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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: EchotaBaaa   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Tough job
Date: 04/10/25 7:17 AM
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So you don’t want to re-industrialize middle America and reinvigorate the middle class? Boy, that’s not what I used to read on the Fool.
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They never did.

They wanted to be the ones responsible for making more and more Americans dependent. They've done it to a certain demographic for 60 years now. They've subjugated them, taught them that AIDS, COCAINE, SAT SCORES is all rigged against them. They've promoted poor family structures and created a self perpetuating cycle of hell in this constituency and every 4 years, some 401K'er goes to the neighborhood and belts out a We Shall Overcome is about it.

What they want is THEMSELVES to decide what station in life the middle class operates it. White 401K Liberals want to have dominion over middle class health, schooling, income, purchase habits, fuel consumption.

Club 401K values earnings-per-share more than re industrializing America.

BUT, on my side there are contradictions too. Club 401K's hypocrisy is at least thought out - they want to keep people down and now it's no secret- those greedy 401K libs love their profits on backs of cheap labor.

On MY side such contradictions ---are----sadly - out of stupidity and willingness to listen to a few cock-tards with a podcast or social media account replete with dumbass phallic looking microphone hitting them in their closeted gay face.

"America First!" - but cut Medicaid.

"America First" - but scale back Social Security levels of service.

"America First" - but let research be a casualty as we strip money due to DEI

"America First" - but if American child has a disability, why do we gotta make accommodations.

"America First" "Beat them Chinese" - BUT we don't like the CHIPS act that helps do precisely that (Thanks President Biden!)

"America First" but we don't like a law that prevents HMOs from rejecting people who want to buy insurance.

Hence we are seeing gradual decline *and* seeing emerging nations - promote their human capital the way we USED to, and have a slightly better culture that we USED to.

And in coming years, they'll progress at a quicker pace than us.
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