen?

My problem is not with wealthy being placed in the positions. My problem is what many of the wealthy represent. I do not feel comfortable with Tillerson and his ties to Russia and how Exxon has skin in the game already. I don't trust Sessions past and present ideals in the ability to be the person who will be the top civil rights cop in the land. DeVos I am afraid will take even more money from a school system that needs the funding to place it into schools that have the money.
Rick Perry wanted to eliminate the department of energy who together with Scott prewitt as sec of the EPA will dismantle both agencies only leaving our natural resources vunrable to destruction.
Flynn has the biggest tin foil hat of all in Washington and lost his job over it. He has tie to the Russians and the hacking and can't be trusted along with being mentally unstable.

So to say that I feel confident is a huge no. I am not comfortable with his picks. I was willing to give him a chance but that left me as soon as I saw his choices. He has not only selected poorly he has selected the very people that are against the very agencies that they have been selected to lead. With both the house and senate falling under Republican control and most seem to not believe in science and also fall into the pockets of the big corporations I do not see them not getting comfirmed. I am afraid it will be a bubble that we will see a temporary up lift and then a huge burst.

Did the middle class and poor have a say in the previous cabinet? No. I would rather have a successful businessman or woman in the cabinet than what we have had.

After 20 JAN, the original GW will be overtaken as the richest US president (normalizing the wealth). The cabinets from day one have been stacked with rich folk. So I'd expect they'll "relate" as much or as little as before to "average"; whatever that means. It'll be interesting to see what this Executive Branch's take on our Constitutional Commercial Republic is. BTW that's what we are. We've tend to forget that.

Good point, we should have a net worth cap on presidential candidates. Only let those with limited success run. Perhaps another limit should be on Congressional candidates and when their net worth doubles, on a $172K salary, they can no longer run for reelection.

Probably not any less or more then in the past. They got theirs and now want to keep it.
We may get lip service but results? Time will tell. I am hopeful though.

Good question

My concern isn't that they relate to me, it's whether or not they can do what Trump promised. If not, he will be a one term president.

John Kerry is married into the Heinz family. He's not far off from that number.

So the question is how effective will people who led companies efficiently enough that they became wealthy? I would hope as effective as they were in the private sector.

If you think the last Presidents Cabinet was poor your on another planet all together....lol Each of those folks was a multi-millionaire if not a lot higher in Net Worth. So nice try at a new litmus test. However I would argue that Mr. Trump has some Generals of less means on his Cabinet than Obama did. As for having Billionaires in government, they are all over the place on the Democratic side in the Senate, House of Representatives, etc. Why is it only an issue if they serve a alleged Republican?

The poor in this country already got a huge reward in the NYSE upswing, they will see more benefits after Trump takes office. So much better to lift the poor out of poverty THAN to add more of the Middle Class to their ranks...........which Obama was doing.