JoeWeber

I liked your post for the fantasy only. I just cannot wait until the lovers of personal liberty see the result of going into the projects to collect those poor unemployed for their beneficial national service time.

Sure, but we need to accept that it'll be folks with harder hearts than most making the calls. Also, what's the plan for those who just refuse?

Then give them a uniform, an orange vest and a white hard hat for example, and at days end pay them based on production followed by a nice inspirational speech -before dinner- explaining the direct life skills connection between their tiny burger and how hard they worked and Maryann's big burger and how hard she worked.

You just did judge them and judged they should be. If someone is old and infirm or disabled and are without resources I begrudge not a penny of my taxes paid. However if you are able to work at something but simply unwilling then my sense of humanity begins to slip and I can better imagine helping you by providing a stick with a nail in the end and a bag for the garbage you stab.

And then they can beg?

No, begging is also an honorable profession and no one is being forced to eat. Until we live in a Star Trek economy where free food and booze comes out of the Gábōōzosandwichafier at the press of a button society won't be able to accommodate institutionalized slothism.

Too bad things are far more complicated at the level of international relations than simple tit for tat by a simpleton will fix. Better might have been to adopt a tax policy that penalizes US companies for the jobs they create in other countries so as to sell their products at inflated profits here in the US. Apple really doesn't need to be a Trillion dollar company, for example, with gross margins of 47% to be an investable success.

They need to get second jobs. We'll be needing lawn mowers and cantaloupe pickers shortly.

Totally agree.

If you believe Trump won't budge on Tariffs, right now might be a time to invest in high quality, little used, foreign imports that will likely increase in value on the used market.

I was going by this: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/indivisible-action-1?refcode=web&utm_source=web We did start small, most things do. My thought is that interest and donations will from most will dry up after round one. But no one knows especially me.

Oh, good, Act Blue has sorted out another way to get some coin. A couple hundred thousand angry retired teachers, and similar, spread out over 50 states waving cutesy signs in defense of their pensions and lost public employment ain't the ticket, methinks. I know you are a serious guy and don't shrink from putting your money and time behind what you believe, more than the most of us for sure, and that I respect. I'm just not sure Act Blue is the right organization; we need warriors not worriers and I don't see that they've produced.

I'll wait to see if the currently $160 a pair Nikes I wear now increase by much, same with the Apple products I use. Seems to me that both companies long ago priced according to the most the consumer will pay for the brand, not according to value.

Sure, but thank the currently popular deity that we don’t have that certified idiot Harris at the helm passing out generational wealth in the form of Gay reparations to any self identified them.

Because it's just more useless opposition symbolism it is, well, as useless as a drum roll and a few more chants of Blue Wave, Blue Wave! So what that four self serving assholes saw more value their reelections by making a vote that goes nowhere and does nothing. The Democrats need to obstruct, obstruct, and obstruct some more all while telling the country that the whole mess is the fault of Dumb Ass Trump and his enabling Republicans in the house and senate. Unfortunately Bookers leadership will likely be soon forgotten.