President Biden says that 3,500,000,000,000 equals 0.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by detbuch

This is the kind of BS you thrive on. There was a series of TV ads some time ago created for Pabst beer in which something was almost but not quite accomplished, such as a football player being tackled just short of the end zone. And the broadcasters voice which spoke in a stereotyped Japanese accent would always determine that it was "crose enough!"

For you, it is a fact when the verbiage, somehow, is "crose enough" to appear true. Your linked verbiage, to begin with, is structured around something Bannon supposedly said, but which (even by Snopes) is unproven. There is no proof that Bannon said he is a Leninist. But it is "crose enough" that somebody claims Bannon said it.

Then the author of the verbiage spins a trail of unproven labels (such as Bannon being a " leading intellectual of the US alt-right"--he is not alt-right but is accused of being so--which is "crose enough") opinions, interpretations, and presumptions or possibilities, and conjectured attributions that could describe a whole lot of folks including those on the American political left--i.e. Democrats--and quotes not by Bannon, but all part of an overall bag of BS which somehow implies that Bannon is the grand contradiction-- an alt-right Leninist. At least "crose enough" to the possibility that it must be a fact.

You do this "crose enough" kind of $hit a lot.

That’s been your justification for shutting your eyes, holding your hands over your ears and yelling since the last guy was elected.

You said last week you’d be glad if Congress defaulted on the debt.

Just what do you think that would do to Americans
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[detbuch]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

That’s been your justification for shutting your eyes, holding your hands over your ears and yelling since the last guy was elected.

My eyes are wide open and my ears are not covered by my hands. That's why I know that you posted something based on an unproven premise, and that you spit out false labels and have been "yelling" and blatantly lying since the last guy was elected and before that.

You said last week you’d be glad if Congress defaulted on the debt.

Just what do you think that would do to Americans

Just what do you think will be done to Americans if Congress keeps raising the debt ceiling without actually having a budget? That has to stop. It would have been less painful if it had stopped long ago. I suppose the public pain will eventually become greater and greater the longer we put up with extravagant, irresponsible, and unsustainable government spending.

We Americans are in a precarious position if we have to continuously depend on more and more spending by a bankrupt government in order to sustain our personal welfare.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by detbuch

Just what do you think will be done to Americans if Congress keeps raising the debt ceiling without actually having a budget? That has to stop. It would have been less painful if it had stopped long ago. I suppose the public pain will eventually become greater and greater the longer we put up with extravagant, irresponsible, and unsustainable government spending.

We Americans are in a precarious position if we have to continuously depend on more and more spending by a bankrupt government in order to sustain our personal welfare.

There are two things you need to learn about America:
1) We’ve got a lot of money. We’re the richest country on the face of the planet.
2) None of us think we’ve got a lot of money.
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[scottw]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

There are two things you need to learn about America:

1) We’ve got a lot of money. We’re the richest country on the face of the planet.
2) None of us think we’ve got a lot of money.

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who is "we've"

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by scottw

who is "we've"

If the poorest 50% of Americans (net worth $3 trillion) suddenly vanished, it'd be chaos while everyone left scrambled in vain to restore basic features of modern civilization.

If the Forbes 400 (net worth $4.5 trillion) vanished, it'd just be some extra paperwork for lawyers.
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[scottw]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

If the Forbes 400 (net worth $4.5 trillion) vanished, it'd just be some extra paperwork for lawyers.

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we should definitely get rid of them and take their money.....

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

If the poorest 50% of Americans (net worth $3 trillion) suddenly vanished, it'd be chaos while everyone left scrambled in vain to restore basic features of modern civilization.

If the Forbes 400 (net worth $4.5 trillion) vanished, it'd just be some extra paperwork for lawyers.
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That's just about the most economically stupid thing I've ever read.

You are pathologically obsessed with the existence of a small number of wealthy people, whose existence has no impact on you at all. You're foaming at the mouth here.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

If the poorest 50% of Americans (net worth $3 trillion) suddenly vanished, it'd be chaos while everyone left scrambled in vain to restore basic features of modern civilization.

If the Forbes 400 (net worth $4.5 trillion) vanished, it'd just be some extra paperwork for lawyers.
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Originally Posted by Jim in CT

That's just about the most economically stupid thing I've ever read.

You are pathologically obsessed with the existence of a small number of wealthy people, whose existence has no impact on you at all. You're foaming at the mouth here.

The way the economics work is

The lowest 50% disappear, GDP goes to single digits, entire sectors disappear.

Lose 400 billionaires, all their investments continue and their labor is negligible.

You are obsessed with wealthy people and try to equate your rabid behavior with intelligence.

I'm concerned with the redistribution of wealth in this country thru politics and control of the government.

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

There are two things you need to learn about America:
1) We’ve got a lot of money. We’re the richest country on the face of the planet.
2) None of us think we’ve got a lot of money.

Either you contradicted yourself, or you don't consider yourself one of us or we that are the Americans you speak of.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by detbuch

Either you contradicted yourself, or you don't consider yourself one of us or we that are the Americans you speak of.

You’re overthinking it
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