merlyn wrote: ↑Tue Nov 07, 2023 3:58 pm
WTF mate? Really, that's a debate is it? You're saying
No, not me saying, I quoted a salient point raised in the article. Please read s-l-o-w-e-r, and don't put words in my mouth.
Also, I have never stated support for bank bailouts, or corporate bailouts. Please don't imply that. Your views on socialism for the rich, seem very accurate, as I see it. It's been hard to get the congressional villains to self-inpose term limits, so we have many oligarchs there with powerful positions in Congress. Mitch McConnel's wife, and Nancy Pelosi's husband, for examples, have very fat accounts. Some suspect that spouses are creating and steering beneficial legislation, and whispering insider-trading data. The truth will leak out. That pathetic pair alternate between majority and minority congressional leader positions based on the current congressional membership, while their spouses incomes blossom like shrooms in a cow pasture.
Also, I distinguish between the 3rd world's poor, often helpless, and 'the elite netflix-iPhone poor' in the USA. I live in a metro area of around of 2 million people. Despite a record number of job openings, we have a record number of deadbeats, a record murder rate, record assault rate, record armed-robbery rate. Record car theft and burglary. All the mass transit vehicles have been found to have fentanyl and meth residue. Drug overdoses are off the charts. But an hours drive east, west, or north, and the world is very different. Low crime, low stress, and peaceful sleep.
(Going south for an hour leads to the state gubbamint city, with it's own sad issues)
In the west coast USA states, California, Oregon, and Washington, one of the biggest industries is 'helping' the poor. But that quickly became a self perpetuating oligarchy fund, stuffed with well paid bureaucrats having no desire to put themselves out of business, by actuating policies and programs that actually help or solve the various issues. Some perspective, California is the 7th largest economy in the WORLD, so we're talking $$$Billions$$$ of tax payer monies every year, squandered, that maybe could have been spent on the arts, if the taxes were lowered appropriately.
Citizens are forced to beef up home and business security to avoid becoming a bleeding statistic, be it bleeding blood, or loss of business or personal property:
https://guitar.com/news/shop-asks-for-p ... on-camera/
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/thre ... olin-Store
Cheers