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08-17-22 04:16 #9599
Posts: 1068So you agree with me
Eih, for one thing, "spending money" is what even the most self-delusional "job creator" conservative pro Repub Capitalist hides under his bed waiting for the Federal Government to do in order to pull us out of every Great Repub Recession and Massive Job Destruction that Repub policies and stewardship produce, such as the recent one Trump and his classic Repub policies and stewardship produced (sorry, Laura Ingraham, it was his classic crap Repub policies, not his constant lying and mean tweets). So, right off the bat, that is why Biden and the Dems had to do it this time. Same reason FDR had to do it. And Clinton. And Obama. Etc. Even poor people are much, much better off today for their having done.
Not sure what you wrote has to do with my question.
I guess since you can't explain why Biden policies are not helping Americans that you agree with me that spending billions on climate control and IRS agents will not help the American people. Thanks.
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08-17-22 00:14 #9598
Posts: 5566Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
Waiting for brave free market Capitalists to rush in with "their" money to pull us out of these consistent Great Repub Economic Disasters is really Waiting For Godot. He ain't coming.
Beyond that it has now become abundantly obvious from all available data, record of results and easily observable reality over the past 100 years that the Dems' version of Demand-Side tax and economic philosophy and agenda is far and away superior for avoiding deep recessions and massive job losses than the Repubs' idiotic Supply-Side philosophy and agenda, both of which require tax money to be spent somewhere for the benefit of somebody.
Yeah, compared to the massive job losses in the millions, plunging GDP growth and economic disaster that follows virtually every Repub "success" in getting their idiotic Supply-Side agenda into the system, who and where the Dems then must spend tax money to pull us out of it is better for everybody in every income bracket.
Please explain how Repubs giving the already wealthy disproportionately high tax cuts will ever produce as many jobs, improve GDP growth, expand the economy and avoid deeply damaging downturns anywhere near as effectively as the Dem methods have for at least a century.
The Biden / Dem Inflation Reduction Act is another in about a half dozen Biden legislative and stewardship achievements in just 18 months that have already and will continue to recover and create the jobs with higher wages that Trump's classic Repub methods and stewardship wiped out. And that is good and far better than the Repub alternative for any income bracket you want to cite.
Trump's Pandemic-triggered supply chain destruction hyper-inflation is being tamed by Biden's stewardship and the Fed doing what every Fed must do to tame it. Thanks to Biden / Dem policies and stewardship, jobs creation is at high levels and the unemployment rate is at a 50 year low. The last time inflation was as high, thanks to Ronald Reagan's classic Repub policies and agenda no jobs were being created and the unemployment rate was skyrocketing into 10%+ every month for almost a solid year!
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08-16-22 23:20 #9597
Posts: 5566Yes, go to BLS
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
Facts. Easy to research. It's right there in BLS. Click on any of the working links I have provided for BLS over the years.
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08-16-22 19:02 #9596
Posts: 1839Originally Posted by Travv [View Original Post]
P.S., why don't you go live in Congo?
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08-16-22 16:21 #9595
Posts: 1068Yes look at the facts
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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08-16-22 16:08 #9594
Posts: 1068Please explain
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
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08-16-22 04:03 #9593
Posts: 657Communism Is A Struggle For Liberty? LOL Move To North Korea Workers Paradise Then!
A better analysis is that it is a struggle between short term thinkers aka (Grasshoppers) vs. Long term thinkers aka (Ants).
Why Socialism Is Bad: The Parable Of The Ant & The Grasshopper.
During difficult economic times, Socialism becomes a popular ideology due to the increased amount of economic suffering. But there are some reasons why socialism is bad highlighted below.
When times are good, it's OK if others make a lot of money and do well, so long as you are also doing well. As soon as things turn bad, it then becomes curiously not OK if someone else continues to do well if you are struggling. Why can't we be happy for someone else? Why do we have to bring others down?
My parable: The ant worked hard all summer collecting food and preparing his home for winter. The grasshopper played all summer not doing any work.
When winter came the grasshopper had no food. No worries, the grasshopper elected a socialist leader that took away 40 percent of the ants food and gave it to the grasshopper.
The next year the ant decided that the new government would take care of him the same way so he played all summer too, as did all the other hard working producing ants.
When winter came, there was no food and they all starved to death.
This scenario played out in the America's early history. The Pilgrims started as a socialistic enterprise, which resulted in famine and starvation as the Ants realized they were working to benefit Grasshoppers and did the minimum. . . https://nevadanewsandviews.com/plymo...ith-socialism/.
Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]
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08-16-22 01:54 #9592
Posts: 1839Originally Posted by Travv [View Original Post]
To pin wokeness on communism, makes as much sense to pin wokness on Kunta Kinte, or Joan of Arc.
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08-15-22 22:53 #9591
Posts: 5566More gentle reminders
Looks like Biden's "too much money" in the system didn't increase USA poverty at all. Far from it.
But Repubs'/ Conservatives' political agenda did increase USA poverty. By a lot:
The expanded child tax credit briefly slashed child poverty. Here's what else it did
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/27/10752...what-else-it-d
Child Tax Credit Payouts Biggest in GOP States, Despite No Republicans Voting for Bill
https://www.newsweek.com/child-tax-c...g-bill-1629809
Child Poverty Soars After GOP, Manchin Block Child Tax Credit Payments
https://cardinalpine.com/story/child...edit-payments/
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08-15-22 22:28 #9590
Posts: 5566Biden inflation?
Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
Oh, I know. Just look it up at BLS, right?
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08-15-22 22:18 #9589
Posts: 5566Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
Stop being lazy. Quote the substantiation of what you posted along with a link for it that works like I do.
Simply saying "look at BLS" is not enough. If you accept that as enough substantiation for what is asserted, great, here goes:
Look at BLS and you will see that Repubs were in the White House at the start of every Great Recession, Massive Job Losses and none of the Great Recoveries / Expansions and Job Gains of the past 100 years while Dems have been in the White House at the start of every Great Recovery / Expansion and Historic Job Gains and none of the Great Recessions. Oh, and Trump's record of results on those factors is among the worst in the past 100 years while Biden's so far is among the best.
Really. Don't be lazy. It's simple. Look it up right here:
https://www.bls.gov/
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08-15-22 20:48 #9588
Posts: 1068US Bureau of Labor Statistics
Originally Posted by EihTooms [View Original Post]
Just Google: US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Pretty simple. USA government labor information.
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08-15-22 19:21 #9587
Posts: 5566Another gentle reminder
Yep, with links:
With Surge in July, U.S. Recovers the Jobs Lost in the Pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/05/b...ort-gains.html
USA Job growth accelerated in July across nearly all industries, restoring nationwide employment to its prepandemic level, despite widespread expectations of a slowdown as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates to fight inflation.
Employers added 528,000 jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Labor Department said on Friday, more than doubling what forecasters had projected. The unemployment rate ticked down to 3. 5 percent, equaling the figure in February 2020, which was a 50-year low.
And that was before his disastrous economic decisions in 2018 and in 2020 came to fruition and produced four months of double digit unemployment rates and wiped out millions upon millions of jobs as well as destroying global supply chains, closing down worldwide economies and triggering hyper-inflation that Biden had to tackle and tame:
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000
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08-15-22 18:17 #9586
Posts: 5566Originally Posted by Canada [View Original Post]
Biden still cannot reach Trump level of economy and employment
If we had data on it, it is doubtful that Trump exceeded POTUS William Henry Harrison's level of economy and employment. It's for damn sure WHH signed and passed more beneficial legislation for the country than Trump did.
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08-15-22 18:08 #9585
Posts: 657By Jarrett Stepman.
. . Traditional Marxist ideas were adopted but changed in the 1920's by Italian communist Antonio Gramsci and others, and became the project of the Frankfurt school of critical theory. That new theory focused more on shaping culture, Lindsay said, marrying traditional Marxism with Freudian psychology and other social theories to change the way people think, , , "It has all of the conflict theory—separate the world into oppressor-versus-oppressed classes—with zero-sum conflict, no ability to agree or understand one another across those, and then takes on the postmodern understanding of truth being just politics by other means, which removes all of the brakes standing up against it," Lindsay said. Seeing the world through that lens is what constitutes wokeness.
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation and author of the new book "The Plot to Change America: How Identity Politics Is Dividing the Land of the Free," explained how these ideas entered the workplace under the guise of combating racism and why they are so toxic. "Anti-racism training is a con," Gonzalez said. "These consultants get paid exorbitant amounts of money. Often these fees come from taxpayer funds. "
Though many of the advocates of wokeness are con artists, we have to take them seriously, Gonzalez said, because there is a strong ideological component to it. "The true name of anti-racism training is consciousness-raising struggle sessions," he said. It's used to demolish the "hegemonic narrative," which in simpler terms, Gonzalez said, is simply "the American story, the American dream, the promise of liberty and prosperity that have attracted about 100 million immigrants from all over the world from 1850 to the present. " https://nationalinterest.org/blog/re...d-worry-166129.
In a nutshell, Wokeness replaced the workers with Identity classes. . . Same marxist analysis of oppressor vs oppressee with the solution being revolution and thought police. Result is the victim Olympics we see today competing for bigger and better victim status and government cash.
Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]