Wrong, there are statewide republican races to vote on tomorrow.
Ok, but to vote in the primary you must be registered to the party holding the primary. I assumed that's what Z was referring.
Wrong, there are statewide republican races to vote on tomorrow.
I just don't want people to stay home because they think they can't vote.Ok, but to vote in the primary you must be registered to the party holding the primary. I assumed that's what Z was referring.
Love those South American women, especially those from ChileThat Venezuelan girl had little tits and a big ass, huh?
I'm not sure there is a solution to the outsourcing problem. Governments cannot change economics. The world has become a global marketplace. It has become fairly easy to manufacture a variety of products where inexpensive labor is available. As our standard of living rose, we priced ourselves out of being able to competitively manufacture certain products. A government cannot change that reality. Is the solution to tax imports so that televisions, etc., cost as much as they would if they were manufactured here? How does that improve the standard of living in this country? Even if such action brought back some manufacturing, those products could never be sold outside the united states because they would be too expensive compared with their global competitors manufactured with low cost labor. I think the current problem has more to do with basic economics than politics.Z, I've been saying the same things for a long time on here too. Not so much about the rich as it was about the jobs being outsourced.
In my mind NAFTA may be the worst piece of legislation passed in my lifetime, maybe even longer.
It's lead to hopelessness for millions of Americans. Hardworking, prideful people that lost a job that supported their families. Now they depend on the Govt to survive, it burns my ass every time I think how we were sold out.
It's no coincidence that the rise in drug use ballooned during this same timeframe.
Employers also provided insurance, without that we now have obamacare.
None of this shit is going to change until we demand it. I'm sick of of the bullshit diversions that come up every election cycle, abortion, gay marriage, guns, global warming, war on women now we are supposed to mad about GD transgendered bathroom rights, I'm f*cking sick of it!
We're giving our great nation away to make a few jackasses in Washington and New York filthy rich, to hell with them. We've got people who no longer see it as a disgrace to be on govt handouts, they grew up that way, and so did most of their friends.
Something HAS to change, the path we're on doesn't end well I'm afraid.
We can now buy a 32" high def flat screen for half the cost of an equivalent old analog TV set etc, etc.......Traditional American workers have to adjust or not. Or decide to not let the big corporations and the wealthy profit without giving something back for your vote. Meanwhile the price of anything you can't import, like health care or a college education, is soaring through the roof. That's why Trump and Bernie are the most popular guys left. They get the frustration.I'm not sure there is a solution to the outsourcing problem. Governments cannot change economics. The world has become a global marketplace. It has become fairly easy to manufacture a variety of products where inexpensive labor is available. As our standard of living rose, we priced ourselves out of being able to competitively manufacture certain products. A government cannot change that reality. Is the solution to tax imports so that televisions, etc., cost as much as they would if they were manufactured here? How does that improve the standard of living in this country? Even if such action brought back some manufacturing, those products could never be sold outside the united states because they would be too expensive compared with their global competitors manufactured with low cost labor. I think the current problem has more to do with basic economics than politics.
I try to buy American when I have a choice, but many people will not pay more for a comparable American made product.
I'm not sure there is a solution to the outsourcing problem. Governments cannot change economics. The world has become a global marketplace. It has become fairly easy to manufacture a variety of products where inexpensive labor is available. As our standard of living rose, we priced ourselves out of being able to competitively manufacture certain products. A government cannot change that reality. Is the solution to tax imports so that televisions, etc., cost as much as they would if they were manufactured here? How does that improve the standard of living in this country? Even if such action brought back some manufacturing, those products could never be sold outside the united states because they would be too expensive compared with their global competitors manufactured with low cost labor. I think the current problem has more to do with basic economics than politics.
I try to buy American when I have a choice, but many people will not pay more for a comparable American made product.
We can now buy a 32" high def flat screen for half the cost of an equivalent old analog TV set etc, etc.......Traditional American workers have to adjust or not. Or decide to not let the big corporations and the wealthy profit without giving something back for your vote. Meanwhile the price of anything you can't import, like health care or a college education, is soaring through the roof. That's why Trump and Bernie are the most popular guys left. They get the frustration.
Awesome, we can buy cheap TV's that we got cash for from selling food stamps for 50 cents on the dollar.
Americans in general need to realize that when jobs are outsourced it affects more than just the laid off worker.
We are the largest economy, true. But that over simplifies the problem. There are other large markets in the world besides the US. Many of the companies that manufactured products in the US are foreign companies who also manufacture products in other places. How do you prevent companies from manufacturing products in places where they can compete with other companies doing the same thing? Lets use televisions as an example. We had several tv manufactures in this country, zenith, magnovox, philco, etc. If manufacturers like Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, etc., are manufacturing their products in places that allow them to manufacture the product at a much lower cost, how do you prevent US manufacturers from doing the same? What do you think the government can do to change the fact that economics are driving the production of the product to low wage places? Trying to force a company to carry an artificially high cost structure for its product just invites competitors to come in and take market share and ultimately put it out of business.The United States IS the marketplace. We didn't price ourselves out of the market.
All we did was allow plants and factories in the US to move, tske advantage of third world labor , then ship the product back here. It's insanity how people just come to accept things.
Do you not understand how many plants have and continue to move?
The problem is economics, but it was created by politics passing shitty legislation that has hurt the average American.
Concentrating on our infrastructure would create a ton of jobs, but how do we pay for these projects without piling on more debt? So much red tape and corruption that come with these projects that it will cost three times as much to get done as long as the government has their hands on it.
You're right about red tape and corruption....anything government puts its hands on becomes a complete mess. I am completely, totally against hand-out programs including welfare, faux disability, tax returns in excess of taxes actually paid, food stamps without restrictions on what can be bought, etc... However, I would not mind paying higher taxes IF it put these people to work doing things like building trails, cleaning parks, building public buildings, providing security for schools, cutting weeds, etc... IMO, if we give people a productive job and a purpose, most will prosper...many will flourish.
You're right about red tape and corruption....anything government puts its hands on becomes a complete mess. I am completely, totally against hand-out programs including welfare, faux disability, tax returns in excess of taxes actually paid, food stamps without restrictions on what can be bought, etc... However, I would not mind paying higher taxes IF it put these people to work doing things like building trails, cleaning parks, building public buildings, providing security for schools, cutting weeds, etc... IMO, if we give people a productive job and a purpose, most will prosper...many will flourish.
We are the largest economy, true. But that over simplifies the problem. There are other large markets in the world besides the US. Many of the companies that manufactured products in the US are foreign companies who also manufacture products in other places. How do you prevent companies from manufacturing products in places where they can compete with other companies doing the same thing? Lets use televisions as an example. We had several tv manufactures in this country, zenith, magnovox, philco, etc. If manufacturers like Sony, Toshiba, Samsung, etc., are manufacturing their products in places that allow them to manufacture the product at a much lower cost, how do you prevent US manufacturers from doing the same? What do you think the government can do to change the fact that economics are driving the production of the product to low wage places? Trying to force a company to carry an artificially high cost structure for its product just invites competitors to come in and take market share and ultimately put it out of business.
Concentrating on our infrastructure would create a ton of jobs, but how do we pay for these projects without piling on more debt? So much red tape and corruption that come with these projects that it will cost three times as much to get done as long as the government has their hands on it.
Corporations got just as much welfare as the Poors. But nobody says shit about that. Why? Well, Poor people are vulnerable and corporations are not. Poors are an easier target. Corporations are ruining this country.
$1.4 million in Marijuana taxes in Colorado will be given to the homeless of the state.
Federally legalize marijuana, prostitution, and gambling and take the tax payers off the hook for social welfare.
Oh, and get rid of corporate welfare. No corporation should get one cent from any tax payer
You're right about red tape and corruption....anything government puts its hands on becomes a complete mess. I am completely, totally against hand-out programs including welfare, faux disability, tax returns in excess of taxes actually paid, food stamps without restrictions on what can be bought, etc... However, I would not mind paying higher taxes IF it put these people to work doing things like building trails, cleaning parks, building public buildings, providing security for schools, cutting weeds, etc... IMO, if we give people a productive job and a purpose, most will prosper...many will flourish.
First of all I'm not saying every single product sold in the US needs to be made in the US.
Its not complicated, you want a part of it either pay a tariff for your product to enter the country or move your plant here to produce the product.
Relaxing those tariffs are what directly led to US companies moving to third world nations. NAFTA has failed on all of its promises, we were told it would bring mexico up to our standard of living, has it?
Tariffs were put in place to prevent whats happening from taking place. Our govt removed those protections, and the US middle class has paid for it.
I'm torn on tariffs. They're a limitation on the free market, but obviously much needed to reverse the nafta catastrophe
Protectionism always works! Literally can't think of dozens of examples where it failed miserably and worsened lives.
Infrastructure, unless done on the scale of pre-WWII works projects (and I'm sure everyone here wants that tax/debt burden) is another panacea promised to cure our labor woes. Just break a few windows then the government can hire all kinds of people to fix 'em! Maybe hire the guy to break them in the first place! No more unemployment!
How is giving them 1.4 million dollars going to aleviate their situation? Being on the Govt teet is the issue, not where the money comes from.
Govt assistance IS the problem, people need jobs.
And you can demonstrate that is directly related to trade?What we're doing now is failing miserably. The middle class is shrinking before our very eyes.
I got the exact opposite spin on this kerfuffle actually. NY Times did a bad transparent hit piece on Trump, it is read by at most a couple hundred thousand.....Trump reacts and screams on cable news many times over about the hit piece and is watched by a couple million. Wash, rinse, repeat all summer & into the fall long.This is what Trump will face all summer. The media gets to say what the truth is about Trump - even when it comes to conversations involving only he and one other person.
I just can't agree that trade barriers improve standard of living and GDP. Protecting jobs through higher prices creates a net loss for the economy. The salaries paid to manufacture televisions, for example, will be less than the sum of the increased cost we all pay for televisions. For example, if it takes an average of $200 per television to make it economical to produce televisions in this country, then every television sold, foreign or domestically manufactured, will cost us $200 extra. If we purchase 30 million televisions, that amounts to 6 billion dollars of additional expense. There is no way that manufacturing jobs for televisions could increase to the point that the salaries are more than 6 billion dollars.First of all I'm not saying every single product sold in the US needs to be made in the US.
Its not complicated, you want a part of it either pay a tariff for your product to enter the country or move your plant here to produce the product.
Relaxing those tariffs are what directly led to US companies moving to third world nations. NAFTA has failed on all of its promises, we were told it would bring mexico up to our standard of living, has it?
Tariffs were put in place to prevent whats happening from taking place. Our govt removed those protections, and the US middle class has paid for it.
I'm OK with paying $1300 for an iPhone instead of $400 just because Billy Bob in Allentown thinks he should get paid a middle class salary to do something that doesnt even require a college education. Or any substantive education, for that matter.
And you can demonstrate that is directly related to trade?