Comments by "DXR" (@MrDXRamirez) on "Forbes Breaking News" channel.

  1. A promised mass deportation means Mayor Adams of NYC will be voting for Trump. Loyalty in political parties is only skin deep once you are behind the voting curtain.
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  2. I appreciate the fact that this was the real Katie Britt because with AI we will never tell if its the true person. She and her peers have yet to make proposals on how to regulate what AI can and cannot do. AI is here now not some years down the road. Cost of living through the roof! She said Biden sent the cost of living through the roof...you know what she is not saying...she is not saying wages are below the cost of living because profits are through the roof! Corporate and private greed is what she is not saying and neither are you saying it loud enough. It is important now more than ever to say what is not being said.
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  3. Forget it, Kazakhstan is a big country of strategic importance to Russia and China.
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  4. Don’t be silly the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act works against anyone but the Foreign Intelligence Service. The question why and how is for scholars and historians to answer. Who are they that the means should be theirs to control and use against anyone not in their organization cuts to the chase. That is the decisive question! Who are they, who do they think they are, and What are they in the Foreign Intelligence Service?
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  5. I really don't think more money should be put into the hands of a people who are dysfunctional anymore than I believe they should have the right to bear arms. Americans are the last people on earth who should have weapons and money at their disposal. That to me is like giving an upper middle class drug cartel a fresh boatload of cocaine every month with which to rot the minds of America's youth. If there is a group in America more worthy of receiving an economic boost than the middle class it would be America's working poor if only to save them from absolute starvation and material degradation in the richest country in the world. Schumer is too middle class to see this himself and Manchin is too rich to understand that without a functioning and materially supported working class this republic has no wheels to roll on.
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  6. There are two histories about this whole affair that make many people doubt both and all.
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  7. One need in society entirely ignored by political leaders is a health system that won’t fall apart when it gets swamped with patients.
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  8. The Rich do not pay taxes and that increases our debt and accelerates inflation. The republican representative dismisses Tax Cuts a part of the economic surplus the owners of financial wealth consume as private income. That’s welfare for the rich.
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  9. A woman in a trench coat armed with a long rifle – and accompanied by a young child – entered pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church on Sunday afternoon and began firing, Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said. Looks to me like a family drama unfolded that afternoon between a mother and the father of the daughter, someone prominent in the church. The woman had also threatened she “had a bomb,” but authorities searched her vehicle and a backpack she was wearing and found no explosives, Finner said. “She was also spraying some type of substance on the ground.” Plot thickens.
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  10. This is what happens when cuts and austerity are the condition on which a country borrows capital to finance its society from the IMF; all public services disintegrate and riots break out. Greece should have turned down the refinancing package and hit the Silk Road for financing.
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  11. “What it means to be a Conservative”...for Christ sakes every dam decade for the last 70 years of my life the GOP has asked that question...what a ridiculous party.
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  12. 'Working Class' as a term referred to working Americans was never used by representatives in the past...how things have changed.
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  13. Don and Andy’s lies are catching up to them.
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  14. True to the careerist mentality and idea of using other people's money this governor appropriates federal tax dollars for self-gain.
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  15. What came out of the Polio vaccine would be the same question someone like you asked in 1955? A viral infection causing nerve injury which leads to partial or full paralysis. Many of the infected persons did not show any symptoms. You make me feel like its 1955 all over again the idiot you and your followers are?
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  16. Jheez...if ever there was a spy movie this is it! This is a crazy plot which if it does not become a film a golden opportunity is missed; the conspirators must have believed this plot would kick off a civil war by doing it. The undercover work alone is a story and a half about how good the FBI got in with these guys.
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  17. Washington should not be a place where my representation has to fight. There is more than enough food on the table for all to eat. What we have here in this women is an old style neoliberal, Reaganite democrat of the 90s.
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  18. What guy?
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  19. In my day this guy would have been running from the press eager to expose the internal controversies of a political party that serves and preserves a tiny minority out of 332 million people rather than the press being run by the controversy itself.
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  20.  @highpointadvisors9314  Re-writing constitutions and the constitution won't be worth the paper its written on.
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  21. Turn the camera around and let us see who the congressmen are in the House.
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  22. I am certain his wife will give him hell when he goes home.
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  23. The tax code and the legal system have two sets of rules through which the poor get poorer is a thoroughly bankrupt system.
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  24. How do you know which skill is more productive than another when all skills are reduced to average work time in their compensation? All skills are used in one step of a three step process that the corporation is able to capitalize on production and then accrue $20 bn in profits from sales. Auto workers are obviously not an equal partner with the corporation in the production phase as they were before in the negotiating stage with the corporation. They were equal as seller and buyer and they exchanged agreements but they come out as unequal partners in the production phase where skills are used to create $20 bn in product in anticipation of its sale. Value is added to the investment. The corporation wins the value the workers lose in the value they made in the finished product. Seems to me the right way to resolve this inequality is for all skills own a share of the finished product and 51% ownership of the factories to prevent plants from ever leaving the country. The wrong thing for labor to do is what the Biden administration wants them to do, a contract settlement in the old fashioned way a double-standard job not a career and no change in Labor as the unequal partner to the corporation in production.
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  25.  @jimmyrank6730  How much of the total population is inoculated in Britain? There are 64 million, 70% of that is 44 million. That leaves 20 million unvaccinated and infected, spreading the virus. Vaccines only work when all 64 million people get the shot. I predict Great Britain will be a dead country 5 years or sooner.
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  26. @Animated Adventures Yeah but, don’t you think they know what to expect and out number you since the registration of the gun you purchased all leads to you and your address? I think that purchase put you in their data base.
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  27. Replace them with what...you failed to mention that?
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  28. Problem here is that anyone in that social class are ever prosecuted for such crimes unless they want that person removed and out of the way. Trump wasn't.
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  29.  @saramae9878  It would not. Rescind the right to bear arms and every legal gun owner becomes an illegal gun owner, plus the State has your information.
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  30. Rand is criticizing the America First faction of the party as a faction that is putting America Last. I think you are confused.
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  31. Looks like a bucket load of water behind Nicholas is going to deluge inland Texas.
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  32. The payback is having a judge rule in favor of your business while your business, harms, robs and corrupts, and is taken to court.
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  33. Unfortunately the way the system is structured, truck driver Durr in twenty years will become what Sweeney is today, the establishment.
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  34. Ratings and polls show the American people are disgusted with mainstream media and political world.
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  35. You are just too kind toward people who bombed a parent carrying jugs of water to his family!
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  36. A clue to what is being threatened is at the end...US foreign military capability...could be all US bases are at risk of being shut down...who knows...time will tell.
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  37. Too bad all that trench building and manpower isn’t going to end up as new plumbing and sewage for modest home construction in the area. What a waste.
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  38. An obvious bias that gives ammunition to a movement to cancel student debt and more when a Supreme Court Judge can have a personal school debt paid off by a donor.
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  39. I could not disagree more. Economies rely on how far developed labor in general in society happens to be, not individuals. American economy is dependent on the power of China’s industrial ability to produce. There has not been one president or one Congress in 45 years in this country to change that dependence.
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  40. His firing is sufficient evidence his allegations against US Media are founded. He is being silenced. Closed off to the networks who own the satellite airwaves. They can silence anyone and do when seen fit to silence. Murdoch saw fit to fire Carlson. I believe Tucker is heir to the Swanson Empire if I am not mistaken? What good are satellites if there is no content Murdoch can make money off of? People act against themselves. Carlson was making money for Murdoch. High ratings is cash in the bank. Strange. Is Murdoch is rich enough to not care...he demented like Biden...or on his death bed and does not care to take down the empire with him...lawsuit was a lot of money to lose plus reputation...compelled by internal or external relationships...had subjective reasons...does not matter...its the general trend in journalism that to fire Carlson a prime money making commodity Tucker was the only one talking about content while all the rest were pretending to be journalists. This may have been the difference that no matter who you are its how authentic you come across to people seeing your face every day that counts...and what his peers seem to not possess in the make-up of their personalities.
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  41.  @jeffb896  More like to prevent encroachments from the West.
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  42.  @ik1408  Or the US.
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  43. Where he says, “Madam President...”. At 3:30 tax evasion disclosures of enemies is the primary reason for an IRS expansion.
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  44. “Bro, can you spare a dime?”, sums up Trump’s policies. Protection for American Made is a depression for the American workforce. The workforce is shrinking because Wall Street is not investing in America. It was a Trump promise to restore America’s industrial base. So far, “nada”. NADA! The strangest bedfellows in Trump’s bedroom are Harley Davidson motorcycle riders and christian evangelicals. Both groups have investments funds and strategies to continue investing where profits are highest, that is in Asia and India.
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  45.  New Leaf  You can tell me the mortality rate is low but you cannot tell me what the actual rate is! Okay bud. Take a walk and get outa here! .
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  46. A question to all you commenters: How can there be guarantees of freedom of speech when civil society falls short of its own freedom?
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  47. Great backdrop that would say it all, if a Catalytic converter theft process was taking place behind the governor very quietly removing the parts from the cars and going off unnoticed.
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  48. What a stretch of the imagination.
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  49. This is good the Military Establishment has never been in front and center of public scrutiny before. I wish reporters would ask more blunt questions such as: Was the chance to study the technology on the first aircraft lost? Shut up and listen. A Yes is an admission of incompetency a No is a denial and a roundabout answer is a Yes but, and an honest answer is We did lose the chance and we will learn from that. I wish the reporters would ask more blunt questions.
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  50. Its monumental step for a nation who’s children score low compared to other nations but has the best educational infrastructure in the world. American has the best means but scores the worst minds is the main problem cited by all major ranking systems on education in the world. How will a Bill raise the intellectual score of Americans is the question. The Bill addresses a social problem; it does not address the intellectual problem of low ranking. The same problem is found in health care. America has best medical infrastructure but the worse health outcomes and a Patent Bill of Rights has not improve America’s medical outcomes at all! That a nation even needs a Bill of Rights for patients in health and parents in education is evidence the real barrier to improving minds and bodies are the social relations of health and education. This measure is like a dart missing the dart board hitting the wall and falling on the floor.
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  51.  @Kevin-pv3kg  What state are you talking about because there is no national policy for child support guidelines and rules, each state does their own thing?
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  52. All form no content. Than there is some form and some content...followed by form without content and content without form. Who is to say this is content with form or form with content? Nobody is to say because the content is not universal and, therefore, the form looks ridiculously out of touch with reality. If Federman got the country back on track as a president he could look like Frankenstein and the working class won’t care!
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  53. There are some creative and correct policies coming from state senators in the republican party becoming law this January 1st. In Florida, and this one is going to catch on quick to be an excellent weapon for a new political opposition, is the measure in Florida that requires total financial disclosure for all candidates running for office applying to all still occupying an elected office in the new year passed the state house and DeSantis signed it into law. This is a positive law. An everyman law. A victory for the masses and it came from the right not the left. In this country the left is the enemy of the working class and a friend to the international corporations and military complex. The right in this country on the passage of this law, is a friend of the working class. If I were a progressive democrat I’d do more with a republican state senator to pass more bills that would put the country back on track than I would my own party affiliates! This law purges money from government, exactly what is needed nationally and federally is something a majority would agree.
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  54. Pretty lame to blame one present-day bureaucrat for the drug and slave trade that has been happening for the last 50 years at least since the 70s.
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  55. ​ @user-rl3iv2jk9q  Its birth control to the individual but to society its a form of social control.
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  56.  @trashpanda3837  Right now it is not a human right until all humans have that freedom. Until then it remains a privileged freedom for a select few nations. But I do agree with you on one level. A court deciding the fate of the social and sexual reproduction of females proves a privilege right stops short of a universal freedom for women from patriarchal social institutions this Supreme Court exemplifies. This inadequacy calls for its abolition! The western states where abortion is not codified are not truly representative of its citizens but more interested in maintaining the disabilities of civil life. In the US not abortion un-codified as a political Right is game to affect Americans politically. This is a barrier that must be removed. America has not codified abortion; France has.
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  57.  @gl3913  Define a Right in the first place? The Law to ‘this’ SCOTUS is not a boundary line between two fields marked by a stake in the ground. This panel of Judges (SCOTUS) purposely put itself right in the middle of a boundary line that was already there under Roe v Wade and ruling further to destroy that line, crossing the line, that this institution is interfering with men and womens’ sex lives. This SCOTUS is a lever with which to eliminate all Rights.
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  58.  @JulianaMaritzaSoto  The issue is not about high risk pregnancies and abortion it’s about the low risk pregnancies that occur when someone or a couple do not want to be pregnant due to life circumstances. As a woman you should know this, shocking!
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  59.  @KarlMarcus8468  Who is the “we”, who appreciate anyone’s contribution...” ?
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  60.  @gl3913  Stop fighting each other you have a virulent fascist right wing dominating government that cannot be defeated without unity, solidarity, and MASS OPPOSITION among all races, ORGANIZE AND FIGHT BACK!
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  61. Who authored the bill? @nonplayercharacter6478 
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  62.  @kayewilkins7735  Only a lemming would believe the comment to which you respond. The life he describes is the life of the Super Rich Wall Street Investment Firms not the politicians.
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  63. 2:35 ,---“Asylum is escaping fear and persecution from your home state government because of your race, religion, or political affiliation or participation with a specific social group.”, there are many American social groups who meet this definition. The wording in this makes a real subject, government, the predicate and the real predicate, persecution, a subject. One cannot escape from emotions like fear and anger unless one represses them with drugs, substances, alcohol, but one can escape from a tyrannical government using force to oppress or annihilate a race of people in a genocide. Now the wording has changed leaving doubt about the certainty of the first definition of what asylum means.
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  64. Two things: the workplace needs to be removed from a single authority. Second: Prostitution should be legalized and the proclivity of politicians to get their rocks off on their employees will never be a problem again.
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  65. I hate the politician who uses the American people as a tool to instill fear and minimizes government while at the same time working for the government.
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  66. Ever see the 1970s movie “Being There” when a monosyllabic and low functioning individual hired as the full time house Gardner to a billionaire becomes an advisor to the president. That is where this nation is at currently.
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  67.  @monotech20.14  Yes, ---seems the call for term limits is only to shorten the term limits already in place. I do predict before there is another two term president the next two will be short one term presidents.
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  68. In Book II of of Plato's 'The Republic', he describes in great detail the jobs of average workers as a brutal system of exploiting labor. Rather than the workers exploiting the labor-process he remarks, the labor-process exploits them.  He noted that workers get a sense of social power in the service of their master(s) while sacrificing themselves from the development of their own skills. Nothing much has changed, 2000 years later instead of a Roman Senate its an American Senate that the American people sacrifice their own progress and growth for a small minority.
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  69. I would not know why the Justice System would not have a two tier system of administering justice, everything else has. What would Blackburn do if it were one of her own niece(s) active in an organization identified as a domestic terrorist organization?
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  70. This video debut of Forbes entering the Audio-visual market. You get what you pay for is the first lesson.
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  71. This Summit appears to be an appeal to avoid disaster and more conflict within a region the US has not paid as much attention, preoccupied in the Middle East. 'A free and open international order based on the rule of law in the Pacific.', infrastructure, clean energy, science and technology exchange, and lifting trade restrictions on Japanese exports, essentially these are representatives from countries who have taken the cuts in trade for the US, their people lost jobs, suffered losses in property and business, for the US to get over the pandemic. It never did. The 'free and open' and 'rule of law', ideas are just that ideas, abstractions thrown out there while the vision remains liberalism in an age of rising socialism the vision for the Pacific diaspora. Are they creating in this summit a trade block China cannot penetrate in Asia as the vision of the Tripartite Alliance? To keep socialism out because it cannot be contained as the Silk Highway expands around the world.
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  72. Niger expelled US troops from Niger because the US troops were declared by the new Junta as “Illegal”. This committee senator should be asking the military what was illegal about the US occupation that the new Junta was able to make new arrangements with the Russians and expel US troops?
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  73. To save the republic they would detonate the planet @sher167 
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  74. Good speech Rand...the America First Gang are giving the American people the middle finger because they want to see regime change in Russia and will use Ukraine to do it.
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  75. Vivek is wrong. He is right on his definition on democracy but wrong on his practice of democracy as shown in this room. There wasn’t an open debate. A back and forth but not a debate. He was challenged and should have debated with the protester. He should have put down the microphone or pass the mic over the protester. Following the exchange the audience would vote by a mere show of hands which debater made the strongest case. Why debates are not debates in America has to do with the fear of being wrong and a fear of a majority that debates are controlled one-sidedly.
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  76.  @elmabrooks7417  Two warring sides about how the whole thing began. This side is fiction based on fact and that side is fact based on fiction...news media is leaving out important details for people to ascertain the true history of this debacle.
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  77.  @999is666upsidedown  ...is covert activity and diversion nothing... in the dead of night 50 billion in missile artillery delivered to Ukraine, ----a detachment of US advisors sent off with a Ukrainian infantry trained in Montana on Patriot Missiles...and the diversion part...is it nothing to not be told what is done in your name... as a national security document scandal diverts and molds your opinion is a two for nothing blow...is 50 k of detonation of a gas pipeline ...an act of nothing?
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  78. The McConnell Creed is say no more than you have to.
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  79. The world leaders today struggle with the timeline of the last 80 years. They see that history in fragments, selected moments, and try to sell us an idea that does not fit into the life of specific nations. Not all children develop at the same rate not all nations develop at the same pace. The powerful “nation-states” suffer a crisis of inability in constructing World Peace. They are INEPT. Peace has to be erected and the only way to do that is to know the real history of each nation to construct policies that work for them to remove their conflicts. This is what JFK meant in speech to Harvard’s graduating class about going beyond hate. For example, take Poland. Stoltenburg encourages Poland to join NATO and to criticize Russia on the Ukraine War. Russia liberating Poland from the Nazis means a lot to the Poles. A diplomat equates this “surprise invasion” to another surprise invasion because they both were surprises is pure propaganda to sell the idea that the enemy is a born enemy. Actually, the “surprise invasion’ from a military standpoint is a brilliant one. People who are born barbaric are also born with no imagination not enough to be brilliant strategists.
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  80. What is the principal point here? Money funnels all over the world no matter who you are. Money does not care if you are Hunter Biden or Lady Gaga.
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  81. How about merging industry and education universally free.
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  82. Good thing the KuKlux Klan Act was passed by people who are no longer in our history we cannot blame them for the bias history puts in us. The first chapter is the defeat of white supremacy the second is its eradication.
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  83. The lower level elected officials are more in touch with the reality on the ground but as they continue in their political career and rise up the political party hierarchy they lose contact with that reality and become...well...new and other versions of Joe Biden committed to preserving the Status Quo. At which point, the public not at all stupid end up sticking it to the Democrats.
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  84. Hey Cruz,--- you have a right to get drunk at home or in the bar but that is as far your right goes! An analogy I give is this... The keys to the car are taken away from you by the law you as a Senator never voted to repeal violates the rights of millions of Americans who like to drink and drive. When a person with a disease like alcoholism is considered a safety risk to society, then (government) suspends or revokes driving privileges. A person's right of freedom of movement is violated, where is the outcry to this loss of freedom? Lawyers are more prone to creating fascist governments than doctors are Nazis alleged in the spread of propaganda agains the vaccine that would have been laughed and ridiculed at in 1955 when the Polio Vaccine eradicated that virus.
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  85. Biden's cabinet are only slightly better than Trump's cabinet. A hairline difference between the national leadership of both political parties. The US sends its rare earth minerals to China for processing and manufacturing. The cell phone in your hand comes from China. You'd think the US would learn something from China's manufacturing and do our own processing at home but what do the Board of Directors of Defense Contractor Corporations know about rare earth mineral processing when arms is their stock and trade?
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  86. Here we go again...there are regions in the US that don't have connectivity to the internet...now it should be given to Cubans, no doubt for spying and indoctrination purposes. Nobody knows how long a protest will last Mr. Rubio. The violence of the regime of its own people is a wild high faluttin' allegation, bro. This guy is a loon with a list of punitive measures.
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  87. The council member should work a deal with city landlords. Use commercial space for housing would be the idea. But it never entered her mind. Its all about finding who is at fault? Its the city’s fault for never having a plan but its the council person fault for never presenting a plan. The City has the capital that it can rent empty commercial space. Commercial space is vacant all over the boroughs. The space in the city the landlords have is greater than the space the city has. While you are at it...that is, if you take my recommendation above, Ms. Council member... do a plan on how and where to house citizens too! They are living in 100 year old buildings falling apart.
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  88. It has to do with the economy of the US. It has developed a primary group of industries that are completely dependent on war for economic growth that Biden is the first president to not know what to do with the effect a war economy creates at the Border. Wars displace people but at the same time wars enrich a weapon industry’s owners and investors. The government provides the customers who are cartels and other militaries around the world, its buyers. As soon as any president or Congress stops the crisis at the Border they will have stopped a sale the weapons industry and its employees depend on. No sale brings a collapse. The dependency of lives and employers on profits from weapons sales is a choice it is not by nature an arrangement ordained by God. It can, will and should be changed. Raytheon must employ at 5000 workers all high earning skilled labor force, multiplied by at least 20 other contracted by the military weapons and parts manufacturers that average 1000s of workers and families dependent on their profits. Rather than deal with a catastrophic collapse of the US and what that would bring as a consequence internally and externally to the nation the flow of migrants will continue as the lesser evil is Biden’s thinking. The US economy functions only through war, crisis and catastrophe as a law of motion. One can bet on death and destruction and clear a huge profit. It is entirely built on the sale. Selling weapons for a profit. Other high ticket commodities furnish the means for the cash to buy weapons and if the buyer is not a criminal narco gangster than the buyer borrows dollars from our bank to buy the weapons and puts up as collateral the total annual product of their nation is signed over to the holder of the bond. The US Senate is a aristocracy of landowners mostly...they have no in depth insight into the military industrial complex as a social phenomena. Eisenhower knew it would become a problem. The problem has arrived and the general economy is paying the cost.
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  89. Embridge pipeline is a hot spot.
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  90. He thinks the 3rd charge is political. Its a slam dunk, he can no way to wiggle out of the charges. Or its a broad infringement of his freedom. This Forbes interviewer misses the big issue here. WSJ acknowledges its a dangerous precedent that weakens the presidency. Something only gets weak in relation to something else that is strong. The legislative branch of government gets strong at the expense of the executive branch. The Republicans have held control of the courts and law enforcement for decades. It would be they who have weakened the presidency by empowering the legislative branch. The twist in the story is that the democrats are occupying the prosecutorial positions of the legislative branch the republicans had built up are weakening the presidency they want filled by a democrat! This would make a democrat a self-destructive or a counter-productive to their own party and can be finished off when a republican takes the presidency in a torrent of revenge politics.
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  91. What a stupid fellow? Bankruptcies lead to monopolies, the larger capitals take over the markets the smaller capitals lost to bankruptcy. He flunked in economics 101. When the dust settles and all the bankruptcies are foreclosed or liquidated it is the large capitals expanding into that market or in the same market as a former competitor who make the acquisition which would include, land and building factories, tools and raw material even a labor-force. Where was he during the 80s? That was a decade of bankruptcies and the 90s was a decade of consolidation of all the debris left over from the failure of smaller businesses. Whichever state this man represents I'd say they have elected a vegetable into office! I think by reading between the lines its a republican blueprint to sabotage and resist taxes intended to cover a portion of America's 2nd New Deal maker over.
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  92. Kemp did not have to sign this law but he did. A law that presupposes the voter is a criminal. Hardworking Georgians are the criminals in the eyes of this law. The law presupposes the people who live in the counties with election issues have to be punished not corrected. Governor is one of those people who does not like to govern and correct problems. Ideologues do not govern they give out edicts and are dictatorial behind closed doors. Kemp lumps everyone against the law as a communist is what ideologues say. He wants to stoke the fears of an already needy hardworking Georgian population as away of getting their vote. The paycheck is more important to Kemp than the Vote. If he can deprive somehow the paychecks of hardworking Georgians and then blame that on someone else as a contestable reaction he can garner their vote as a champion of the hardworking Georgian. Create a conflict and take their side as a protagonist and the suckers among the rank of the hardworking Georgian population are so desperate facing hard conditions fall for this hook, line and sinker. The necessaries of life are always a means to an end and never are they an end in themselves is what it means to be a neoliberal in America.
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  93. Interesting campaign slogan “truth” obviously the politics on the Right are all lies for a guy to select that word as his main message. He hasn’t a chance at all. Vivek and Cornell West are on opposites of the entrance of the main tent at the circus, two side shows ushering the Public with their speeches. They have no real desire of winning. If anything he takes away votes from the real contenders who win against each other by a hairline of votes as a consequence. No real intention to be a real challenger to the republicans deciding how power is to handed out or taking power from under Trump. He should be targeting his age group in the republican party but they have nothing to offer. The sideshow Left and the Right who are not the main candidates are going nowhere fast.
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  94. Interesting,--- China does not give the virus a chance to mutate and become OMICRON. Eradicating COVID eradicates the pandemic in China, then it is a matter of preventing the virus from coming back into the country. Time will tell if it works.
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  95. Corporations are like vampires sucking the life and beauty of a given state and leaving a dried carcass behind then moving on the suck the life and beauty of another state till finally all the best states have become economic dead zones the little states, rural and poor, are next on its list of victims and in the path of the juggernaut of corporate capitalism. The republicans in the rural states are like little bird hatchlings in a nest awaiting the worm and screeching with their mouths open to be fed by the Corporate parent. No place is safe in the world of monopoly corporations...you are no longer in a position to sell and cash out...be the little Jewish Princess in a small house in rural West Virginia...its over!
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  96. Rand Paul could not be more right. Failure of Elites. 61% of 332 million of the total population is 202.52 million working people. Why is it a Ukraine Bill? War profits! Profit Mania. Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing, GE, Tesla, Google living off the tit of the American Taxpayer. The reprehensible Elites are elated, lauding the war for its profits! Profits that get banked into their accounts and becomes a part of the riches passed down their blood lines. America Firsters are arguing an America Last policy. Truly disgusting, they are okay with war. Progressive Left are disgusting Right Wingers! Money printed up or borrowed from China. America’s last economic surplus that did not have a balance of payments greater than its surplus was in 1965. Nothing for America. Rand Paul is the only working class voice in Congress on this issue. Rand Paul alone is not going to change this for the American Working Class. Nobody is going to resolve the poverty the working class is experiencing. Working class will have to raise their own voice if they can get over being pacified.
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  97. The logic of capital is more, higher profits and more profits. They are not talking to limit the capitalization of fossil fuel. They are not talking about a competition of oil companies and a competition of nations driving high levels of consumption of fossil fuel. Nothing about heavy industrialization for the sake of pumping out more plastic oil based products in mass quantities. Nothing about drilling and mining. All the talks are on the market side of fossil fuel. Relations between buyers and sellers. Bring down consumption by lowering how much is sold. As opposed to hitting climate change by lowering how much is produced would shorten the work day of billions of people on earth.
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  98. Too bad the students and faculty haven’t the collective consciousness to unite in an indefinite strike until Ackman takes his money and goes home with his acolytes in Harvard. The place has survived 400 years without him. Kick him out! He is disruptive, uses his money to bait you and then sabotages your practices. Steachers need to stick together.
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  99. This won’t go anywhere. The owners of the properties are the sellers and Congress is responsible for the sale of America as a whole to foreign investors. This governor should crack down on the sellers who are Americans. Instead the governor throws verbal rhetoric that sounds tough at the buyers of properties. If the governor wanted to throw punches at the foreign investment than impose a sales tax high enough to discourage the sale. If some dumb millennial decides to burn the properties that are foreign owned the payout from American insurance companies will cover the losses of the foreign investor. Frankly, this is pure theatrics. Fake anger. Lies.
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  100. The democratic party is not the party for black people, neither is the republican party but there in the GOP there isn’t a central committee like there is a DNC; at least black leaders are not set up to fail, reaching prominence and success only to fall rapidly. From the beginning, the democratic party had set black people up to fail and they fell into slavery in the 19th century, see the Missouri Compromise, that was a set up, a hundred years later when MLKing was alive the DNC found another way to set black folks up for failure, infiltrating black movements and mass incarceration. From 400 years of slavery to imprisonment. If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em was the wrong position the black community takes ow and in the past. Both parties should be abolished, they come out an age that always had black people fighting each other over crumbs. Mexico abolished the two parties ruling Mexico for over a century...when will America do the same?  @Nirobiscloset10 
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  101. Do you have the room to accommodate the incarcerated if the DAs did their jobs?
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  102. Schools teach nothing about our world.
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  103. The right wing pressures Washington to abandon Afghans lowering the number of evacuees but go get the Americans. General Austin does not want troops to step foot in an urban environment ties his hands. The left wing pressures Washington to increase the number of Afghan evacuees who helped Americans and go get the Americans stuck in Afghanistan. The Afghans cannot understand why the US abandons them because they do not understand the racism of the right wing in America telling middle America we have no obligation to the Afghan people using the photo of the C-30 filled with Afghans to heighten the propaganda message. The former marine who can not stand by and watch Afghan allies fall into the fate of the Taliban are honorable actions the right wing in America despises. This unusual situation makes the American marine and the Afghan ally both more aligned with the democrats on the left and scorned and rejected by the party to the right of the moderate republicans.
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  104. This was the man in the car in Kabul who was carrying water jugs from his car to his family the US military thought was a terrorist? Asses.
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  105. Keep kicking it down the road until it is intolerable! The torture never stops! This WH announcement is the sanitized version of a ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch.
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  106. Senator is a billionaire and Fauci earns 500K a year. Fauci’s salary puts him in the upper middle class paying the greater tax rate than billionaires. Paul’s income puts him in the higher percentile paying the least in taxes, not to mention whatever other investments he has in his portfolio that is sheltered from taxation. There is also the matter of untraceable donor money a government employee like Fauci is forbidden to accept but an elected official can and do accept, due to being elected not hired. Case in point other than Paul is Senator Manchin, these men are two of 90 billionaires in Congress, and this billionaire in particular trying to cut the legs off government at every turn, would make the Senators literally, traitors to those who elected them, in a time before the GOP introduced redistricting allowing them a home base from which they can cut government to its knees with impunity, hiding behind the constituents who for them are the billionaires in society, a mere 1/30th of the total population.
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  107. Civil society uses all the productive forces a society can make to the extent these forces have grown. Slaves did make all of America’s productive forces of which their share remains shortchanged. America was a slave society and in the post slave period former slaves and descendants built the Ford Motor Company and Detroit as a automobile capital of the nation. Black labor is the creator of all material wealth and its productive forces in America, the fruit of its labor covers a span of 5 centuries. Slave labor built Harvard University, descendants of slaves built Chicago University. The very room that council takes place is a product of black labor and the clothes they wear are products of cotton produced by black labor. It wasn’t called the world slave trade for nothing. Virtually everything was a product of slave labor. The list is endless to the amount black people have contributed to the total GDP of the US, and in many cases were better at capitalism than European settlers who came ashore as owners of money. They were so good at capitalism that ESSO (Standard Oil) Corporation was the first to hire them for marketing and development into the black market. First in Blues, Soul, Jazz, an unbelievable amount of creativity the remotest parts of the world were touched in the head by black art. Russians in Siberia, so far away, Indians and India, know how to Rap. So what do we do? A re-alignment of the wealth of society is what we do. This is a case for the International Court of Justice and South Africa is in the best position to file the motion and litigate reparations. Instead of wealth going to the descendants of settlers they go to the descendents of slaves to correct the situation and everyone not a descendant of a slave or a white slave owning settler, has equal access to America’s productive forces of society.
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  108. To think we have the technology to do away with all this nonsense.
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  109. He's has higher ratings than Trump did. I am not a Biden supporter and I am not a Trump supporter. Trump called nations' Shitholes" was he talking about your own nation?
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  110. “A business will not run if they don’t get the target profit they need”...you cannot determine that if you cannot determine what skills turn a profit more than others. “...I will move out and find new work”, and you’ll find the same problem there to. @tinsbali3250 
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  111. The repair of one bridge in one state is what your money buys in the Biden infrastructure bill. This must be the “Too Little Too Late” Gang.
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  112. If businesses will not employ America and the government is prevented from employing the great mass of people out of work by some political stalemate then employment in general should be under the direct control of all 124 million workers in the US. Before some far out Nazi group comes up the middle and does a Hitler number by taking power from the two parties who cannot get it together and restart employment the industries that are still active in the US cannot fall into their hands. America is primed for a rerun of the 1930s Germany, what fascists do to get people to work is done under force, tyranny, curfew, and incarceration.
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  113. Might have something to do with what the US owes China that tax dollars are used to pay its creditor with?
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  114. In 1975 Dean was probably in a PA all girls elite finishing school and could not have understood the Fall of Saigon or she would have said the parallel was too much, sad that it was repeated. Take her argument seriously and you are one of her.
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  115. He has no finesse and is obnoxious to me, has a face I'd love to punch, but you know what. Without mandates we can gauge the true fear in the public as the mask represents protection from the unmasked. At least here we can see how Floridians deal with the unmasked or the opposite, how the unmasked deal with the masked in a court drama and not in the political world would have been a whole lot easier then the politicians determining what is right for the community. Ordering people around is not an honest measure of what people would do on their own. I'd rather see community and peer pressure deal with the matter and go no further than a lower court. Communities and the people are treated like children by political mules and jackasses; in reality Americans do better without the republicans or the democrats ordering them around. The ideal political party would be one that just gives the means and the facts for the community to protect themselves and with assistance keeps the criminal element in check! Americans are never given a chance to act for themselves in a political structure designed to treat them like wild and crazy, ignorant, selfish and spoiled, brats which for the most part relative to the rest of the world; We Are!
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  116. This is a country that employs so little of its own labor force that if it does not recruit from this excess supply of labor a revolution becomes inevitable.
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  117. You could say the same thing about Israel destroying Palestine.
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  118. I think the Germans told the Americans they are not dropping the gas deal with Russia and Menendez is talking about destabilizing Nordstream? He's got to be stoned or something....
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  119. Stormy 2024.
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  120. Very few people know the Civil War of 1861 started in the same year of the Cotton Famine. Right through the Great Depression the price of cotton fell destroying the old plantation owners. Prices did not pick up until the second world war. By then the steam ginny and cotton spinning machines had industrialized the cotton field replacing all manual labor but the driver of the machine. New force of production took over the old method of production of the south. The rural landscape in the South off the highways across America, cotton field relics turned into pasture and grazing land. The plantation owners died off their heirs moving on some restoring the old plantations as museums and most of them renouncing the 'Lost Cause', but new ones entering politics and waging social wars because the economic war against the North was defeated.
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  121. They are going to blame the Air Traffic Controllers for this. The fact that Washington DC politicians have 99 military planes parked and ready for use for their junkets is a non-issue at an airport that is too small for the quantity of machines using it. Plus the overcrowding contributed by military exercises to defend the air space of the president, plus the regular commercial ground and air traffic; it is obvious the agenda here is to dismantle a social program and as far as the overcrowded Washington DC area presenting a life-threatening problem for public air travel, they can care less about.
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  122. This is a crisis that is not a crisis. Inside Ukraine is where the real crisis is. Defending a region that is your backyard is not an invasion. Since there is no intent to invade but every intent to defend a direct threat of severe consequences for invasion is not even a warning. I have to laugh at this because the strong response has already been issued by Putin. This is where NATO stops.
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  123. Horse manure!
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  124. US is so much a supplier of Israel that Israel consumes the greater share of US GDP.
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  125. The southern twang in oration holds the audience but the message of a hurt middle class can be turned around to a cost of a grand a month in bank loans alone with high interest rates. Prices are not made out of thin air or by demand. There is a market price for goods (wholesale prices) and a market price of goods (retail) that by the time goods walk out the door your going back to the store because the goods are at a less count. A wage can rise and its value of what it buys can rise too. It can fall and its value can rise. Wages can rise and its value buying power can shrink. None of this changes the amount of money you need to move a total number of goods for a yield higher than inflation.
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  126. Gangster president.
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  127. Great, thanks to Reagan and Clinton the country is F'cked Up! Look at the age ranges of the highest risk population they are the 24 to 44 age range. The Barney generation, it figures it would be the children born in 1980 and 1993, the Reagan-Clinton era. The height of American anti-labor and pro-neoliberal period that shafted the working class with Welfare Reform, A Crime Bill, NAFTA and the WTO...this generation grew up in LaLa Land, at the least the whit part of this generation, the black part was into rap and the white part wanted to be black....All Screwed Up...no wonder there is so much anti-government sentiment. This generation were indoctrinated to be anti-government and not trust anything official particularly, related to immunizations and home schooling by their born-again parents.
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  128. Interesting that Texas is not the only border state with Mexico yet it is the only state claiming to be under siege by Central Americans.
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  129. War and internal warfare outside of America is what keep the prices of commodities high inside America is one problem. On top of that problem the same warfare spending destabilizes societies causing people to leave and head for the US the most stable country in the west. Third problem on top of the second problem that is on top of the first problem is that wars need cash to put weapons into the hands of people doing the fighting. The people to do the fighting get cash by making drugs and cash is got through the sale of drugs to buy the weapons. It doesn’t take long for police departments in poor nations where drugs are made than sold to Americans, turns two-bit corrupt cops into military grade assault battalions with all the cash from drug sales. Drug sales made to American petty middle men dealers supplying millions street operations that afflict harm on their own citizens. Guns, drugs and money are the trade. People still have to eat and the fields need the migrant labor for plowing, tilling, picking, boxing and made ready to feed the addicted lives of Americans. Not only is America guilty of military assaults largely done behind the scenes or through others but it is also guilty of an all out economic assault on social spending to make ordinary working Americans pay through austerity for all the damage the four big problems above are doing to society.
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  130. You can’t close the border...you have to stop the inflow of migrants not close the border.
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  131. Sorry, ----I am not won over to this side. Her issues are not my issues.
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  132. From what I gather thirteen fatalities in a horrific fire of a public housing complex despite twice installing and twice inspecting smoke detectors by the PHA had failed, and living under overcrowded conditions raised no concerns within agencies. This has brought in three agencies to investigate why the fire happened is to me suspicious the cause of the fire is known and evidence of some high level graft.
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  133. Making it easier to produce energy in America sounds better than opening up US soil (land and sea) for drilling made easier by Congress. The carbon reduction benefit in the measure is zero. Billions of people know this fact and are increasingly less patient with the denials. The move to open up US drilling was a strategic move to capture the European gas market and have cut off the cheap energy Germany was buying from Russia. In just two short years Germany went from the biggest European economy to shambles as a result of sabotage. To be the exporter-seller of gas and oil to Europe and not a importer-buyer of oil from OPEC is really the idea behind “energy independence”. Domestic US drilling shelters the US economy from political shock waves in the Middle East and Japan is sheltered from OPEC price fluctuations.
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  134.  @theshepherdsinn  So then...what do want from me? Kissinger and Nixon would not have sold off trade secrets. Not my fault your generation of politicians are stupid. Its your fault for putting stupid people in positions that make those decisions, ----you vote right?
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  135.  @mfgreviews5028  What do you think the world economy is chess board, such a mechanical view of the world was debunked long ago. Petro Dollar will not last because the crucial element you exclude in your analysis is the flexibility of power of the productivity of labor, and 1.2 million people employed with an industrial base in China is flexible. US has to rely on individual capitalists, callous Millennials like, Elon Musk, to re-industrialize. He could have invested his capital in industry but chose to invest in a product that produces no real value back into the economy. He’s not making shoes, or employing a cattle rancher, tanner, leather makers, shoe makers, and factories. He’s providing Starlink internet service for a third of the population in Ukraine on behalf of the military. How do you know what China knows...you have a direct link to the Communist Party in China that we don’t...you are funny. Oil bearing states and India are closer to Russia and China physically that the US would have to occupy the Middle East to strike a deal with India. All America has holding up the dollar is sheer brute force, military might, it has no productive industry beyond what is produced by and for the military. When was the last time you drove across America off the highways. Nothing but ghost towns and dead zones? America’s capacity to produce is limited, its military expense is 32% of GDP normal when industries were in the US. Today the workforce is substandard and flunks in reading, math, science. GDP is counted by how much profit is made not by how much actual production takes place...its fictitious! You are in dreamland kiddo. Snap out of it!
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  136.  @chrisak49  I hate people who twist the subject from white collar criminals to the crime that victimizes people. Sounds like you are ready to be the subject-slave for a dictator.
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  137. Bring down taxes as a bribe to open shop in NY is how Micron got here and he says he wants to bring down taxes as part of changing the regulatory environment. Another way of saying less regulations on how business make their stuff. The Fed will do the opposite and continue to raise rates because they want the unemployment numbers to go up not down to control inflation which is a greater threat to the economy than Micron and other business not opening shop in NY. In fact, states with high rates of employment is driving inflation and higher interest rates. What good is a job when can’t buy much from the money you make in a job when everything is financed? You would be working, sure, but working for nothing in return. Hochul is not great but neither is Zeldin.
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  138.  @andrewdonohue1853  How YOU feel about them (which I can identify with) has nothing to do with the economics. Fed wants unemployment to go up to bring inflation down. Higher interest rates slows down employment. When you have no money prices gown is the idea behind the move. Zeldin does such a good job bringing business into the state that workers are working in jobs paying them good money but the Fed action cuts into buying power of employees, they earn not enough against the higher cost of living that just keeps going up, and up. Employers react differently, they get the tax benefit to offset the cost of hiring and raise prices to make higher profits because the Fed raised interest rates. A general hiring freeze follows. State employees get the cuts. Private sector employees loss value in their 401Ks. Health care costs go up more taken out of paychecks less actual savings for workers and work longer hours to make more money. Then you have the gas problem. Diesel gas higher than regular. After the reserves are exhausted the economy of NY shuts down. The Russian pipeline was blown up and the Keystone Pipeline was put off and remains unbuilt. What comes next, attrition...mass layoffs. NY will look like California which is the real reason you are for Zeldin.
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  139.  @andrewdonohue1853  Baby boomers in general are screw ups but the economics is another animal boomers can’t fix, it will collapse on its own. I grew up my entire life in Manhattan. Albany bends a knee to Wall Street and NY for its entire history is the most corrupt city on the planet, Albany is second in line as totally corrupt; so you are not saying much to me. Sacramento bends a knee to Hollywood. I’ll give you a piece of inside information as a quasi-rich banker. Your taxes will never go down no matter who is in office as long as our military is used to abroad to get other nations to bend their knee to Washington. There is s direct relationship between domestic taxation and military expansion. I am not disagreeing with you I just hope your perception is changed on what really drives these problems and its not individuals, its institutions and the economic structure of society.
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  140. repetitive of the McCarthy period...
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  141.  @antonwearsakilt5209  A good deal of what you say can be matched with reality except for the part about freedom and free people. People in the west and even more in the US are free outside of work but they are not free inside the workplace. You cannot be partially free. Freedom talk is really nonsense. You are only free when you are not employed. Free in the double sense of the word. Free to choose who to be unfree for and free of food, shelter, transportation, gas, etc. Vaccine mandates reflect the power the workplace as a private entity outside of the workplace has over the people inside the workplace. This is the area of life in need of a full emancipation, be free outside of the job and the job does not make you a slave, would be worth fighting for but I don’t hear that in any voice in the extreme right.
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  142.  @all1son984  They are of strategic importance relative to the US. You fail to understand this.
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  143.  @ik1408  I take that as a rhetorical question than can be answered with none except China.
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  144.  @ik1408  Any country that borders Russia is of strategic importance to Russia relative to American Imperialism. As long as globalists drive your country Russia will always defend its regional influence from American expansionism. Specifically, Kazakhstan is the subject.
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  145.  @ik1408  China is a small country with too may people. Naturally, the prospect of expanding into K’stan is perfectly logical to meet the needs by an acquisition of land.
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  146.  @antonwearsakilt5209  World Inequality Report of 2022, Thomas Pikety and Emmanuel Siaz, Lucas Chancel and Gabrielle Zuckman, released Dec 12, 2022 The report tracks capitalism over 3 centuries. Bottom 50% of 2.2 billion people have no income and even less wealth. Poorest 50% got under 10% to share all the income there was to be had. In contrast, the richest 10% got 52% of all income. The middle, (you and I fit in this group) 40% of 2.2 billion people got 40% of all income to be had. 50% of us (2.2 bn) own 2% of wealth. Top 10% own 76% of the world’s wealth. Dismal life under Capitalist Globalism. Conclusion: A global social class of capitalists in the West, 1., have no allegiance to a nation, 2., produces, sustains and protects, colossal income inequality and wealth. Where do you stand in connection to those conditions?
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  147. All that work for nothing.
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  148. The good question the young lady asked the officer indicates that threat to the Pentagon are who the Pentagon call the biggest threat to national security. 'The scene is safe and secure in the Pentagon Reservation, no idea what the motivation is?' First time I've heard that expression for the Pentagon. All agencies follow one command is a highly organized method of severing an attack and capturing an enemy.
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  149. Paint his face and he's the Joker!
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  150. Infrastructure Bill. You can't make capital without free labor, then the banks, merchants and landowners can do their part.
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  151. I follow manufacturers suggested retail price data, and market forces are not determining prices. A monopoly organization of prices are determining prices which is why companies employing under 500 workers are unable to compete in the market without shedding their staff. @m6a1u57 
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  152. If it did that would be great. 50 years ago a slice of pizza was $1.35. Rent was affordable. Incomes were decent but the cost of living was not high and the city was fun. Tickets were cheap to the theater, concerts, great Rock and Roll. Saturday Night live was free to attend. Obviously, you were not born at that time to know but I was and if NY fell back to when it was a working class town, that would be great!
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  153.  @refundreplay  No---there is nothing worse than people who don't know their own history even if they don't live in NYC it is in your dam country the heart of the world economy. That was the 80s when all the rich gentrified the city and pushed whole sections of people out of the city with high rents, prices, and police repression, Stop and Frisk. Trump was a big part of that. Bloomberg and Guilliani, shittiest mayors ever. DeBlasio sucks too.
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  154. Big cities make embezzlement and financial crimes not a crime and guess what, arrests for embezzlement, bribes, and financial crimes went down, that does not mean the crimes did not happen, in fact financial crimes went up. We know this because law suits and class action suits on financial crimes are up. @johnharris6655 
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  155. Well 2 and 2 make four, if ISIS is the sworn enemy of the Taliban that makes the Taliban a friend of the US the sworn enemy of ISIS K and we are back to the same old formula of making enemies to take advantage of friends.
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  156. This means the days when two oceans was enough to keep America safe from a war on its own soil outside of the Civil War is over.
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  157. Is CPAC the place where people go when society is no longer their's to control?
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  158.  Gadget Carpenter  lol.
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  159.  @nova396  The expert on BioEngineering has spoken.
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  160.  @peterzynko2345  Americans will have to go through the experience of NeoLiberalism before they reverse neoliberalism. We need clarity and denotations once one understands that behind the facade or the 'illusion' as you call it, is a Grand Social Experiment of Elites to control the proletarianization of the world's population. This is succeeding on their behalf as around us we see the intensification of poverty, unemployment, dislocation and material deprivation, the next step in this unfolding of an expropriation of the masses through low intensity violence, climatic disturbances and breakdowns in the division of labor, will lead to a proletarian take over everywhere first and last in the US.
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  161.  @kerricarroll7554  You must have money because when you have more money in America you have more freedom and since freedom is that important to you so is the money. You have a lot to be conservative about.
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  162.  @duramaxdad  Wrong. Dead wrong.
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  163.  @nova396  The critique presented in the video which I thank you for, does not seat the virus as a weapon in the class struggle, where it plays in relation to US capitalism aiming to subjugate the world as it competes with communism (China, whether it is capitalism or communism that we are seeing in China is a controversy) and specifically how that State Department and hence, the President's objective distorts the function and purpose of the state, and from top down, fails under the current political regime. So weakened is the American government, Congress acts only in the best interest of a particular (corporations) at the expense of the general (the interest of society).
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  164. A fine example of talking to the wind when the gun lobby has Congress in its pocket. Gun violence in America will decline when guns are not a commodity for mass production. This is an industry that should have remained a manufacturing process with the elementary technology of its day and employing gunsmiths not machines pumping out copies of models for a mass consumer market. The gun industry pours billions into Congress to keep the government out of the gun market and out of its business. It sure has no problem meddling with money into a business that has nothing to do with selling guns? Can’t meddle in my affairs but I can meddle in your’s. That’s the hypocrisy of the gun industry. I doubt they are going to cooperate with cities to make it harder to get a gun. Certain industries should never get too big, the gun industry is one of them.
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  165. If there is to be mass social rebellion...let it be one that has outgrown Donald Trump.
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  166. No talk about what happens when people are thrown out of work which is what a shutdown of government means for businesses that rely on selling to the government’s workforce all kinds of products, food, necessities. So that every General leaving the Pentagon has milk in their refrigerator the next morning. There are two workforces in Washington, the ones who do not report to work in a shut down, end up using accumulated sick, vacation, leave, time have options the working classes do not in the private sector. Non-government workers get fired or laid off, get on the dole, if the shut down drags out too long. This is a life-consequence of evil that should be confronted and history is not kind to those who turn their back on those who are thrown out of work. People do not like this to happen to them. Where is the sensitivity?
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  167. These guys can’t even resolve government in the US never mind resolving the problems of governments in Palestine and Israel. These prognostications by conservatives are proof that the republican party is not the party of the working man but an extension of Israel.
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  168. no passports and license applications, permits, etc., also...a lot of businesses can’t go forward and people waiting on those jobs have to wait to. Not a way to win a majority. @ellierivera5519 
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  169. The world today people are unfree of COVID and free to get COVID.
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  170. Fair to midland point...
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  171.  @technical19d34  'If I have been paying attention...' how old are you? When asserting a claim provide proof of the ineffectiveness of the vaccines.
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  172. Losing faith in the national debt is as bad as a catholic sinning against the Holy Ghost, for which there is no forgiveness. America has a financial system of public credit if you look at it from the position of the Fed and Wall Street. If you look at the financial system from the position of average working tax paying family and individual its a system of public debt. We were never told the origins of this system in school. It is assumed to have been handed down to us by God himself. Nobody questioned it, till now. No matter what kind of government we are talking about they all did it. Commercial wars, manufacturing and maritime trade brought about the right conditions for this type of financial system in the Middle Ages in Genoa and Venice. It spread among the potentates. Public debt became a powerful lever for the accumulation of capital. In one click, investment houses on Wall Street turn money that is sitting around doing nothing into productive capital that the only part of the nation’s wealth that falls into the collective possession hardworking tax paying Americans is,---the national debt part. This money that Wall Street waves its mouse over drags it out its slumber without the risks of exposing it to the troubles inseparable from employment and industry and from the risks of money borrowed by all kinds of people and businesses with near bad credit potentially never getting it back is free money! Its the savory gravy that keeps pouring over GDP like a mashed potato. For the amount turned into public bonds the government’s lenders lose nothing. Bonds go on functioning in the hands of bondholders the same way as would cold, callous, hard cash. Public bonds, easily negotiable. Bondholders (in Genoa and Venice were considered a class of idle rentiers) with financiers as the middlemen between the government and the US taxpayer (or the nation) Wall Street investment houses are a modern form of a Middle Age relic as a class of idle rentiers. And where does this Capital go or get spent? In Biden’s world of increasing the national debt, its spent on how best to contain China from becoming a super power, that America is now a Pacific nation abandoning Europe and Ukraine just as it had with Afghanistan and the Middle East to retry in the east what it cannot do in the west. America is the new comer foreigner on the block in the east China has been around that neighborhood for thousands of years. Becoming Pacific is as bad a handicap a golfer can have on the course. America’s best bet is to re-industrialize its domestic economy badly in need of total restructuring to level out the inequalities eroding society.
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  173. The Foreign Intelligence Service appears to be the nuclei of a general fascist movement in America, amassing unders its control every means that can and does control people, and controlling through government the economic power of the nation to produce a surplus product from its working class even higher than what the surplus product may contain after all luxury items brings this country at a historic inflection point; a decisive battle between labor and capital.
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  174. US gas prices are not cheap for Europeans they went shopping elsewhere for gas. The administration better have something substantial for the pause in their studies and conclusions on offsetting this loss is more like the thinking of conservatives on the issue.
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  175. Anyone know if that sign person is actually doing sign language?
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  176. From 1992 to now that's 29 years of republican reaction to world events and social movements in that region of the world tells me everything I need to know about the republicans.
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  177. Voluntarism lives in Florida, government is paired down to first responder divisions.
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  178.  @dianegron  Pardon my intrusion ...Makes them complicit not spineless. You cannot prosecute someone for having no back bone.
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  179.  @speakingtruths4215  You said it not me.
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  180.  Phil Jermakian  The US is reacting to a rising economic power the name of that power is socialism and the face of it is Chinese. Pretending this struggle is not a struggle between capitalism and socialism is like saying the Koran, Bible and the Communist Manifesto are not the three most known and read books in the entire world. I prefer to not kid myself with illusions of the epoch we live.
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  181. Problem here is that the science is driven and owed by multi-national pharmaceutical corporations and social policy is driven by multi-national corporations that we are seeing many countries force vaccines on the populations of their countries. Australia for example, is a police state with a resignation of a major political leader who could have saved her job by fighting the corruption allegations but she chose to quit is an indication the corruption was real. The consequence is that the government will never say or admit they were wrong about the vaccine without betraying their loyalty to a particular private interest.
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  182. The heat will do us in before the other forces of nature do. Once the planet heats up it immediately affects our biology. And that is serious because our biology works only under a definite temperature. A too high or too low a temperature seriously reduces life expectancy.
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  183. Trump casinos in NJ was a disaster for Atlantic City it went bankrupt in 1991. It was like an oasis in a desert. Sucking up all the city’s resources and development projects to develop Trump Casino and the surrounding communities are left in desperation. In the end, all the people his casino employed lost their jobs. Its just an ugly blighted eyesore on a boardwalk today standing there doing nothing. Its a failure when a business man cannot make an industry work and employ people for longer than a lifetime. It shows that industries to some capitalists are never meant to last two, three, generations but were meant to be seized upon to make a killing. Its all about excess production. Opulence was his art. Too much, too big for one and too many living with too little, too small. His living space is a couple million square feet and the Atlantic City resident lives in a 48 square foot space in the cabin of their car.
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  184. That’s your reduction not mine. Speak for yourself. @williamgordon 
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  185. Some people can never be satisfied.
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  186. Granted the child support system is a system that needs to be abolished as a means for incarceration but this person Leo Ona is reacting to a society that values objects instead of people. Such as society is not broken but functioning perfectly according to the needs of the object not the person.
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  187.  @vitruvian4114  Unless the state advanced the arrears owed but could not collect from you as so ordered they will offset the amount of your stimulus and reimburse the state for the advancement of support received by your ex. Regardless of what the ex may earn. Also, states do not base support on total household income they base it on incomes of the parents. The permanent solution to this problem is to abolish the wage system.
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  188.  @Kevin-pv3kg  Right..thanks...
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  189. This amounts to rejection and non-conformity. Not to mention nothing to do with the country. Americans are a real clique-ish society. Every social institution has its own hierarchy is learned from Washington politics. They set the tone. The masses replicate hierarchies and the tone in every pore of society.
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  190. @IXL2BW, ---You talk like you will never age or invincible from need of a doctor or hospital. Sounding privileged as if you have a doctor and health services of your very private own.
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