from Ross Perot. When I was a kid I thought he was an oil tycoon from how the media went on about him. Later I found out he made his billions cashing welfare checks. Literally. He got the contract to process the federal gov't's welfare checks and that's where all his money came from.
why is Trump's daughter high enough in the administration that this matters? Can you say Conflict of Interest? How about emoluments clause? And yes, I'm not ashamed I had to google how to spell "emoluments".
the DNC has neutered the super delegates. They stopped short of eliminating them (old power structures are hard to kill completely) but they're basically gone baring a miracle.
But to be blunt, the DNC's shenanigans are tiny, tiny potatoes next to the Sheldon Primary
Basically, it's not just cheating that kept Bernie out of the Whitehouse. America has a ruling class. We don't like to acknowledge their existence, but they're there. And they're not shy about it either.
So the DNC delt a blow to that ruling class, but it was a pretty minor blow. At the end of the day they still choose most of the political candidates out there, and they'll continue to until Americans make refusing corporate PAC money a litmus test to get past the primary.
is probably the biggest factor. That plus the Chinese cracking down on money laundering and new ASICs making mining easier. But mostly legalized drugs are going to be the end of Bitcoin and the like. They set a floor for the currency in terms of actual product that can be bought. Without them there's not a lot you can actually buy with bitcoin, and the transaction fees are generally too high you wouldn't just use cash or CC.
it will end up being subsidized with taxpayer dollars for billionaire jaunts. Just like all those airports in the middle of nowhere that just happen to be next to some rich donor's summer villa.
Give me universal healthcare, a living minimum wage and a jobs guarantee and we'll talk about your subsidized rides to space. Until then no more free money for billionaires' hobbies.
but you're suspicions are incorrect. Best case scenario useless bloat drops the price of college 10%, see article I linked to above.
And tax payers should either start funding it or start supporting Hilary Clinton's open borders. Otherwise we're not going to have the workers needed to keep your 401k solvent in time for you to retire. Like it or not those adults need economic growth in order to maintain their quality of life. Without an educated population we're not gonna have that growth. Say good by to Social Security and Medicare too. And say hello to Purina Brand Dog chow for dinner in your 60s.
I'm just kidding, you think you'll be able to afford the name brand stuff?
Oh, and get ready for the Gulags. See, what do you suppose is going to happen when you have tens of millions of unemployable men in their 20s and 30s who can't balance an equation but can hold a rifle?
Folks keep mixing up the right wing of the Democratic party with the left. They are not.
For example, Nancy Pelosi is not a member of the left. The actual left is currently trying to oust her from her speakership, and they tried to primary her but she had so much cash she buried her primary challenger.
Listen to Bernie. To Liz Warren. To Ro Khanna. They're the left, and they're trying to unite the working class for better pay, universal, guaranteed as a right healthcare, clean air and water and worker's rights.
You're right about the Clinton Democrats though. They behave like the GOP 90% of the time, so the only thing they've got to run on is phony social issues. Like the actual GOP all they've got is identity politics and fat sacks of cash from their donors. Don't fall for it. There's a real left, and they're the party of the working class.
because he perceives a lack of available education. At least in theory. Restoring the state funding would go a lot further to fixing that.
Read the article I linked to. Very little of the increased cost of education is because of increased overhead. It's almost all down to decreased funding from the fed/state.
And there's nothing special about those "pols" (?, do you mean proletariat?). Taken in aggregate poor folks aren't any dumber than rich folks. What you're seeing is people with limited information who are doing bad economically looking for a solution and billionaire's media outlets (Fox News, Sinclair Media, Right wing Talk Radio) pushing a plausitive narrative.
If you want folks to stop falling for that snake oil the solution is more education. During the 2016 campaign there were interviews with folks making good money off fake news to drive page views and ads. It was almost 100% right wing fake news and when asked the folks running the sites were candid about why: when they tried left wing fake news it got shot down as B.S. in no time. That's not because right wing folks are dumber, it's because left wing folks have generally had more education and education teaches critical thinking.
Now how about we restore the lost federal and state funding that was cut by this country's right wing politicians (from both parties, Yes, I'm calling out the Clinton Democrats here too)?
I like my schools to be independent, not begging for scraps from billionaires.
it's a major part of why folks pay so much for their hardware. You can't just buy product placement. That doesn't work unless you're selling a commodity (e.g. like how the cigarette makers put smokes in movies but generally didn't focus on a specific brands).
Not sure if this'll work for them. It's hard to manufacture cool and when it fails it fails spectacularly. But that's what they're doing if anyone's wondering.
I don't even know what would make you say that, but let me be a little more blunt: I'm saying the American Right wing no longer invests in schooling in America because they can get cheap, already trained workers overseas and bring them here. This is why college is so expensive now: we cut federal and state funding starting in the mid 90s and continued up until the mid 2000s only stopping when it was all but gone.
If companies didn't have cheap labor from overseas they wouldn't have allowed that to happen. They'd want the taxpayer to subsidize their training programs. When the cold war was going on and they were too scared to take their factories overseas and India wasn't cranking out It workers they had to coddle us. That's over. Now they're back to shitting on us. Meanwhile we're busy kicking down blaming Blacks, Mexicans, SJWs, Jews or whatever group's popular on reddit for the blame game while they're laughing at us all the way to the bank...
His travel ban was upheld. And he's repeatedly shown a willingness to do thing that'll get him sued. Face it, he forgot about us. I'd be less angry if it wasn't such a central plank of his campaign. But hell, he forgot about the Carrier Air folks too. Their jobs are on the way to Mexico. And they get to keep the multi-million dollar subsidy Trump gave them to boot.
But we'd have to fully fund our schools and have training programs to use them. With India you don't just get somebody who's trained, you get somebody trained on their own dime. They have to do compete in the screwed up economy over there. This is all part of the race to the bottom that Marx warned us about, but all anyone can remember about Marx is that Stalin and Mao borrowed his books for rhetoric...
all that rigamarole it's because they've already hit the cap on every other visa program they can get workers from. It's an end run around the normal limits.
What I wish was folks would elect politicians who would do something about it. Trump promised, but he still hasn't even reverse Obama's executive order letting H1-B spouses work. He could do that with a stroke of a pen, and it's not like he's unaware, he talked about it during the campaign. Here we are 2 years in and not a damn thing's changed. He said some mean things and there was talk of less immigrants coming, but that didn't show up in the numbers or my wages.
Well, technically it's a different program, but here's how it works:
Already trained programmer comes over from India, goes to "school" and at the same time works for a company who's sponsoring them. Ordinarily the programmer couldn't keep up with a full time school and work load, but they've already been trained in their country. Meanwhile the programs are closed to Americans, and even if they weren't again, nobody can keep up with 40+/week at a job + 300/400 level class workloads unless they already know the material.
The company gets cheap labor, the school gets a quick influx of cash from a student who doesn't need any time from his professors. Everybody wins except the American worker who's out a job (or at least has lost 30% of his/her wages due to reduced demand, yep, supply & demand works both ways folks) and the American student who is competing for a limited spot in 300+ level courses with somebody who already took the course.
so removing the blu-ray is really just going to be some cash in Microsoft's pocket.
As a PC gamer the only time I use my DVD drive is installing Windows. But I've also got Gog. Plus when I do buy a game on Steam it's at such a steep discount I don't really mind that it's really a rental.
Robocalls work because they do thousands of them. If you caught one of the guys $1500 per call is already going to be millions, if not billions and maybe trillions.
Also, we know damn well how to stop Robocalls, you stop them at the source by making AT&T et al police their bloody network. They don't do this because they're making money off the robocalls.
So once again, I smell bullshit. More political theater to distract me and you from real issues like healthcare, wages and those 8 bloomin' wars we're fighting....
most of the land that's going up in smoke is Federal. As has been pointed out in previous threads the Fed needs to fund clearing dead trees, but that's expensive and those tax cuts don't pay for themselves (no, they really don't).
I oppose taxes like these, and so do the folks I vote for. I voted to increase taxes on corporations and the extremely wealthy ($300k+/yr in annual income). The extremely wealthy, for their part, bought off politicians and spent a fortune on add campaigns promoting tax cuts for themselves, leaving these sorts of taxes the only kind gov'ts can get approved.
We all still want roads and schools. We want police and fire. But nobody seems to want to have to pay for it.
if the gamers don't make much money. Progressive taxation is one of the features of Democratic Socialism. This is a regressive tax, it's not something a socialist would support.
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from Ross Perot. When I was a kid I thought he was an oil tycoon from how the media went on about him. Later I found out he made his billions cashing welfare checks. Literally. He got the contract to process the federal gov't's welfare checks and that's where all his money came from.
why is Trump's daughter high enough in the administration that this matters? Can you say Conflict of Interest? How about emoluments clause? And yes, I'm not ashamed I had to google how to spell "emoluments".
of the emails. What I care about is that my public officials are using private email servers to get around public records requests.
the DNC has neutered the super delegates. They stopped short of eliminating them (old power structures are hard to kill completely) but they're basically gone baring a miracle.
But to be blunt, the DNC's shenanigans are tiny, tiny potatoes next to the Sheldon Primary
Basically, it's not just cheating that kept Bernie out of the Whitehouse. America has a ruling class. We don't like to acknowledge their existence, but they're there. And they're not shy about it either.
So the DNC delt a blow to that ruling class, but it was a pretty minor blow. At the end of the day they still choose most of the political candidates out there, and they'll continue to until Americans make refusing corporate PAC money a litmus test to get past the primary.
is probably the biggest factor. That plus the Chinese cracking down on money laundering and new ASICs making mining easier. But mostly legalized drugs are going to be the end of Bitcoin and the like. They set a floor for the currency in terms of actual product that can be bought. Without them there's not a lot you can actually buy with bitcoin, and the transaction fees are generally too high you wouldn't just use cash or CC.
it will end up being subsidized with taxpayer dollars for billionaire jaunts. Just like all those airports in the middle of nowhere that just happen to be next to some rich donor's summer villa.
Give me universal healthcare, a living minimum wage and a jobs guarantee and we'll talk about your subsidized rides to space. Until then no more free money for billionaires' hobbies.
but you're suspicions are incorrect. Best case scenario useless bloat drops the price of college 10%, see article I linked to above.
And tax payers should either start funding it or start supporting Hilary Clinton's open borders. Otherwise we're not going to have the workers needed to keep your 401k solvent in time for you to retire. Like it or not those adults need economic growth in order to maintain their quality of life. Without an educated population we're not gonna have that growth. Say good by to Social Security and Medicare too. And say hello to Purina Brand Dog chow for dinner in your 60s.
I'm just kidding, you think you'll be able to afford the name brand stuff?
Oh, and get ready for the Gulags. See, what do you suppose is going to happen when you have tens of millions of unemployable men in their 20s and 30s who can't balance an equation but can hold a rifle?
Clinton Democrats OTOH did not.
Folks keep mixing up the right wing of the Democratic party with the left. They are not.
For example, Nancy Pelosi is not a member of the left. The actual left is currently trying to oust her from her speakership, and they tried to primary her but she had so much cash she buried her primary challenger.
Listen to Bernie. To Liz Warren. To Ro Khanna. They're the left, and they're trying to unite the working class for better pay, universal, guaranteed as a right healthcare, clean air and water and worker's rights.
You're right about the Clinton Democrats though. They behave like the GOP 90% of the time, so the only thing they've got to run on is phony social issues. Like the actual GOP all they've got is identity politics and fat sacks of cash from their donors. Don't fall for it. There's a real left, and they're the party of the working class.
because he perceives a lack of available education. At least in theory. Restoring the state funding would go a lot further to fixing that.
Read the article I linked to. Very little of the increased cost of education is because of increased overhead. It's almost all down to decreased funding from the fed/state.
And there's nothing special about those "pols" (?, do you mean proletariat?). Taken in aggregate poor folks aren't any dumber than rich folks. What you're seeing is people with limited information who are doing bad economically looking for a solution and billionaire's media outlets (Fox News, Sinclair Media, Right wing Talk Radio) pushing a plausitive narrative.
If you want folks to stop falling for that snake oil the solution is more education. During the 2016 campaign there were interviews with folks making good money off fake news to drive page views and ads. It was almost 100% right wing fake news and when asked the folks running the sites were candid about why: when they tried left wing fake news it got shot down as B.S. in no time. That's not because right wing folks are dumber, it's because left wing folks have generally had more education and education teaches critical thinking.
Now how about we restore the lost federal and state funding that was cut by this country's right wing politicians (from both parties, Yes, I'm calling out the Clinton Democrats here too)?
I like my schools to be independent, not begging for scraps from billionaires.
and the bad news is that Java isn't going away.
it's a major part of why folks pay so much for their hardware. You can't just buy product placement. That doesn't work unless you're selling a commodity (e.g. like how the cigarette makers put smokes in movies but generally didn't focus on a specific brands).
Not sure if this'll work for them. It's hard to manufacture cool and when it fails it fails spectacularly. But that's what they're doing if anyone's wondering.
I don't even know what would make you say that, but let me be a little more blunt: I'm saying the American Right wing no longer invests in schooling in America because they can get cheap, already trained workers overseas and bring them here. This is why college is so expensive now: we cut federal and state funding starting in the mid 90s and continued up until the mid 2000s only stopping when it was all but gone.
If companies didn't have cheap labor from overseas they wouldn't have allowed that to happen. They'd want the taxpayer to subsidize their training programs. When the cold war was going on and they were too scared to take their factories overseas and India wasn't cranking out It workers they had to coddle us. That's over. Now they're back to shitting on us. Meanwhile we're busy kicking down blaming Blacks, Mexicans, SJWs, Jews or whatever group's popular on reddit for the blame game while they're laughing at us all the way to the bank...
of a pen, so yes, it can be ended with the stroke of a pen.
His travel ban was upheld. And he's repeatedly shown a willingness to do thing that'll get him sued. Face it, he forgot about us. I'd be less angry if it wasn't such a central plank of his campaign. But hell, he forgot about the Carrier Air folks too. Their jobs are on the way to Mexico. And they get to keep the multi-million dollar subsidy Trump gave them to boot.
But we'd have to fully fund our schools and have training programs to use them. With India you don't just get somebody who's trained, you get somebody trained on their own dime. They have to do compete in the screwed up economy over there. This is all part of the race to the bottom that Marx warned us about, but all anyone can remember about Marx is that Stalin and Mao borrowed his books for rhetoric...
it was doing just fine until Trump and a GOP lead Congress gutted it.
all that rigamarole it's because they've already hit the cap on every other visa program they can get workers from. It's an end run around the normal limits.
What I wish was folks would elect politicians who would do something about it. Trump promised, but he still hasn't even reverse Obama's executive order letting H1-B spouses work. He could do that with a stroke of a pen, and it's not like he's unaware, he talked about it during the campaign. Here we are 2 years in and not a damn thing's changed. He said some mean things and there was talk of less immigrants coming, but that didn't show up in the numbers or my wages.
Well, technically it's a different program, but here's how it works:
Already trained programmer comes over from India, goes to "school" and at the same time works for a company who's sponsoring them. Ordinarily the programmer couldn't keep up with a full time school and work load, but they've already been trained in their country. Meanwhile the programs are closed to Americans, and even if they weren't again, nobody can keep up with 40+/week at a job + 300/400 level class workloads unless they already know the material.
The company gets cheap labor, the school gets a quick influx of cash from a student who doesn't need any time from his professors. Everybody wins except the American worker who's out a job (or at least has lost 30% of his/her wages due to reduced demand, yep, supply & demand works both ways folks) and the American student who is competing for a limited spot in 300+ level courses with somebody who already took the course.
Seriously, even the gov't and big corps don't use their stuff anymore.
so removing the blu-ray is really just going to be some cash in Microsoft's pocket.
As a PC gamer the only time I use my DVD drive is installing Windows. But I've also got Gog. Plus when I do buy a game on Steam it's at such a steep discount I don't really mind that it's really a rental.
Robocalls work because they do thousands of them. If you caught one of the guys $1500 per call is already going to be millions, if not billions and maybe trillions.
Also, we know damn well how to stop Robocalls, you stop them at the source by making AT&T et al police their bloody network. They don't do this because they're making money off the robocalls.
So once again, I smell bullshit. More political theater to distract me and you from real issues like healthcare, wages and those 8 bloomin' wars we're fighting....
most of the land that's going up in smoke is Federal. As has been pointed out in previous threads the Fed needs to fund clearing dead trees, but that's expensive and those tax cuts don't pay for themselves (no, they really don't).
I oppose taxes like these, and so do the folks I vote for. I voted to increase taxes on corporations and the extremely wealthy ($300k+/yr in annual income). The extremely wealthy, for their part, bought off politicians and spent a fortune on add campaigns promoting tax cuts for themselves, leaving these sorts of taxes the only kind gov'ts can get approved.
We all still want roads and schools. We want police and fire. But nobody seems to want to have to pay for it.
if the gamers don't make much money. Progressive taxation is one of the features of Democratic Socialism. This is a regressive tax, it's not something a socialist would support.