Politics Thread

[paulxu]

Guy drives car into 20 foot ditch, leaving it upside down.

Stands around bitching that it takes so long for someone else to haul car out of ditch, repair it, and get it back on the road again.

...so he can drive it away and find another ditch.

[Caf]

this is typical of a liberal...use a big word that no one uses to make yourself sound smart. There are more millennials than baby boomers you know that right? There are quite a few baby boomers who are not near retirement age just as there are quite a few millennials who have yet to reach the job market age. It stands to reason that those numbers balance each other out quite well, but keep pushing that Obama propaganda.

Don't cry partisanship and then throw it back.

Labor force participation is an interesting topic and there's a lot of debate/information on it. It's far from an understood phenomenon let alone one we can blame a President for.

The below is pretty interesting. I haven't gotten to read the whole thing, but it also mentions that women’s labor force participation rates surged in the same time

Labor force projections to 2022: the labor force
participation rate continues to fall - BLS

[bobbiemcgee]

Healthcare - The most recent doozy. Trump seems to be pushing for a Healthcare system that is far more inclusive / costly than the ACA. He claims he has it 'almost ready' (which I don't believe for a second). Repealing and replacing the ACA is already politically difficult, the last thing that they need is Trump making promises that they cannot even come close to keeping.

Trump has a magical plan to have "insurance for everybody". Popcorn, please.

[X-man]

this is typical of a liberal...use a big word that no one uses to make yourself sound smart. There are more millennials than baby boomers you know that right? There are quite a few baby boomers who are not near retirement age just as there are quite a few millennials who have yet to reach the job market age. It stands to reason that those numbers balance each other out quite well, but keep pushing that Obama propaganda.

But if you actually read any analysis of what is going on with respect to the labor force participation rate, rather than just throwing out your polemical trash (OMG, there's that "big word that no one uses" again), you would discover that most of the drop in that rate is caused by demographics rather than anything that politicians do. But of course that analysis would violate what you "know" (aka "believe" because it fits with your right-wing world view), and so any such analysis must surely be "fake news", right?

[XUFan09]

No one uses "polemical"? Even though it is a highly appropriate word to describe politics today? Huh.

Really, it's pretty stupid to criticize someone for uses a word that is often learned in high school when we presumably are all college-educated or working towards that tier.

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[Xville]

No one uses "polemical"? Even though it is a highly appropriate word to describe politics today? Huh.

Really, it's pretty stupid to criticize someone for uses a word that is often learned in high school when we presumably are all college-educated or working towards that tier.

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First, it's a messageboard. Second, you use that word on a regular basis, really?

[Xville]

But if you actually read any analysis of what is going on with respect to the labor force participation rate, rather than just throwing out your polemical trash (OMG, there's that "big word that no one uses" again), you would discover that most of the drop in that rate is caused by demographics rather than anything that politicians do. But of course that analysis would violate what you "know" (aka "believe" because it fits with your right-wing world view), and so any such analysis must surely be "fake news", right?

Liberals always with their excuses. What is your excuse for the slowest gdp growth since world word Ii, or the slowest wage growth? Must be those damn demographics again.

[XUFan09]

First, it's a messageboard. Second, you use that word on a regular basis, really?

It's a message board of educated people and you were trying to win "argument points" over the fact that he used a somewhat less common word. It was a stupid tangent. Also, when did I say that I used the word on a regular basis? I said that it was a word often learned in high school and it was a word highly appropriate to politics today. The conclusions you reach are rather strange sometimes...

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[X-man]

Liberals always with their excuses. What is your excuse for the slowest gdp growth since world word Ii, or the slowest wage growth? Must be those damn demographics again.

It's called the Bush recession if you must know.

[Xville]

It's called the Bush recession if you must know.

Haha i knew you would have one. You realize that usually after recessions America has had some of its biggest gdp growth right? Except during obama of course.