"Have you ever asked that of anyone else here."

 Yes.


"Suppose I say no, what do you say to that."

 Ok.


"Now suppose I answered yes (which I wouldn't because we all know that would be absurd). What do you say to that?"


 I would have indicated that the speed in which you were posting content is for the most part faster than one's ability to accurately research and provide an educated response to.  Not impossible however, especially considering multiple people are assigned to this forum for that purpose.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 12/22/19 at 16:04:00:

the best IMPEACHED!!!!
no NIXON was better he ran the coward

thumperclone wrote on 12/23/19 at 16:15:58:



Wait a sec here - they are going to re-impeach him.
Bloody fcuking hell if they do that, I will change my vote from Donald Duck to Donald Trump. What a waste of soundbites my entertainment and … does it even make sense other than a spectacular admission of defeat.
I mean its like Greta Thunberg eating a cheeseburger cos she thought no one was looking then when caught saying, yea yea planet hotter etc etc, but this is Fcuking delish. You stop that global warming now. OK , now I want another burger, so my double cheese burger should teach a lesson to y'all to not warm globally. How dare you.

JOG - trump extended the recovery but kicking out illegals and squeezing the H1 abusers and has created a lot of US jobs available for US citizens instead of reserved for foreigners. See when job is taken by a foreigner, $$$ is spent as remittances to other countries, if it goes to a US citizen, they buy cars, bikes, houses, toys, food etc etc all in the US. Tariffs, and squeezing out foreign labor helps that domestic $$$ being spent locally. Not export $$$ and import shietete. Seriously I want both to continue, china is robbing US manufacturing and Mexico and India and other countries are robbing US jobs. We have several million homeless, let google HR walk the streets and find people who would work for them, so can GM, ford, and every other business in the US. I'm sure a lot of smart people have ended up homeless just cos it was easier and cheaper to find someone legal or H1 trough an intermediary subcontractor. Screw all that. both those programs need to die. those suck $$$ out of US economy and pull foreign goods in, we need the opposite, we need to make lots of sheitet and have the Chinese and Indians and Mexicans and everyone else buy it with USD.

Cool.
Srinath.

Eegore wrote on 12/23/19 at 20:50:04:



This is not why I am saying china is robbing the US. China routinely uses political prisoners to keep their cocts down, they routinely get heavily subsidized by the govt, they also confiscate private land for industries, house people in massive matchbox structures essentially making them pay for accommodation etc etc as well as not buy things from the US when they are supposed to by trade agreements. Saudi arabia does it to a larger scale to Indian workers including confiscating their passports, and china has been strip mining Nepal, Africa etc etc to artificially keep the costs down. These countries costs of producing goods will be much much higher if they were to pay and have standards for workers like they are supposed to. China also artificially lowers their currency to make them cheaper.
Its not consumers choice really, Consumer has no choice because they have been doing it for decades, decimating the entire US industry.

Cool.
Srinath.

That's a variation of the "break windows so the local businesses stay economically sound" theory.   If someone went around breaking windows, homeowners would have to spend money buying supplies or hiring workers to fix the windows. That improves the local economy because more cash is put into the system, right? Wrong.

That cash is no longer available for other uses which would have been chosen by the homeowner for various reasons Same here. You spend $300 instead of $600 on a product made in China. You may have spent up to $500, but never $600. Essentially you've got $200 dollars of which some portion will be spent on one or two other goods or services.

Broken Windows is a sound, proven economic illustration. Often used to disprove the war is good for the economy idea. Liberalism survives on the belief that Broken Windows is valid, that government can fully understand and dictate the movement of the economy by pulling a few cleverly selected levers.
The better theory is the Invisible Hands concept. Let people (the market) select. Obviously, there needs to be some oversight, no one should object to that. The entire debate is how much oversight.

I agree with that.