OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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Tiltsta said:
Trickle down was just a way to make the poors think that tax cut for the rich would benefit them. I don't think any of the wealthy or politicians actually thought it would work to the benefit of the poors.
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Maybe not at first. But I think plenty of the new tea party crowd have bought into Reaganomics entirely. Right-wing logic has become a religion to them.
 
jp_nyc said:
Maybe not at first. But I think plenty of the new tea party crowd have bought into Reaganomics entirely. Right-wing logic has become a religion to them.
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you nailed it. religion is definitely the right term for their ideology and has been for several decades. and it keeps getting more and more fanatical. the whole "if you work hard enough and put your nose to the grind stone...you can be rich too" bull shit simply does not work anymore. if you really want to become rich, you need to find a scam to steal other people's money.
politics is one of them.
not paying your contractors is another.
insider trading.
junk bonds.
aggressive and unnecessary forclosures is a popular one.
buy up a pharma corp and increase the prices 2000%, that's also a popular one.
buying up struggling companies and then running them out of business so you can take a giant tax break on your other ill gained money. that was quite popular in the 80's.
 
Kinda glossing over the fact that if they didn't spend the rest of our tax dollars on stupid shit and massive tax credits for multi-billion dollar corporations, they wouldn't feel the need to raid Social Security, Medicaid, and everything else we pay into.

The American infrastucture is in shambles. The middle class is almost extinct. They spend Trillions of dollars on foreign wars we can't win and prop up the defense industry with grandma's retirement savings and little Johnny's school lunch.

Obama hinted at something similar to Roosevelt's New Deal, a plan to shift the budgetary focus towards rebuilding the infrastructure. Doing so would create an enormous amount of well paying jobs and re-establish the middle class while increasing tax revenue to pay for much needed social programs.

It never happened, but it's what we need now more than ever.
 
OGG said:
Kinda glossing over the fact that if they didn't spend the rest of our tax dollars on stupid shit and massive tax credits for multi-billion dollar corporations, they wouldn't feel the need to raid Social Security, Medicaid, and everything else we pay into.

The American infrastucture is in shambles. The middle class is almost extinct. They spend Trillions of dollars on foreign wars we can't win and prop up the defense industry with grandma's retirement savings and little Johnny's school lunch.

Obama hinted at something similar to Roosevelt's New Deal, a plan to shift the budgetary focus towards rebuilding the infrastructure. Doing so would create an enormous amount of well paying jobs and re-establish the middle class while increasing tax revenue to pay for much needed social programs.

It never happened, but it's what we need now more than ever.
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McConnell has no interest in an infrastructure program. Which is why Obama's didn't pass and Trump's won't either.
 
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"However, last week, Trump produced a curiously subdued handshake with Irish prime minister Enda Kenny. Trump was also forced to stand with a face like a crumbling urinal cake, while Kenny spoke warmly of St Patrick “The patron saint of immigrants”."

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...d-trump-angela-merkel-body-language?CMP=fb_gu

"Later, when Trump, using his rumoured second language, English, blathered about wiretapping, German chancellor Angela Merkel could barely suppress a contemptuous grimace. Merkel didn’t get a lovely cuddle, she was even denied an Oval Office handshake, to which she responded with the serene expression of a mother refusing to be provoked by her armpit-farting teenager."
 
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