Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[David Horn]

(01-20-2019, 12:07 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: What interest to do you think or believe that you have in all the machinery and profits associated with my business or anyone else's business? The blues are sure making a lot of important business decisions for local business owners/ local employers that are located in their urban areas these days. I mean, allowing people to work thirty hours of work for forty hours of pay is an important business decision for blues to be making for its business owners these days. I mean, doubling or tripling wages of their employees is another important business decision that blues have made for its business owners as well. I'm not sure how long they'll be able to afford doing business that way or how long they'll opt to remain in business or how long people will be able to afford to do business with them with the blues making important business decisions that increases the cost/price associated with the consumers/customers these days. I can see why stuff could get really  screwed up/messed up in some blue urban areas and some blue states within a decade or so.

You are complaining about the response to past afflictions.  It's been 45 years since the economy has shared its bounty with all.  Finally, the ability to pull that off forever has been challenged, and the current winners are livid.  Sorry, but you, among many others, benefitted from a paternalistic government, subservient to money first and foremost.  For all of that, you benefitted very little, because the big gains went to capital ... as always.  If there is no corrective, then the economy will devolve into a 21st century version of Feudalism.  That's nuts by any measure.  Oh yeah, the proof:

Classic-Xer Wrote:We aren't socialist/fascist yet and I don't see a large portion of America converting/submitting  to socialists, Communists or fascists without violence and significant amount of casualties and all kinds of pain and suffering being felt by millions upon millions of people. Blue America on the other hand seems to be getting pretty close to becoming one or the other or a lethal combination of all of them. Honestly, I don't know who is what these days. The fascist seemed to follow or subscribe to the same basic left wing ideological belief as the blues these days. I guess that's an issue for blues to sort out and determine among themselves.

We are moving toward socialism because capitalism couldn't control its own lusts.  Capital has always taken somewhat more than its share, but, starting in 1973, capital took most if not all of it.  Since 1970, productivity has more than doubled.  Wages?  They're flat.  This has been covered up by bluster, from the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter, and by "generous" credit.  Mr. Working Stiff may have been fooled for a long time, but, as Abe Lincoln said, you can't fool them all forever.  Trump's mistake was assuming that he could play on the fears of the very people who've been screwed while stealing even more.  Here's a hint: people noticed and they're pissed.