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Old 04-02-2022, 06:52 AM   #1
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Hey, what they are doing is working

Passing an American Rescue Plan bill which created the most significant pro-family tax policy in a generation.

Getting America to 72 percent of the population fully vaccinated.

Passing an infrastructure law so bipartisan that 19 Republican senators voted for it.

Nominating a SCOTUS candidate so qualified that she has the highest approval rating of any nominee since John Roberts.

Managing American involvement in a major war so that America’s ally is winning, our alliance is unified, the war has not spilled over, and American troops have not needed to get directly involved.

Calling for a $32 billion increase in funding for law enforcement.

Stewarding the economy to a place where job growth is on a historic upward trajectory.
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You should run for President.
If Joe can be President with his advance Dimensia you wouldn’t be any different !


The only thing Joe is doing is putting the middle class in the poor class.
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Old 04-02-2022, 07:37 AM   #2
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You should run for President.
If Joe can be President with his advance Dimensia you wouldn’t be any different !


The only thing Joe is doing is putting the middle class in the poor class.
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the rich are getting richer, and with inflation, the middle class is taking a serious beating. but we can’t talk about that.

serious question, is the infastructure bill doing anything?
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Old 04-02-2022, 09:27 PM   #3
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the rich are getting richer, and with inflation, the middle class is taking a serious beating. but we can’t talk about that.

serious question, is the infastructure bill doing anything?
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It’s no longer good that the rich are getting richer?
Are you now claiming that is bad?
They no longer deserve it because………
Unbelievable
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Old 04-03-2022, 12:51 PM   #4
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It’s no longer good that the rich are getting richer?
Are you now claiming that is bad?
They no longer deserve it because………
Unbelievable
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no i think it is good. but its interesting that you aren’t complaining about the middle
class getting crushed by inflation. because the potus is a democrat.

politics is all that matter.
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Old 04-03-2022, 07:29 PM   #5
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no i think it is good. but its interesting that you aren’t complaining about the middle
class getting crushed by inflation. because the potus is a democrat.

politics is all that matter.
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So you think there’s no correlation between the two?

“ the rich are getting richer, and with inflation, the middle class is taking a serious beating. but we can’t talk about that.”
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So you think there’s no correlation between the two?

“ the rich are getting richer, and with inflation, the middle class is taking a serious beating. but we can’t talk about that.”
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The middle class has been taking a beating before the current inflation, and during previous inflations. And the middle class has gotten richer when the rich got richer and has shrunk when the rich got richer. So it seems that the shrinking of the middle class is correlated to something other than inflation or the rich getting richer.

There seems to be a correlation between the shrinking middle class and the growth of centralized corporate and government power.
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The middle class has been taking a beating before the current inflation, and during previous inflations. And the middle class has gotten richer when the rich got richer and has shrunk when the rich got richer. So it seems that the shrinking of the middle class is correlated to something other than inflation or the rich getting richer.

There seems to be a correlation between the shrinking middle class and the growth of centralized corporate and government power.
Corporate power controls government power, perhaps you missed that.
Has since Citizen United
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So you think there’s no correlation between the two?

“ the rich are getting richer, and with inflation, the middle class is taking a serious beating. but we can’t talk about that.”
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no. to assume there has to be a connection, is to assume that wealth is finite, that it’s a zero sum game, that one person getting richer must get offset my someone else’s getting poorer.

do you believe that’s the case?
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no. to assume there has to be a connection, is to assume that wealth is finite, that it’s a zero sum game, that one person getting richer must get offset my someone else’s getting poorer.

do you believe that’s the case?
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Simply put, Wealth measures the value of all the assets of worth owned by a person, community, company, or country. Wealth is determined by taking the total market value of all physical and intangible assets owned, then subtracting all debts. Essentially, wealth is the accumulation of scarce resources.
Control of the distribution of resources enables some to accumulate an amount of wealth that is not commensurate with their investment or the commensurate risk of what they have invested.
This is achieved by political control of laws and regulations to ensure that the controlling parties risk is minimized and return maximized.
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