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 | Your views, thoughts or simply opinions. The Economy is not well (understatement). I know there are some here that will try to link the country they are residing in as problems of the USA. Sorry the USA cannot be responsible for 100% of the problems in the world nor should they be expected to help repair all problems. |
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Trump: "We're making a fortune with tariffs - $2bn a day"
This is a LIE. Data from US Treasury, which includes the impact of some of Trump's earlier tariffs, amounted to $215m a day.
Trump: "The US imported $9bn worth of goods per day last year"
This is a LIE. Even with tariffs, whose average daily rate is 22%, the volume of imports is to $2bn a day.
Trump: "We have a trillion dollar trade deficit with China".
This is a LIE. In 2024, China exported nearly $1tn more goods than it imported. That's globally. The US part is $295bn- which is far less than the $1tn claimed by Trump.
And yet people in his cult love him, precisely because
he's a liar. I really can't comprehend this. But this
is what religion is. Religious fundamentalists cling
to this kind of shit.
He will remain unpredictable and unstable.
to go back up again, and make a lot of money on stocks for himself and his friends.
It's easy to make a lot of money from the stock market, if you control the policies
to make it crash and recover, at will.
It's fucking corrupt, but Trump doesn't give a fuck about that.
oil is now 59.94 and gas is 1.99 a gallon wholesale at the moment. that means next month, our fuels should be noticeably less at the pump. which means cost of transport of goods will be cheaper, family's can afford to go on vacations, and etc. our storm damaged mountain regions will benefit because tourism will become affordable again.
all good for the little man. shucks, it will for sure help me on my planned road trip in a few months.
There is no economic rule linking your chaos with lower prices for oil and gas.
Sometimes prices go up, sometimes prices go down. Trump didn't do this.
What he did do is just cause a global stock market crash, due to a trade war.
Those trade wars will make everything more expensive for those families.
People will lose their jobs. Even if some production is coming back to the US,
that will take YEARS. Meanwhile, your economy is going down the drain,
because other countries will trade less with the US. International trade is based
on trust, for a big part, and no one can trust your country now.
eliminate the tariffs, free trade.
Do you understand CAUSE AND EFFECT?
on all your goods. If that lowers some prices, like when demand drops for certain products, that will be temporary. The producers will sell less product, so they will lower their production and raise their prices to make the same profits. They will also need to fire employees, because they don't need all of them, when they produce less.
They cannot make their factories smaller, to reduce non-personnel operating costs,
so their margins will become smaller. Their product will become more expensive,
if they want to raise prices or not.
Trump put tariffs on everything, even coffee and bananas. Let's use them as an example. You cannot grow coffee and bananas, so all American products made with coffee and bananas will become more expensive for Americans and who ever you want to export these products to. When you export them, those products become even more expensive, because all those countries will tariff your products. They don't have the same tariffs on importing coffee and bananas and they don't have the same tariffs when they export them to anyone besides the US. Do you think you can undercut their prices, by a 2x tariffs amount? How much cheaper do your employees need to work, to compete with the rest of the world, that doesn't tariff each other?
A temporary dip in gas prices won't erase all the harm these idiots are causing. So you save a few pennies while the rest of us loose our pensions. At a boy, Phart. Think what's important here
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so folks want cheap solar to replace coal.
now they are bitching about supposed slave labor. how the hell is solar going to be affordable if you pay 20 dollars a hour for someone to make the cells?
quit sticking your noses into how other countries do things and just buy the cheaper products .you can't have cheap energy and tell other countries how to run their business's.
Coal is about THREE TIMES more expensive.
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Since when do you care what workers are getting paid?
Actually, the manufacture of solar panels is a high skilled job and even in China
the workers who make them are likely paid higher than average wage for a worker.
Most of it is automated. The workers are just machine operators.
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It's exactly the type of production that you say you want back in the US.
Mining coal is an incredibly unhealthy job. It's also very labor intensive. Coal mines
in the US were going out of business, because it's a financially nonviable business.
They only tried to keep the industry alive by exploiting the workers and ignoring safety
and health measures. Even with those measures in place, coal-miners knew they were working themselves to an early grave. only registered users can see external links
coal mining is a dirty job. people have been doing it for well over a 100 years though and people still report to work every day to do it.
and if Trumps plans go forward,hopefully more will be getting jobs doing it. the 16,000 government workers can go apply for actual jobs that require physical effort.
China has pulled more people out of poverty than you would ever want to.
Tell the billionaires you worship to do actual jobs that require physical effort.
The Panama canal was made to ship goods quickly and cheaply between
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. You can still do that. Why do you need to own it?
It's only because your stupid cult leader tells you.
It now belongs to Panama, end of story. The Panama canal also doesn't belong
to Russia, China or Zambia. If they shut it down, it's up to Panama to resolve that problem. If they cannot, it's an act of aggression against Panama. I'm sure they would want your country to come to their defense then.
Just because Cheetolini doesn't understand that, doesn't mean you should adopt his nonsense.
He had Jared Kushner investigate a good trade policy program, for his first campaign.
Jared just looked for books in the economy section of Amazon, and found a book.
He didn't read any of the books, he just looked at covers, and he liked the book titled
"Death by China", by Peter Navarro, who later became Trump's key trade adviser.
In that book, Navarro introduced a character named Ron Vara, who was portrayed as a seasoned economist offering critical insights into China's economic practices. However, investigative reports later revealed that Ron Vara was not a real person but an alias created by Navarro himself. The name "Ron Vara" is an anagram of "Navarro," and he used this pseudonym across multiple publications to present viewpoints aligning with his own perspectives on China's trade practices.
So, now you have a president, who implemented the economic vision, of the alter-ego
of a paranoid schizophrenic. This is a RECORD LEVEL OF INCOMPETENCE.
The Dow Jones opens on another multi trillion dollar slide!
Hopefully investors will calm down and turn this around
because everybody loses in this scenario.
WATCH: Republican Senator Absolutely SLAMS Trump's Tariff Plan
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As I'm sure you know, Donald Trump said on many occasions that these tariffs will be permanent…
Of course being Donald Trump, the fickle man he is, everything or anything can change on a whim, a thought, a misspoken sentence or a stupid post on Twitter. That's your president.
Leo has never had to live in the real world apparently either
if he had he would understand this is not a utopian environment
I'm definitely left field, but you have me defending CAPITALISM right now.
I'm just explaining what's happening, can you?
You have always been a staunch defender of capitalism and you hate socialism.
Trump is doing something that's not capitalism and not socialism.
Can you tell me what it is that he's trying to implement and why you support it?
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now that Trump is actually resetting things, it is horrible. odd,
Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te on Sunday offered zero tariffs as the basis for talks with the U.S., pledging to remove trade barriers rather than imposing reciprocal measures and saying Taiwanese companies will raise their U.S. investments.
now who is the idiot? zero as in 0 tarriffs. that would be great for all involved. that is FREE trade.
Question: why is phart gay?
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P.S. I don't mind at all that he's gay, I'm just asking how one can indubitably decide that phart is gay?
Personally, I don't think you have to be gay, to want to suck cock.
If you do, you're probably also not 100% straight, but who cares.
I think sexual orientation is a sliding scale.
Just like I think gender is very much a sliding scale. I'm very much on the manly side.
Men are very logical and emotionally stable, women tend to be more emotional and
base their thinking on intuition more. That's very consistent with phart's behavior and
the behavior of the other right-wingers. They have a very feminine brain.
It's such a shame that they cannot admit their nature. They would be so much happier accepting it and maybe cross dress every other weekend.
I have always been surprised with the high ratio of conservatives on this website full of cocks. They of course have to suppress any urges, because it's not acceptable in their culture, so they go out on the internet to live out their fantasy anonymously. Also anything that's most taboo turns into a sexual fantasy for many people. That's why the number 1 porn search terms in red states are “shemale”, “tranny”, “femboy”, and “ladyboy”.
I just wanted to say that trump keeps fucking him and he's enjoying it.
I was trying to make a joke out of his insistence, and, likewise most maga-idiots, that their Supreme Leader cares about nothing except his own skin.
Have you seen, however, some trumpers from West Virginia who are now crying because despite the fact that they voted for trump, they've been fired from their (federal) jobs because trump decided so?
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Shame on me for not reading the whole story. In the context of the Clown’s actions doing to everyone, yes, Phart has his ass in the air
my ass is not in the air, thus far i have noticed little to no affect on my life by Trumps actions. there will be a slight increase in the cost of parts i use to repair seniors equipment and such that i do for cheap or free as far as labor is concerned
You're enjoying being fucked.
Others, in W VA , for instance,
also trump lovers,
were fucked so badly-- they lost their fed jobs-- that are now regretting having offered their souls,and asses, to a rapist.
You're so hard-core religious though that you'll never admit there's anything wrong even if trump uses your mouth to empty his diarrhea shit. You'll merely say "I get free protein from my president-god."
He doesn't know anyone except himself.
not normal in how i live my life? sheesh, not being a bum to society is not normal? i don't want to be normal if i am supposed to depend on everyone else for everything.
The 75% of Americans below them have been doing worse.
That's not because of immigrants, that because Republicans have ONLY
been serving the rich and screwing everyone else.
To make you accept this, they have been paying the media to lie to you.
That's WHY you think "it's those damn illegals", who are rapists, criminals and
gang members, but they also come steal your jobs.
Somehow, those raping gang members find the time to harvest your vegetables
and fruit, pack your meat, build your houses, cut your lawn, etc.
The ideas you have in your brain fall apart in one thought, but you can't see that.
While you and the rest of MAGA believe that stupid lie,
Trump lets Elon destroy your country further for the working class.
They want people to be their slaves and you are giving it to them.
Look at the countries of the dictators that Trump loves so much.
Would you like living in their countries? That's the future Trump holds for you.
Trump is destroying democratic elections, so you cannot vote back what you had,
when you finally get yourself out of the cult.
Do you think that's what people are protesting, in 50 states?
besides, have you notice oil has went down to 61 dollars a barrel>? have you noticed wholesale gas has went down almost 20 cents a gallon in the past few days>?
um
stock market dropped some. you know well as i do it was getting a bit over board. it will level out.
things take time.
just as surgery to fix a health issue, it takes cuts and blood and pain to get things fixed.
YES, HE IS THE PRESIDENT AND I’M NOT. DOES THAT MEAN HE IS RIGHT AND I AM WRONG? ARE THE PEOPLE THAT KNOW BECAUSE OF HISTORY, EDUCATION, AND PRESENT HAPPENINGS ARE WRONG TOO?
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besides, you don't have to buy a new car right now. wait and let the dust settle, when the folks get tired of holding their shit, they will reduce their tarrifs and then we will reduce ours.
THE PEOPLE HOLDING THEIR SHIT IS OUR GOVERNMENT. THE ECONOMY WAS DOING JUST FINE. WHY BREAK IT? AND WHAT HAPPENS IF I NEED A CAR OR ANYTHING NOW?
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besides, have you notice oil has went down to 61 dollars a barrel>? have you noticed wholesale gas has went down almost 20 cents a gallon in the past few days>?
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YES, BUT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HIM. OPEC WANTS TO BE IN A GOOD POSITION FOR THE MESS COMING.
“Eight key OPEC+ producers on Thuesday agreed to raise combined crude oil output by 411,000 barrels per day, speeding up the pace of their scheduled hikes and pushing down oil prices.
The group was widely expected to implement an increase of just under 140,000 barrels per day next month.
The May hike agreed on Thursday is “equivalent to three monthly increments,” OPEC said in a statement, adding that “the gradual increases may be paused or reversed subject to evolving market conditions.”
THERE’S ALSO A CONSENSUS OF ECONOMISTS THAT OIL, AS ONE OF THE FUELS THAT POWER PROSPERITY, MEASURES HOW AN ECONOMY IS WORKING. SUPPLY AND DEMAND COMES INTO PLAY. AS THE ECONOMY TANKS, LESS OIL IS USED. THIS CREATES A GLUT AND PRICE GOES DOWN.
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stock market dropped some. you know well as i do it was getting a bit over board. it will level out.
things take time.
just as surgery to fix a health issue, it takes cuts and blood and pain to get things fixed.
IT WAS NOT A BIT OVERBOARD. THE PRICE OF STOCKS IS WHATEVER THE MARKET THINKS IT IS. THIS HURTS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE 401K PLANS. IT ALSO HURTS INVESTORS. THE ECONOMY IS TAKING A HIT. AND FOR WHAT?
That's something we don't see in Europe, or WAY less.
You are bett1ng on the idea that those stocks will go up one day.
What is the route to recovery that you see? Explain the logic.
The idea is that tariffs will return production to the US, right?
Who is going to do those jobs? The unemployment rate in 2024 was 3.7%.
You are most likely counted as 1 of those 3.7%. Just like fat MAGA moms.
How many millions of immigrants did Trump want to deport?
First you need to fill all the jobs that those immigrants were doing.
Then where do you find the workers to do those production jobs?
And then I would like you to explain who's going to buy those American products?
You can forget about all the countries you just tariffed.
Do you think Asia will ever need what you are making?
In Europe, we can make those products cheaper in our own countries.
Just because the US tariffed everyone, doesn't mean they'll tariff each other.
The result is that the US either makes, sells and buys its own products, or you think you can out-compete the global market by still being cheaper, after tariffs.
It must be the last option, because you don't want wages to go up.
Without wages rising, you won't have Americans who can afford those products.
So, you think you can make those products cheaper and better than China.
-> Americans need to work harder and more efficient than Chinese people.
Another alternative is only making high-tech, high-value products.
You need highly educated technicians to build that production infrastructure.
Trump is destroying education as we speak, so that's not going to happen.
You are towards an economy of dumb workers, who are paid less than Chinese people and work harder, thinking you can out-compete China, while China is heavily investing in education and innovation. Do you want to switch positions with China from a few decades ago?
I'm asking you all of this, because I want you to show that you put any thought
to the future of your country and the choices you make as a voter.
Look, it doesn't matter what you or I think. At the end of the day people with 401K's lost a huge value of their principal and even if they have time to recoup some of that money, they never get it all back. And in this case I know personally. In 2008 MY 401 lost 40% and I was never able to get it back.
He wrote
"he is the President,you aint, so apparently he knows more than you or I.”
But he meant
"he is the one and only supreme almighty leader god,you aint, so apparently he knows more than you or I.”
He doesn't see trump as president,
he sees him as his personal god,
even though he'll deny that.
His devotion to him is the devotion
of a member of a religious cult.
He's ready to die for him and nothing will change his view,
not even I'd his god killed him.
here are some of those friendly bean picking farm hands that have been sent away.
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, six carried charges of child molestation, and one was charged with raxe,
cat's man has a record and is regularly reminded of it, but when others that have done the same or far worse are hauled away making our country safe, we are all supposedly
'getting fucked" leo, you make no sense at all sometimes.
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... or how it will be know in the near future "Trump Economic Disaster Day".
You are correct that tariffs could bring back manufacturing jobs.
If that was what Trump is doing now, I would praise him, even if it hurt my country.
Everyone in the world would understand and accept that, if that was what he was doing.
That's not what he is doing and that's not what he is saying.
He is starting a trade war for complete nonsense.
And there is no logic at all to HOW he's doing it.
Trump is completely incapable of doing what you are saying
and he didn't hire 'the best people' to advise him on this.
He's just doing incredibly stupid random shit, that will hurt EVERYONE.
You cannot expect your country to manufacture lumber like Canada was selling you,
in a few years. You cannot expect your automotive industry to make all the parts in
the US, at the same price as when you can buy them internationally. These are just 2 examples of tariffs that are going to hurt you, because your destroying your own global competition. You are also making the construction of your houses more expensive,
in a time when more and more people already cannot afford to buy a home.
While you need to bring back all those manufacturing jobs, you are simultaneously kicking out millions of immigrants who were doing your cheapest labor. You don't have millions of unemployed people who can do those jobs. If you did have them, no one would have welcomed those Haitians in Springfield. The economy of Springfield revived, purely because those Haitians filled the gap in your employment force. And that was BEFORE you deported the fruit and cotton pickers and meat-packers to prison camps
in El Salvador. (at least the results of your own stupidity will serve as a punishment for that cruelty)
The global industry is optimized to utilize the strength of all countries combined.
That's CAPITALISM. It's not my favorite system, but it is what developed humanity
to it's current level. It has tremendous side effects, especially when you let short-sighted selfish wealthy people dominate the system, but it used to work well, before it created
the pollution and inequity that is going to destroy humanity.
Republicans were the biggest advocates of free market capitalism in the world.
You are still always parroting their old arguments back to me. MAGA is now showing completely opposite principles. HOW can you process that in your brain?
How can you completely oppose my arguments, when I tell you that uncontrolled capitalism hurts people, but then argue back to me, that YOUR OWN PRINCIPLES HURT YOU, without being more open to what I have been telling you for years now?
They have deported a father of a 5 y.o. child, naturalized citizen, with no convictions. There is a whole list of people who were DOCUMENTED, never even had a parking ticket, but deported to a prison camp in El Salvador, without one day in court.
And when the get deported there "accidentally", your administration does nothing
to get them back. That's criminal.
And when they ask Trump about it, he says that he doesn't know about it.
"Wir haben es nicht gewuЯt" did the Nazis say.
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could it be these that were deported by mistake supposedly were hanging with the wrong crowd?
Immigrants commit way less crimes than 'real' Americans do.
But you keep thinking of them as criminals, who didn't crime yet.
There is only one term for that attitude: "racism".
Ice has mostly picked up people who were working on a farm or in a factory.
Many of them were NOT undocumented, but had some right to work in your country.
The large majority of them have never committed any crimes.
I told you that I don't want undocumented people working in my country either.
But that is the reality. It's not their fault, that's YOUR fault, for voting for Republicans, who took away all the accountability from immigrant exploiting employers, while blocking all the efforts from Democrats to increase workplace inspections and increase the number of green cards and other LEGAL working permits,
to FIX THE SYSTEM.
The PVV party in my country is doing the same thing as your Republicans did.
They are crying about immigrants, while making the system to handle them ineffective. Meanwhile, there are about a million working migrants in our country, getting exploited and creating problems in neighborhoods by being drunk and noisy. They are living with 20 people in an apartment, all paying hundreds of euros to some scummy employment agency. Our left-wing and liberal parties want to fix that exploitation, but the right-wingers block all efforts. Then we hear that there are owners of those scummy employment agencies in the right-wing parties and they get donations from them. Our politics is turning more corrupt, when right-wingers win the elections. They never solve a problem, but only make everything worse. Then they tell the people who get hurt from their actions that immigrants caused their problems and "the left" let them in. Right-wingers are telling the same old lies everywhere.
I don't understand why people like you keep believing them.
as for those that are supposedly documented, were the documents legit or fake>? there is a huge market for fake license,id's and such here in the us.
A documentation status isn't just owning a paper. Ever heard of records?
They have a big electronic machine, that stores information in the form of zeros and ones, coding for letters. All those computers are linked to each other with wires and radio signals. That way, people can enter information, so others can search and find it. Then they know things about people. It's all very convenient.
When you finally leave the 1940's, you might learn about them.
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vietnam, 90% tariff, how can we sell them anything?
90% because Vietnam has been screwing you? How?
just 1 example.
That's because Vietnamese people are cheap, not because they screw you.
That's capitalism, the system that you would kill and die for.
A socialist like me would say; we're not going to buy your tires anymore, until you pay your employees a decent wage and stop polluting. Then we would have actually a level playing field, in the global competition race. And we wouldn't destroy humanity, which is kind of nice.
i keep trying to explain to you that this price and wage thing is a hamster wheel, if 1 goes up the other follows and it just keeps going and going .
You already had a consumer economy, but with your tariffs that's now worse.
People need money to consume and keep your economy going.
This is something Henry Ford understood 100 years ago.
If no one has money to buy your stupid pick up trucks, they'll go bankrupt.
No one but Americans will buy your American products anymore, so it's up to you
to produce it and consume it. That won't work with poor people.
Those 1% of miljonairs and billionaires won't spend enough.
If your ideas are the blueprint, it will completely destroy your economy.
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raised USD 5 billion in one day
the folks that can afford to pay 1 million dollars for a gold card to be here in the US won't be buming off of us and will be a asset to the country,instead of a burden. 5 billion dollars in 1 day, wow
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Without USAID, My Neighbors in Sudan are Starving
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The United States has been providing aid to Sudan since at least 2004. The US is the largest single donor to Sudan, providing more than $5 billion in aid since 2005.
Why does sudan need aid?
United States aid to Sudan has three key objectives: a definitive end to conflict, gross human rights abuses, and genocide in Darfur; implementation of the north–south Comprehensive Peace Agreement that results in a peaceful post-2011 Sudan, or an orderly path toward two separate and viable states at peace with each other
IN other words, the US democrats are meddling in other nations affairs. something they need to deal with on their own. IF people as individuals and company's want to send some money ,let them, our Government does not need ot be sending tax dollars there.
May seem a bit rude but we have hungry and homeless here in the US that can't contribute to their community's and deserve help much moreso than fighting ,scabbling folks overseas.
I'm not telling you to fund them into perpetuity, but cutting aid from one day to the next
is fucking brutal. It will only create more misery in the world. $5 billion is nothing compared to your GDP, but doing good in the world is making the US more popular. It's much better than when they hate you. That's called "soft power". What will happen is that China swoops in and saves those people and then takes all the resources instead of you.
Your homeless, poor and hungry people are not for lack of money.
It's by your own choice to let the wealthy people take all the money.
You need to TAX THE RICH, or there will be MORE homeless, poor and hungry people, while Elon Musk and his friends will be TRILLIONAIRES.
They are not INVESTING in your jobs, they are BUYING UP everything, so they'll own everything and you'll own NOTHING.
Remember the comment of Klaus Schwab? "You'll own nothing and be happy!".
You won't be happy, you'll be fucking hungry, tired, sick and miserable.
That's on it's way and it'll be YOUR FAULT!!!
And its not like that money has been well spent in the first place. The United Nations has had a presence in Sudan since the 1950s and provided humanitarian assistance during the country's two civil wars. After the signing of the CPA in 2005, the UN coordinated planning and integration with government counterparts.
And the cunts still can't feed themselves? Pathetic unorganized wankers.
Do you get anything back for that?
You gave them hundreds of billions worth in weapons.
Do they have peace now? Or are they just creating more war?
I understand you cannot fund everyone and everything.
Just don't cut them off, from one day to the next.
There's a responsibility to being the world's top superpower.
Do you want to be a force for good or for evil?
Corruption is one of the most pressing issues. Many leaders are more focused on maintaining power and enriching themselves rather than addressing the needs of their people. Public funds meant for infrastructure, health, and education are frequently siphoned off into private pockets. This results in underfunded systems that fail to provide basic services, from roads to healthcare to education, and the vicious cycle of poverty continues.
Furthermore, political instability and a lack of effective leadership have often led to prolonged conflicts, which devastate entire regions, such as in Sudan, where ongoing internal struggles, weak state structures, and foreign interference have only compounded the problems. The failure to mediate or resolve these conflicts effectively leaves millions of people suffering without any long-term solutions.
In many cases, African governments have relied heavily on foreign aid to address issues, which in some ways has also encouraged a culture of dependency. The lack of self-sufficiency can be traced to poor policy decisions, lack of strategic long-term planning, and an absence of focus on building indigenous institutions capable of driving sustainable growth.
African leaders have a responsibility to prioritize the welfare of their people over personal gain, create inclusive, transparent governments, foster education and job creation, and build systems that hold them accountable. But this requires a drastic shift in mindset. Instead of relying on external forces or foreign aid, governments need to invest in homegrown solutions—such as diversifying economies, improving infrastructure, and tackling corruption head-on.
The problem, unfortunately, often lies with the elites (meaning cunts in the EU) who benefit from maintaining the status quo. Without a genuine commitment to reform from within, it is challenging to expect meaningful change. For Africa to truly save itself, governments must first break free from this cycle of corruption and mismanagement, and place their people's interests above all else. Only then can they move towards self-reliance and sustainable development. They need to stop holding the beggar's cup and fend for themselves.
In summation, Africa just sucks!
Maybe you should move there?
You understand it's the African LEADERS who are the problem.
That's not the people fault, because they didn't choose their leaders,
because they don't have a democracy.
When you cut aid, you punish the people, not their leaders.
They are not beggars, they are victims of our exploitation.
We all are stealing their resources and their money, and then make believe
we're helping them with a bit of charity, to clear our conscience.
The EU is definitely at fault for the exploitation of Africa. So is China.
But don't wash your hands in innocence. The US is heavily exploitative too.
We are ALL guilty of the child labor and slave labor that provides our minerals, diamonds, oil and mono-culture agricultural products.
Why should I move there? I'm very much clear that most of Africa sucks.
I would support Europe taking over the responsibility of the aid.
Unfortunately, my countrymen voted right-wing too, which resulted in a cabinet that cuts foreign aid too. I'm very much angry and ashamed that those selfish assholes are representing me now. We used to think of ourselves as CIVILIZATION.
I'm not happy with the direction humanity has chosen for itself.
I think it will turn out to be our downfall.
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If cutting the money is resulting in hunger immediately, your money wasn't going up a wild hogs ass. It was going to feeding people. They clearly need food.
The actual change can only come from politics. Support politicians who demand big corporations to stop exploiting poor people in Africa, but instead pay them
a fair price for their labor and natural resources. Then they don't need charity.
Yes, as part of foreign aid, the United States, through agencies like USAID, provides funding for family planning programs in many African countries, aiming to improve reproductive health and empower individuals to make informed choices about family size and spacing.
Challenges and Considerations:
There are various factors that can affect family planning decisions, including cultural norms, religious beliefs, and socioeconomic conditions.
Examples of successful family planning programs:
South Africa, Botswana, and Zimbabwe have successful family planning programs, but other central and southern African countries continue to encounter difficulties in achieving higher contraceptive prevalence and lower fertility rates.
Barriers to contraceptive use and family planning in West Africa:
Barriers include lack of adequate access to comprehensive information, social influences such as husband's approval, and general access issues such as location and socioeconomic status.
Unmet need for family planning:
Unmet need for family planning ranges widely from 16 per cent in Cabo Verde to 32 per cent in Liberia and Mauritania. The region's average is 22 per cent, meaning that about one in five women who do not want to become pregnant are not using contraception.
So, regardless of the reasons for and against family planning, we do try to help. And that should not stop us from trying the humanitarian assistance to the hungry, especially to kids.
But no, they are just used as balloons, according to dgraff.
And they need to have multiple, as backups, because they don't have Medicaid to keep them alive.
So better think again before you let Trump destroy social security and Medicaid.
Don't let your country be turned into a shithole country, like they need to live in.
Then Europe needs to send you US-AID. And since you did it yourself, I would doubt if you deserve it. But, CAT, if you set up a fund for just the blue states,
I would love to help you. Or you can just leave America and just come live over here. It's a bit crowded, but we still have some freedom.
How "pro-life" of you.
We should recycle our used condoms let the kids play with that shit awhile
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If they suck the liquid out before they blow them up they will find it’s really high in protein
What about all the other blue states that turned red this last election did Elon buy them to
Had you democrats done your jobs things might be different but you blew it you put an old weak toad in office and did absolutely nothing except go after trump and the people saw it that’s why you lost the election
Trump is doing just what the people want him to do slash spending get rid of the illegals and bring prices down
I know it’s weak but I heard this morning that the pardons Biden signed are void because he used something called auto pen in his state of mind I’m thinking he signed them in purple crayons
Africa is failed. Move on
Trump is a winner-
Gas prices down
Egg prices down
Biden abandoned astronauts rescued by Elon!
Criminals and scummy gang cunts- deported
Bidens limp dick border- Sealed up
Travel ban from scummy countries in place
No more Ukraine bankroll
Doge finding and smashing waste
The dems and the looney left are spinning off the planet!
Trump is deporting legal immigrants, with no criminal record to internment camps in El Salvador.
Trump is threatening war with Iran. Do you have any idea what war with Iran will look like? That "Ukraine bankroll" will look like spare change, when you go fight Iran.
Trump is a winner-
NOT A WINNER, A WHINER.
Gas prices down
GAS PRICES ARE GOING DOWN ON IT'S NORMAL FLUCTUATION CYCLE.
Egg prices down
EGG PRICES WENT UP PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF BIRD FLU. NO ONE COULD HAVE STOPPED IT. THE CLOWN IS NOT TO BLAME FOR IT, BUT, THAT'S ONLY ONE ITEM. EVERYTHING ELSE'S PRICE IS GOING UP.
THIS IS THE PRIME REASON HE WAS ELECTED TO FIX. NOTHING HE HAS DONE IS FIXING THIS. ON THE CONTRARY, HIS TARIFFS ARE MAKING IT WORSE.
Biden abandoned astronauts rescued by Elon!
BIDEN DID NOT ABANDON THE ASTRONAUTS NOR DID PRESIDENT ELON RESCUED THEM. NASA DECIDED ON THE SCHEDULE.
"The two astronauts, meanwhile, stayed at the space station and synced up their return with Hague and Gorbunov, who arrived in September for a roughly six-month mission."
AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS SENT THEM UP AND BROUGHT THEM BACK. THE SCHEDULE WAS SET BEFORE THE CLOWN WAS SWORN IN AND HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
Criminals and scummy gang cunts- deported
NO ONE WANTS FOREIGN BORN, NON CITIZEN, CRIMINALS IN OUR COUNTRY. THE CLOWN, TO SHOW HE HAS BALLS (EVERYONE KNOWS BETTER), ILLEGALLY DEPORTED TWO HUNDRED PLUS VENEZUELANS TO EL SALVADOR. THIS WAS DONE WITHOUT ANY LEGAL PROCEEDINGS. NOT ONE OF THOSE SENT TO EL SALVADOR HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE A CRIMINAL OTHER THAN AN ILLEGAL ALIEN. THE OTHER THING IS THAT THEY WERE NOT DEPORTED. THEY WERE SENT TO A CONCENTRATION CAMP OPERATED BY A FOREIGN ENTITY AT A COST OF 6 MILLION $'s.
IN OTHER WORDS, THEY WHERE NOT DEPORTED, JUST WEARHOUSED. THEY COULD HAVE DONE THAT INSIDE THE USA AND KEPT THE MONEY IN THE USA.
Bidens limp dick border- Sealed up
IT'S TRUE THE SOUTHERN BORDER HAS SUBSTANTIAL LESS NUMBER OF ILLEGALS COMING THROUGH BUT LAST FEBRUARY IT WAS:
"In February 2025, the USBP apprehended 8,347 illegal aliens crossing the southwest border between ports of entry. This constitutes a 71% decrease from January 2025 when USBP apprehended 29,101"
I DON'T HAVE NUMBERS ON HOW MANY CAME IN THROUGH FLIGHTS. THIS WAY IS CALCULATED TO BE AS MUCH AS 60% OF ALL ILLEGAL ENTRIES.
Travel ban from scummy countries in place
NOT SO:
"WASHINGTON, March 14 (Reuters) - The Trump administration is considering issuing sweeping travel restrictions for the citizens of dozens of countries as part of a new ban, according to sources familiar with the matter and an internal memo seen by Reuters."
CONCIDERING IS NOT IN PLACE
No more Ukraine bankroll
NO PROBLEM. FREE EUROPE IS STEPPING UP. THEY ALSO DON'T WANT THE USA. IF WE GET ATTACKED WE'LL BE ON OUR OWN. WAY TO GO, CLOWN
Doge finding and smashing waste
OUT OF ALL YOUR POINTS, THIS IS THE MOST LAUGHABLE AND SAD AT THE SAME TIME.
The dems and the looney left are spinning off the planet!
I'M NOT HAPPY WITH THE DUMBOCRATS ACTIONS AND GAME PLAN, BUT IT'S NOT ONLY THE LEFT THAT THINKS THIS CLOWN IS DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY. YOU VOTED FOR THE MAN (SIC), NOW LIVE WITH IT.
Enjoy your remaining years.. no months on Charlie's Sears pension!
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Trump is now deporting people who ARE documented and have committed
no crimes, even when they have green cards and are doing important jobs.
Expats can be sent back to their country for a post that Trump is an idiot;
THOUGHT CRIME! Are you still virtue signaling to care about free speech?
ICE is now literally torturing green card holders.
They are sending people to literal internment camps in El Salvador,
never to be heard from again.
Congratulations, you qualify for the term "Nazis" now.
Countries are now issuing travel warnings against the USA, because people
can be deported without any legal process.
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If there are still Republicans thinking of themselves as
"the party of law and order", then they have no shame.
Years with State and Federal Dollars.
Anytime a Manager made a decision, especially against a person that received extra points in an interview, and bias during investigations for breaking rules, etc., as directed by our HR (i.e. women, minorities, etc.—I am sure I didn’t say that correctly, but meant nothing negative). My biggest issue was when we as Managers had to write up a complete several page justification as to why we didn’t hire the woman, minority, etc. for a position, and could not use reasons like: under qualified, not enough years of experience, lacked the necessary advanced education or training, or the opposite for the white male; and the list goes on. So, we as white males, were discriminated against for something we had no part in playing when putting in for jobs; also when fairly trying to hold women or minorities accountable for breaking rules, and yes on performance issues. A complete bias for non-white males. So, how in the hell is that not hypocrisy at its finest? And those women and the minority in HR (and you dem’s) Stand Tall and feel good about yourselves discriminating against the white male (and white females at times)? You all are such Hippocrates, and I was even taken to the woodshed for speaking out against this discriminating behavior. By our HR (again, all women and an African American). I took the lashings and had to move on.
As for Decatur, I am not even recognizing his comments in American affairs. He is a “hater”, obviously. And loves to stir shit! Sorry man, but your opinion doesn’t really make two shits to me.
Lastly, and I could go on for hours, I have to say one thing about Brandon: He didn’t even make a good actor. He was hands down the worst President ever! And look what he did! Yep, he gave Socialist’s a lot of voices that we Conservatives are tired of being respectful about, and just taking the bullshit! We too have an opinion. Only most of us, or myself anyway, will back it up! Have a great night all!
What did the haters find wrong today with Trump and Elon? Something I am certain is the existence of all Evil? Though they don’t really believe in God (so how is there evil by definition?), or do they? When it suits them? Not sure.
How can't you see that what Trump is doing is unconstitutional?
No one voted for Elon, to come in and destroy government agencies.
That should be a congressional decision. Did Dems ever do something like that?
Since when is HR a government entity? They are working for the company too.
If your company organized it like that, it's a top management decision.
It's "hypocrites", not "Hippocrates". Are we all doctors? (just a joke, don't bother)
"Socialist" is not the opposite of "Conservative". People can be a "Conservative Socialist".
I know some of them, seeing I'm a member of the Socialist Party. I'm mostly progressive on a lot of things, but I'm conservative when it comes to my social security. You have had it for 90 years now. How is it not conservative to want to keep that?
To answer your question about evil; by my definition, evil is about actions that overall decrease well-being of sentient beings, humans in particular. I don't think there is an objective good or an objective evil, it's just the intent and result of actions. By my standards, some of what god has been doing, according to the bible, is evil.
If they tell you god is necessary for good and evil to exist, than what is your standard
for knowing that there is some evil shit in the bible? What is your reason for not liking
the pope anymore? Isn't he supposed to be the direct representative of god?
Isn't it only because what he is saying doesn't suit you?
Phart, I'm not talking to you. Ponomojo46 can clearly speak for himself.
The idea of taking from the rich to feed the poor is ridiculous. The last decades, your government has shifted trillions of dollars from the poor to the rich and wealthy. A tiny percentage of wealthy Americans owns almost everything in the US and it's getting worse. That's why many people need several jobs to keep their heads above water. That's why you have so many homeless. That's why healthcare is the most expensive
of the world, in the US. The US has the highest GDP in the world, but still most people need to lend money for a new fridge when it breaks. That shouldn't be normal.
You would be hard-pressed finding an employer who does as much DEI as mine.
Still, I felt never discriminated as a white man, because I'm not. They just provide
equal opportunities for everyone who's not a white man. I just don't have the biases
that make me believe otherwise.
I never was very enthusiastic about Biden being president, so don't expect me to defend him every time. just don't keep making up shit about him all the time. It's embarrassing that you cannot think of anything real. Almost all of it falls apart, as soon as I ask you for ANY evidence, or just some supporting data. That's because it isn't true. Truth matters.
I'm not in the real world when I'm working, that is true. I'm in the real world, when I'm active politically. We are the only party in my country that actually rings doorbells to talk to people, all the time. We ask them how they are doing and what they think about real world issues. If you think I never meet right-wingers / conservatives, you are wrong.
I talk to many of them, sometimes for a long time. I listen to them and argue with them, very much the same as I'm doing with you. Often they have a completely skewed idea about what we stand for. Even though I usually cannot change any of their opinions,
I can often correct their misconceptions about our opinions. I can also show them that we are not a party of the unemployed and lowest class, but that most of us are highly educated and successful people, who just want everyone to live under basic standards for quality of life, so they have an opportunity to maximize their potential and contribute to society. I believe that you want people to contribute to society too. You just have a very different idea on what that means and how to achieve that. The problem is that
we don't even agree on the facts. It's not a misunderstanding, why we don't agree,
we literally live on a different planet. Mine is dying, yours is suffocating in 'woke'.
That makes it very difficult to agree on how to save it.
You would get shooed off like a skunk in most places here in the us,
How often do you get people of faith at your door?
They are coming to your door to discuss ideas too.
Do they want to solve any of the issues you are facing in life,
or are they only interested in converting you to their deity?
How often do they get shooed off like a skunk? Would you do that?
We have a long record of helping people who are damaged and disrespected by their landlords, big corporations or the government. That's why we have earned respect. They should just understand that we cannot continue to help them, if they don't give us more impact, by voting for us.
Explain to me what is "Christian" about your side.
It's literally the opposite of feeding the hungry and healing the sick.
If respecting the law is part of it, you failed that completely too.
I've never been rude to anyone trying to convert me at the door, or anywhere else.
If I'm rude here, that's because that's the general form of manners here.
When I was still living with my parents, we had two Jehovah witnesses, older ladies, visiting us regularly. Mostly my father talked with them. He was just as much an atheist then as I am now, but he listened to them and explained why he's unable to believe it. I joined them often. My knowledge on the subject wasn't as much developed back then. They stopped visiting us when I just started studying science.
I already knew a lot about evolution beforehand, but if you know exactly how it works, you can't accept a religion that denies it. I could at best accept some vague deism, but that's not what the people "knocking on my door" want to sell me.
Since then, I have talked with a few, mostly Jehovah witnesses, sometimes for a long time. Sometimes I tell them; "Sorry, I cannot believe ideas that contradict piles of evidence.", and then it's mostly a short talk after that. I now have a sticker on my door saying "No, to sales people and proselytizers", and they seem to respect that.
If they don't, I would still not shoo them off, but I will explain that it's there to prevent us wasting each others time. If they still want to discuss things after that, I would be happy to. If they like a challenge, I'm game. Explain to my why to get into heaven,
I have to believe in a god, who can only forgive hereditary sin (which is a ridiculous idea by itself), after he gets himself brutally tortured by Romans. Why can I only go to heaven (which is a ridiculous idea by itself), if I believe one of several holy books, that are all filled with the knowledge and ethics of primitive humanity?
A good god wouldn't demand me to believe bullshit. If god wants me to find the few actual values, and discard the bullshit, I already did that; "love thy neighbor"
(in a broad context); HUMANISM! Feed the hungry, heal the sick, everyone has rights, don't support hate and genocide. Check! How about you?
You're more of an old testament guy, right; believe what you're told, do what you're told, having slaves is fine, the worst thing you can do is spill your seed, god is good even when he does genocide, kings rule over us... anything I missed?
Isn't it weird, how you can find whatever you want to believe, in all the same book? Isn't that the most flowed law-book ever written, if it contains laws that decide where we go after death? Do we get a lawyer? No, just the most partial judge ever!
Why can't you see the ridiculousness of the whole idea?
I don't think my politics is a faith, but I still respect the intent of that "No, to sales people and proselytizers" sticker myself, when I go "knocking on doors".
Green peace may be going bankrupt.
of thinking about your own opinions. How about "the marketplace of ideas"?
Do you want this to be just an echo chamber of Trump fans, or do you have balls?
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Russian TV Celebrates Trump's Awesome Move to Shut Down Voice of America
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Finally! Russia is a good friend of the US. As a gesture of goodwill, the US shut down the news channel that offended the Russian friends for 80-some years.
It's time it happened.
Congratulations!
Thank you usofa!!!
From Voa's website
"An essential guarantee of the journalistic credibility of Voice of America content is the “firewall” enshrined in the 1994 U.S. International Broadcasting Act. The firewall prohibits interference by any U.S. government official in the objective, independent reporting of news, thereby safeguarding the ability of our journalists to develop content that reflects the highest professional standards of journalism, free of political interference. USAGM reforms contained in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2017 maintained the longstanding statutory firewall language protecting the professional independence of VOA and all other USAGM journalists. The firewall ensures that VOA can make the final decisions on what stories to cover, and how they are covered."
In other words a liberal new network, This should explain it. " safeguarding the ability of our journalists to develop content "
" The firewall ensures that VOA can make the final decisions on what stories to cover, and how they are covered."
A news network that is protected that can DEVELOP content and decide what it reports and how.
How is that FREE PRESS???????
Broadcast the truth, don't DEVELOP news.
Another thing, and You should be able to see this issue.How can you trust news that is bought and paid for by the government it's self?? follow the money? speak bad of the check writer,the check writers ink pen goes dry..
Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international broadcasting state media network funded by the federal government of the United States. It is the largest and oldest of the U.S. international broadcasters, producing digital, TV, and radio content in 48 languages for affiliate stations around the world.
Every dictator in history
But please, keep pretending Trump loves "FREEDOM".
Is it honest and fair to say that the 2020 election was not honest or fair or is that illegal now?
If Americans and their courts were as vehement about ALL freedom of speech as they are about their second amendment rights this would be a moot subject.
Even the people who voted for Trump should be very wary of rights
being removed and your constitution questioned in court; maybe next time
you will be the one in the crosshairs. Perhaps the next administration will consider Fox News and everybody in the right wing media the enemy of the state.
Protect your rights and your Constitution, all of your rights and all of your constitution.
but with so many agendas, that may be hard to get
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Listen to what the young fellow says around the middle of the video about how the engines can be tuned to burn clean, without all the restrictive tech that is being forced on us.
Do you think they haven't tuned engines to burn clean? What a load of crock.
What "restrictive tech" did they force on you that some simple tuning could do too?
Are you upset that you don't need lead in petrol anymore?
Do you like to breath lead and have it emitted over your produce?
Why is that an argument for regulations not being needed?
Is your solution just telling people to maintain their cars right?
It's a nonsense argument. If all people behaved well, we wouldn't need ANY rules.
Even if well maintained cars pollute less, without the "extra tech",
they still emit more carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxides than modern engines,
just because they are more fuel efficient. That's important, even if you don't accept
the science of climate change. Oil is a finite resource that is increasingly difficult
to get out of the ground, which increases the prices. At some point in the not too distant future it's gone, and we don't have a backup planet.
We as humans crawled, walked, and started riding animals and then rode in things towed by the animals until the infernal automobile came along.things change with time naturally and as tech changes.
And it was done by letting free market and people's choices decide.
Oil and cars are the same, come up with a better mode of transport,and it will evolve and replace. but mandating it,doesn't make it happen any faster,doesn't make it any cheaper because it is required and the makers know that and charge how ever much they wish.
However, long before all the oil runs out it will be very expensive.
I think this man boiled it down to the basics.
this fellow has a good youtube channel, really explains it like it is.
I can't get the fucking link to work but this is the latest video from the maker of the 1 I posted above. Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren Support Ukraine #elizabethwarren #chuckschumer #zelensky #trump
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And when it comes to Trump, you don't care whatever personal profits he makes from being president. He is literally talking about stealing Gaza to put Trump building there. And that's just one of the tiniest of examples of his corruption.
Ukraine was attacked by Russia. You remember; the country you had decades of cold war with and fought multiple wars over. Somehow Trump has convinced you they are not the enemy anymore. Can you explain me how that happened? Because I don't understand it. Russia has been more aggressive now, than during all of the cold war,
but somehow you like them now. Do you think Russia likes YOU now? Can't you see
that Putin plays Trump like a violin?
that we could be friends with Russia. Boy were we wrong.
It's not the Dems that push for war, it's Putin who pushes for war.
He can stop today with bombing shit and sending Russian soldiers to die.
and believe and defend everything he says, without one critical thought.
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Difference over 2 days: -1,074.17 points
Time to impeach the president!
Good for him for not putting up with Donald Trump's bullshit!
Maybe because they are lying and just full of shit!
I'm speechless.
Trump is a business man ,a real estate investor. He owns numerous golf courses and other business's. if the economy falters, what happens to his investments the value of his real estate and so on ? It goes down, he looses money ,he fails in other words.
For that to happen , the American economy would have to fail. would it not??
How about all those town meetings where REPUBLICANS are complaining about the Clown's crap? Sure, November was a mark on Biden economics. But, it was a long time ago.
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Biden was fired by a majority of Americans? He wasn't running. What's more, except for grocerie prices, the economy was doing good. This Clown retread said he would take care of grocerie prices on day one. It's going through the roof. Same with all his campaign promises.
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And his campaign promises are NOT being honored and THAT is now, not history. What is he doing now?
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Please, take a few minutes to read.
When people get jobs, good paying jobs, they can afford a better life.
When energy is affordable, people can produce things,haul things and use things.that means they can also afford things because transport cost and manufacturing cost are lower when energy is affordable.
wow,9000 less than expected, I would say it was pretty good myself. No worse than before Musk started cutting off the fat, so things aren't bad!
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BTW, unfortunately, I’m on the same planet as the Clown. Think about this, he’s been president a little over one month and all you MAGA have to defend his policies continuously. Any other president had that problem?
The dems CAN"T defend themselves, they exposed their true face.
Donald Trump is golfing.
IF the democrats have been honest, they have nothing to fear.
And besides, How else would ANYONE find fraud in the system, even a person or entity that YOU trusted,can't access the information?
It is like you just would rather money continue to be defrauded from the system than to try to prevent and stop it.
The House on Tuesday narrowly passed a Republican budget resolution that calls for
$4.5 trillion in tax cuts FOR THE WEALTHY and a $2 trillion reduction in spending cuts,
of course cutting benefits like Medicaid, for the poor and middle class.
REVERSE ROBIN HOODS, THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE!!!
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progressive democrats, heeheheeee, most racist of them all!
right up to this very MINUTE,
Cox’s book, which took him 14 years to research and write, is an extraordinary exposй of the very dark side of the founder of the Democratic Party’s Progressive movement.
Perhaps it’s time for Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and all their progressive minions to deeply apologize to the American people for 100 years of idolizing someone who was anything but "progressive."
Do you want Democrats to apologize for this or something?
You're supporting a president who calls all black people "unqualified",
just because of the color of their skin.
IT IS LOGICAL. Anyone left behind is keeping America down.
You are just jealous, because it's not you.
They would give you restitution too, if you would let them.
You should get disability allowance. Democrats would probably do that at some point, Republicans would rather starve you. Just wait, they are doing their best at it.
The problem is that you don't want help, or just a fair shake, you want to be exploited.
You have tried to explain that logic, but you always fail.
That's because the results of your ideas are apparent everywhere.
Besides they made mistakes, we all do even you. We cannot pay restitution every time a fucking libtard wins. Shove your bullshit up your ass.
Besides you do not live here or pay taxes here, so stop your bitching us around.
Why does your little country not pay up with NATO. I do believe that Poland and the US contribute the most. Maybe your little country should be kicked from NATO.
As of 2023 the US pays 3.49% of GDP. I wonder what the netherlands pay and their ranking. The US is just under Poland.
We are #2 under Poland. Care to know the netherlands ranking? Try #18 with 1.7% GDP. I know Poland and us are being ripped off by little meaningless countries like yours.
Show this is even an issue; how much have the Democrats paid in restitution?
Meanwhile, Republicans are cutting billions in taxes for the wealthy.
Your right that it is not my taxes, but why don't you care about that?
"pay up with NATO"? It's not a subscription. We don't PAY, we SPEND!
I hope you understand the difference.
Since Trump made sure that the US is not interested in keeping their end of the agreement of NATO anymore, explain to me how we rip you off? It's not like you spend money on our defense, you're only spending on what is to your own benefit. We have not asked for your help in decades, but we have come to your aid several times. Why would we have to spend money on something that only benefits the US?
My country considered it more useful to spend money on education, healthcare and other things that are actually useful to people. Since we are a small country, that can be destroyed with just a few nukes, we sold our tanks and lowered our number of soldiers. We are not like the US, who meddles in other countries politics, for cheap resources, so we didn't think we needed to spend so much money in arming ourselves. The Russians proves us wrong.
We are spending a lot more now, but just buying equipment without having people to use them is stupid, so it will take some time ramping up our defense.
Personally, I don't want our country to buy American made weapons anymore. Your country has proven itself to be an unreliable partner. You might even pick Russia over us now. Therefore, we have to ramp up our own military industrial complex, no matter how much I hate that concept. I just hope we keep control on it and not let billionaires run it. Arming ourselves should not enrich anyone, because that would give those people an incentive to put us at war.
Of course we are a meaningless country; it's very small and we have 18 million people. Do I need to be ashamed for that? We would need to all be soldiers if we wanted to be any meaningful force against Russia, China or the US.
Do you even think, before you say something?
In other words; completely "unqualified" and just hired because of identity politics.
If you think that, it just shows how unqualified you are yourself.
It means you have no insight into what management is all about.
DEI is about eliminating prejudices from the hiring process.
It's the exact opposite of what you think.
Eliminating DEI means bringing back the stupid prejudices.
That would be very harmful for companies to do.
It would leave talent unused, just because of the color of their skin
or the plumbing between their legs.
That's called the waste of "Non-utilized human potential".
Remember this one? You said: "Who gives a shit."
As a supporter of capitalism, you should give a shit.
Because your country is losing the competition against countries
that are doing this much better than the US.
Eliminating waste is the exact thing Elon says he's doing.
If he was, I would congratulate you, but he's not, he's lying.
He's just firing everyone who was bugging him personally.
And cutting money he calls waste, because it's not helping HIM.
While Elon is claiming to eliminating DEI in the government, he's firing white boys
from Tesla and hiring those brown H-1B visa people; DEI hires.
You're so cucked by Elon, it's funny as heck.
Working from home,how can the employer know they are getting their moneys worth from the wages if they can't see you working in the office or in the lab. At home you can actually get a program that will send key stroke signals to the office to make them think you are working on the computer when you aren't
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Unless you go back to the office and drag your fanny, your production would be better in the office because you would actually be working your whole shift instead of loafing at home. More product,more profit.
Where is your argument now that billionaires are job-creators?
Sure, people are not paid enough to live on, but at least they work.
And now you even want to destroy jobs completely.
What do leave for people to survive on?
Do you have ANY principles?
I support PUBLIC ownership, so that when everything is automated, people share in the created prosperity. You support private ownership of the wealthy, which means that 99% of the people will be obsolete, when they replace workers with robots.
What is your limit to how far normal people should grovel for the elites?
Is there any point where you say; now we have to stand up for ourselves?
I appreciated my job, I did my job, my work impressed my employers to a point i was being trained for promotions until fate took a wrong turn. People that are not grateful for their jobs don't deserve them. Period.
As for the unemployment problem, use the rubbers we send overseas here at HOME and quit making more people that will need jobs in the first place. Very simple.
In my country, ownership of companies is much less centralized.
People might complain, because inequality has risen massively in the US.
Do you know the term the "golden age of capitalism"? It refers to the US around 1955, when the economy was booming and the middle class saw the biggest rise
in their wealth and prosperity EVER. The top tax-bracket for the wealthy was 90%. Those taxes were used by the government to invest in infrastructure, education, housing, social security, healthcare and lots of other benefits for the middle class.
Then came Reagan, and he started to cut taxes for the wealthy. The development
of the middle class came to a halt. Successive presidents, some Democrats, but mostly Republicans, gave more tax-cuts for the wealthy. THE DIRECT RESULT:
the middle class started to get poorer. Now there is hardly any middle class left.
Now you wear hats saying Make America Great AGAIN, but instead of increasing the top tax-brackets anywhere near the 90% of your "golden age of capitalism", you believe the bullshit that it requires tax-CUTS for the wealthy to get there. It's a super transparent lie, but because the wealthy pay the media to tell it to you 24/7,
you believe it, against any simple understanding of history.
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just listen to the numbers and you tell me if there is a problem.
they all turn out to be false. He's LYING!!!
How many millions of old people are getting social security?
Elon was presenting lots of examples like those, but all of them so far were proven
to be lies. It's just two systems not connected correctly with each-other,
turning into false ages, when the date of birth wasn't filled in in one system.
Present evidence that this anecdote of yours is actually true.
You already had an agency that was fighting fraud, waste and abuse.
It's called the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and it's fully transparent.
They reported a below 1% rate of fraud, waste and abuse in the social security system. That's to be expected, because old people do not have the highest financial skills,
and when they DIE, they do not have the ability to stop the payments. Understand?
It is the job of the GAO to correct and if necessary prosecute it.
You have been presented with NO EVIDENCE that the GAO was doing a bad job.
You just want to believe that, because it's what they told you 24/7.
You let an unelected billionaire raid the treasury and trust everything he says.
He is literally doing crime right now, but you believe what he says.
Literally all news outlets who fact check Elon show he's lying.
Why keep trusting him, when there is clear evidence that he's untrustworthy?
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I DO NOT. BUT the past month or so, the new head of the EPA for example, not affiliated with Musk work, has found 20 billion that was stuffed into a bank for distribution after biden harris left the building. To folks of questionable means.
Oh this is from the GOVERNMENT so it has to be true right?
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The money from fema to new york, 80 million I think? you can't be in agreement with that unless your are high on crack coccaine. fema is to help in emergencys,not housing illegals
would we have known about all this waste without Elons work? I doubt it, I about would bet 100% we would know NOTHING of any of it had harris went in and it would have been bloated to mega millions wasted because of her and obama's agenda.
Trump is destroying all oversight.
DOGE is NOT oversight, it's a billionaire DESTROYING oversight.
Every organization has a bank account with funds on it.
They don't get paid every day, but they do have BILLS TO PAY!!
It's so easy to lie to you, because you don't know anything.
Just being an active member of a political party provides more insight.
My local party board also discusses funding. The local branch of the party
gets a certain amount of money periodically from the national branch.
We keep a big portion of it unused on the account, for when we need to spend
a lot of money all at once, for instance during elections.
The EPA is a large organization with high costs, for instance when they are engaged in legal battles. A sum of 20 billion is logical for such an organization, because they are in conflict with many large companies worth trillions of dollars. It's possible they were keeping a buffer, because they knew Trump was about to defund them.
Elon Musk is now doing that, calling it waste, fraud and abuse. It's a LIE!
Don't expect me to cry for you when Americans get poisoned by their tap water or some toxic cloud or a train full of highly toxic waste derailing in some neighborhood. You lot have literally voted for companies to poison you.
Had harris and tampon tim won the election, would we have heard a single word about government waste in the news?
New york would have got it's 80 million to house illegals, abrams would have gotten her 20 billion and we would all be running in circles trying to find some logic in the world.
Democrats are just jealous that their money machine has a wrench in it's gears.
The same folks that investigated Trump for years, suddenly don't like being investigated themselves in directly. I hope to see criminal charges made against people that ok'd alot of the waste being found.
H.R.2961 - Audit the Pentagon Act of 2023, was introduced by Democratic Rep. Lee, Barbara, under Biden.
Under Obama, Biden was called "Sheriff Joe".
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He recovered actual fraud, not those lies Elon is presenting and are easily debunked.
Elon is just using FAKE waste, fraud and abuse as an excuse to destroy the government,
so none of your tax-dollars are waste on YOU anymore, but all of it can go to the robber barons. Trump is letting him do that, because destroying the government is needed to become a full fascist dictator.
Just on day one? No, but just as long as necessary to destroy democracy.
Remember how he lied, not being associated with Project 2025? It's in full swing.
Besides, the government has had decades to "audit" it's self and has done little to nothing of the sort.Just bloating budgets,and sending money overseas for bullshit. Food and water and medicine,I doubt most of us would complain,but rubbers and dei related stuff? that is NOT needed.
Waste.