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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Well thank god we finally have a Democrat like Biden that understands the stopping power of a real fire arm.
Think of how many Antifa you could mow down with a Biden approved armament?
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Didn't Biden say all you need is a shotgun for home defense?
:D
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@ILikePie5
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@ILikePie5
Never let a good scamdemic go to waste...
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@ILikePie5
This is disgusting. Pelosi is holding up the bill just so she can get a trillion dollars for New york and California.
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@ILikePie5
Watch this interview.
Does she sound like they kind of courageous leader needed to fix actual problems?
Or does she sound like 50 years of more of the same old Congress?
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@fauxlaw
Definitely a my way or the highway. No diversity of thought whatsoever.
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@n8nrgmi
that you are cool with the government not keeping its promise to pay benefits for folks' contributions
Public has been cool with a Congress that did this for 50 years. What does 50 more matter?
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@ILikePie5
Exactly, we can expect another 50 years of Congress blaming the presidency for failing to pass a budget, because the Zoomer voters don't understand basic civics.
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@n8nrgmi
the path benefits are on now, medicare is suppose to be cut within about eight years, and social security by 25% within fifteen years. if these dont have a source of revenue through payroll taxes, the cuts will come much sooner.
Exactly which member of Congress do you look toward as a leader that champions the kind of legislation required to fix this. Pelosi perhaps? Do you truly think she gives a fuck about you?
How about AOC, do you think she has the leadership skills and the political courage required to fix your government benefits?
Do you?
Really?
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@ILikePie5
All the kids voting for free shit are the ones who are actually going to pay for it. I am just gonna laugh my ass off from my boomer retirement home.
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@n8nrgmi
Justice? Justification?
We elected an incompetant Congress that blamed the presidency for not fixing the budget for 50 years and got away with it.
That justification enough for you?
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@n8nrgmi
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@MisterChris
Congress is like that perpetually fat teenager in the basement who keeps saying they will mow the lawn for 50 years but instead plays Xbox all day. So when their parents come in and take the Xbox away to pay for someone to mow the lawn, the Congress calls up CNN to get a petition to evict his parents and get the parents arrested.
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Who cares? Congress could have fixed that problem 50 years ago and can still fix it now, regardless of what Trump does.
Why do you want to give Congress a pass for not fixing the budget?
Congress is like that perpetually fat teenager in the basement who keeps saying they will mow the lawn for 50 years but instead plays Xbox all day. So when their parents come in and take the Xbox away to pay for someone to mow the lawn, the Congress calls up CNN to get a petition to evict his parents and get the parents arrested.
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@HistoryBuff
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@fauxlaw
Monolithic describes cancel culture liberals well.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
instead of going after what we can change easily and with far more positive outcomes
It's almost as if both sides really don't want the responsibility of changing anything *gasp*
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
He's made his family and himself very wealthy.
He also made hard-working taxpayers poorer.
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@ILikePie5
Did you read the Harvard study?
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@HistoryBuff
you're comparing apples to oranges. It is alot easier to manage a single city than it is a massive nation. Of course you can keep your government small when you only have 5 million people in your entire country in an area under 300 square miles.
You don't even understand concepts like "rates" and "proportions."
There's no possible way you can follow a Harvard study on the correlation between government size and corruption.
Proportion takes the actual size and population of a nation out of the analysis.
You don't understand the word proportion. It's not fucking apples and oranges.
Whatever pretzel logic you wanna make up out of your ass to disprove a Harvard study would be great fun to hear.
Larger governments simply do not have less corruption. They have MORE. In the same nations, increases in the size of governments over time corresponded to an increase in corruption. And decreases in the size of the governments in the same nation corresponded to a decrease in corruption.
READ THE FUCKING STUDY.
It's not "apples and oranges" unless that's the hallucinatory safe phrase your brain uses to give up on rational thought.
North Korea is 1/80'th the geographical size of the United States and has far more corruption. COUNTRY SIZE DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER. THE GOVERNMENT SIZE DOES.
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@HistoryBuff
Also, singapore is fucking tiny. You are comparing the running of basically a city to the running of a massive country.
I used the term proportional government size multiple times. I don't think you understand the correlation between government size and corruption.
There's even a Harvard study backing up what most people understand using basic common sense.
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Government regulation and assistance (which does care about people and the public good,
North Korea's regulations don't care, as is the case with every bloated and corrupt government that is TOO BIG.
Again, I suppose there are a few people that live in North Korea that do believe regulations and government assistance as a general principle are good for the people, even when wielded by a large and corrupt government.
Every one of the governments on that list wants to assist the people and regulate evil. It's the smaller and less corrupt governments like Singapore that just do it way better.
If you care about government corruption, you should be concerned about the size of that government. There really is no "upside" to having a large, corrupt government.
USA being ranked 17th on that list actually is not a good thing.
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@HistoryBuff
, or we need to let a single monarch run everything.
Singapore isn't run by Monarchs. It just has a small government and is also the least corrupt government on the planet.
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@fauxlaw
You don't understand. People would rather listen to the doomsayer with the cardboard sign predicting the end of the world rather than having to look in the mirror for self reflection regarding what exactkly they did the past 4 years to improve themselves.
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why do you you assume that "economic freedom" is inherently a good thing?
I suppose there are a good number of North Koreans that feel this way too.
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@HistoryBuff
why? just because you made the government smaller does not mean it wouldn't be run by oligarchs. It would just mean that more power would be in the hands of the oligarchs directly and less power would be in the elected officials they bribe. You are just handing that power to them directly.
Read this chart. Countries with small proportional governments also have less corruption. The ones with large proportional governments have more corruption. It's axiomatic. Singapore has a small, non intrusive government with the least corrupt government in the known world.
North Korea is at the bottom of the list, where the Government has the ultimate power and also has the most corruption.
That is why.
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@Dr.Franklin
It's not bragging if he knows he can do it.
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@n8nrgmi
Go test it out. Join a mob and assault some property and find out for us.
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@n8nrgmi
Considering the recent mob violence, the ban on grenade launchers is looking pretty untenable.
Even nonlethal grenades.
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@TheDredPriateRoberts
Lol, a smart mass killer would get a semi-auto shotgun with a modified clip. Much better at close range than an AR-15.
Like the one Anton used here.
Not as scary looking I guess.
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@ILikePie5
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@ILikePie5
Lol, I will take any ally that wants to destroy the establisment government, be it Trumpy bear or crazy-eyes Cortez.
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@HistoryBuff
Corporations and government don't have to be so intertwined.
In a smaller government, they wouldn't be.
There are 16 nations with smaller relative governments accounting for the population than ours according to this list.
Let's hope the AOC wave of Justice Democrats doesn't falter like the Libertarians did challenging the status quo.
Singapore’s economic freedom score is 89.4, making it the world’s freest economy in the 2020 Index. Its overall score is unchanged from 2019, with a small improvement in the business freedom score offset by a small decline in the government integrity score. Singapore is ranked 1st among 42 countries in the Asia–Pacific region, and its overall score is well above the regional and world averages.
Singapore has ranked among the freest economies in the world over the life of the Index but gains the top spot this year for the first time. Its sustained extraordinary performance has resulted in one of the world’s highest per capita incomes and solid rates of GDP growth.
Singapore is the only country in the world that is considered economically free in every Index category. Ongoing restrictions on civil liberties, while not directly affecting the country’s score, may have an indirect impact on economic freedom and remain a concern.
Singapore is the only country in the world that is considered economically free in every Index category. Ongoing restrictions on civil liberties, while not directly affecting the country’s score, may have an indirect impact on economic freedom and remain a concern.
Singapore is one of the world’s most prosperous nations, with a business-friendly regulatory environment and a very low unemployment rate. Despite an active parliamentary opposition, it has been ruled by one party, the People’s Action Party (PAP), for many decades. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has led the government since 2004 and will oversee a PAP leadership transition before the next parliamentary election, which is slated for 2021. Although certain civil liberties remain restricted, the PAP has championed economic liberalization and international trade. Services dominate the economy, but Singapore is also a major manufacturer of electronics and chemicals and operates one of the world’s largest ports. Principal exports include integrated circuits, refined petroleum, and computers.
Property rights are recognized and enforced effectively. Judicial processes are procedurally competent, fair, and reliable, and the judiciary is regarded as independent, although the government does have an overwhelmingly successful record in court cases. The government actively enforces its strong anticorruption laws and maintains well-institutionalized anticorruption processes. Singapore is considered one of the world’s least corrupt countries.
The top individual income tax rate is 22 percent, and the top corporate tax rate is 17 percent. The overall tax burden equals 14.1 percent of total domestic income. Government spending has amounted to 17.2 percent of the country’s output (GDP) over the past three years, and budget surpluses have averaged 4.7 percent of GDP. Public debt is equivalent to 108.3 percent of GDP.
Singapore is consistently ranked as one of the world’s most business-friendly countries. In 2019, the government introduced measures to decrease the ratio of foreign workers to local employees, threatening labor supply in the services sector. The government funds generous housing, transport, and health care subsidy programs and influences other prices through regulation and state-linked enterprises.
The total value of exports and imports of goods and services equals 326.2 percent of GDP. The average applied tariff rate is 0.1 percent, and 182 nontariff measures are in force. Foreign and domestic businesses are treated equally under the law, and nearly all sectors of the economy are open to 100 percent foreign ownership. The sophisticated financial sector is robust, and the number of foreign banks in the market has steadily increased.
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@HistoryBuff
The government now plays the role of corporate armed security.
Just look at all the exemptions large monopolies continue to accrue recently. This shit is out of control.
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@n8nrgmi
Supply and demand.
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@HistoryBuff
You know, the sad fact is that you're never going to destroy the monopolies of the rich without taking out their copartner...the monopoly of the government.
Right now the Marxists are the only ones in a position to actually threaten the power and the size of the entrenched massive government, since the Libertarians failed in their 1990 coup attempt.
I could almost support them on that alone. Even knowing Marxism can't be sustained in the long term without a large oligarchal government. At least we would have a smaller government for a short while.
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@HistoryBuff
IE communal ownership of the means of production. Since virtually no one on the left is advocating that, there are almost no marxists in america.
Yet.
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@HistoryBuff
To narrow the growing divide between the rich (who own a bigger and bigger slice of the wealth), and the working class and the poor. That isn't marxism. It isn't even very close to marxism.
When Karl Marx began to hypothesize that an economic revolution would occur, one of his primary concerns was the unequal distribution of wealth. He saw a capitalist society where there was terrible inequality. A small amount of people possessed a high percentage of all the money and income. What this did was create a larger and larger poor underclass. Marx theorized that this unequal division of wealth would eventually lead to a class revolution. While Marx's revolution failed his essential problem still exists. In America about 5% of the people possess 95% of the wealth. This leads to certain problems, foremost among them poverty and income equality. All of this eventually leads to the problem of lack of spending in an economy.
Karl Marx completely ignores that poor life choices, choosing to spend hedonistically instead of saving and investing in yourself can also cause dramatic wealth inequality, especially when the opportunities available to invest in yourself are abundant.
Wealth inequality in a land of free opportunity is largely driven by choice, not institutions. When those choices are taken away (such as the denial of school vouchers by the Oligarchy of Teachers) Then a functional, rational Government needs to strip the powers from those oligarchal monopolies.
The fact that the Federal Government is so large that the Oligarchy of Teachers now directly controls the government only proves that the government has become an oligarchy itself with its sole purpose being to maintain, consolidate, and expand on that power, in unison with its various oligarchal enablers (Elite lobbyists). The government no longer polices monopolies. The government now plays the role of corporate armed security.
This isn't the government the founding fathers envisioned.
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@HistoryBuff
The truth is that the left wants the government to help working class people and to try to narrow the growing divide between the rich.
The Radical Marxist left and the AOC Justice Democrats do, sure.
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. So calling her a marxist is a joke.
I never said Pelosi is a Marxist. I only pointed out that radical Marxists have threatened her power, and continue to do so.
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@ILikePie5
The masterminds are always the dangerous ones - Lenin, Stalin, Mao, you name it.
As Thulsa Doom said in the Classic Conan the Barbarian.
What is the power of steel compared to the hand that weilds it?
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solely owned by the government.
A government of rich elites like Pelosi.
I am not a marxist.
I'm sorry, explain to me again how every rant you go on about blaming the oppressive rich stealing from the poor isn't 100% Marxist.
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again, you clearly do not know what a marxist is if you think I am one.
You're more of the cerebral Marxist and less of the violent type, I'll grant you that.
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@ILikePie5
Lol, They actually can't nominate Rice because they can't control the Durham investigation.
If they go with Harris, you will see a looping repeat of Harris calling Biden out for being a racist old white man during the primary debates.
Plus, neither of those people will appease the violent Marxist wing.
If Biden thinks he can salvage the party by appealing to skin tone, he is in for a rude dose of reality.
In the wise words of our resident DDO Marxist,
"being black doesn't necessarily mean you are a good person or are part of the solution"
-HB
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@HistoryBuff
being black doesn't necessarily mean you are a good person or are part of the solution.
Racist.
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@ILikePie5
Actual election will be Trump vs Biden's VP
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@ILikePie5
Yeah, it doesn't have to be a racial hate crime to be a crime.
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@Stephen
Not the 1st time BLM used a hoax to gain political power.
Definitely will not be the last.
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@Death23
It became dysfunctional the moment Trump was sworn in.
Removing Trump isn't going to actually fix anything. Unless feeling bad is the only problem you have.
Trump is a symptom, not the disease.
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