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Biggest Scam in US Government History - The Federal Reserve
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Mariah stop trying to turn me into a slut.
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What kind of patriotism is this?!
Socialism s as misunderstood as capitalism.
wow, with such dialogue and rhetoric are you sure you're not wasted outside of political life?
Somebody say Soviet Union?
That's a very Feminist take; shit happens because it is percieved as being important to woman.
I always behave honestly in a criminal manner.
Well at least she's consistent. I'll wait while you look up the meaning of that,
We could also accept it.
You sure you're american?
That's because power is illusory.Amazing how someone with so much power absolutely cannot give a direct answer when asked a direct question
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BC hope you feel better. whatever you do dont sneeze
The best thing is that an overly low minimum wage is actually bad for the economy. I mean, fuck people being unable to live, I care for the economy as a whole; the welfare of the system, ver the individuals who get squashed, screaming in agony in the turning cogs of said system.
He liked my post and called me "brah"! :THUMBSUP:
Do they need to justify anything when they can just blame the poor?
Congras. A sure thing and you fucked it up. You belong in the legal "profession".
Oh please.
WaahwaahwaahweweHyena has seemingly mastered the multi quote in less than 200 posts. His style is reminiscent of a certain British poster's drive by multi quote style. Welcome back Vodkaz Victim!
I wonder if Mariah even realizes that her opposition to The Fed is completely in line with one of the cornerstones in the platform of the John Birch Society. Who also opposed it and were considered such far right radicals that they were shunned by even William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan.
Mariahxxx
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Well counselor, which party has itselt alighned pretty tightly with banking and business? well, I should said which side is MORE tightly aligned.... the right is big business's bitch and you know it.
again, you are your ilk are all about sides. I'm not about which side I'm on. I'm about what's right and what isn't. I like a lot of things Reagan did, but he certainly isn't the messiah that many republicans, many of which wouldn't even vote for the guy in today's conservative climate, claim that he is.
Creating a private entity and disguising it as a branch of government so that businesses can rape and pillage and have their way with pensions and interest rates is NOT a leftist concept if that's what you're implying. that is right down Republican alley.
again, you are your ilk are all about sides. I'm not about which side I'm on. I'm about what's right and what isn't. I like a lot of things Reagan did, but he certainly isn't the messiah that many republicans, many of which wouldn't even vote for the guy in today's conservative climate, claim that he is.
Creating a private entity and disguising it as a branch of government so that businesses can rape and pillage and have their way with pensions and interest rates is NOT a leftist concept if that's what you're implying. that is right down Republican alley.
Every time the minumum wage is increased the result is de-employment. The government has no right to dictate to private business what they should pay their employees. And who pays for the increase? The consumer. The same holds true for increase in taxes on small businesses or corporations. Business never absorbs government mandated increases in anything we as the consumer do. And it is your line of thinking that always ends up driving the costs up.
Minimum wage earners are somewhere between 2-3% of hourly earners. I know this is harsh, but I'm not sure why we even discuss artificially manipulating the market for this? I might be singing a different story if I was in the minority of the 2-3% and was trying to support a family with this salary (majority of those 2-3% are under 25 and single). Same discussion that is being used for voter fraud - what are we trying to fix here? I'm really not interested in the anecdotal stories. Lets focus on the 80%, not the 1% - its a big country, right?
Dated post from 2009, but I like the quote -
"The Fed needs to stick to its knitting and focus on stable money. That’s what’s been missing for ten years under Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke. That’s why we experienced two nasty recessions. And that’s why the stock market has gone nowhere." Larry Kudlow
"The Fed needs to stick to its knitting and focus on stable money. That’s what’s been missing for ten years under Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke. That’s why we experienced two nasty recessions. And that’s why the stock market has gone nowhere." Larry Kudlow
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Mariahxxx
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well Romney and just about every other 2012 candidate was for no minimum wage.
studies have been done repeatedly that the minimum wage should be $22 hour in accordance with the increase in the cost of living. those same studies show that it would cost the business a whopping 1% price increase to pay this rate.
And sorry dude but if business were left to police itself, well, we would see the Bush economic platform all over again with AIG and Enron and the list goes on and on.
In California they require waiters and waitresses to be paid minimum wage instead of the ridiculous $2.13 hourly that's been in place since 1982 and there hasn't been a single problem with it.
studies have been done repeatedly that the minimum wage should be $22 hour in accordance with the increase in the cost of living. those same studies show that it would cost the business a whopping 1% price increase to pay this rate.
And sorry dude but if business were left to police itself, well, we would see the Bush economic platform all over again with AIG and Enron and the list goes on and on.
In California they require waiters and waitresses to be paid minimum wage instead of the ridiculous $2.13 hourly that's been in place since 1982 and there hasn't been a single problem with it.
Mariahxxx
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again, to beat a dead horse.... when regulation on business was stronger we had a better economy. when did jobs begin to be shipped overseas??? who wiped out regulations on businesses???? what was the result???
what were the costs of the deregulation? how many hundreds of billions in bail outs?
what were the costs of the deregulation? how many hundreds of billions in bail outs?
I appreciate that you feel sorry. I don't know why, but I appreciate it.
If you're approach is to focus the small parts of the economy with small impacts, you're free to have at it. You certainly would not be alone. I see this approach being taken in the Federal Government by both sides of the aisle.
I don't see the connection that we will be spurring another Enron or AIG. I'd be interested if you have a theory that connects those dots. (No sarcasm here...I am interested in your thoughts)
I'm not arguing what minimum wage should be. My comments are made on the agenda. I'm not seeing the gain or the impact to this being high on the agenda. If it is strictly ethical, then that is a valid argument, in my opinion. I would still argue against it from a time and resource perspective that we have bigger fish to fry.
My comparison was to the time that is/was spent on voter fraud. Is it an issue? If so, can we state the impact to determine where it fits on the agenda?
Lots of question. I would start with www.google.com Some of the answers will come up quickly.
I'll leave this thread to you. Sorry for the intrusion.
If you're approach is to focus the small parts of the economy with small impacts, you're free to have at it. You certainly would not be alone. I see this approach being taken in the Federal Government by both sides of the aisle.
I don't see the connection that we will be spurring another Enron or AIG. I'd be interested if you have a theory that connects those dots. (No sarcasm here...I am interested in your thoughts)
I'm not arguing what minimum wage should be. My comments are made on the agenda. I'm not seeing the gain or the impact to this being high on the agenda. If it is strictly ethical, then that is a valid argument, in my opinion. I would still argue against it from a time and resource perspective that we have bigger fish to fry.
My comparison was to the time that is/was spent on voter fraud. Is it an issue? If so, can we state the impact to determine where it fits on the agenda?
Lots of question. I would start with www.google.com Some of the answers will come up quickly.
I'll leave this thread to you. Sorry for the intrusion.
Mariahxxx
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here are a couple of perfect examples:
Since deregulation of the trucking industry in 1980, more than 100 once- thriving trucking companies have gone out of business. More than 150,000 workers at those companies lost their jobs.
Since deregulation of the airlines in 1978, a dozen airline companies have merged or gone out of business. More than 50,000 of their employees lost their jobs.
and in the great state of Texas:
"A report released Monday concludes that electric deregulation has cost Texas residential consumers more than $11 billion in higher rates and that the operator of the state's major power grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, has been poorly managed and industry-dominated.
The 101-page report, "The Story of ERCOT," is the result of a research project of the Steering Committee of Cities Served by Oncor and the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power, which works with 158 cities and other governmental entities to buy electricity in bulk.
Deregulation, it said, has resulted in higher rates for Texas power consumers rather than the lower rates forecast by lawmakers who passed the state law in 1999.
Before deregulation, Texas had cheaper rates than most states. Between 1999 and the first six months of 2010, however, Texas residential consumers "suffered greater increases [in electric rates] than residents in all but six other states," the report said."
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/0...llies-cost-of-deregulation.html#storylink=cpy
this is one of the biggest disasters in deregulation history. power companies are now profit-driven consumer-fucking businesses. look at the aftermath of hurricane sandy. there weren't enough crews. the company was totally unprepared for this. it took more than double the standard amount of time to restore power. due to deregulation of the power companies they put next to nothing into grid upgrades. the bottom line is profit and you wanna talk about prices being passed onto consumers! I recently moved from a neighborhood that had FGUA water which is florida governmental utility authority which is somehow a private for profit company to a a Pasco county run water and sewage company I was paying over $100 every month, even during months when I was gone the ENTIRE month and now I pay $24 a month and I've hardly traveled at all for more than a few days at a time. The water is no different so there is absolutely no justification for such a dramatic increase in rate other than.....profit!
"Does every business have to be for profit? Why are health care and insurance for profit? Just because we have a dick doesnt mean we have to fuck everything that moves!" - Bill Maher
Since deregulation of the trucking industry in 1980, more than 100 once- thriving trucking companies have gone out of business. More than 150,000 workers at those companies lost their jobs.
Since deregulation of the airlines in 1978, a dozen airline companies have merged or gone out of business. More than 50,000 of their employees lost their jobs.
and in the great state of Texas:
"A report released Monday concludes that electric deregulation has cost Texas residential consumers more than $11 billion in higher rates and that the operator of the state's major power grid, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, has been poorly managed and industry-dominated.
The 101-page report, "The Story of ERCOT," is the result of a research project of the Steering Committee of Cities Served by Oncor and the Texas Coalition for Affordable Power, which works with 158 cities and other governmental entities to buy electricity in bulk.
Deregulation, it said, has resulted in higher rates for Texas power consumers rather than the lower rates forecast by lawmakers who passed the state law in 1999.
Before deregulation, Texas had cheaper rates than most states. Between 1999 and the first six months of 2010, however, Texas residential consumers "suffered greater increases [in electric rates] than residents in all but six other states," the report said."
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/0...llies-cost-of-deregulation.html#storylink=cpy
this is one of the biggest disasters in deregulation history. power companies are now profit-driven consumer-fucking businesses. look at the aftermath of hurricane sandy. there weren't enough crews. the company was totally unprepared for this. it took more than double the standard amount of time to restore power. due to deregulation of the power companies they put next to nothing into grid upgrades. the bottom line is profit and you wanna talk about prices being passed onto consumers! I recently moved from a neighborhood that had FGUA water which is florida governmental utility authority which is somehow a private for profit company to a a Pasco county run water and sewage company I was paying over $100 every month, even during months when I was gone the ENTIRE month and now I pay $24 a month and I've hardly traveled at all for more than a few days at a time. The water is no different so there is absolutely no justification for such a dramatic increase in rate other than.....profit!
"Does every business have to be for profit? Why are health care and insurance for profit? Just because we have a dick doesnt mean we have to fuck everything that moves!" - Bill Maher
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I fully agree with you. Late last year I saw a report that there were three million job openings in the U.S. Many of these were jobs that required higher math or technical skills. The issue was finding enough qualified applicants to fill those openings. Few, if any, of those jobs were low(er) skill, entry level jobs that paid minimum wage. Though some conservatives (M!chelle M@lkin, Larry Kudlow and Michelle Caruso-Cabrera come to mind) suggest that increases in the minimum wage have led to decreases in overall employment, as you correctly pointed out, if these people would follow the data (instead of their emotions, anecdotal evidence and weak correlations) they would know that it would be statistically impossible for such a small contributor to have such a major affect on macro employment. You'd have to have a 50% or better reduction in the employment levels of those making minimum wage just to move the needle... and that's never happened, certainly not because of the minimum wage mandate. Swing & a miss on their part.
We have enough job openings to bring the unemployment rate down to a more historically normal level. What we lack are enough applicants with the necessary math and technical skills to get and effectively do those jobs.
Mariahxxx
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Ok so the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour and not that many people work for that wage is your point, correct? Ok so can a person live on $10 an hour in America? Can you feed a family and pay car insurance and gas on $10 an hour? fuck no. can you save for a college fund on $10 an hour?? fuck no.
how about $12 hour? nope. for a family of 4 to get above poverty level you need to make $16 an hour and that's just to reach poverty level existence.
when you don't pay people enough to live guess what they do? they get welfare or food stamps and they sink the hospitals with emergency room visits for everything.
how about $12 hour? nope. for a family of 4 to get above poverty level you need to make $16 an hour and that's just to reach poverty level existence.
when you don't pay people enough to live guess what they do? they get welfare or food stamps and they sink the hospitals with emergency room visits for everything.
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its terribly sad that there are a lot of jobs that white americans just wont do.
as well, 70% of college degrees are for things like liberal arts that will not qualify or teach them any job skills at all so they are in huge debt with student loans and have nothing to qualify them for these jobs.
if we put more emphasis on technical schools and letting people know that technical jobs pay decent wages it would help. but as it's been said we are down the list on qualifications and education but #1 in confidence. I know people who wont take a job making something because they are holding out for that one specific job, which is stupid. somethng is better than nothing until a better job comes along. this is the mind set of young americans
I asked my son who is now 16 about getting a job to pay for car and food and gas etc and he said "but I go to school and play basketball" I said so what? and he tells me none of the kids he knows or go to his school work. not one. I have asked because I didn't believe him and it turns out he's not lying. He goes to a private school where a lot of the parents are seriously wealthy, but still. What lesson is being taught here?
as well, 70% of college degrees are for things like liberal arts that will not qualify or teach them any job skills at all so they are in huge debt with student loans and have nothing to qualify them for these jobs.
if we put more emphasis on technical schools and letting people know that technical jobs pay decent wages it would help. but as it's been said we are down the list on qualifications and education but #1 in confidence. I know people who wont take a job making something because they are holding out for that one specific job, which is stupid. somethng is better than nothing until a better job comes along. this is the mind set of young americans
I asked my son who is now 16 about getting a job to pay for car and food and gas etc and he said "but I go to school and play basketball" I said so what? and he tells me none of the kids he knows or go to his school work. not one. I have asked because I didn't believe him and it turns out he's not lying. He goes to a private school where a lot of the parents are seriously wealthy, but still. What lesson is being taught here?
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