American Swindle

But now to think about it, lobbyist lobby whom? government officials. those officials *could* be on the take. kind of splitting hairs but you get it.

Fair point, but I don't think you can argue against the fact that Uber and Lyft have are prime examples of free market successes that have provided a lot of value for consumers. I'm still against reparations.

Uber. Lyft. Crony Capitalism is the Cabbies using the long dick of the local government to fuck them from competing.

you live in the DSA echo chamber and are displaying the bread and butter play when getting smashed: attack the source. DD was right about the US assets (you see how I acknowledge the other side's point?) are more than our national debt (22 Trillion) and are reported at around 128 Trillion, but we still aren't wealthy and it isn't right we add on more government interventions when this same apparatus is responsible for spending us into a death spiral of unfunded liabilities to the tune of 210-220+Trillion Dollars. And you want MORE intervention? More sources below. Now the burden is on you to discredit the claim of US unfunded liabilities, but you can't so carry on with your NPC-DSA echo chamber response. Good Day. https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnmauldin/2017/10/10/your-pension-is-a-lie-theres-210-trillion-of-liabilities-our-government-cant-fulfill/#71bad59265b1 https://dailyreckoning.com/205-trillion-in-unfunded-liabilities/ P.S. Socialism sucks and I'm still against reparations.

In free market capitalism, businesses that defraud the public go out of business in crony capitalism, businesses that defraud the people get a bailout to put their chips back on the table and the CEO's get fat bonuses from our tax dollars. You're obviously okay with the idea of defrauding Americans, I'm not.

Yes, you are correct, but those assets are estimated reportedly around 128 Trillion. Want to guess what our unfunded liabilities are all around? More than that....by like around 100 Trillion. http://business.time.com/2013/02/05/the-federal-governments-128-trillion-stockpile-the-answer-to-our-debt-problems/ https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-29/true-size-us-national-debt-including-unfunded-liabilities-222-trillion-dollars /Doginafirememe

22 trillion in debt, health insurance/health care is expensive as shit, college is expensive as shit, money is being wasted everywhere you look within government and we're wealthy? Do you have half a million in debt personally while only making 50-60k a year and consider your self wealthy? Good job at reaffirming your ignorance on economic reality once again. Money is just a promise! Lulz fucking idiot.

With insights like the above you really have me persuaded. Can you give us some examples? You say you weren't okay with the Bailouts in 2008, but say they were necessary and don't really offer anything of substance after that. Care to expand? I suppose you're okay with corporatism and bankers shafting us because it was "necessary for some reason." lolz.

What an odd way of admitting you know absolutely nothing about economics or money. The gold standard is illusory? Money is a promise? Say it with me: MONEY IS A MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE.As @bernorange has reiterated many times, OPEC is what is keeping our currency afloat. Also, government interventions into the market have sent the wrong signals to consumers and lenders FOREVER thus directing resources to areas they wouldn't have otherwise been directed if they had gotten the fuck out of the way in the first place. Remember the housing bubble? Let me ask you a simple question: If you're a farmer and you are selling Whole Milk at 2$/gallon and then decide to dilute the whole milk with 20% water and sell it as Whole Milk, what would you call that? Inflation or stealing? But yeah, let's just give the Federal Apparatus carte blanche to print and finance everything because they know what's best while the poor and middle class get the shaft by inflation (an indirect hidden tax.)

Why were they necessary? The reality is this undeniable crony move fucked many over in the form of inflation and devaluing of the dollar. Who does that hurt? The poor and the middle class. We were told they were necessary by the same establishment that had the biggest stake in keeping the house of cards together.

Works for the crony capitalists that use the levers of government to enrich themselves personally, but what about the small businesses that are run by common, middle class folks that didn't earn their keep by using the force of government to enable or protect their personal corporate interests? So I agree with you in the vein of cronyism, but for the honest good folks out there that just want to work and make an honest living, then nah, that doesn't work and why I'm against a 100% estate tax. The bailouts are a prime example of ultimate cronyism, did you support those?

I'm against reparations. Slavery was as Robert E. Lee put it, "a Political and Moral Evil." Calhoun also described it as an "inherited misfortune." Slavery STILL EXISTS IN AFRICA AND LYBIA but it seems politically inconvenient to focus on actual real world slavery for some folks so they want to focus on a period of time when most of the planet bought and sold slaves of all colors and creeds. As Thomas Sowell puts it: "Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved other whites in Europe for centuries before the first black was brought to the Western hemisphere. Asians enslaved Europeans. Asians enslaved other Asians. Africans enslaved other Africans, and indeed even today in North Africa, blacks continue to enslave blacks." The government has made most of the population dependent on giveaways and many have fallen in a state of complacency and contentment with no real incentive to become responsible for their own lives. Reparations only exacerbates this state of being. This is just more political theater in a desperate attempt to get votes IMHO. You want to help African Americans? End the war on drugs for starters.

This whole board needs some red pills.

Some good people on that list. Justin Raimondo, RIP, being one of them. The man behind antiwar.com

This is great, i support her Fiscal Conservatism in making sure the Government does not waste any money. The state created problem at the border is complex but simple: Open Borders Welfare State Pick one of the above. You can't have both.

What would you say to those that claim Evita was a Fascist and aided Nazis in to relocating into Argentina? There are many that do not hold her in the same regard that AOC does with that tweet.

Good for him, his method of going about it is interesting as opposed Rand and Massie's strategy of trying to change the Republican party from within. Having followed Amash closely for some time now, the claims he's "grandstanding" and doing it for selfish reasons other than Liberty and the Constitution is incredibly out of touch with reality. I assume many on the left hate it because it could possibly steal votes from their nominee if he happens to run for the LP (which is an absolute joke with that little bitch Nick Sarwark as chairman.) We need like 500 more like him.

U mad bro? Why?

Former Cop wants to use Executive Power to circumvent Congress and the Constitution to infringe on 2A rights? Well.....bye.

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It's a little distasteful, I know, but the T2 reference got me. AOC's passion is commendable and her stance against cronyism and corporatism are admirable. I get the negs!

Did you just describe Bernie yourself?

I'll tell you a response you won't get but is most likely to be true: "I have no informed opinion, because I don't understand economics, have no knowledge of economic history nor a basic understanding of Keynesian or Austrian Economic theory."

And just so you know the ratio on this tweet is like 1900 comments to 176 likes. The majority of Comments are for Tulsi. Isn't that what the woke called being ratio'd? And this is the Young Turks, not a conservative outlet I'm told.

Maybe I'm not anti-blue wave, just fervently anti-war and Tulsi's the only one that moves the needle in that department. I also think it's amazing to see how the Mainstream Media coverage of her campaign is totally opposite of what social media and google is showing before our very eyes. The obvious censorship and curtailing of those they do not wish to speak is eerily similar of the blacking out of Ron Paul's campaign in 2012. I don't think their's any denying it at this point, but that's just me.