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Smart Bird: Fix It Rant
Social Security is a transfer tax from the current generation to the retired generation. It is a generational tax, not an investment account, so the rich in our generation should NOT get off the hook…
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Smart Bird: “You have to wipe these people out”
Gamestop is blowback to wall street. Wall Street wants protection. Two minutes of truth.
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Smart Bird: Millennials are Screwed
Millennials own less than 5% of all US wealth today compared to baby boomers at the same age who owned 21%. The economy and financial system have been rigged against them.
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Smart Bird: Does this bother anyone else
Pardoned General Flynn calls for martial law to overthrow Congress and the Courts and Trump holds a press conference saying he is going to do something to defend the election system…great, just great.
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Smart Bird: Not a Scientist but…
Meaning even if Americans were to take this seriously today, the US daily death rate will STILL probably exceed 3,000 daily in weeks.
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TSP Funds: The Current Situation
The bottom line: It sucks.
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TSP Smart: Hope for the Take Down of Wall Street
“And we can reorient our economy from wealth to work. To do all of that, we have to take on Wall Street power.
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Smart Bird: An Historian on “Originalism”
I’ve spent the last years learning about the concentration of wealth in America and how this has come about from an economic perspective. I seem to be stumbling into the other side of the coin… how the concentration of power is being designed into our system. I’m not liking it. It seems very dangerous.
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Off Subject: Why Voter Suppression in Legal Again
Excerpts from Republican voter suppression efforts were banned for decades. Here’s what changed. 15 October 2020 Kevin Kruse (Historian) A federal judge finally allowed the consent decree to expire in late 2017, believing the issue had been put to rest. The… Read More ›
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TSP Smart: Short History of Boeing’s Crashes
Boeing spent $43 billion on buybacks and ran their price up 400%. The buybacks stopped, skimped on design costs and they ran into a cash problem and their price plunged. The end.