Posted on 04/25/2018 6:41:52 AM PDT by blam
Easy answer from these fools—”Make the millionaires pay more!”
Reimbursement for travel costs, food, lodging and saving someone’s butt from becoming dinner for their buddies across the river or being a slave to their buddies across the river, being eaten by a lion, croc or trampled to death by a rhino. You’re welcome.
I don’t think “how will you pay for this” is the most effective response, as that implies that these are worthy goals if only we had a way to fund them.
I think the better response is - Don’t you know what happens when you remove the incentive for people to earn money by simply giving it away? I’d suggest taking an introductory economics class, or perhaps just reading up on the news out of Venezuela over the last couple of years, before you promote policies that are certain to do the greatest harm to the very people that you supposedly want to help.
I’d go for another CCC or WPA program but it would not produce the same results or be managed like the last one was. In those programs you worked and produced or you didn’t stay.
We just completed a short trip to an old National Park and Wildlife Refuge. The buildings and improvements the CCC built still endure but the whole of it needs renovation. What they planned and built in just a few years is incredible in scope, distribution and quality. Rock buildings with not a single crack in the walls. The managers of those projects and the people had an eye for architectural appeal and blending with nature. The little dams they built to improve the water for wildlife are perfect for their settings. The buildings are classic in design, execution and function but need repairs and some updating.
Highways in this country have fallen apart. We are too far behind for repairs and instead require wholesale rebuilding.
So, how much melanin do you have to have to get reparations? To make this work, Democrats will have to go full racist.
You think old-fashioned words like “quadroon” are racist? Hardcore old Mexico had a name for every race permutation you could think.
Just like the income tax got the government in everybody’s business, reparations will get the government into your DNA.
Dems going full commie socialist as they panic.
My first visit to the Russian Federation was in 1998, not long after the fall of the Soviet Union.
We hired a driver, since driving there is aggressive far beyond New York and Boston standards.
In conversation, I learned that our driver had a masters degree in physics. I asked why he wasn’t working in his field.
He replied, “As an engineer I would receive the equivalent of $30 per month paid in roubles. As your driver, I receive $15 American cash per hour.”
He told me that a surgeon in Moscow can expect to earn about $150 per month in roubles.
He said they have a little motto, “They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.”
The reason everybody in the old Soviet Union had a job is because of the hideously ineffecient way they did things.
In 1998, the supermarket was a relatively new idea in St. Petersburg: you know, where you could select things off the shelves, put them in a basket, and checkout.
The Soviet way was to stand in line to present a list of the items you wanted to a clerk, who writes up a bill.
Then you stand in the next line to pay the bill and obtain a receipt.
Then you stand in a third line to present your receipt in order to retrieve your goods.
Oh, and bring your own bag.
These days, Affirmative Action (quotas) engineers will be running the show. Look out.
Of course not. The unicorn farts and pixie dust will magically turn into the necessary funds. Why bother with such mundane trivia as "cost estimates"? We have a revolution to promote.
Once the bread has molded and the circus has lost its animals the slaves revolt.
Reparations are due from the enslavers that currently reside in West Africa.
Enslavement was the result of incurable inequality
The same answer the Marxists always have. Nationalize the energy and transportation sectors of the economy.
Both Clinton and Obama tinkered with this strategy...Bernie wants a "government takeover"...Bernie wants all power to decide the end of Capitalism
I had to pay for my own college tuition and our children’s. Will I be getting a refund?
Add a couple of zeroes to the total Federal debt. What could go wrong?
I am not an economist, so I may be missing the mark on the Democrats’ intentions. But, it seems that if the jobs are created by the government, and paid for by the government (with our tax dollars) it will not lead to real economic growth. It is simply the government taking more of our money to create bigger bureaucracies. Just think of all the new government employees who will be needed to administer these programs. Further, by guaranteeing a monthly basic income and free medicare for all, in addition to other benefits already available, not only is the incentive to work eroded, but the creation of jobs by small businesses is made much harder since most of those businesses won’t be able to compete with what the government will offer. At the end of the day, all we get from the new utopia is a larger tax burden and a declining economy.
When two wolves and a sheep are discussing who is for dinner, economic theory is not persuasive. :-(
That’s why Yelsin was blown away upon visiting a typical grocery store in Texas.
How A Supermarket Visit Brought Down The Soviet Union
http://beelineblogger.blogspot.com/2016/01/how-supermarket-visit-brought-down.html
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