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reub @ 10/21/2016 7:38 PM
The next time you need or want a job, try getting it from a poor person.
Welpee @ 10/21/2016 7:52 PM
reub wrote:The next time you need or want a job, try getting it from a poor person.
Yeah, because the bank CEO making more money via tax breaks provides jobs, right?
Welpee @ 10/21/2016 7:55 PM
DrAlphaeus wrote:
reub wrote:Because when you fix the economy which is on life support you help everybody.

A good description of the US economic turnaround after the Great Recession... hear, hear.

Thanks Obama!

Yeah, if this is life support what was it when Bush Jr. was in office?
Knickoftime @ 10/21/2016 8:17 PM
reub wrote:The next time you need or want a job, try getting it from a poor person.

The next time you want to sell a mass consumer product, or open a hotel, or keep an airline profitable, or launch a TV network, or sell automobiles, or open a restaurant, good luck selling exclusively to your wealthy friends.

The economy is an eco-system reliant on the big game to the insects to the flora, all inter-dependent on one another. Sure, the wealthy create jobs, but everyone else creates their market.

The rich aren't hiring if nobody has dollars to spend on their product.

This country, any country NEEDS a middle class. It NEEDS service sectors workers and a non-skilled laborers, or the whole thing shuts down. Our standard of living and GDP ... both heavily dependent on the non-wealthy.

You're showing remarkable spoon-fed ignorance right now.

TheGame @ 10/21/2016 8:35 PM
There are better ways to give money to the rich in the hope of create jobs. You can give tax incentives to those companies that manufactur their products in America. In fact, you can structure an entire tax system around encouraging job creation. What you can't do is give a huge unfettered tax cut to the rich under the fallacy that they are automatically going to use that money to create jobs. It does not work and Bush II proved that fact.
Vmart @ 10/21/2016 8:44 PM
blkexec wrote:

We are going to miss this man. Nobody will appreciate president Obama until he's gone.....But history books will have no choice. If Obama was not African American, he would have already been named one of the best presidents ever.

Definitely one of the better Presidents. He inherited chaos and turned it around. His good definitely out weighed the bad. Character and charisma will be missed.

ekstarks94 @ 10/21/2016 8:57 PM
Vmart wrote:
blkexec wrote:

We are going to miss this man. Nobody will appreciate president Obama until he's gone.....But history books will have no choice. If Obama was not African American, he would have already been named one of the best presidents ever.

Definitely one of the better Presidents. He inherited chaos and turned it around. His good definitely out weighed the bad. Character and charisma will be missed.


Amen
ekstarks94 @ 10/21/2016 9:02 PM
TheGame wrote:There are better ways to give money to the rich in the hope of create jobs. You can give tax incentives to those companies that manufactur their products in America. In fact, you can structure an entire tax system around encouraging job creation. What you can't do is give a huge unfettered tax cut to the rich under the fallacy that they are automatically going to use that money to create jobs. It does not work and Bush II proved that fact.

The fallacy of the rich creating jobs is one that the uninformed follow. Fact is capitalism on steroids not tempered by any need to reach down and pull up unless it fits your own interests will never create the trickle down effect they would have you believe.

jrodmc @ 10/21/2016 11:35 PM
ekstarks94 wrote:
TheGame wrote:There are better ways to give money to the rich in the hope of create jobs. You can give tax incentives to those companies that manufactur their products in America. In fact, you can structure an entire tax system around encouraging job creation. What you can't do is give a huge unfettered tax cut to the rich under the fallacy that they are automatically going to use that money to create jobs. It does not work and Bush II proved that fact.

The fallacy of the rich creating jobs is one that the uninformed follow. Fact is capitalism on steroids not tempered by any need to reach down and pull up unless it fits your own interests will never create the trickle down effect they would have you believe.

Correct, the effete, intellectual approach is the Big Daddy government that prints the money for the poor unwashed masses to apply for and spend in government created programs that the effete, intellectuals (you know, those who never had real jobs and spend their lives ensuring that the proper "village" is in place to raise your children for you) legislate into existence. That way you poor, uniformed will know what house you can buy, with which mortgage, with the right light bulbs in it, with the proper vehicle in the driveway, with the just the right healthcare coverage for your kids and yourself.

And that way, your poor, stupid, uneducated, spoon-fed ignorant masses who aren't intelligent enough to know that capitalism is nothing more than a right-wingnut approach to keeping the true brilliance of pristine government from providing a fabulous socialist nirvana, won't be in a position to have any ignorant thoughts about an abusive government.

Just like it has been for the past 8 years. And hopefully will continue for the next 8.

My two friends being deployed in Iraq (which just happens to be coincidentally happening around election time) to clear IED's out of ISIS towns while being sniped at by said ISIS, say hello and thank you to all you brilliant informed folks.

And no, I'm not voting for Trump.

DrAlphaeus @ 10/22/2016 12:06 AM
jrodmc wrote:
ekstarks94 wrote:
TheGame wrote:There are better ways to give money to the rich in the hope of create jobs. You can give tax incentives to those companies that manufactur their products in America. In fact, you can structure an entire tax system around encouraging job creation. What you can't do is give a huge unfettered tax cut to the rich under the fallacy that they are automatically going to use that money to create jobs. It does not work and Bush II proved that fact.

The fallacy of the rich creating jobs is one that the uninformed follow. Fact is capitalism on steroids not tempered by any need to reach down and pull up unless it fits your own interests will never create the trickle down effect they would have you believe.

Correct, the effete, intellectual approach is the Big Daddy government that prints the money for the poor unwashed masses to apply for and spend in government created programs that the effete, intellectuals (you know, those who never had real jobs and spend their lives ensuring that the proper "village" is in place to raise your children for you) legislate into existence. That way you poor, uniformed will know what house you can buy, with which mortgage, with the right light bulbs in it, with the proper vehicle in the driveway, with the just the right healthcare coverage for your kids and yourself.

And that way, your poor, stupid, uneducated, spoon-fed ignorant masses who aren't intelligent enough to know that capitalism is nothing more than a right-wingnut approach to keeping the true brilliance of pristine government from providing a fabulous socialist nirvana, won't be in a position to have any ignorant thoughts about an abusive government.

Just like it has been for the past 8 years. And hopefully will continue for the next 8.

My two friends being deployed in Iraq (which just happens to be coincidentally happening around election time) to clear IED's out of ISIS towns while being sniped at by said ISIS, say hello and thank you to all you brilliant informed folks.

And no, I'm not voting for Trump.

Oh I know... Alan Keyes 2016!

Bonn1997 @ 10/22/2016 6:20 AM
jrodmc wrote:
ekstarks94 wrote:
TheGame wrote:There are better ways to give money to the rich in the hope of create jobs. You can give tax incentives to those companies that manufactur their products in America. In fact, you can structure an entire tax system around encouraging job creation. What you can't do is give a huge unfettered tax cut to the rich under the fallacy that they are automatically going to use that money to create jobs. It does not work and Bush II proved that fact.

The fallacy of the rich creating jobs is one that the uninformed follow. Fact is capitalism on steroids not tempered by any need to reach down and pull up unless it fits your own interests will never create the trickle down effect they would have you believe.

Correct, the effete, intellectual approach is the Big Daddy government that prints the money for the poor unwashed masses to apply for and spend in government created programs that the effete, intellectuals (you know, those who never had real jobs and spend their lives ensuring that the proper "village" is in place to raise your children for you) legislate into existence. That way you poor, uniformed will know what house you can buy, with which mortgage, with the right light bulbs in it, with the proper vehicle in the driveway, with the just the right healthcare coverage for your kids and yourself.

And that way, your poor, stupid, uneducated, spoon-fed ignorant masses who aren't intelligent enough to know that capitalism is nothing more than a right-wingnut approach to keeping the true brilliance of pristine government from providing a fabulous socialist nirvana, won't be in a position to have any ignorant thoughts about an abusive government.

Just like it has been for the past 8 years. And hopefully will continue for the next 8.

My two friends being deployed in Iraq (which just happens to be coincidentally happening around election time) to clear IED's out of ISIS towns while being sniped at by said ISIS, say hello and thank you to all you brilliant informed folks.

And no, I'm not vot


How can you complain about all these government gifts when most of these people are paying more in taxes than Donald Trump is?! The system is stacked in favor of the wealthy, not the poor.
BRIGGS @ 10/22/2016 7:45 AM
Trump is going to pull this out down the stretch. Trump is the representation of people who are not happy with how the government is run and I am part of that gang. Whether the messenger was Ted Cruz Donald Trump Mike Pence I don't care I would've voted there way .Its not about the person personal traits. I like Obama as a man but some of his non action for all people and his non chalant attitude towards the military and immigration is/ was unacceptable. He did nothing for minorities and brought down our status around the world . A vote for Hillary represents the status quo . If you enjoy a world that is dominated by the Goldman Sachs of the world-- people that I personally know as true scumbags of this Earth beyond so many other issues than your thought procrss is shallow . Anyone here who is on the fence I suggest to you that you think about the world as it is. Think about where the money goes to think about your families security around the world think about having elitist nationals who have been in charge of this country stay in charge. Think hard about it and then vote your conscience. I'm not worried about Donald Trump grabbing a women's ass in 1993 if it even happened I m on the side of every day people who don't like the direction of this country and are willing-- just like Europe to stand up and say this is it. Get the fck out Hillary and take your supporting PO C complete crap team With you
Bonn1997 @ 10/22/2016 7:51 AM
BRIGGS wrote:Trump is going to pull this out down the stretch. Trump is the representation of people who are not happy with how the government is run and I am part of that gang. Whether the messenger was Ted Cruz Donald Trump Mike Pence I don't care I would've voted there way .Its not about the person personal traits. I like Obama as a man but some of his non action for all people and his non chalant attitude towards the military and immigration is/ was unacceptable. He did nothing for minorities and brought down our status around the world . A vote for Hillary represents the status quo . If you enjoy a world that is dominated by the Goldman Sachs of the world-- people that I personally know as true scumbags of this Earth beyond so many other issues than your thought procrss is shallow . Anyone here who is on the fence I suggest to you that you think about the world as it is. Think about where the money goes to think about your families security around the world think about having elitist nationals who have been in charge of this country stay in charge. Think hard about it and then vote your conscience. I'm not worried about Donald Trump grabbing a women's ass in 1993 if it even happened I m on the side of every day people who don't like the direction of this country and are willing-- just like Europe to stand up and say this is it. Get the fck out Hillary and take your supporting PO C complete crap team With you

Hillary is not the status quo. She will be able to reshape the Supreme Court and the country will be much more progressive. A progressive SC is the only way to weaken Goldman Sachs and other powerful corporations. Trump can't do that on his own, and none of the people' he's mentioned for SC justices will help in that regard.
martin @ 10/22/2016 12:52 PM
BRIGGS wrote:Trump is going to pull this out down the stretch. Trump is the representation of people who are not happy with how the government is run and I am part of that gang. Whether the messenger was Ted Cruz Donald Trump Mike Pence I don't care I would've voted there way .Its not about the person personal traits. I like Obama as a man but some of his non action for all people and his non chalant attitude towards the military and immigration is/ was unacceptable. He did nothing for minorities and brought down our status around the world . A vote for Hillary represents the status quo . If you enjoy a world that is dominated by the Goldman Sachs of the world-- people that I personally know as true scumbags of this Earth beyond so many other issues than your thought procrss is shallow . Anyone here who is on the fence I suggest to you that you think about the world as it is. Think about where the money goes to think about your families security around the world think about having elitist nationals who have been in charge of this country stay in charge. Think hard about it and then vote your conscience. I'm not worried about Donald Trump grabbing a women's ass in 1993 if it even happened I m on the side of every day people who don't like the direction of this country and are willing-- just like Europe to stand up and say this is it. Get the fck out Hillary and take your supporting PO C complete crap team With you

HAHAAHAHAHA just in the same way he is going to pull CT? Man, get your head out of that hole in the ground

Hilary in a landslide bro

DrAlphaeus @ 10/22/2016 12:57 PM
Hillary definitely represents a version of the status quo. She gave paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, the wife of a former 2-term President, takes Kissinger's counsel. Neither candidate is seriously talking about getting big money out of politics, not one mention of climate change in 3 debates, was there a question on Brexit? The UN? The floods in the Carolinas or hurricane prevention?

We need to get our "Cyber" game up, big chunk of US commercial Internet was knocked out yesterday... by foreign actors DDOSing us with our own smart refrigerators — made elsewhere with backdoor access perhaps?

We are talking about coal jobs and not about automation and self-driving tech... the ecological and economical trade offs of relocating manufacturing here... talk about growth but what about sustainability? Is our industrial age education system archaic for the realities of the postmodern economy? Is peer-to-peer and "sharing" just making that sucking sound of wealth divert to San Francisco tech companies?

I've never paid attention to a campaign more and learned less in these debates. You have to go on Wikileaks and Twitter to find out the good shit. It's a damn circus and a damn shame. There are real things we could talk about, but I can't wait until this election is over. A pox o' both your houses.

martin @ 10/22/2016 1:02 PM
DrAlphaeus wrote:Hillary definitely represents a version of the status quo. She gave paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, the wife of a former 2-term President. Neither candidate is seriously talking about getting big money out of politics, not one mention of climate change in 3 debates, was there a question on Brexit? The UN? The floods in the Carolinas or hurricane prevention?

We need to get our "Cyber" game up, big chunk of US commercial Internet was knocked out yesterday... by foreign actors DDOSing us with our own smart refrigerators — made elsewhere with backdoor access perhaps?

We are talking about coal jobs and not about automation and self-driving tech... the ecological and economical trade offs of relocating manufacturing here... talk about growth but what about sustainability? Is our industrial age education system archaic for the realities of the modern economy? Is peer-to-peer and "sharing" just making that sucking sound of wealth divert to San Francisco tech companies?

I've never paid attention to a campaign more and learned less in these debates. You have to go on Wikileaks and Twitter to find out the good shit. It's a damn circus and a damn shame. There are real things we could talk about, but I can't wait until this election is over. A pox o' both your houses.

I am in this boat too but am going to also wait and see and judge on what she does instead of projecting from a few scattered incidents.

Hilary has been fighting for a lot of good things during her life and has also always been in the shadow of Bill. She will be the first female president of our country - a fact this is so obvious but has relatively speaking gotten zero attention - and has the weight of that upon her very capable shoulders. She is a fighter, I am going to watch her fight for us.

GustavBahler @ 10/22/2016 1:18 PM
jrodmc wrote:
ekstarks94 wrote:
TheGame wrote:There are better ways to give money to the rich in the hope of create jobs. You can give tax incentives to those companies that manufactur their products in America. In fact, you can structure an entire tax system around encouraging job creation. What you can't do is give a huge unfettered tax cut to the rich under the fallacy that they are automatically going to use that money to create jobs. It does not work and Bush II proved that fact.

The fallacy of the rich creating jobs is one that the uninformed follow. Fact is capitalism on steroids not tempered by any need to reach down and pull up unless it fits your own interests will never create the trickle down effect they would have you believe.

Correct, the effete, intellectual approach is the Big Daddy government that prints the money for the poor unwashed masses to apply for and spend in government created programs that the effete, intellectuals (you know, those who never had real jobs and spend their lives ensuring that the proper "village" is in place to raise your children for you) legislate into existence. That way you poor, uniformed will know what house you can buy, with which mortgage, with the right light bulbs in it, with the proper vehicle in the driveway, with the just the right healthcare coverage for your kids and yourself.

And that way, your poor, stupid, uneducated, spoon-fed ignorant masses who aren't intelligent enough to know that capitalism is nothing more than a right-wingnut approach to keeping the true brilliance of pristine government from providing a fabulous socialist nirvana, won't be in a position to have any ignorant thoughts about an abusive government.

Just like it has been for the past 8 years. And hopefully will continue for the next 8.

My two friends being deployed in Iraq (which just happens to be coincidentally happening around election time) to clear IED's out of ISIS towns while being sniped at by said ISIS, say hello and thank you to all you brilliant informed folks.

And no, I'm not voting for Trump.

jrod, the fed has been giving the banks trillions in interest free loans since the crash, thats whats keeping this stock/housing bubble inflated. Thats welfare for the rich, and its costing the US govt a hell of a lot more than the programs which help mitigate the historic transfer of wealth that has gone on over the last 30 plus years to a very small minority in this country. Dont have to be a socialist to see that the system is in need of repair.

DrAlphaeus @ 10/22/2016 2:10 PM
martin wrote:
DrAlphaeus wrote:Hillary definitely represents a version of the status quo. She gave paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, the wife of a former 2-term President. Neither candidate is seriously talking about getting big money out of politics, not one mention of climate change in 3 debates, was there a question on Brexit? The UN? The floods in the Carolinas or hurricane prevention?

We need to get our "Cyber" game up, big chunk of US commercial Internet was knocked out yesterday... by foreign actors DDOSing us with our own smart refrigerators — made elsewhere with backdoor access perhaps?

We are talking about coal jobs and not about automation and self-driving tech... the ecological and economical trade offs of relocating manufacturing here... talk about growth but what about sustainability? Is our industrial age education system archaic for the realities of the modern economy? Is peer-to-peer and "sharing" just making that sucking sound of wealth divert to San Francisco tech companies?

I've never paid attention to a campaign more and learned less in these debates. You have to go on Wikileaks and Twitter to find out the good shit. It's a damn circus and a damn shame. There are real things we could talk about, but I can't wait until this election is over. A pox o' both your houses.

I am in this boat too but am going to also wait and see and judge on what she does instead of projecting from a few scattered incidents.

Hilary has been fighting for a lot of good things during her life and has also always been in the shadow of Bill. She will be the first female president of our country - a fact this is so obvious but has relatively speaking gotten zero attention - and has the weight of that upon her very capable shoulders. She is a fighter, I am going to watch her fight for us.

I hope she gets and we get a Democratic Senate that can fight in the legislative branch. I trust folks like Sanders and Warren to fight the good fight on economic policy. GOP is a mess. If they control both houses it will just be a bunch of intraparty beef with folks getting in ideological and political bunkers jockeying for 2020 instead of fixing 2017.

martin @ 10/22/2016 2:17 PM
DrAlphaeus wrote:
martin wrote:
DrAlphaeus wrote:Hillary definitely represents a version of the status quo. She gave paid speeches to Goldman Sachs, the wife of a former 2-term President. Neither candidate is seriously talking about getting big money out of politics, not one mention of climate change in 3 debates, was there a question on Brexit? The UN? The floods in the Carolinas or hurricane prevention?

We need to get our "Cyber" game up, big chunk of US commercial Internet was knocked out yesterday... by foreign actors DDOSing us with our own smart refrigerators — made elsewhere with backdoor access perhaps?

We are talking about coal jobs and not about automation and self-driving tech... the ecological and economical trade offs of relocating manufacturing here... talk about growth but what about sustainability? Is our industrial age education system archaic for the realities of the modern economy? Is peer-to-peer and "sharing" just making that sucking sound of wealth divert to San Francisco tech companies?

I've never paid attention to a campaign more and learned less in these debates. You have to go on Wikileaks and Twitter to find out the good shit. It's a damn circus and a damn shame. There are real things we could talk about, but I can't wait until this election is over. A pox o' both your houses.

I am in this boat too but am going to also wait and see and judge on what she does instead of projecting from a few scattered incidents.

Hilary has been fighting for a lot of good things during her life and has also always been in the shadow of Bill. She will be the first female president of our country - a fact this is so obvious but has relatively speaking gotten zero attention - and has the weight of that upon her very capable shoulders. She is a fighter, I am going to watch her fight for us.

I hope she gets and we get a Democratic Senate that can fight in the legislative branch. I trust folks like Sanders and Warren to fight the good fight on economic policy. GOP is a mess. If they control both houses it will just be a bunch of intraparty beef with folks getting in ideological and political bunkers jockeying for 2020 instead of fixing 2017.

agreed

martin @ 10/22/2016 2:24 PM
BRIGGS, is this you:

earthmansurfer @ 10/22/2016 5:18 PM
A bit for fun, but this guy has predicted (using a model) all but one presidential election back to 1912 correctly.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/10/sun...

Helmut Norpoth, a professor at Stony Brook University on Long Island, has developed a model for predicting elections which, when applied, has correctly predicted every presidential election back to 1912 with one exception – the 1960 election.

He has been predicting a Trump win for months and he’s standing by his forecast.


UNY professor says Trump win at least 87 percent certain; other polls ‘bunk’

A SUNY professor continues to project Donald Trump as the likely winner of this year’s election and he’s critiquing polls that predict the opposite in a new opinion piece.


Helmut Norpoth has been predicting a Trump victory since early this year. His model currently projects a win for the Republican with a certainty of 87 to 99 percent…

That flies in the face of just about every other major election forecast out there, which mostly give an edge to Democrat Hillary Clinton, notes the Daily Mail.

Norpoth wrote in The Hill that although the race looks decided, current polling methods are “bunk.”

The projections for Clinton are all based on opinion polls, which are flawed because they don’t reflect actions, Norpoth wrote. They’re about what voters think of Clinton or Trump, but they can’t tell us exactly how voters will act on those thoughts.

“It is ingrained in all of us that voting is civic duty,” he says. “So nearly all of us say, oh yes, I’ll vote, and then many will not follow through.”

Instead of opinion polling, Norpoth relies on statistics from candidates’ performances in party primaries and patterns in the electoral cycle to forecast results. The model correctly predicted the victor in every presidential election since 1996, according to the Daily Mail.

1 min on his methodology

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