Labor forces LOL you misspelled slave forces
"I have nothing to do with and have never communicated with Mitt Romney, the NYT, MSNBC, or National Review. I did have a short conversation with Jeff Flake. It was an honor to speak with the great man. And I trolled the WAPO message boards for a while, until my teaser subscription rate expired.
Globalism and free markets have lifted billions out of poverty. As to "slavery" in China, apparently you haven't visited the country or you'd know better. Per capita GDP increased from $197 in 1981 before Deng Xiaoping become Chairman to $12,720.
[URL]https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CHN/china/gdp-per-capita[/URL]#text=Data%20 are%20 in%20 current%20 USA, a%202.61%25%20 increase%20 from%202019.
Adjusted for purchasing power, China's GDP per capita is around $22,000.
China doesn't have cheap labor any longer. If you want that you go to Vietnam, South Asia, Central America, etc.
I've worked in Asia off and on for 25 years, and few Asians would agree with your characterization of their labor forces. ".
You sound like you're sugar coating it a bit LOL.
You didn't mention the Foxcon suicides or their brilliant solution either the nets, if that isn't slavery what is?
There might be a tad of hyperbole in my characterizations but not much.
I've seen my share of Asia and as a generalization think its a huge toilet.
The Philippines Cambodia Thailand Indonesia (Japan isn't a toilet per se).
I'm pretty sure that ppp number you used is misleading.
I think they have some money concentrated on the cities bordering the coast of the West Philippines Sea.
The rest of the 1. 4 billion living inland are mostly much poorer.
If you take a shit load of money and average it out by 1. 4 billion people its misleading.
There you go, hanging around ET too much using stats to distort the truth of the matter.
USA ppp is $65000 do you know how many people in the country don't make anything near 65000, way too many.
They also have huge income disparities which your figures don't show.
You mention it has pulled billions out of poverty? Billions? Doubtful, now it sounds like you're stealing NYT talking points.
But nonetheless are you suggesting you gave a shit more about the well being of the 3rd world than your fellow Americans? If so, you ought to be very ashamed of yourself.
Here is the "Parasites dilemma" slavery was outlawed with the 13th amend in 1865.
So how do they get more slaves?
Import more here.
[URL]https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/biggs-migrants-illegal/2023/09/22/id/1135535/[/URL] (Andy Biggs the Good Mormon, Biggs for President 2028).
Or export all the jobs to 3rd world shitholes ie CCPland India SEA et al.
Asia aka the Globes source for slave labor.
But not to worry Dirty Joe is trying to even the score.
[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/23/us/tyson-perdue-child-labor.html[/URL]
Hawk, but now on deficits
President Dick Cheney: "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter".
Never liked Fake news and or murdoch except for ST. Tucker
It's difficult to find a more current assessment.
But the pattern in any Google Search I have made on the topic puts Fux News clearly in the lead among Fake News Liars, MSNBC far behind in 2nd Place and CNN the least Fake News Liar of those three:
[URL]https://www.politifact.com/article/2015/jan/27/msnbc-fox-cnn-move-needle-our-truth-o-meter-scorec/[/URL]
That being the case, it is then worth seeing what the Best Truth-Teller of the 3 has to say about Fux News quite recently:
Analysis: Fox News has been exposed as a dishonest organization terrified of its own audience.
February 17,2023.
[URL]https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/business/fox-news-dominion-lies/index.html[/URL]
They never give up.
[URL]https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-polls-fox-news/2023/09/23/id/1135629/[/URL]
Polls are always fun, but
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2855351]Written as a gift for you ET.
[URL]https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-trumps-big-lead-in-the-newest-poll-means/[/URL][/QUOTE][QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2855248][URL]https://nypost.com/2023/09/24/trump-scores-10-point-lead-over-biden-poll/?utm_source=gmail&utm_campaign=android_nyp[/URL]
How long before Dirty Joe is indicted.
Or he drops out to spend more time with his "family" LMAO "the junkie in Florence Co".
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar.
[URL]https://nypost.com/2023/09/24/trump-scores-10-point-lead-over-biden-poll/?utm_source=gmail&utm_campaign=android_nyp[/URL][/QUOTE]Thanks for the gift.
While it is interesting to see that passionate Repubs are rushing to their phones and online to tell the world how much they love their lord and master at Trump's time of greatest need for Repub hillbilly defense fund donations from their entitlement checks, there have actually been other "polls" being taken for the last several months that might be a bit more telling about Biden and his Dem Party's prospects going forward.
Maybe Newsmax and Breitbart haven't been mentioning them much lately:
[B]Democrats have been winning big in special elections.
That could bode well for them in the 2024 election.[/B]
[URL]https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-winning-big-special-elections/story?id=103315703[/URL]
[B]Democrats keep winning special elections in battleground states.[/B]
[URL]https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4213712-democrats-keep-winning-special-elections-in-battleground-states/[/URL]
[B]Democrats are on a special election winning streak.[/B]
[URL]https://www.axios.com/2023/09/21/democrats-special-elections-winning-streak[/URL]
[B]Democrats Are on a Winning Streak That Could Transform Our Politics.
Recent victories in Pennsylvania and New Hampshire special elections suggest Democrats can score huge wins in the fight to control state legislatures. That changes everything.[/B]
[URL]https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-state-legislature-victories/[/URL]
Looks like those passionate Repubs are not showing up nearly as much as passionate Dems have been for these special elections that typically engender more Repub turnout.
Yes, it has been well documented that when gas prices increase, Biden's approval numbers decrease. As is the case right now. It is pretty much as simple as that.
But that doesn't necessarily mean the electorate blames Biden or the Dems for gas price inflation. Or for any inflation, really. After all, they didn't punish Biden and the Dems for higher and scarier inflation during the 2022 midterms, right? No, if anything, the electorate appeared to have blamed Trump's Party for inflation and a slew of other problems when they entered the voting booths last year.
And they are still blaming them this year. In the voting booth "polls", I mean.
Besides, maybe a miracle will happen and USA oil reserves will flood the market and help to lower gas prices sometime soon and cause Biden's approval numbers to greatly improve. Or early next year. Or around August, September, October and Novrmber of next year.
Miracles do happen, you know.
I give your post 9 Courics
[QUOTE=MarquisdeSade1;2855379]
[b]Bull shit[/b]
Nobody pulled anyone out of poverty.
Wall St just transferred the wealth from the US to mainland CCP land.
And imported their poverty here.
They lowered our standard of living and raised CCP lands.
[URL]https://www.oecd.org/forum/asia-challenges.htm[/URL]
The region remains home to two-thirds of the world's poor, with more than 800 million Asians still living on less than $1. 25 a day and 1. 7 billion surviving on less than $2 a day. Poverty reduction remains a daunting task!!
[URL]https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2023/09/22/bidens-new-york-illegal-migrants-cut-wages-prior-illegals/[/URL]
Hunger Games 2023 Dirty Joes NYC edition.[/QUOTE]Free trade has made both the USA and the developing world more prosperous. We may have a smaller % of the pie, but the pie has gotten larger.
You earlier criticized me for wanting to see Asians make a living wage, because you incorrectly believe that comes at the expense of the American worker. Now you're saying 1. 7 billion Asians survive on less than $2 a day. Do you want them to stay poor? Do you think American consumers should have to pay 3 X what they're paying now for televisions and clothes?
Assembling electronic components, making clothes and a lot of other low end factory work is painstaking and tedious. Americans would rather do something else, although many Asians appreciate the opportunity to make enough money to feed themselves and their families. I believe the same applies to much of the work done by foreigners in the USA, although I don't believe they should be here illegally. A guest worker program makes more sense. The unemployment rate is 3. 6%, for goodness sake.
I guess you and Tooms are fans of big government spending on industrial policy like that authorized by Biden's Inflation Reduction Act and Chips and Science Act. And of high tariffs, like the ones imposed by Trump and continued by Biden. Well, they don't make sense. The best results come from spending money instead on basic research and development, and from opening foreign markets to American goods. And basic common sense policies, like the corporate tax system imposed by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (e.g. a competitive corporate tax rate and the GILTI tax, which encourages investment in the USA). You guys might borrow a bit of the time you spend watching MSNBC and reading Breitbart and look at this.
[URL]https://www.piie.com/sites/default/files/documents/piieb21-5.pdf[/URL]
Grinbitch and his Do Nothing Repubs did not vote to balance any budget. Ever.
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2855525]I doubt boom times in 1994 had much to do with Bill Clinton. And I know the "Reagan Recession" was mostly the result of tight monetary policy by Paul Volcker et al. High real interest rates were what was required to cure high inflation.
You only look at the party of the president in explaining GDP growth and employment, and that doesn't have a lot to do with either. One exception, yes, a president and Congress can dump a lot of stimulus into the economy and boost GDP growth in the short term. And if we're in a recession, that makes sense. But our perennially growing deficits and stimulus when we don't need it, like Biden's American Rescue Plan, is growing our national debt to unsustainable levels.
I look at the longer term, and that's why I praise Reagan, Clinton after 1994, and Congress during the periods they served.
Clinton, Gingrich, et al balanced the budget, reformed welfare, passed NAFTA, and lowered the capital gains tax rate to 20%. Unfortunately future administrations undid a lot of what they accomplished.
Reagan, O'Neill (Democratic House Speaker) et al set the stage for a balanced budget by helping to end the cold war. The USSR couldn't keep up with us on defense expenditures and because of that and other reasons threw in the towel. Democracy came to much of eastern Europe. Defense expenditures could come way down as a % of GDP during the Clinton administration, paving the way for lower deficits and even budget surpluses. I also give Reagan, O'Neil and others credit for lowering the maximum tax rate from the ridiculous level of 70%, and making Social Security and Medicare solvent again. I say the later, even though I much prefer a true retirement and health savings system like what Singapore has to our system.
Since Clinton, the only significant positive legislative change related to the economy was lowering the total (federal + state) corporate tax rate from the highest in the developed world to the middle of the pack.
Your refrain as usual will be we need higher taxes. That doesn't appeal to me because the most prosperous decent-sized developed countries, that don't have the advantage of massive oil and gas production, all have small governments (in terms of government revenues or expenditures as a % of GDP), and high taxes are associated with larger governments. Also philosophically I view exorbitant taxation as akin to theft, and believe our federal government is inefficient when it spends our money.[/QUOTE]You seem to be confusing "process" with "result. ".
Tax cuts, tax increases, stimulus legislation, regulation reform, etc, etc, etc, which both Repubs and Dems do, are all part of a "process" and are most definitely not in and of themselves a "result".
Repubs can cut taxes from now until doomsday and they can produce the same crap "results" as Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, where the "result" two years later right up until Trump's other economic stewardship created Trump's Pandemic was fewer jobs created with it than without it and a projected infinity of $1. 5 Trillion net added to the deficit every 10 years until a Dem finally has enough breathing room from attending to Repub Economic Disasters to put a blessed end to it if those tax cuts are for the wrong people for the wrong reason at the wrong time.
The Calvin Coolige tax cuts come to mind. And the Reagan tax cuts. And the GW Bush tax cuts. And absolutely positively the Trump tax cuts.
No legislation in and of itself is a "result" worth celebrating, neither a tax cut nor a tax increase, unless the "result" is the national economy is much better off with it than without it. Haven't seen a Repub-proposed, fought for and passed.
Economic legislation or tax policy accomplish that little trick yet.
By stark contrast, virtually every major Dem Economic legislation, especially the ones that did not garner a single Repub vote, produced historically positive "results. ".
Case in point:
[B]Tax Reform Act Of 1993: Meaning, History, Impact[/B]
[URL]https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tax-reform-act-of-1993.asp[/URL]
[QUOTE]The Tax Reform Act of 1993 was a federal law passed by the 103rd Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The Act aimed to cut the federal deficit through increased taxes and reduced spending. It is also known as the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993.
1
The Tax Reform Act of 1993 was one of Clinton's first tax packages, introducing significant changes in tax law for individuals and businesses. Clinton sought a mix of tax increases and spending reductions that would allow him to achieve the first balanced budget since 1969.[/QUOTE]Read on to see how and why that legislation, which every Repub in Congress refused to vote Yes for because it so violated their continually spectacularly failed Supply-Side / Trickle-Down idiocy, established and produced the historic jobs creation, pro business, economic expansion, deficit reduction and balanced budget "results" described in the link in one of my previous posts LONG LONG LONG before Nude Grinbitch and his fellow Do Nothing But Sniff Around Clinton's Dick and Balls Repubs took control of the House in January 1995.
Democrats Nail the Porno Vote
This Democrat does live porno sessions for $$ [URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg2fxYcZTZA[/URL].
