When Reagan took office, there were just 4,000 millionaires in the USA. When he left office, there were 64,000. Today, there are 9.63M millionaire households in the USA. That is not including the value of their homes, or it would be many millions more. It's not the (4,000) rich getting richer. It's millions of people getting rich in the first place.
Thank you for highlighting your slypokerdogness. We were trying have a dynamic conversation but from now on Ill just keep it simple for you. Government Bad How does my stance on minimum wage correlate to me being responsible for how the bailout played out? YES, but your free to keep telling me what I said and what I think. Carry on.
It's your ridiculous point that money spent is better for GDP than money invested. It's baffling that people actually believe this kind of garbage when the real answer is so blindingly obvious.
Absolutely! I never could understand how the Congress could repeal Glass-Steagal. The Banks were all for it but it made a joke out of the concept for the FDIC I would re instate that law today if I could.
That's not the point. The point is that corps all too often use those salaried, 40 hour per week positions, to extract 60 hours of work per week.
I get the point. You're not indentured. You have free will. Quit if you feel you are underpaid and find a higher paying job.
I never felt that way. I always felt being salaried was freedom to do what you wanted on the job without someone worrying about your hours. But in any case, no way would I want the Federal Government interjecting it's self in between me and my employer. They have no business doing so even if I wanted them to become my big brother. I wouldn't want a union doing so, so no way, no how for the government.
At least we are consistent and don't pick and choose any govt. intervention. It's all bad, and right out of Atlas Shrugged. You know, the fat cats get govt. to intervene so they don't have to face competition or take risk.
I agree and I admire you for your consistency. Of course, that consistency makes libertarians completely useless in the real world where compromises have to be made, but I admire it greatly nonetheless. barfo
I find our politicians to be outright dangerous. If $18T in debt and warmongering is what compromise gets us, no thanks.
I know. But there isn't any other option. You can't simply opt out of society because other humans don't behave rationally. Nor can you force them to behave rationally. In fact, the more rational you are, and the more irrational they are, the more they win and you lose. barfo
It is happening, barfo. So says your boy, Nate Silver. http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytime...libertarian-views/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
It is happening, in a limited, marginal sort of way. If you are happy with that, then you aren't really a libertarian barfo
It took decades for conservatives to win offices, and much longer than that for progressives. What is clear us that people got Clinton Fatigue after 8 years, Bush Fatigue after 8 years. People aren't happy with either party. They'll figure it out. They say you become a libertarian when govt. happens to you. Thanks ObamaCare!
I'd like to contribute this although it doesn't really have anything to do with what we were discussing lately...
