Nostra
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- Oct 7, 2019
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People aren’t trying to come here from around the globe.Then why are people from around the globe trying to come here, Dummy?Yeah, because prosperity has always existed in every country. No one has ever experience poverty or starvation.Covid-19 has really put this country on notice. Is our economy more important than our freedom and human lives? The answer will lie in the ramp up to a vaccine.
False dichotomy. The economy is crucial to freedom and to human life. Trash the economy, and people are prevented from producing, distributing, selling, buying, obtaining food and other essentials, needed for survival. There is no choice between life and economy. Trash the economy, and you're trashing human lives along with it.
Gawd but you\re stupid. That's a level of hive mind that the Borg would really appreciate.
The economy will ALWAYS exist, whether corporations continue to exist or not, because people will always exchange their talents, abilities and what they produce, for things that they cannot provide for themselves. The economy existed when people lived in caves.
Yes it has. Since the days of the cave man. Properity will always exist, because some people have skills which are more prized than others. Which skills will give you "prosperity" have varied throughout time. The best hunter could exchange a portion of his kill to the best seamstress in the cave, to give him the best shoes, and robes. He could trade for the best spears. He had the best skins for his bed. What defines "prosperity" differs according to time, culture, and what a society values.
Prosperity has existed in every country. What rarely exists is "equity". The USA doesn't has "properity", it has wealth for some, subsistence for nearly half of the population. Subsistence is NOT "prosperity".
People aren't trying to come here from around the globe. They're coming from Third World countries because they believe that the streets of America are paved with gold, and that the USA is still the land of opportunity is was before conserveratives and conservatism took over, and set about to preserve white government and while privilege come hell or high water.
40 years of Conservative economic policies have created the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the world - all of it from the working and middle class workers of the USA, to the top 10% of the wealthiest individuals and corporations in the nation.
Amazon - the most profitable company in America paid $0 in federal incomee taxes last year. Jeff Bezos is about to become the world's first "trillionaire", thanks to the corona virus. Walmart, Target, and Amazon were declared "essential businesses" during the shut down and stayed open, but mom and pop groceries stores, and businesses, were forced to close.
Three economic crashes in 40 years under Republican fiscal policies. Freemarket banking and market reforms have created higher volatility, in the market, and each round of massive tax cuts has resulted in an economic crash which has most impacted low wage and minority workers the hardest. The government keeps bailing out the corporations and the wealthy - too big to fail, and leaving working Americans to fend for themselves. With every economic crash, the rich have gotten richer, and more and more of the wealth in the nation is concentrated at the top.
THAT is the failure of conservatism in America. 40 years of Republican fiscal policies have left Americans sick, broke and angry.
And the only response Donald Trump has to the death, disease and destruction, is a police state crackdown on the protests, and brutal oppression of the anger.
I know, cuz you live in shithole Canada. They are coming to America from around the globe.