And what is the model for the insurance business?
Yes, cause typically it comes with strings attached. And if they can’t meet their financial obligations, generally, public property is sold.
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Increased organization of Germanic tribes into larger political and therefore military units, demographic/economic problems of maintaining a large army and a super aggressive neighbor in the East.
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A string of bad economic and foreign policy decisions stemming from the 1820s until it’s eventual demise in 1913
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Cleopatra making some unfortunate (yet logical at the time) sexual/political choices. For the pre-Ptolemaic dynasties bloodthirsty neighbors possessing better military tech.
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and 5. - Spaniards with Toledo steel helmets and cuirasses who’ve survived smallpox in their infancy who acted as a deus ex machina rallying point for pissed off subjects
Nope, see the link I’ve posted. You’ve referred to relief from natural disasters and help from said disasters comes without any strings.
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By that logic we should ignore climate change too…
Who has been saying the world will end immediately?
But the debt is different.
Many predictions in the last 50 years (same time frame as fiat currency essentially).
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There are credible economists that have been trying to say that the federal governments budget doesn’t work like a personal budget, They have mucho evidence to back their claims unlike climate deniers who have a pro-business ideology that they rely on. Anything for another buck.
There have been credible professors claiming environmental change would bring catastrophe for many years…same qualifications as your economists. Doctorate degrees and research positions. Doesn’t mean they are right all the time. It also doesn’t me we should ignore the effects of human action on the planet. Same logic applies to the debt.
But continue to enjoy the fruits of capitalism while you bitch and moan how Marxism is so much better with not one quanta of proof.
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Do you think the Post may have shown such articles to make a nefarious point?
The Post has been criticized since the beginning of Murdoch’s ownership for sensationalism, blatant advocacy, and conservative bias. In 1980, the Columbia Journalism Review stated that the "New York Post is no longer merely a journalistic problem. It is a social problem—a force for evil.
Who would’ve thunk Murdoch has a business interest over almost all things? He shows nothing more than class solidarity here. Never showing a non-alarmist point of view. Not one of sheer denial, just one that calls into question a time-frame. So the warming temperatures are not real? Along with the melting glaciers
But Japan has over a 250% of debt to GDP ratio, twice that of the U.S. and they’re still humming along.
I don’t know what you mean by this.
I also don’t see how you’ll get what you want through voting of any sort. I know I’m not.
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That doesn’t make the article untrue.
I never made that claim. You made a claim about failure predictions not coming true and I made a counter claim pointing out that catastrophic predictions based on climate change didn’t come true but that doesn’t mean we should ignore it.
**Same with the debt - just cause it hasn’t had major consequences yet doesn’t mean it won’t. **
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Who are the leftists who get major support from corporations?
I don’t advocate for electoral politics, at least on the national level. Local politics are much different.
But Japan owes twice the debt of U.S. in terms of debt to GDP ratio and nothing has happened to them. So we have evidence to the contrary about the deficit/debt.
The Earth is warming and glaciers are melting. When will it be the point of no return? Don’t know. Do we have evidence that it won’t happen, like the Japan example?
I think a better question would be, what major companies don’t support cultural Marxism?
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Cultural, not economic. As none would support something that shows the antithesis of their economic policies of more profit no matter the consequences.
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You mean the country that’s really only had a good economy since the US helped rebuild it post WWII?
I won’t bank any long term predictions on that.
Then, I guess that means you are for student loan forgiveness?
Do you think because we helped destroy them by dropping 2 atomic bombs on them kind of justifies it?
I actually am. I think the way colleges are funded/run in the US is bull crap. I would much rather see my taxes go to educating our woefully ignorant populace.
However, loan forgiveness needs to be coupled with other changes.
I may be more liberal than you believe me to be.
Yeah, the US did what they had to and then tried to fix it. It’s still a very young economy though and is not proof massive debt spending is “good”.
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