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That was Clinton's biggest problem in the last election. She is a neo-lib beholden to big money, and only marginally interested in working for her constituents. The thing about Cortez is that she hasn't sold out her constituents. If she really wants to help poor people, she is going to have to bust some eggs. I understand why the oligarchs are freaked.
Sure she has. Just like Bernie Sanders did. Buy a bunch of votes with the "kill the rich" and freebie promises that they know they can't and won't deliver on. Although to be fair every politician lies, these two just happen to be a little better at it and more believable because they are telling some pretty desperate people some really nice warm and fuzzy fairy tales that are easy for them to buy into.
There's a reason for that: over-breeding of the under-educated and no/low-skill poor and the mass importation of no/low-skill third world immigrants, both legal and illegal. The solution to that is eliminating the glut of under-educated and no/low-skill workers that keeps no/low skill jobs' wages depressed simply as a result of supply and demand in the labor market. The two factors contributing to the problem:
1) Women who receive public assistance benefits, as a group, have a 3 times higher birth rate than women (with or without partners) who are self-supporting and can support their children without public assistance program benefits. 70% of those born poor never rise above that socioeconomic status their entire lives.
2) The importation of millions of under-educated no/low-skill workers from third world countries who then undercut wages to get jobs.
I agree that the above is becoming a problem, but what caused it?
30 years ago we all knew illegals picked our supermarket produce, and back then no one harshly complained about illegals, instead we said "the illegals make our produce much cheaper", and back then we allowed illegals to do the jobs no one wanted to do.
But then American corporations moved massive numbers of jobs to Asia and other countries, and today we are attacking illegals for taking government services and taking jobs (when 30 years ago no one harshly complained about either of those things.)
Part of todays problem with illegals is America loosing manufacturing jobs, and American citizens becoming poorer and then needing government assistance illegals are getting. And illegals are starting to take too much money from the US government, but there are still other problems that caused most of today's problems with illegals.
We need to stop giving illegals government welfare and stop giving illegals jobs, not build a wall. If illegals know America has government handouts and high paying jobs waiting for them they will get around a wall (just like South American cocaine will always get around a wall.)
The controversy of the moment involves AOC’s advocacy of a tax rate of 70-80 percent on very high incomes, which is obviously crazy, right? I mean, who thinks that makes sense? Only ignorant people like … um, Peter Diamond, Nobel laureate in economics and arguably the world’s leading expert on public finance (although Republicans blocked him from an appointment to the Federal Reserve Board with claims that he was unqualified. Really.) And it’s a policy nobody has every implemented, aside from … the United States, for 35 years after World War II — including the most successful period of economic growth in our history.
Post WWII there were far more deductions. Hardly anybody paid those rates. When they came down it was essentially simplifying taxes (hard to believe) so the effective rate essentially stayed the same as before.
Everytime I see Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters I want to scratch out my eyeballs. Every time I see that bug eyed old bat lecturing the American people and saying how border walls are "immoral" makes me sick.
Paul Ryan on the other side of the aisle make my stomach turn too.
The only difference between the dems and repugs is that the dems give you the illusion of a reach-around while they are putting it to you.
Sure she has. Just like Bernie Sanders did. Buy a bunch of votes with the "kill the rich" and freebie promises that they know they can't and won't deliver on. Although to be fair every politician lies, these two just happen to be a little better at it and more believable because they are telling some pretty desperate people some really nice warm and fuzzy fairy tales that are easy for them to buy into.
They're idealists, that doesn't make them liars.
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