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Mr. Bob's avatar

Here's the dirty "secret" of the globalism that's (largely) responsible for putting us in this position: You can't compete with global wages while paying local prices.

Globocorps know this. They tell us that we could compete if we were just willing to work harder, but they're lying, and they know they're lying. No matter how hard Americans work, they can't get around the fact that cost of living in China (or wherever) is a fraction of what it is in America.

This is starting to apply to white collar jobs as well (think tech being outsourced to India). The only ones who can never be outsourced are the ones doing the outsourcing, because they're the ones making the decision to outsource or not. Which is terribly convenient for them.

The rich are forcing the poor and middle class into a no-win position, then blaming them for losing.

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Rick's avatar

Rather than continuously debating the nuances of the failure of governance in this country it is time to put such knowledge into action.

With the start of Reagan and then followed by Clinton, Bush2, etc. conscious policy decisions were made which effectively:

1) Decreased investment in the US as witnessed today by failing infrastructure as one symptom.

2) Decreased investment in true material wealth creating industries as witnessed by transferring millions of factory jobs overseas in the name of "efficiency".

3) Rescinding the regulations on finance for highly leverage and speculative betting on markets. Rather than funding wealth creating industries the game turned towards wealth redistribution schemes. That wealth had to come from somewhere. It came from the citizenry of the United States and the taxpayers of the United States.

Stop this continuous whine about "libtards", "Trumpistas", "real Americans", "Nanny State", and all the other snarky bullshit. It's all an act of misdirection. Keep the peasants fighting amongst themselves so that the Royalists can do what they've always done: plunder the Treasury and steal as much wealth as possible.

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Donald Ganer's avatar

The only reason such things as Social Security and Unemployment Insurance were ever enacted was out of fear of revolution following successful revolts by communists in Russia and China. When the USSR imploded, it was "the end of history", and that signalled a return to the good old days for the imperial oligarchs who invented and have always ruled this nation. They'll just keep on hollowing it out and misdirecting our attention. There are so many different groups that can be hated based on race, education, religion, region, etc. We're a forever, weapons manufacturer's and pundit's dream of slaves and peasants believing ourselves "free!"

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L.A. Sanchez's avatar

Ha whatever the reason (never thought I would think this way) I want my money!! I want a nice big check for all of the money I’ve paid into SS because as GenX already knows it will be LONG GONE by the time I retire. Actually it’s already gone but I like the illusion.

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Lekimball's avatar

I agree with you here. Just not about blind acceptance of vaccination. However, not "snarky" buillshit to call this the nanny state and total government control from cradle to grave. If you want to use other words to describe it, go ahead. I would say it was started under the Bush's though.

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William Taylor's avatar

Yup. They are demonizing the people they're screwing over by calling them deplorables, white-supremacists, etc. They have no shame.

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DC Lovell's avatar

Excellent take. Same people that want living wages and worker protections here at home are fine with other countries locking workers in factories 12 hours a day 6 days a week with no protections.

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DarkSkyBest's avatar

Elites in charge. Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought Justice Coney Barrett was the first non-Ivy League SC justice. Via Notre Dame. The horror.

Snobbery isn't a strong enough term anymore. The pictures of the masked servants straightening the trains of the gowns of the bare-faced Met gala attendees, including the gowns of "self-proclaimed socialists," tells us we have crossed into a whole other place.

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