Guys like Howard Schultz say the 'system' is broken, but is it really broken?

[ck4829]

When you have a White House and a Senate that has a party and people in charge with support from the same people who supported the 2003 Iraq War to bring on the end times, who tried to turn "liberal" into a dirty word, think surviving a school shooting and being angry about school shootings is "socialism" and the kids who don't want to get shot are paid by George Soros, and think there are sex slave clubs in pizzerias and sex colonies on Mars; then how do you expect the government to look?

[FSogol]

1. LOL, If someone wants him to pay his fair share of taxes it is broken!

[ananda]

2. It's broken ... on purpose!

That's the whole end goal of the malicious oligarchy
that runs our country via Russia.

[flying_wahini]

3. It's rigged. There is a difference. The GOP will do ANYthing to win. Anything.

[ariadne0614]

4. "Billionaire" isn't a qualification. (via Twitter @shakestweetz)

“It's the description of a person who is hoarding more resources than they could use in 100 lifetimes while other people are starving. It's the name for a human dragon sleeping on its pile of rubies and gold.”

https://mobile.twitter.com/shakestweetz/status/1090346926376189953

[Fullduplexxx]

5. I find myself wondering if he is actually trying to help us by trying to appear

As a djt alternative not to split the dems vote but to give the cons someone else for which to vote

[lastlib]

7. No. He's not trying to help anybody or anything except his own ego.

[Fullduplexxx]

9. Well i guess i could re-word as he may end up helping them dems in providing an alternative to it

[lastlib]

6. The "System" isn't broken--the people working inside it for their own benefit are broken.

The only thing I would change about "The System" is to take the big money OUT of it.

Like somebody said, the only repuglikans are billionaires and suckers. Check your wallet to see which you are.

[Johonny]

8. They've been saying that since 1776

[Caliman73]

10. Yes the system really is broken. The problem is WHO is to blame.

It is all in the attribution.

Republicans and the wealthy people who support them like to attribute the breaking of the system to poor people with loose morals and immigrants. They say that poor people having children out of wedlock and immigrants overload the system and "we just don't have enough money to go around for that sort of thing".

Liberals/Progressives attribute the broken system to those same billionaires and wealthy people who use their wealth to influence politicians to make laws that protect their assets and use government resources to protect them at the expense of the VAST majority of people in the country and globally. When there are initiatives to distribute the resources of the nation to include poor people and the middle class to improve their quality of life, there is an outcry that there will be catastrophic damage to the economy over spending of say a hundred billion dollars or even a trillion over the next decade. There is no such outcry to tax cuts for them that will result in the same trillion dollar loss in revenue. There is no outcry over spending over 3 trillion dollars in the last 15 years for two unnecessary and ongoing military engagements in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So, as you pointed out in your OP, Yes...the system is broken. Where Schultz and idiots like him get it wrong is WHO broke it. People like him broke it. People like Sheldon Adelson, Rupert Murdoch, the Walton's, the Mercer's, the DeVoss' and Prince's who buy politicians like McConnell, like Ryan, McCarthy, Nunes, etc... to hollow out the economy by funneling money to the top where it sits until they want to buy something or someone else.

Regular people drive the economy. My family buying milk and eggs, clothing, toys, video games, books, a vacation every once in a while, a new car every 5 to 10 years. There are a few hundred million of us that do that on a daily basis. The wealthy make their money off of us, then their money makes more money off of us because that is how they set up the system. They think that they drive the economy but without the rest of us they'd have nothing. They are greedy and self involved and THAT has broken the system not us.

[Gothmog]

11. For this thread

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