America - Sliding Down The Shitter

[John V]

Why bother writing a post if you're just gonna hyperfocus on one thing like that and ignore everything else? You ignored the last post anyway. We didn't need the same job market we did today to see a significant rise in income. Workers are making as much now as they were in the 1970s despite the increased costs of literally everything else

I thought they were making about the same in real dollars, i.e. increased costs were factored in.

while those in the top 10% of income have seen magnificent gains and sharp increases in their level of income. I don't know how else to hammer that into your head.

I'm not disputing it. I said I'm in favor of taxing the 1%. What else are you looking for?

Your evidence that things are improving for the average worker is just relative to recent years. A good thing! But not enough. We have a problem, it's time to address it.

Yes, and I've suggested that limiting immigration would help address it, as immigration shifts wealth from poor citizens to wealthy citizens.

What else do you suggest besides those two things?

[The Grand Nudger]

Borjas (the author of the paper cited) has a plan to handle the immigration problem.   He considers walls useless and mass deportation inhumane.  He proposes that we tax the shit out of american business and then redistribute that wealth to natives.  

Our very own helots, lols.

[Amarok]

And now watch Beta chant the Republican gospel while singing the empty economics of Saint Trump of swindle .

I really don't think AM is a Reagonomics robot. If you noticed, he agrees with the idea of "taxing the shit out of" the top 1%. I also don't see the point in throwing insults. Just makes him reaffirmed in his beliefs because you can't hold a conversation.

1. He agrees with it to the point it does not conflict with the rest of the gospel.

2. Trust me he will get to the insults.

3. People have been conversing with him forever and when he loses he comes right back and makes the same assertion as if you said nothing .

But if you can do it Aegon without getting frustrated by him i salute you.Because you are a patient man then i am .

[Anomalocaris]

Well, tough.  The Nicaragua’s who are willing to be paid less to to better work are better than the trumpomatic low lives who offers less but want more.

So, poor Americans are poor because they're lazy or incompetent and have a sense of entitlement.

It's funny how a lefty will make a conservative argument rather than admit that the conservative might have a point.

I always agreed conservatives had a point.  

But the conservatives don’t deserve to make that point because they lie about its eminent applicability to those from whom they seek votes, and instead use it as bludgeon to abuse those to whom the point is far less applicable.

BTW, I am not a lefty.  I am more hardcore right wing than you can possibly imagine when I want to find more cold hearted and pitiless ways to deal with trumptards.

[CapnAwesome]

Well America is a fascist country now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM1w8_dOcR8

Well if some dude on youtube says so.

He just redefined fascism to fit Trump, left out tons of stuff out of the definition of fascism that are normally there. It's ignorant of fascism and the situation that people in fascist countries lived under.

[downbeatplumb]

Well America is a fascist country now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM1w8_dOcR8

Well if some dude on youtube says so.

He just redefined fascism to fit Trump, left out tons of stuff out of the definition of fascism that are normally there. It's ignorant of fascism and the situation that people in fascist countries lived under.

I have seen some on the right shift the meaning of fascism to be a left leaning thing, when it can't be.

Have you noticed he seems to support openly fascist people, many of who are "good people" remember that.

He has moved your country far to the right when it was already pretty far right. 

But whatever, sleep walk into the horror if you must, I am on the other side of the atlantic and am only an observer to the decline.

[Anomalocaris]

Well America is a fascist country now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM1w8_dOcR8

Well if some dude on youtube says so.

He just redefined fascism to fit Trump, left out tons of stuff out of the definition of fascism that are normally there. It's ignorant of fascism and the situation that people in fascist countries lived under.

Yeah, no one can be more wronged than trump when called a fascist.