Comments by "Ray Bod" (@raybod1775) on "The Wall Street Journal" channel.

  1. The U.S. spends trillions bailing out corporations through direct payments and tax write offs, so the U.S. could easily pay every adult citizen $1000 a month.
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  2. I'd rather see small businesses bailed out instead of big corporations that spent the last ten years buying their own stocks to prop up their CEO pay package and stock prices.
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  3. I woke up too.
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  4. Country needs somebody younger to lead.
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  5. They're too young to know what they're doing.
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  6.  @Spacesnakes474  Women always like a guy better if he has more to provide for her. That’s called nature. I’m retired now and throughout my life after being dissed by a woman, she makes a 180 degree turn when she finds out I have substantial means. I don’t put my wealth front and center because I’ve always tried to make a connection, better to be single than used.
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  7. Men, women and everyone else have equal rights. Anything else like DEI is illegal discrimination.
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  8. California needs to cover aqueducts, build more reservoirs or reactivate old reservoirs, and ban crops that use excess water.
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  9. Gabriel Calderón There are few rivals because companies were allowed to buy out their competitors. The executives don't care because they won't be around when the company goes under.
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  10. We in the U.S. need hard working and educated people from Hong Kong. Let them in.
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  11. The U.S. should have demanded that Taiwan be recognized as independent before opening trade with China.
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  12.  @bingbongbang8895  Trump defines the current Republican Party, old party is gone.
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  13. Most of Nile water will flow down. Egypt wants weak neighbors.
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  14. That was 30% inflation Biden-Harris. I’ll give Trump a try.
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  15.  @afkafkafk  No, conservatives are against labelling people by there background and skin color. They also believe people need to work like every other adult and not use excuses of belonging to a particular group.
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  16. The main reason most U.S. corporations can’t compete is too much money goes into executives pay instead of research and development.
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  17. Get real, the people of Yemen are rebelling against a medieval kingdom dictatorship.
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  18. Prices did not “roar back” with the economy, prices roared back because of the Federal Reserve massive increase in dollars in the economy keeping interest rates below real inflation rates. The 8 trillion dollar Federal Balance sheet is double what it was a year ago and is equal to about a third of the entire U.S. GDP. Too many dollars chasing the same amount of goods with decreased productivity. That’s a recipe for disaster.
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  19. Really think whether you are being sensible in voting against your own interests. I can’t vote for a party any longer that discriminates against me and tries to overwrite history of people like me.
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  20. Why, economists know theory, not real world economics. That’s how our country got messed up.
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  21. Chandrashekar Charlie The dollar is dominant because it used to be the greatest global trading power. The EU and China are bigger now and will continue to grow. It could all change in a nanosecond with a new international financial trading system backed by the EU or China. If Trump gets elected again, I believe it will happen during his second term.
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  22.  @2012inca  Everyone has some childhood trauma. Saying Elon doesn’t have work ethic is complete nonsense. Nobody gets on top of the business game without working constantly.
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  23. Tianyou Wang A lot of people in the U.S. look at China and see how China is the way the U.S. used to be. We used to be innovative and competitive. Now the U.S. is dominated by big corporations that use the Federal Reserve as their piggy bank, the Federal government for big contracts and their lawyers to destroy any small company that threatens them.
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  24.  @scottmac  Discrimination is illegal however you try to define it. Assuming an entire group has advantages is bigotry. Everyone under their skin is the same. Learn about the world. The wealthiest in the U.S. got there through dedication and hard work whether they are athletes, entertainers, tech entrepreneurs, doctors lawyers, etc.
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  25. Because politicians are totally corrupt.
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  26. I noticed that when I bought a table made in China, then I bought a matching shelf made exactly the same way, with a made in Vietnam label. Obviously, both were made in the same factory.
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  27. I’m 66, doing the same voting.
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  28. It's all temporary because the corporation winds up in massive debt from the buybacks then will not be able to service the debt and then goes under like Sears, Kodak, GM...
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  29. Republicans are so funny. They call Democrats socialists, while they are socialists when it comes to their own pork spending, like subsidies so Amtrak can keep running money losing service through their communities.
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  30.  @Muted3  Building lumber 8’ 2x4 went from $3.48 last month to $5.48 today, not a good sign for the future.
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  31. It's the fault of U.S. politicians and greed of large corporations that allow China to steal without penalties.
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  32. That's why Germany has so many benefits, jobs and companies.
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  33. It’s issues that count, not personalities.
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  34. They don't tell the full truth.
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  35.  @plan4life  100% right, that’s why I worked for the government until I retired.
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  36. More tariffs seem to be creating more American jobs
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  37. Adam Card Absolutely true, right after having the right connections, performance comes third in government.
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  38. Better small business grants than anymore bailouts to airlines and other large corporations.
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  39. Economy has been ruined by not having tariffs because prices have gone up faster than wages. We don’t have the industries to compete because they were wiped out. Economists never consider what happens after local industries go out of business.
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  40. I can’t afford higher inflation and taxes. I’m voting for the Trump team that includes Kennedy, Musk and Vance.
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  41. Negative yields mean there's too much money being produced and there's a lack of demand for money on a macroeconomic scale. It means your country's economy is screwed. The big borrowers are not borrowing because they don't feel confident in investing, even at a low interest rates. The little borrowers can't borrow because they are seen as a risk because the outlook on the economy looks bad and they have a higher chance at going under, so their interest rates are too high to make borrowing affordable. The next stage is stagnation, possibly stagnation with inflation or eventually hyperinflation because people completely lose faith in their money.
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  42. 50 years would be more appropriate for the amount of money involved.
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  43. Supporting small businesses is like throwing seeds up in the air and seeing which ones will grow. Supporting a big corporation alive is like trying to keep an old dying tree alive and neglecting all your other crops.
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  44. Politics, to be by Washington DC.
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  45. Inflation is caused by deficit spending by the Federal Government. The Federal Reserve does what it can to patch over the spending. Real inflation is more like 4% to 5%. The quality of products is ignored, whether it's building materials or food. The inflation rate is also lower than reality by using lower cost 'equivalent' goods in the calculations.
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  46. U. S. Constitution did not give federal government power over education.
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  47. Thanks to no tariff policy and open borders.
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  48. Not true, bad software.
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  49. Keystone pipeline overrides property owner and states rights.
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  50. Maybe you don’t know, manufacturing left the U.S. because tariffs were removed and the middle class has been going down hill since.
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