Economics Thread
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Weird how a first generation Amerocan like myself was able to succeed in life despite a single uneducated father working 16 hours a day driving a black car.
You and your kind are repulsive. Get off your ass and work.
57Brave
Well-known member
do you want me to go to work or go to bed ? --- make up your mind
Doubting seriously this applies to you other than -- you still think you might one day grow up to be ---- be one of them
a piece of advise ? -- Get out from under the bed -- go out and make some friends. Shoot, a friend
you seem especially lonely
Doubting seriously this applies to you other than -- you still think you might one day grow up to be ---- be one of them
a piece of advise ? -- Get out from under the bed -- go out and make some friends. Shoot, a friend
you seem especially lonely
57Brave
Well-known member
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/co...al-coronavirus-medicare-for-all-20200412.html
The irony of Sanders leaving the center stage of the presidential race right as the cataclysmic economic consequences of the public health lockdown slam America is hard to bear. The numbers out there seem staggering — nearly 17 million jobless claims in just three weeks — but they’re really not when I think of how all the family members or their friends I know under 35 are now suddenly unemployed or “furloughed” or struggling to pick up enough hours. Long before this happened, Sanders (and others) were out there warning about the stunning fragility of an economy where 40% have reported they don’t have even $400 saved if an emergency hits.
The irony of Sanders leaving the center stage of the presidential race right as the cataclysmic economic consequences of the public health lockdown slam America is hard to bear. The numbers out there seem staggering — nearly 17 million jobless claims in just three weeks — but they’re really not when I think of how all the family members or their friends I know under 35 are now suddenly unemployed or “furloughed” or struggling to pick up enough hours. Long before this happened, Sanders (and others) were out there warning about the stunning fragility of an economy where 40% have reported they don’t have even $400 saved if an emergency hits.
cajunrevenge
Well-known member
You care enough to keep bringing it up and to try and mischaracterize my position on Obama.
sturg33
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No. People ask why I classify you as a lefty and I tell them the evidence of the last three years shows as much
cajunrevenge
Well-known member
You could say I am to the left of whatever the Republican party is now, but I dont think they moved further to the right, they just moved to crazy town. I will gladly be opposite of wherever side that is.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
True. Unless you want to equate conservatism with corruption, incompetence, venality, chaos, and a fondness for disinformation and lies. Which no reasonable person (conservative or not) would.
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Metaphysicist
Not Actually Brian Hunter
yeah, cajun, this is the real issue. sturg has assuredly called Obama, a straightforward center-left politician, a socialist or communist any number of times since 2008. His frame of reference is nonsense, but from that perspective saying something nice about Obama makes you basically a tankie.
A generation of credulous Young Republicans like sturg had hot garbage poured into their brains and now a good portion of them are like this.
sturg33
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Barack Obama mandated the entire country buy a product or risk jail time
But sure... hurl your insults if makes you feel better
Metaphysicist
Not Actually Brian Hunter
Lol, thanks for the immediate proof. Yeah, Obama is a real Stalinist by slightly adjusting the taxes of people who don't purchase health insurance. The reality-distortion field you live in is unbelievably strong. Let me know the first guy doing a solid ten for failing to follow the mandate.
Can't wait for another decade of "the economy is doomed unless we return to gold standard" and "taxes are literally armed robbery." Very real-world stuff.
acesfull86
Well-known member
IMO - the Democratic party has moved left and the Republican party has moved...somewhere. Not sure exactly how I'd characterize it. But they've definitely moved from where they were 5, 10, 25 years ago.
sturg33
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What would happen if a person didnt buy the mandated insurance, and refused to pay the fine?