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@IwantRooseveltagain
No, what do you think motivated me to do that?
Rural people don’t read newspapers.
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@PREZ-HILTON
why do you hate poor people? Does it make you feel good about yourself to hate black people, Appalachian mountain folks, immigrants and the handicapped and mentally ill that struggle to make a high wage and receive educations?
There are 330 million people living in the US. Half of those people are either poor or nearly poor. They are not all black, immigrants, handicapped or from Appalachia. Many of them are white guys who are uneducated and watched as they fell out of the middle class as rich people got richer with the help of the Republican Party.
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@PREZ-HILTON
No, what do you think motivated me to do that?
Oh, you really need to learn how to communicate better.
I would love to hear your story. Maybe I can show you where you went wrong.
Most girls who drop out of high school do so because they got pregnant, Republican Congresswoman Lauren Bobert for example.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Why do you think I did that?
You could have been clearer by writing - “why do you think I chose to drop out”
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Many of them are white guys who are uneducated and watched as they fell out of the middle class as rich people got richer with the help of the Republican Party.
The economic freedom index disproves the theory that leftism promotes economic prosperity as the most leftist countries are at the bottom of it. The reason you refuse to debate is likely because you know your theories are easily disproven. There is a reason why selfish billionaires like Soros, bill Gates and the Rothschild's are all liberal. We know economic interventionism harms competition for the following reasons.
1. After Glass Steagull people went from banking primarily with small banks to banking with the top 5 banking institutions.
2. After the FDA was created to make more regulations we went from most groceries being bought from local grocery and food producers to now a handful of companies controlling the food supply
3. After economic interventionism by FDR your favorite guy, hospital visits because the price was hidden from consumers and passed to insurance agencies hospitals started becoming ridiculously expensive.
So all your theories about moving towards more economic interventionism are easily disproven by historical examples.
Oh, you really need to learn how to communicate better.
There was a common sense way to interpret that and a retarded way. Considering that I admitted I already dropped out, it was pretty retarded to interpret the statement that way.
I would love to hear your story. Maybe I can show you where you went wrong.
Yes I dropped out of highschool at 16 because I was emancipated to become an adult and gained custody of my younger siblings. It took 2 minimum wage jobs to afford to raise them, so there was no time for school. Not to mention it isn't easy for even an emancipated 16 yr old to acquire an apartment lease.
Most girls who drop out of high school do so because they got pregnant, Republican Congresswoman Lauren Bobert for example.
It doesn't surprise me that pregnancy makes school tough
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@PREZ-HILTON
The economic freedom index disproves the theory that leftism promotes economic prosperity as the most leftist countries are at the bottom of it.
What is leftism? you are equated democratic socialism to leftism. Democratic Socialism is simply regulated capitalism.
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@PREZ-HILTON
We know economic interventionism harms competition for the following reasons.
Really? Go ask Alan Greenspan and Hank Paulson what they think of the “invisible hand” versus regulated capitalism.
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@PREZ-HILTON
We know economic interventionism harms competition for the following reasons.
Who advocates for competition? Certainly not capitalists. Competition is expensive. The goal of big business is to eliminate competition by any means necessary. You know who advocates for competition? Democratic Socialist.
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@PREZ-HILTON
After Glass Steagull people went from banking primarily with small banks to banking with the top 5 banking institutions.
Who advocated for the repeal of Glass-Steagal? Republicans
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@IwantRooseveltagain
ask Alan Greenspan and Hank Paulson
I just listed 3 proofs for my position and you instead of disproving my evidence decide to make a logical fallacy known as appeal to authority. Is that correct? Also I happen to know for a fact Greenspan would fall closer to me ideologically than you.
What is leftism? you are equated democratic socialism to leftism. Democratic Socialism is simply regulated capitalism.
North Korea and Venezuela are at the bottom of the economic freedom index which rates how capitalistic a country is. My interpretation of the index is that the countries at the top are more capitalistic snd the ones at the bottom more leftist
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@PREZ-HILTON
2. After the FDA was created to make more regulations we went from most groceries being bought from local grocery and food producers to now a handful of companies controlling the food supply
That’s nonsense. The FDA was created in 1906 to promote public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, caffeine products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs (medications), vaccines, biopharmaceuticals, blood transfusions, medical devices, electromagnetic radiation emitting devices (ERED), cosmetics, animal foods & feed[3] and veterinary products.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Who advocated for the repeal of Glass-Steagal? Republicans
Correct. Like I said the passing of Glass Steagull caused people to immediately go from banking at local banks to national and multinational ones in a relatively short period of time.
Before Glass Steagull passed 80% of banking was done at mom and pop banks. Afterwards 80% is done at the top 5 or 6 banking institutions.
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@PREZ-HILTON
the ones at the bottom more leftist
What does leftist mean? Define leftist.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
That’s nonsense. The FDA was created in 1906 to promote public health through the control and supervision of food safety, tobacco products, caffeine products, dietary supplements, prescription and over-the-counter pharmaceutical
We know the claimed intent. Who were the biggest lobbies for this act? I will give you a hint. Big food producers. Regardless of the intent the results are that most food was bought from local people, now most of it comes from a handful of multinational corporations.
Would you like to debate whether regulations are easier for billion dollar companies to confirm to or easier for your average rural farmer who is according to you an idiot?
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@PREZ-HILTON
3. After economic interventionism by FDR your favorite guy, hospital visits because the price was hidden from consumers and passed to insurance agencies hospitals started becoming ridiculously expensive.
More nonsense. Medicare was passed by LBJ. You don’t know what you are talking about.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
What does leftist mean? Define leftist.
Personally I would define the left right paradigm as how much economic interventionism or government interventionism a person wants. As far left as you can go is totalitarianism like north Korea or Venezuela or Nazi Germany. But as far right as you can go would be Laissez Faire capitalism or anarchy
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@PREZ-HILTON
Would you like to debate whether regulations are easier for billion dollar companies to confirm to or easier for your average rural farmer who is according to you an idiot?
Look, the idea that the US was going to be a network of rural farms and an agrarian economy went out with Thomas Jefferson. You are clueless.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
I am not talking about medicare. fDR placed wage caps on employers which meant employers started to offer health insurance to lure talent in. This resulted in patients being insulated from healthcare costs and rewarding companies willing to overcharge insurance companies
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Look, the idea that the US was going to be a network of rural farms and an agrarian economy went out with Thomas Jefferson. You are clueless.
Not sure what you mean. I merely pointed out economic interventionism and what immediately followed which is that we went from small businesses dominating an industry to soulless corporations paying people minimum wage
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@PREZ-HILTON
Personally I would define the left right paradigm as how much economic interventionism or government interventionism a person wants. As far left as you can go is totalitarianism like north Korea or Venezuela or Nazi Germany. But as far right as you can go would be Laissez Faire capitalism or anarchy.
Ok I like it. Good definition. If North Korea is a 10 on the leftist scale, Bernie Sanders is a 4. I’m a 4. You are a 1.
Debate me on whether regulations are generally easier for big billion dollar corporations or independent business owners. I will take the position that having billions at your disposal makes navigating complex regulations easier.
If we want we can also debate whether any over regulation exists in any capacity.
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@PREZ-HILTON
Big business, monopolies and no competition is the natural course of capitalism. Without regulation and government intervention we would have the 1880s again. Did you miss that day in high school too?
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@PREZ-HILTON
Debate me on whether regulations are generally easier for big billion dollar corporations or independent business owners.
There’s no debate, of course regulations are easier to cope with if you have large amounts of capital. But that’s not what kills small businesses. Should we let small businesses pollute the environment or cheat their employees just so they can survive? I don’t think so.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Oh the 1880s where the government intervened for John D Rockefeller to go after striking employees?
That's interventionism. A right wing government would allow strikes not send the national guard in.
Literally the 1880s had government intervention.
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Should we let small businesses pollute the environment or cheat their employees just so they can survive? I don’t think so.
I have worked for small and big businesses. That is more common in big business. I don't think going out of your way to destroy the economy and small businesses help the situation
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@PREZ-HILTON
Oh the 1880s where the government intervened for John D Rockefeller to go after striking employees?
The government broke up Standard Oil, remember?
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@PREZ-HILTON
go after striking employees?
That’s Republicans
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@IwantRooseveltagain
Why did it become a monopoly? It did it by the use of government interventionism helping. Standard oil used the government for a long time and also intimidated competition etc. Had a Laissez Faire system been in place their intimidation would have violated the law they would have been put out of business
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@PREZ-HILTON
Literally the 1880s had government intervention.
We didn’t even have income taxes then. The Robber Barons did what they wanted because there was very little regulation and no government oversight of the economy. Franklin Roosevelt changed all that after Teddy Roosevelt went after the Trusts (monopolies)
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@IwantRooseveltagain
go after striking employees?That’s Republicans
Actually Woodrow Wilson was in office when Rockefeller paid him to kill his employees