Current events discussion

[ThxOne Premium Member]

"average is only useful for lazy people simplifying numbers or for nefarious means" -Thxone

Try again.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Which means YOU don't either.
Yet you regularly think you are "educating" the other members here on how things are.
Ironic.

Or, are you going to be like your alter ego Okd_Slapper, and pretend you are a "government insider"?

"A concept of a plan" is not a plan, and this "bob and weave" bullshit is just that.

Show done respect for a ******, racist, misogynist, felon? Or for Putin?

Either way, no. My respect is earned, not granted because a sycophant tells me to.

What is your problem? Why are you so angry that you have to insult people? Is that what the left is all about? Sure seems like it. Where is all that compassion and love for the world? I know, you are all full of shit just like the rest of us only you pricks try to hide that shit. lol

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Finding a path to peace is a great idea. That's hardly what Trump has proposed. He has proposed that Ukraine surrender with no guarantees that Russia won't simply start attacking them again after signing over the land that Russia has stolen.....which has basically been what Putin has been repeatedly doing.

You want intellectual honesty? Hopefully you directed that towards a mirror. The 2017 tax cuts absolutely caused the deficit to spiral further out of control. And yes....covid spending helped as well. Difference is that covid spending isn't ongoing while these tax cuts ARE. Trump wants to make the 2017 tax cuts permanent. Kind of a different animal than the covid spending. Or wait.....after the covid spending and stimulus ended.....did deficits drop back down? No? Hmmmm.



And Russia is....what exactly? Have you by chance ever heard of the Cold War?

Your boy is over there throwing out left wing talking points again... better get on the band wagon or he will call you a traitor.

 

[stocker08 10+ year member]

The only threat Russia poses to us is their nukes...China is the real threat but lord forbid we don't get plastic bs on the cheap

Ah yes.....the psycho in Russia with the the nukes isn't much of a threat. lol.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Ah yes.....the psycho in Russia with the the nukes isn't much of a threat. lol.

Ah yes..... the perfect reason for Trump to step in and end this war.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Try again.

That phrase shows averages confuse you.
What more needs to be shown?

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

What is your problem? Why are you so angry that you have to insult people? Is that what the left is all about? Sure seems like it. Where is all that compassion and love for the world? I know, you are all full of shit just like the rest of us only you pricks try to hide that shit. lol

Says the guy who couldn't support his arguments with any proofs, so he called me a **** multiple times in multiple posts.

could you BE any more inconsistent?

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

In an open economy, you can't have low wages and expensive goods.
It just doesn't work.

We can't produce goods cheaply enough for own own citizens to buy them, but you want Chinese citizens to buy them?
HUH?

We certainly did produce goods cheaply enough for our own citizens to buy them. Are you saying that is now an impossibility? The iPhone was the top selling smartphone in China until last year.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Finding a path to peace is a great idea. That's hardly what Trump has proposed. He has proposed that Ukraine surrender with no guarantees that Russia won't simply start attacking them again after signing over the land that Russia has stolen.....which has basically been what Putin has been repeatedly doing.

But where negotiations start and where they finish are two different things.

You want intellectual honesty? Hopefully you directed that towards a mirror. The 2017 tax cuts absolutely caused the deficit to spiral further out of control. And yes....covid spending helped as well. Difference is that covid spending isn't ongoing while these tax cuts ARE. Trump wants to make the 2017 tax cuts permanent. Kind of a different animal than the covid spending. Or wait.....after the covid spending and stimulus ended.....did deficits drop back down? No? Hmmmm.

Yes I do want intellectual honesty. Pre-Covid spending ~$4.8t/yr, 2024 budget 7.1t/yr and projected to grow and you want to blame the tax cuts. Rail against tax cuts all you want. Hell, I don't even want Trump to cut taxes, but clearly the problem is out of control spending not out of control tax cuts. And IMHO, we have small window here to reign in spending before inflation alone becomes unmanagable.

 

[Jimi77 Premium Member]

Ah yes..... the perfect reason for Trump to step in and end this war.

Personally, I'm not too concerned about Putin going nuclear. OTOH, if one believes Putin is so threatening, it seems they would agree with your argument.

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

We certainly did produce goods cheaply enough for our own citizens to buy them. Are you saying that is now an impossibility? The iPhone was the top selling smartphone in China until last year.

It's a mathematical impossibility to sell products for more than you pay the people to make, when you are selling them to the people who make them.

If you pay someone $7 full time to maintain the building they live in, you can't charge them $300 a week to live there.
You can't pay the WalMart worker $9/hour and expect them to spend $400 a week in your store.

That was the fur trade in the 1600s. You paid your way on credit, which cost more than you earned. You were a slave, basically.

People are crying that business will fail having to pay a living wage to workers who produce well beyond that living wage for the employer.
Who makes up the imbalance?

 

[RobGMN Premium Member]

Dealing with the really important stuff.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

That phrase shows averages confuse you.
What more needs to be shown?

No it shows you manipulate what people say to make them look like they said something else. A skill learned at and used in your job.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

Says the guy who couldn't support his arguments with any proofs, so he called me a **** multiple times in multiple posts.

could you BE any more inconsistent?

You not accepting anything from anyone is not lack of support for an argument. It's you being a **** and ignoring shit just so you can argue. You a ******* man-child.

 

[ThxOne Premium Member]

It's a mathematical impossibility to sell products for more than you pay the people to make, when you are selling them to the people who make them.

If you pay someone $7 full time to maintain the building they live in, you can't charge them $300 a week to live there.
You can't pay the WalMart worker $9/hour and expect them to spend $400 a week in your store.

That was the fur trade in the 1600s. You paid your way on credit, which cost more than you earned. You were a slave, basically.

People are crying that business will fail having to pay a living wage to workers who produce well beyond that living wage for the employer.
Who makes up the imbalance?

Well maybe if your beloved Democrats didn't make the cost of living so ridiculous for the majority they wouldn't need a living wage so high that businesses go under. How stupid are you. Does math only work for you if YOU want to make a point but not for real world applications?