Posted on 09/19/2016 12:00:58 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Of all the unforced errors Hillary Clinton’s made so far, calling half of Trump supporters “a basket of deplorables” is possibly her most misguided.
Aside from falling prey to juvenile name-calling, Clinton presumes that this swath of the electorate uniformly holds, and is animated by, racist views.
Perhaps her husband needs to remind her of his campaign slogan in 1992: It’s the economy, stupid.
Last Tuesday, four days after Clinton made that remark — at a star-studded gala in Manhattan, where Barbra Streisand performed — the Census Bureau released new data about jobs and the economy.
It was bad, bad news, energetically spun as good by many mainstream-media outlets.....
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
You DO know what board you’re posting to, right? :)
ah, it’s a hometown paper and they’ve printed a few of my letters to the editor, so what the heck.
If Hillary gets her way, we’ll be the permanent ash-pit class.
So the main point isn’t that we’ll be having sex with robots by 2050, right? I already have, it’s my ex. JK!!
That was just the last sentence.
The real unemployment rate is 40 percent. Just about every conceivable job can be replaced by drones or robots and deliverers of ANYTHING wont be needed soon. Nor accountants, says the article.
So cab drivers, bus drivers, truck drivers, delivery drivers of any kind, all fast food workers, soon all waitresses waiters and bartenders, stock boys, operations management and myriad other jobs will be gone
Thanks for the uplifting read :)
ALTHOUGH, I was at Atlantic City last week and a slot machine stopped working. It took 40 minutes to get it to work and it was ALL computer programming running the machine. A programmer fixed it.
I asked her what she was.
So if THAT computer can break down, why can’t a driverless car EVER break down?
You want uplifting or the truth?
I want that 2050 robot!
Excellent article!
Here are a few highlighted points:
- Buried further down in many of these breathless reports: This sudden soar in middle-class incomes is actually 1.6 percent less than in 2007, the last year before the economy collapsed.
- The richest 5 percent of the country continue to flourish, with a 21.8 percent jump in income. The top 5 percent reported over $350,000 in earnings — up 4.9 percent from 1999 and nearly 40 percent more than 1989.
Meanwhile, the poorest Americans — 14.8 percent of the total population, or 46.7 million — are even poorer than they were in 1989.
- Even The New York Times admitted Trump was right: If we count the unemployed, underemployed and those who have simply given up looking for work — which the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not — 40.4 percent of Americans were unemployed as of January 2016.
Interesting point in the article about Uber drivers; I’ve maintained that 1) working as an Uber driver is the only way some of these drivers can make their car payments, and 2) the concept is dependent on an increasing number of people unable to afford a car. Both are indications of a precipitous slide in our standard of living.
Obama was re-elected in 2012 ONLY because almost half of America was ALREADY part of the permanent underclass...
Working people are the underclass. Not by race, but because they are forced to support the ones who will not work.
“So cab drivers, bus drivers, truck drivers, delivery drivers of any kind, all fast food workers, soon all waitresses waiters and bartenders, stock boys, operations management and myriad other jobs will be gone”
The evolution toward automation, ever less labor content, etc, is a historic trend and is inevitable. However, the $15/hr movement, along with political correctness is accelerating the trend. Sad fact is; people are becoming to expensive, especially in the entry level, low skilled arena. Besides, with all the PC bull shit going on people have become a pain in the ass.....
While I was not pleased with the scattered way the article presented the facts, it did raise some important points and I liked the way you extracted a few of those.
Big government and big business are not the friend of the middle class.
Government is merely a paving the way for large corporations to beat down small and medium sized competitors. Big businesses rush to automate and globalize as much as they can, and could care less about American workers.
We desperately need entrepreneurs to arise and create value that translates to millions of jobs. And to do that, we need to cut job-killing regulations and lower taxes for the owners and small businesses creating jobs.
We need to close the border, send the illegals home, and start holding people accountable for shipping jobs overseas.
Finally we need a guy like Trump who is the champion of Main Street, not a tool of Wall Street.
Choose wisely America. It’s either Trump with his magnificent hotels, or Warren Buffet with his crony capitalism and gecko/geico commercials that insult our intelligence.
nobody's figured out how to make an economy and society work when most of the population is useless. Well, the plutocrats behind the 6 billion plus culling called for by Agenda 21 have their own ideas, but 6 billion aren't going to willingly go to their deaths - not without taking the plutocrats with them.
Saw an article a while back were people also rent their cars out to a ride sharing company when they aren't using it. A couple of people mentioned in the article said that was the only way they could afford the car.
TPTB don't care if it breaks down or causes a fatality if it can be shown to be statistically safer than a human driver. So expect the statistics to be massaged like BLS reports..
Had a blow out on the Garden state doing 80 last week.
Had lots of blowouts driving a cab way back but the rim was burning and had to get over three lanes to shoulder.
Barely had control of the wheel.
What’s a driverless car gonna do in that situation?
Is it gonna immediately put on the blinkers, start honking and put its arm out the window like I did?
How’s it gonna handle cutting over three lanes of cars going 80 plus MPH on a burning rim?
Pray?
You made me laugh so hard you wouldn’t believe it.
Terrified about wife going into NYC today and couldn’t imagine something making me laugh today. ANYTHING.
I’m still laughing. Will it be a built in prayer to match the owner’s religion? :)
Glad to offer up a laugh. Don’t want to further Hijack the thread..
Some of the recent great success stories are simple ideas that became large corporations in very short order due to the infusion of large amounts of venture capital. A group of investors picked a horse and ran with it.
So we have Google with its search engine, FaceBook with its blog hosting, Uber and Lyft and AirBNB with their ride/room sharing.
Maybe I've got this wrong, but it seemed like in the past an entrepreneur could get a business started in his city, and then over time grow that business across the country. It seemed to be the case even into the 90's that even many large companies were either limited to east of the Mississippi or west of the Mississippi (e.g. Carl's vs. Hardy's).
Now if you have a good idea, and you don't get millions of dollars of venture capital to spread your idea across the country and the world immediately, then you will be clobbered by the company that does.
So it's not just about having a good idea and working hard to see it succeed. You also have to get venture capital, and if you didn't graduate from Harvard or Yale then the guys with the capital don't know about you and are unlikely to fork over their millions.
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