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Corporate Oligarchy in the US
Some say the United States have been sold off and handed over to corporations who then lease them back to the people at eye-watering sums, while the shareholders make vast profits.

The core ideological tenets of privatisation, which Reagan believed in, created the modern-day US as we know them. Trump is a symptom of that system, not the cause.

Inequality and the gap between the rich and poor has widely extended in the last 50 years. Meanwhile, the middle class has completely been eroded.

How can the average American family manage nowadays when the they can barely afford to heat their homes?
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It got sold to worse
50 million people in china live in caves
yeah you violently broke away from the british to then fight amongst your own people just a few years later...laughable! now you realize how stupid you all are and surrender to wallstreet
great freedoms you have!
The only oligarchy going on is the socialist politicians who paint you a pretty utopia but really want a new Soviet Union with them at the top...
Originally posted by lol:
yeah you violently broke away from the british to then fight amongst your own people just a few years later...laughable! now you realize how stupid you all are and surrender to wallstreet
do you also live in cave?
Originally posted by jimbalayajones:
The only oligarchy going on is the socialist politicians who paint you a pretty utopia but really want a new Soviet Union with them at the top...
Yeah bro they want to make it commie land!!!! *meanwhile wallstreet funds both political parties while you dogs ramble about politics*
Lime 10 hours ago 
Originally posted by *ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆Prinny☆:
50 million people in china live in caves
thats kinda pog, i always wanted a subterranean domicile
Originally posted by *ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆Prinny☆:
Originally posted by lol:
yeah you violently broke away from the british to then fight amongst your own people just a few years later...laughable! now you realize how stupid you all are and surrender to wallstreet
do you also live in cave?
I wish
Originally posted by lol:
Originally posted by jimbalayajones:
The only oligarchy going on is the socialist politicians who paint you a pretty utopia but really want a new Soviet Union with them at the top...
Yeah bro they want to make it commie land!!!! *meanwhile wallstreet funds both political parties while you dogs ramble about politics*

I would not say Wall Street directly, but the successful users of Wall Street...I have no doubt of that...If the founding fathers suddenly appeared to check in on things, they would simply say 'But we revolted against this type of governing'...And I want to be a Labradoodle...
Dont worry, he'll be done in 2028.
China is a communist hell hole where people are harvested for their organs.
Originally posted by lol:
Originally posted by *ੈ✩‧₊˚༺☆Prinny☆:
do you also live in cave?
I wish
coffin house. very said.
Originally posted by Arvaos:
Some say the United States have been sold off and handed over to corporations who then lease them back to the people at eye-watering sums, while the shareholders make vast profits.

And are these corporations you speak of in the room with us now?

Care to name a few of them?
Reagan did good on the economy for the most-part. He is often credited for recovering from the mess that was the Carter administration.

Also look, Plauge induced panic aside, the U.S. economy does fine for the mostpart. The U.S. G.D.P. grew by 87% from 2008 to 2023, whereas in the same timespan the E.U. economy only grew 13.5%[econofact.org].. As of 2023 the E.U. G.D.P. was only 67% of the U.S.A's., despite the fact that the U>S.A. only has 70% of the population of the E.U. (so you'd expect it to be the other way around, with U.S. G.D.P. being 67% of Europe's). The U.S.A. just manages money better than Europe.

The one big glaring problem with the U.S. economy after Reagan is that the U.S. economy lost its manufacturing base, which is clearly the result of southeast Asia having cheaper labor and laxer regulations. Reagan's push for free trade didn't really get off the ground until he was exiting office. It turns out you can't have strict regulations, high wages and free trade if you want your citizens to have jobs instead of having those jobs outsourced to a nation with laxer regulations and lower wages like Mexico or China because jobs will be outsourced to where it is more cost effective to do business.

Maybe the U.S.A. should have listened to Nancy Pelopsi in 1996 when she asked for tariffs on China. Better late than never I guess. She pointed out that imporation from China only creates 170,000 jobs at the cost of 10 million.
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