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you cant spell fascist dictator regulator without FDR.
FDR led the country through the Great Depression and WWII. Many of his initiatives still exist today. Social Security, unemployment insurance, the FDIC, and the SEC.
Name a libertarian who has accomplished anything, anything at all.
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So I will often challenge people on the long-term effects of policy on future generations and people have begun to notice.
Define often. I’ve been here for a while and you just started this today
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You can’t spell chatGPT without GP
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@WyIted
correct but I won 5 different debates against Keynesians on DDO, so they have been objectively disproven
Was your opponent in the 5th or 6th grade?
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@WyIted
we are in Mensa
I think its spelled menstrual in your case
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That's certainly better than the current system where the worker surrenders 25% of his production to a bloated federal government as a form of indulgence to the deity.
All the losers who make less than 150k a year do NOT pay a 25% effective tax rate.
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@WyIted
I am your average republican
actually, below average
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@Best.Korea
I agree. He’s a weird guy. Did you see he has to buy his “girlfriends” cars to keep them around?
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jerbz
Not a word.
Either is gibs
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@WyIted
he approved it but apparently the democrats did not agree to fund it or something. The government literally prints money so not sure why it takes any thought on how to fund it.
Wrong again. In the article it was the Republicans who objected to how the bill would be paid for.
The government literally prints money so not sure why it takes any thought on how to fund it.
Because before you can “print money” you have to be able to borrow the money by selling Treasury Bills
he approved it but apparently the democrats did not agree to fund it or something
Trump didn’t approve anything. He always takes the position of the last person he talked to.
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@WyIted
Ya genius, the article says they never got a bill passed.
His first attempt failed
“The aide said the president criticized the previous approach his administration took toward infrastructure funding — public-private partnerships. He faulted his former economic adviser. "That was a Gary [Cohn] bill," Trump said, calling it "so stupid" because, he said, "you get sued."
And his second attempt failed.
Biden got it done.
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@WyIted
Right, as the article said. The bill did not pass.
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@WyIted
He passed an infrastructure bill
Trump? No, no he did not.
as for your statement that we should have a large amount of unemployment,
Again, because you lack a formal education, you are not familiar with the term “full employment”
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@WyIted
Actually we should aim for perfect since perfect policies can be objectively determined if one has studied philosophy for several years
You studied philosophy, not economic policy or philosophy.
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@WyIted
I would rather eradicate poverty
Do you think the Republican Party led by Trump is focused on eradicating poverty?
He cut taxes for wealthy people. He did not try to raise the minimum wage. Republicans declined to expand eligibility for Medicaid. They never tried to pass an infrastructure bill the way Biden did.
You like Trump because he’s focused on dicks. Dicks is your primary issue.
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@WyIted
If 4% of people starving and dying in the streets is not high enough for you, what amount of people should be starving and dying? What would be a number that is good for the economy?
You obviously have never understood the term full employment and what it represents.
You should look it up rather than me spoon feeding it to you.
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@WyIted
perfect policies can be objectively determined if one has studied philosophy
So we should create economic policy based on philosophical principles? That’s beautiful
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During the Gilded Age, the economy was not a free market. While there were scant elements of free-market capitalism, the period was also marked by significant government intervention,
That’s nonsense. Nobody would characterize the Gilded Age as a heavily regulated business environment.
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@WyIted
Things could be a lot better.
Oh I see. And they could be a lot worse. Right?
like Jupiter island Florida, or the 500 various mayberry-like cities in the country are virtual utopias.
I sent you a video of a so called Mayberry. These are dying towns with shrinking populations
Basically prior to economic interventionism and industrialization, almost every single person in America was a small business owner with freedom.
That’s nonsense. Where do you get these ideas? From children’s books?
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Artificial booms and busts by unelected oligarchs are worse than grassroot booms and busts.
Tell that to people who are hungry. Grassroot boom and busts? Those are caused by the oligarchs like JP Morgan and Andrew Carnegie
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He agrees with the establishment that there's a "labor shortage" only when he is told that illegal migration is necessary.
An unemployment rate below 4% would indicate there is a labor shortage. Some people can be brought off the sidelines with higher pay.
When the airline industry had a shortage of pilots they responded with higher pay for both new workers and existing workers.
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@WyIted
We have no idea what the 100-year effects of such policies will be, but we know the 100-year effects of economic interventionist policies from 100 years ago and can see a lot of the negative consequences today
Oh I see, you’re not convinced until you’ve been able to see the effects 100 years down the road. Perfectly reasonable
Considering the United States has the largest economy in the world with a GDP of over 20 trillion, it’s obvious things have worked out pretty well.
No, it's because I have seen what happens with economic interventionism
We have seen what Capitalism looks like without government intervention. It was called the Gilded Age and it included a cycle of booms and busts and a low standard of living for workers
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Wait, what about the value of a snarky response like this
“he finally beat medicare”
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@WyIted
It doesn't take long for things to go to shit once you start trying to destroy them
This is what happened.
After Covid ended demand increased rapidly but foreign supply chains were slow to ramp up to pre-COVID levels of production.
Biden saw this and used it as an opportunity to create more microchip manufacturing in the United States using incentives.
The result was an end to the microchip shortage and thousands of new good paying jobs in red states.
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@WyIted
So you were wrong. Krugman didn’t write there was no labor shortage
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@WyIted
All of what you said is factually accurate and why I am no longer a Democrat
You’re no longer a Democrat because you have status anxiety. Women and minorities are doing better than you and you blame government.
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@WyIted
We had a microchip shortage just after Biden took office. So thanks I guess
Oh right, it was immediate after Biden took office. He waved his magic wand
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@WyIted
even though it harmed his reputation he still kept it classified for national security reasons. Pretty heroic
You are delusional
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I see you aren’t working still. Sad
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Oh I get it, he wanted to lower Trump's temperature.
Weird. You re weird
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@WyIted
When I cited articles by Krugman arguing there was no labor shortage, you called Krugman an idiot
Show me. I think you have a bad memory like Trump.
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At this time IWRA identifies krugman as an expert.
So does the Pulitzer Prize organization
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@Discipulus_Didicit
Ok weirdo dufus. How’s that labor job going?
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That still doesn't explain Biden's obvious lie about "lowering the temperature"
Biden’s language is directed at Trump who is a genuine threat to democracy. He told a BIG LIE and tried to steal the 2020 election.
Trump also uses language like Hitler calling the press the “enemy of the people” and “the lying press”
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@SocraticGregarian96
Those are not policies genius. What did he actually do?
For example, Biden had a policy aimed to increase microchip production in this country that led to thousands of new jobs.
Biden had a policy to rebuild American infrastructure such as highways and airports that led to thousands of new jobs.
Biden had a policy that led to capping the cost of insulin at $35 dollars a month.
What did Trump do that created jobs or helped ordinary Americans? How did he do this?
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We’ve had a much stronger economy, with strong GDP growth, rising wages, and record low unemployment under Biden.
We had 16% unemployment under Trump after he botched the response to Covid.
Trump had 2.90 average gas when he hadn’t tanked the economy
Biden had 3.20 average gas prices. 30 cents. BFD
My pay doubled during the Biden administration, so it absolutely erased the affects. That’s why I’m putting in a pool at my house.
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We’ve had a much stronger economy, with strong GDP growth, rising wages, and record low unemployment under Biden.
We had 16% unemployment under Trump after he botched the response to Covid.
Trump had 2.90 average gas when he hadn’t tanked the economy
Biden had 3.20 average gas prices. 30 cents. BFD
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In contrast, since President Biden took office in January 2021, gas prices have generally been higher.
As has the economy, with strong GDP growth, rising wages, and record low unemployment.
We had 16% unemployment under Trump after he botched the response to Covid.
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“The data keep telling us that inflation is basically over as a problem”
- Paul Krugman
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This is the same crap as saying Biden created the most increases in job wages
No, it’s saying that oil production is not being restricted by the federal government. Gas is basically the same price now as it was under Trump.
Trump is for electric cars now, so there’s no difference between the two candidates on this issue.
My pay has doubled under Biden. Why are you doing so badly? No skills? It appears you made some bad personal choices. Maybe you should go back to school. Learn how to do something that has more value. You can’t gamble your way to prosperity.
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So do all the morons here now understand the United States has produced more oil under Biden than any President in history?
Do the MAGA MORONS understand that now?
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Putin actually doesn't care if America gets cheap gas or continues to pay almost double than they paid under Obama and Trump.
Another lie. Everything you say is a lie.
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@SocraticGregarian96
You said Trump is a slut, which is not true. He never had sex with a porn star,
lol.
President Trump’s policies were amazing during his four years.
Name 3 policies he had that were amazing
There are more libtards on here and only one Independent, me.
Anyone who supports Trump is a MAGA MORON, not an independent
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@SocraticGregarian96
that President Trump had a better economy, safer border, safer national security (less crime, more arrests, none or almost no Fentanyl, etc.), lower Inflation
False. His economy never grew better than 3%. And that was with record government spending and tax cuts for the wealthy.
The border was a disaster on his watch. Fentanyl deaths were at a record high.
Inflation was low because growth was low or we were in a financial crisis with 16% unemployment.
He made a deal with the Taliban to hand Afghanistan over to them and release 5000 prisoners
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@SocraticGregarian96
none of that is weirder than TamponTim or worser than KamalaCrash socialism.
Oh yes it is.
How many people do you know personally that have gotten 2 different women pregnant at the same time?
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but at the last minute we adopted the policies of the right-tribe
Right genius. This article is about oil production attained over a year ago.
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@WyIted
yes imports cost more,
No, this article is about record domestic oil production
Literaly threaten to nuke OPEC nations so they drop prices
That’s a lie
gas prices are higher than they were under Trump as a result
Gas prices were low under Trump because we had 16% unemployment
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@Stephen
And you are telling me this because?
Musk’s actions with Twitter do not indicate a person who has “come to his senses”
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@WyIted
Which top secret document that helped him come to this conclusion, that you are not privy to do you think he interpreted incorrectly?
The one that came from Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell
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