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CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.
What we need is an economy that works for most Americans.....
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No - just my 2 cents, it would need further refinement.
Two examples -
Someone wants a nose-job, facelift, etc just because they don't like their normal nose or don't like the normal wrinkles they have. Nope, not ok with paying for that.
Someone has been disfigured by an accident, crime, or health condition / birth defect. I'm ok with paying for that..
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Stock ownership generally increases with income; for example, a Gallup poll found that while 87% of U.S. adults with a household income of $100,000 or higher own stocks, this falls to just 28% for those with a household income of less than $50,000."
the top 1% own 50 percent of the stock market.
The top 10% own around 90 percent of the stock market.
Infographic: U.S. Stock Ownership Is High But Unequally Distributed
This chart shows the share of Americans who are invested in the stock market.
www.statista.com
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The government always picks some people to be winners and losers. Fortunately, for most of us we are generally only helped or hurt in small er ways. Still those small ways can add up. In general Trump is seen as not doing much to help the lower classes. He is the one that took the SNAP fulfillment to the Supreme court to deny their allocations. Trump too extended the tax cuts to the rich while imposing tariffs on all Americans. Trump has helped some workers though in the USA. but that help has some high costs. I have seen former studies about how much it has cost to the U.S. government to save an auto industry job. Sometimes the findings are a million plus. Yes, that as a policy in the past, America jobs were protected for over a million each. So that is not an economy that helps all. The reality is that most politicians only want to help those that help them. So you have to find true public servants, not rented politicians with their own self interests.
Consider the case of VP Pence. He did a decent job but was cast aside because he followed the constitution and rightly certified the election. Too many Americans are low information voters and deluded in the policy prescriptions of extremists in both parties. Of course I hope this changes.
In my years involved in politics, there are some public servants out there. Most elected ones never get promoted because no one wants to back someone that can not be bought and money runs U.S. politics. I do think though that we will see many charlatans exposed. Praise God that he likes justice and dislikes oppression.
Consider the case of VP Pence. He did a decent job but was cast aside because he followed the constitution and rightly certified the election. Too many Americans are low information voters and deluded in the policy prescriptions of extremists in both parties. Of course I hope this changes.
In my years involved in politics, there are some public servants out there. Most elected ones never get promoted because no one wants to back someone that can not be bought and money runs U.S. politics. I do think though that we will see many charlatans exposed. Praise God that he likes justice and dislikes oppression.
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