(05-31-2024, 01:36 PM)HURRICANE!!! Wrote:

(05-31-2024, 12:48 PM)mikesez Wrote: Presidents have little effect on the real-time economy.  It does not make sense to judge a President based on economic performance during their term, even if they invite you to do so.

We should just go back to 0% interest rates, stimulus checks, and substantially run up our government deficit.  Life was good back then so why not continue to do what works?  What could possibly go wrong.

We just need somebody or a team that's fiscally conservative in the white house. We're doing a lot of foolish things with our tax dollars. We can have interest rates, within reason, we can have stimulus checks, within reason, and only when absolutely needed. 

The problem is that we have had too many people in too many positions doing a lot of things with our tax dollars that undermine those very basic principles. The table is rigged. 

You have to play ball with the Federal Reserve and you have to play ball with the Plutocracy that uses it's money to buy it's way into politics and buy it's laws in it's favor.  

There should be caps on certain business ventures here as well. There's no [BLEEP] reason why a company like Blackrock should be able to buy up neighborhoods at a wholesale price only to turn around and [BLEEP] over the middle class by turning the dream of being a home buyer into being a renter.

There needs to be caps on foreign aid. SIGNIFICANT caps on foreign aid. There needs to be educational programs that help people who are more economically challenged than others in our country so we can stop bleeding our coffers dry and pushing the age of retirement further and further out into orbit. 

We can do this. It simply starts by acknowledging that we have a career politician problem, a plutocracy problem and term limits need to be introduced to congress. We're seeing a lot of enabling of bad behaviors in this country and the middle class, at least what's left of it, has ultimately had to foot the bill, eat the most [BLEEP] and suffer the most insults and shame for simply doing what you're supposed to do in this country.

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