Democratic Nominee in 2020

Quote: AZDuffman

I saw this meme and I thought it was some made-up thing. Looks like they really said it.

Federal budget receipts last year from all sources of revenue :
49.6% Individual Income Taxes
6.6% Corporation Income Taxes
35.9% Social Insurance and Retirement Receipts
2.9% Excise Taxes
5.0% Other

added up to $288,680 million per month for 2019.

So obviously we can easily afford to give all 327 million citizens a $1000 a month UBI. We'll just take the savings from food stamps, and Medicaid.

Quote: RonC

Well, watching that was waste of time. What the country doesn't need is Bernie. We may need to change some things, but we don't need a radical leftist like him.

Bernie is no radical leftist. He is the COMPROMISE for radical leftists.

Quote: Tanko

Re: Richard Wolff

This was after 2016 the election. Sounds like the Marxian economist for the easily owned, got Trump’s message.

Corporations: “We don’t need the American working class, who we overpay, and we’re out of here.” “We’re leaving.”

“Capitalism over the last forty years has abandoned the countries where it was born and reached its maturity.”

“Where did it go? “China”

“Our capitalism is declining.”

This is a real economist:

It's incredibly easy for ANY economist to say corporations should pursue their profits and forget any moral culpability they may have to society. That is EASY to do and say. A real economist? Maybe. But it would be nice to have honest and open discussion about these things. Instead?

"VENEZUELA!"

It's almost as if people don't understand the difference between authoritarianism and socialism. Or they do know the difference and refuse to engage in an honest debate.

Acting as if global inequality can be sustained at the clip it's going now is ABSURD. It WILL come back to bite us in the ass. IT ALWAYS HAS.

The fact that Americans just accept the fact that every 5 or so years the economy will suck, people will get laid off, they'll have their lives upended, their homes lost, their lives basically destroyed, and we just go along and accept this? People need to wake the f up before unchecked and unregulated capitalism DOES die.

Friedman talks about "playing within the rules". Muahahahahahahahahahahaha! Like the housing bubble? Did they play within the rules? And if they did, who wrote the rules? Oh THEY did? They wrote their own rules????

Quote: RonC

We may need to change some things,

Cool. Like what?

Has anybody put the pieces together
yet? A few months ago we had the
most diverse bunch of people to
ever run for president. Women, a
Native American, an outright Gay
man, a couple of billionaires, a
Black woman and man, a socialist,
you name it and it was there.

Comes time to vote in the primaries
and America says what. Hell no,
we said. We want nothing to do with
all that stinking diversity, we want two
saggy butt old white men. The whiter
and older the better. Pretty dang funny,
the more things change the more they
stay the same. This might as well still
be 1964..

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/W270RE1A156NBEA

Yeah, let's just keep voting against our own interests and accept what this graph tells us, that our compensation as a share of our nation's GDP has been steadily falling for 30+ years. Makes a ton of sense.

And people say trickle down works, lmfao. I think one poster said it must work because we have two TVs in our house in 2020 as oppose to one in 1980, lmao. Oh, and we have air conditioning now. That's all the proof you need! lmao

https://twitter.com/YatesWilburn/status/1235933171973320705?s=20

Quote: aceofspades

https://twitter.com/YatesWilburn/status/1235933171973320705?s=20

Math challenged people are amusing.
That's $1 for each American, not 1
million.

Quote: aceofspades

https://twitter.com/YatesWilburn/status/1235933171973320705?s=20

Therein lies the problem. Focusing on what some nit wit says on twitter. Who cares.

Quote: Tripdufan

Therein lies the problem. Focusing on what some nit wit says on twitter. Who cares.

It's from MSNBC