Kansas Crimson

Geezer wrote: ↑Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:11 pm How's that "we need a businessman in the White House" working out?

Grandma wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 8:59 am Anyone with an ounce of knowledge about how the market/s work should have sold off stock the minute the virus became an issue. Period. End of story.

Geezer wrote: ↑Sun Mar 22, 2020 10:26 pm I thought that information was classified.

Feral wrote: ↑Sat Mar 21, 2020 10:05 pm In today's installment of: "You Can't Make This Shit Up!", the Wall Street Journal ran a column today authored by the two people behind former Kansas Governor Brownback's "real live” economic "experiment", Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore. You remember Brownback's economic "experiment", don't you? It resulted in cuts to Medicaid, education, infrastructure, two downgrades of Kansas’s bond ratings, and a budget shortfall of almost $900 million.

Laffer is the father of "supply side economics", the economic theory that Reagan implemented and republicans have hung their economic hat on for the last 4 decades. Adopting Laffer's theory resulted in Reagan nearly tripling the national debt, GW Bush doubling the national debt, and then there's Trump and his gobsmacking deficits extending as far as the forecaster's eyes can see. And, although I'm sure it's just a coincidence, over the time that republicans have had their erection for Laffer and cut taxes mainly for those already at the top, real wages have barely increased and the difference between the haves and the have almost nothings has widened, and widened, and widened.

Considering their track record, other than the fact that the WSJ is owned by the same person who owns Fox News, that festering abscess on mankind that echoes and catapults Trump's lies to his rabid base, can anyone tell me why anyone with a brain still listens to these two?

chiknbut wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:43 pm DC's girl is still bringing it!

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:32 pm nothing that isn’t directly related to the current crisis should be included, and the spending should be completely transparent

none of the bs on airline emissions, and none of the provisions accompanied by “just trust” so-and-so to dole out funds in a fair and objective way

DCHawk1 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 6:47 pm

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 4:32 pm nothing that isn’t directly related to the current crisis should be included, and the spending should be completely transparent

none of the bs on airline emissions, and none of the provisions accompanied by “just trust” so-and-so to dole out funds in a fair and objective way

“This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision,” Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) told lawmakers, according to a source on the call.

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4885 ... 3-stimulus

TraditionKU wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 8:30 pm and i’m sure there were similar conversations on the other side of the isle as well

it’s disgusting no matter who it’s coming from. they should all be ashamed of themselves, and hopefully their constituency holds them accountable...but we all know that won’t happen

jeepinjayhawk wrote: ↑Thu Mar 26, 2020 10:33 pm So....word is that American Airlines is passing out pretty big raises.

Great timing