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They may get quite a surprise. :)

Of course. Who would know that better than you!

I try and respect the opinions of every one. Sometimes it is just impossible. This post of yours above, to put it a little too mildly, is ridiculous. And believe me when I say I am no supporter of the ACA as passed. Single payer would have been vastly better. But at least the ACA was a tiny...

All judgements are relative. To someone living in New Orleans or on Chicago's South side, Sweden has zero crime. But to a Swede used to no crime at all, the country is falling apart.

Agreed, the concern is that Trump's damage could be irreversible short of a revolution. Even though there isn't much the Democrats can do to get the country back on the right track if they take over only the House; yet to lose the House in the upcoming election would be a very, very bad omen...

It is all so unreal that or Republican Congress refuses to do anything about it.

I can't find the words to properly express the revulsion I feel when I look at our tasteless, sociopath president. I hate myself, because I can't summon up any sympathy for him as I should, knowing he is mentally ill and has no control over his behavior. I just see a monster.

This may be a throwback to American thinking in the 1950's -1970's . After Reagan's "Trickle Down," i.e. supply-side economics, became the darling economic theory of the GOP and has hung on ever since , things changed rather dramatically. see: Haskins and Sawhill, "Creating an Opportunity...

I agree with this completely. I think he may be making a beginner mistake here which is to short a stock because it seems too high, i.e., it seems to be in it's own bubble. Even when these stocks, like Amazon for example, finally correct, and they all will at some point, their price may well...

I am convinced Zimbabwe's problem underlying all their other mistakes is a collapse in productivity after the Mugabe revolution. If they tie themselves to a foreign currency* they will remain in desperate straights unless they can increase productivity. They have abundant natural resources...

In a world that is shrinking because of technology, each country must find its own way of "competing". For the time being and for some countries this will be cheap labor. The U.S. has been trying and failing to compete on labor costs by holding wages below a living wage. The U.S. must...

I wish it weren't so, but there is something about the title of this thread, "Trump Readying ... " that I find humorous.

I am wondering, how does that differ from the capitalist lesson, where everything inures to the benefit of the government/ elites (top 10%) and 42 million are on food stamps? Could it be that what you are observing has very little to do with the form of government but something else? N.B...

If you had to choose between Balls and Brains it seems Brains would be the better choice. The U.S. is in trouble.

Just now ordered a large. I will give it to my gardener. $25 Amazon Prime.

Ha ha ha, that could explain a lot.

Oh, I hadn't realized that. One needs to depend on ones own cleverness; not someone else's. In any case I think I'll go on line now and buy a Nike tee-shirt even though I don't need it. I can give it away. The purchase will be for a good cause.

Somehow I don't think so, because Lucrum could come back with an entertaining and clever rejoinder. I appreciated his humor even when I was the target. Not so with Poindexter. He seems rather dull witted.

This Jesse Greenspan article is one of the most thorough and accurate accounts of how the U.S. got itself into the Vietnam War. It's not a pretty picture. It is a tale of how leaders of any nation who have lost touch with their fallibility, incapable of admitting their worst mistakes, and acting...

Our health should never have been attached to employment in the first place. Healthcare will never meet the fundamental requirements of a "free market" because demand is inelastic. All other industrialized nations except the United Sates have realized that. We are the laggards. All we have...