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LoveNotHate
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27 Oct 2014, 10:28 am

wittgenstein wrote:
So, we should make $2 an hour so we can compete with slaves.
In other words become a slave in order to defeat slavery! 8O
Does that $2 an hour requirement apply to everyone? Or only those that contribute to the economy? In other words, those that take their money by betting on our productivity (and creating nothing) should be paid $2.


I don't want to argue the obvious.

It is clear to me that the US cannot exist in its debt bubble forever. It cannot take on trillions in debt forever and pretend it is a productive, prosperous country when in fact the wealth is flowing out of the country. At some point the debt bubble pops and the US mostly equalizes with the world, until then, generally, the wages will stagnant, and inflation will slowly reduce the standard of living.



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27 Oct 2014, 2:45 pm

zer0netgain wrote:
Socialists are hypocrites.


I think you meant to say that The Freedom Socialist Party is run by hypocrites.


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27 Oct 2014, 2:53 pm

LoveNotHate wrote:
It is clear to me that the US cannot exist in its debt bubble forever. It cannot take on trillions in debt forever and pretend it is a productive, prosperous country when in fact the wealth is flowing out of the country.


The wealth is not flowing out of the country; it is flowing up within this country. Do you really think that Apple is siphoning off all that cash to its Chinese work force?

And the nation is a prosperous country, as long as you take the totals and ignore the quintiles in terms of wealth.

And if you want to go on complaining ad nauseam about federal spending and debt, I will ask you to find a job where the federal government is not paying your wages or investing in your pension and health insurance premiums (or at least promise never to brag about how much you make and how little you work ever again).


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