Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "The Lincoln Project" channel.

@dancahill9585 Nobody I know has been excited about adding to the deficit. Congress writes the budget and has veto power over Presidents, so it’s a bit more complex than people often portray. Tea Party was not motivated by racism though. That’s a demeaning and disarming attack from people like Schumer who saw the writing on the wall with a populist uprising. The truth is that America has largely been over the racist thing for well over a generation. Look at how many people voted for Obama, for example. What did Obama do with his mandate? Provoked the dimming embers of racial divide repeatedly, while ignoring black community leaders. Don’t fall for that game if you want to pursue the truth.
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@dancahill9585 So when “dupes like me” see the same debt/GDP figures you see, we can’t see them because.....what was it again? See how divisive your BS arguments are? You’re the one being duped by buying into Tea Party - slavery. You’re the one contributing to the problem, not solving it.
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Democrat party is the party of racism, slavery, and continued dependency inflicted on poor families. It’s really a strange phenomenon that the Democrat Party survived Reconstruction.
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@TinaS-s1z I want everyone to have healthcare that wants it. Poor people already have Medicare and Medicaid, in addition to State healthcare programs. We spend more on Medicare every year than Defense. Where’s the money going? Medicare annual budget is gargantuan. We’re talking $829 Billion this year alone. That’s not even including Medicaid.
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@TinaS-s1z That’s not how Medicare works. The poor get covered under Medicare, Medicaid, and State funded programs like MediCal (in CA). I’ve seen people without US citizenship who entered the Country illegally get better healthcare than politicians of other countries. Dental care is a huge racket for children of undocumented immigrants, for example-all Federally funded. Dentists invite the kids to come back for monthly check-ups, vs annual. None of this is free. It’s all being confiscated from employees and small businesses. Large corporations offset it into the price of their goods and services, which means we pay for it on the front and back-ends.
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I would rather have the choice to spend my money as I see fit, not how corrupt politicians who could never balance a checkbook and have their own special insider trading schemes in charge of it. SS is unconstitutional. It’s nowhere in the enumerated powers of Congress to enact such a plan.
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@StanSwan FDR packed the Court and pushed SS through. Show me where Congress has the enumerated power to steal my income for “my own good”, (maybe at a later date). Just because slavery, limited voting rights, and a laundry list of erroneous practices had precedence doesn’t make them Constitutional. We had 160 years of US history prior to FDR’s New Deal that were in congruence with the enumerated powers of Congress.
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@fritterfoof5146 Good corporations that are successful in the long term value their employees and customers with high emphasis. Bad corporations that fail to treat employees well soon have the word spread about the work environment, and have high turnover, eventually failing to stay in the market in many cases. It’s a constant struggle. Politicians don’t get votes unless the labor representatives are onboard. It isn’t simplistic with either/or metrics. The biggest betrayal has been union leadership supporting political candidates who helped US companies send their labor offshore/overseas, which was mainly driven by excessive regulations-things that labor unions were encouraged to support. We’ve been played.
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@StanSwan 16th Amendment is also unconstitutional. 16th Amendment was created to finance the interest on Federal Reserve notes. 6 States never even ratified the 16th Amendment. I’ve been studying the history of the 16th Amendment since the 1980s. It was essential for financing the new foreign/US hybrid banking system to hand control of our fiscal power over to London and other European banks, who recognized that the US was the future of finance. It’s illegal for Congress to allow anyone else to coin or print US currency, other than the Treasury. We used to have US notes, not Federal Reserve Notes.
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@StanSwan Everything you think you know about the Constitution is likely erroneous.
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@StanSwan So you read the Constitution where Congress can raise or levy taxes for defense, debts, and general welfare of the Nation, but then didn’t study the history of why we never had indefinite Federal taxation until the 16th Amendment. During the Civil War, Lincoln and the Union, (as well as the Confederacy) raised taxes to support the war. The United States took in revenue in the form of tariffs prior to that. The US was the fastest-growing market in the world, and everyone wanted to do business with the US if they could. The Civil War era taxes were eliminated in 1872, as the government no longer had justification for a large standing Army or war effort, and had plenty of revenue from tariffs. The US Economy continued to grow rapidly during the Reconstruction Era. Taxation was never meant to be an indefinite tool for revenue-generation by Congress, especially since tariffs filled the Treasuries’ coffers at obscene rates. The question is, why did we all of a sudden switch from tariffs to penalizing US citizens, then using that money to pay interest to a foreign group of bankers to loan us their currency?
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