Multimillionaire financier and loyal Democrat Steve Rattner thinks working Americans concerned with the availability of manufacturing jobs are just a bunch of crybabies who need to quit complaining and accept their miserable futures.

“We’re kidding ourselves if we think [manufacturing] is our salvation,” Rattner said in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Tuesday.

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Instead, Rattner says Americans must adapt and plan for careers with “some intellectual content,” such as education, health services, or IT. But not every American is a scholar and not every American can afford higher education. For an increasing number of working Americans who can’t magically become productive white-collar workers overnight, the only option is a choice between low-paying service industry jobs, welfare, or a combination of both.

Apparently Rattner — who lives in a multi-million dollar Manhattan apartment, spends summers on his Martha’s Vineyard estate, and owns a horse farm in North Salem — can’t understand why Americans who were once able to provide for their families by working a $60,000-per-year factory job aren’t happy with the prospect of trying to make ends meet working for less than half of that flipping burgers.

Rattner’s arrogant indifference is only highlighted by the fact that he owes his fortune to a career on Wall Street, which — unlike Main Street America — benefits greatly from globalization. Rattner was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, and Lazard Freres & Co., and now runs a private investment firm.

Globalization — the offshoring of American jobs, the importing of non-American workers, and the erosion of American sovereignty — is the engine which fuels the growth of Rattner’s personal fortune and the vampiric modern financial industry he represents.

Rattner is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations — an elite, Establishment think tank which advocates aggressively for globalization, free trade, and dividing the world into supranational trading blocs. Some have even accused the shadowy group of wishing to lay the foundations for a global superstate.