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[CMRivdogs]

Trickle down economy has never worked. All $$ eventually trickles up to the rich guys

[CMRivdogs]

 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

Trickle down economy has never worked. All $$ eventually trickles up to the rich guys

capitalism is inherently concentrative. You can always make better investments when you can make bigger investments and capital will always concentrate. That's a feature. So if you don't want to end up in a banana republic, you need to support strongly progressive taxation and robust government expenditure on human investment and inheritance taxes. This is not a matter of political philosophy, it's a matter of economic reality.

Of course, it is also one that the rich do their damndest to obfuscate by casting it wrongly as a matter of free market philosophy and personal liberty, and at that they have been extremely successful since 1980.

Edited Wednesday at 01:49 AM by gehringer_2

[Screwball]

Are we just figuring this out? We have had the big red white and blue stuffed into us as Carlin so eloquently explained in 1991, known as the American Dream skit. You gotta be asleep to believe it.

35 years when you do the math...

[gehringer_2]

12 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Are we just figuring this out? We have had the big red white and blue stuffed into us as Carlin so eloquently explained in 1991, known as the American Dream skit. You gotta be asleep to believe it.

35 years when you do the math...

Yup. It's should be pretty obvious to anyone who has their eyes open, but the population is economically illiterate. The idea that capitalism is a real thing with moving parts and good and bad properties and sets of predictable outcomes is miles over the head of the average American who is conditioned to never think about these things in more than misty 10sec slogan sound bites. And there are billions of dollars being spent in every political cycle to create enough confusion to make sure the public stays just as ignorant as it is now.

So we reach a point where even Joe 6 pack has realized the system is failing him, but he doesn't know why or how or what should be done about it. So you end up with a lot of very mad but very gullible voters.

Edited Wednesday at 02:35 AM by gehringer_2

[Screwball]

Well, it all comes down to WTF you going to do about it? We ain't voting our way out of this.

But many still think we can. They are delusional.

[gehringer_2]

4 minutes ago, Screwball said:

Well, it all comes down to WTF you going to do about it? We ain't voting our way out of this.

But many still think we can. They are delusional.

"We have met the enemy, and He is Us."

--Pogo, 1972

[oblong]

It’s the old adage, updated for inflation…. Billionaires have convinced people making $75-$100K that the problems are caused by people making $35-$75K.  And that group is convinced the problems are immigrants. Everyone below you is a mooch. 

[Netnerd]

14 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Isaiah 58:1–12

Read it, live it

Amen.

 

(Is this in the Trump Bible? Or did his Sharpie redact that one?)

[oblong]

the trump bible just has pictures of naked girls in it.  Young ones.

 

[RatkoVarda]

[gehringer_2]

11 hours ago, Screwball said:

We ain't voting our way out of this.

I don't know if it's still possible to vote our way out, but for damn sure we voted our way in.

[RatkoVarda]

 

[Motown Bombers]

Apparently Harris is going to announce something tomorrow. Seems early to announce for president. Is she going to jump into the California governor's race? If it was a book or a movie or something like that, you would think she wouldn't use the dormant campaign account to announce it.

 

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

Apparently Harris is going to announce something tomorrow. Seems early to announce for president. Is she going to jump into the California governor's race? If it was a book or a movie or something like that, you would think she wouldn't use the dormant campaign account to announce it.

 

at one point she announced she would not run for Gov of CA but I sure hope she does and doesn't declare for the White House. IMHO, any Dem who has managed to lose to Trump should not be trying again.

[chasfh]

Harris is not declaring for the White House, and even if she is, this party will absolutely not nominate her.

[gehringer_2]

7 hours ago, chasfh said:

Harris is not declaring for the White House, and even if she is, this party will absolutely not nominate her.

wishful thinking but I believe the best strategy for the Dems would be for no-one to declare for '28 until the midterms are over.

[chasfh]

One of the things I’ve always loved most about the Olympics is the parade of nations at the beginning. I love watching them march in, first Greece, by tradition, and then alphabetically according to home language, then host country last. One of my favorite things to do is to guess how many athletes are in each delegation before it is announced. I just like seeing how close I am.

But one of the things I am going to be most interested in seeing during today’s parade of nations is whether the spectators in the stadium boo and jeer the United States when they walk in. That would be a very sad commentary on our status in the world today, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.

 

[oblong]

I remember when the summer games were in London someone suggested all the nations once ruled by the UK should come out to "How you like me now?"

[Mr.TaterSalad]

 

Yes, because kids today and anyone who isn't a redneck under 65 want to hear Lee ****ing Greenwood. I'm no Bad Bunny fan. I don't listen to that type of music at all. But Lee Greenwood at the Superbowl halftime show . . . LOL!

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

 

Yes, because kids today and anyone who isn't a redneck under 65 want to hear Lee ****ing Greenwood. I'm no Bad Bunny fan. I don't listen to that type of music at all. But Lee Greenwood at the Superbowl halftime show . . . LOL!

He's virtue signaling to red hats. Obvs.

[Mr.TaterSalad]

I can see the Lee Greenwood Super Bowl halftime show . . .

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Mr.TaterSalad