flacaltenn
Diamond Member
Hate to say JimBowie1958 , but MOST economic interventions are especially "witch doctor" material... And I'm not comfortable getting my wallet raided for them..
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Are you serious?Whers the option to just stop welfare programs?
Remove the entire social safety net?
no
We dont need a new programTom Cotton Floats Universal Basic Income for Coronavirus Crisis
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is floating a plan to “get cash into the hands of affected workers and their families” due to national shutdowns of businesses in nearly every industry from the coronavirus outbreak.
In a series of posts online and in a Fox News Channel interview, Cotton said American workers who are being forced to stay home from their jobs due to shutdowns in the midst of the coronavirus crisis need immediate relief in the form of cash payments.
The monetary policy, known as Universal Basic Income (UBI), has made its way into the national spotlight over the last year thanks to businessman Andrew Yang. The policy could mean that American citizens affected by the coronavirus shutdowns would get $1,000 a month in cash.
Cotton suggested using existing social welfare agencies to put “cash in the hands of affected families.”
“We don’t want to see layoffs, we want to see people who are at home, if they have any reason to be at home, supported immediately,” Cotton said.
lol that's was your dissembling attempt at avoiding answering my points, I never brought that up, so I think you're purposely not able to refute the facts that few jobs being created require anything beyond 4th grade educations
Picaro, I respect you for being open and defending your love of bigger more muscular govt and Universal Everything and having the Swamp make EVERYONE'S lives completely risk free.. You've been more reasonable in the past when I've read your stuff.. But I can not believe that last paragraph..
OF COURSE you didn't bring up the people doomed to dead end jobs because you're not TRYING to fix poverty.. You're papering it over with checks from DC... OR ELEVATING WAGES instead of people.. AYE brought it up...
And as far as that comment about "few jobs being created require anything beyond a 4th grade level" -- that's just imaginary.. And I WISH we could have a better discussion, but not with those random stinky herrings...
Are you serious?Whers the option to just stop welfare programs?
Remove the entire social safety net?
no
Actually I am serious. I think it’s unsustainable as is and secondly it funds an oligarchy who use our wealth to maintain rule over us. it will end itself if we don’t.
Something has to replace it of course. Starting with families.
lol that's was your dissembling attempt at avoiding answering my points, I never brought that up, so I think you're purposely not able to refute the facts that few jobs being created require anything beyond 4th grade educations
Picaro, I respect you for being open and defending your love of bigger more muscular govt and Universal Everything and having the Swamp make EVERYONE'S lives completely risk free.. You've been more reasonable in the past when I've read your stuff.. But I can not believe that last paragraph..
OF COURSE you didn't bring up the people doomed to dead end jobs because you're not TRYING to fix poverty.. You're papering it over with checks from DC... OR ELEVATING WAGES instead of people.. AYE brought it up...
And as far as that comment about "few jobs being created require anything beyond a 4th grade level" -- that's just imaginary.. And I WISH we could have a better discussion, but not with those random stinky herrings...
Yes, you social darwinists do lose these discussions all the time, not much ammo there to work with. While 'business' goes about making it's world risk free, you much prefer to avoid the effects of those policies over time. Your strawmen don't really take attention away from the fact that right wing 'economics' is just so much magical chanting no less false than left wing 'economics'. and this is why candidates like Trump can barely squeak by left wingers, and will eventually lose to them in the next 10-20 years.
Friedman had some interesting ideas, he was wrong on China .