you are one of a handful of people i read who clearly puts into words things i have half formed in my own mind .i appreciate your writing and really hope you get a huge readership thank you
I don't understand. If the problem is these oligopolies and monopolies are limiting competition for workers and that's depressing wages, why not work on that end of it to create more competition? Why do the solutions always seem to require organizing workers and government programs? This also seems to me to assume the existence of a "lumpen proletariat." There's a lot of competition for workers who can handle the high tech machinery in modern factories -- especially since our public education system isn't turning our people who can do that, and there is also some competition for unskilled labor that will show up every day, on time, dressed appropriately.
Regulation and taxation. Two of the most self-serving practices around. Regulation is a world of lawyers creating jobs for lawyers while taxation is accountants creating jobs for accountants. Both are government sponsored rabbit holes. 🐰
Trump attempted to cut the budget with a veto of the continuing resolution and a resulting government shutdown. He got some concessions, but the Republicans threatened to join with the Democrats to override his veto and he had to cave with what he managed to get.
It wasn't for lack of trying. He was betrayed by the GOP.
"Trump did a lot of good things, but he wasn’t a particularly sharp President when it came to cutting government deficits and putting in place great long-term economic policies."
Among Trump's problems was that he was attacked from the left from the moment he was elected. EVERY Democrat denied that he had been legally elected. The RINOs proposed a number of candidates for cabinet positions, which is why he ended up with so many swamp creatures in his staff and administration. He was constantly harassed, constantly investigated, even though nothing ever came of any of it.
If Trump is re-elected in 2024, he needs to select advisers and cabinet officers who are OUTSIDE of a 200-mile radius circle around D.C. People from states that work, like Florida and Texas. He couldn't drain the swamp, because half of his administration were FROM the swamp.
you are one of a handful of people i read who clearly puts into words things i have half formed in my own mind .i appreciate your writing and really hope you get a huge readership thank you
thank you-I had some great teachers
Good stuff. Folks need to read Free to Choose by Milton Friedman. I'm very grateful that my Econ 101 teacher in 1982 had it as required reading.
it's a great book. Friedman had a fantastic way of taking difficult concepts and distilling them down so everyone understood.
I don't understand. If the problem is these oligopolies and monopolies are limiting competition for workers and that's depressing wages, why not work on that end of it to create more competition? Why do the solutions always seem to require organizing workers and government programs? This also seems to me to assume the existence of a "lumpen proletariat." There's a lot of competition for workers who can handle the high tech machinery in modern factories -- especially since our public education system isn't turning our people who can do that, and there is also some competition for unskilled labor that will show up every day, on time, dressed appropriately.
"Bernie Sanders and people like Robert Reich have very small minds."
You give them way more credit than either of them deserve.
Regulation and taxation. Two of the most self-serving practices around. Regulation is a world of lawyers creating jobs for lawyers while taxation is accountants creating jobs for accountants. Both are government sponsored rabbit holes. 🐰
Trump attempted to cut the budget with a veto of the continuing resolution and a resulting government shutdown. He got some concessions, but the Republicans threatened to join with the Democrats to override his veto and he had to cave with what he managed to get.
It wasn't for lack of trying. He was betrayed by the GOP.
"Trump did a lot of good things, but he wasn’t a particularly sharp President when it came to cutting government deficits and putting in place great long-term economic policies."
Among Trump's problems was that he was attacked from the left from the moment he was elected. EVERY Democrat denied that he had been legally elected. The RINOs proposed a number of candidates for cabinet positions, which is why he ended up with so many swamp creatures in his staff and administration. He was constantly harassed, constantly investigated, even though nothing ever came of any of it.
If Trump is re-elected in 2024, he needs to select advisers and cabinet officers who are OUTSIDE of a 200-mile radius circle around D.C. People from states that work, like Florida and Texas. He couldn't drain the swamp, because half of his administration were FROM the swamp.
Some of that is true, but his tariff policy was pure idiocy. His tax policy had the right intentions, but was poorly written.