Mark Blyth, the economist who's making sense

[st0wandgrow]

I always put a rubber on it. And I don't ask. No more kids and I don't want a vasectomy. The urethane ones are pretty good. I don't much care for latex. Latex sometimes break too.

It's really an easy procedure anymore. They use this device to numb up the plums (that looks like one of those thick pens that has multiple different color options) with a little air canister on the end. It shoots a high pressures puff of air that permeates the sack and numbs you up quite well. Then they stick the needle in to really finish the job (which you can't feel at that point). A few minutes of work, and bada bing, you're shooting blanks.

I took that day off work and the following day, back at 'er the 3'rd day. My ole lady talked me in to doing it with a pretty persuasive argument. She said that she went through child birth 3 times, so I needed to step up to get this done. I reluctantly agreed that she was right. Plus I'm pretty certain that if I ever wanted to get laid again I neded to get my ass in to the urologist and take care of this.

I opted for the reversible procedure. If I ever wanted to have more kids (not gonna happen) I could get it reversed. Only down side is that the clamps that they use makes it feel like you have two little legos in your nutsack...but you get used to it.

 

[Tim Fox]

Watch these and you'll begin to understand why I'm no fan of Republicans OR Democrats.

They're both ducking the problems facing the majority of Americans today.

Saying I should vote for Democrats instead of Republicans is like saying I should vote for piranhas instead of sharks because they won't eat me AS FAST!

what do you propose we do as voters?

 

[Justin-case]

It's really an easy procedure anymore. They use this device to numb up the plums (that looks like one of those thick pens that has multiple different color options) with a little air canister on the end. It shoots a high pressures puff of air that permeates the sack and numbs you up quite well. Then they stick the needle in to really finish the job (which you can't feel at that point). A few minutes of work, and bada bing, you're shooting blanks.

I took that day off work and the following day, back at 'er the 3'rd day. My ole lady talked me in to doing it with a pretty persuasive argument. She said that she went through child birth 3 times, so I needed to step up to get this done. I reluctantly agreed that she was right. Plus I'm pretty certain that if I ever wanted to get laid again I neded to get my ass in to the urologist and take care of this.

I opted for the reversible procedure. If I ever wanted to have more kids (not gonna happen) I could get it reversed. Only down side is that the clamps that they use makes it feel like you have two little legos in your nutsack...but you get used to it.

Stfu, nobody wants to hear about your dusty old balls, or lack there of, and the procedures involved.

 

[st0wandgrow]

Stfu, nobody wants to hear about your dusty old balls, or lack there of, and the procedures involved.

I know, bucks balls are the only balls you like to think about

 

[st0wandgrow]

I Maybe a bit off topic, but i must of asked a dozen people this question and couldnt get a response.

Would you be OK with isis setting up a recruitment booth at your local fair grounds?

*have
*couldn't

 

[ttystikk]

what do you propose we do as voters?

Voting is the end of the prices of citizen involvement, not the beginning.

Find local chapters of like minded groups in your area: Represent.us, Out Revolution, #resist, and there's more. Get involved. Meet with them, their rallies. Talk to your friends about what's wrong with our country and what policies need changing. Get them involved, too! Find out about local candidates, state representatives and national level politicians, their positions and support the ones whose platforms you support. That's enough to get you started.

If all you do is show up at the polls, you're missing most of your chances to make a difference.

 

[Padawanbater2]

 

[ttystikk]

'studying economics in Scandinavian countries is really boring, because everything works!'

'there's a qualitative difference between income and wealth.'

Mitt Romney, the shit, pays less than half the tax rate as wage earners.

 

[ttystikk]

Part of the reason why the income gap keeps growing.

Read between the lines and think about the regulatory environment that encouraged such classism in the workplace;

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-rising-inequality-consider-the-janitors-at-two-top-companies-then-and-now.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email&referer=android-app://com.google.android.gm

 

[ttystikk]

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2017/09/06/why-oil-prices-cant-bounce-very-high-expect-deflation-instead/

Prices of commodities, raw materials, oil all falling. Imports and exports of goods falling in major teaching nations, the US included. Everywhere, economies are starting to stall.

Why? I believe it's because the buying power of consumers- aka workers- has bottomed out, crushing the ultimate sources of demand for products, services and energy.

IDGAF if your name is Wal-Mart or Exxon, if you run out of customers you're no longer a viable business.

The last paragraph of the article is an interesting nugget, as well; it says that in an economy experiencing falling demand, non elite workers are vulnerable to epidemics of disease. As evidence, it offers the opioid epidemic now accelerating across America.

 

[ttystikk]

...and here's the rest of the reason why America's wealth and income gap is gigantic and only getting worse;

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/05/opinion/rich-getting-richer-taxes.html?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email&referer=android-app://com.google.android.gm

The Reagan Republicans lied to America when they said that cutting taxes would boost the economy. All it actually accomplished was to stratify living standards by taking money from those at the bottom and putting it in the pockets of those at the top of the economic ladder.

Forty years later, our economy is hollowed out and corporations can't find ways to keep bleeding an already impoverished consumer class, sooooooo the whole house of cards is about to come crashing down.

You know they've done it before, those rascally Republicans- and it led to the Panic of 1898 and the Great Crash of 1929- and the Crash of 2008.

Anyone care to guess what comes next?

 

[ttystikk]

The roots of racism as superiority vs classism;

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/the-first-white-president-ta-nehisi-coates/537909/?utm_source=atltw

@Justin-case @dagwood @UncleBuck

Is this the distinction you're trying to draw? It will help if you actually read the article, as opposed to simply assuming you know what it says.

 

[ttystikk]

Millennials are poorer then any other generation and a massive 47% less likely to own their home than previous generational cohorts.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/09/07/millennial-households-are-poorer-than-any-other-generation-study.html

This says a lot about the economy America has been building for the past 40 years- none of it good.

 

[Fogdog]

Millennials are poorer then any other generation and a massive 47% less likely to own their home than previous generational cohorts.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/09/07/millennial-households-are-poorer-than-any-other-generation-study.html

This says a lot about the economy America has been building for the past 40 years- none of it good.

I've always wondered about the idea that the next generation can't afford a home. If 47% of all the children born after the turn of the century can't buy a home, who is going to buy them?

 

[ttystikk]

I've always wondered about the idea that the next generation can't afford a home. If 47% of all the children born after the turn of the century can't buy a home, who is going to buy them?

Major corporations are buying them by the tens of thousands- and then renting them out (on usurious terms) to people without enough income to buy their own, effectively turning them into a permanent underclass, unable to take advantage of the benefits of building equity in their homes.

If this sounds like a recipe for economic disaster, I'd say you're spot on.

Check out the next article;

 

[ttystikk]

The confluence of extreme income inequality, environmental disaster and an uncaring attitude on the part of the upper classes killed millions of Irish and drive millions more to emigrate to the United States in the 1840s.

It decimated the population so badly that the population of Ireland hasn't recovered, even 175 years later.

https://thinkprogress.org/climate-change-irish-potato-famine-cc16181c7aed/

This can happen to us. And with elites like Trump, the Koch smokers and Rebekah Mercer running our country it's all but inevitable.

Is THIS what America has come to stand for?!

 

[ttystikk]

The next Great Depression will make the last one look mild by comparison. Must we as a nation learn this lesson again, the hard way, instead of learning from our own history, reading the direction of current trends and making the needed changes before charging headlong, like lemmings, off the same damned cliff?!

 

[ttystikk]

What the rest of the world really thinks of America;

https://markmanson.net/america

And a little cold, hard truth;

America is no longer the greatest country on Earth. We were once, before we sold our political system to the oligarchs so they could bleed us dry.

We WERE the greatest country the world had ever seen- and we can be again. What we need to do is come together, redevelop the old sense of shared purpose and responsibility to one another and our progeny and work towards the goal of prosperity, even survival, for everyone. It's our future. No one else will do it for us. The rest of the world is pretty fucking fed up with our self absorbed paranoid bully bullshit but they'll welcome the chance to work with us to create a future all of us on this little rock can live in, together.

Or, we all perish. It's no longer a matter of if it will happen, it's only a matter of when and what will get us first.

 

[ttystikk]

And now for a little agricultural economics.

Compared to the Netherlands, we are babes in the closet when in comes to indoor gardening;

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/09/holland-agriculture-sustainable-farming/?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email

 

[schuylaar]

The next Great Depression will make the last one look mild by comparison. Must we as a nation learn this lesson again, the hard way, instead of learning from our own history, reading the direction of current trends and making the needed changes before charging headlong, like lemmings, off the same damned cliff?!

and yet clinton is secretly toying with 2020 as she just can't help herself..i love how she positions sanders as rival in her new book; always looking to out do her- you know i never thought of this angle..it actually took me by surprise when i heard it yesterday..wait!..perhaps it was SHE who was looking to out do HIM..you think?

from clinton the anointed to clinton the victim..