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Trump Fills Stadiums; Bush Fills Banquet Halls
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redandblack
on 22/08/2015, 10:21:40 UTC
Seemingly the 46th P.O.T.U.S. will be Mr.Trump.
His skyrocketing success is amazing.
No one has any chance against him.

Donald Trump is filling up stadiums while Jeb Bush can barely fill the banquet room at the Best Western

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI4i48kNo6A&feature=youtu.be

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Re: BiPolarBob's Tell-A-Joke Round #1 (Prize: 0.12345 btc)
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redandblack
on 22/08/2015, 10:08:46 UTC
A lady comes home from her doctor's appointment grinning from ear to ear. Her husband asks, "Why are you so happy?" The wife says, "The doctor told me that for a forty-five year old woman, I have the breasts of a eighteen year old." "Oh yeah?" quipped her husband, "What did he say about your forty-five year old ass?" She said, "Your name never came up in the conversation."
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Re: Minimum wage.
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 18:29:56 UTC
For the only way America can employ the max number of her own people is by allowing them once again to make what they consume. If you do not do that, then the middle class created when we allowed that will wither away and we will have a few very rich people at the top, a sliver of a middle class with most being working poor.

Making what we consume, and then using Ford's idea of paying the people enough to buy what they are making is the key.
America does allow her own people to make what they consume. Her own people choose not to consume it. Legislating giving people more money, isn't going to change their preferences.

Considering purchasing power, the USA doesn't have the largest economy in the world. The IMF, CIA Factbook, the world bank... all have us at number three. The E.U. passed us in 2012, China passed America in 2014. We want to change that, we need to get better at producing things folks want... not at hiring customers.
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Re: Minimum wage.
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redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 17:40:27 UTC
When a large segment of society has been priced out of the job market, it is society's problem. Because if society's only solution is to tell them to be more like Edison, they are going to tear society down.

'They' are society.

People can attack the windmill, it won't make turning the millstone more valued.

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Re: Minimum wage.
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 17:34:49 UTC
Any person is worth whatever someone else is willing to pay them.
What a person is worth is a complex philosophical question -- one not easily answered. I agree that what a person offers, in goods or labor, is worth what someone is willing to give them in exchange for those goods or labor.
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Re: Minimum wage.
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redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 17:25:28 UTC
You can't ignore the problem and hope it goes away. It is a fact that half the population has below average IQ, and their labor is the most valuable thing they can offer. As that labor becomes obsolete, what do we do? Telling people to be more like Edison is not a realistic approach to this looming problem.
Failing to solve a person's problem for them is not the same as ignoring it. What society can (and should) do is be honest with people. Tell folks if what they're doing now is not very valuable or will likely have no value at all (become obsolete) in the near future.

The reality is if many people do not become more like Edison, if they do not start finding ways to contribute other than running errands and turning wheels, then (according to your prediction) their contributions will become obsolete. Their current contributions will no longer be valued by society. You have not established as a fact that half the population has nothing to offer more valuable than zero.

It is my sincere hope people will listen. If they choose to ignore the problem and hope it goes away... the future will be difficult for them.
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Re: Minimum wage.
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 17:21:11 UTC
So what is your proposal for the millions of people who do not have the intellectual capacity to "be like Edison" and whose physical labor is being rendered obsolete by technological advances?
I doubt there are that many people who are incapable of being more like Edison. Whether I am right or wrong doesn't change the truth of your prediction -- the contributions many are offering now will have a value of zero in the near future.

I would say those people really have only two choices: find another way to contribute or fail to contribute. We will need less physical labor. We will need more people solving problems. I believe more of us can and will step up to the challenge of developing new solutions and advancing America's productivity.
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Re: Minimum wage.
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 17:19:08 UTC
The idea that everyone should just be like Edison is absurd.
*shrug* For a society to advance, it's people must advance. During Edison's time it may have been absurd to suggest many people should be like Edison (able to read). Today we have that expectation. Tomorrow we will expect more.

There will always be some who can't keep up. Society will carry a limited number of those folks despite their lack of contribution. But there is a limit to how many any society can or will carry. If people want more of society, society will ask more of people.
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Re: Minimum wage.
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 17:17:12 UTC
I think raising the minimum wage to what it would be if it had kept pace with inflation would have little, if any, negative impact on jobs and the economy in the short term. But I also think it would do little to solve the question of how to deal with a large segment of society that simply does not have the ability to compete with technology for livable wages.
The answer is to tell them to get out of the business of selling their labor and to get into the business of solving problems. John Henry demonstrated that competing with a machine at simple labor isn't a good way to make a living. But Edison showed that same perspiration applied to coming up with new mechanisms to serve man can change the world.

As long as we have problems, we'll have jobs. Future jobs will require less labor and more ambition.
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Re: Elderly White women punched in head by Black thug.
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redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 11:15:29 UTC
How did woman become "women" in this post. Prejudice?
Speech-to-text software makes mistakes.

Now that we've cleared that up, do you have anything to say about the content of the post?

forced multiculturalism?

you mean like bringing millions of black slaves to the USA?
Yes that is included.

We need to rectify that mistake.
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Elderly White women punched in head by Black thug.
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 11:00:36 UTC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rrnu_JvIYrk&feature=youtu.be

Well there you have it people.

The feral savagery of pure subhuman garbage.
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Re: TRUMPS rallys are geting so big they have to held in Stadiums now
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 10:51:53 UTC
Another thing to add to the "Reasons The GOP Is In A Panic" list: Bernie Sanders heavily appeals to younger voters & independents.
Just the unemployed that are going for General Studies degrees.
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Re: TRUMPS rallys are geting so big they have to held in Stadiums now
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 10:50:53 UTC
I read exactly what it said, and I'm not that naive enough to not know what other message he was trying to pedal. The two of you aren't fooling anyone. Half of politics is pure psychological. And that's all that is.
Did........................... ...............you have a point? You asked if Trump enjoyed the game while he was there because you didn't read what trucker had written. Now you're talking about not being naive. You're all over the place.
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Re: TRUMPS rallys are geting so big they have to held in Stadiums now
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 10:50:21 UTC
Consequences of what? Less illegals? A better deal with Iran? More respect worldwide? Maybe he should promise hundreds of thousands of green jobs without any hint of where they will come from.
I just heard an explosion, and I believe it came from Frowning Loser's basement when your bomb response destroyed him. Nice job.
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Re: TRUMPS rallys are geting so big they have to held in Stadiums now
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 10:37:22 UTC
Jump to conclusions? Different views? What does any of that have to do with posting a photo of a football game trying to make it look like a Trump rally?
Surely you're not that incapable of reading.

The very first thing Peterson says is "the next rally it was going to be held a theater or that holds 1,900 people thats way to small now, with his popularity rising, its going to held here now" and has a picture of the stadium Trump will be speaking in. He never said that was a Trump crowd. Take a breath, Trump is growing.
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Re: TRUMPS rallys are geting so big they have to held in Stadiums now
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 10:29:49 UTC
Bernie comes to town all the liberal collage students ditch classes for a day to prop up the crowd seats like shills in a poker room of his, most dont work and live off of mom and dads money

Looks like Drew Barrymore before her adult teeth fully developed.
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Re: TRUMPS rallys are geting so big they have to held in Stadiums now
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 10:28:50 UTC
Did he enjoy the game while he was there?
Did you see a right wing poster make a new thread and jump to conclusions without reading simply because the OP has different views than yours?
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Re: TRUMPS rallys are geting so big they have to held in Stadiums now
by
redandblack
on 21/08/2015, 10:27:56 UTC
It could be worse, they could be cheering for Hillbillary instead of old man Bernie. Lotta happy looking people in that crowd, haha.
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Re: VIDEO: Pack Of Black Thugs Surround White 13-Year-Old… It Does Not End Well
by
redandblack
on 20/08/2015, 17:32:19 UTC
It is pretty nauseating...
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VIDEO: Pack Of Black Thugs Surround White 13-Year-Old… It Does Not End Well
by
redandblack
on 20/08/2015, 17:30:44 UTC
 VIDEO: Pack Of Black Thugs Surround White 13-Year-Old… It Does Not End Well


A group of black teens brutally beat up a white 13-year-old in a racially-charged incident that had six of the teens facing possible assault charges.

To make matters worse, the teens were caught because of video taken by another teen who had been threatened by the group.

The incident happened in Norwood, Ohio, outside of the Holy Trinity Church festival. The teens in question obviously weren’t too interested in the religious aspect of the occasion, however, and soon surrounded a white 13-year-old with the intention of duking it out.

The group was discussing which one would hit him first before a sucker punch from a teen standing behind the victim settled the question. He was then on the ground, getting pummeled by punches and kicks, before the teens noticed adult intervention and ran away like the cowards they obviously are.

The victim decided that he wasn’t going to tell anyone about the beating he received. However, the video leaked on line and the boy’s grandmother, Mary Baker, took him to a doctor.

http://conservativetribune.com/black-thugs-surround-white/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=TPNNPages&utm_content=2015-08-19

More of the same...one kind of guys have to gang up on people? (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)-ass cowards, that's what kind. Notice the punk in charge wouldn't fight one on one, and the 1st thug to attack, strikes from BEHIND the single victim: