I was about to say this. In the past I shouted at my cat (rest her soul) for waking me up, but she was just seeing if I was still there. She wanted confort. I should have obliged. I've never made this mistake since.
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I was about to say this. In the past I shouted at my cat (rest her soul) for waking me up, but she was just seeing if I was still there. She wanted confort. I should have obliged. I've never made this mistake since.
My views ARE reality.
I didn't do that. A person can be a 'liberal' and make perfect sense. Perhaps you've misunderstood something I've said?
Near the start someone in the background says: 'Why is no-one helping him.'
That's right. False.
They always get rewarded. 😂
LIterally a drag queen.
I don't need to 'google'. If I don't know anything about something I don't post. Of course, anyone who doesn't wave your particular flag is MAGA, right?
At 81 he can't tell the difference. She probably said '60'.
Kojak.
I said nothing about 'idiots'. I said that a fair number of people opining, judging by their commentary, seem to be historically unaware. I don't know what 'Phi Kappa Phi' refers to (apart form it being Greek) or why it matters.
There's only about $6-7 trillion in total held outside the US as foreign exchange. 😂
I am not a US citizen, but this site s flooded with something which affects the world. Most opining haven't read history, not even recent history, and it's clear from what they say.
Look back at the range of antecedent causes. But okay, it's crucial now, I get that, but beware who you empower for the future.
Because replacing big money neoliberals for big money neoliberals is a long-term solution.
Or people obsessed with migrants and buying into false narratives about their general link crime.
It's nothing to do with him.
They're entirely believable!
BBC needing arithmetic lessons... apparently 1957 was 52 years ago.
Was that also during Clinton's 'surplus years'? Be careful how you answer it will reveal a lot.
Er zit ook geen logica in. Links wil normaal gesproken meer uitgaves, die de hoofdbron is van koopkracht voor de gemiddelde NL'er. VVD, D66 enz wil dat beperken, want ze geloven dat geld door toverij naar de mensen wordt gebracht door gewoon 'zaken doen'.
A British politician?
In sum, yes. It's pretty old starting in the late '60s with business trying to dismantle the post-war consensus economy. A lot of propaganda. There are many parts to this. Politically the Powell Memorandum was a key part.
When Clinton took power Dems had a senate/house majority. He could have pushed through single payer health reform. However there were background machinations. A lot of advisors pushing neoliberal economics, which they used to get centrist/right voters on board. So-called 'fiscal responsibility'.
Among other things. Abolishing the Glass-Steagall Act, reneging on healthcare promises, taking fiscal policy advice from neoliberals/monetarists.
I'm just answering questions. People ask or question a post I've made, and I answer. There is no playing. If it stops that's okay too.
When I first came to Utrecht it looked like the first image, now there's a hypermodern multi-storey bicycle park (largest in Europe I think).
The government owning parts of production isn't 'communism'. E.g. nationalised energy wouldn't be 'communism', just common sense.
Economist Warren Mosler once met Al Gore and explained to him how the govt wasn't money restricted, and Gore understood and agreed, but said it would be impossible to sell to the voting public. He then got up and made a typical neoliberal speech. It's crazy. True story.
It marks the point neoliberalism became truly bipartisan.
That's true. I don;t blame Clinton personally for that DOMA, but it's clear to see what a lot of the mainstream party were like. Some are still there.
Yes, terrible fake.
Clinton's admin abolished the Glass-Steagall act. They also ran the first govt surpluses in most people's lifetimes. People seem to think that is good, but a govt surplus means the govt restricts spending (to less than taxation) which just runs down the public's income/savings. They bought the lie.
Fk me he's ugly!
A bit odd.
They should amputate.
Have you never seen anyone do a photorealistic drawing? They're easy to find. Surely no-one's asking me to get in touch with an old girlfriend so that I can demand she makes a video??
Impressive whiskers.
The trick is to not go on vacation to Hawaii.
Worse luck.
That was the photo I came to post. Well done!
Other people's cats might run away. My cat hates children.
Indeed. Also built upon a lie: that govt somehow doesn't have the money to afford it, but somehow the private user of the same money the govt issues by spending can afford it. A lot of people were born long after this started in the 70s/80s so they think it's normal and a mere political problem.
Exactly right on the point of wasted infrastructure and labour blockages because they're all working in bloated insurance administration.
What are you asking me to do?
Yes, I thought it was mostly gone as well. It was just dormant.
Rug is nice too.
Truth.
Not if she doesn't want it.
Who is saying that?
Surely that would just point to something looking real, which is a drawing? The most likely thing to be flagged. An ex-girlfriend of mine draws photo-realistic portraits and hers have also been 'flagged'.
I was locating the point in time when the party completely accepted the orthodox economic position. Nothing has changed since then.
I was talking about Bill Clinton.
Zero hours contract and nothing to do. It's more interesting working a pizza delivery scooter.
Which is why it should be a federal policy. States are currency-constrained as a matter of policy.
I should point out that once access is increased, resourcing matters. When access is low it appears that there are short wait times, buut it's only because many people are priced out. Once they're in things change. At that point a govt also has to work on policy to improve public health.
I think everyone would be happier at this point if Venezuela invaded the U.S.
That said this has now been accepted as 'orthodoxy' and is why even the centre and left go on about 'finding money' and 'borrowing' and the rest. They failed to develop a rebuttal.
Spain's is also a total access system. So is Portugal's.
Well the NHS is entirely that model and only neoliberal policy has affected it. Prior to that it was the most money for value system with 100% access. The 100% access remains, but they have eroded the resourcing.
I never said that. 'Neoliberal' is political-economic word for the right-wing adoption of neoclassical economics (like Monetarism) which itself claimed to be based-upon classical 'liberal' ideals.
Sad to think that some dullard 'hunter' would go for him.
It really is simple. We see it happen: a person gets angry and in the heat of a moment they try to grab something to throw or use, whatever it is. When that thing is a gun the result is predictable.
Because he's an ordinary neoliberal and they think interest rate jiggling is effective economc policy. As it happens the best policy would be 0% (ZIRP) because it would kill off the bond market. I'm sure Trump is just exercising his arrgant will because someone said 'no', not because he understands.
Don't 'best of luck' me like you're an expert when you clearly aren't. All systems in a currency-issuing government system have a guaranteed 'funding' mechanism. That isn't their problem, but resourcing it. Because resources are taken by private use. You'll need to learn more to succeed with this.
Same here, many of them dried on the vine. So I'm waiting for sweet chestnuts now.
They must have thought it was harder in the dark or something.
They have been giving it lip-service then going to 'business as usual'. Clinton especially (and one his econ advisers started this thread!). Once the 'left' was fooled by monetarism and associated lies, they failed to develop a rebuttal and simply adopted it as the 'reality'.
They only rely on that (and here in Western Europe) because they have deliberately built that model into fiscal policy. Not because it isn't achievable. Once you give the majority the option the private options atrophies considerably. See UK until the neoliberal turn.
And if she had the law wouldn't be able to move fast enough for their desire to change access to weapons.
He lies about being afraid of needles, but also says he has Botox injections to treat the 'spasmodic dysphonia' that makes him sound like a vocoder.
à trois !
Seems to me he's rich enough to get regular TRT. Taking other PEDs would be pointless for him, though I'm sure he could access pharmaceutical grade in his position.
So he's on TRT?
What's wrong with his foot?
It would help if people verified things before posting them.
Carswell is a particularly nasty character. For a long time he hid in plain sight as a mainstream Tory MP, but his ilk were always waiting for the rise of a right-wing nationalist party they could join. Scumbag that he is.
Excellent Debussy-like piano score as well.
Both my previous cats played fetch with a little stuffed toy. The slightly younger one probably just copied the older cat. None of my other cats have done this, but I haven't tried it with the current one.
Anyone else noted the passing of Andy Arobieke, aka 'Purple Aki'? Anyone who lived in the north of England in the 80s and '90s will know what I mean.
It is decently above the OECD avg though. I agree it could rise (and progressively), but this is not what is tying the chancellor's fiscal policy hands, it's their self-imposed 'fiscal rules'.
For other people to get the pound the government (or a member bank, which is just a conduit for it) must first issue it.
If he can find it.
Party of opportunists.
The point is that having a vaccination programme works/worked.
About now the needles are afraid of him. Begging to go nowhere near him in case they get contaminated with whatever is rotting his brain.
Clearly you didn't understand the post.
If Musk was really pulling his hair like that it would be separating from Trump's head.
That has nothing to do with this discussion. Why are you touting for business?
Perhaps, the mega rich have clever means of acquiring money. They suck up a lot of direct govt spending & things like treasury bonds which are a free payday for the rich. Especially with those interest rates. This is different than govt's position though. Those credit ratings are irrelevant to them.
No. I give them. Not to 'Ron Vara' though. He comes out with the same things you keep saying.
Ah. It was a genuine question though. Not facetious. I think I must have missed the rhetorical nature of it. 🙂
Population growth alone is not a cause of more tax redemptions. And in an economy insistent on avoiding fiscal policy to address unemplyment, even more so. Times lady doesn't know what she's talking about (as usual).
The UK only uses the pound. They don't take it from anywhere.
No it is not. What do you mean 'additional funds'. The US govt has all the 'funds' it would ever need. That is not its problem. If you were talking about here in the Netherlands I would say 'yes' Euro user since it doesn't issue the currency it uses. But that's a different case.
Corrections: 'Russia' (not Tussia!). 'Had' no gold.
Another. Around 1939 US congress refused a $4bn investment in infrastructuire in the 'lease-spend' bill, apparently couldn't 'borrow'. In 1940 (when France fell) it had spent $300bn, didn't go 'bankrupt' and transformed the economy. How?