twostrokenut
Well-Known Member
Dude, don't blow a gasket.
Were you saying artificial demand creates real supply or not?
Clearly you were.
Were you saying artificial demand creates real supply or not?
Clearly you were.
I would absolutely say things were much better before Reganomics and what the first bush called vodoo economics.
That would be the Ford and Carter years, is that still your final answer? lulz.................................
Art laffer:"if I'm wrong on this, Peter; I will bet you a penny if I am wrong but Peter durr durrrrrrr"
That would be the Ford and Carter years, is that still your final answer? lulz.................................
Yes, the late 50's right up through ronnie boy. I would say our country was in better fiscal shape. There were TV, bike, stereo, garden, hardware, stationary, pet and all sorts of other stores that were owned by a local resident in everytown USA. Now we have a fucking walmart on every damn corner, that's it. Fuckin Walmart and Sams Club.
Take a look at how SW airlines treated their employees through the ages. I know people who have become millionaires working the ticket counter with them. They still have unions, haven't offshored jobs, have never lost money and I believe were the second best performing stock of the last century. Herb, the CEO typically took home a million dollars a year and cashed about a mil in options a year. This was well into the 90's. So it can be done, it just requires that there aren't GREEDY BASTARDS running the show.
I'm so tired of hearing about how the poor are driving our economy, only a fool believes that. Last time I checked, my mortgage broker was still living in his 6000 sq ft golfcourse lot home and his clients are living with their parents.
Is that Walmart's fault, or people wanting an easier life at the expense of a poorer economy?
Maybe his clients need to get off their fat lazy ass?
Not all walmarts fault, but a corporation at one time was required to serve the good of the public in order to exist. Does walmart?
How many of walmarts employees recieve govt assitance? How big a chunk of their wages are being paid in the form of aid from the rest of us? Of course one side simply says cut the aid off while the other says pay better wages. Who should profit and who is profiting from this aid? I bet if you took the net worth of every walmart employee, it would be much less than the waltons net worth. Who's profiting from the tax payers, who are the real welfare queens in this picture?
I know many highly skilled engineers that would love to get off of their fat asses it's just they can't afford to work for the same wages that an engineer in India will do it for. Many of these jobs aren't even on the table anymore. It's rough out there, especially for us older guys who thought we were done eating Ramen 30 years ago.
Life sucks for many, but what can you do? We all take our chances with what we choose to do in life. What happens if no one likes reading entertainment anymore and gets it only from sites like these? I'm really fucked, but you blame the other guy.
Yes, the late 50's right up through ronnie boy. I would say our country was in better fiscal shape. There were TV, bike, stereo, garden, hardware, stationary, pet and all sorts of other stores that were owned by a local resident in everytown USA. Now we have a fucking walmart on every damn corner, that's it. Fuckin Walmart and Sams Club.
I don't know what this has to do with the economy but the millionaires you are referring to are long time employees who along with profit sharing, purchased stock on their own over the years. There are many other companies and employees with the same story.Take a look at how SW airlines treated their employees through the ages. I know people who have become millionaires working the ticket counter with them. They still have unions, haven't offshored jobs, have never lost money and I believe were the second best performing stock of the last century. Herb, the CEO typically took home a million dollars a year and cashed about a mil in options a year. This was well into the 90's. So it can be done, it just requires that there aren't GREEDY BASTARDS running the show.
I'm so tired of hearing about how the poor are driving our economy, only a fool believes that. Last time I checked, my mortgage broker was still living in his 6000 sq ft golfcourse lot home and his clients are living with their parents.
And that is the truth.Some that is not a greedy bastard is fooling themselves.
The well off are called greedy. That envy. People want the rich to be poor and them to be rich with that money with no work.
It goes back to before the Viking, before Rome, before the Great Wall of China was built. Envy is greed,.
his race to the top program was a massive success.
Hi, Winter Woman.Are you speaking of typical Libtard thinking.
If you think the economy didn't recover and recover strongly after Reagan became president, you need a history lesson.
It boggles my mind why some people are so fixated on other peoples success and how much taxes they pay.
I think history would disagree. Since the post WW2 years, inflation was and has never been higher than during the Ford and Carter years.
Those years before Reagan, were years of double digit inflation, extremely high interest rates and slow economic growth.
If you think the economy didn't recover and recover strongly after Reagan became president, you need a history lesson.
And it may be a surprise to you that Walmart already had 280 stores, employed 24,000 workers and made it's first $billion in annual sales by the time Reagan became president, that would be the Ford and Carter years.
I don't know what this has to do with the economy but the millionaires you are referring to are long time employees who along with profit sharing, purchased stock on their own over the years. There are many other companies and employees with the same story.
You kind of lost me here, I was unaware the poor were "driving the economy" I assumed it was the wealthy.
And why would clients of a mortgage be living with their parents, do you think they may have made some bad financial decisions, like buying a home they couldn't afford, or levering their house to purchase toys, thinking their equity would never stop growing?