Here's a broom for your sweeping generalization.
I mean I could say that conservatives appear to be less intelligent and thus are more easily swayed but that would be the same thing.
|
|
|
Choice or life?
- Thread starter killvino
- Start date
Here's a broom for your sweeping generalization.
I mean I could say that conservatives appear to be less intelligent and thus are more easily swayed but that would be the same thing.
You sure are a **** disturber, Seems every thread ends like this.
Honestly I think you like devision in groups.
Maybe in your mind it weeds out competition.
Mad Mike
Well-known member
You could say that... but you'd be speaking like a true Liberal. Did you know that virtually 100% of Cons know budgets don't balance themselves?
I would say nearly 100% of humans understand that. Just not the moron in chief or his orange friend apparently. The "rich" are an undefined group with an unlimited supply of funds ready to be contributed to the dumpster fire of socialism.
Mad Mike
Well-known member
That's why I said nearly.
No but a lot of non-cons know (without hysteria) that deficits and spending aren’t always the end of the world and are, in fact, quite necessary at times. Especially when you are in/emerging from a once in a lifetime global pandemic.
If it was targeted spending with a goal as opposed to a dumpster fire where you frame any and all requests for accountability as a witch hunt, I would agree with you.
That’s also true. I haven’t seen a lot of dumpster-firey looking things but I also haven’t seen a lot of substantive reasoning from any party right now either. I just think lurching into full austerity measures would be as catastrophic as uninhibited spending. The sane pathway is somewhere in between.
The problem is correcting from a year of uninhibited spending you cant just pick middle ground to get back to a happy place. You meed to ride the yoyo a few times before you can get back to the middle. If I spent 314K last year more than I made, cutting back to 100K more than I made with no plan to ever spend less than I make that's not the middle, that's a slower spiral into doom.
What‘s the correct path to take from a once in a lifetime/ not really comparable to anything else event though? Everything we are doing is a huge life experiment right now. As long as we don’t go the batshit crazy/plant magic money tree route things “may” be fine. I don’t think any party has gone to total la la land even if they are pandering to voters a lot.
I beg to differ but that's ok.
That‘s totally fine…and expected too as really, does anyone know? Even looking at the Great Depression there’s not too much comparison. So many intertwined things are on knife edges right now. It’s like a massive game of Jenga.
Just one small example….Brexit coupled with COVID-19 has led to a shortage of lorry drivers in the UK. Which in turn has affected supply chains specific to that area (we have our own issues as do other around the world) having a knock on effect to a whole heap of businesses. Who the hell would have foreseen that? What do you do to address it? Overturn a majority semi-popular piece of legislation or continue and muddle through?
Mad Mike
Well-known member
I don't think anyone is calling for full on austerity, although that is the inevitable result if spending continues out of control. The issue here is using the pandemic as cover for reckless spending on things not pandemic related.
Britain's inept politicians created the issue.
Pre Brexit, foreign drivers filled those jobs. Post Brexit the very wise British setup a program to expedite work visas for jobs that have 'critical shortages'. Ballet Dancers are in urgent need and can get these visas, truckers... nope.
If you can't eat... dance!
The Government is borrowing money from the Bank of Canada (because the rates are low). The Bank of Canada is then basically calling the Mint to have them print more of it. I'm no economist, but that sounds like a Magic Money Tree to me.
DownUnder
Well-known member
We may all become billionaires... like Zimbabweans.
lol, you don't think the Jan 6 people were not disenfranchised? What about all the antivaxer people, they are not disenfranchised? Proud boys and all the other white supremacist/power groups?
Far right, far left are both full of them and in fact prey on them because they are easy to fool but recent history in the US proved how many can be fooled.
And yet Paul Martin managed it, but Harper couldn't keep us there. Not a lying liberal but just saying.
Honestly I did like Paul Martin. I’m not a liberal but Mr Martin keep us on a steady course
|
|
|
|
|