johnnybangkok

From Forbes magazine - 'It is simply a fact that since World War II, Democratic presidents have seen 24.4 million more jobs created on their watch—an average of 78.6% more jobs created per year of Democratic administrations—than have Republican presidents. Ditto real GDP growth, 44% higher under Democratic presidents. On the flip side, unemployment has been 18% higher under GOP presidents.' And you mentioned it before; Nine of the last 10 recessions have been under Republicans. https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2016/11/07/trump-is-right-about-one-thing-the-economy-does-better-under-the-democrats/?sh=a2b90d267868

All in all, Trump added over $8 Trillion to the national debt during his 4 years in office but how do you explain the $3 Trillion added to the national debt BEFORE Covid? https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump I'll give you a clue: tax cuts for the rich and corporations.

You are taking this far too personally. It is an online debate so no need for name calling or accusing people of lying. I am not lying. Banks regularly loan to people wihout the means to pay back as has been documented numerous times with the sub-prime fiasco being the largest and most damaging. If you cannot see that then I hope the closeted world you live in forever remains the same, but back on planet earth, people with little means to pay back are constantly targeted by lenders into taking on debt they can ill afford. Seldom is it about the lender 'misjudging' the loanee; mostly it's about greed. And the only reason I am pointing this out is that at no stage throughout this thread have you held the lenders to fault; your first admission being now with 'Sometimes the borrower is at fault and sometimes the lender or both'. Congratulations for stating the obvious but MY point is if the borrower obviously can't afford the re-payments then it is the lenders duty to not offer it in the first place. You talk about empathy but you have been blaming the borrowers all the time (see all your other posts) which is the epitome of lacking empathy and is victim blaming at it's finest. P.S. No need to reply. I get your one sided point of view but I'm pleased you are at least now holding the lenders to some type of accountability.

Denial isn't just a river in Egypt. If it was simply just about him questioning the election results then it wouldn't be as serious as it is. However, he and his cohorts went waaaaaay beyond just 'questioning', hence the indictment.

What absolute nonsense. Of course it's viewable and checked. Please educate yourself before posting. https://act.represent.us/sign/how-votes-are-counted

Here’s hoping one of the numerous legal challenges he now faces is his undoing. The man defrauded his own charity for gods sake. How anyone thinks he is fit for any office never mind the highest office is beyond me.

And the award for the most irrelevant post goes to …….

And what part of there is no such thing as “no doubt” don’t you understand? https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/policy-issues/innocence Perhaps you can explain to these 190 people who died because there was “no doubt” but later exonerated. Oh, you can’t because they’re dead.

DNA evidence has exonerated so many people when there was “no doubt that they are guilty” it’s not funny. But the rest of your point is just the financial side, correct? As has been pointed out to you before, the expense occurred through numerous appeals and delays with death sentence convictions are vastly higher than those with life sentences, so if that’s all that bothers you and we can’t risk killing an innocent person then a life sentence without parole is the only reasonable solution. Fortunately the vast majority of civilized countries agree with me and do exactly that.

I think you’re missing the point. Your original comment was about banning all crowds from all sporting events not some silly anecdotal scenario about rowing. Try and stay on track (pun intended).

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bath water - why should the vast majority of sensible, respectful fans suffer for the sins of the few? What a ridiculous suggestion.

God not this old chestnut again! Apart from the fact innocent people have been executed in the past, the death sentence has been proven to NOT deter or even reduce crime. All it ends up being is revenge and for a society to say I will be murdering someone because I want revenge, makes that society as bad as the criminal.

Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. If you want to head to a sporting event and hurl racial abuse at players then expect to be ejected or even arrested. Im getting bored of people trying to justify obviously unreasonable behavior with “but, but, my freedom of speech!”

What absolute nonsense. So by your reasoning I could just walk into a bank and ask for a $1 million dollars on a “promise” to pay it back! Of course not. The bank will require assurances in the form of assets or regular, well paid work. If people are being loaned money without the means to pay back then it’s exactly the banks fault (much the same way it would be your fault if you loaned money to a deadbeat friend or your girlfriends “family”). As I said before, poor people will ALWAYS take money if it’s offered; it’s down to the lenders to have a duty of care and make sure they are able to repay it.

And what of the responsibility of the lenders? There's so many on this thread with a holier than thou attitude, bemoaning the lazy Thai's who would rather borrow than work but there's very few pointing the fingers at irresponsible lenders who are handing over large amounts of money to obviously unsuitable candidates. Banks make their money by loaning and interest payments but as the sub-prime crisis showed us, they give not one jot to how they keep the profits rolling as long as the share-holders are happy and the gravy train keeps rolling. And when it all goes to $hit? Well that's not a problem as the government will bail them out as they are just too big to fail. People with no money will ALWAYS take easy money IF it is offered to them. It is the responsibility of the banks to qualify their ability to repay this money, which is obviously not happening here and which is leading to yet another financial meltdown.

This is NOT correct.

This is very wrong. Thai labour offices take these sort of things very seriosusly and will take up her case if it's justified. All she has to do is take her complaint to the local Labour office and put in a complaint. She WILL be heard and if they are breaking the law, she will get compensation and the owners will be fined and/or worse. However I think your biggest issue will be if she is willing to go and complain since it's a 'friend of the family'. If she does she will get a fair hearing and by the sounds of it, will win but it's getting her to do it in the first place. In the meantime, I found the following information for you:- Location Chiang Mai Provincial Labor Office , Administration Building, 1st floor, Chiang Mai City Hall, Chotana Road, Chang Phueak Subdistrict, Mueang District, Chiang Mai 50300. Telephone 0 5311 2621-2. Email chiangmai @mol.mail.go.th.

Freedom of speach does not mean freedom from consequences. If you are stupid enough to announce to the world “COVID-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.” then no amount of crying 'but, but, freedom of speach!' is going to protect you from the justifiable backlash.

Really? Is that the way you're going with this? In this thread alone you have mentioned how Hunter was ommitted from visitor logs, have blatantly pointed out 'Hunter's drug use has been well documented. No need to imagine anything' and continued with 'I am not doubting that cameras picked it up' infering that they know who it was and have therefore covered it up. You may see yourself as some cerebral heavyweight who can 'outfox' us all by not actually saying it's definately Hunters coke but you are agreeing with Trump on this, so it's not a great leap of faith to also assume you are also agreeing when he said "it means they destroyed the tapes & the Cocaine was for use by Hunter, & probably Crooked Joe, in order to give this total disaster of a President a little life and energy!” If your 'concern' was only about Whitehouse security and in your own words it 'Could be anyone', then why even mention Hunter? You can of course now categorily come out and say you don't believe it was Hunter but sorry, I don't think you're fooling anyone.

Yet you keep talking about a cover up. Who would they be covering up for then? The maid, the cleaning staff, the guy guiding the tours? Your inferance is there and we're just not that dumb not to notice.

It's a bag of coke not a 12 foot tall white rabbit. It was found in a cubby-hole near the West Executive entrance. All the person would have to do is turn their back to the camera and hey presto, nothing to see. You guys (and of course Trump) really are clutching at straws. If (and it's a very big if) Hunter was involved, don't you think he would have a better place to hide it.............. like in his own room or even up his own nose?

If you're not a Trump fan then why are you defending him? The two situations are vastly different in as much as Trump actually said what he said with his 'locker room talk' but I'm 99.99% sure this isn't Biden's cocaine (even if his son may have dabbled in the past). Trumps detractors used his own words and actions against him ('grab them by the pu$$y' and all that), but he is just outright slandering Biden with nothing other than made up nonsense. The sad part is it is effective enough for people like you to say 'Bidens son is a known drug user and the fruit generally does not fall far from the tree, both should be cavity searched every time they enter or leave the Whitehouse'. You are supporting his outright lies and continuing the nonsense he set in motion. That's why people will think you're a Trump fan.

How dare everyone hold Trump accountable for the things he actually says and the things he actually does. Heavens to Betsy, what is the world coming to! Now if you're done with your faux pearl clutching then you might want to know the difference between holding people accountable for what they actually said (in your own words 'in a private conversation in a golf course locker room' but what he said nonetheless) and just complete and utter made up garbage such as accusing the current POTUS of taking drugs with no other reason other than his son has had a past drug problem? If you don't see the difference then I'm not surprised you are a Trump fan.

“Does anybody really believe that the COCAINE found in the West Wing of the White House, very close to the Oval Office, is for the use of anyone other than Hunter & Joe Biden,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Regardless of where the stuff came from, I find it quite incredulous that an ex and possible future POTUS can openly accuse the current POTUS of taking cocaine, without an iota of evidence to substantiate his claim. I mean, anywhere else in the western world this would be seen as serious slander and would constitute an immediate apology and/or resignation but are Americans so impervious to this mans' nonsense they now just accept anything he says now? Are identity politics so ingrained now in the US that all civility, honesty and decorum have essentially fallen by the wayside, with one side (as I mainly see it coming from Trump and the GOP) literally tossing around any nonsense or allegation they deem fit without a single shred of evidence to back up their ridiculous claims? And so many still want this man to be the next POTUS. It really is a sad state of affairs.

I think we can both agree that something (anything) needs to be done and demonising these people, as Trump is trying to do, is not the solution. I think you know what I mean by criminal activity though and obviously their first criminal act has to be 'forgiven' to be able to move forward. As far as your other points; surprise, surprise it's a complicated and nuanced issue that needs much better equiped people than either you or I to solve but the first step MUST be to stop old policies that simply do not work and work on solutions rather than continually rehash the old ones. No one is happy there is 11 million undocumented immigrants but driving them underground to the detriment of themselves, their family and America in general CANNOT be the solution. As far as I can see, neither Trump nor the GOP are offering any new solutions at all, relying on the usual diatribe to pit the poor against the even poorer and distract everyone else while they literally loot the country (Trumps last tax cut added $8 trillion to the national debt). The Dems aren't great either but at least they are trying to come up with new solutions that balance practicality and public sentiment. However, they are contunually blocked in either Congress or The Senate when trying to adopt any meaningful change but at least one party has an eye on the future whilst the other is firmly rooted in the past. I know which one I'd go for.