Two Party Opera by Brian Carroll for February 05, 2018

I wish Mr. Economy would visit me.

“Tinkle-Down Economics”: It didn’t work for St. Ronnie the Senile, it didn’t work for Darth Cheney and mini-me shrub, and it STILL won’t work for Dumb Donnie Dumpsterfire!

The Dow Jones Industrial Average does not equal the economy on Main Street.

The unemployment rate does not equal the struggles of working people.

Two-Party Opera, you have just summed up Reaganomics beautifully and succinctly.

The very fact that Paul Ryan initially “tweeted” that secretary’s statement shows that Republicans are unfamiliar with the concepts of sarcasm, irony or ‘snark’. evidently, in their world, such useful conservational tools are either forbidden or unknown. Poor babies!

It’s good to remember that when Reagan became governor of California, the first thing he did was to raise the sales tax by 25%!

That 25% increase enabled a surplus in the state budget, which in turn enabled an Income Tax Rebate the next election year.

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Republicans have always craved to shift the tax burden from the upper classes onto the lower classes.

President Alzheimer’s I. We now have President Alzheimer’s II!

Wow! a sucker IS born every minute.

Wow! a sucker IS born every minute.

Wow. 30 cents a day. Every 5 or 6 weeks she can splurge and buy a 6 pack of her favorite craft beer.

And the economy will BOOM!

While Seattle really IS booming, with right wingers crying all over the place because Seattle was supposed to fall apart after raising minimum wage to 15$ per hour.

ROFL – they even put out a paper to “prove” low wage jobs had vanished in Seattle – but they didn’t use the new minimum wage as the new low wage! Any job that went over 9$ per hour (pretty much all of them) was a “loss” of a low wage job! Most ridiculous thing ever, not even worth toilet paper.

All the economy really needs is more people buying and selling stocks to support the idea that the economy is doing well. The truth of the matter is that Wall Street fell nearly a thousand points last week for the first time in 2 years. Why is that? The article I read quoted that fears of inflation are causing unrest on Wall Street. Of course it couldn’t have anything to do with fears that a humongous inflation will happen because of the tax cuts bill. Some people are characterizing the fall of Wall Street points is simply an adjustment to find its own balance. I don’t know any secretary who would be more pleased with an extra $1.50 on their paycheck. If they are a smoker it would take a month and a half to be able to buy an extra pack of cigarettes… Not that I would encourage smoking … Just saying….. Somehow I don’t think the labor report is going to be any better than the reports from Wall Street. As CEOs start using more robotics to do jobs that humans have been doing there will be a rise in unemployment. Then if we have a really strong inflationary period in the finances of this country, what’s next? Probably soup lines, bread lines, a rise in the number of homeless, way more people standing around trying to figure out how they are going to feed their families. Reagan caused a near Financial collapse during his reign in office. Trump probably feels challenged to cause a bigger Financial collapse than Reagan did.

It is working perfectly for Trump: he’s going to be richer.

Thanks dog we are moving to Canada. Our taxes will be higher but they will be going to worthwhile things like single payer healthcare, infrastructure improvements, etc., and not lining some billionaire’s pockets.

Winston Churchill once uttered the famous phrase that the problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.

If he were alive today, I’d give him the polite rebuttal that the problem with modern conservatism is that sooner or later, the people realize they’re helping the fat cats rob their own trust fund and taking the smallest cut for it.