King Charles Resigns Keir Starmer! tides of history turn holy heck

Walt said:
Tariffs help the local rich by sheltering them from competition.
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It doesn't.
Walt said:
Brazil is full of local rich who would be destroyed if they had to compete with the rest of the world.
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Brazil DOES compete with the rest of the world, Wally.
Walt said:
Tariffs do nothing good for Uber drivers, only bad things.
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Uber is not subject to tariffs.
Walt said:
Their jobs are not protected by tariffs, but by the need to be local to do the job. Like many services, their service requires proximity. Tariffs run up the price of goods, which means the Uber driver's pay goes less far.
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Can't get rich driving for Uber, eh? Whadda loser.
 
Walt said:
If they are the only employers, they can drive down wages.
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Whining about your minimum wage job again, Wally?
Your own inability to get paid well is your own problem.
Walt said:
That is the other thing tariffs do, drive down wages. It all becomes far more feudalistic, with a lot of crony capitalism and rent seeking.
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There is no such thing as 'crony capitalism', Wally. You just can't complete. You aren't worth much to anybody it seems. If you were, you would get better pay.

Feudal government has nothing to do with economic systems, Wally.
 
EdwinA said:
When the Constitution was decided, most Americans owned their won farms and businesses;
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Americans still own farms and businesses. Nothing's changed.
EdwinA said:
they were no big giant employers to collude and fix prices;
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They can't. Such collusion and even monopolies are inherently unstable and will collapse on their own. All it takes is for some little start-up to come and and shoot their kneecaps off, or someone willing to make an extra buck by breaking from the collusion. Even OPEC learned that the hard way.
EdwinA said:
the wealthy were traders and import/export dealers.
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No. The wealthy were anyone conducting capitalism. That is the only economic system that creates wealth.
EdwinA said:
It was an entirely different economy,
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It is a lot smaller. There were less people. However, there were still city dwellers living in apartments and townhouses, there were still people living in houses and on farms and ranches, and there were still people trying to steal it.

Today, the economy has grown to include all manner of marvelous products...far beyond the wildest dreams of the folks living in the late 1700's.
EdwinA said:
and the majority were leery of Wall Street types and bankers,
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There were no 'Wall Street types and bankers'. Banks were local. There was no Federal Reserve. There was no central bank.

I think we should return to that. Get rid of the Fed and it's fiat currency, and return to gold and silver based currency.
EdwinA said:
and didn't allow them to run rampant and suck the life out the real economy like they do today.
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That's the Fed and fiat currency doing that, coupled with high taxes.
 

Rush

@exRAF_Al


The Donald: “Where’s the United Kingdom?”Starmer: “Behind you, as usual”. What an embarrassing, obsequious, sycophantic little turd of a middle manager. Although genuinely funny when Starmer raises his hand like a gleeful little boy, thinking Trump has summoned him to speak, as a headmaster might recognise a prefect. But then the Donald cuts him dead by saying “thank you for coming at 20 minutes notice”, and literally turns his back on him. Cold. As. Ice. Starmer then bites his lip and slinks back, crestfallen and rejected, looking like the seething sociopath he quite possibly is.
 





Glenn Greenwald



@ggreenwald



Imagine going from the world's most powerful empire to whatever this is in just a few decades. The way Sir Kier happily and eagerly jumps up when called, then slinks back once quickly dismissed, all by someone who doesn't know his name...
 
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