Testing The Financial Apologists

How do you know you don't have that backwards?

The first bit is sarcastic and the rest trails off into incoherence. It will be nice when sentences are invented.

I've told you flat-out that I couldn't care less about the US middle class. If you read my posts it wouldn't just be a vague suspicion.Our beloved Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, is constantly telling us that he's "working very hard" to buck up the middle class "and those struggling to join it". I, for one, am not struggling to join the middle class. That's just a historical artefact. It used to be the pound.Edited by ringo, : fixed quote

You have that backwards. Critical thinkers are the ones who dare - to defy their intuition. Will you ever learn to read? It's JESUS who wants you to do that. Jesus H. Tap-dancing Christ, the guy you claim to believe in. That's a vile thing to say. I worked fairly hard all my life for relatively little money and you have the gall to scoff at me giving a few dollars away. I don't expect to gain ANYTHING from you doing what your "leader" wants you to do. How is that a bad thing?

For one thing, it's on a white board. Sometimes a thousand words is worth more than a picture. Strike two. Easy-to-listen-to does not equate to knows-what-he's-talking-about. Why not? Sensational titles are for the National Enquirer. (What's the Bat Baby up to lately?)

Conspiracy theory. Yes, many of us are ignorant of the "alternative facts."

Because that tax money could be used to raise up the ones who are lower on the scale than you - i.e. to create more taxpayers. In the long term, it would lower the burden on you.But as long as you fall for the right-wing promises of "tax cuts", you're just helping the rich to keep you down.

It's too bad you didn't have your enormous fund of economic wisdom back then. If you had bought gold in 1970, how rich would you be now?

Money has been "digital" - i.e. a number in a ledger in a bank - for centuries. Remember the good old days when the banks printed their own currency? How did that work out? We know you hate the public. We know you side with the private money of the rich rather than the public money of the poor. What we don't understand is why.

The government IS the public. Of course it should. Society means putting your own selfish desires in second place, behind the greater good. You can keep that apocalyptic nonsense to yourself. You have mandatory compliance now. You're the one who is pushing the agenda of the rich. Get on the side of the public if you want me to have sympathy for your plight.

The agenda of the rich is to get richer.The agenda of the public is to make a better world for their children. I made a little over $12,000 Canadian last year. Should i shed tears for the ones who make $30,000? (The good news is that i spent less than I made last month.) Why not? If you're "forced" to give up your car, it will be because of global warming.

And you're helping them do it. How can you be comfortable with more than that when you know other people have less than that? Will you ever listen? When you pull up the bottom, you pull up everybody. For you, a little empathy would definitely be progress. You mean the rich? Whom you support. Well, He would want you to visit them in prison.He would also want you to forgive them, not advocate having armed guards to shoot them.

You'd rather have them controlled by ultra-rich monsters like Trump? And he wasn't even very good at stealing from you.

"We" simply refers to those of us who are wrong about finance, O Great Guru. We are monolithic in being wrong. At the rate you're going, even if you were born yesterday you would not live long enough.

Obviously false. Families are cooperative, not competitive. Parents don't typically take the food out of their children's mouths.(Funny how right-wing nuts claim to be "pro-family", yet they define "human nature" as decidedly anti-family.) What "it" is that? The conspiracy to make a "New World Order"? Who is doing the conspiring?(By the way, the anti-Semitic conspiracy nuts that I mentioned a while ago, the ones who sounded exactly like you, they were sure that the "New World Order" would come about by the year 2000.)