We're in a realignment phase that will put us in a better, more sustainable place. Sorry some of you are losing some money in your $401K today but that seems like a small price to pay to make the economy sustainable for another 50+ years.
Don’t check your 401K today
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Why does our tax dollars have to go toward Sesame Street in Afghanistan, and LGB programs in the Congo? Or wherever it was....
All those programs were a RUSE for kickback$ for corrupt politicians.
...but that isnt what I am referring to.
People who are here legally have been picked up and/or sent away and denied due process.
Your comment simply doesnt even logically work since you cant actually know if someone is legal or not without...due process. The very thing that is needed to determine what you want determined is being ignored in many instances.
Further, Due Process clauses within our Constitution apply to anyone in the US, regardless of how it is suspected that they got to the US.
This is seriously basic concept level stuff we are talking here. HS students should know this from Civics classes.
You are just like 'yep, 17 what the Constitution protects' right now.
Below is from Wikipedia- I figured a wiki overview with some links might help you see that this isnt my interpretation, its just reality.
We just had the country run for a couple if not four years by an unelected shadow government. That was a pretty big scandal.
We had the government make a concerted effort to censor people making public statements about the origin of COVID-19 that agreed with most assessments of the significant government entities making one. If the origin was a lab leak, that means we also funded the creation of a virus that killed millions. That was a pretty big scandal.
We left billions of dollars worth of equipment to the Taliban and got soldiers killed because we were worse at planning an operation than your average office workers at a Kinkos would have been. That was a pretty big scandal.
I'd also be interested in what process you think is due to non-citizens subject to deportation, and what statute or case law you are relying on in informing your position. I have never really considered it. The only thing I would be confident in predicting is that if someone subject to deportation claims to be a citizen, they have to be given the opportunity to make that case, including at minimum a reasonable way to procure documents. Beyond that, I would guess it is dependent on how they are in the country. But since you are sure they are not getting due process, I assume you have at least read a good secondary source explaining what process is due and what precedent they use to determine that, so I'd be interested to know the gist of it.
...but many(most? all?) of the numbers listed as what we are charged by other countries are inaccurate.
Further, and I know you know this, but 'we' arent ultimately charged those rates since companies bake tariffs costs into the price of goods and typically spread the costs out across product lines and/or regions and countries. Consumers are ultimately the ones that pay tariffs.
Correct, but there’s a chance this leads to more US jobs. The chance is greater than the chance with no reciprocal tariffs.
He scares the **** out of me
I mean, the tariffs didn't help, but the 1930 depression was 17ing up the monetary supply and then the federal government being heavy handed enough in preventing what was left of the free market from working to make the depression great.
I don't believe thugs with face covering with no badge in unmarked vehicles abducting people on the street is due process. Do you?
You mean the person or entity paying the tax isn't necessarily the one bearing the burden? I wonder if there are any other taxes this logic could be applied to?
Nobody wants to acknowledge this. We have a pretty good gig and position set up still. Feels like we are creating problems to fix for some stupid unknown reason. Nothing like a self inflected loss bc you have faith in a billionaire and his billionaire supporters wanting to flip the entire world order upside down having regular Joes' best interests in their heart.
Although I do wish we could get some of our debt paid off/forgiven bc of the global security we largely financed over the last several decades. There's a lot of unpaid security owed to us for sure but I don't see how trade wars and "winning" trade deficit battles does anything to fix that. Seems like a bite nose to spite your face deal.
That basically contains no information about due process. You could use the same description about a lot of undercover operations. There is going to be a 4th amendment question as to what information was used to target somebody for detainment (which is not really a due process question unless you are talking about the state doing the detaining) and then there will be a due process question about what sort of opportunity to be heard is granted after detainment. Process being due does not necessarily mean the right to be heard in a formal hearing in front of a tribunal. I have no clue what kind of opportunity to be heard would satisfy the due process requirement for non-citizens in the country illegally.
An anchor said burning down the house to cook a steak.
Pointing out short term decreases in the stock market is just like people screaming about global warming after every hurricane. You really think you have a point, but you don't.
ALL of this is what thinking people knew was coming. It's hard to just watch it all happen. Like a slow moving avoidable train wreck that is being intentionally caused by the engineer, but no one including the conductors have the guts to make him stop . Wonder how long they will keep saying, "This is exactly what I voted for"?
This is some Rick Scott-esque ********.
Migrants in parole program do not get free flights to the US
Recent social media posts claimed that migrants can use an app to get free flights to the U.S. "Let’s see what is actual
www.politifact.com
@johnson86-1 I actually think you're pretty principled conservative. I encourage you to look at the videotapes of some of the abductions, or arrests, or whatever you want to call them - and tell me they aren't exactly the same as what we saw/heard about happening in places like east Germany and South America when we were younger.
Secret police. That's what this is. In the Land of the Free.
LoL Politifact?This is some Rick Scott-esque ********.
Migrants in parole program do not get free flights to the US
Recent social media posts claimed that migrants can use an app to get free flights to the U.S. "Let’s see what is actual
Dang. Even Snopes has been proven false on some of their "fact checks"
Get better sources
My granddaddy would liken them to pasture full of cows - “whatever they don’t eat, they **** on”
Britannica: subsidy, a direct or indirect payment, economic concession, or privilege granted by a government to private firms, households, or other governmental units in order to promote a public objective.
Public objective: cheap goods. Originally, access to US markets to help thwart the spread of communism by the Soviet Union.
Back to tariffs - can someone give me a serious answer on why Trump included multiple unpopulated island groups(one with a military base), and why some islands that are part of countries are listed separate from the countries they are part of?
I am a map nerd and had to look up a few of the places Trump included on his boards.
Heard and MacDonald Islands - uninhabited. 4 day boat ride from Australia to reach em(just learned that last night when I looked up where the 17 these are).
Christmas Island - this is an Australian territory. Just include it with Australia.
Mayotte - some tiny island east of Africa that is run by France. Just include it with France.
BIOT - This is a handful of Atolls in the Indian Ocean that is British Territory. They are Atolls!! Why in the glory17 is this listed? Just include it with Britain. THERE ARE NO RESIDENTS AND THE ONLY PEOPLE LIVING THERE TEMPORARILY ARE BRITISH AND AMERICAN MILITARY!
Gibralter - this is a British territory. Just include it with Britain.
Reunion - another tiny French island. Once more, just include it with France.
Svalbard and Jan Mayen - I dont know how to say this or even understand who controls the land. 30 seconds on Google shows it might be Norway, but its a partnership? Anyways, why the 17 is it specifically called out at all?
I am a map nerd and had to look up a few of the places Trump included on his boards.
Heard and MacDonald Islands - uninhabited. 4 day boat ride from Australia to reach em(just learned that last night when I looked up where the 17 these are).
Christmas Island - this is an Australian territory. Just include it with Australia.
Mayotte - some tiny island east of Africa that is run by France. Just include it with France.
BIOT - This is a handful of Atolls in the Indian Ocean that is British Territory. They are Atolls!! Why in the glory17 is this listed? Just include it with Britain. THERE ARE NO RESIDENTS AND THE ONLY PEOPLE LIVING THERE TEMPORARILY ARE BRITISH AND AMERICAN MILITARY!
Gibralter - this is a British territory. Just include it with Britain.
Reunion - another tiny French island. Once more, just include it with France.
Svalbard and Jan Mayen - I dont know how to say this or even understand who controls the land. 30 seconds on Google shows it might be Norway, but its a partnership? Anyways, why the 17 is it specifically called out at all?
Wrong. Crash happens in 1929. Tariffs were an attempt to fund the country after unemployment skyrocketed.
But hey, let’s throw out facts and follow the stupidassss memes.
If you aren't close to retirement, adjust your contributions up. If you are close to retirement, you shouldn't be invested in something that would have a ton of movement.
We did not give Canada $200 BILLION in subsidies. The $200 BILLION(or $100 BILLION as claimed another time) was referring to a trade deficit.
Your definition for what a subsidy is does not reference a trade deficit as a subsidy.
That was the main issue with the Springfield, OH story. A company moved in but could not get locals to work. This led to Haitian immigrants moving in to fill those jobs. If people show up to work, this story never happens.
But you’re completely nonplussed about the obesity epidemic and big pharma’s outsized influence on the med school graduates. Cool.
The make America healthy again faction is as bipartisan as it gets. Classic us. We complain about the problem. A disruptor enters with change. We immediately challenge his credentials.
this goes for tariffs too. Do we want to be in a better position in 50 years? It’s going to require some short term pain for those long term gains. Whether it’s your 401K or your sugar intake. You have to make sacrifices.
One of 2 things will almost certainly happen.Are we GREAT AGAIN, yet?
A sudden drop in the market in the relative near future or a longer period of stagnant growth. Nothing thats happened in the last 70 ish days is gonna change that. Market is inflated just like other prices from excess money in the economy and other things. P/E ratios through the 17ing roof.
But if i wanted to negotiate how the rest of the world tariffed us or took advantage of us, now would be the time. Take my lumps early in my term and battle back the last 3 years.
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That’s the best defense you have? “We will all be better off 50 years from now. Be patient.”
rfk jr has been known as a kook for literally 30 years, it's not new. Occasionally, he'll say something like "maybe we should take a look to see if red dye in food has a link to cancer?" and that sounds like a rational idea. Then he follows it up with "because red dye is actually how vampires prep your blood before they bite you"
@DesotoCountyDawg Where are you? This statement has nothing to do with the thread and this bafoon does it all the time. Yet you haven't banned him yet!!
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