bylm1-Bernie wrote:
I have to disagree with you, Frosty. Supply side economics, as you call it, not only works, it is the only thing that does work. One problem with you Keynesians is that you think corporations or businesses only want to salt any money away and hoard it from everyone. That's not the way it works. Capitalism encourages the re-investment into the means of production, or growth. Do you know any poor people who have taken money to start a business or increase it. Very few. When the poor person buys, it eventually gets back around but at a very slow pace. It takes a long time. When a businessman invests in growing his business, it results in his hiring people who then spend their incomes on other goods and services. Sure, he makes a nice income for himself but so do many others who are employed. It's called the multiplier effect. Free market capitalism is very effective for lifting people out of poverty. You have to get over the notion that it isn't fair because the entrepreneur makes multiples of the worker. That is class envy. The entrepreneur also takes all of the chances. He puts everything on the line and takes on lawsuits. Why should he not make more money? If fairness is everybody making the same amount, then you would be better off supporting socialism like Bernie S. Take a few minutes and watch some old videos of Milton Friedman.
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Hi Bernie..
Heard this many times.. I would or at least could agree with you if reality matched the model
But I know of no time or place that it did work..
Henry Ford made his nation changing industry by understanding you had to have buyers, and created the well paid 40hr week for his workers..the demand then made him rich..
Ron Reagan famously pushed trickle down and had to steal the SS saving increase, moved to the general fund to save his administration..
Much or Rons actions were changed by Papa Bush in order to extend the growth beyond the 6 year life..
Shrub Bush again gave it a try and strongly contributed to the great recession which challenged the world for years..
In trumps case, he was gifted with a recovered and strong economy and again did the standard act of piling a mountain of money where it was not needed..
So the money went not to reinvestment, but to stock buy backs, personal wealth and individual gains..
the result was not the surge of growth promised but a simple continuation of what had been in motion for 7 years. then the money was gone, investment nil, 7 of top 10 economies in the red, our own treading water and then the c****av***s-19 jumped on the world..
No pr********n, no buildup of needed supplies, no se******n of weapons to fight a long expected and dreadful emergency or economic set back.. nothing but a few very wealthy minorities and hysteria among the citizens who see nothing but calamity ahead..
OH, if only the book people were right..
By the way, I see the writing of Milton Friedman as one of the most important factors in the change during 80s, when labor, rather then being seen as part of a 3 part effort of capitalism became in the eyes of corporations nothing but an adversary to the goal of the bottom line. While equity was considered the vital component..
About it for today... stay safe and have a fine evening..