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Are Republicans against helping the middle class?

Are Republicans against helping the middle class?


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What you really trying to say is that terminating unemployment insurance causes people to become employed. And that is a bunch of bull****. That is just like me saying that there is a study that shows black males have larger penis sizes than whites. Therefore my penis is bigger than yours.



Average penis size study results confirm racial stereotypes

Having said that, I don't dispute that terminating unemployment insurance might make someone more desperate to find a job. Therefore a displaced aerospace engineer might accept a job a Burger King if that is all he can find. But even that might not be available. So, the point is this, having a suitable job causes people to get off of unemployment insurance. Not only that, what they pay is ridiculous. I know I could not meet my expenses with the maximum of what they pay. Perhaps some could and maybe as a result they will milk it out, but I know I could not.

HAHAHAHAHAHA YES. :lamo
 
Teach a man to work, and hope he finds a job with a livable wage, teach a man to fish, and hope he lives near a body of water and has fishing supplies. Liberals are doing both in regards to the statements you make, look at how long people stay on the programs and how many are working, don't be so ignorant.

Liberals are doing nothing. Heck, look at your picture, liberals are keeping everyone from enjoying the game, they aren't actually getting the people who can't see the game from doing anything about it.
 
Liberals are doing nothing. Heck, look at your picture, liberals are keeping everyone from enjoying the game, they aren't actually getting the people who can't see the game from doing anything about it.

Wrong picture plug, accidentally took that from the wrong source, the original has boxes stacking with them holding hands so everyone can see the game. They're doing nothing?
Welfare's effect on poverty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Employment and Income | mdrc
https://www.childwelfare.gov/topics/systemwide/statistics/wellbeing/?hasBeenRedirected=1
6 SNAP (Food Stamp) Myths | Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger
Disability Statistics
 
What you really trying to say is that terminating unemployment insurance causes people to become employed. And that is a bunch of bull****. That is just like me saying that there is a study that shows black males have larger penis sizes than whites. Therefore my penis is bigger than yours.

Incentive to take a job comes with the expiration of benefits. This is a proven fact.

The rest of your post about penises and whatnot is completely off topic. Your assertion that I must not be black, though, well that just shows us all your propensity to rely on stereotypes yourself and assume characteristics for people you have never met. Hell, I don't believe I've given one clue on this board as to my ethnic makeup.

You're not serious about debate. I thought perhaps your opening post was designed to illicit a response for rebuttal, but no. You're just a troll.
 
I don't know about all that. The thing is this, capitalism will not work out well if markets are not free. The problem with government restriction and regulation is that it introduces a player into the market that makes it difficult for players to predict. As an example, consider the financial crisis of 2008. If you were a player and you were looking at market conditions at that time, without government interference certain institutions would have certainly failed. Now let's suppose you were looking at that, and anticipating the failure of an institution you heavily invested your money in its competitor. However, all of the sudden the government steps in, and saves the institution because the Treasury Secretary used to be the CEO there. It then turns out that the one you invested in becomes the one that fails. That's one problem. The next thing, closely related is that you have to be able to trust the government to interfere and regulate fairly. But government is controlled by politicians, who in turn are controlled by money. So people and corporations with large amounts of money will use the system to their advantage and to the disadvantage of others.

Over and above all that, even if you did a halfway decent job of regulating it, capitalism by its intrinsic nature produces distortions in wealth distributions that lead to the wealthy getting more wealth and more power, at the expense of those who are not. Unless they use that power wisely, which they will not because of greed, there will be all kinds of problems.

Therefore, I don't know sometimes, although I hate to come to that conclusion, perhaps a socialist model is better for human society. Just speculating.

So you don't think regulated capitalism can be a benefit to everyone?
 
Higher tax rates compared with a higher standard of living, lower cost of living, higher wages, and little debt. Also, Doesn't America have the most expensive education in the world? I say we need higher taxes based on wealth, heck, a system similar to Germany, but that's another point. The college system is utter bull****, and it's screwed my generation. (16)

It has screwed the millennial generation mostly to the extent that that generation makes poor decisions and goes deeply into debt for degree programs that will not actually provide employment.

mind you, lots of my friends are in that trap, I sympathize. But we didn't have to listen to our idiot parents' generation when they told us that Only 5 Years Studying Sociology At $30K A Year Would Protect Us From Burger Flipping For Life.
 
You can look at our own history to see how "beneficial' unregulated capitalism is.

:shrug: depends on what you mean by that. If by that you mean "anarchy", then, no, that's not much benefit to anyone. If by it, however, you mean capitalism, then yes, we can see amazing positive results - more people have been lifted out of poverty in the past 40 years by free trade than in the previous 40 centuries.
 
:shrug: depends on what you mean by that. If by that you mean "anarchy", then, no, that's not much benefit to anyone. If by it, however, you mean capitalism, then yes, we can see amazing positive results - more people have been lifted out of poverty in the past 40 years by free trade than in the previous 40 centuries.

I'll leave this here, have your own opinion on it, but regulation is needed.
5 Ways That Raw, Unregulated Capitalism Is Acting Like a Cancer on American Society | Alternet
Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein: 'There's no place for pure, unregulated capitalism' - Feb. 24, 2015 - Interesting read
The evils of unregulated capitalism - Al Jazeera English

These are all on the front page when searching "Unregulated capitalism" I can't find anything discussing the positives, feel free to hook me up.
 
I'll leave this here, have your own opinion on it, but regulation is needed.
5 Ways That Raw, Unregulated Capitalism Is Acting Like a Cancer on American Society | Alternet
Goldman CEO Lloyd Blankfein: 'There's no place for pure, unregulated capitalism' - Feb. 24, 2015 - Interesting read
The evils of unregulated capitalism - Al Jazeera English

These are all on the front page when searching "Unregulated capitalism" I can't find anything discussing the positives, feel free to hook me up.

unregulated "capitalism" hasn't killed near as many people as runaway socialism
 
Since the current condition of the economy is the main reason they can't find jobs [to help pay back these loans] ....no

Again, another myth of impression. The unemployment rate amongst college grads is 3%, which is full employment.

http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/ci20-1.pdf

If you did a little research to validate your impressions before you make posts, you won't look like an ill-informed.....
 
unregulated "capitalism" hasn't killed near as many people as runaway socialism

Wrong. Unregulated capitalism has killed plenty. But we're working on that too! You're either ignorant of the history of US capitalism in the US historically, and the reason for the establishment of regulation, you're rich, and have made your money abusing those beneath you, or worse. You have no clue how many human beings in Latin America that have suffered at the expense of unregulated US capitalism, and worse, you don't care.
 
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Wrong. Unregulated capitalism has killed plenty. But we're working on that too! You're either ignorant of the history of US capitalism in the US historically, and the reason for the establishment of regulation, you're rich, and have made your money abusing those beneath you, or worse. You have no clue how many human beings in Latin America that have suffered at the expense of unregulated US capitalism, and worse, you don't care.

Look at his post history, he doesn't care about other human beings, it's obvious.
 
Wrong. Unregulated capitalism has killed plenty. But we're working on that too! You're either ignorant of the history of US capitalism in the US historically, and the reason for the establishment of regulation, you're rich, and have made your money abusing those beneath you, or worse. You have no clue how many human beings in Latin America that have suffered at the expense of unregulated US capitalism, and worse, you don't care.

yawn, complete nonsense. those who whine about capitalism are those who have failed to succeed here
 
Look at his post history, he doesn't care about other human beings, it's obvious.

ah the typical leftwing drivel-if you don't support government coercive income redistribution, you don't care about people
 
yawn, complete nonsense. those who whine about capitalism are those who have failed to succeed here

Capitalism has been discussed for hundreds of years and critiqued by many who have succeeded, I guess they're "whiners"
 
ah the typical leftwing drivel-if you don't support government coercive income redistribution, you don't care about people

One question: Do you want to cut food stamps? And this is relevant. If so, how would you propose helping those punished by a destructive system if no government help programs exist, during the GD, hoover tried to encourage private charities, and that failed massively.
 
Capitalism has been discussed for hundreds of years and critiqued by many who have succeeded, I guess they're "whiners"

capitalism sucks I suppose but every other system sucks more
 
One question: Do you want to cut food stamps? And this is relevant. If so, how would you propose helping those punished by a destructive system if no government help programs exist, during the GD, hoover tried to encourage private charities, and that failed massively.

We have way too many people who make sucking on the public teat a career and worse yet, way too many people who use that system to get rich
 
capitalism sucks I suppose but every other system sucks more

Really now? All of the proposed systems we will never get to test automatically suck. :roll: Here is a system that could work in a country as well established as ours. Socialism - a social and economic system characterised by social ownership of the means of production and co-operative management of the economy. :peace
 
We have way too many people who make sucking on the public teat a career and worse yet, way too many people who use that system to get rich

Really now? What data supports that these people are getting rich? Do you know anything about SNAP?
Data and Statistics | Food and Nutrition Service
That's ridiculous, only a minority are supposedly "using" the system as a career, and do you include disability in this? Those who work a minimum wage job and still get government help because the wage is not livable? Give me your evidence for what you say.
SNAP Plays a Critical Role in Helping Children — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Also, tell me your plan for children. :roll:
 
Really now? What data supports that these people are getting rich? Do you know anything about SNAP?
Data and Statistics | Food and Nutrition Service
That's ridiculous, only a minority are supposedly "using" the system as a career, and do you include disability in this? Those who work a minimum wage job and still get government help because the wage is not livable? Give me your evidence for what you say.
SNAP Plays a Critical Role in Helping Children — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Also, tell me your plan for children. :roll:

democrats get rich through public office buying votes with the money of others.
we should do everything possible to discourage people who cannot properly raise children from breeding
 
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