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For much more on this cancer in American society, look up Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has been covering this for decades now. He's even written a book on the subject;

https://www.amazon.com/American-Fascists-Christian-Right-America/dp/0743284461

He's written many other books on the failing state of America, as well. He's not an optimist but he has a knack for seeing his predictions become fact.

Some one should tell conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro that he used a 'commie phrase' for the title of this book.

Check out the book The Mindful Way Through Depression and get away from this stuff for a while. Get sunshine and do something outdoors if you can.

Oil and minerals are the prize and China is there in bulk already as you've mentioned.

"Tomorrow's Battlefield" https://www.amazon.com/Tomorrows-Battlefield-Secret-Africa-Dispatch/dp/1608464636

Great book, well documented Nick Turse is a prize winning author and plainly knows his stuff.

These morons don't understand the conflict between being a stock holder and criticizing the company. The way to effectively communicate you displeasure is to divest.

Economic boycotts are as American as the revolution - think of the boston tea party, but it also extended to other boycotts of British goods, including sugar and fabric. See The Market Place of Revolution by TH Breen.

These MAGA idiots don't know thier history.

Technically, Washington DC did have some precipitation between 12am and 2am which looks about the time the picture was taken. Doesn't mean it was snow and if it was, didn't mean it was enough to stick.

https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/va/arlington-county/KDCA/date/2020-1-12

Well that's all economically illiterate.

Here's one study on the effects of minimum wage on low-skill employment.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/study-finds-higher-minimum-wage-hurting-youth-employment-2016-01-05

So it has happened, and those on the left just ignore it.

>standard of living for all of those making under $20 an hour.

Not for the ones that get fired, or those even denied a chance to be hired.

Labor is what is being supplied in the labor market and, as everyone knows from the standard model for supply and demand, a price floor causes a surplus of labor. (ie. unemployment.) There is plenty of empirical evidence that raising the price of something causes a loss of demand.

Let's just remember that there has never been evidence that stimulating consumption has led to economic growth or higher employment, just look to 2010 for that.

Here a story of how minimum wage murdered a non-profit organization.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-saltsman-a-nonprofit-restaurant-falls-to-the-minimum-wage-1420412563

Take a look at the data as it is gathered.

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

At this moment of the confirmed 937091 to have the disease 47231 of them have died. That is roughly one in twenty people who had it have died. It is more contagious than the common cold, so unchecked just about everyone in the world would get it.

When hospitals get overrun many people who could have survived instead die. Medical resources are finite.

The article I linked above explains investor-state, which has been with us since NAFTA and GATS in the 90s.

If you read Page 9 of this article about NAFTA, you'll understand the core concepts of the FTAs, namely ISDS, their "standstill" clauses, which basically are a "freeze" on any changes that adversely effect investors - making a government financially liable to "investors" (multinational corporations) for simply doing their jobs. Also, there is something called the ratchet effect, which basically is that they are designed to make privatization occur rapidly but never allow un-privatization to occur without potentially huge compensation, as its based on the potential size of the market. the bigger a country is, the larger the potential fines.

There is a VERY good analysis of the core disadvantages to countries inherent in ISDS in the analysis of the TiSA FTA from june, here..

Can you see how it would be especially advantageous to a company to not be an American company if they faced future legislation.. for example, in toxic chemicals or drugs, or similar? The question of whether something is toxic isn't relevant as much as did they break the agreement to PAY if they do ANYTHING. Its called "expropriation" - They keep it out of the news because its just outrageously stupid and evil.

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Where you made your mistake is when I started to question your authenticity you went from fairly reasonable (albeit obtuse) to a gaslighting antagonist too quickly. Next time, try to slow that transition down. If I was you I'd read Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals". It will help you shape your trolling voice better. Here's a link on Amazon

I can only see your newest comments on my computer not my phone. So I will bid you farewell from here as I need to take my son to basketball practice. I didn't say anything wrong, there is no shadow banning going on and no one is knocking on anyone's door. This fear mongering stuff might work with some, but not me. Ciao...

You're going in circles. You're saying that the US military loses when it shoots all the useless armed hobbyists. (You should publish your own follow-up to The Art of War, by the way.) Wouldn't it "lose" just as effectively if all those citizens weren't armed?

If you think this is interesting, I recommend checking out <em>Amusing Ourselves to Death</em> by Neil Postman.

He claims that tv is intrinsically worse than text for some purposes, like the news.