I remember the dems mocking Reagan because the debt passed 1trillion on his watch, they were idiots then and they’re still idiots. We seem to be locked in the past as well. I blame the “moderate” Republican leadership and I think they know full well what they’re doing.
This is not the industrial age and we are not in a post-war recovery economy but leadership is feeding us what amounts to bs about what this country can afford and more importantly what we should be doing with the unprecedented wealth the US economy generates. No American citizen should be living paycheck to paycheck, nobody should be worried about healthcare costs or student loan debt. There’s no financial need for it and we’ve been looking at the American people wrong for a long time. We can blame the marxists for that. Don’t look at “the people” as dependents, we’re investors and we invest everything we have. The return on that investment sucks right now, we’re mentally locked in the early 80s recovering from the carter nightmare. That PoV doesn’t match reality.
Too many people are locked in jobs making buggy whips while the economy pumps out brand new cars. Entire industries need to be allowed to die, big business needs to be allowed to fail. Our “poor” need to be allowed to take ownership of what they’re investing their lives in. We ALL need to be allowed to take ownership of what we’re investing our lives in.
Residential property taxes need to end, welfare needs to end, social security needs to end. Medicare, medicaid, WIC, obamacare... all of it needs to end. Those are the methods our governing class use to pay dividends to the stockholders and they all suck. Dump them all and start doing actual profitsharing. $5k per month to every US citizen (that’s what this social services disaster and big business prop up is costing us) and let us do our own thing. A LOT of people will definitely stop working but a lot of people are trapped in jobs that have no reason to exist as it is. There would be chaos. People won’t work for asshats anymore. People will do things they actually enjoy. This is turning into a manifesto and it’s all because I wondered what the GDP was a few weeks ago. We own this place and we’re living like serfs. That needs to end. And so does this screed. I apologize but it’s getting me worked up.
The taxes make us serfs, but what job you have is up to you. Go start a business, or go to school and create your own career. NO one tells you that you have to work for someone. If you want ownership, you need to actually own something and not just contribute to something bigger like a large corporation. Invest in companies using stocks and bonds or private equity.