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Not at all. Killing members of the group: Check. You admit to that Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group: Well I don’t know how you can admit to killing them but not to harming them. Plus the residential school system was institutionalized physical and mental abuse that lasted for generations. Check. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part: Here is where you can try to plead plead that the horrid conditions of life were simply due to neglect and indifference but wasn’t “deliberately calculated”. Although the destruction of indigenous culture and identity was a frequently stated goal of government so you have your work cut out for you. Check. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group: As part of the eugenics programs in Alberta and British Columbia, Indigenous people—particularly women—were subjected to forced or coerced sterilization. Many Indigenous women were sterilized without their full and informed consent, often after childbirth or during medical procedures where they were not made fully aware of the nature and permanency of the sterilization. In some cases, coercion was involved, with women being told they would lose access to social services or custody of their children if they did not consent. In other cases, birth control was offered or even imposed on Indigenous women without proper counselling or understanding the implications, particularly in remote areas with limited healthcare access. Check Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group: Sixties scoop, which is a catch-all term for various programs throughout the second half of the twentieth century whereby tens of thousands of indigenous children were taken from their families often for spurious or arbitrary reasons and intentionally placed with “white” foster or adoptive families. And again, the Residential school system Check You fail again

And yet every panel reflects an actual current or proposed republican policy in addition to donald trumps perverted lurking in teen change rooms and grabbing women by the ****

A well-put description of the Trump’s incessant lies, most recently about Hurricane Helene. It’s not just the undisciplined ramblings a narcissist, it’s about destroying objective reality itself : Donald Trump has been one of the chief sources of the disinformation that has badly hampered recovery efforts. Trump has claimed that the federal government is ignoring the storm’s victims, especially ones in Republican areas, and that the government is handing out only $750 in aid (in fact, the initial emergency payment for food and groceries is $750, but there are multiple grants available for home rebuilding up to a total of $42,500, the upper limit set by Congress). He has also claimed—falsely—that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is out of money to help because the administration spent all its money on Ukraine and undocumented immigrants. Trump’s lies are not errors. They are part of a well-documented strategy to overturn democracy by using modern media to create a false political world. Voters begin to base their political decisions on that fake image, rather than on reality, and are manipulated into giving up control of their government to an authoritarian. … “The Democrats don’t matter,” Bannon told a reporter in 2018. “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with sh*t.” Keeping listeners constantly trying to defend what is real from what is not destroys their ability to make sense of the world. Many people turn to a strongman who promises to create order. Others will get so exhausted they simply give up. As scholar of totalitarianism Hannah Arendt noted, authoritarians use this technique to destabilize a population. … In his autobiography Mein Kampf, or “My Struggle,” Adolf Hitler wrote that people were more likely to believe a giant lie than a little one because they were willing to tell small lies in their own lives but “would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods.” Since they could not conceive of telling “colossal untruths…they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” He went on: “Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation.” … Now, though, their lies about the federal response to Hurricane Helene show that they are completely committed to disinformation. As Will Bunch noted today in the Philadelphia Inquirer, when Vance lied again at the vice presidential debate about the legal status of the Haitian migrants in Springfield, Ohio, and complained when moderator Margaret Brennan corrected him, he gave up the whole game. “Margaret,” Vance said, “the rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check.” He continued to argue until the moderators cut his microphone. Bunch points out that MAGA Republicans insist on the right to lie, considering any fact-checking “censorship,” a position to which Vance pivoted when Minnesota governor Tim Walz asked him if Trump won the 2020 election. Just as Russian political theorists advocated to overturn democracy, MAGA Republicans have created an alternative political reality, aided in large part by the disinformation spread on social media by X owner and Trump supporter Elon Musk. … https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-6-2024

So then why did the bounty also include m’ikmaq women and children but not French soldiers? And do you not understand this is still a situation where the indigenous people are caught in the middle of European war that invading colonizers brought to their land, and where both British and French are invading and aggressively encroaching on their home? Your excuse-making is like saying the burglar acted in legitimate self-defence when he shot the homeowner during the burglary. And your narrative that the peace-loving English had no choice because of indian savages and evil scheming French is just the typical anglo-saxon chauvinist BS Through negotiations and mutual agreement. Not simply by one side saying they will refuse to honour their side’s obligations while keeping what they received from the other side. You understand that termination of the treaty implies that the land ceded to the crown under the treaty would no longer be part of Canada right? LOL, So easy! See above, re; ceded territory and its inhabitants would no longer legally be part of Canada Unfortunately democracies have that whole pesky rule of law thing. No wonder so many conservatives are embracing authoritarianism these day. What’s the point of democracy and a legal system if you can’t have to do inconvenient things like “negotiate” and “compromise” and “share” and can’t get 100% of your way 100% of the time, eh?

These schools were set up and funded by the government and they were forced to attend. Police and Indian agents would even forcibly remove children from their homes and snatch kids off the street to take them to these schools.

Of course there were genocidal acts. Offering bounties for indian scalps as part of a depopulation program, deliberately exterminating buffalo, forced relocation into the far north and arctic where people died from disease and deprivation, residential schools and involuntary sterilization and forced adoption of indigenous children into white families. Per the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948): The acts that constitute genocide fall into five categories: Killing members of the group Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction, in whole or in part Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group Every one of the above criteria was met with respect to treatment of indigenous peoples Regarding budget - The most recent federal budget was $535 billion and indigenous people received 5% of it (or as a fraction 1/20 which is arguably is tiny). Indigenous people are 5% of the population. For some reason that outrages you. Think about that for a while. - there are indigenous communities that have been under boil water advisory for 20 + years and have had a permanent housing crisis for generations because of decades of inadequately funded infrastructure. The Liberal government has been spending a small amount additional money to partially address these problems. Just like the military, if things had been funded properly all along they wouldn’t be so costly to fix now. There were 145 long term boil water advisors in effect in indigenous communities when the Liberals took office in 2015 and they’ve reduced that to 33. And you’ve upset about that. Think about that for a while.

Pfft that is hilarious coming from you. LMAO you’re one of the worst bullshitters on this forum! Others are worse at repeating nonsense lies and propaganda but you’re a serial offender when it comes to just making stuff up, like you did in this thread just now with your talk about Canada “breaking contracts”, as I’ll explain shortly. Its ridiculous of you to try to compare them amd tell someone that their genocide is irrelevant because some other completely unrelated group from a completely different part of the world and point in history died in larger numbers. Imagine if someone massacred your family and then told you you had no right to be upset about it because families larger than yours had also been massacred. You are not magically un-traumatized just because someone tells you that some other group’s trauma happened to more people. Also note that with the Jewish people, western governments spent significant amounts of their own treasure to help the Jewish people build THEIR OWN COUNTRY IN THEIR ANCIENT ANCESTRAL HOMELAND. Wheras with indigenous people it’s tue exact OPPOSITE, the goal of North American governments being being to DEPRIVE indigenous people of having their own territory in their ancestral homeland and in many/most cases to relocate them from their ancestral lands entirely. Yes many western hoped the Jewish diaspora would relocate to Israel. There were still many antisemitic laws and prejudices. Canada, USA and UK in particular had long-standing restrictions and limitations on Jewish immigration (such as the infamous 1939 SS St Lewis scandal where all 3 countries refused a shipload of Jewish refugees, many of whom later died in Nazi concentration camps after it was forced to return to Europe). All 3 countries maintained various caps and restrictions on Jewish immigration for several years even after the holocaust. Here is where you are once again out of your depth and bullshitting. What Canada doesn’t do is double cross countries and violate treaties once we’ve got what we wanted. If we sign a treaty to sell something to another country we don’t take their money and then refuse to deliver the goods, saying we don’t feel like honouring our end of the agreement. When we do end a treaty it’s by MUTUAL AGREEMENT of BOTH PARTIES usually through a mechanism that’s described in the treaty itself And you do understand that if the treaties are null and void then the land that was ceded to the crown under those treaties is no longer part of Canada right? That’s how that works. You see we have this thing called the law, you authoritarians can’t just impose whatever outcome suits your whim and fancy. By signing treaties with them which have remained law to this day, the crown for over 2 centuries has legally acknowledged that the land was originally theirs, so that undermines any of the revisionist arguments the right has recently invented claiming indigenous people have no right to claim title because they didn’t have formal borders and a western concept of “ownership” etc. Now if you’re in favour of Canada negotiating a mutually agreeable termination where the crown retains the land I doubt you’ll support it because it will surely entail giving them more than we are right now and you can’t even stomach that.

There are a lot fallacies in this post 1) Comparing and ranking genocides and atrocities is silly. An atrocity is an atrocity. Besides Indigenous people were slaughtered wholesale especially in the US but also in Canada for example bounties paid for the scalps of micmac men women and children in Nova Scotia in the 18th century. 2) Israel was created by the Brutish with the support and financial backing US and European countries with large sums of taxpayers’s money. Mostly they did it because our countries were antisemitic and wanted to rid themselves of Jews. Also it was done in response to protests, violence and terrorism committed by the early Zionist movements. 3) Like it or not, each treaty that Britain and Canada signed with indigenous nations is legally a nation-to-nation treaty no different than any other signed with a another nation like France or USA and therefore just as legally binding. It’s a fact that we signed these treaties in order to get them to cede land and bend the knee to the crown, which they did. We didn’t honour our end of treaty and in most cases had no intention of ever doing so. Signing agreements in bad faith doesn’t alleviate the responsibility to honour to honour them.

Omg you’re only showing off you stunning lack of ignorance. Like seriously you must be a high school dropout like another user on this thread to show that level of idi0cy The endurance of condensation trails depends on the temperature and amount of moisture in the surrounding air. In drier air the moist contrails dissipate quickly. But the more ambient moisture is in the surrounding air, the longer contrails will take to dissipate Moisture dissipates faster in drier air than moister air. Also the colder the surrounding air is the less moisture it can hold without condensation (clouds forming) therefore when there is less discrepancy between the temperature of the jet exhaust and the outside air there’s less of a contrail. That’s just a basic understanding of how our atmosphere works that all children have by grade 9 By the way you should learn how expressions like “tin foil hat” work, you can’t just level it at anyone you disagree with. You are the one with the minority opinion and conspiracy claim. At flat earther can’t claim people who believe the earth is round tin foil crackpots and contrail kooks are no different than flat earthers

Melania Trump passionately defends abortion rights in upcoming memoir Exclusive: ‘I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life,’ former first lady writes in memoir Melania Trump made an extraordinary declaration in an eagerly awaited memoir to be published a month from election day: she is a passionate supporter of a woman’s right to control her own body – including the right to abortion. “It is imperative to guarantee that women have autonomy in deciding their preference of having children, based on their own convictions, free from any intervention or pressure from the government,” the Republican nominee’s wife writes, amid a campaign in which Donald Trump’s threats to women’s reproductive rights have played a central role. “Why should anyone other than the woman herself have the power to determine what she does with her own body? A woman’s fundamental right of individual liberty, to her own life, grants her the authority to terminate her pregnancy if she wishes. “Restricting a woman’s right to choose whether to terminate an unwanted pregnancy is the same as denying her control over her own body. I have carried this belief with me throughout my entire adult life.” Melania Trump has rarely expressed political views in public. The book, which reveals the former first lady to be so firmly out of step with most of her own party, Melania, will be published in the US next Tuesday. The Guardian obtained a copy. Her decision to include a full-throated expression of support for abortion rights is remarkable not just given her proximity to a Republican candidate running on an anti-abortion platform, but also given the severe deterioration of women’s reproductive rights under Donald Trump and the GOP…. … She writes: “It is important to note that historically, most abortions conducted during the later stages of pregnancy were the result of severe fetal abnormalities that probably would have led to the death or stillbirth of the child. Perhaps even the death of the mother. These cases were extremely rare and typically occurred after several consultations between the woman and her doctor. As a community, we should embrace these common-sense standards. Again, timing matters.” More than 90% of US abortions occur at or before 13 weeks of gestation, according to data from the CDC. Less than 1% of abortions take place at or after 21 weeks…. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/02/melania-trump-memoir-defends-abortion-rights?utm_term=66fe1a47783fc84c94c039aa425e06ec&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email

I will repeat myself again as you haven’t rebutted anything Ive been saying: 1) Governments never need to balance budgets. There’s a limit to how much debt they can hold at any given point in time but it’s not the “zero” number people on the right have recently been claiming. 2) no non-oil country has ever consistently run balanced budgets over extended periods and 3) the countries that did have the maximum prosperity for their people (ie USA and the entire first world) ran substantial deficits for substantial periods of time. You are the one trying to salvage your argument by now claiming arbitrarily that historical deficits were ”small,” and trying to equate “small deficits” with being same as the balanced budgets you amd other conservatives are always harping about. In your own link, the average deficit in a deficit year is 4.2% of GDP, a number the that the US was consistently below since the 90s with the exception of the financial crisis years and since COVID To your numbered claims: 1) They are not guaranteed to cause inflation. There are many many factors that contribute to inflation including organic economic growth. Government spending is one of those many many factors that CAN contribute to inflation but not necessarily. Furthermore whether or not that gov spending is from a balanced budget or not is irrelevant to it impact on inflation 2) The amount of money a government has to spend is finite so yes spending on A means you have less to spend on B, whether we’re talking about defence or interest payments or healthcare or whatever. HOWEVER government debt is mostly long term bonds that mature over the span of decades. Economies (and therefore government revenues) always grow substantially over those periods. As a side note, it’s also interesting to me that you describe government being unable to provide other services as a “drag on the economy” considering tou previously described government services themselves being a drag on the economy. Are you finally coming to the realization that government services can support the economy? 3) Government spending is the only thing helping economies along during recessions, keeping businesses afloat and a minimum level of economic activity There are not countless examples. Bob Rae (correct spelling) first of all as a provincial leader didn’t have the same tools as federal governments have, ie Ontario didn’t have a sovereign currency or its own central bank and didn’t have any sympathy or support from the federal government. . Second of all, he chickened out and backpedaled under pressure from the business community who waged what is known as a “capital strike” even going so far as to commit economic treason by taking out ads in foreign newspapers telling people not to invest in Ontario. Basically the business community made it a self-fulfilling prophecy. This was at a time when the new Reaganmoics was popular even among mainstream and moderate politicians and an absolute religion of the business community. If the business community believes that the premier wearing a purple hat on a Tuesday will crash the economy then that’s exactly what will happen if the Premier doesbecause they will wage a “capital strike” and withhold investment, close operations, etc etc. Third it’s also worth noting that all this occurred during the worst economic recession similar the Great Depression and everyone was in uncharted waters. It’s doubtful that any premier could turn back a tidal wave that was sweeping the entire world Im not saying Rae’s policies, had he been able to implement them would have worked even under the best conditions. And given the prevailing ideology of the rest of North America there’s no way they could have worked. Even the sanest and smartest ideas are doomed if everyone else thinks they’re crazy and the consensus among business and government leaders was that Rae was crazy and needed to get with the new ideology. So what happened is he went in on a big spending plan, then backtracked and submitted to Reaganomics, throwing his labour support under the bus while not redeeming himself in the eyes of his critics amd his spending all went to waste. 4) The Canadian dollar ebbs and flows vs the US dollar for a variety of reasons none of which are directly related to whether the government happens to be running a deficit or not. IRONICALLY the value of the Canadian dollar was never lower than when Chretien-Martin austerity was as its peak. That actually had the effect of attracting foreign investment into Canada. Canada can’t haven Greece’s problem because Greece’s problem stems from the fact that it doesn’t control its own currency as it uses the Euro so doesn’t have monetary levers available unlike Canada. Canada also has substantial assets backing its liabilities that other countries don’t. For example Canada Pension Plan is 100% funded on a going concern basis whereas other countries pensions and similar obligations including the US Social Security system, operate on a “pay as you go” basis. This is why Canada’s net debt is the lowest in the G7 Sidebar: History lesson time! I know you hate reading and learning so skip to #5 if you don’t want to know how much you don’t know Greece along with Italy, Spain Portugal, (and I believe also Ireland and Iceland to a lesser extent) were relatively poor countries right into the late 20th century. Spain and Greece were actually ruled by dictators as recently as the 1970s. I mean these countries still had substantial populations living in villages with no electricity and in the southern European countries there were hillside slums etc. The western nations (ie the US) were concerned about growing sympathy for communism among the impoverished masses in these countries and so helped these countries borrow huge amounts of money to catch up with the west, join the first world, embrace capitalism etc. So massive amounts of long-term government debt transformed these countries into first world countries in an extremely short amount of time although there was still a very high level of corruption, tax evasion and inefficient, unproductive government spending. The chickens came home to roost when Greece joined the Eurozone and adopted the Euro, a currency driven by highly productive and competitive economies like Germany and France who drove the value of the Euro up. Now Greece’s massive debt is refinanced in high-flying Euros making it more expensive. The gun is loaded. Then came the global financial crisis which hit Greece's economy especially hard and increasingly conservative investors pull back from high-debt countries. The trigger is pulled. Greece’s economy can’t generate the income needed to make those payments in expensive Euros and because it doesn’t have a sovereign currency to print which is an important measure. Of note the crippling austerity measures that were imposed actually WORSENED Greece’s recession as huge numbers of public employees were let go causing a ripple effect through the economy, causing Greece to need even more bailouts and letting up on austerity. 5) It doesn’t sound like net capital outflow is the “first time in our history” Do you have a link for that claim? Money tends to flee smaller markets like Canada during global uncertainty or when US and other countries offer better opportunities for returns. Canada has some challenges foe sure but you fail to demonstrate how defecit spending is the reason for capital outflow. As I mentioned last time, you’re mostly just listing off anything negative about the Canadian economy oe markets and them magically claiming debt is to blame without showing any attempt at linking the 2. . And it’s not obvious why they would leave just because Canada doesn’t have a balanced budget. I’ll say it again we have the lowest debt in the G7 and our budget deficit relative to the size of our economy is also m the smallest so your argument doesn’t make sense. In closing, nearly all developed countries regularly run deficits and only on the rare occasion balance a budget. It would appear that deficits are a feature, not a bug, of a capitalist market economy. You are trying to hide in your arbitrary definition of what is “substantial” vs “small” deficit, trying to equate the latter with a balanced budget as in when you say “at least half the time there was a small deficit or balanced budget” when in fact it’s nearly always been a deficit which is different from a balanced budget. As Ive said all along there are limits to how much debt a country can acquire but there is never any need to consistently balance a budget.

*sigh” Nobody is spraying anything. We know exactly what is in what the crackpots call “chemtrails”. It is water. Condensation occurs when water vapour condenses and freezes around small particles in jet engine exhaust, forming clouds that trail the aircraft. That is why it is called a condensation trail or contrail for short. The higher the humidity level in air, the longer the contrails last. The “chemtrails” jibberish is invented crackpot tin foil hat nonsense for the crowd that also believes in lizard people and flat earth.

Ah the annual racist anti-indigenous rant. Ironically incessantly whining about the tiny percentage of your tax dollars going to someone who is not you, while dismissing genocidal acts that have consequences on people to this day is the pinnacle of “being wrapped up in your own victimhood”

The 15-week old FETUS was already non-viable dipshit. That means it had zero chance of survival, as proven by the fact that one of the twins inside her was already dead. The right insists that pregnant women should die along with their non-viable zygotes, blastocysts, embryos and fetuses because that’s what they signed up for when they decided to get pregnant or even to have sex. And that’s a perfect example of the vile and despicable ideology they follow.

That chart is misleading because it is showing constant dollars but as if money had the same value then as today but in 1940 you could buy a new car for $700 and the average annual income was just short of $1,400 PER YEAR so of course the budget in constant dollars is going to look like that. Here is a realistic depiction of US budget relative to the size of economy (ie as percentage of GDP) Notice anything? Note the second chart is from 2013 and anything past the vertical line at that year on the right was just their prediction of future budgets at that time but I include it here because it shows deficits back to the year 1900. For prosperous countries, deficits are the norm, always have been. Balanced or surplus budgets are the rarity. They only occur briefly and infrequently. As Ive said there’s a limit to how much debt a country can carry its not infinite but it’s not zero Explain how government borrowing harmed the economy. Explain the cause and effect, don’t just point to some economic indicators you don’t like and then claim somehow borrowing must have caused it Also compared to other countries Canadas economy isn’t so trashed. Inflation has returned to 2% target, unemployment remains at historic average. Income and savings rates have started moving back up even when adjusted for inflation. Canada’s debt-GDP ratio is still one of the lowest in G7 and 5th lowest in top 32 countries. Not all indicators are positive but it’s not the doom and gloom you make it out to be

Other Trump lies/idi0cies in the current news cycle, Trump on Hurricane Helene: TRUMP: “nobody thought this would be happening, especially now it’s so late in the season for the hurricanes.” FACT: The Atlantic hurricane season is June 1st to November 30th and peaks in September TRUMP: Biden never called Governor of Georgia Kemp to discuss hurricane damage FACT: Confirmed by Governor Kemp (R) he had in fact been in touch with Biden and was offered all the help he needed https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4908016-georgia-kemp-biden-hurricane-helene/amp/ Trump is just so desperate now he’s just blindly and aimlessly shooting off half-baked easily disprovable lies in every direction, whatever pops into his head at the moment. Of course this has long been his hallmark, so it’s probably not so much that he’s taken his lying to a whole new level as much as he is just speaking a lot more frequently now. But the subject of his lies does seem to be a bit more random and less focused than before

You can’t make this shit up, people Smith says she “spoke to the woman who controls the airspace” and “the other person” about chemtrails. LMAO even the way she describes this ridiculous nutjob conspiracy makes her sound like an absolute mor0n And the conservative crowd boos when she says it’s out of her hands to do anything about it If you don’t know what the crackpot chemtrails conspiracy nonsense is, look it up, it’s right up there with Lizard People and Flt Earthers Alberta Premier Danielle Smith comes under fire for comments about chemtrails Smith faced criticism after she spoke about chemtrails this past weekend at a United Conservative Party town hall in Edmonton. During the town hall, in response to an audience member’s concerns about chemtrail spraying over Edmonton, Smith said, “The best I have been able to do is talk to the woman who is responsible for controlling the airspace, and she says no one is allowed to go up and spray anything in the air.” When the crowd hooted and booed, Smith said, “That’s what she’s told me.” Smith added, “The other person told me that if anyone is doing it, it’s the U.S. Department of Defense.” Smith said if the U.S. is hitting Alberta with chemtrails, her hands are somewhat tied as a regional leader in Canada. “I have some limitations in what I can do in my job,” she said. “I don’t know that I would have much power if that is the case, if the U.S. Department of Defense is spraying us.” https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/alberta-premier-danielle-smith-comes-under-fire-for-comments-about-chemtrails-1.7058333

As if anyone needed more proof that Trumpism is a cult: Trump tells cheering audience that he doesn’t use teleprompters while the teleprompters are clearly visible on either side of him As always his kool-aid drinkers are clearly indifferent when Trump’s words directly contradict observable reality just like good little cult followers

Actual historical evidence suggests otherwise. As Ive said repeatedly 1) no non-oil country has ever consistently run balanced budgets over extended periods and 2) the countries that did have the maximum prosperity for their people (ie USA and the entire first world) ran substantial deficits for substantial periods of time. The market itself is rife with incompetence and bad behaviour but what it wants most of all in the physical and social infrastructure to conduct business. That means publicly funded roads, airports, education, sanitation, law enforcement etc etc. Do you honestly believe businesses are indifferent or opposed to these things? In fact a big reason for deficits is because than DEMAND these services but don’t want to pay taxes to cover them. In fact more so than taxes, public services are the primary reason a company would chose for its location Do you think a company that requires a highly educated workers would relocate to country where education is scarce? Do you think a company that relies on shipping would choose to relocate to a country whose roads and ports are poor quality and unreliable? It’s only AFTER these many types of concerns are addressed to the company’s satisfaction that they start looking at taxes Lastly I will point out that economic growth only occurs when money is borrowed as that is the only time that new wealth is created. While public sector borrowing shouldn’t be the primary driver of growth, it provides a “baseload” of borrowing That money isn’t shot into space, it’s paid to workers and private sector contractors who in turn spend it in the market economy supporting other businesses and other jobs Theres a reason Ottawa an provincial capital cities tend to have lower unemployment numbers during recessions compared to rest of the country and that’s not a bad thing I will echo my earlier comments, to state once again that no only is there ZERO historical real-world evidence of this claim, that actual historical evidence directly contradicts it.

Let’s not forget you and your feet RWNJs believe he’s done more than simply evade taxes, you have all these false and/or exaggerated stories about illicit foreign cash and Joe Biden being involved in these schemes. The “arguments ” you folks have for these spurious claims include that “ “common sense” tells you his dad being in the White House would be the only reason anyone would pay him so much money. And yet here we have Kushner who is far less qualified for his role and is being paid far more money, for seemingly no results

Wow such an intelligent nickname did you have kindergartener invent that for you? Of course you will because you’re a conspiracy nut who also is so gullible they fall for Kremlin propaganda over and over.

Same goes for Hunter Biden but that doesn’t stop you from screaming like a madman with all your wild conspiracies

You scream your Hunter Biden conspiracies but here is an actual real world example of a presidents son (in law) clearly taking Millions from Saudis for dubious purposes and you’re like “meh no need to look into it”. The right obsessed whether Hunter is qualified to sit on a board of directors so allege crimes must have occurred but you’re not concerned that Kushner isn’t qualified to manage billions of Saudis money Kushner’s firm has made more than ten times than what Hunter’s firm is alleged to have earned yet you can’t even raise an eyebrow Typical right wing hypocrite

Governments never need to balance budgets. There’s a limit to how much debt they can hold at any given point in time but it’s not the “zero” number people on the right have recently been claiming. For example Japan’s Government Debt to GDP in Japan averaged 148.49 % of GDP from 1980 until 2023, reaching an all time high of 260.10 percent of GDP in 2022 and a record low of 50.60 percent of GDP in 1980. As of last year it was 255%. Japan still exists. The religion of balanced budgets has only recently become widely accepted as a tenet of neoliberalism but previously it wasn’t widely accepted especially when British empire and the American empire rose to prominence out of government spending and debt. Youve got it backwards. The US dollar became the world standard AFTERWARDS, not BEFORE. Also the same thing worked for Canada and Western Europe it was government spending and planning that created the third world standard of living. Public sanitation, water, sewer, building codes, consumer protections, roads, highways, airports schools universities, on and on and on….those things didn’t just pop up spontaneously they were planned and funded by the government. They were DELIVERED by the private sector but only at the behest and expense of government.