Replies to post #33569 on Savvy Trades and Investments

[value1008]

Very cogent post, Ksuave. Any truly informed (not deformed) student of political history would know these things, as would any follower of the progressive "social gospel" taught by Jesus and other sages.

And it does have relevance for this board in that the Trump administration's and GOP's short-sighted, cruel & bizarre policies and Trump's inept/corrupt appointments (e.g., his anti-environment head of EPA and his anti-labor head of Dept of Labor) will in various ways and at various times occasion greater "uncertainty"-- a phenomenon which often (not always) sends the markets into pullback or correction mode.

Btw, for so many tens of millions of us progressives in the USA, it's not the case that we are "sore losers" as the Trumpsters and GOP charge. Rather, it's that, like Bernie Sanders (right now the most popular politician in the U.S. according to all polls), we empathetically feel the enormous pain (present and upcoming) that so many persons have been experiencing and will be experiencing due to more and more insane and injurious policies coming from the zero-empathy authoritarian right wing.

Rant over.
Best wishes to all beings....

[otcbargains]

You seem to understand the endgame. Leads me to believe you understand this plan was put in motion quite a while ago and the current narrative is a means to an end.

Here's a clue for the left. The next time you try something like this it may be to your benefit to not declare open war on the police, the military, and gun rights advocates before trying to pull off a coupe.

The whole thing leaves me feeling melancholy.

[CPTMatt]

Nothing partisan in anything I said because I am not a political ideologue (ahem).

People with a full grasp of historical and continuous interventions by the government into the Healthcare and health insurance industries know full well how we ended up where we are today.

It started when the government introduced wage controls circa WWII and then allowed businesses to take employee insurance as a business expense deduction while individuals are not allowed to do the same. That is what got employers into the business of providing Healthcare insurance as a deductible way to increase total comp and attract talent when the government was capping what people could receive as base salary.

Over the decades since then there has been layer after layer of regulations applied ironically each with some goal to fix a problem caused or exacerbated by an earlier intervention.

What you seem to be arguing is that capitalism doesn't produce the best result for the largest percentage of the population and that what we need is more regulation to prevent the fat cat execs from preying on us small guys. There is an exceedingly large amount of contrary evidence to this from both our history in the US as well as comparative systems across the world.

[RNsidersbuying]

ksuave, let's assume that every american joins in this Trump-denyah-movement and all your quests within that post come to fruition? I'm still only hearing the most scant of concerns for dealing with the very real in-our-faces threats of Communism (Kim Jong Un) and Islamism (Ayatollah, ISIS, and others)?

In other words: The Globalist Socialism quest for some Garden of Feelygood Eden must eventually deal with the real threats of Communism and Islamism, yes?

Just a sidenote: the Lovein-Hippie-Socialists might want to appease with all-inclusiveness and let's-all-love-each-other but I'm quite sure many Communists and Islamists want to kick the shittt out of both you & me.

[littlejohn]

NoCare in more states under the umbrella

of Obamacare is a problem

that accelerates when the Gov.

officials don't find the cods to

stand and repair the legislation...


It's more about what State

loses all healthcare providers

next than who wins a vote...


Your Social Security deductions

that soared under Obama are

quickly electronically transferred

to service the debt...So the

transfers are working Great...


Debt to be serviced does get

kicked along like a can by

all who voted No to address

healthcare reform...


But be careful admiring those

high, can kickers because they

may trigger some undesirable odors

down the road...


U.S. Gov. Debt denial is

everyone's biggest threat in

any country in the world...


So seeing more conservative

fiscal policy return to

governence in D.C. does

matter to outside countries...


None of us want to see a

worse repeat of 2008 come

along Due to Politics...LJ