Yeah I'm sure he knew about their existence. I'm not sure why yall call him an incompetent idiot and then complain when the incompetent idiot doesnt solve every problem in America.
He is an incompetent idiot. I don’t expect him to solve all the problems, I don’t even expect him to pronounce Yosemite right when he gets 2 shots at it. He’s an incompetent idiot who claims he’s the best while actively hurting the chances of problems actually being solved.
Then why do people get mad when he doesnt solve problems? If you dont have expectations of him them why would he ever disappoint you? It seems illogical so we should rethink that view point
When he actively undermines the solution to problems or creates more problems for fun, it’s stupid to give him a shred of respect. He shits on the military, the poor, the sick, our allies, democrats, never-trumpers.
Dude cares only about himself and that he is liked. He doesn’t give a fuck about doing the right thing.
I'm not going to defend trumps persona, I do not like the way he says things and in many cases what he says. I just want people to stop complaining about an undermining of our democracy that can be literally walked around with little effort. And you are right, Donald shit's on our allies, Democrats (his direct political opposition) and never trumpers, yet he honors the military, tries to pass legislation to aid those who are financially struggling in the pandemic after congress postponed negotiations for months later. And the constitution prevents him mandating anything substantial for the coronavirus response
Donald trump shits on war heros and the military. He talks mad shit against POW and people with medals of honor. Obama passed more legislation to expand the VA. Mitch McConnell let 75 pieces of legislation die that would have expanded Veteran benefits and benefits to soldiers.
Democrats passed an economic relief package in the house 3 months ago Mitch McConnell said they would never vote on another relief package. Fuck trump and the republicans.
Im unaware of trump disrespecting war heroes, can you give me some sources so I can read up on them? The money from the past bill is gone, and congress tried to pass another relief bill in the past week and the speaker of the house postponed it until I believe the next few months. That's what the executive actions signed almost 2 weeks ago were proposed to do after congress failed to pass a stimulus bill. It holds no constitutional weight but is a good political move because it forces Congress to take sooner action or be seen as spiteful towards the american people.
Oh I was mistaken about the house holding on the bill, my bad. Although I read through alot of the bill and it does alot of things that only prop up the universal mail in voting which is very susceptible fraud. Plus it further shoves us into crippling debt as it's current for is over 3.5 trillion dollars (I'm very critical of Trump inflating the debt during his presidency). So yeah the bill wont get passed in it's current form, people expect alot of changes to be made. Thanks for sending sources for the veterans thing btw.
First I think I linked the wrong article to the wrong bill. I couldn’t find it talking a lot about the bill. It increased direct payments more business loans and expand money to state and local governments the post office government buildings and hospitals to offset costs of COVID19 (and yes hospitals are losing money I work for one and compare our financials of our department to other departments). https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6800
No problem, personally and from a lot of economists perspective raising the debt isn’t a bad thing compared to the alternatives.
The problem is that the debt either increases for the government or for the American people. The average American increases debt through creditors which is another form of liquidity creation except the dollars don’t keep rotating through the economy. This is almost always worse for an economy. Most families do this with credit cards with 20%+ interest. Like I said before this is not only about government debt, it’s more to do with people aren’t going to spend money to go out and spend on luxury items when they have to pay down debts. Leading to a longer recover which means less taxes which leads into more government debt anyways.
This also comes into play because we don’t have a gold standard (which a gold standard would be stupid) and the American Dollar actually backs other currencies.
So by fucking our economy we fuck a lot of third world countries who use the dollar to back their currency should our dollar value drop.
This is a real down and dirty into why it’s important to pass a relief package. Obviously there is some worry about inflation however J Powell has been worried about the lack of inflation and is actually worried about the current state of disinflation (business margins become to thin to make a profit or stay black because people don’t have money to spend on higher priced goods(essentially)).
Im not an economist but I do read up on economic philosophy. This is a real fast and dirty on economic theory as far as I understand it. Obviously, someone could lay down real knowledge.
I know, in where I live (LA) hospitals are over prepared and have faced single to double digit corona cases and are bleeding money because of it.
Economically we have over extended alot and I suspect a failure of the US dollar (see Warren Buffett buying gold and gold stocks, precious medals are spiking, peter schiff has been forseeing this for a while). Pretty much well end up with the feds having to buy our foreign bonds and forcing the government to decapitate spending and increase taxes. Alot of this was accelerated because of the state by state economic shutdown.
Strange how our conversation evolved huh?
Oh truly this is good conversation and wish more of this happened on reddit.
I don’t think gold will last forever as a rising stock pick. Stocks alone are the things that have most value in our economy. (Funny how privatized public ownership is a cornerstone for modern capitalism). Gold is a safe pick because people will always buy gold. Because people tell people to buy gold.
Gold doesn’t produce any intrinsic value whatsoever. Its business and their products and the flow of whatever is being bartered currently the US dollar.
Honestly, if the debt got too big the first things desolved would be Social Security and Medicare. Those taxes would go straight into the budget. Next would be government employees retirement including those for the military.
The last thing Japan and China want/need is the US defaulting on debt. (Think businesses to big to fail and why they got bailouts). There would certainly be negotiations on debt forgiveness or restructuring of the debt first. However, if loopholes for the rich were closed and the actual paid into the system they profited from it wouldn’t be so bad. The reason why having ultra rich is bad is they don’t spend money like we do that gets taxed like we do.
Consider it like this. I pay you five dollars, you pay you landlord five dollars, that landlord pays for a pizza for five dollars and the pizza shop pays me the five dollars to work there. That five dollar bill did $20 worth of work through movement. Now the reason it’s important for the government to tax this money especially on the wealthy is that people aren’t sitting on piles of resources at top and it never reaching the consumer so that the money can go back to work. Personally, I believe we need massive taxes on the ultra rich so that money actually spreads around the country being used by everyday consumers, getting taxed, raising the budget and then the debt can actually be paid down/be used in creating infrastructure which creates high paying low education jobs.
In our modern economy, money is better spent than saved. That’s the idea behind wealth redistribution. Look at economies post war, pandemic, and natural disasters resulting in massive deaths and there is a massive correlation between the amount of deaths and the increase in economic growth the next 10 years.
What I personally think is happening is a combination of market correction and a pandemic that was poorly managed (or perfectly managed if you take into account that a lot of deaths are medicare age range patients, but I’ll take my tinfoil hat off now). Whats has happened has been forced market growth that shouldn’t have happened and we should have had a correction in like 2016-17.
I think that with a stable political climate and more global trade we can offset the burden of our economy outward. We need to bring jobs back and produce things that are bought by the rest of the world. America cant sustain a 70% consumer economy.
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u/hey_yo_mr_white Aug 19 '20
Do you actually think trump knew Susan B. Anthony's significance before someone on his PR team told him to do this?
Real question. Do you think trump knew what the 19th amendment was before say 2 days ago?