I grew up in Tacoma, just down the road during exactly the same years.
And I can point you to any number of people who fed Gate's fortune with their replaced, lost, well paying secretarial, clerking jobs.
I can point you to thousands of small businesses in that area that no longer exist because they were feeding Bezos' and the Walmart Empire. Those disrupters killed far more jobs than they created.
Have a glance at the Tacoma Mall parking lot the next time you're driving south. It's empty. Half the stores are closed.
You probably didn't notice since all that wealth transferred to Seattle, Redmond, Issaquah, and surrounding areas, which boomed like no others. But that bonanza didn't quite make it down to Tacoma, much less further way in the state and around the country.
And putting all that aside: Fuck those people! They were at the party. We need to pay our national debt worse than at the end of World War II. They have most all the money, so they need to pay most all of the debt.
That logic is quite impossible to foil, no matter how heroic a narrative you might want to wrap around those disrupting nerds who did nothing but write code, not to mention their descendants, who didn't do ANYTHING besides be born. SMH
Strange, you are using a product of that same group of people to make your point. I admit, I bought books from the funky website and shopped at Costco and had a Gateway Computer with Windows 1 or something. I quit the Malls when the kids took over. The Malls killed the neighborhood store. Life goes on.
This isn't about me. Or you. Progress happens. That was never my primary point in the first place.
The national debt is at nationally threatening levels, as is wealth disparity...the likes of which we've never seen. We are poised for 1929 on steroids...We had essentially no national debt in 1929. Today, we're swimming in it.
The party must be paid for. If you were at the party, you need to pay for the party. This is not hard.
What worked in 1944 (cutting spending, raising taxes on the wealthiest) is the most rational, risk-free, well-known, common sense solution we have
If you have another way to get our national debt in order, I'm all ears.
I grew up in Tacoma, just down the road during exactly the same years.
And I can point you to any number of people who fed Gate's fortune with their replaced, lost, well paying secretarial, clerking jobs.
I can point you to thousands of small businesses in that area that no longer exist because they were feeding Bezos' and the Walmart Empire. Those disrupters killed far more jobs than they created.
Have a glance at the Tacoma Mall parking lot the next time you're driving south. It's empty. Half the stores are closed.
You probably didn't notice since all that wealth transferred to Seattle, Redmond, Issaquah, and surrounding areas, which boomed like no others. But that bonanza didn't quite make it down to Tacoma, much less further way in the state and around the country.
And putting all that aside: Fuck those people! They were at the party. We need to pay our national debt worse than at the end of World War II. They have most all the money, so they need to pay most all of the debt.
That logic is quite impossible to foil, no matter how heroic a narrative you might want to wrap around those disrupting nerds who did nothing but write code, not to mention their descendants, who didn't do ANYTHING besides be born. SMH
Strange, you are using a product of that same group of people to make your point. I admit, I bought books from the funky website and shopped at Costco and had a Gateway Computer with Windows 1 or something. I quit the Malls when the kids took over. The Malls killed the neighborhood store. Life goes on.
This isn't about me. Or you. Progress happens. That was never my primary point in the first place.
The national debt is at nationally threatening levels, as is wealth disparity...the likes of which we've never seen. We are poised for 1929 on steroids...We had essentially no national debt in 1929. Today, we're swimming in it.
The party must be paid for. If you were at the party, you need to pay for the party. This is not hard.
What worked in 1944 (cutting spending, raising taxes on the wealthiest) is the most rational, risk-free, well-known, common sense solution we have
If you have another way to get our national debt in order, I'm all ears.