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Quote:It would be trivial to create meaningful jobs at a living wage. Have the federal government order businesses to hire more employees and spread the work to more people by lowering the hours they work while increasing the wage rate per hour to compensate for fewer hours per worker. But that won't happen because business owners are not in business to create jobs. Owners will strenuously fight against it. Already employed tax payers/voters don't want to pay for it.
Originally posted by SignyM:
PITY WOULD BE NO MORE IF WE (YOU) DID NOT MAKE MEN POOR.
There are people who truly need help, but most people just need a meaningful job at a living wage.
A much harder way to create more jobs is to lower the greenhouse gas emissions, the Green New Deal. But that won't happen because there is no such thing as Global Warming according to the GOP, and if there was, Americans don't want to pay to prevent it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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And if democrats don't do anything different, how are they any better?
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Space startup’s founders linked to shady dating website ring
Two founders and board members of Texas space startup Firefly Aerospace appear to be involved in running a ring of sham dating websites, according to the results of a two-year investigation published by Snopes on Wednesday.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/space-startup-s-founders-lin
ked-to-shady-dating-website-ring/ar-BBZVK2r?ocid=msedgntp
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Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
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How a Bible prophecy shapes Trump's foreign policy
For an influential group of American Christians, support for Israel — and hatred of Iran — is based in a biblical prophecy.
When Trump authorized the drone strike that killed the powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, he was acting on the advice of a politically powerful group of evangelical Christians who believe the US and Israel are part of the Bible’s plan to bring about the second coming of Jesus.
Evangelical Christian Zionists are playing an increasingly visible role in Republican politics. Today, unprecedented access to the Trump administration has given them an opportunity to reshape the Middle East.
The video explains America's Bible based foreign policy.
It is all part of Signym’s theory of Trump is a loose cannon, which is exactly what foreign policy needs because it was getting too predictable.
In the Evangelicals’ view, Trump is heroic as was Queen Esther from the Bible who saves the Jews of Israel from being "destroyed, killed and annihilated" by the Persians of Iran. The relevant Bible quote:
Quote:Spoiler! Haman dies horribly. It is a messier death than a drone strike with Hellfire missiles.
Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life — this is my petition. And spare my people — this is my request. For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.”
King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is he — the man who has dared to do such a thing?”
Esther said, “An adversary and enemy! This vile Haman!”
Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen. The king got up in a rage, left his wine and went out into the palace garden. But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+7&version=NIV
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Quote:SUCH AS YOUSELF
PITY WOULD BE NO MORE IF WE (YOU) DID NOT MAKE MEN POOR.
There are people who truly need help, but most people just need a meaningful job at a living wage.
SECOND: It would be trivial to create meaningful jobs at a living wage. Have the federal government order businesses to hire more employees and spread the work to more people by lowering the hours they work while increasing the wage rate per hour to compensate for fewer hours per worker. But that won't happen because business owners
Quote:So, the source of the problem isn't lazy, stupid Americans (as you've posted) and its not Republicans (as you've posted), it's business?
are not in business to create jobs. Owners will strenuously fight against it. Already employed tax payers/voters don't want to pay for it.
Glad that you finally got around to seeing reality!
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
Happy New Year, WISHY. I edited out your psychopathic screed!
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
How a Bible prophecy shapes Trump's foreign policy
For an influential group of American Christians, support for Israel — and hatred of Iran — is based in a biblical prophecy.
When Trump authorized the drone strike that killed the powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, he was acting on the advice of a politically powerful group of evangelical Christians who believe the US and Israel are part of the Bible’s plan to bring about the second coming of Jesus.
Evangelical Christian Zionists are playing an increasingly visible role in Republican politics. Today, unprecedented access to the Trump administration has given them an opportunity to reshape the Middle East.
The video explains America's Bible based foreign policy.
It is all part of Signym’s theory of Trump is a loose cannon, which is exactly what foreign policy needs because it was getting too predictable.
In the Evangelicals’ view, Trump is heroic as was Queen Esther from the Bible who saves the Jews of Israel from being "destroyed, killed and annihilated" by the Persians of Iran. The relevant Bible quote:Quote:Spoiler! Haman dies horribly. It is a messier death than a drone strike with Hellfire missiles.
Queen Esther answered, “If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life — this is my petition. And spare my people — this is my request. For I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed and annihilated. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because no such distress would justify disturbing the king.”
King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is he — the man who has dared to do such a thing?”
Esther said, “An adversary and enemy! This vile Haman!”
Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen. The king got up in a rage, left his wine and went out into the palace garden. But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate, stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.
www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Esther+7&version=NIV
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Don't worry about it. T already started a thread letting us know that Trump already lost the Evangelical Right.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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7 things to know about the private equity industry
It shapes every big company in America, even those it never directly touches.
1 The private equity business model doesn’t have a technical or legal definition, but it normally refers to leveraged buyouts — a private equity firm offers to buy a business with cash that’s mostly borrowed, and the debt that accrues to the books of the acquired company rather than the private equity firm itself.
2 Because companies bought through the LBO process are now indebted, the business inherently becomes riskier and more fragile than it was before the acquisition — a small downturn might make them unable to cover interest costs and force them into bankruptcy.
3 At its best, private equity provides a new infusion of energy, money, and outside expertise that can help improve a company’s operational performance and set the stage for expansion.
4 At other times, the debt burden induced by the LBO simply makes it harder to raise capital for needed investments, making it even more difficult for the acquired company to survive and thrive in a changing business environment.
5 Sometimes, a private equity deal ends up profitable because the company is turned around and then resold as a success story at an initial public offering. But even an investment that ends in bankruptcy can be profitable because the private equity firm extracts funds via management fees and special dividends.
6 Only accredited investors (basically rich people and large institutions) can invest in private equity funds, which allows them (like hedge funds and other exotic investment vehicles) to operate in a very lightly regulated environment.
7 The existence of a large private equity industry influences the entire business world. Any company whose managers don’t adhere to the philosophy of maximizing shareholder value over any other interest (a sense of ethics, an obligation to long-time workers, a commitment to a particular community) risks being targeted for a leverage buy-out that would restructure the company to maximize shareholder value. Therefore any company that wants to stay independent more or less must play by shareholder value rules — the private equity industry serves as the enforcement arm of a larger philosophy.
More at www.vox.com/2020/2/14/21136478/what-is-private-equity-explainer
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When we sum up the evidence from Federal Reserve and Census Bureau numbers from 1982 to 2018, under Republican administrations, middle incomes stagnated almost completely, rising only 0.1 percent on average annually, while poverty increased an average of 2.6 percent per year. Under Democratic administrations, by contrast, middle incomes rose annually on average 1.3 percent and poverty declined 1.6 percent.
Despite that, Republicans have claimed that cutting taxes and domestic spending will best grow the economy, and the resulting prosperity will “trickle down’” to all. Democrats have argued that increased taxes and wise public investments would both grow the economic pie and slice it more equally.
http://blueview.org/2018/07/17/republicans-steal-the-american-dream/
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How America Became “A City Upon a Hill”
“A society that is both clear and articulate about its intentions is something of a rarity in modern history,” Perry Miller lectured. “Most of the nations of Europe and Asia grew up by chance and by accident either of geography or politics.” In other countries, so much had changed over so much time, he explained, “that even the most patriotic citizens would not dare say to what conscious purpose the nation was originally devoted.” Europe had legends and myths, a murky past misted over by a cloud of unknowing. But America had a recorded past — a written and articulate beginning. All one needed to do was gather up the texts. All one had to do was check the sources. All one really had to do, Miller insisted, was read a single sermon by Winthrop.
This need for a purpose — this story of a nation founded in purpose and defined by it ever since — resonated with a wide range of thinkers and writers following the close of World War II and the opening of the Cold War. In the late 1950s, for example, Henry Luce, the powerful editor of Life magazine, asked respected intellectual and political leaders to articulate and explain the purpose of the country. “More than anything else,” he claimed, “the people of America are asking for a clear sense of National Purpose.” Respondents included politicians, poets, journalists, evangelists, and government officials — everyone from Billy Graham to Adlai Stevenson.
Most in this august group were haunted by a nation that seemed to have lost its way. As John Jessup, a prominent journalist, wrote, “Is there not a connection between the rise of nations and great purpose, between the loss of purpose and their decline?” The problem, it seemed, was complacency. Wealth had made Americans weak. “Part of our problem,” John W. Gardner declared, “is how to stay awake on a full stomach.” Nothing was being asked of the American people. Having achieved material success and world power, the United States seemed content to let citizens go about spending and consuming, little caring about a higher cause.
A whole culture of academics and public intellectuals took up these concerns. David Brinkley, Betty Friedan, Richard Hofstadter, C. Wright Mills, David Reisman, William Appleman Williams, and so many others in their own ways condemned American consumerism and anti-intellectualism in works that were broadly digested and debated by the American masses. Miller, who portrayed himself as a “lone wolf,” was by no means alone in his concerns. He, like others, believed that America’s influence might be terribly short-lived. “History is littered with the corpses of civilization that reached the limit of expansion, dug in behind walls and moats, and there yielded to decay,” he proclaimed. According to him, the materialistic culture of America would soon exhaust itself. It didn’t require particular genius “to ask yourself, at least from time to time, whether this American way of life is not rushing at a steadily accelerating pace toward a massive megalopolis which finally, of sheer dead weight, shall grind to an agonizing stop, and then crumble into ruin by the force of inertia.” As one of his students summarized, “He could imagine the end of America, if not of American affluence.” Yet for Miller, as for others, mere affluence constituted its own form of demise.
The content of Winthrop’s sermon — what Miller thought Winthrop was actually saying or proposing as a model — differed radically from what Reagan and others would make of it. According to Miller, this sermon called Puritans to model radical communal solidarity. It had nothing to do with the American Dream, nothing to do with bettering one’s life, nothing at all to do with making money or getting ahead. In fact, Miller claimed, Winthrop specifically rejected all such ideas. Going it alone, pulling ahead of others, getting rich or even trying to — these were the very dangers that Winthrop sought to guard against. Society’s success depended instead on mutual affection, being “knit together in this work as one ma
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