Why the cost increase?
I'm not a big fan of Trump's personality but Biden has been a train wreck. The cost of material good are due to Covid and greed but Biden's policy's are not addressing it and only making it worst. Unemloyeement payments, stimulus checks and extending the eviction ban need to be stopped. There was a time it made sense to keep the economy going but that time has passed. Every where I go there are help wanted signs. Get back to work America. |
@nonoise, So the world doesn’t work like you think and you throw your lot in with the radical right because not all left leaning politicians are honest, leaving your with totally dishonest, anti democratic right wingers financed by Putin in his quest to discredit democracies world wide. I’d like to think I’ve thought it through a little deeper than that. For instance I was able to observe at close hand the neverending bickering amongst mostly self serving comrades as to the best course of action going forwards. Then came the schism between the hard line left and the so called Blairite moderates. A schism that continues today with the moderate Keir Starmer heading a Labour Party where many of its communist members are constantly seeking to undermine him. Most importantly, in over 40 years of consideration I was unable to discover even one viable alternative to the capitalist system that we see in place today worldwide. I could add that the powers that be in Russia, China, and Cuba etc have also been unable to come up with a viable alternative to communism. We all know what happened to the 5 year plans of Mao and Stalin, don’t we? Capitalism, for all of its faults, may just be the best way of encouraging endeavour, creativity and drive that the human race is capable of. Perhaps the real danger for the West is that it may not be able to compete with their less welfare orientated versions. If there was one thing I could change right now it would be the gross inequalities of wealth between the extreme rich and the rest. By some estimates, the richest 1% now own over 80% of all global wealth. That’s not capitalism, that’s something bordering on evil. ’World’s richest 1% get 82% of the wealth’, says Oxfam (2018) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42745853 |
I agree with some of what you’re saying except for the communism part as it adheres to a very old and strict interpretation that has been misused and appropriated by the right as a means of attacking the left, as if they were actual communists. That’s way too simplistic a stance to take. Russia is no more communist than the Chinese in that they’re using a system that has been long in place in order to exploit it and are nothing more than gangsters who enjoy all the benefits of capitalism without the burdensome regulations. Just ask Nigel Farage and Arron Banks. Russia and China believe that autocracy should supplant democracy and are doing their level best to see it happen worldwide. They don't want any democratic ideas to gain a foothold in their countries. The sorry thing is, is that they're many supposedly on our side of the equation helping them as best they can. https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-brexit-farage-russia-trump-campaign-20180628-story.html https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/16/arron-banks-nigel-farage-leave-brexit-russia-connection All the best, Nonoise |
