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Susan I Weinstein's avatar

Last time in office he gave the very rich big tax breaks and they funded him to do it again. Only way is to eliminate all the many federal workers. And sabotage the benefit system. This is not arbitrary. Pete B on John Stewart’s show explained the logic.

Megan Macomber's avatar

"Excess labor." Sure must feel great to find yourself not only jobless but described like the disgusting yellow goo that liposuction produces.

Sy's avatar

I guess everybody who works in a factory without any air conditioning in the summer must be lying about how much it sucks ass.

Women have been doing boring, low paid, unsatisfying email jobs since office jobs were invented. But at least there is air conditioning.

Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Robyn. In my oft-misspent youth, I worked in a factory for a week. It was noisy, smelly, ugly, and we didn't have PPE. We were expected to inhale the plastic dust created by filing the nibs from false teeth as they came out of their molds. I did say I lasted a week.

I worked with mostly women whose husbands were members of our armed forces. It was hell.

TheGreatAndPowerfulMormos!'s avatar

Maybe someone with a better understanding of economics can answer this but, at a certain point, doesn't making the line go up just mean devaluing the currency?

James Voelzow's avatar

"Making things in the image of God the Maker." Holy cow! Mystery solved! God's a door panel! (Wheel well?)

Bob Trombetta's avatar

Yes, I was curious if "Milo @ Nero" is eager to get out there on the factory floor or if he's going to be content with whatever the fuck his "job" is --probably dispensing deep wisdom on Twitter.

beb's avatar

Because of DOGE firing thousands of accountant in the IRS it is predicted that the treasury will be short a half-trillion (with a T) dollars. Way to go there DOGE.

Demodocus's avatar

That'll go well for the hundreds of blindies in various call centers & what not

Bagels of Doom's avatar

Here's an idea: We revolt and then have all the billionaires and obscenely rich people work in those factories while we're redistributing the wealth they've been hoarding for decades.

Major Is My Spirit Animal's avatar

Tucker will quit YouTubing in order to open a ball tanning salon.

Just like real men do.

Ray Zielinski's avatar

You mean the ones that mostly aren’t there anymore?

Caroline's avatar

You mean the factories that will be automated 🙃🙃🙃?

Bagels of Doom's avatar

“I believe this is going to work just like Ronald Reagan believed supply side economics was going to work,”

Bessent forgot to say "for us billionaires"

Goonemeritus's avatar

Kind of a shame Trump's tariffs will close more factories than it opens.

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TheGreatAndPowerfulMormos!'s avatar

The problems we face are not and have never been cognitively challenging: rational problems for us to puzzle our way through. Indeed the problems we face are not rational at all, and to believe they are is part of the problem, because to believe they are is to believe they are amenable to rational solution

Goonemeritus's avatar

I worked the last 50 years in manufacturing , I would love to see us dominate the world again. That said people seem to forget that when we were making 75% of the new cars in the world it was after WWII and everyone else's factories were bombed flat.

Brianna Amore's avatar

Bessent is an idiot. Obviously those new factories will be staffed by robots, not humans.