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oh wait, youre not talking about the auto bailout loan, but the FIXING THE ECONOMY thing? that just makes your claim even stupider tryng to somehow proclaim trump better than obama.
Trump would have to make a carrier type deal every week for 6.5 years to match just the autobailout's jobs saved, let alone the moneys involved. but stacked up against the whole fixing the economy thing? forget about it.
Yet you support Obama, who has been in charge for EIGHT years and hasn't done anything about these issues that you say are important to you.
Youre right. He didn't do anything....other than deport more people than the previous 4 presidents combined, and save the economy. What was your point again?
china and Russia have few pressing disputes. they have disputes, but each is focused on expansion into other territories, and not yet in conflict. they are both rising powers, but given Thucyclides Trap, unlikely to fight each other first, before coming into conflict with the US.
Russia may influence Europe enough to keep it a mostly US/Russia conflict. china has less influence there and would likely face a US/Europe coalition, but its focus would probably mostly be the US.
Basically they can, and probably will, safely ignore each other for quite some time. --
Russia is pushing for more influence on its western frontiers: -previously most Russian ports are far north, and remote, or on the Baltic Sea, which likewise is easily cutoff by western powers. -Ukraine/Crimea, as a followup to controlling Georgia, giving it more direct and much stronger control of the Black Sea and thus influence of the surrounding areas. and its a large area. but the Black Sea has only a single access point to the larger world via the seas, and the Turkish straits therefore could easily be cut it off. thus.... -Syria, giving Russia direct access to the Mediterranean in return for helping Assad. it also gives further pressure on Turkey, to help control the Turkish Straits -the Caspian Sea, though strategically this is less important since its completely landlocked unluke the Black sea, but they also use it to exert further influence -these combined influences, and the cultural/ethnic ties to countries like Romania, Kazakstan, etc, give Russia a tremendous amount of influence into the middle east and eastern Europe, as well as access to the wider world for easier, more effective projection of power.
as yet Russia doesn't press eastward because they already have easy access to the Pacific that cannot be easily cutoff. landwise, in the east there is a huge cultural cutoff between Russia and China. there is more mixing in Mongolia, but even though there is ethnic mixing of cultures there, Mongolians still hold themselves apart, and see themselves more closely tied to China culturally than Russia (though really they also want their own independence from china's influence, but that's altogether a separate problem).
southward, Russia is expanding its influence into the middle east. this is fairly easy for them due to cultural and ethnic ties that go back centuries with Kazakhstan, it being an ancient mixing place of both russian, middle eastern, and islamic cultural influences. as such it helps russias influence among the middle east tremendously. they are also currently friendly...ish...with iran. it an uneasy alliance, but it will likely strengthen over time again, similar to the cold war. and iran then gives them further influence, being the local big dog, as well as access to the Persian gulf, and by extension the indian ocean, without the suez, expanding influence among what is still a sizable energy production region (in addition to their own Siberian reserves, kazahkstan's reserves, and the Baltic sea).
-- China doesn't press westward/northward much for similar reasons: there's an almost hard cultural/ethnic divide there. the far southeastern regions of Siberia are very close ethnically to the Korean and Chinese cultures, but still largely culturally Russian. when china does press, they'll probably start there, along Vladivostok and Sakhalin island.
its much easier for them to expand into the south china sea, and pressure countries more culturally, ethnically, and historically linked to their own. they already have tremendously easy pacific and indian ocean access. due to their location the influence in the atlantic and around out of reach (they can get their easily, but its a long way away physically). china's influence extends to Mongolia, the eastern regiuons of kazahkstan, the indian subcontinent (though India strives not be influenced, the bigger power is China), and southeast asia.
china is creating more and more influence in Africa, something Russia had much
you mean other than the Iran Deal, Paris Climate Deal, the largest trade deal ever (for good or ill, still an accomplishment), healthcare reform, ending the recession, saving the auto industry, and 400 more Obama accomplishments: http://pleasecutthecrap.com/ob...
and you think trump is actually going to help workers displaced by automation? newsflash: the GOP opposes jobs retraining programs
the tax the GOP gives the highest priority for eliminating is the inheritance tax. and applying to to 100% of all inheritances will never happen. the powerful have already bought that protection.
it makes sense to restrict the generational accumulation of wealth as it gradually creates excessive inequality like we have today.
but saying "no one is hurt" is just as wrong and ignorant.
complete elimination hurts the poor more than it does the rich, guaranteeing that poor families have no hope in the future of giving their children a chance to escape poverty by giving them a better starting position. that's why there is an exemption (the current exemption is the first 5 million dollars)
so its has its tradeoffs. you can neither completely eliminate it (else inequality and violence), nor completely apply it (zero economic mobility for the children of poor parents).
the average workers productivity has tripled in the last 40 years. in laymans terms that means the revenue stream created by the average worker tripled.
yet over those 40 years their wages remained flat and even shrank, even as they were making their bosses more and more money. and instead of turning around and reinvesting that additional money in the workers who created it, they pocketed it, exploding the CEO:worker pay ratio from 20:1 to 300:1, or higher.
youre not going to increase access to opportunity as long as you keep people in perpetual survival mode barely scraping by.
you heard it here first folks: corrupt crony capitalism is an appropriate usage of tax money. oh, and it was just shy of 800, not 1000. the 1000 are still going to mexico.
actually this is not new. its actually the umpteenth time (technical term) that he's protected natural lands/resources. He's now protected more land than any president ever, including Teddy.
Because we actually have recognized resource rights, under both national and international law, to the area's he's protected, while the exploitation of the moon by the international Moon Treaty ? Just a guess.
Oh, were you just trotting out your ignorance again with what you thought was a clever rhetorical question?
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oh wait, youre not talking about the auto bailout loan, but the FIXING THE ECONOMY thing?
that just makes your claim even stupider tryng to somehow proclaim trump better than obama.
Trump would have to make a carrier type deal every week for 6.5 years to match just the autobailout's jobs saved, let alone the moneys involved.
but stacked up against the whole fixing the economy thing? forget about it.
get your facts straight.
that was a loan.
the us government made a profit off the deal.
care to try again?
Yet you support Obama, who has been in charge for EIGHT years and hasn't done anything about these issues that you say are important to you.
Youre right.
He didn't do anything....other than deport more people than the previous 4 presidents combined, and save the economy.
What was your point again?
he saved 800 (not 1000) jobs?
that's cute.
wake me up when he saves 250,000 jobs by bailing out the auto industry.
china and Russia have few pressing disputes.
they have disputes, but each is focused on expansion into other territories, and not yet in conflict.
they are both rising powers, but given Thucyclides Trap, unlikely to fight each other first, before coming into conflict with the US.
Russia may influence Europe enough to keep it a mostly US/Russia conflict.
china has less influence there and would likely face a US/Europe coalition, but its focus would probably mostly be the US.
Basically they can, and probably will, safely ignore each other for quite some time.
--
Russia is pushing for more influence on its western frontiers:
-previously most Russian ports are far north, and remote, or on the Baltic Sea, which likewise is easily cutoff by western powers.
-Ukraine/Crimea, as a followup to controlling Georgia, giving it more direct and much stronger control of the Black Sea and thus influence of the surrounding areas. and its a large area. but the Black Sea has only a single access point to the larger world via the seas, and the Turkish straits therefore could easily be cut it off. thus....
-Syria, giving Russia direct access to the Mediterranean in return for helping Assad. it also gives further pressure on Turkey, to help control the Turkish Straits
-the Caspian Sea, though strategically this is less important since its completely landlocked unluke the Black sea, but they also use it to exert further influence
-these combined influences, and the cultural/ethnic ties to countries like Romania, Kazakstan, etc, give Russia a tremendous amount of influence into the middle east and eastern Europe, as well as access to the wider world for easier, more effective projection of power.
as yet Russia doesn't press eastward because they already have easy access to the Pacific that cannot be easily cutoff. landwise, in the east there is a huge cultural cutoff between Russia and China. there is more mixing in Mongolia, but even though there is ethnic mixing of cultures there, Mongolians still hold themselves apart, and see themselves more closely tied to China culturally than Russia (though really they also want their own independence from china's influence, but that's altogether a separate problem).
southward, Russia is expanding its influence into the middle east. this is fairly easy for them due to cultural and ethnic ties that go back centuries with Kazakhstan, it being an ancient mixing place of both russian, middle eastern, and islamic cultural influences. as such it helps russias influence among the middle east tremendously. they are also currently friendly...ish...with iran. it an uneasy alliance, but it will likely strengthen over time again, similar to the cold war. and iran then gives them further influence, being the local big dog, as well as access to the Persian gulf, and by extension the indian ocean, without the suez, expanding influence among what is still a sizable energy production region (in addition to their own Siberian reserves, kazahkstan's reserves, and the Baltic sea).
--
China doesn't press westward/northward much for similar reasons: there's an almost hard cultural/ethnic divide there. the far southeastern regions of Siberia are very close ethnically to the Korean and Chinese cultures, but still largely culturally Russian. when china does press, they'll probably start there, along Vladivostok and Sakhalin island.
its much easier for them to expand into the south china sea, and pressure countries more culturally, ethnically, and historically linked to their own.
they already have tremendously easy pacific and indian ocean access. due to their location the influence in the atlantic and around out of reach (they can get their easily, but its a long way away physically). china's influence extends to Mongolia, the eastern regiuons of kazahkstan, the indian subcontinent (though India strives not be influenced, the bigger power is China), and southeast asia.
china is creating more and more influence in Africa, something Russia had much
you mean other than the Iran Deal, Paris Climate Deal, the largest trade deal ever (for good or ill, still an accomplishment), healthcare reform, ending the recession, saving the auto industry, and 400 more Obama accomplishments: http://pleasecutthecrap.com/ob...
and you think trump is actually going to help workers displaced by automation?
newsflash: the GOP opposes jobs retraining programs
the tax the GOP gives the highest priority for eliminating is the inheritance tax.
and applying to to 100% of all inheritances will never happen.
the powerful have already bought that protection.
it makes sense to restrict the generational accumulation of wealth as it gradually creates excessive inequality like we have today.
but saying "no one is hurt" is just as wrong and ignorant.
complete elimination hurts the poor more than it does the rich, guaranteeing that poor families have no hope in the future of giving their children a chance to escape poverty by giving them a better starting position. that's why there is an exemption (the current exemption is the first 5 million dollars)
so its has its tradeoffs.
you can neither completely eliminate it (else inequality and violence), nor completely apply it (zero economic mobility for the children of poor parents).
the tax the GOP gives the highest priority for eliminating is the inheritance tax.
the average workers productivity has tripled in the last 40 years.
in laymans terms that means the revenue stream created by the average worker tripled.
yet over those 40 years their wages remained flat and even shrank, even as they were making their bosses more and more money.
and instead of turning around and reinvesting that additional money in the workers who created it, they pocketed it, exploding the CEO:worker pay ratio from 20:1 to 300:1, or higher.
youre not going to increase access to opportunity as long as you keep people in perpetual survival mode barely scraping by.
you heard it here first folks: corrupt crony capitalism is an appropriate usage of tax money.
oh, and it was just shy of 800, not 1000.
the 1000 are still going to mexico.
actually this is not new. its actually the umpteenth time (technical term) that he's protected natural lands/resources.
He's now protected more land than any president ever, including Teddy.
http://www.newyorker.com/magaz...
"He doubled the debt!" ...putting out someone else's fire.
What was he supposed to do? Let it burn down?
The left isn't losing working class voters.
The right is just finally waking up to what really keeps it in power, and embracing it openly: whiteness.
You misspelt Reagan/Bush/Trump.
and its worth pointing out that the US never signed the moon treaty, but we still abide by much of its stated resolutions.
Because we actually have recognized resource rights, under both national and international law, to the area's he's protected, while the exploitation of the moon by the international Moon Treaty ?
Just a guess.
Oh, were you just trotting out your ignorance again with what you thought was a clever rhetorical question?
My bad.
Didn't mean to make you look stupid.
better than "News For People Who Reject Facts and Cling to their Alternate "Realities" Like Impy."
there is no f'ing way that you're a "phd researcher of 25 years" and still spouting this kind of obvious and easily debunked stupidity.
Bush left 8 years ago and Trump hasn't taken office yet.
you really need to get with the times.
we should all be so lucky as to believe in a religious based on facts, evidence, logical conclusions, and self-questioning and endless revisement of theorems.