Middle East War Reporting

[Ridgerunner]

18 minutes ago, Maturin said:

Give it a rest, you boring old fart.

Digging up 2 day old comments just to give yourself a reason to carry on living? Take a fucking walk mate, turn your computer off for a while at least because you aren't very good at using it.

And you are still a Marxist fool who worships at the altar of the man-made climate change religion, mate.

[Ridgerunner]

Wonder if the brilliant leaders of Europe will side with the Iranian government or the Iranian people in the people's fight for freedom from a fascist Islamic tyranny? I bet they side with the mullahs. 

[Ridgerunner]

The only thing keeping Khamenei in power is the Iranian Republican Guard. 

[Foamy T. Squirrel]

If Iran's government gets its way, it will conquer Iraq. Then it will slaughter the Sunni's, then Kurds, and Europe will see misery occur that is 100 times that of what has happened with Syria. Immigration to Europe will mean that Europe loses its identity.

We don't need their oil. Europe does. And Trump and American citizens have no need to deal with Middle East or European problems except to help defend a few republics that still exist in that part of the world.

 

[Maturin]

2 hours ago, Foamy T. Squirrel said:

If Iran's government gets its way, it will conquer Iraq. Then it will slaughter the Sunni's, then Kurds, and Europe will see misery occur that is 100 times that of what has happened with Syria. Immigration to Europe will mean that Europe loses its identity.

We don't need their oil. Europe does. And Trump and American citizens have no need to deal with Middle East or European problems except to help defend a few republics that still exist in that part of the world.

 

In which case, it would be nice to see Trump honour his election promise and pull US troops back to America. After the assasination of that Iranian general, sunnis and shias are united in grief and Iraq has already called for the US to leave the country. Europe honoured its trade treaties with Iran and international monitoring agencies confirmed that Iran was honouring its nuclear agreements, so why has the US tried to fuck it up?

Because that's what the US does, plain and simple. Europe doesn't want to be defended by nations that go around executing people so please spare us your "protection." The US won't have peace in the middle east because its military industrial complex has identified it as the best place to increase their stock portfolio worth. Apparently you don't need the oil, and we don't need to be "defended," so just stop. Bring your boys home and let the world work out its problems without you.

If only that would happen, eh?

[bluewinner]

19 hours ago, Ridgerunner said:

Crashing the stock market and causing people to lose their jobs, homes, vehicles, and retirement savings will help the American people? Have you ever had an economics class in your entire life?

you are just repeating fox news' talking points. you have no idea what Bernie Sanders stand for and his economic policies. which exact policy of him is going to have all these negative effects that you have mentioned above ? 

He is not a Marxist or a communist or a socialist. He defines himself as Democratic Socialist and he is pursuing policies that have been implemented in many European countries such as Norway, Sweden, Finland, Germany, UK , France and so on  ( also Canada, Australia, Japan , south Korea and ... ). and people in non of these countries are worse off than American. 

and to answer your question, yes I have had economic classes in my life 😀  

[bluewinner]

19 hours ago, SPYING 1 said:

Just like in 2016, hillary "lock her up" clinton was beating TRUMP in every poll & you see how that worked out

well, in 2016, Hilary Clinton won the popular vote count by more than 3 million votes. so the polls were actually right. She only lost the election by 70, 000 votes across three states, Wisconsin, Michigan , and Pensilvania. 

[bluewinner]

18 hours ago, Ridgerunner said:

And exactly which Bernie policies will help the working class and the poor?

Medicare for all, 15$ minimum wage, tuition free colleges, ending wars , investing in US' infrastructure and creating millions of jobs, and so on. 

[bluewinner]

17 hours ago, Ridgerunner said:

Also, Bernie is a phony. He is a multi-millionaire who owns 3 homes.

He is not a phoney. He has been very genuine and consistent throughout his life, you can go back and check his speeches from 40-50 years ago and you will find out he has been talking about the same issues all his life. he is very committed in what he believes in. 

He is still one of the least wealthy member of the congress. and he has earned his money from his best selling book. He is not against being successful or rich ( he never said that). he only wants rich people ( including himself) and big corporation pay their fair share of taxes. 

[Thestarider]

Cough Cough BULLSHIT CNN TALKING POINTS

The truth:

In 2018, the top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of all individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 3 percent. The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent). The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 26.9 percent individual income tax rate, which is more than seven times higher than taxpayers in the bottom 50 percent (3.7 percent).

So WTF is a fair share ???

Bernie's policies and ones you are advocating will cost each and every single American Taxpayer:

If you look at healthcare, free tuition, family leave, child care – those proposals will all have a price tag of over $20,000 per taxpayer. I don’t know whether they plan to finance all of that or add that to the very large national debt, but the costs are certainly high. I know trillion is kind of hard to get your arms around. But when you bring it down per taxpayer, we are talking more than $20,000 increase in taxes.”

And so long as Sanders remains in the race, it’s worth taking his policy ideas seriously, since he has unveiled expensive new spending proposals on a near-weekly basis. All told, Sanders’s current plans would cost as much as $97.5 trillion over the next decade, and total government spending at all levels would surge to as high as 70 percent of gross domestic product. Approximately half of the American workforce would be employed by the government. The ten-year budget deficit would approach $90 trillion, with average annual deficits exceeding 30 percent of GDP.

The $97.5 trillion price tag is made up mostly of the costs of Sanders’s three most ambitious proposals. Sanders concedes that his Medicare For All plan would increase federal spending by “somewhere between $30 and $40 trillion over a 10-year period.” He pledges to spend $16.3 trillion on his climate plan. And his proposal to guarantee all Americans a full-time government job paying $15 an hour, with full benefits, is estimated to cost $30.1 trillion. The final $11.1 trillion includes $3 trillion to forgive all student loans and guarantee free public-college tuition—plus $1.8 trillion to expand Social Security, $2.5 trillion on housing, $1.6 trillion on paid family leave, $1 trillion on infrastructure, $800 billion on general K-12 education spending, and an additional $400 billion on higher public school teacher salaries.

 

[bluewinner]

4 minutes ago, Thestarider said:

Cough Cough BULLSHIT CNN TALKING POINTS

The truth:

In 2018, the top 50 percent of all taxpayers paid 97 percent of all individual income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent paid the remaining 3 percent. The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes (37.3 percent) than the bottom 90 percent combined (30.5 percent). The top 1 percent of taxpayers paid a 26.9 percent individual income tax rate, which is more than seven times higher than taxpayers in the bottom 50 percent (3.7 percent).

So WTF is a fair share ???

 

in 2015, the EPI reports, “the top 1 percent of families in the U.S. earned, on average, 26.3 times as much income as the bottom 99 percent.”

so it is a simple math, if they have more income they'll have to pay more in income tax. 

if the wealth is more fairly distributed , the rest of the people will pay more in taxes as well. 

furthermore, the wealthy make most of their money from stock market and capital gain which is not taxed at the same rate ( if at all ). 

for example, the Walton family ( owners of Walmart) has an estimated wealth of 190 billion $ . and every year they make billions in profit. do you think they should pay the same amount of taxes as their employees who make starvation wages ? 

[Thestarider]

6 minutes ago, bluewinner said:

in 2015, the EPI reports, “the top 1 percent of families in the U.S. earned, on average, 26.3 times as much income as the bottom 99 percent.”

so it is a simple math, if they have more income they'll have to pay more in income tax. 

if the wealth is more fairly distributed , the rest of the people will pay more in taxes as well. 

furthermore, the wealthy make most of their money from stock market and capital gain which is not taxed at the same rate ( if at all ). 

for example, the Walton family ( owners of Walmart) has an estimated wealth of 190 billion $ . and every year they make billions in profit. do you think they should pay the same amount of taxes as their employees who make starvation wages ? 

What is income equality ? Socialism.

Because I have worked hard my entire life your saying that the person straight out of school with no experience in anything but education should be paid the equivalent of someone who has plus years experience. What is the benefit of hard work then to not get ahead ? Yours and Bernie's thinking is flawed in a capitalistic society.

Bernie and Warren are the unaffordable unelectable candidates of the Democratic party and just ensure 4 more years of Trump.