Did I sleep through H1N1 pandemic?

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I don’t watch much tv, but caught some on Saturday. I was surprised that Fox and all the others have almost constant displays of the numbers, like a sports score.

I guess given no sports and damn near no politics, they have nothing else to talk about.

Personally, I prefer to see the #’s at 10:00 pm each night on the net, w/o any filter or presentation.

Similar to when people pass a bad wreck on the interstate, most can't help but look...
 
May 6, 2004
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I have concerns and priorities in my life other than China trade and money alone. That's my opinion, for right or wrong.

The problem is this, under our current system the worker is always going to have to provide more value to the company than he is given in return, that is what generates profits, that "extra" value.

The Democratic Socialist Communist ideal is that you can better redistribute those profits back to the worker; the problem arises however is that it invariably leads to less profit when you do, so the end result you just end up being poorer anyway. This happens virtually every time and every place and in every way the ideal is attempted; this is why Europeans are poorer than you.

So when Bernie says he is against captialim, that is what he means, that he is a communist and is going to have to exert control over how those profits are given back to you. Or Warren's pro-Capitalist, more typical in line with Eurpean democratic socialist policies where wealth is taken from the top, but it ends up not being nearly enough to sustain the burden so everyone has to be taxed greatly in multiple ways.

The end result is always the same, you trade a larger piece of a bigger pie for a bigger piece of a smaller pie, like say I dunno trading a slice of a full size Pizzahut pizza for a slice of a personal pan.

It's a bad trade. If our goal is to lessen the income inequality gap, while maintaining a higher and growing standard of living, then we have to do it through our current system and not scrapping it to be more like other (poorer) countries.
 
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Bill Derington

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I have concerns and priorities in my life other than China trade and money alone. Trump speaks to none of those. He is the human equivalent of an economic meth high. It feels good short term, but all the while you are rotting away internally, morally and ethically as that money becomes your sole focus in life. He blows a dog whistle that only his followers hear....I find it irritating and devoid of inspiration. That's my opinion, for right or wrong.

What dog whistle? Newsflash, China is our biggest threat, they just hid the info on a virus that’s shutdown most of the economies in the world.
A good economy is not a sugar high, it’s a healthy well balanced nutritional meal.
 
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The problem is this, under our current system the worker is always going to have to provide more value to the company than he is given in return, that is what generates profits, that "extra" value.

The Democratic Socialist Communist ideal is that you can better redistribute those profits back to the worker; the problem arises however is that it invariably leads to less profit when you do, so the end result you just end up being poorer anyway. This happens virtually every time and every place and in every way the ideal is attempted; this is why Europeans are poorer than you.

So when Bernie says he is against captialim, that is what he means, that he is a communist and is going to have to exert control over how those profits are given back to you. Or Warren's pro-Capitalist, more typical in line with Eurpean democratic socialist policies where wealth is taken from the top, but it ends up not being nearly enough to sustain the burden so everyone has to be taxed greatly in multiple ways.

The end result is always the same, you trade a larger piece of a bigger pie for a bigger piece of a smaller pie, like say I dunno trading a slice of a full size Pizzahut pizza for a slice of a personal pan.

It's a bad trade. If our goal is to lessen the income inequality gap, while maintaining a higher and growing standard of living, then we have to do it through our current system and not scrapping it to be more like other (poorer) countries.
No doubt, communism is a failed political ideology. That is a big reason Bernie Sanders is not the Democrat Presidential nominee. Despite the right wing propaganda spewed about Dems being Socialist/Commies....they spurned the commie when given a chance to vote one in. In fact, Bernie was overwhelmingly rejected by the majority of Dems. The only reason he got close to being nominated last election was because of Hillary Clinton's high unfavorability.
 
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That's true, but he got close this election, it took a political miracle for Biden's south carolina firewall to actually work. The conventional wisdom at the time was that it had no chance of actually happening, and if it didn't the sane democratic vote would've been divided amoung the remaining fledgling candidates such that the party would've indeed shoved a verifiable communist upon us...after a candidate has the majority of the delegates he gets all the backing and money of the party and 40% or whatever of the electorate is going to vote him in spit of being a communist and not even a member of the Democrat party.

The day after South Carolina primary it was considered Biden was resurrected from the dead, Bernie never stood a chance against the Clinton machine because it was a foregone conclusion, the party would've done, and did do whatever it took to ensure shee was the nominee.

Communism/Socialism is not just failed political ideology, but it is failed economic theory. It's important to call that out and explain that to people who have been misled, namely millennials, so it's not propaganda in the slightest that that party has drifted too far to the left and is in danger of abandoning fundamental American values in the name of progress
 
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I've felt this was man made from very early on.

I suppose in the very early days I thought the bat theory was plausible.

Once I learned there is a virus research facility in Wuhan that was a huge red flag it was man made and poorly contained.
 

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I've felt this was man made from very early on.

I suppose in the very early days I thought the bat theory was plausible.

Once I learned there is a virus research facility in Wuhan that was a huge red flag it was man made and poorly contained.
Anyone with an ounce of common sense should have immediately realized there was a very high likelihood it came from that lab. And most likely intentionally.

It’s so agonizingly infuriating to have such a shameless, unreliable, and biased media who will lie right to the American people’s face if a story doesn’t fit their (democrat party of communists) agenda or if they can hurt the ‘other side’.

And more infuriating and agonizing is the fact there are so many comrades out there who swallow whole every piece of ******** they spray.......Even tho the media has shown over and over and over they are totally unreliable and biased to the point it is poison.

No way I ever believe another word they print, say, type. And I’ll laugh in the face of people like Buckethead who only believe/think what his dem/media overlords allow him to believe/think.