Category: Economics / Economy / Income / Financial
How the Grinch Stole the Post Office | Robert Reich
See Bernie Sanders’ reaction to Joe Manchin’s bombshell
There is no CC on this video. However if you can please watch / listen to the video. Finally Manchin is called out. Bernie gets tired of the dancing around the bush and flat out tells what the problem is, says Manchin is getting bribed legally by the wealthy corporations, Manchin is not representing the people of the state, Bernie even offered to pay for a poll of the people in Manchin’s state. Bernie lays this right on Manchin.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: It was never about the cost it is about forcing the public to struggle for the necessities in live. In the worlds wealthiest country it doesn’t have to be this way.
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No one ever asks, ‘how are you going to pay for it?’ with the military, and they waste trillions.
Elon Musk has gotten rich off others all his life. Elon Musk’s father was wealthy and owned an emerald mine in South Africa. His mother was from Canada, but was raised in South Africa. Elon Musk moved back to his mother’s homeland to avoid the military draft in South Africa. Shades of Donald Trump! (But a lot smarter and much more successful in multiplying his father’s fortune.)
Elon Musk was successful in developing software, and made a fortune developing X.com and PayPal, which he then parlayed into a role in a new company founded by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Musk did NOT found Tesla; he joined a company that was already being developed, and eventually ousted the founders and took full control himself.
Musk had developed enormous wealth DUE TO GOVERNMENT SUPPORT and government contracts, subsidies and guarantees. And there are certainly many legitimate public policy interests in developing clean, green, renewable energy.
But, while Musk certainly has demonstrated his own brilliance, imagination, drive and success, he has always developed his wealth on the backs of others — government, the public, and workers who transform his visions into actual products.
Forced birth?
Where are the forced birth crowd here and above? Where is all the support needed for these forced births? It is simply a tactic to control women’s bodies and their sex organs.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1472185834258501633
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Wow talk about causing the problem you are complaining about. This is not on Biden, it’s on willfully ignorant anti-vaxxers. The right wing media is doing everything they can to fight any attempt by the Biden administration to fight the Coronavirus. The right wing is actually encouraging spreading the virus. Yet now the blames Biden for not stopping the very virus the right is spreading? And the Republican party is happy about this, they are planning to run on it this next year. The Republicans plan to tell voters to vote for them because Biden has done a bad job fixing what the Republicans are deliberately breaking.
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The Real Truth About Marjorie Taylor Greene – Steve Hofstetter
Another great video from Randy. Thanks brother you found me some good ones. Hugs
The Real Reason Ted Cruz Is Awful! – Steve Hofstetter
Many thanks to Randy for sending me this link. I really enjoyed it. Hugs
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: Uniquely US problems other advanced nations do not have. Are we really #1
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
No one is aborting fully born toddlers, but I bet some parents think of it. That is called murder and against the law. Nice heart string pulling cartoon even if totally wrong about the subject. The real issue is about the woman and her rights to her life and her body. She is already born, she is a human life, she has human potential. These are all discounted and ignored by the forced birth crowd. Abortion is used before there is a viable life that can live with out the mother, or in case the mothers life is in danger because her life is important also. The forced birth crowd are not interested in human potential of the unborn fetus because after a baby is born they with draw all support. But every one wants to focus on the word life, well the woman has life. But what they really mean is human and a zygote / fetus is not human, but the woman is. Hugs
Plus these are the same damn people most virulent about not getting vaccines, wearing masks, and denying all the facts of the many deaths from the Coronavirus. Hugs
So misleading, dishonest, and maybe designed to discourage people from demanding government action on climate change. Obama is a private citizen, and while he is important and has some wealth, he is not a corporation spewing pollution in to the environment. It doesn’t matter if he has a beach front estate, again he is not a coal burning power plant or belching smog out his smoke stack. He is surely not dumping his trash into the ocean. Hugs
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Daily cartoon / meme roundup: I am a progressive but I believe in things liberals do to help the people.
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People have too much on their minds these days trying to survive to follow what elected politicians are doing. That has allowed corporations to buy those politicians to insure the wealthy get more and more of the countries wealth and to make sure the government never serves the public.
We need to stop punching down. We need to see that capitalism is failing society. Capitalists should be kept away from government policy.
Congress must never do anything to help the American people. That would be Communism.
Working for his donors against the people who voted for him Manchin killed the BBB bill. Killed it. Now wants to play president some more even though we elected Biden because of what he promised to try to do when he ran, Manchin wants the child credit extended ten years taking all the money he will allow for the bill so that is the only thing in it. Why? Because Manchin pushed a child tax refund when he was governor of West Virginia. Now the Senate has given up on it and decided to try to pass voting rights bill needed if the Democrats hope to stop the Republican rigging of the next election in 2022, yes next year. But that wont happen either as Sinema has already said she wont change the filibuster under any circumstances, which means the bill is dead. Nothing will pass ever with Sinema and Manchin in the pockets of the wealthy donor class. Democracy is already dead.
Never vote for moderate or centrist Democrats. They are malware. Vote for progressives!
Republicans know they are traitors.
https://twitter.com/roderickgraham/status/1471615647834689546?s=20
Kim Potter is a murderer trying to create a situation where her horrible decisions and non-use of training give her power. It’s called white supremacy.
What is Bill 21 Quebec?
Bill 21, also commonly referred to as Quebec’s secularism law, bans some public servants deemed to be in positions of authority — such as teachers, judges and police officers — from wearing religious symbols on the job. Hugs
https://twitter.com/RottenInDenmark/status/1471155338502184960?s=20
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Silly. Comparing apples and bicycles. PS: Also safe for gender discrimination, and you can even decide based on finger length, quality of the smile, who he/she hangs out with, smooth or crunchy… or how they squeeze the toothpaste.
Kate McKinnon won’t hook up with me because I’m male. Gender discrimination!
Billie Eilish won’t date me because I’m older than her grandfather. Age discrimination!
The hot blonde I met in church won’t see me because I’m married. Marital status discrimination.
None of the Kardashians will date me because I can’t come up with enough cash. Economic discrimination.
Lauren Boebert won’t hook up with me because I don’t have a tattoo on my . . . . You know, that’s OK with me. Dating is a rather personal choice. I doubt it would be pleasant for either party if we match a racist white person with a black person. Ted himself would not want to spend an evening with a racist homophobic MAGA cap-wearing hedge fund manager.
At no other time has the jobs been separated by is it a job that existed before or is it something never seen before? We have never asked if a newly hired cook or server was at a place that is new? Weird way to try to attack Biden. Just be happy the jobs are coming back as businesses start opening due to the vaccines / boosters. Think how great the economy would be if everyone would get vaccinated, wear masks when appropriate, and try to slow / stop the spread of the virus.
I have no trouble with this. I have been social distancing and removing my self from personal contact with people since childhood. But especially since about 2014. I am at a point in my life where I am very comfortable with online contact vs in person contact. If I want more there is Skype, text, face time, and I have the computer set up with cameras. If I was a student today I would choose remote learning, I think a lot of kids serious about learning would. A lot of nursing students did their early years of learning online when I was still working back before 2014. So while not everyone can get the social interaction they need online, Ron for example cannot he still likes person to person contact, I and many others find socializing online to be enough.
Then tell the companies to stop inflating their prices. Greed is a choice. We should be doing something about Inflation, then, instead of mindlessly blaming President Biden or the Fed like the Right-Wing Death-Cultists are trying to do. The way to stop this is to restore full and necessary regulation to businesses, including Price Regulations. This inflation is entirely due to the choices that the Private Market Made. It is neither necessary, nor justified. Summers must be happy that the upper 1% have greatly increased THEIR wealth! Summers hates any wage earners being paid more. And he fights like hell to keep billionaires from paying taxes.
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Scottie's Playtime 
You would think the Republicans would be happy. The deficit has actually decreased around a third of a billion under President Biden. Not a surprise, since we don’t have a grifter in the White House anymore.
This is why the Republicans needed to focus on the debt ceiling and be over dramatic about the whole thing. Most American’s don’t understand the debt ceiling has nothing to do with the actual deficit. They also understand if Biden keeps reducing the deficit, they may not need to increase the debt ceiling again for quite some time. If we could roll back some of the tax cuts to the wealthy, perhaps never.
Well, until the Republicans gain full control again, as they believe in deficit spending, but only when it’s them doing the spending.