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    4 hours ago, Omerta said:

    Look man, I'm not saying this to be a dick or nothing but this is a situation where not knowing economic basics and relying on someone else who does not understand monetary economics in business especially in dynamic business policies is a bad thing and can make you look foolish to those who do.

    A more accurate figure is 134%. I can either tell you how that works or you can do the research on your own if you want.

    My youngest bro just graduated airforce tech school and is home and my middle bro is going into the Navy so we're celebrating. Woulda got to this sooner BUT forgive me for doubting you expertise of the Japanese economy but I think you did a Google search and came upon this This Quora discussion so I would love for you to explain. If you could also back up your argument of how telling poor folks to not have kids is a good idea. 

    Btw, we're both opinionated Irish pricks so it goes without saying that you can go fuck yourself you arrogant bastard haha.

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    2 minutes ago, Omerta said:

    Fuck yes tell them that. God damn I am so tired of seeing this shit. Two dumbasses fuck and either the kid or the taxpayer suffer. It is such bullshit. Dont have kids if you cant afford them on your own. How is this not common fucking sense?

    Lol I hear you but people with more money have less kids on average too. This would create a lot of problems. 

    "In Japan, employers often struggle to fill job vacancies. Spending on health care and pensions has swollen Japan’s public debt to more than twice the size of its economy. The International Monetary Fund has estimated that the country’s annual economic growth could be 1 percentage point lower for the next three decades because of Japan’s aging population. That means the country’s economy, forecast to expand 1 percent this year and next, may stagnate further"

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-14/humans-having-fewer-babies-is-a-big-economic-problem-quicktake

     

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    10 hours ago, Thanatos said:

    Its absolutely true. I am surviving on $12/hr. I would thrive on 15. Wear jackets indoors, use electric blankets instead of heating a room, and invest in good insulation.

    I do agree with you on buying a home though, I think its one of the fastest ways to get out of poverty actually. They are cheaper than apartments, so as long as you can somehow come up with the down payment, you should absolutely buy a home that you can afford. 

    Renting is one of the biggest costs of being poor. It costs a lot of money to live in poverty.

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    8 minutes ago, Thanatos said:

    $15 is absolutely a living wage in the midwest. And we are talking basic needs only. I'm not paying for people to get a big flatscreen TV. I could survive off $15/hr easily.

    Yeah but to his point 15 in some places isn't enough. It would be really fucking easy to determine what living wage is by location. It's just a matter of political will. I think everyone would agree that we don't need to be paying for people to live in luxary buy innocent kids shouldn't be going hungry or without healthcare. Isn't it like 1 in 5 kids live in poverty? That's unacceptable in the richest most powerful country in world history that prides itself on freedom. Freedom and poverty are pretty damn close to polar opposites. Poverty and stress also effect academic performance and general health both physical and mental.

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    Man the greed of Disney is just unbelievable lol. They have a lot of stones trying to make that offer to Sony. I don't blame them for walking. MCU is going steadily down hill too. No more Ironman, no more Spidey, no more Captain America. It's finna be all about gurl power lol. Which character are they gonna make gay? Lololol

  14. Posted · Edited by seanbrock

    1 hour ago, BwareDWare94 said:

    $15 isn't even a living wage unless we're taking strictly basic needs. I like UBI. Do away with other government programs and go with $1000-1500 UBI.

    To me UBI seems like another corporate welfare scheme. The tax payers are still covering the cost of employment. Also, why wouldn't we bump it up to 2k or something and only give UBI to people that actually need it? 

    I think a jobs guarantee would be much better because it actually adds value to the economy. People get free training/education to rebuild and build new infrastructure and help clean up the environment. 

    Just wanted to add that a jobs guarantee is also a much better solution to cleaning up neighborhoods than gentrification too. If you started giving people in the hood or in the sticks jobs pensions and a good wage they would repair their own neighborhood not only with their new found skills and knowledge but their new found money. Much better than being stuck in the projects or on section 8 barely surviving off food stamps, welfare and selling drugs.

  15. Posted · Edited by seanbrock

    Minimum wage isn't enough. Trillions of dollars have been extracted from the middle class over this 4 decade long corporate coup. Only the one percent has benefitted from increases in technology and these trade deals. The rest of us have been told we need to go into indentured servitude for our education with no promises of a job when we're done or to work 2-3 jobs in a service industry or some other low paying job that you have to hope offers benefits. We need to trust bust, we need to democratize the workplace. We need to take the money back that these people have stolen by gaming the system. This whole conservative idea that the only responsibility corporations have is to make the max profit for their share holders is literally poisoning our water supply and destroying the planet. It's not just Republicans though. This is what happens when you have two right wing parties and everyone else is pushed out of the political system. Regular people get fucked. Plain and simple. 

  16. Posted · Edited by seanbrock

    It's also interesting that besides the US, the only countries without universal healthcare have been ravaged by colonialism. The US is probably the only country without universal healthcare that anyone in their right mind would want to live in. You know, all those shit hole countries that we sanction, impose dictatorships and steal their resources and exploit their labor and massacre or fund the massacre of their people? To be fair they're not all just former/current US colonies but I bet they're all part of those "free trade" agreements. Lol

    You guys say taxation is theft buy I say austerity is theft. 

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    @DalaiLama4EverIf we let states determine everything black people would be slaves in half the states and all the dumb ass white people down south would be happy to keep working for pennies because at least they're better than someone and all the while the plantation owner would laugh at them. It's like that Dave Chappelle joke about rich white people laughing at Trump voters and calling them white trash lol. Confederacy doesn't work. It's been tried twice. It got smacked down twice. The reality is that we do need a federal government, hate to break it to you. 

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    1 hour ago, DalaiLama4Ever said:

    Even when it comes to trauma, we all have different ways of coping (or not). Every situation (person) is completely 100% unique. 

    Stabilizing the American family is a big part of fixing that. And for those instances that we can’t prevent, we have to get better at identifying the troubling patterns and get people help. 

    So I think we agree there. 

    If you want to stabilize the American family, give people healthcare and a living wage. If you're feeling suicidal you should be able to just walk in and talk to a doctor. Stuff like that would go a long way to preventing mass shootings. By all accounts you seem opposed to this. 

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  20. Posted

    The only point I was trying to make was that there are some things that we have to make laws against people owning or restrict ownership of certain things. JD was saying it's not the government's role to tell you how to live but that just simply isn't true. Maybe we should do away with drivers licenses and do away with traffic laws. Who the fuck is the government to tell me I can't drive just because I have narcolepsy? 

    Again, I wouldn't ban assault rifles. I have already said what I would do. I actually agree with much of what you and JD say. 

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    I kind of tend to agree that people don't need assault rifles and the idea that even with assault rifles that we could take down the government is laughable. My concern is the logistics behind an assault rifles ban. Is it possible? I mean, I guess you could make a law banning them but I would personally rather keep track of them and the people that try and fail to purchase them due to a stringent background test. I just think that it would lead to people making their own unsafe and unregistered weapons. All your need is the specs if you're a machinist and I'm sure one or a thousand might figure out that they can get rich making these weapons. 

  25. Posted · Edited by seanbrock

    Just wanted to add that #metoo and things of that nature on the left make it easy for the creeps at Fox news to make their pitch that white people are under attack. I've said it once and I'll say it again. Hard to see how priveldged you are when you're living in poverty like millions of white people are. Most white people have no money and no power just like an immigrant or a minority so blaming low information/misinformed white voters makes similarly very little sense. We need to figure out how to unite people.

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