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Government Gift Card Rant #22 ( Opinion ) April 3, 2020 Automatic stabilizers for recessions makes the most sense as a policy in order to smooth out economic slowdowns. That concept means that basically as soon as the markets show signs of slowing, the federal government automatically disburses checks of a set sum until a recovery begins. It would not replace things like unemployment insurance, but rather serves as a way to put extrra capital in the pockets of Americans. Then, when the economy gets going again, the Federal Reserve would take the training wheels off, so to speak. Failing that (or even as a way to augment it), I have an idea for future US stimulus checks. We should send people gift cards, essentially, the value of which expires at the end of the fiscal year, or 365 days later or something. Maybe people get one every month and the value goes down by 10% each month it is unused, expiring entirely at the end of one year or 18 months. In a scenario with no autom

This Black Conservative Didn't Own Anything But A Poor Argument Rant #21 ( Opinion ) April 1, 2020 This video just bugged me as soon as it began: https://www.facebook.com/thehodgetwins/videos/813591575818557/ Wow, the one Black Trump supporter in that state soo "owned" the liberal there... K, first off, the KKK may've been originally founded by somebody who was a Democrat. Ok. And? Lincoln was a Republican. The parties had a different alignment back then. By no means do the party divisions of the Reconstruction era some 150 years ago have much to do with where they stand today on most issues. As a rough generalization, the GOP came about as a party which supported urbanization and manufacturing (the legacy of Hamiltonian ideology), eventually giving way to representing big business. But before that, the Republicans--beginning with Lincoln--did things to encourage education, by establishing public colleges; fostering railroads so that it could connect t

Radical Relationship Changes--Will They Ruin Society As We Know It? Rant #20 ( Opinion ) March 30, 2020 Homosexuality, birth control, children born out of wedlock, divorce, single mothers, casual sex, transsexuals--all sinful choices that will lead to a ruinous society, so say the right-wing, traditionalist, often religious voices. They've said this before. Radical shifts around sexuality and family structure rocked Western societies with the spirit of Enlightenment in the late 18th and early 19th century. It started in America and France (doesn't it always?) before it rocked the establishment conservatives of that time. What crazy, liberal, revolutionary new sexual and relationships started to become common then? Some people at that time began to practice the previously taboo act of marrying a person that they felt limerance towards. In other words, couples began to get married on the basis of infattuated feelings and love for one another. Which went against t