Mr Shapiro’s main defense of the company owners making all the money is that they take on the risk. It’s a fine defense, and I’m not really well versed in this argument, but I would guess that there’s not a whole lot of risk in America in owning a company. The rich people who own companies and invest in companies typically stay rich, either through diversification, bailouts, favorable bankruptcy policies, etc. Trump has had a lot of companies fail and it doesn’t seem like it hurt him. When enough money accumulates at the top, it heavily influences politics and thus entrenched the power of the richest class.
But I’m in agreement that life isn’t fair, and probably can never be 100% fair. I do think it could be more fair though
Come on dude. 30% of businesses fail within 2 years. 70% of businesses fail within the first 10 years.
The typical business owner isn't a millionaire that wakes up one day and decides to start a business because they're bored.
They are normal people who have to borrow money to get started. That's risk.
Without rich people there would be no capital available for other people to borrow.
Yes, it is much easier to stay rich than it is to get rich. The overwhelming majority of rich people worked their asses off to get where they are.
I’m sure the mom and pop shops tend to fail because of companies like Walmart and Amazon, essentially the power of the ultra rich. I’m sure it’s possible to govern small businesses differently than we govern huge corporations.
Come on dude. 30% of businesses fail within 2 years. 70% of businesses fail within the first 10 years.
The typical business owner isn't a millionaire that wakes up one day and decides to start a business because they're bored.
They are normal people who have to borrow money to get started. That's risk.
Without rich people there would be no capital available for other people to borrow.
Yes, it is much easier to stay rich than it is to get rich. The overwhelming majority of rich people worked their asses off to get where they are.
I’m sure the mom and pop shops tend to fail because of companies like Walmart and Amazon, essentially the power of the ultra rich. I’m sure it’s possible to govern small businesses differently than we govern huge corporations.
Wal-Mart sells the same items as the mom and pop shop for half the price.
The poor benefit directly when Wal-Mart shows up in their neighborhood.
Wal-Mart started out as a mom and pop shop.
Amazon was a tiny internet book seller run out of Jeff Bezos's garage. He didn't make any money for like 10 years when he started.
Why do you assume every successful person or business started on the mountain top?
Wow dude, the delusion is strong with you. You understand NOTHING about midterm elections if you try to rationalize what happened to you Republicans in this election. You got sh!tcanned.
Take your nonsense to Truth Social or some other nutbar echo chamber. You're getting destroyed constantly here. You must be a glutton for punishment. Your opinions are the minority here, they are the minority in our country, and they are just flat ignorant and wrong.
You think Democrats losing control of the House is a win for Democrats and I'm delusional.
Yes. You are delusional, and the fact that you doubled down on that statement shows you know nothing about how House and midterm elections go. I'm not even going to try to explain it to you, because you have shown in the past that you are incapable of learning.
Democrats keeping the Senate and MAYBE losing the House by a very thin margin means that Republicans got sh!tcanned. If you don't believe me, go listen to your Trumper cohorts on Fox, in the New York Post, in comments on Breitbart's site. Republicans know that they lost big time here. Don't give me crap about being a Libertarian either. You support current nutbar Republican ideals. You support Donald Trump. You are trying to cling to any delusion that this was a good election for Republicans. It wasn't.
You sure have a lot to say for someone who knows and understands so little.
I’m sure the mom and pop shops tend to fail because of companies like Walmart and Amazon, essentially the power of the ultra rich. I’m sure it’s possible to govern small businesses differently than we govern huge corporations.
Wal-Mart sells the same items as the mom and pop shop for half the price.
The poor benefit directly when Wal-Mart shows up in their neighborhood.
Wal-Mart started out as a mom and pop shop.
Amazon was a tiny internet book seller run out of Jeff Bezos's garage. He didn't make any money for like 10 years when he started.
Why do you assume every successful person or business started on the mountain top?
I lean left but I had to GTFO of CA and I was born and raised there. I believe we get the best out of politics when it's fairly balanced with conservatives and liberals. Any state that goes too far in either direction ends up with terrible results. When people just agree with each other too much, they just tend to make restrictive rules and it's seldom a good thing. 'Freedom' ends up being more rules. That's CA for you.
Now I'm in super blue CO, but it doesn't feel bad to me because I'm in a conservative county. It feels sane and balanced to live in a blue state but in a red county.
America has always done the best with a divided government that worked together. Reagan had a Democrat congress. Clinton had a Republican congress. Today's Democrats can't even stomach hearing an opposing POV as you can clearly see on this forum.
Also, CO is only blue because Californians moved in after fleeing their own policies in California.
If the left gets enough power the US turns into Venezuela where there's no where left to run.
Still a moron in the room who doesn't remember anything about newt gingrich
You think Democrats losing control of the House is a win for Democrats and I'm delusional.
Yes. You are delusional, and the fact that you doubled down on that statement shows you know nothing about how House and midterm elections go. I'm not even going to try to explain it to you, because you have shown in the past that you are incapable of learning.
Democrats keeping the Senate and MAYBE losing the House by a very thin margin means that Republicans got sh!tcanned. If you don't believe me, go listen to your Trumper cohorts on Fox, in the New York Post, in comments on Breitbart's site. Republicans know that they lost big time here. Don't give me crap about being a Libertarian either. You support current nutbar Republican ideals. You support Donald Trump. You are trying to cling to any delusion that this was a good election for Republicans. It wasn't.
You sure have a lot to say for someone who knows and understands so little.
Adopting your opinions isn't learning it's regressing.
Republicans underperforming doesn't mean Democrats won. You literally lost the House and Biden is a lame duck with zero power for the next 2 years.
If you think that's a good thing for your party you are mistaken.
Adult in the room you better hunt or fish or do something remotely manly for all the sh!t you talk
Adult in the room if you’re a libertarian living in a blue state we need to relocate you and take way your libertarian card. I at least live in a rural/red area.
This is an excellent point. Many of you people have no idea who your local Mayor is and what his politics are. I used to be just like that. Whine about national politics while having no clue how things actually get done.
I was called out on this. Then I started attending local city council open meetings. I learned who was on the council, what their politics are, and why they vote the way they do. It gave me greater respect for the political system. As a liberal, it gave me much greater respect for the Republican dominant local council because I got to hear why they vote the way they do. I saw that the liberal and conservatives on the local council work with respect with each other and get along fine. They aren't at each others throats. They work well together. ...
Sounds like nirvana. The reality is that is not all roses, especially in "executive" sessions where the public is not allowed to enter.
Our city sued or HOA because of hillside plants they claimed attracted homeless people. Never mind that the city caused the problem by hiring security people to push those people from parks and into our neighborhoods.
When the city could not legally make the above option work, they made a new claim that hillside plants were a fire hazard and should never have been allowed, and then they were give the original development documents were the city specifically demanded those "fire" plants must be installed on hillsides. . . . That didn't stop them, then still demanded the removal to solve their self-inflicted homeless issue.
Next to our HOA is a retirement condo development with a lot more of the dreaded "fire" plants. The city did not force them to remove anything. Why? Voters, and at least one of them on the city council.
All of the above decisions were made in secret, in executive sessions. No one knows why the adjacent retirement community was allowed to keep their "fire" plants.
The above is more typical about how city councils "work," and grant back-door favors to certain groups.
Of course there are still problems. My point is, one is more likely to be effective in local politics than in national. And the best place to learn how politics work is on the local level. There is plenty of wrongdoing and scandal like in Los Angeles recently. Definitely not nirvana or utopian.
America has always done the best with a divided government that worked together. Reagan had a Democrat congress. Clinton had a Republican congress. Today's Democrats can't even stomach hearing an opposing POV as you can clearly see on this forum.
Also, CO is only blue because Californians moved in after fleeing their own policies in California.
If the left gets enough power the US turns into Venezuela where there's no where left to run.
Still a moron in the room who doesn't remember anything about newt gingrich
Gingrich's republican majority forced Clinton to moderate. It was very successful for Clinton and the country.
Divided governments don't do as many stupid things.
I lean left but I had to GTFO of CA and I was born and raised there. I believe we get the best out of politics when it's fairly balanced with conservatives and liberals. Any state that goes too far in either direction ends up with terrible results. When people just agree with each other too much, they just tend to make restrictive rules and it's seldom a good thing. 'Freedom' ends up being more rules. That's CA for you.
Now I'm in super blue CO, but it doesn't feel bad to me because I'm in a conservative county. It feels sane and balanced to live in a blue state but in a red county.
America has always done the best with a divided government that worked together. Reagan had a Democrat congress. Clinton had a Republican congress. Today's Democrats can't even stomach hearing an opposing POV as you can clearly see on this forum.
Also, CO is only blue because Californians moved in after fleeing their own policies in California.
If the left gets enough power the US turns into Venezuela where there's no where left to run.
My friend from Orange County CA also moved to CO. He says he is embarrassed to say he is from CA and always tells me that one should not vote in CO how people vote in CA or they will ruin the state. I agree with the sentiment that government works well with a divided government that works well together.
As for motivations of voters this year, the incumbent president had lost major seats in 19 out of the last 21 midterm elections, which would push things in a Republican direction, as would inflation and the perception of urban crime (actually down this year), and to some degree wedge issues such as books to be banned, while the actions of the courts and states to ban abortion and the fact that Republicans were supporting the Jan. 6 riots and those who had voted to overturn a lawful election (largely overseen by and approved by Republican state officials in the close states in 2020), favored the Democrats.
Imagine being a Democrat and thinking that not getting blown out in the midterms somehow cancels out the fact that their president and other state politicians' policies are performing terribly. There was a reason that this narrow upset is such a shocker, and it's because Dems are just largely incompetent. Record high inflation, and crime spikes all over the country aren't going away because Dems managed to maintain a 2 vote advantage in the Senate.
Let's be honest though, Dems didn't really "win," but the Republican Supreme Court shot themselves in the foot by repealing Roe V. Wade too early. Also, weird mass mail-in voting helps Dems, by allowing the laziest in our society to vote (and vote for the people who appeal to the lazy - Democrats). Once Reps figure out how to adjust their message and policies, expect Dementia-man to be kicked out of office and sanity restored.
What a load that is.
1) This election result wasn't a shocker to everyone. You moron Trumpers were screaming about not just a red wave, but a "red tsunami." Didn't happen. Very early on it appeared that Democrats had a great chance to keep The Senate. Polling suggest the same.
2) The reason the election is unusual is that typically in a midterm, the party not in power does well. This time, with Democrats in the White House and controlling The House and The Senate, ESPECIALLY with high inflation and a President that Democrats aren't wild about, Republicans should have had a HUGE victory. They didn't. They got sh!tcanned. A complete rejection of Republicans and Trumpism.
3) Elections are the result (sometimes) of what a certain party does, either pro or con. Republicans made a HUGE mistake by overturning Roe v. Wade. Clarence Thomas further made a mistake by talking about banning contraception. Right wing insanity. Depending on the polling, 65-70% of Americans are pro choice. Bad move.
4) Biden is just old. He does not have dementia.
5) Good luck kicking him out of office. Going to be VERY hard to do that in the 2024 election, and there's not chance of an impeachment unless he does something in the future that warrants that...which he won't.
6) Once Republicans figure out how to adjust their message and policies? Um...ok. When will that happen?
7) So, you are against making it easy to vote. Got it. (Don't give me any crap about voter fraud either).
8) High inflation IS going to go away, but it has nothing to do with any Democrat policies, and it would have gone away even if Republicans took control of the Senate. Inflation will continue to drop for two main reasons...1) we are moving further away from the thing that caused it, and 2) The Fed is being VERY aggressive with rate hikes to try to make it happen. Of the two reasons, #1 is by far the most consequential one.
The only way a Republican wins the White House in 2024 is if we are in a recession, we are in an unpopular war, there is a major scandal in the White House, or Joe Biden becomes very ill or dies right before the election. The trajectory shows that we will likely be back to average inflation by as early as Spring 2023, and while it is incorrect, Joe Biden and other Democrats will say, "we passed the Inflation Reduction Act, and as a result, inflation has dropped from 9% back to normal levels." Americans are tired of crazy. That's why Biden was elected in 2020...Trump is crazy, and we got together and voted AGAINST him.
Republicans got sh!tcanned in this election...absolutely sh!tcanned.
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