Trickle down is bullshit

Jiggyfly

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Clay. The primary reason is because I made a single point about something and Jiggy insists on saying I am saying something else. I just got tired of he BS tactics and that's about it. Even now he is still insisting companies can do something that by accounting rules they cannot and even though have pointed out why he even now still says they can. So I just keep saying the same thing and he keeps insisting otherwise. That's about it.
You do know he can actually read everything we have both said in his thread right?
 

Chocolate Lab

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Read/heard recently that something like only 42% of 20-somethings believe in capitalism.

This country is fucked.
 

Cowboysrock55

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Sad thing is we haven't had capitalism in so long they don't know what it looks like.
It's because the convoluted government controlled economy we have right now is garbage and gets passed off as capitolism. People have no idea what real free enterprise looks like anymore. Instead we are slowly becoming more and more like a shitty European economy.
 

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It's because the convoluted government controlled economy we have right now is garbage and gets passed off as capitolism. People have no idea what real free enterprise looks like anymore. Instead we are slowly becoming more and more like a shitty European economy.
It's the Fed with their death grip on interest rates that removes the market completely out of the picture. The reason the interest rates are being forced to stay at the bottom is so the budget will be able to appropriate enough to pay the interest on the deficit and borrowings it's a gridlock the won't be broken until a realistic approach is made to start reducing the debt.
 

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It's because the convoluted government controlled economy we have right now is garbage and gets passed off as capitolism. People have no idea what real free enterprise looks like anymore. Instead we are slowly becoming more and more like a shitty European economy.
It is not entirely a right or left wing problem, though. There is an element on the right that sees the monopoly-busting components of honest capitalism as a socialist affront.
 

Chocolate Lab

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Sad thing is we haven't had capitalism in so long they don't know what it looks like.
True, and I don't think anyone wants true wild west pure unchecked capitalism. But young people obviously want to go farther left -- much father -- as the Feel the Berns show.
 

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It is not entirely a right or left wing problem, though. There is an element on the right that sees the monopoly-busting components of honest capitalism as a socialist affront.
Agreed. Besides, most Republican's support regulation and spending as much as the Democrats. It's not a party problem, it's a politician problem.
 

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Agreed. Besides, most Republican's support regulation and spending as much as the Democrats. It's not a party problem, it's a politician problem.
The politician to lobbyist pipeline is killing this economy. Or rather killing the ability for regular people to succeed in it. Honestly, getting rid of corruption is so much more vital than the ebb and flow of the country's political philosophy.
 

Jiggyfly

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The politician to lobbyist pipeline is killing this economy. Or rather killing the ability for regular people to succeed in it. Honestly, getting rid of corruption is so much more vital than the ebb and flow of the country's political philosophy.
That is the one good thing to come out of the election process so far, people are finally realizing how the powers that be have not had there best interest in mind.

This populist mindset needs to be brought to bear on the down ballots as well it is where the change will really come from.
 
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