Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder" channel.

  1.  @myleslong5584  Thanks. It comes from 3 things. 1) I actually do care about America. I had this amazing time over there going to college and it hurts watching America tear itself apart the way it is. 2) No matter what any Australian likes or not, America is our most important trade and security partner. That has its pluses and minuses. Either way we need America to be stable and reliable. 3) No matter what any other country thinks or wants America is still 25% of the worlds economy. The US Dollar ($USD) is still the worlds reserve currency and MOST international trade is done in $USD or the money exchange is backed by $USD. NOBODY not even the Russians, Iranians or North Koreans can afford that system to be come unstable. Right now there's around $100 Trillion in Foreign Exchange (FX) Swaps held by banks, companies and others around the world. There's a Bank of International Settlements (BIS) report on it that went largely unnoticed 2 years ago. It raised the concern that over 60% of those swaps were held by non-American non-bank entities. Its NOT odd for businesses who trade internationally to hold FX swaps but there's also a lot of people using them like Casino chips AND IF the currency backing the swaps suddenly jumps up or down in value it can shock the entire global trade system. Better still is the fact that a couple of American states are now the favorite hiding places for money. There's little said about it but Idaho is America's equivalent of Switzerland and has a very secretive banking system. Its also a favored place for Russian Oligarchs to hide their money. Putin's worth around $200 Billion through various stocks and entities. Where that money is, is anyone's guess, but there's probably some in Idaho. So I really do mean it when I say NOBODY can afford America to become unstable or unreliable. Not even Putin. And Harvard, Yale and U. Chicago ARE the problem, because of what their graduates do and how they network together.
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  2.  @pamparker4047  Your not actually disagreeing. He's highlighting 1 side of the issue which is teenagers and sex while you are pointing out what the HPV vaccine is - a protection against cancer..
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  3. EVERYONE should go and listen to Peter Zeihan's explanation of the whole Israel, Hamas and Gaza that he did 5 days ago. Its a very simple explanation of how the Israeli Government political system works because of how it works and the demographics of Israel. He also gives a very interesting take on the Iranian reasons why they MIGHT be involved. He not only points out that the Iranian people ARE NOT Arabs they're Persians. Its often forgotten there are a number of ethno-tribal groups across the middle east and at times they have different goals. Its an easy video to find. Its titled Israel, Hamas and Gaza: Q&A w/ Peter Zeihan
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  4. What they could (or should) have done was throw his own claim back at him. They could have said. "Yes Jesus words are fine and fair. Now can you please tells us when we will all live by them?" And then remind him about all those Christians who fought to retain slavery and then enacted segregation laws and to this day gerrymander to disadvantage black communities. There's a famous exchange between Mahatma Gandhi (a Hindu) and a British official where he told the British Official that if he'd agree to live as Jesus described in the Sermon on the Mount the world would be a better place. He basically said "you all claim to believe in Jesus but none of you practice what he said."
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  5. On your second point which you are also right about. I'm an engineer who's been informally studying economics for several years now. I got tired of clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects with their 2 favorite lines. "What's the business case for that?" and "Who's going to pay for that?" Sorry if this is long but here's a basic run down on what I found out. Even when I had those answers they still interfered because that's all they know what to do. Its doesn't take long listening to people like Mark Blyth, Stephanie Kelton, Marianna Mazucatto and others that there is a small but getting louder minority of economists who are calling for change. Mark Blyth for instance has his computer analogy and describes how capitalism has had 3 major versions so far, each that developed its bugs and needed to be replaced (or upgraded) and that we need a new system much like we do with computers. However the most startling thing I came across was only a few weeks ago when economist Steve Keen who (in an interview) said that economists DO NOT include energy in their models. AS AN ENGINEER I find that bizarrely ridiculous because EVERYTHING needs energy to work. This is where I think Marx, Smith and everyone since got it horribly wrong. Marx & Smith put everything in terms of labor, but then how do you value the work product of an ox that pulls a plow or the horse that pulls a cart or the cow that produces milk? Better still since Smith & Marx had seen the industrial revolution up close and then how did they value coal because that was the energy that drove economic growth? How did they value wind because that was the energy that drove the ships that moved the goods? As an engineer I can barely believe that the last 200 years of economics has been founded on a combination of stupidity and ignorance. 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂🤦‍♂ Pardon me if I am an engineer but universally you can't have work without energy input, whether its by labor, animal, machine or by capturing natural forces. The efficiency of any economic system is therefore NOT profit margin but the efficiency of energy use to generate wealth and I say wealth rather than profit because profit is just a measure of capital return measured in monetary units and money is nothing but transferable debt where wealth is the accumulation of value which can also include things unaccountable for with money. If you are wondering on the money is transferable debt thing. Go and watch Gary Stevenson explain what money is here on YT.
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  6. Australian here: I would have thought the Brits were most proud of Fish & Chips or The 66 World Cup?
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  7.  @menudobucket9837  My comment was more a general comment in line with yours that you started this thread with. The fact DeSantis was at Gitmo as a lawyer when these interrogations were taking place is enough to raise serious concern over his ethics. Then there's the whole bit about what his actual role was because its not clear who he was actually representing.
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  8.  @sukhvindermangat1087  On Murdoch please feel free to do whatever you like to him. Most Australians wont care. We tried warning the Brits what he was like when he moved there BUT THEY DIDN'T LISTEN and they have regretted it ever since. We tried warning you Americans what he was like AND YOU DIDN'T LISTEN EITHER So don't complain about him. Deal with him. He's made a complete mess of politics in 3 countries and interfered in a few others. We have 9 of the top 10 most poisonous snakes in the world as well highly poisonous spiders, spined fish, poisonous jelly fish and even a poisonous ant, BUT NONE of them are as poisonous as Rupert. We have a joke that a poisonous snake once bit Rupert. The snake had to be put down out of mercy.
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  9. Australian here - I have watched his channel from almost the beginning.
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  10. As a counterpoint and some perspective. I'm Australian but went to college at Illinois so the Badgers are a rival. I went to Wisconsin a few times and there's nothing fundamentally wrong with Wisconsin or Wisconsin people. Every nation, state, tribe and village that's ever existed has had its idiots and at times let those idiots be in charge. We've got them here in Australia and we 've elected them to office too. We've done the "I don't like this person or that person so I'll try this person over here who's at least saying something different." YES - we do stupid things too. Here's a reason why Wisconsin is worth saving - the Green Bay Packers. Look across American pro-sport and there's this one anomaly. In stead of being the private property of some millionaire or billionaire there's this one team that's just owned by "normal people" (if you can call Packer fans normal). Do you know that's WHY the Packers have fans across the world? The Packers are the one club in America that people around the world can relate too. Its the one American club that's like all their clubs. If I put all the NFL fans in Australia in a room by far the biggest group are the Packer fans. Other than the Packers, the cheese isn't too bad and by Australian Standards at least Miller Genuine Draft is drinkable. American beer is so "not good" that Americans drink Mexican and Canadian beer when they can. So for Wisconsin to have made one of the very short list of American beers that's drinkable should be considered a plus.
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  11. Exactly OXY IS AN OPIOID and every opioid ever disseminated legal or illegal has been addictive. Its utter garbage to think it wouldn't be addictive.
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  12. Lets not forget that America still hasn't asked itself the question if getting several hundred thousand people killed during the invasion and occupation of Iraq was worth all the money made by the shareholders of all those companies that sold services and stuff during that clusterf*ck. FYI - I'm Australian and absolutely think that we should have held our political leadership should have been held accountable for their part in that disaster.
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  13. The precursor to that is when they say that's a "great question" and then DON'T answer it.
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  14. Considering that Hawaii was an independent sovereign nation that America INVADED and took over then yeah maybe that's reasonable. Now there's these other people that have names like Sioux, Arapaho, Lakota, Apache,.... etc. who'd also like to hear what you have to say. And while your at it if America and for that matter other nations (Australia, Canada,....) settled by Europeans were to be handed back then where would all those people of European descent go? Be careful in trying to fix one thing that seems so simple but actually isn't.
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  15. ​ @avesatanae  100% Dead right on the first point BUT NOT the 2nd point. I'd agree to RESTRICTING how much residential property people can own but not an outright ban or you'd kill the rental industry. Remember there's always that fraction of society who can't own and that might be for any of dozens of reasons. A college student can't afford to own but they probably need at some point to RENT an apartment. Somebody might have a temporary job for a few months or a couple of years and they RENT. People are not always ready to buy and settle somewhere so they need to RENT. BUT where you are damn right we need to stop the maniacs like the Larry Fink at Blackrock or his buddies at State Street and especially maniacs like Trump from owning massive amounts of housing.
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  16.  @ZenOfMKVLI  Agreed, sadly we sold our soul back in the 50s and 60s.
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  17.  @fredsanford1437  Well done you've given one of the few sensible comments in this clusterf*ck of a discussion.
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  18.  @maedesmond2461  yeah that Henry Wallace quote gets mentioned occasionally but never enough.
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  19. At some point people are going to start screaming back at these people. They already have 6 of 9 judges, what more do they want? How much is enough for these people? A pack of their Senators said in 2016 you cant allow a new SCOTUS judge in an election year and then did EXACTLY that in 2020. This incessant lying and hypocrisy is only going to end in 1 thing and that's people screaming that they have had ENOUGH. Look what happened with BLM. Millions of people stood together and said "WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!"
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  20. Your right for what the world currently has. I'm 50+ and can remember when it wasn't about the next news cycle and it wasn't endless cycles of vindictive point scoring . David Pakman had a great term for it "toxic sport politics." He was the 1st person I heard call it that and I think its a great description of what we now have. Its toxic, its all about points scoring and winning the next news cycle and every 4 years theirs the championship. It has nothing to do with running ANY western democratic country, they all suffer it to certain degrees. FYI_ I'm Australian but went to college in America. I was in Canada 3 years ago and other than the snow the news was almost identical to here. Every part of Canadian politics is just like Australia what separates us from America is scale and how much better at it Americans are.
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  21. FYI - I have seen a couple of Lina Khan's interviews recently and she might be the first Ivy League graduate in a while who has both a spine and a brain. Somehow she managed to slip through the IL system with both intact.
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  22. Try forever. When has he ever had anything but a softball interview? Why don't they ask him a real question like his social life with Jeffery Epstein???
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  23.  @mr.giggles4995  Then why say it was on a podcast. What it shows is that NOBODY checked. The main complaint of many podcasters and YouTube commentators is that the main stream media DOES NOT FACT CHECK, but then they do the same.
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  24.  @EnigmaHood  I largely agree with most of your comment, but if we are going to talk PERSPECTIVE then SPR didn't glamourise war anywhere near as much as what Hollywood has done in the past or continues to do - note Top Gun and its sequel or many other recent films as examples. Also it at least showed Americans willing to commit war crimes. For instance towards the end of the beach landing there are Germans fleeing the bunkers and they get caught in a trench. They stop, put their hands up and surrender, The Americans simply shoot them anyway. By CURRENT standards that's a war crime and is one of the VERY FEW TIMES any major Hollywood film has shown that. Also on the glamourising of War - How is Vin Diesel lying in the street bleeding to death asking for help and holding a letter he wrote to his father asking to make sure his father gets it glamourising anything? - How is any of the others in Tom Hanks troop dying glamourising anything? You're right its called PERSPECTIVE.
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  25.  @RobertSmith-lg7jp  3 Magicians are in a bar bragging about the tricks they have done. The first magician says "I once made an elephant disappear and the audiences were so stunned none of them could speak for a week!" The second magician says "So what, I once made a jet airplane disappear and the audience were so stunned that some of them needed hospital care of whiplash!" The third magician says, _"Oh yeah, I once made a New York Skyscraper disappear and the audience were so stunned they forgot to breath and half of then dropped dead!" The bar tender who'd overheard this started laughing and then said, "Donald Trump made 7 billion IQ points disappear and the audience were so stunned they made in President!"
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  26.  @derekcoaker6579  As I have said in several comments ITS NOT POSSIBLE to hire impaired people as AT Controllers. One of the fundamental requirements to EVEN APPLY to work and start training as an ATC is that you already hold a pilots license and you can't get a pilots license if you are impaired in the ways he claims.
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  27. The EV is not dead but Tesla is in a huge amount of trouble. If you compare their share value to other car companies and look at how many cars they sell the valuation makes no sense at all. Tesla's share value should be about 1/10th what it is. So most of Elon's wealth is from hype not value. I'm an engineer and Elon's actually done 2 things we all should be grateful for. 1) He gave the rest of the car industry a monster kick in the butt which they needed. 2) He gave the aerospace industry a similar well deserved kick. Here's the really stupid thing. IF (and its a big if) Elon had simply accepted what he'd done as good and NOT gone overboard with all the hyped up crap and BULLSHlT sci-fi fantasy nonsense then his wealth might be a lot less but it would be a lot more secure AND there wouldn't be so many people hating him.
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  28. NO the jokes on all his fans who BELIEVE he's an intellectual.
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  29.  @bladewars7889  Are you saying Emma wasn't rational? Cos if you are then you need to go and check out what being rational means.
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  30. Australian here: When you guys hear people talk about "The American Taliban" this is what we are talking about. And if any of think we will be joining in some Holy Crusade into the Middle East. NO
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  31. Australian here: - This is similar to what's been happening here too. In May 2019 we had a federal election won by the conservatives and in December that same year the British conservatives also won. There were some distinct similarities to the losing campaigns of Australian Labor and British Labor to Hilary Clintons losing 2016 campaign. When I asked a Brit it they told me that some of the same campaign people from Hilary's campaign had been involved in BOTH Australian Labor's and British labor's campaigns. This is something people don't realise is going on. There are American campaign consultants going all over the world and getting involved with other people's election campaigns. Right now we are having a referendum to change our constitution to give the first nations people a "Voice to Parliament." Its similar to the system used in the Nordic countries with the Sami people. A year ago it had massive support, but that has been eroded by an American style campaign of lies and garbage pumped out on social media. JUST LIKE WHAT HAPPENED WITH BREXIT. In the case of Brexit Cambridge Analytica who ran the Facebook campaign of conspiracy theories and lies was owned by American LIBERTARIAN Billionaire Robert Mercer who also owns Breitbart News. The No campaign here is being lead by a couple of first nations people who are LIBERTARIANS and work at or have worked at Think Tanks with links to American Libertarian Think Tanks. You can easily check this. The Institute of Public Affairs one of Australia's most influential think tanks has a page here on YouTube - check the links it has on their homepage here. You'll find the Heritage Foundation and CATO Institute and others American LIBERTARIAN think tanks listed. Very shortly if they are NOT careful America is going to be told to FK-OFF and stop interfering in our nations.
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  32.  @kiwihib  You know there's over 5,000 years of recorded History and for all but the last 120 years women were never allowed to vote ANYWHERE on anything. 2 of the first countries in the world to give women the vote were New Zealand and Australia. So there were some hangovers. So there were some things that weren't fixed straight away.
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  33.  @rasheed7934  Well actually there has always been various societies through history where women were given a say in decisions. In fact a little known thing about European history that you seem unaware of is that women arranged many of the prominent marriages and therefore had a lot of quiet political power. It was their daughters who got used to cement various treaties and alliances, so they had some interesting power. Besides that I have NO IDEA what you comment has to do with this conversation anyway. I didn't bring up the subject of women that was clown from New Zealand who's contribution was how we arranged our drinking establishments back in time. Plus it was the same arrangement as they had in Britain for several hundred years. But then some people just want to say irrelevant stuff rather than actually deal with issues.
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  34.  @andrewpearson5504  As I keep telling people. We WARNED the Brits what Rupert was like when he moved there and they didn't listen. We THEN WARNED the Yanks what Rupert was like when he moved there and they didn't listen EITHER. If either you Brits or Yanks want to deal with him and I suggest you start with watching the God Father for inspiration then GO FOR IT. About the only correction I'd give you is that it didn't start with Rupert. Politically orientated media goes back centuries, BUT Rupert certainly took it to a whole new level. In terms of spreading garbage propaganda he is maybe the only private citizen in history that can compete with the great empires.
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  35. I'm not defending what he's become, but Jimmy seemed to be fine up to that point where the Squad didn't force the vote. Something in Jimmy broke and he's just gone of the rails. Jimmy was always on about being progressive and at its heart progressivism is about change. Jimmy used to interview people like Mark Blyth, Richard Wolff and others who are saying the world needs to change. When the Squad did nothing to force change I think Jimmy saw it as a complete betrayal and it broke him. Jimmy's still about change its just that he now wants to do it with a wrecking ball named Trump.
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  36. FANTASTIC COMMENT worthy a lot more than the single thumbs up I can give.
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  37. ATTENTION ALL: I just checked through the last 10 Pakman podcast transcripts here on YT for the word "river" and its NOT THERE. So when was this comment made? I'll agree with a few of the negative comments about Pakman here. He can be smug and at times he has on guests who are there for no other reason but to back up his view of the world, but he also has on people he disagrees with. I can be critical of him in a number of ways including his relentless plugging of sponsors, but then that's his business model. What I did find was a video posted 25 Oct 2023 titled "A framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace." So if you actually want to know what his views are then I suggest you go watch and listen rather than rant about a comment that may or may NOT have been made because there's NO REFERENCE to when it was made.
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  38.  @abdalln8554  I'm Australian and you have just described the bulk of the population of the developed world. What Trump is doing is exactly what politicians across the developed world have been doing for decades in not centuries.
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  39. I suggest you go and watch Glenn Kirschner's take on this. Among his career was time spent as a retired Federal Prosecutor. Its a really good analysis of the types of charges and what usually goes in front of a judge.
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  40.  @FunkyMonkey262626  Yeah and hate to break it to ya being the best at anything doesn't mean shite. For instance there was this Austrian who tried to drag the Germanic countries out of the Great Depression. For a while he was considered a genius until he started the Second World War and 73million died. There's still about 1.4 Billion people who think that guy named Mao was a genius, after all his most noted achievement was "The Great Leap Forward" except that as many as 55 million died from starvation. Or if that's too complex for your tiny brain how about something as simple as Lance Armstrong. Cancer survivor, hero too children, amazing sports achievements and a DRUG CHEAT. So what if Rogan's podcast is popular that doesn't mean SHITE.
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  41. I'm Australian and this election has always had huge ramifications for us like its had for some other countries. The democrats are plagued by a group of OLD PEOPLE who just won't accept their time is over. Jimmy Carter is one of the rare examples of a Democrat getting out of the road while helping when he can. The Bidens, Pelosis, Clintons and Obamas on the other hand......... The ramifications of that attitude is staggering. I've looked at some of the stats and one that I have NOT YET seen anyone discuss is the voter turnout and its the REAL ISSUE America needs to look at. According to the stats on Wikipedia almost every election gets a larger turnout than the previous one as expected from population growth. 2012 is a rare exception, but it doesn't compare to 2024 with over 16 million FEWER voters. EVEN Trump is DOWN by 800,000 over his 2020 result. When you consider that he picked up a slab of young male 1st time voters that means a couple of million of his base give up on his nonsense. Harris is Down by 12.4 million compared to Bidens 2020 result and that means a gigantic slab of the people who turned up in 2020 just gave up. Independents were simply annihilated. Anthony Scaramucci said something the other day about the options people had. Here's some to think about. 1) If you're a college student who wants the Genocide in Gaza to stop. Do you vote for Kamala who's helped support it or do you vote for Benjamin Netanyahu's choice for President. 2) If your a mother who's son is stuck in the basement vaping and playing video games. Do you vote for DEI Kamala or the felon who brags about grabbing women by the pussy. 3) If your a father who's daughter is worried about boys in the locker room. Do you vote for DEI Kamala or the convicted felon who would grab your daughter by the pussy. 4) If you vote 3rd party or independent what's the point of actually voting when you get NOTHING for it other than an opportunity to wave your middle finger at the Democrats and Republicans who don't care anyway. 5) If your Gen-X, Millennial or a Zoomer do you vote for the party run by selfish old people who don't care about your future or do you vote for the party run by a narcissistic sociopath, liar and convicted felon who's surrounded by other narcissistic sociopaths, liars and convicted criminals NONE of who care about your future. America has alienated so many of its people that 16 million who voted 4 years ago GAVE UP ON VOTING. Simply it doesn't matter if you're being asked to eat a BULLSHlT sandwich or a CHICKENSHlT sandwich you're still being asked to eat a SHlT sandwich. Sorry for the rant but what just happened has GLOBAL ramifications and America is functioning like NASCAR on 5 cylinders.
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  42. ATTENTION ALL: I just checked through the last 10 Pakman podcast transcripts here on YT for the word "river" and its NOT THERE. So when was this comment made? I'll agree with a few of the negative comments about Pakman here. He can be smug and at times he has on guests who are there for no other reason but to back up his view of the world, but he also has on people he disagrees with. I can be critical of him in a number of ways including his relentless plugging of sponsors, but then that's his business model. What I did find was a video posted 25 Oct 2023 titled "A framework for Israeli-Palestinian peace." So if you actually want to know what his views are then I suggest you go watch and listen rather than rant about a comment that may or may NOT have been made because there's NO REFERENCE to when it was made.
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  43. Just for different take. Are any of you aware how big of a deal this is for the rest of the world and particularly ANY country that has significant trade and security arrangements with America. FYI - I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my friends were pre-law and they liked discussing the Constitution with me. I'd studied Orwell (Animal Farm & 1984) in high school and argued that ANY country could fall into an authoritarian nightmare if it wasn't careful. *They always argued that it was impossible for that to happen in America because of the "checks and balances". As an engineer I'd call them "safety functions." What we NEVER discussed was the possibility of someone (like Mitch McConnell and the Federalist Society) set about corrupting one of the main safety function, like SCOTUS. This is like pulling the wrong tile out of a Jenga stack. it might not bring it all down buts its making the system UNSTABLE. Yes we all know this is more important to the American people, but its also very concerning to others as well because how do we deal with an unstable America. What if somebody like Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Green is Trumps next running mate? They might end up with control of nuclear weapons. That's NOT a joke that's a damn scary possibility.
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  44. @@user-ih4hq I would have thought in Florida it was his long lost cousin Alligator McCoy.
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  45. I would add 2 words to the end of that "and preferences" Look at his argument on tax relief for home loans. He's ok with tax relief on home loans but not college. That's a preference nothing more. He's not judging it against what has the best outcomes for society- its just a preference. This is what makes libertarians so childish at times. At the end of it all it comes down to what they want without any real consideration of what others need.
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  46.  @Imperial-Socialist  When I was there in 2017/18 I had the impression that Canada was in a similar situation to Australia. There were things we could be doing better but at least we were doing things while many other nations were still in denial. America and China being at or near the top of that list.
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  47.  @chriszanf  100% agreed on that and YEAH I know what the French Reference means. Have you ever seen the TED talk "Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action" by John Perkins or any of the other talks he's given? Eric Prince is what happens when people don't agree with the options people like John Perkins gave them.
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  48. I'm Australian and this is amazing because not because he's GOP or American its because we are having the same sorts of issues here. This is now rampant across the entire Western Democratic World and its why NOTHING is getting done. Go look at almost any Western Democracy at the moment and see if you can find REAL CHANGE happening in areas that actually matter like housing, banking, water or energy transition. There's all these committees doing all these investigations, hiring consultants, doing inquiries and tabling reports AND NOTHING HAPPENS.
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  49. yeah they are 10 out 10 perfect score looking after their ethics. Its just their definition of ethics not ours.
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  50. Australian here - and there simply is no winners in this disaster and it was predicted. Way back in 2010 Jon Stewart interviewed King Abdullah II of Jordan. It was one of 2 interviews JS gave that I feel should have changed the world and NOBODY was listening both times. King Abdullah WARNED AT THE TIME that if the Palestinian problem was NOT dealt with it would take another generation before another opportunity would come along. He warned that the fanatics on both sides would take over and it would only be a matter of time before it collapsed into something really bad. It took 13 years but that day might have finally arrived. Around the same time there was the wife of a senior British politician who caused a complete shitstorm of controversy when she referred to Israel as "that shitty little country." The remark wasn't aimed at the Jewish people but that the situation in Israel that caused so much grief for the rest of the world. And for reference the other interview Jon Stewart gave was to a guy Obama appointed to control CEO & Executive bonuses to bailed out companies after the GFC. At the time "The Guy" was labelled "the most evil man on Wall St" in the financial media. It was part of the response Obama gave to the car companies after their executives arrived in Washington on private jets begging for money. Obama's response was (paraphrasing) "Fine you can have a $$ Trillion, but until you pay it back this guy decides the wages in your companies." "The Guy" limited all wages to something like $200K or $500K. It was way above average pay packets but it stung the executives real damn hard. It overrode any any contracts and bonus agreements. I remember Jon Stewart asking how much had been paid back. "The Guy" answered it was over 90% and when asked about the other $7 Trillion handed out by Bush and Obama he said something like 4%. It should have set a precedent for every handout by any and every nation since. Here in Australia we bailed out QANTAS for the COVID shutdown. After resuming flights they have made over AU$1.4 Billion and have refused to pay any of the AU$480 million back including a $24 Million bonus to the CEO and that was after he publicly stated QANTAS would not exist without the bailout. 2 LESSONS NOBODY LISTENED TOO.
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