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Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:23 pm I'm with him on school closings, not so much with the thing about people leaving the workforce.

Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:23 pm I think as a society we should be moving back to one income households.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:33 pm We need people in the workforce to grow the economy.

Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:17 pm

TheCatt wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:33 pm We need people in the workforce to grow the economy.

If one person can achieve the spending power of two, why do both need to work? So companies can raise prices to offset the additional manpower?

Maybe if most of corporate America wasn't grossly overpaying their C Suite to give them overinflated earnings every quarter so their stock price spikes, then people could afford more and spending would increase? The economy would follow along with it.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:23 pm

Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 3:17 pm

TheCatt wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 2:33 pm We need people in the workforce to grow the economy.

If one person can achieve the spending power of two, why do both need to work? So companies can raise prices to offset the additional manpower?

Maybe if most of corporate America wasn't grossly overpaying their C Suite to give them overinflated earnings every quarter so their stock price spikes, then people could afford more and spending would increase? The economy would follow along with it.

I think C suite earnings are a micro problem in a macro world.

Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:47 pm If a corporation wants to pay their CEO $15M/yr, I don't really care. It's when the CEO's financial package is tied to the company's stock prices that, I believe, leads to problems.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 5:16 pm

Leisher wrote: ↑Mon Feb 08, 2021 4:47 pm If a corporation wants to pay their CEO $15M/yr, I don't really care. It's when the CEO's financial package is tied to the company's stock prices that, I believe, leads to problems.

That started because people thought the straight up salary that CEOs were getting was too much and unrelated to performance. The US even created an extra tax on excessive salaries by removing their deductibility in the 1990s.

Ooops.

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:36 pm South Dakota filing lawsuit to challenge Biden's executive orders.

They're actually challenging executive orders in general. Probably a good use of "checks and balances" just to make sure the ever growing use of them is legal.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 4:03 pm

Leisher wrote: ↑Wed Feb 10, 2021 3:36 pm South Dakota filing lawsuit to challenge Biden's executive orders.

They're actually challenging executive orders in general. Probably a good use of "checks and balances" just to make sure the ever growing use of them is legal.

After reading it, I don't think they have a leg to stand on

Leisher wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:24 am Three governors under fire.

Cuomo should possibly be in jail. I don't know enough about Newsom's controversy (Troy?). Abbott is pretty shit, but he's not responsible for years of piss poor infrastructure planning. (That's not a defense of the man and how he's handling the situation, but he did inherit a problem that nobody anticipated.)

Combine these three with Cruz's antics, and I legit have a sliver of hope that people are going to start holding more politicians' feet to the fire.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Fri Feb 19, 2021 10:41 amBurn them all.

Leisher wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:17 pm Don't know where else to put this...

The U.S. "freedom" score just keeps dropping.

Despite the opening few paragraphs of the article, you'll see it's been dropping steadily since 2009.

TheCatt wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:53 pm

Leisher wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:17 pm Don't know where else to put this...

The U.S. "freedom" score just keeps dropping.

Despite the opening few paragraphs of the article, you'll see it's been dropping steadily since 2009.

Feel like that's more of a Trump term thing.

And as Republicans in several states move to make voting rules more restrictive partly in response to false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election, the poll finds 53% of adults say the bigger problem for elections in the US is that the rules aren't strict enough to prevent illegal votes while 39% say the bigger problem is that the rules make it too difficult for eligible citizens to cast ballots.
There are broad divides on this question by party, by race and ethnicity. Nearly all Republicans (92%) say that voting rules not being strict enough is a bigger problem, and a majority of independents agree (56%). Among Democrats, 70% say the bigger problem is that the rules make it too hard for eligible citizens to cast ballots.
Most people of color say that access is the bigger problem (50% to 40%), while Whites break the opposite way (59% say it's a bigger problem that the rules aren't strict enough). But among both of those groups, there are divisions. Most Black Americans say that access is the bigger problem, while a narrow majority of Hispanic Americans break toward concerns that the rules are not tight enough. And while 92% of White Republicans say that the rules are not strict enough, 81% of White Democrats say the rules make it too hard for eligible citizens to vote.