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dtroutma
said, about 1 year ago
Just throw it on the floor and see if it bounces.
Radish
said, about 1 year ago
You don’t have to live in austerity, just borrow some money from your parents.
Gresch said, about 1 year ago
aren’t we getting tired of these “war on women” puns?
Doughfoot said, about 1 year ago
The problem is, government should spend when times are bad, and save when times are good. But (1) no one is every willing to admit that times are good enough to start saving; and (2) even when things are undoubtedly good, as when Bush took office, the “fiscally responsible” party then in office did not spend the surplus paying down the debt, but squandered it on tax cuts for those who did not need them thus failing on two counts to prepare for the next I (and predicted) downturn by reducing the revenue (under the silly and disproven fantasy that “tax cuts pay for themselves”) while allowing the debt to continue to expand. Now there is fine talk about closing loopholes to raise revenue, but no specific loophole is targeted. And the GOP have largely pledged to do nothing to increase revenue.
What do call a man, deeply in debt, who refused to do anything than will earn him more money, and, when he has a little extra cash, doesn’t use it to pay down his credit card bill, but just wants to add to his gun collection, or buy a new car, and rails at his creditors for wanting to “take HIS money” while his wife pleads with him to give her something to buy food for the children with, or at least do something to prevent the house being foreclosed upon?
Ransom D Stone said, about 1 year ago
@Doughfoot
A Republican.
Nantucket19 said, about 1 year ago
@Doughfoot
Somehow the GOP considers closing loopholes or ending subsidies as raising taxes. Yet when Mitt raised fees in MA that hurt the average person much more than the wealthy, he decided that he had kept his ‘no new taxes’ pledge.
Ms. Ima said, about 1 year ago
Just add socialism to make it a capitalist cash eating zombie.
onguard said, about 1 year ago
And when did France ever do anything right or correct?
Bilword said, about 1 year ago
tasteless
mikefive said, about 1 year ago
@LLeRay
When did austerity not work?
mikefive said, about 1 year ago
@Nantucket19
Not just a GOP thing. Politicians in general found a “loophole”. They can raise “fees” and it isn’t noticed as much as a tax. You don’t know about a raised excise tax or license fee until you go to acquire something and find out you don’t have enough money.
NebulousRikulau
said, about 1 year ago
@mikefive
The Great Depression.
Until FDR started up the big public works programs, and eventually WWII, Austerity was US policy, and it didn’t improve things.
Of course, part of the problem back then was that the money supply was tight. Banks needed to keep a sizable percentage of the amount they loaned out on hand.
NOW they can lend with practically nothing as an asset. Whether they WILL lend it is another question.
Gary Kleppe said, about 1 year ago
@onguard
In this latest election, for one.
Also, France, like every other industrialized country, spends far less than we do on health care but gets measurably better results. And when Rupert Murdoch tried to buy up mass media outlets in France, the French told him to take a hike, which is not coincidentally when all the French-bashing started on Fox “News” and similar propaganda mills.
Larhof52 said, about 1 year ago
Serfdom is the status of peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorial-ism. It was a condition of bondage or modified slavery which developed primarily during the High Middle Ages in Europe and lasted in some countries until the mid-19th century.
Serfdom is what France just voted for and it won’t take very long to get there.
ARodney said, about 1 year ago
They didn’t vote for serfdom. Serfdom is when France is not allowed to make its own choices about whom to tax and what benefits government can provide, and has to take direction from — of all people — Germany.