OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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mongooz said:
oh....i agree there are issues and they seem to point them out.....but then they blame this side or that side to get votes. and their solutions to the problems are bullshit.
we need employ people HERE. that's my problem with the "global economy". the greedy corps use it as an excuse to move jobs out of the country. that's not what it's supposed to be.
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Globalism isn’t the bad on its own. The problem is the combination of globalism and anti-tax movements like Thatcherism and Reaganomics. Globalism would be ok if the resulting profits were taxed to retrain workers and update our education system so kids aren’t being educated for the 1950s economy. But we keep cutting taxes, creating new tax loopholes, giving out subsidies in the form of tax incentives, and letting businesses stash money in bank accounts all over the world. We should be taxing the living shit out of Apple and its investors to educate the workers Tim Cook complains that America doesn’t have. And when tax dodgers like Cook show up in Washington complaining about our schools Liz Warren should cave their faces in with a bat and tell tech firms that if they want educated employees they need to pay taxes and stop stashing piles of money abroad.
 
jp_nyc said:
Globalism isn’t the bad on its own. The problem is the combination of globalism and anti-tax movements like Thatcherism and Reaganomics. Globalism would be ok if the resulting profits were taxed to retrain workers and update our education system so kids aren’t being educated for the 1950s economy. But we keep cutting taxes, creating new tax loopholes, giving out subsidies in the form of tax incentives, and letting businesses stash money in bank accounts all over the world. We should be taxing the living shit out of Apple and its investors to educate the workers Tim Cook complains that America doesn’t have. And when tax dodgers like Cook show up in Washington complaining about our schools Liz Warren should cave their faces in with a bat and tell tech firms that if they want educated employees they need to pay taxes and stop stashing piles of money abroad.
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a lot of tax incentives/abatements happen at the state and city level, so it would hard for the US gov't to control that. we here shelled out a ton of $ and tax abatements for jeep to build a new plant here, since the old plant was built in 1940. part of the agreement was for jeep to maintain a 3000 person work force. then only 2 years later there was a small recession, and jeep laid off 500 people. the city said....whoa no....you're reneging on the contract, we're going to pull the tax abatements. jeep said, fuck you, we'll move the plant to tennessee. the city caved, left the abatements in place AND the lay offs.

if EVERYONE isn't going to stand firm....none of it will work. and don't see how that is going to happen, especially with the populists pointing fingers and blaming everyone but themselves.
 
Chad said:
Great to see President Bush healthy enough to attend the game. While I didn't agree with many of his (or his son's) policies, I would trade either of them for Trump 100 times out of a 100.
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sunvalleylaw said:
Ok, I want the press to grill Brady mercilessly on his Trump hat and ties, now that the game is over and he doesn't have that excuse for dodging questions. He opened the door through his statements and display of the hat in the locker room.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...-out-of-it-patriots-super-bowl-2017/97310296/
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Why? Sure, if he doesn't want to talk about it, he shouldn't have bothered to display the hat or said anything about their relationship. I'm sure he'll make it to the whitehouse this time around :wink:
He can support whoever he wants though.
 
Lerxst said:
Why? Sure, if he doesn't want to talk about it, he shouldn't have bothered to display the hat or said anything about their relationship. I'm sure he'll make it to the whitehouse this time around :wink:
He can support whoever he wants though.
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Because I want him to squirm because he chose to make it a public display with his very high media pulpit. And because his wife is a brazilian model who I think may not share his views. He opened the door with displaying the hat and his association/friendship with the dude. He can't have it both ways. Sure he can support whomever he wants. But he can then face questions if he makes that support public as well. But having said that, I do not think it would help our overall situation any. so probably not worth it.
 
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mikesr1963 said:
Any time I see that they took a poll I always think, they same poll which indicated Clinton would win the election. The one think I learned long ago in college was the polls and surveys can be done to achieve the results you want but not the actual truth. My take with them has always been, yeah, well we'll see.
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I don't care about polls. The actual meat of that article is the fact that Trump seems to be coming apart at the seams over issues that should not concern a real president of the united states. And the fact that within two weeks he has a significant portion of the country unhappy (and you don't need polls to see this) with his rush to dismantle the government and pay off campaign promises.
 
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