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Bill Sloman
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On Wednesday, February 12, 2020 at 2:42:08 PM UTC+11, dagmarg...@yahoo.com wrote:
Unfortunately for James Arthur, he's a much better example of Orwellian double-think than he seems to realise. When the news doesn't present reality the way he wants them to, he's happy to accuse them of distorting reality, when the real problem is that they don't see what's going on from his bizarre point of view.
Why not? Republicans always cut taxes more than they should, and Trump ought to have had more sense than to go along with them, but Republican presidents never take balancing the budget as seriously as romancing their richer supporters.
Not because of the new tax rules, excerpt perhaps from the new tariffs which rip off the consumers who end up paying them
Which companies have repatriated anything? They've mostly moved from China to other low wage nations.
The Democrats have worked out that adequate welfare pays off in the long term. It hasn't hurt the Swedish economy, and there the children of single mothers do just as well as the children of couples.
Trump is great on public relations. Less effective at getting anything useful to happen.
The Republican's sham enthusiasm for fiscal restraint doesn't extend to balancing the budget.
> America's a pretty nice country, a beacon of hope and freedom.
If you are in the part of the population that has an income in the top 1% of the income distribution.
It unique selling point amongst advanced industrial countries is it's very high level of income inequality, which seems to be associated with low life expectancy, expensive health care that doesn't serve the bulk of the population particularly, and a host of social problems that correlate with income inequality on a US state to US state basis to much the same extents as the correlate between advanced industrial countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(book)
James Arthur seems to have spent enough time in right-wing de-education programs to be immunised against this kind of exposition of inconvenient facts..
At the moment the pointy-headed top 1% of the US income distribution - who do very well out of the USA as it is - are spending loads of money to keep it running in the way that suits them. The country's capacity to train able people and take advantage of the innovations that they might come up with is going down the tubes, but the Republicans don't care - the people taht own the country are governing the country in a way that seems to them to work to their short-term advantage.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
Unfortunately for James Arthur, he's a much better example of Orwellian double-think than he seems to realise. When the news doesn't present reality the way he wants them to, he's happy to accuse them of distorting reality, when the real problem is that they don't see what's going on from his bizarre point of view.
Why not? Republicans always cut taxes more than they should, and Trump ought to have had more sense than to go along with them, but Republican presidents never take balancing the budget as seriously as romancing their richer supporters.
Not because of the new tax rules, excerpt perhaps from the new tariffs which rip off the consumers who end up paying them
Which companies have repatriated anything? They've mostly moved from China to other low wage nations.
The Democrats have worked out that adequate welfare pays off in the long term. It hasn't hurt the Swedish economy, and there the children of single mothers do just as well as the children of couples.
Trump is great on public relations. Less effective at getting anything useful to happen.
The Republican's sham enthusiasm for fiscal restraint doesn't extend to balancing the budget.
> America's a pretty nice country, a beacon of hope and freedom.
If you are in the part of the population that has an income in the top 1% of the income distribution.
It unique selling point amongst advanced industrial countries is it's very high level of income inequality, which seems to be associated with low life expectancy, expensive health care that doesn't serve the bulk of the population particularly, and a host of social problems that correlate with income inequality on a US state to US state basis to much the same extents as the correlate between advanced industrial countries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level_(book)
James Arthur seems to have spent enough time in right-wing de-education programs to be immunised against this kind of exposition of inconvenient facts..
At the moment the pointy-headed top 1% of the US income distribution - who do very well out of the USA as it is - are spending loads of money to keep it running in the way that suits them. The country's capacity to train able people and take advantage of the innovations that they might come up with is going down the tubes, but the Republicans don't care - the people taht own the country are governing the country in a way that seems to them to work to their short-term advantage.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney
