Not intrinsic. That was the wrong word. Utilitarian is the word I meant when I said intrinsic. Intrinsic wealth is items like gold, diamonds, silver, etc. I haven't read this anywhere but my theory is intrinsic wealth is the kind of wealth that men try to impress women with. If they give them something shiny and pretty women will like the man. But I could be wrong.
However, we have discovered later that gold is an excellent conductor of electricity and diamonds can cut through some of the hardest substances on earth. So those two shiny pretty things also have utilitarian value.
"Literally admitting to trickle down economics not working"
Every Democrat from Reagan until now claims trickle down never worked. The serious problem is that no one on the left every explained why it didn't work. They came up with bogus reasons and false information but they never explained why it didn't work.
And the crazy thing is while they were trying to tell you it won't work, it was working right in front of their faces.
What I was talking about wasn't even trickle down. I was saying that someone as wealthy as Elon Musk does not harm you in anyway. He's not preventing you from getting rich, even richer than him. This has nothing to do with trickle down. Trickle down is just another name for free market economics. It is not that wealth trickles down. It doesn't trickle anywhere.
It is not like the rich are slowly giving their money to you, trickle down. It was just a buzz word that was probably an attempt to appease the left. That was when conservatives were still under the impression that leftist could be reasoned with. Those days are long gone and the left has only gotten more and more insane.
Here is the plain fact that no one on the left will ever admit because it stands in the way of their authoritarian dogma. When I buy something from you I value what I am giving you less than what I want to buy from you. In order for you to sell me something then you value what I am giving you more than what you are selling me. The exchange ends up with both of us having more wealth than before the transaction. Wealth is an abstract concept that equate to actual value.
For example if what I am buying from you is a hammer and what you are willing to accept in exchange is either money or another item such as a shovel, then for me I can use that hammer to build with which in turn I can sell a house or furniture or whatever I bought the hammer for. So the intrinsic wealth of that hammer far outweighed the money or shovel that I exchanged for it. And on your end the money could be used to buy something else you needed or the shovel could also have it's own intrinsic value.
This is how wealth is built and it can ONLY be built in a free market. The freer the more wealth it creates. It is why the US is the wealthiest nation in the world. The less free we are the more wealth is destroyed.
Everything the left has implemented or tried to implement has only put restrictions on wealth creation. Taxes, regulations and tariffs destroy wealth.
And that is a problem???? I don't care if Trump's net worth was $4.5 decillion or 45.cents It does not affect my life or your life.
The wealth gap concept is a fraud. It uses envy (which is a form of greed) to make you feel you are oppressed because someone has a penny more than you.
It is based on the Marxists oppressed/oppressor division that is used to tear a country apart to implement Marxism.
It assumes that you think that wealth is a finite amount and if someone is rich they are keeping it from everyone else. Which is also a big huge pile of steaming dog crap. Wealth is infinite. Under Marxism wealth decline but in a free country with a free market wealth is created for both the buyer and seller in a free exchange of goods and/or services.
The United States because of capitalism (aka the free market) has invented and developed more new technologies to save lives and enhance life than any other nation in the world. The very reason why the rest of the world has the technology that they do is because of us. The very reason why Japan and China is passing us in electronic, computers and robotics is because they are working on the foundations that we developed.
I am not saying that this happened just because the United States is just better, I am saying that this happened because of freedom and morality, the two things necessary for prosperity. No other nation has been able to duplicate the level of freedom and morality. Unfortunately, freedom and morality is declining rapidly in the US. because of the left and their nonsensical hatred of the free market.
Even so the numbers just came out and the child poverty rate in the US is the lowest level it has ever been. The new job creation numbers for last month exceeded projections by more than double. Real wages are also up across all income levels.
I never said you said they were identical. I said you don't know what you are talking about. If you were talking about religion from a 30,000 feet view then I suppose you have a point. Both Islam and Christianity believe in a supreme being and they are monotheistic. But that is where similarity ends.
Was that Irish war over religion or land? Everybody makes it about religion but clearly a land component to the war. The religion part is more coincidental than anything. It just happened that Catholics were on the side of Ireland and Protestants were on the side of England. In England and even in the American colonies, Protestants hated Catholics and basically Jim Crowed the Catholics. That ended when the Revolutionary War started because you had Catholics and Protestants fighting side by side against England.
The question is would they still have fought the war if both sides were the same religion or no religion at all. YES. The difference in religion was just the icing on the cake, the real war was over the entire island remaining Ireland or dividing the island with a small part going to England.
When it comes to Christianity you could probably find the underlying cause of war was over land. The one exception was the Crusades and that was to stop Islam from killing Europeans. Islam has been trying in small ways to conquer Europe from day one. There were thousands of skirmishes or battles all over Europe whenever enough Muslims showed up. Muslims took over Spain for 800 years.
Catholicism, in medieval times was the only Christian religion so the Knights Templar was formed of volunteer soldiers from all European nations under the banner of the Catholic Church. The goal was to put an end once and for all to all of the killing that Islam was inflicting on the Europeans and to open a safe route to Israel where Europeans would not be killed who were trying to visit the Holy Land.
Unfortunately, the Knights Templar were never successful in eliminate the Islamic death cult and they lost every war they fought against them.
Yes, there were two religions involved in those wars but one side wanted to conquer and kill anyone who would not convert. The other side just wanted to live. Religion drove the Muslims to war. The desire to not push up daisies drove the Christians to war.
Yes and no. They are taxes but they are pass on to us just like business taxes, in the price of imported (and only imported) goods. Trumps been having a lot or problems getting his tariffs implemented. So far he only has broad tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada. He has 8 tariffs on specific products He had numerous tariffs on products that only lasted 150 days.
Keep in mind that everyone he has imposed tariffs on they have had exorbitant tariffs on all of our exports for much longer than Trump's been president. They're own people have to pay those tariffs but it does raise the price on the goods we export so that we cannot compete easily with their domestic goods or their imported goods from other countries.
Imposing tariffs on them has caused China to renegotiate their tariffs on our exports to them. Most goods we impose on Canada are at 0% but some specific goods are up to 50%. Trump did that because Canada has imposed tariffs on us that go as high as 50% and their tariffs are from years ago. Trump just evened the playing field and Canada curled up and cried like little babies over it.
BTW, I got this information from ChatGPT, not a right wing news website.
Just because I think it is funny, if you pronounce the letters G, P and T in French it sounds like the French words "j’ai pété". Chat is French for cat. Therefore, "ChatGPT" or rather "Chat j’ai pété" means Cat, I've farted.
