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Can you follow any of those up with something Iran has done that the US hasn't?
#103 | POSTED BY WHATSLEFT
Once the US lost 238 peace keeping Marines due to Iranian car bomber in Lebanon.
I really think any equivocation between what Iran has done vs US is just from people that hate the US.
en.wikipedia.org
I don't get the sense at anytime prior to that the US hated Iran, after that .. yeah.
Surely Trump must have improved the local economy through ongoing paramilitary occupation of Minneapolis.
idk he might have, but this is just the local government overspending, not a lack of revenues.
Minneapolis expects total city revenue to reach roughly $2.3 billion for the upcoming budget year, up from $1.91 billion in the 2025 adopted budget.
The $1.91 Billion is a 2.2% percent increase from the 2024 adopted budget of $1.84 billion,
www.minneapolismn.gov
I mean I could budget $400M over my income and complain about Trump. But then again, I am not an idiot.
Fact is, there are more Enteepreneurs per capita in the EU than the US.
Ridiculous ..
www.linkedin.com
Studies show that early-stage entrepreneurship in the U.S. is about twice as high as the average in the European Union
www.startupblink.com
The oligarchy coming to the fore in the Capitalist West is merely the political reflection of the fact that Capitalism tends towards Monopoly.
Unmitigated Capitalism does, its the goal for them,, but the governments job its to stop it, and in America it has done a good job of it.
Also every 20-40 years its a different set up oligarchs.
Which is great.... Much better than the system the Socialist in China, or Russia setup, there you're monopoly controls the industry for 100yrs.
Today's oligarchs have 40x the wealth of Bill Gates 40 years ago.
This isn't the oligarchs fault this is the fact the government is printing money like its going out of style.
There's a great debate about the US being a reserve currency and the wealth its created.
America is extremely rich.
In terms of household final consumption per capita, every state is richer than every foreign country.
Sub in anyone, and they'd be in 51st place. In fact, plenty would even be behind American territories like Puerto Rico.
x.com
Rwingers still choose to believe the Myth of Trickle Down Economics... you know, because Reagan. Even though Reagan's economic team,
#2 | POSTED BY CORKY
idk if Reagan was right, but the populous of the US is far richer then the rest of the world since the 1980s.
America is extremely rich.
In terms of household final consumption per capita, every state is richer than every foreign country.
Sub in anyone, and they'd be in 51st place. In fact, plenty would even be behind American territories like Puerto Rico.
x.com
and the inventors of Supply Side Economics, later said it never, ever werked.
I find this line hilarious because its exactly antipodal what Erza Klein said in the book, of all things, Abundance.
Abundance == SupplySide economics.
Will housing go down with more regulation or more housing? Austin shows more housing, just ask NoahPinion.
www.noahpinion.blog
This just shows Corky to be the Boomer he is, living off the hard work of us Millennials, while remaining ignorant of where his benefits come from.
That doesn't mean they have to pretend America's been blameless.
- Danny
Blameless in what 238 deaths in Iranian attack on peacekeeping Marine and french soldiers in Lebanon?
Since then it's been --- for tat.
What is the US to be blamed for, exactly that wasn't in response to Iranian provocations