Keep playing those dummy democrats, they love complying with GOP demands to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
And when that wealth slips away from the lower half, the difficulty of that loss leads people into blaming others. A main theme against illegals is the notion that "they" are "taking" from "us". Bitter divisiveness grows under our present conditions, starved from the wealth of America. To be clear, if wealth was redistributed at 100%, EVERY SINGLE MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD would live in a household with a net worth well over a million dollars. Every single household would have 6 figures, annually. Just a quarter of that wealth would universally END mortgages and rent payments, pay for college loans, and provide safe transport and security for all.
The gap between a quarter and where we stand now is nearly unimaginable. But I will fight to make that dream a reality.
@agent00f , I'd almost mistake that string of conversation as a stand against fixing income inequality. Throw those lines in with your apparent disdain for us speaking economic policy... The parts of the Democratic party that bother me are the ones that embrace tribalism, who surrender to hatred and madness and seek to burn the world down rather than build it up. Whose chief concern is hurting "others" and not helping all men, created equal. The American motto was once E Pluribus Unum, the True American Dream.
Maybe someday more of us will remember that. And honor it not with hollow words, but with resolute action.
Afghanistan was a decisive victory, but then Bush redirected forces from there to Iraq rather than deliver the killing blow, which allowed the Taliban to regain a foothold.Decisive victory in Afghanistan indeed. I am betting that Trump ups the ante on Afghanistan tonight and the press and the Republicans and the Democrats suck his dick for the effort. Nothing like some good old fashioned warmongering to make everybody happy. Our longest war is Afghanistan and it is now about half controlled Al Qaeda. Well done. They aren't even bothering to give us a long term strategy anymore. Nobody apparently cares.
To be even clearer, there is no "THE" wealth. Wealth is not a "the". There is actually no distributing "IT" to everyone. The miraculous, imaginary pile of money you're imagining would simply blow away into worthless dust, because done as people imagine like this, there would simply be NO VALUE to any of it. Money is not actually a thing on its own without a multitude of factors behind it, "wealth" even less so.To be clear, if wealth was redistributed at 100%, EVERY SINGLE MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD would live in a household with a net worth well over a million dollars. Every single household would have 6 figures, annually. Just a quarter of that wealth would universally END mortgages and rent payments, pay for college loans, and provide safe transport and security for all.
Afghanistan was a decisive victory, but then Bush redirected forces from there to Iraq rather than deliver the killing blow, which allowed the Taliban to regain a foothold.
Decisive victory indeed, that explains why we are still there.
Define for me what victory in Afghanistan is because the politicians sure the fuck can't. For me personally, victory in Afghanistan would be defined as every American soldier out of the country.
Afghanistan was a decisive victory, but then Bush redirected forces from there to Iraq rather than deliver the killing blow, which allowed the Taliban to regain a foothold.
Please. The only people who ever won a war in Afghanistan were the ones willing to kill the inhabitants & take their shit.
No, starbuck is right that they won more white welfare money.
I can't find where starbuck said that. It was you, not him.
Victory meant eradication of the Taliban and the Afghani government self sufficient in maintaining the peace.Decisive victory indeed, that explains why we are still there.
Define for me what victory in Afghanistan is because the politicians sure the fuck can't. For me personally, victory in Afghanistan would be defined as every American soldier out of the country.
If you study history, no invading force has ever truly won in Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires.Please. The only people who ever won a war in Afghanistan were the ones willing to kill the inhabitants & take their shit.
Victory meant eradication of the Taliban and the Afghani government self sufficient in maintaining the peace.
That objective was attainable. Our special operations forces and Afghani allies were able to swiftly push the Taliban into a few remote and easily contained strongholds.
Bush made the mistake of diverting much needed resources to Iraq, resources needed to finish the job. Obama inherited a mess, withdrew troops to an arbitrary timetable and was perhaps overconfident in the symbolic elimination of Bin Laden.
If you study history, no invading force has ever truly won in Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires.
If you study history, no invading force has ever truly won in Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires.
Victory meant eradication of the Taliban and the Afghani government self sufficient in maintaining the peace.
Victory meant eradication of the Taliban and the Afghani government self sufficient in maintaining the peace.
That objective was attainable. Our special operations forces and Afghani allies were able to swiftly push the Taliban into a few remote and easily contained strongholds.
Bush made the mistake of diverting much needed resources to Iraq, resources needed to finish the job. Obama inherited a mess, withdrew troops to an arbitrary timetable and was perhaps overconfident in the symbolic elimination of Bin Laden.
Not a contradiction. I acknowledge the historical context of Afghanistan but also believe victory was attainable had Bush not redirected strategic focus to Iraq.The above does not seem to fit with:
"Victory meant eradication of the Taliban and the Afghani government self sufficient in maintaining the peace.
That objective was attainable. Our special operations forces and Afghani allies were able to swiftly push the Taliban into a few remote and easily contained strongholds."
Not a contradiction. I acknowledge the historical context of Afghanistan but also believe victory was attainable had Bush not redirected strategic focus to Iraq.
To be even clearer, there is no "THE" wealth. Wealth is not a "the". There is actually no distributing "IT" to everyone...
Keep playing those dummy democrats, they love complying with GOP demands to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Thanks for admitting that the US should've gone into Iraq because the "experts" had the all the "information" about his WMDs
LOL!Senior citizens would love to hear how their social security doesn't actually exist. It would appear that instead of logic you are desperately clinging to appeal for emotion in some bid to stop yourself from thinking. Yet there are taxes today, and a $4 trillion budget today. It would appear, contrary to your protest, that money DOES exist and is already being distributed.
Highly inaccurate-
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/the-europe-in-rubble-excuse/?_r=0
America's problem isn't the size of the pie but rather the way we divvy it up... Trickle down doesn't deliver.
LOL!
"Wealth" isn't the fantasy pile of cash with infinite value attached to it people like you imagine it to be. Wealth (on a national scale as you're spewing about) is a gazillion things- like the equity in someone's business it took them 40 years to build. Sorry, you can't 'redistribute' that. Wealth is the better mousetrap someone else invented, marketed, sells successfully for a profit. You can't 'redistribute' that. Wealth is millions of people's stock returns. You can't redistribute that. Wealth is your neighbor's (and millions of others) decades of work and intelligent financial planning. You don't get to claim or redistribute it- and positing to do so isn't even a remotely moral idea- it's just a pipedream THEFT.
Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing, essentially bought up this old drug and jacked up the price of it overnight 5500% of an increase, and seemingly for no reason.
This drug has been used for decades, and it's used to treat parasitic infection. It's used in HIV patients to protect their central nervous system. It's not a top seller, but it was a common drug, it was used. It only, at the time, cost $13.50 a pill. Then, Turing steps in and they buy it, and that price jumps to $750 a pill virtually overnight, with no improvement. It's like taking a car that's 15 years old and then saying, "You know what, you have to buy this 15-year-old car for more than it cost brand new." It made no sense. From a healthcare perspective, it made no sense.
No, starbuck is right that they won more white welfare money.
He said they won in Afghanistan and I was merely illustrating why the GOP thinks that. Winning the political ammunition for false pretense with iraq is surely a victory by any stretch of the imagination.
You can do that make-believe with piles of worthless paper all you want, but you can't actually 'redistribute' virtually ANYTHING that gives any of that paper actual VALUE. Just like you can't conjure gold if our currency were still tied to that.