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"this year the deficit fell by $1.4 trillion — the largest one-year drop in American history"
But sure, some people expect Republicans to "save" the economy.
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"If we calculate the average annual real GDP growth in the United States under Democratic and Republican presidents going back to 1947, the economy grew one percentage point faster on average under Democratic than Republican presidents.
Now, a legitimate counterpoint might be that the last two major economic crises — the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2008 and the COVID-19 crisis of 2020 — occurred under Republican presidents. So what happens if we filter our sample, eliminating the two crises and halt our analysis in 2006? The difference in real GDP growth . . . grows even larger."
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"The last few decades of globalization allowed corporations to scour the planet for the cheapest labor and loosest regulations, devastating the working class. Capital is mobile and workers less. So entire industries packed up and abandoned the communities that built them,"
"The auto industry left Michigan and Ohio for Mexico and China. Textile companies left North Carolina for Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam. And heavy machinery manufacturer, Caterpillar, shipped jobs from Illinois to… wait. What? Texas?!"
Texas Governor Greg Abbott answered the question in the simplest form: "We have low taxes, reasonable regulations, right-to-work laws. As China is to America, Texas is to Illinois."
The US Tax System ‘Broken': ‘Bad Uncle Sam' Keeps ‘Reaching His Dirty Little Paw Down Our Pants'
"Now, if you don’t speak business euphemism, says John Steward, allow me to translate what the governor said: Low tax means less money to spend on infrastructure, reasonable regulations mean ‘you weren’t using that finger, that you lost, anyway' and right to work means weak unions — which means companies can get away with lower pay and fewer benefits. And they do."
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Corporations are not pro-USA or pro-employees. They are pro-corporations and f...k everyone else.👿
Would you rather all the people in texas be unemployed to?
As for regulations, common sense and osha are Plenty enough regulations. You don't need any more government involvement in jobs.
Corporations are not pro-USA or pro-employees. They are pro-corporations and f...k everyone Else.
That is the point. At least Caterpillar didn't leave the US. Whoopee, what about all those employees whose life was thrown into major turmoil? I don't think I have it " fucking backwards". There are TWO wrongs here. Caterpillar's greed is one. Texas government's anti-worker's rights is the second. The worst and the most dishonest is "This is a right-to-work state" it makes it sound as a boon to workers when, in reality, it's a way to styfle union participation.👿
DEV01, Phart, DJS, Ananas2xLekker, Andthisisme, Kebmo, Leopoldij, some others.............and me. What have we became? In a tribute thread dedicated to a person that, right or wrong, made such an impact on the world, we bring petty politics into it.
(and who defines these terms?)
and the tacit assumption that the monarch, whichever monarch, is a god-like figure and the head of an empire.
Well pointed out.--------------------------------------- added after 2 minutesBut we're defective humans, you see. We love to be right, we love to be smart, we love to be better than others, we love to say we're right and they're wrong, we love to hide our mistakes and crimes.
We're nasty.
Just because some of us talked about the politics of the mess does not mean we mean any disrespect to the dead.
The Queen was a mechanic in the military. Not many women took that role during those times. She was a good person and did her job.
The question is ,in modern times, what is the job of a "queen" or a "king"? They have a parliament to govern.
What is Billionaire charley going to do with 2 billion dollars that was just dumped on him?
He had a beautiful wife ,Dianna, and cheated on her like a sorry ass redneck bastard. And I still believe to this day he was behind her death.But with his money, and influence, he got away scott free.
That should show the world the quality of person he is.
And 1 of the straws that broke this camels back was for at least 2 fucking weeks it was difficult to even get a weather forcast off the tv for all the media coverage of the people marching and falling around her casket.
Put the poor woman to rest.
400 secret service to protect our so called president bidet since he was to damn goody 2shoes to ride in the bus with the rest of the people invited. Wants all of us to cram onto a amtrak rail car like the jews in nazi germany but he has to ride in his limo. Sorry no good asshole.
This should give you a indication of how the world views the US now. Way back from the front.
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Race is still a issue with the monarchy.
Still, there must have been a lot of political tension, either about her life, her death, what she represented or her funeral, because no one got into a political tirade over the RIP topic for Olivia Newton John and not even about the RIP topic for Nichelle Nichols, who in her time was considered controversial.
Now the tories have voted in Liz Truss. What a boring, depressing cunt!
Well it might be good for the labor party, because no one will vote for her,
because they like her humor and charm.
If the labor party could only find a leader with more charisma than a hairy scrotum...
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on why the UK left the EU
Membership of the European Union wasn’t delivering
The data showed that there had been enormous variations in attitudes towards the European Union over the last decade. The big picture is that people supported membership if they felt that it was delivering what they wanted – a prosperous economy, protection against crime and terrorism, control over immigration and efficient public services. If they did not feel that membership helped to deliver these things, or worse still prevented the British government from delivering them they opposed membership. Many of the latter felt ‘left behind’ by changes in society and the economy.
Britain’s failure to effectively recover from the worst recession for over 70 years (200
The collapse of power in the Middle East The protests, demonstrations, riots, coups and civil wars that began in 2010 across the Middle East and North Africa and have become known as the Arab Spring, created new waves of immigration into Europe.
Many voters concluded that not only had successive UK governments mishandled the issue of immigration but so had the European Commission. When "Angela Merkel threw open Germany’s borders, doing so broke a number of EU regulations. This only served to harden views on immigration across the rest of the EU and Britain. People felt they’d lost control of it, and fear and anxiety crept in as a consequence.” Currently there are two forms of immigration into the UK; uncontrolled immigration from the EU and controlled immigration from outside.
At the same time,In managing the economy, the EU opted for austerity – resulting in significant problems for countries including Greece and Italy. and delayed economic recovery both in Europe and Britain. before the referendum, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, issued extremely dour predictions for the effect of Brexit on the economy. These predictions went all the way to 2030. The models used to make them are just not capable of forecasting that far ahead.”
The fragmentation of British politics. Elections results used to be based around the electorate’s strong allegiance to a particular party. But now this is fragmenting and the party system is fragmenting as weakening party attachments produce large scale volatility in electoral behaviour. "The party system is coming unglued. This is important because a fragmented system makes it harder to govern and makes policymaking and planning much more difficult – and therein lies the serious consequences of populism, something there is still significant problem for in the UK,” he said.
My own idea in the subject is;
- The EU is a center-right coalition. It is good for trade and corporations, but bad for 50% of the poorest people, because the EU forces privatization, which causes wealth and income redistribution from the poor to the rich in social democracies like the UK. The UK already did have a lot of income inequality caused by Thatcher's austerity, so the EU did not help poor people in the UK, but it was good for the London finance sector. Ever been to London? I saw more Lamborghini's in the first hour, than I saw before in whole my life. I stopped looking at the standard super-cars after the first day and only the fully tricked out versions, that would double their value, got my attention after that.
- The tories (right-wingers) blamed all that on the EU, while it was right-wing policies who worsened the income inequality in the UK. And off course they would blame it on immigrants. No one can deny that immigrants compete for money and benefits with the poor original residents. It's just scummy to blame even poorer people for income inequality, when the only problem the rich have is how to still get noticed in the most expensive super-cars money can buy.
- The tories were very successful in blaming the EU and the immigrants that were 'sent by the EU' and the stupid populists among them were demanding to get out of the EU, while the corporate right-wingers were more cautious at first, because trade and the EU banking system have made them and all their friends rich as fuck. However, they had to stand against the labor party defending the EU, so they ended up in a situation outside their control.
- Whenever you throw the referendum bone at the public, the public wants it. So the UK government was forced to do it. And we all know how it ended.
- After both David Cameron, who supported continued membership, and Theresa May, who failed at making an acceptable deal, resigned over Brexit, it was up to Boris. He delivered an agreement that was only slightly better than just letting Brexit happen without an agreement, but worse than Theresa May's agreement, according to a major economics think tank.
- However, the UK is not doing as bad as expected. They fell back significantly compared to the EU, but they have not completely crashed, as some people projected.
Here are two articles about the effects of Brexit:
Focusing on the economy:
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Here is a government study about how the UK is taking advantage of leaving the EU:
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Here is an alarming article from just before the Covid crisis:
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It's just not clear yet, whether leaving the EU will help the people who voted to leave. With the tories still at the helm and Liz Truss vowing to cut taxes, avoid austerity and meet fiscal rules (which is impossible), there is no way to predict where they are heading. The UK now has more freedom to decide their own direction, which I would like for my own country, but if they take a direction that
is even to the right of the EU, the people who voted to leave will suffer the consequences.
"We find that voting Leave is associated with older age, white ethnicity, low educational attainment, infrequent use of smartphones and the internet, receiving benefits, adverse health and low life satisfaction."
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It's not surprising that many are unable to muster sympathy for her passing, despite the human aspect of it all.
“I don’t want to hear it from MAGA Republicans, officials who had hundreds of thousands of dollars of debts, even millions of dollars in pandemic relief loans forgiven, who now are attacking me for helping working class and middle class Americans,” the president continued. “My team at the White House posted a video of this, folks, online.”
Biden proceeded to ding Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) over their forgiven PPP loans.
“Marjorie Taylor Greene, she and her husband got $180,000 in business loans forgiven from the PPP program,” Biden said. “She said it’s completely unfair for us to forgive student loans for working and middle class Americans. Representative Buchanan of Florida said our plan was reckless. Guess how much he got in that program forgiven? Two million, three hundred thousand dollars.”
Biden also went after Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who cast student borrowers as “slacker” baristas who “wasted seven years in college.”
“Ted Cruz, the great senator from Texas,” Biden said. “He said it’s for slackers, quote, ‘slackers’ who don’t deserve relief. Who in the hell do they think they are?”
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Hippocrates, liars, obnoxious.
What does Rubio do to help Cuban-Americans, and Floridians? He opposes increasing the federal minimum wage. He supported repealing the Affordable Care Act, which would have resulted in millions of Floridians losing health insurance. He obstructs immigration reform and pathways to citizenship for Dreamers and Temporary Protected Status recipients, denying refuge to those fleeing the same dictatorships he hypocritically pontificates about.
HE HAS TO GO.
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That's great. Thugs like him should be punished. The billion dollar bill will hurt him. I like that.
A precedent has been set and now ever freeloader in the country is going to sue people over words.
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There is some asshole sueing the hotsauce manufacor Texas Pete because it is not made in Texas.Although if you turn the bottle around it says clearly where it is made.
Recovery should be Reactionary
I feel sure the grammer police are just as liberal as you are so you will be safe from retribution.
Two typos, one after the other.
Of course, I must blame the autocorrect feature
of my stoopid phone
and my inability to switch it off.
I do switch it off occasionally, then I upgrade
the operating system or the phone hardware,
and then I'm back at square one.
I'm fucking tired of tweaking the fucking
"smart" phone all the time.
Again: mea culpa.
But please don't shoot me. (I know you won't.)
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P.S. stoopid was spelt so on purpose.
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I love it how they fucked Alex Jones up for hate speech and for causing so much distress to the families of murdered ch1ldren. Fucking white supremacist nazis should fuck the shut up.
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There was a typo in my message
I didn't mean to say Recovery.
I meant to say Reactionary.
Reactionary is a term that sits you well.
Actually, I've no idea what you're saying
in your reply.
This is a direct violation of the constitution.
Freedom of speech.
this sets a precedent for the future that everyone that says anything offensive to a person or small group can be sued.
That is essentially erasing freedom of speech.
Does this mean I agree with Jones, No. he is a jurk.
But as I said,this judgement will erase freedom of speech for the American people in the long term
By the way,
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Jerry Nadler said the violence in portland was a MYTH>
people have died in portland to.
So should the lawyers sue Nadler now?
OH, he is a democrat, so he has freedom of speech.
The alex jones thing, although he is a jurk, is the simple fact he is linked to the conservative cause therefore a enemy of the democrat.
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I don't know about Jerry Nadler. This country is very litigious. If someone thinks he should be sued, that's for the courts to accept the suit or not
10 years of threats and "pain".
I can't deny there was mourning and a feeling of great loss and a desire for justice.BUT the 1 they should have sought justice for was the shooter.
This money will not bring back the kids,it will not stop Alex from speaking.
IF the people suing were really seeking justice,and not just riding on the money train, that money would be donated to charity or something.But no,the people will live high on the hog, acting like it is free money,when in reality,they LOST A HUMAN LIFE to get it.
And I would also like to know what section of the constitution sets the guidelines you speak of as to freedom of speech.
She clearly stated she wanted to do physical harm to a SITTING PRESIDENT of the USA.
Where is the outrage? Why can she get away with that? She should have to eat Bryers icecream and her husband drink CHEAP liquor on a street corner while Donald enjoys her assets.
What Nancy did was wrong and she should pay.I mean,unless we are going to apply that ol democrat double standards thing again.hee?
Sherryann, you Trumpists think alike. Does that mean you belong to a group of hateful people?😈
I have voted for a few democrats in lower level offices that were older men that were the "old" democrats that still had a little common sense.
They won't punish him for that either. He has done much worse.
And Hillary cooperated with the investigation, Trump didn't.
and Mike Pence and ra.pe AOC and stop the democratic process.
I agree it was wrong, but Trump said much worse about her.
Trump tried to do a coup. Tell me what Nancy did that makes her worse.
The limits on free speech are incitement, defamation, fraud, obscenity, child pornography, fighting words, and threats. That was what Alex Jones was doing. He was demonizing survivors and parents as paid crisis actors and then right-wing idiots made the life of parents who lost children and children who saw their schoolmates being murdered even worse than the hell it already was. Alex Jones was personally hurting them. He had no evidence for that. He only did it to sell more ape-scrotum-powder and other bullshit snake-oil, that he claims has all sorts of health benefits and the FDA should sue him over.
How is that the same as discrediting the claims of right-wingers that Antifa was involved with the violence in Portland. What is the evidence for that? Is Jerry Nadler causing threats the families in Portland? How is he doing incitement, defamation, fraud, obscenity, child pornography, fighting words, or threat?
If he is, yes, lawyers of affected families OF HIS SPEECH should sue Nadler.
I will add to that,that fucking dr fauchi should pay 100 billion or more. sumbitch lied about mask for 2 months and caused people to die.
A direct link to peoples death.Not just words or a theory,but he had the respect of millions and let them down.
Speaking about trust during a pandemic; Trump was commander-in-chief and lied
much worse about much more. And how about Tucker Carlson? Why not sue them
for all their lying, which surely caused more deaths?
However, Fauci did not do it for his own benefit, but he was a spokesman for the government organization trying to contain a deadly pandemic. Alex Jones was peddling lies only to enrich himself and punish political enemies.
He convinced the American people that mask were not needed.BUT the medical staff had to wear them for some odd reason?
that gave the virus 2 months or more to spread like wildfire.
Trump at first had no reason not to trust fauchi,and fauchi knew that.So he took advantage of it to eventually make Trump look bad,which left wingers got ahold of and ran with .
It seems like that lab doesn't have much of a future now.
If he had any personal investments in it, he surely lost his money.
Not all viruses travel by air; e.g. chicken-pox, HIV, monkeypox and 'kissing disease'.
There were no masks available and right-wingers wouldn't wear them anyway,
so your accusation doesn't fly. He should have been honest, but that might have
created bigger risks, if selfish people started hoarding masks. People could stay at home, medical staff could not.
Trump made himself look bad. He said Covid was a hoax publicly, while acknowledging it was very dangerous privately. He peddled stupid shit like injecting bleach, a bright light in the lungs, Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin. That was all misinformation.
If viruses travel only by air, why did we use so much hand and surface desinfectants? The Clown never needed any help to look bad. His ignorance of facts ant ten yrs old knows is well documented. And if you don't believe that, look how he's behaving now.
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