makes paying our national debt a lot cheaper.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 4:08 pm The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 had the same purchasing power that $23.68 would today.
I won't speak for TLD, but my sense was that most people in 2015/2016 were feeling very financially insecure.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:18 pm But most people didn't feel that way in 2015 and 2016?
That was your implication, right?
I quite agree with this statement. You need the liberal dreamer who thinks big in the white house and the conservative "doers" in Congress making sure we go slowly and reach consensus before getting too hasty about changes. The problem with the formula is that Congress stopped doing their job a long time ago.
btw this bit if insight is spectacularly true:
ggait wrote: ↑Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:14 pm If you want to understand Trump, pick up a copy of the classic treatment of this subject -- On Bullshirt by Prof Frankfurt of Princeton:
"Bullshirt and the related concept of humbug are distinct from lying. Bullshirters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. In fact, bullshirt need not be untrue at all."
"Rather, bullshirters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Although bullshirt can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner's capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, bullshirt is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are."