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<blockquote data-quote="Jimi77" data-source="post: 8892466" data-attributes="member: 673702">Did I say trade deficits are inherently bad?&nbsp; Most economist would argue that trade deficits are inherently good.&nbsp; We agree that massive trade deficits with China are bad; we are quite literally paying to build their navy in exchange for cheap goods.&nbsp; When it comes to either party they&#039;ve been pro-business for as long as any of us have been alive.&nbsp; Medicare for example was written with the &quot;donut hole&quot; specifically by insurance companies because they didn&#039;t want the liability of insuring the elderly, but they didn&#039;t want to lose them as a consumer base.&nbsp; Again Obamacare was clearly more pro-business than pro-consumers.&nbsp; The real difference between the republicans and the dems is the liberal voting base is hyper-aware of when GOP policies benefit corporations and blissfully unaware when Dem policies benefit corporations.&nbsp; Furthermore, anything short of completely demolishing the system will always result in the corporations/wealthy benefitting the most because that is just the nature of having wealth and power.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jimi77, post: 8892466, member: 673702"] Did I say trade deficits are inherently bad? Most economist would argue that trade deficits are inherently good. We agree that massive trade deficits with China are bad; we are quite literally paying to build their navy in exchange for cheap goods. When it comes to either party they've been pro-business for as long as any of us have been alive. Medicare for example was written with the "donut hole" specifically by insurance companies because they didn't want the liability of insuring the elderly, but they didn't want to lose them as a consumer base. Again Obamacare was clearly more pro-business than pro-consumers. The real difference between the republicans and the dems is the liberal voting base is hyper-aware of when GOP policies benefit corporations and blissfully unaware when Dem policies benefit corporations. Furthermore, anything short of completely demolishing the system will always result in the corporations/wealthy benefitting the most because that is just the nature of having wealth and power. [/QUOTE]

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