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Hillary Clinton slams trickle-down economics, 'business' doesn't create jobs?

here is true inanity
pretending that the mere identification of competing interests in conflict, such as 'war on women', is the same thing as pitting Americans against each other

Not to mention that those GOP soundbites - standing as counterparts to Mr. Independent's example of 'leftist' slogans - are in fact designed to polarize Americans and thereby pit them against each other.
 
here is true inanity
pretending that the mere identification of competing interests in conflict, such as 'war on women', is the same thing as pitting Americans against each other
Who are these 'competing interest' you mention? You don't understand that claiming that Republicans are fighting a war against women, over half the population, is a negative? Or that there is a war against Blacks, Hispanics, or any minorities?
How does this help the country when there are genuine interests which have to be addressed, education among them? This is 'dumbing down' politics, and that so many people buy into it is not helping the country at all. http://nypost.com/2013/10/08/us-adults-are-dumber-than-the-average-human/
 
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You don't understand what the term means, do you? Would you prefer 'trickle up' economics?

These terms have little to do with complicated economic problems but are instead meaningless slogans designed by politicians to oversimplify the issue for a gullible electorate who think they understand economics..

DAAAAAAAAAAAR, I TINK I DO GEORGE, I TINK I DO......DAAAAARRRRRRRRR....

:roll:

Lemme guess, you read "Economics in One Lesson" and you think you're Ludwig von Mises now...

:lamo
 
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I find the thread title unnecessarily incendiary.

My underwear is the same way.
 
I think they must have given it all to you. I was just fired because they didn't want to trickle down anymore money to me.

Sorry, but there is unemployment compensation.
 
You might want to rewrite this post...

Not necessary. The excuse used for freezing employee salaries was that JPMC had to pay billions in legal fees and fines, both of which were the result of profound mismanagement from the top. Yet the board justified a 74% pay increase for Dimon based on the overall positive growth of the firm. Don't you think the opposite should have been the case?
 
Not necessary. The excuse used for freezing employee salaries was that JPMC had to pay billions in legal fees and fines, both of which were the result of profound mismanagement from the top. Yet the board justified a 74% pay increase for Dimon based on the overall positive growth of the firm. Don't you think the opposite should have been the case?

Obviously the legal fees and fines weren't considered as caused by "profound mismanagement from the top" because if that was the case Dimon would've been fired. For example, the London Whale debacle wasn't due to anything Dimon did. Further, JPMC did a thorough investigation of it, because they don't want to lose money, and are interested in preventing it from happening again...
 
Obviously the legal fees and fines weren't considered as caused by "profound mismanagement from the top" because if that was the case Dimon would've been fired.

He nearly was.

For example, the London Whale debacle wasn't due to anything Dimon did. Further, JPMC did a thorough investigation of it, because they don't want to lose money, and are interested in preventing it from happening again...

Dimon not only lied to the shareholders about it but also tried to hide the extent of those loses from regulators. There is a clear pattern at JPMC of executives claiming ignorance of their operations from the mortgage crisis, to its management of Maddoff's ponzi scheme, to the London Whale yet their fingerprints are all over the broomstick when regulators look under the rug.
 
well I'm not mathematicisistician, but as near as I can tell.... in the past 8 years..... a little over 250%.

Wow that damn Obama and his policies...only 250%?
 
Ah, so you're the one percent now? Consider inflation and tell me how much your income actually went up.

The 1%? No...Why does it have to be that? Why must I be categorized as rich for you to consider it a success? I entered the world with little more than a High School education. I have posted several times throughout the years my life story, but I understand that you either may not have read it, or cared enough to remember it...So, in the short version;

I was on my own at 17, married foolishly at 18, and separated at 20 with a child. I entered the military at 21, and for six years served proudly, and then married again. When I got out, I found out quickly that military experience wasn't valued as I thought it would be, and did a series of jobs that didn't pay much, and we struggled through many years of my second marriage. I then started on a path of finding a career that I could advance in, and struck out to a path of not relying on anyone else for my own advancement. Which leads me to today. Early on I remember having a really liberal thought process, thinking everything was "unfair", and holding real resentment for those who were better off than I. It was corrosive. And it wasn't until I took personal responsibility for my own path that this changed.

Now, Does that mean that I am "rich"? Well, I guess that depends on how you measure ''rich"... My wife and I went from a combined income in the early 90s of less than $24k per year, renting, and never having enough with two kids, to today, owning my own home, an income of $85k + combined, one child in college, and another in trade school. I have a 401K now that is substantial, and am vested in a company ESOP program that will be substantial at retirement. Plus, I have a wonderful family, and friends around me that I cherish, and live a pretty good life....

I think that IS 'rich'....

Now, does that mean I am done where I am at? Not at all. I am always on the look out for better, and I think that is the key, plus I don't rely now, nor have I ever relied on the State to provide me with anything for what I have....That's the difference I think...In today's up and coming youth, they are being taught that they are owed something...I wasn't...And at 52 today, I still have the drive to better myself. I look around and see the youth that are taught that they are owed, have NO drive for that, instead they are just angry, self centered, and arrogant putzes that want to take from others.

That is a problem today IMHO.
 
JPMC and Dimon are crooked but you should be pleased.
That way he could do stuff like this ...

"From 1989 to 2009, the banker and his wife gave over half a million dollars to Democrats, according to a Center for Responsive Politics analysis. That’s 12 times what they gave to Republicans during that same time frame. "

Jamie Dimon, Democrat? - The Washington Post

All that proves is that Republicans are more willing to do anything for a buck. :D

On a more serious note, the uber-wealthy always "lobby" both sides of the aisle like this. To them, it's just hedging.
 
All that proves is that Republicans are more willing to do anything for a buck. :D

On a more serious note,
the uber-wealthy always "lobby" both sides of the aisle like this.
To them, it's just hedging.

Sure they do ... but at 12 to 1 they clearly know where their money is best spent.
 
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