How can a country that prints it's own money be in debt and have so many homeless poor people? In Oregon alone--the number of homeless people is approximately around 13,238 according to online reports. This means,the numbers has increased from 12000 in 2017.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.There are tent cities showing up here in Colorado Springs. There is not a lack of sympathy for the homeless in these tents. What lacks is the apparent lack of the homeless in these stick-and-tarp communities-- to clean up after themselves.
Jack-of-scythes
Level 6
Feb 10, 2018
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There are tent cities showing up here in Colorado Springs. There is not a lack of sympathy for the homeless in these tents. What lacks is the apparent lack of the homeless in these stick-and-tarp communities-- to clean up after themselves.
Jack-of-scythes
Level 6
Feb 10, 2018
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The country can print money, but it will be worthless. Hyperinflation will pursue if the treasury department start printing more money. Germany did it before Hitler took over, and one needed a barrel full of money to buy a loaf of bread. Argentina did the same thing and that the currency lost its value.
noworry28
Level 8
Feb 9, 2018
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Ask conservatives. They really do not give a damn about anyone who is not white, well off, and of the same cultural beliefs as they have.
wordywalt
Level 9
Feb 9, 2018
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Many whites are in same shite like me.
@wordywalt your gross misrepresentation is based on your uneducated bias. I'm conservative but I'm not racist, I don't dismiss people because of their beliefs and I am sure as hell not well off. I think you need to learn more about people before you start slinging insults. You literally just projected your insecurities on to a group of people you know nothing about. I'm not surprised though, liberals these days tend to be racist, sexist, elitist and unwilling to engage with people whos views differ from their own.
@jayneonacobb I am not surprised by your angry, and false misrepresentation.
I was a conservative once, but by engaging in serious and probing analysis of the logical, factual, and moral underpinnings of the conservative stance, I came to understand that it is not logical, fdactual, or moral.
@wordywalt I think you're confusing conservatism with republicans. It's an ideology, not a set of statistics. It's plenty logical, it's just logic you don't agree with. Morality is subjective. Also I wasn't angry, I was just pointing out how ignorant your statement was.
@jayneonacobb As a former conservative, I know the territory. My statement was not ignorant. When maturing enough intellectually and morally, I shed my religion and my conservatism both over 55 years ago.
I think you might just have been a bad conservative if that's your view of them.
@jayneonacobb No. you are just a slow learner.
No, actually I graduated top of my class from every school I've ever attended, including one of the top private schools on the east coast. I hold the highest degree possible in my field.
@jayneonacobb Well, for comparison's sake, I have a master's degree with substantial coursework in political science and American intellectual history. I also earned membership in PHI Kappa Phi, a university wide academic honors society at the graduate level. So, neither am I some ignoramous. I think deeply and probingly about what I believe. DON'T EVER accuse me of "ignorant bias. That is a damnable lie! hurled at me simply because you disagree with my perspective -- and totally uncivil conduct!!!
Well, then you must be familiar with the old saying, "If you're not a liberal in your twenties you have no heart. If you're not a conservative in your forties you have no brain."
Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. You have a lack of knowledge of what conservatism is. No, it's not uncivil, you just decided to get upset about it. It's not an accusation now anyway because you have shown that you do not understand the fundamental difference between an ideology and a hypothesis. You are the one slinging insults. You are the one getting mad. You shouldn't post insulting opinions like that and then get upset when someone calls you out on it. Your elitism is showing.
@jayneonacobb You just can't back off your gross lies and distortions, can you? You show your lack of civility, character, and intelligence. This is my last word. I will not respond further to your intellectually and morally dishonest crap.
Typical liberal elitist mentality. You can dish it out, but God forbid your views are challenged. You refuse to accept intillectual diversity based on your bigotry. You label anything you disagree with as evil and backwards. That's immature and petty. By all means, keep proving my point though.
because you print it for the people that already have lots of money !
markdevenish
Level 7
Feb 9, 2018
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In the United States, we print our own money, that used to be backed by gold or silver. You could exchange it for gold or silver. Now money is backed by nothing. A dollar has value only because we all agree it does, as a medium of exchange. So we don't have to barter our goods. We exchange our goods and services for pieces of paper that we agree has value. We COULD just build infrastructure and feed the poor and take care of healthcare and put it on a credit card. We owe the money to ourselves or to another country. They are free to come and get what we owe them.
See what would happen if one of the doomsday scenarios happened and society stopped. What would be valuable then? Food, water, shelter, fire. Money? What good would it be if you had those other essentials?
david75090
Level 7
Feb 9, 2018
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I have no answer brother
A privately held company called the federal reserve mints our (US) money. I think that about sums it up.
jayneonacobb
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Feb 9, 2018
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