Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
Originally Posted by
accountinquestion
I am not going to argue for the sake of arguing like you are, but I can assure you I can do "the math" and everything else you are conveying. I only wish it was reciprocal. Anyway, still a fan Micky - you curmudgeon.
In the grand scheme of things, I still don't get how this is an important point. EVERYONE knows Republicans want to cut spending. Am I wrong? Is it even propaganda?
I don't understand the vagaries of federal budgets. I do know US government prints money and thus devalues it every year. You could increase the $ amount, yet still shrink the budget. It makes this whole discussion kinda pointless to me. If you're holding this up as your big example of the mainstream media's propaganda "Republicans want to cut government spending" then you've likely missed the bus many times in your life.
I make one point and you think I'm holding it up as the big example. Idiot. My big point is to much socialism is not good for the country. The biggest long term threat this country faces is the far left. They've got all the schoolkids brainwashed. Twenty years down the road those same kids are gonna be bitching about how hard they have to work and how much taxes they have to pay. Look at the European welfare states. No upward mobility. If you're born on the bottom you stay on the bottom. That's what the Yellow Vests are all about.
Mickey, you're completely wrong on this. There are entire fields of research devoted to social mobility. It's an established, well-researched science. The US is "inelastic," as they call it, compared to peer countries in terms of social mobility. The UK and Italy are worse than the US; almost everyone else -- Canada, Japan, Denmark, Spain, Germany, Australia, Finland, New Zealand -- are all better than the US.
When it comes to multi-generational mobility, measuring how many generations it takes for a family to reach average per capita, the US scores better, but it is still dead in the middle of the western world.
The US is actually poor compared to other western democracies when it comes to social mobility. And social mobility overall, in all western countries combined, has stalled since the 1990's. It's not improving.