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I seriously doubt Americans will ever acquire enough maturity to elect a female President.

It depends on what you mean by effective. Many do not prevent infection; however, they do significantly reduce the risk of serious debilitation or death. I don't need to wish for anything. Mother Nature does her thing. In the event of a virus with a 90% death rate, vaccinated people will significantly outnumber the naturally immune.

Fear of polio was a very real concern in my generation, there were plenty of photos of people condemned to spend the rest of their lives in an iron lung. I got both the Salk and Sabin versions of the polio vaccines. Polio is still endemic in Pakistan and Afghanistan, mainly due to mullahs who set themselves firmly against Western medicine.

I would regard it as improving the intelligence of the gene pool. Holocaust victims did not get a choice. Anti-vaxxers would. False equivalence.

"If all the countries negotiate a better trade deal". If my auntie had balls, she'd be my uncle. So it's a gamble by Trump now? Remind me, how many casinos did he manage to bankrupt? And here's me being told he's a stable genius.

IMO we really need a virus with a death rate > 90%, to effectively clean out the ratbags.

"Always attack, slander insult the messenger". Let's see: Lying Ted Cruz Gavin Newscum Crooked Hilary Sleepy Joe Ron DeSanctimonious

I would be quite rich if I had a dollar for every quack posting on social media. They post there for money, because they can't cut the mustard in a normal medical practice. Kory was a proponent of ivermectin treatment of COVID. He had his certifications revoked by the American Board of Internal Medicine for spreading misinformation.

To perpetuate the species.

Statistically, long COVID affects far more unvaccinated people than it does those who got vaccinated. At the height of the pandemic, the unvaccinated that did not die were 6-7 times more likely to require ICU admission than the vaccinated. Unfortunately, medical science has not developed a prophylactic for the OP's obsession with irrelevant data.

Due to my travels, I have had more vaccines than most. Unfortunately for the OP, probabilities are not additive. I have also lived longer than the national average for Americans.

DOGE writes its own report card, and you believe it? Congratulations on a new level of gullibility in the MAGA ranks.

I can live with not being part of a rah-rah cult of intellectually-impaired people.

Not only is recession possible, there is a real risk of depression. The Smoot-Hawley tariffs of 1930 averaged 20% on about 40% of goods entering the USA. Now, 10% on EVERYTHING, plus more than 200% on anything out of China. You should lay off the Kool-Aid.

What do you think Trump is doing in the world? When you posted, the irony obviously escaped you entirely. Sure, Trump is giving Americans hope. False hope.

I get tired of the cult BS. Example: DOGE is saving billions by firing public service employees, in the name of "efficiency". When the US population was 150 million, there were 2 million federal public servants. Now there are 330 million Americans, still 2 million federal employees. That's efficiency. For every federal employee, there are 10 public servants i State and local government. Trump and Musk can't fire them, only state governors can. Cult BS.

I am wondering why you are wasting your time on ASEAN threads, when you could be busy elevating yourself to billionaire status with your unerring prognostications of the share market.

Too many conservatives being overly generous with tax cuts and concessions to rich people. In case you have trouble keeping up, that's the cause of a housing and rental crisis in the West. Specifically the UK, USA and Australia. The first sentence of your post is soooo stupid.....

Wealth inequality also causes revolutions.

Thanks for the confirmation.

You don't think companies would exaggerate the cost of their losses? Working for a company that was getting R&D subsidies from the Australian Government was a real eye-opener. It's a bit like liquidators, who charge $200/hr for the office secretary in charge of the photocopier.

How often do loans get rolled over into new loans? It's a game for the wealthy. How much wealth should a family be able to build? You don't seem to understand the middle class is being hollowed out, the poorest classes are being replaced by robots, and wealth inequality of this generation is unprecedented. If that does not trouble you, perhaps you need an empathy transplant.

How will taxing revenue "eliminate any chance of maintaining our edge"? That sounds like a response without any thought behind it, a reflex. So what is your method of reducing wealth inequality?

Someone who keeps his word.

Fred should be flat broke. If he still owns a private jet and a casino, he is not. The solution is not obvious to most. Forget about taxing on profit and deducting on loss, there are too many ways to legally evade taxes with some jiggery-pokery. Tax on revenue instead, 1-2%. Revenue can't be fiddled, it just is. Wealth inequality is created when wages are taxed at far higher levels than billionaires, who can simply take out loans against growing assets to provide the cash for their lifestyle. Wages are revenue. You'll eliminate the debt in 1-2 years. When I was earning six figures, I would have loved to be taxed at 2%.