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Comment · 8 years ago
fed intervention has been shown to make things worse, rather than a quick and violent correction we get the anemic recovery from the 2008 recession, combined with another 10 trillion in debt from the fed printing money to buy stocks and prop up Obama. Zero interest rake hikes during his entire presidency is a joke.
Comment · 8 years ago
The housing bubble was caused by Clinton's policies that modified the CRA resulting in all those crappy loans
Comment · 8 years ago
It would be easier to convince them if liberals didn't outright mock them, Hillary bragged that she was going to put a lot of miners out of business.

There's also the sense of abandonment. Coal miners worked and died for generations to provide the energy that made comfortable city life possible. Now when they are no longer needed they get thrown away like an old tool. If liberals actually promoted something other than "leave behind everything/everyone you know and move to the city" they might be more receptive to dropping coal.

Comment · 8 years ago
Do you really want your power grid dependent on manufacturing by an increasingly hostile and authoritarian country? The tariffs were made based on national security reasons.
Comment · 8 years ago
housing cost, health insurance, and college tuition aren't counted in inflation. Economists and politicians can lie all they want but there's a reason people are angry enough to vote Trump or Bernie Sanders and it's because they can tell their standard of living is dropping. Don't piss on my boot and tell me it's raining

If the establishment was doing it's job people wouldn't vote anti-establishment.

Comment · 8 years ago
Globalization, free trade deals, and illegal immigration only benefit corporations and shareholders. Jobs are outsourced to the country willing to take the worst deal, immigrants with no federal labor protection flood in lowering wages and living standards. Corporations pocket the labor saving rather than passing it on to consumers.

End result is increasing income inequality. If nothing is done we will return to the historical norm of peasants and wealthy nobles with nothing in between.

Comment · 8 years ago
There's obviously zero biological differences between men and women, the differences are all sociological. For that reason I demand gender equality in the NFL at middle linebacker and in the olympic 100 meter dash. The only explanation for the fact that no female has ever made the olympic finals in the 100 meter dash is discrimination.
Comment · 8 years ago
Globalization and free trade benefit corporations, not workers, hence the increasing income inequality.

Corporations are pocketing the difference in labor pricing from off shoring labor rather than passing the savings onto consumers as was promised by politicians and economists when trade deals were signed.

Comment · 8 years ago
>UK

Your government currently arrests people for criticizing the government online, covers up child-rape gangs, arrests people for reporting on those cover ups, and mandates whether citizens should receive health care or die, regardless of whether they have the money to pay for it in a foreign country.

Your government took 1984 and used it as a blueprint. Your government see you as an actual human, they see you as their property.

Comment · 8 years ago
survival of the fittest, the sexual dimorphism of humans and ingrained tribalism should make it fairly obvious that conflict between groups was common
Comment · 8 years ago
How dare Australia make Jeff Bezos follow the law and stop Amazon from undercutting local competition!
Comment · 8 years ago
Larry and Sergey's research was initially funded by DARPA. Silicon Valley itself was built by military funding. Self-driving cars and AI research were initially funded by the military. Everybody working in tech is getting blood money, anyone who thinks otherwise is either ignorant or a raging hypocrite.

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