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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,764 Standard Supporter
    Obama's comment about Britain going to the back of the trade line is bullshit. Worry about the fucking Chinese instead of our strongest ally.
  • sarktastic
    sarktastic Member Posts: 9,208
    BIG win for Trump tonight.

    Can't wait to hear what they tell hondo to tell us about this.
  • Gladstone
    Gladstone Member Posts: 16,425
    Wow. Fascinating.

    Good for them.
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,257

    BIG win for Trump tonight.

    Can't wait to hear what they tell hondo to tell us about this.

    Precursor to the US Election IMO ... you are spot on.

    During my travels, I can't even begin to tell you how much some of the smaller communities in this country are hurting ... the global economy idea is nice in theory but it leaves a lot of people on the sidelines.

    Think to your jobs and your friends and how many of you actually produce goods or services? Most of us that live in the larger cities are able to have jobs where we use our minds to earn our living. But outside of the larger, if you aren't producing some kind of good, you don't have a job. It's a significant issue and there are a number of people falling in that category.

    When you think in those terms, you get what we're seeing in the global US economy where the rich are getting super rich and the poor getting poorer. It's an explainer of why the middle class is shrinking.

    I'm not advocating that inefficient markets and isolationism is the way to go. But at the same time, there is a clear need to figure out how to create opportunities for all in a way that doesn't leave so many behind. It's not healthy for a country and/or a global economy.
  • GreenRiverGatorz
    GreenRiverGatorz Member Posts: 10,168
    Tequilla said:

    BIG win for Trump tonight.

    Can't wait to hear what they tell hondo to tell us about this.

    Precursor to the US Election IMO ... you are spot on.

    During my travels, I can't even begin to tell you how much some of the smaller communities in this country are hurting ... the global economy idea is nice in theory but it leaves a lot of people on the sidelines.

    Think to your jobs and your friends and how many of you actually produce goods or services? Most of us that live in the larger cities are able to have jobs where we use our minds to earn our living. But outside of the larger, if you aren't producing some kind of good, you don't have a job. It's a significant issue and there are a number of people falling in that category.

    When you think in those terms, you get what we're seeing in the global US economy where the rich are getting super rich and the poor getting poorer. It's an explainer of why the middle class is shrinking.

    I'm not advocating that inefficient markets and isolationism is the way to go. But at the same time, there is a clear need to figure out how to create opportunities for all in a way that doesn't leave so many behind. It's not healthy for a country and/or a global economy.
    I see two potential paths. We can either try to retrain those lost in the tides of globalism and help them adjust to this new information technology economy we're in, or we can try to turn the clocks back to 1980 and bring back our manufacturing jobs by creating trade barriers so large the companies that stick around have no choice but to have a supply chain that consists of nothing but Americans.
  • PurpleJ
    PurpleJ Member Posts: 37,778
    Good. Germany should ditch the EU as well.
  • dhdawg
    dhdawg Member Posts: 13,326
    Cameron stepping down
  • PurpleReign
    PurpleReign Member Posts: 5,480
    Did I miss the halftime show?
  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,977 Founders Club
    But the polls and demographics said they would stay