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baha wrote: If the Dems were in charge we would get 3 and 6 with no 1 and 2. What happened to compromise?.

Ibon wrote:It would not be hard to come up with a set of regulations and laws that would integrate some of the agendas and proposals from both political parties as a way to reduce the inequities and build resiliency

1) Reduce immigration
2) Employ tariffs on imports of strategic industries
3) Reinstate unions to negotiate living wages with corporation
4) Reduce off shoring production to cheap labor markets
5) Eliminate exports of fossil fuels and classify them as a strategic reserve.
6) Increase minimum wage to a livable wage for a family of 4
7) Eliminate the profit of health care providers by going to a single payer health care plan
8 ) Go to a flat consumption tax to curb consumption and provide money to fund public social security, health care, medicare, etc.
9) Increase taxes on the very wealthy in a new approach whereby the tax payer gets to direct his or her extra taxes to specific public works and is thus honored with a big fat gold star on his or her forehead.
10) Drastically reduce the military to a defensive army to protect our borders and abandon the role of being a global power. Let the rest of the world fend for themselves.

I just came up with this in sitting down here and thinking this up for 10 minutes. Notice there are proposals that are a mix from both political parties.

Globalism be damned in this scenario which it will anyway soon enough once peak oil and climate change and other stresses will anyway force nations to contract and prioritize resources within their borders

Why we can't we find this pragmatic middle? Any other ideas?

Here’s a concept: paper water. Paper water is water the government grants certain farmers who are drawing water from a river or a watershed in, say, California. The phrase describes the water the farmer, under premium conditions, is entitled to. Practically, however, paper water is mostly notional water, conceptual water, wish water, since over the years California has awarded many times as much paper water as there is actual water—which, to distinguish it, is quasi-legally called wet water. Some paper water might be made real during years of exceptional abundance, but most of it will forever be speculative and essentially useless, since it can’t realistically be traded, having no value. Paper water thus amounts to a type of hypothetical currency, backed by the Bank of Nowhere, Representing Nothing since 1960 (or thereabouts), when modern water troubles arrived in America and especially in California, where the wildly expanding citizenry required new state and federally managed water systems run by Watercrats.

Zarquon wrote:In a two-party system, with both parties agreeing on BAU, how exactly do you change anything?

GHung wrote:
Change will be forced. Such has it always been with a species that is largely reactionary rather than proactive.

Plantagenet wrote:

baha wrote: If the Dems were in charge we would get 3 and 6 with no 1 and 2. What happened to compromise?.

Actually, the unions shrank away under the Ds and the Ds did nothing except give speeches filled with crocodile tears.

The most positive thing for unions is the growth of manufacturing we are seeing the in the US right now for the first time in decades. Manufacturing factory jobs are the natural milieu for unions, and the Trump tax cuts and tariffs are making companies do more of their manufacturing in the US. It may not last, but for now manufacturing jobs in the US are growing again.

Record number of manufacturing jobs returning to US

Cheers!

Newfie wrote:AND then here is this. It seems these guys want the banking bureaucrats to have more power to avert the next crash.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/opin ... %2Fopinion