Originally Posted by
Mission146
Mickey,
You're getting the really short version because I don't think I can do politics with you and I'm not convinced you read my posts anyway.
1.) I'm a Libertarian, not a lefty.
2.) Biden is not 100% responsible for the increase to gas prices, though I am sure he bears more than 0% responsibility...which is not a position I would typically take on POTUS because, in general, I don't think they have much direct influence over economic matters on a day-to-day basis. The biggest matter at hand is the demand for fuel compared to overall world production and distribution...but I can't imagine citing numbers and making a logical argument will advance my position with you, so I'm just going to leave it there.
3.) "Stay in Mexico," do you want to have workers, or not? As it stands now, people are already flatly refusing to work and employers have to practically beg people to come take jobs. Personally, if Mexicans want to come up here and take the jobs that n0ot only do other Americans seem not to want---but are actually directly refusing---then I'm all for it.
No offense to them, but I also think they will work for less, (but still hopefully within legal wages) which decreases payroll expenses and, ideally, helps assuage the upward trajectory in prices, especially since the consumer focus has shifted to a large degree from services to goods over the last two years.
IOW, if you care about prices, you should want more immigrant workers.
4.) I don't know anything about foreign policy, regardless of who is in office and have no opinion.
5.) Oh, please, as if we weren't printing new money when Trump was in office. He also signed the, "Relief and recovery," bills Congress put on his desk---stimulus, expanded unemployment, etc...Besides, you seem to assume that I'd be in favor of any of those things, when I was not in favor of any of them...not with Biden, not with Trump. Obviously, these disbursements are also largely responsible to increases in consumer demand which, you guessed it, cause prices to increase.
6.) Incompetence already reigned in the Federal bureaucracy. How long was Scaramucci the communications director, seventeen minutes?
7.) I'd have gunned down those storming the Capitol Building after first giving those people a reasonable time to leave; and I'd have gunned down those doing looting and rioting in other places (including the autonomous zone in Portland) after first giving those people a reasonable time to leave. I see no meaningful difference in the actions of the two groups. It all amounts to treason.
8.) I lack sufficient knowledge on military policy to offer an informed opinion.
9.) What would you want the Feds to do about Covid? I think they should promote (not force) the vaccines, have whatever policies they wish for Federal holdings and Federal employees and otherwise leave how to handle the matter for State Governors.
10.) I don't mind them getting wiped out in the midterms. I'm always going to be a fan of the two bodies of Congress hopefully being different parties in the majority and, if they are to be the same, preferably being different in the majority to the party that the POTUS is.
11.) I still would not want Trump to win in 2024. Whatever happened to Paul Ryan? I probably wouldn't mind if Paul Ryan made a run at it. Can't say I'd automatically vote for him, but I would think about it.
