Against free markets and against more people voting. Definitely the party of freedom and democracy loving Patriots.
NASCAR and MLB have spoken out against Republican policies. How shitty do you have to be to lose those 2?
Rs are trying to prevent more people from voting, especially Black people, because they know their chances of winning go down as more people have access to the ballot, seems pretty simple and not arcane to me.
2020 being the most secure election ever is a pretty common refrain. Messaging doesn't matter if they get their shit together and pass HR1 and John Lewis voting rights act
Braves said they’re “disappointed” about MLB pulling out and that they could have not liked the voter suppression while leaving the game, but this is the same team that left Atlanta in the dead of night for racist ass Cobb County cuz browns are scary so I’m not sure what I expected. They also posted about “404 Day” the other day when their stadium is in solid 770/470 territory.
In some local restaurant owner groups and wooooo boy they are almost all universally shitty people who think they can't hire people because of govt unemployment pay, not because you have to offer fair wages now. Interestingly all of the worst complainers about having to pay more who all proudly brag about trying to end staff's unemployment benefits are all gay. They love to put the gay liberal supportive owner shit out in public and in private are trying to harm their staffs.
he pointed out the state house can override his veto easily in his statement he just understands the politics of these bills don't even play great within the GOP as it's currently made up
Some people post with their grandchildren here, so I don’t want to repeat what the evergreen trees did to get canceled
all reasonably accurate... note that China and Japan historically have swapped places as the largest foreign holders of Treasuries somewhat often, when viewed over the years. China has slowly been dropping their ownership of late (last 2 years), likely a result of their efforts to establish the renminbi as a worldwide store of value... it’s hard to substantiate claims that your currency should be a global trading standard when you are the largest owner of another currency. As with all economic discussions there are so many factors at play... no single factor will stay in place forever and inflation, interest rates, politics, and debts are are globally interrelated...
It's a good primer for people who think our economy is like running a household. It's the dumbest commonly parroted line from otherwise intelligent people and I think a lot of it is just ignorance plus some being intentionally disingenuous. Have had several conversations about the economy lately trying to explain the complexity and how the debt isn't necessarily bad and that basically everything conservative politicians have told you in our entire life is either unsubstantiated or largely discredited.
I enjoyed them interviewing people on the street about how big the number was and they all thought it was too big but you can also tell they had no idea what the number represented. "Yes, that is a lot numbers and it concerns me"
Anything that should last forever (university, government, etc) should have some debt - but that debt shouldn't be treated like a never-ending money tree, either. Greece was an example cited but pairing a good example with a pure libertarian like Stossel isn't a fair representation, either. Again, there are so many factors involved and no one knows when one factor will spin out of control - inflation is always the big nasty in the argument. Some restraint in debt should be observed but you're right, it shouldn't be made equivalent to the budget of a human person who has a finite lifespan either. Our local county struggles with economic growth because our County leadership won't take on the smallest bit of debt to expand the airport or purchase property for economic development activities because our county leadership is scared of debt - that's a terrible approach. I also see counties that have terrible credit ratings and have to borrow at high rates of interest even as their county is losing population and facing increased debt burdens due to over spend on infrastructure projects that were boondoggles - all simultaneously. It all works fine - until it doesn't.
See the thing that is always the big bad boogeyman in these conversations is some amorphous reckoning that comes from an unknown event where the federal government is no longer the BSD of the world (because the strength of the dollar and our economic strength comes from the confidence in our government after all). After digging down with people, the debt hand wringing is almost universally a function of a fear or distrust of the U.S. government. Or like, them actually wanting it to fail in some way. They don't actually think the U.S. is exceptional on the world stage so they say shit like buy gold or invest in bitcoin because U.S. government bad and debt bad and huge government bad. What that argument ignores is we have biggest baddest military, the American dollar is king, and we export culture nearly everywhere. The king stay the king. When is the U.S. suddenly going to become a peon on the world stage? It's the completely wrong way to look at the whole question but it's the tail wagging the ignorant dog instead of like, an actual discussion on the merits of different measures.
The Greeks fucked themselves by joining the EU and giving up control of their currency. It greatly exasperated the crisis. Local, city and state government operate closer to personal households, but still need to use the debt wisely. The national debt is pretty meaningless and should never be referenced, nor should whomever holds the ‘debt’. It’s irrelevant
It's almost like the people who print the world's money can decide exactly whatthefuckever to do with it.
Inflation should be monitored and taken seriously. But worrying about it now is disingenuous. It’s like worrying about overflowing a 50 gallon bucket when it’s a quarter full and youre dumping in a glass at a time
China holds less than 5% or the outstanding US debt. Japan a little more but roughly the same percentage. The largest single holder of US debt is the Federal Reserve. All the China could own us is BS. Same rhetoric from the 80s about Japan. Silly. To your later point it works until it doesn’t.
It's always so strange to me that the biggest inflation fearmongers are usually very wealthy people who tend to be creditors and then they never talk about how inflation helps poor people with debt wonder why that is the way that it is. This isn't to say that inflation isn't scary. It's to say that it's been used as a boogeyman to avoid good policy for decades in the name of conservative politics.