Bravo !

Ya know, Pig are Pigs, let me explain...

I am native american. Not full blooded. I don't normally identify with them. My folks assimilated and blended in. History shows us that it's not good for you to identify as anything more than a white male. My ancestors burnt the courthouses down in the 1800's when there were attempts of taking our 'deeded' land, so they could not use the law directly for their bidding.

I'm going to wait till you all kill yourselves off and export people till there is not many left, then my people can expel the remaining immigrants !

Quite honestly, I have been amazed at what folks really think is important.
It's not their fault, they are being told what is important and they all fall for it.
Ignoring that self-thinking notion of what is disaffecting their life today and their kids for tomorrow unless someone can point a finger at it.

The largest lapse in thinking , I believe, has been the call for election reform, in the form of limiting votes and or making it harder for many to vote.

We seem to want to protect it from what is deemed as 'mass election fraud' , and it seems most are ok with this, and at the same time, it has been shown that Russia has had it's dirty hands involved in 'pushing decent opinion' to say the least and somehow, it is ok to do nothing.

You only show the pigs are bad that you want to slaughter. But... Pigs are Pigs.
The polarization that has been generated will not go away for a generation.
The seed of hate grows in the worst conditions and like a bad weed, is not easily killed off.
Stay on the high ground. A flood is coming.

Oh, I'm sorry Professor.
Why are you bothering to post here on GFY? With all this knowledge of how the economy works shouldn't you be richer than Trump?

Seriously bro...get over yourself. My "argument" is that regulation went TOO FAR.
The statistics speak for themselves.

And I said pretty clearly that I hope the pendulum doesn't swing too far the other way now.

There IS a sweet spot. And if egghead economists actually KNEW what they were doing...then we would never have any economic ups and downs.

Reality is: Economics is a lot like SEO work. It's presented as "mysterious"...but in reality, nobody, and I mean nobody can accurately predict the future.

Yes, the economy will go down. And yes it will rise again.

The Federal Govt. has no constitutional role to interfere in any way.
That changed (not the constitutional role...but the govt. interfering anyway "role") when the Federal Reserve was created and controlling interest rates.

But we still have recessions and recovery because even they can't predict what is coming.

Meanwhile, our economy is doing better than anyone ever thought.

Bet you didn't see this coming in your crystal ball now did you?

And Pres. Obama told us that GDP of 1.9% was the new "norm" and "those jobs aren't coming back" and other stupid shit.

No my friend. It's YOUR argument that has no merit.

But we can both agree that sooner or later the economy will collapse again. It's inevitable.
I think "later". You seem to be cheering for "sooner".

If that was so much 'over regulation, why did it work so well for over 65 years till '99.
To the banks, any regulation that stands in the way of profits, is over-regulation.

What caused the 2008 Great Financial Crash? OVERDEPENDENCE on government bailouts of BAD CORPORATE DECISIONS

Lehman Brothers' CEO thought they were going to get bailed out... NOPE.

I can understand why they would feel that way. BUT...some regulation is indeed needed (though out founding fathers would be against any big Federal Govt. moves like that).

As I said earlier...there is a "Sweet Spot" of regulation. Congress went too far the wrong way in 1999.
And then in 2009 they went too far the other way.

That's what I'm saying. All those politicians are just out for their own personal gain.
Hopefully, they will accidentally hit the sweet spot and we can have a roaring economy without another 2008 meltdown.

What did the founding fathers think about cars? Indoor bathrooms? AIDS? The internet? Transgenders? Airplanes? Get the fuck out of the 17th century for Gods sakes.

...LOL...
I can dig-it ! Right-on ! Well put !
I do get tired of everyone putting words in the minds of our founding fathers, most of which had slaves and sexual relations with them.
But that has nothing to do with the words that """they agreed upon""" some with reservation.
The document that we cherish was a compromise. ...imagine that ....
Besides... MOSSES wrote the constitution.... Right ?
...LOL...

Keep giving all this credit to these criminal war profiteers... while the answer's in the mirror. Causation, Correlation... Coincidence

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Actually

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Medina

Our founding fathers copied more than a little bit from Islam... 😎

...including the sex with slaves thing... 😂

So you are saying that the founding principle of the PEOPLE governing themselves and not being RULED is somehow no longer valid?

You guys are going off the deep end in my opinion.
The founding fathers of the United States were some of the most progressive, intelligent, and science oriented men of their time.

I don't see you guys attacking all the other countries in Europe because they were doing the same exact thing (matter of fact, the Dutch were the premiere slave traders for the world). Or attacking the Egyptians for thousands of years of enslaving Jews.

Look, forget about the prevailing time period and the bad things that took place. There were also some GREAT things that took place.

And one of those great things was a vision of the people in control of govt., not the other way around.

Why on Earth would you guys belittle that and pretend that because it's 2018 that suddenly enduring principles of freedom and liberty are suddenly void?

FTR: VRPdommy does not speak for me. I disagree with most all of his views and posted as such. My views are my own.

Please don't lump me into the "you guys" when replying to him.

TIA!

Definitely wasn't. I was looking at the quote he put up from a moron I have blocked and also his response to it.

I just totally disagree that we should treat the Constitution like it means nothing. It is the one of the most progressive and forward thinking documents in the world.

Yes, the founding fathers also had the wisdom to put processes in place to CHANGE the Constitution via the will of the people as times changed.

And we did just that. And probably will again in the future.

But to say the basic principles are null and void because it's "old" is ridiculous.

got it! sometimes the "you" causes me to specify. Although now that I think about it, he did post something I agree with at some point. The good news is he's not an asshole, generally. :1orglaugh