Good Jobs, Higher Pay. Thank You, Joe Biden. Common Sense Economics: Instead of the Republican Plan: More Money For the Super Rich, Biden is Working for the American People... Not the 1%

Let's Repeal and Replace tRUMP's Tax Cut for the Rich Law... That Madness Has Harmed the USA...

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Bubble UP! Economics. LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans and Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... The Total Will Remain the Same! We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy. All Boats Float in a Rising Tide!

Even if Billionaires Pay Taxes, They'll Still be Billionaires! With Increased Sales Due to the BUBBLING Economy, Profits Will Increase... Making Stockholders Happy... EVERYONE WINS! Including Jeff Bezos Because We'll be Buying Stuff at Amazon!








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How Does Bubble Up Economics Work? Raise Wages and People Will Spend the Money at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Everyone Wins! Raise Social Security Checks TOO!

With a $15.00 an Hour Minimum Wage people will have money to spend on things that they cannot afford to buy now. The Money will BUBBLE UP Through Out the Entire Economy. Corporations will get more sales... More Profits... and they will have to HIRE more employees to handle the increased business. More Stock Clerks, More Cashiers, More Truck Drivers... and those people will spend their paychecks at American Businesses... all boats rise on a tide... Employers Win, Employees Win, Stockholders Win...



So, what can one person DO to get this Economic Plan Enacted?
Well, Like and Share this Post... Copy and Paste the images and Ideas... Write your own Blog... Rant on Facebook and Twitter...

What we need to do is spread valid ideas in order to counteract the propaganda spewed by Corporate "Think Tanks" like The Cato Institute or The Heritage Foundation... They will make up any story to enrich the Upper Class.

They work on the Backwards-World Scientific Principle... Write conclusions first then find "Facts" to support what they want to sell.

Real Science collects Facts first, then looks at them to find conclusion. The exact opposite to Cato & Heritage...










What IS Bubble UP Economics and How Does it Work? Simply LOWER Taxes on 99% of Americans and Actually Collect Taxes on the Top 1%... The Total Will Remain the Same! We The People Will Spend that Extra Money in Our Paychecks and it will BUBBLE UP! Throughout The Entire Economy. All Boats Float in a Rising Tide!

Then Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour and Raise all Social Security Checks 15%. All Those people will spend the extra money at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never!

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady...



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I went looking for a quote and could not find it, however it works like this. If you give assistance to the little people they will spend it in the local stores, thereby keeping the stores open and those folks getting paychecks. The stores will order supplies and keep the suppliers and the delivery drivers in business, thereby paychecks flow to those workers and so on and so on. The money keeps working it's way up and finally gets to the mortgage lenders, business lenders and finally to those who profit by all that consumer activity. In the end, the wealthy finally get their hands on it, but in the meantime all others have also benefited.

ARE YOU SAFE? Expect Mass Arrests if Trump Elected. Thousands of Democrats, RINOS and "The Deep State" will be Sent to Concentration Camps for BOGUS Criminal Charges. #InvetigateIvankaGate #Jared2Billion #LockHimUp #DumpTrump

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Everyone that isn't a ULTRAMAGA Trumpanzee will be Attacked... Arrest, IRS Audit, FBI Phone Confiscation, Deportation... Not to Forget a Civilian Army of QAnon Freaks Harassing Trump's Supposed Enemies and their Families!


Organizations that are Likely to Be Shut Down: ACLU, Planned Parenthood, League of Women Voters, ALL Non Christian Churches...


Presidential Pardons for ALL January 6th Insurrectionists... and MAGA GAGA GOO GOO Loyalists will have all Crime Declared Legal!
How to Defend Yourself From #TrumpAttack - Delete all of Your History from the Internet...
Ho will the MAGA Madmen Know About You if They Can't Find You By Doing a Google search?
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If Elected, Trump Will Cause Global Economic Collapse. He Plans to Declare Bankruptcy for the Entire USA... So We Won't Have to Pay the Interest on the National Debt. BUT...

Then The Entire World will Go Bankrupt and MASS STARVATION will happen... The Only People that will survive are Hunter/Gatherers and Subsistence Farmers...

"The Debt Ceiling is just one more thing Trump doesn't know very much about." - Said JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/11/investing/jamie-dimon-trump-banks-debt-ceiling/index.html?utm_source=business_ribbon

Former President Donald Trump urged Republican lawmakers to let the United States default on its debt if Democrats don't agree to spending cuts. MAY 10 2023
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/11/trump-endorses-debt-ceiling-default.html

Trump plays down consequences of a US default: 'Could be maybe nothing'
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plays-down-consequences-us-default-could-be-maybe-nothing-2023-05-11/

Trump is Old and in Bad Health. Will He Survive Until Election Day? The #RUNAWAY Movement is Gaining Momentum as Millions of Republicans Abandon the Party. "Too Much Crime." - "Endless Corruption" - "They REFUSE To Make America Great! What's Up With That???"


Trump's Just a Knock, Knock, Knockin on Hell's Door...


What Did Trump DO to Make Your Life Better? ANYTHING??? ANYTHING AT ALL??? Go Ahead... Name Something He Actually Accomplished... You CAN'T! He's a Total Failure...

Yes, tRUMP Signed the Help Crazy People Buy Guns Law... HJ RES 40... and Yes, He Signed the Tax Cut for the Rich Law... But Did Either of those Actions Make YOUR LIFE BETTER???



Remember: Trump Signed the Help Crazy People Buy Guns Law... HJ RES 40... and now we have a Madman Murder 18 People in Maine... Where the Laws are Tragic... Insane!

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-joint-resolution/40 If a person gets a Social Security Check due to INSANITY They No Longer have to Report That Fact on a Gun Purchase Background Check...


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POP QUIZ! What Do These People Have in Common??? Jenna Ellis=GUILTY, Sidney Powell=GUILTY, Kenneth Chesbro=GUILTY, Scott Hall=GUILTY, Stewie (shot himself in the eye with his own gun) Rhodes=Guilty, Peter Navarro=Guilty, 4 Proud Boys=Guilty, 23 Oath Keepers=Guilty, Allen Weisselberg=Guilty, Jesse Benton=Guilty, Lev Parnas=Guilty, Igor Fruman=Guilty, Steve Bannon=Guilty, Nikolas Cruz=Guilty, John Lambert=Guilty, Roger Stone=Guilty, Paul Manafort=Guilty, Mike Flynn=Guilty, Michael Cohen=Guilty, Rick Gates=Guilty, George Papadopoulos=Guilty, Alexander Vanderzwaan=Guilty, Duncan Hunter=Guilty, Chris Collins=Guilty and Over 1,000 QAnon Freaks that Have Been Arrested for Storming the US Capitol on January 6th and FAILING to Overthrow The US Government and Crown Trump King...
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Trump was Right. Being a Draft Dodger was a Smart Move. Getting a Doctor to say he had "Bone Spurs" might Have saved His Life... Much Better than Actually GOING to Vietnam and Killing People for No Reason.






Trump was right. Hiring a doctor to give a Fake "medical" deferment was a better idea than going to Vietnam... to Kill people for No Reason... my friends that went are still angry about being drafted.

If you had money... you could go to college for four years and get a 2S deferment... THAT'S Motivation to get good grades... If you flunked out... you went to Vietnam... 58,000 Americans died for nothing!

Was the Entire POINT of the Vietnam War Marketing to sell Hughes Helicopters and DOW Chemical Napalm & Agent Orange?

I wish I Had Gone to MORE Anti-War Protest Marches... I'm Glad I Protested against the Vietnam war and I Protested Against the Idiot Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan too. Eventually the US Government Stopped Killing People for no reason... Because of Millions of Us Marching in the Streets!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qPUJhy0Dz4

Tucker Carlson Says: ‘Obviously’ We’re ‘Speeding Toward Assassination’ of Trump. Is Tucker Trying to Motivate a Madman to Pull the Trigger? Revenge for Trump Getting Him Fired at Fox? DO NOT KILL TRUMP. THAT WOULD BE WRONG.

According to Carlson, “both parties have decided that there’s something about Trump that’s so threatening to them, they just can’t have it.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-obviously-were-speeding-toward-assassination-of-trump

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If Someone DID Murder Trump, Then The Cult Followers Would Elevate Trump to a Christ Like Zeitgeist... SEE? He Was So Good He Had to Die... For YOU!

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#BubbleUP Economics Works! Raise the Minimum Wage to 15 Dollars an Hour - Raise All Social Security Checks 15% - WE PROMISE TO SPEND THE EXTRA MONEY. Increasing Sales, Increasing Profits... EVERYBODY WINS!

What IS Bubble UP Economics and How Does it Work? Simply Raise the Minimum Wage to Fifteen Dollars an Hour and Raise all Social Security Checks 15%. Then all Those people will spend the extra money in their paychecks at American Businesses. Increasing Profits. Making Stockholders Happy! Then those businesses will have to hire more people to handle the extra Customers. Decreasing Unemployment Insurance Payments. Everybody WINS! With EMPLOYMENT AT A JOB becoming a Viable Alternative to Selling Drugs for a Street Gang, Some teenagers will choose Employment... Reducing CRIME... Reducing Costs for Prisons... Reducing Costs for Law Enforcement... People will buy more food for their Children. Causing Better Health and Smarter Kids... Starvation is Not Good for Children's Brains... Farmers will sell More. Truckers will move more merchandise to stores. Increased Competition for Workers will cause Everybody's Wages to Go Up. All those Workers will pay more in Income Taxes... That would make the Government happy... Right NOW, we are having a National Debt Ceiling Crisis because the Government is Spending More that it Takes in with Taxes... Bubble UP Economics would reverse that trend... The Money Bubbles UP Through Every Layer of Society... With a rising tide, every boat floats! We Tried Ronald Reagan's "Voodoo" Economics and It Has Failed... "People" Say That Bubble UP! Economics WILL MAKE Employers LAY OFF Workers... However... Employers HAVE ALREADY LAID OFF EVERYONE THEY POSSIBLY CAN... Have you Ever Seen a Business where People Work There but Have Nothing To DO? Never! 

Who Could Possibly be Opposed to the JOY of Bubble UP! Economics? Well, there are people in this world that have COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME. It's a Mental Health Disease just Like The Crazy Cat Lady...

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and then on Facebook SC Said: 

This post has appeared in my feed several times now, and I'm disgusted by some of the things people are saying: calling employees "lazy" for not cleaning up the mess, and saying that they probably don't have enough employees because people "don't want to work because they get more on unemployment." I worked at JC Penney for 4 years, and this is very common in retail stores. It's NOT because employees are lazy. Employees can only do so much, and customers can truly be disgusting pigs! I could write a book about all of the nasty, disgusting things customers did when I worked at JCP. Employees did the best they could to keep up, but you can only do so much when a store is busy and you have to ring customers up on the register, or you have to help customers on the sales floor. During the holiday season, they hired extra seasonal workers whose entire job was to do nothing but fold clothes and put things back where they belonged, and even with extra employees, it was STILL impossible to keep up with the speed at which the customers went through and destroyed everything. This is NOT the fault of "lazy" workers. If you've ever worked in a department store, especially a big chain like a Macy's, you're not ALLOWED to be "lazy." The management makes sure the employees are doing their work at all times...and if a store is messy, I can promise you that there are people constantly working to get it cleaned up! 

I'm getting really sick and tired of hearing this mantra that "people don't want to work because they get more on unemployment." People DON'T get more on unemployment. Unemployment is NEVER as much as you make by working, and unemployment is finite. It doesn't last forever. Also, you don't get to just say, "I don't feel like working, so I think I'll just collect unemployment instead." In order to qualify for unemployment, you have to have been let go from your last job. You can't voluntarily quit a job and then collect unemployment. You have to be let go, and then you have to constantly show them that you are looking for work, and you can't turn down any work if it's offered. So no, nobody is just refusing to work because they'd rather collect unemployment. The system isn't set up that way. 

Customers in retail stores need to start showing a little more respect for retail workers. You probably look down on retail workers just like you look down at "burger-flippers." How DARE these people want a living wage?!?!? And in the meantime, you come in and trash their place of employment, probably thinking to yourself, "I don't have to clean up my mess. That's THEIR job! The lazy bums!" Show a little respect for working people. Quit trashing retail stores, and quit saying that nobody wants to work. And when you see a post like this one, quit blaming the employees and calling them "lazy." If you've ever worked retail, you KNOW this isn't the fault of the employees. They're working their tails off to wait on lazy, disgusting slobs who treat them like peons. Retail workers deserve a LOT more pay than they get, and they also deserve a lot more respect.

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What did Timothy Leary mean by "find the others"? Did he ever expand on this phrase? (Was he around to enjoy its popularity?) How did this phrase describe his own experiences? In what context does he suggest this course of action?

Here's the full quote from Timothy Leary :

Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.[2]

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Since 1945, The US Military Has Never Defended The USA. Not Even Once. Ever Since Victory over Japan, Every War Has Been a BOGUS Marketing Trick Designed to Sell Weapons for the Military Industrial Complex. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2019/07/great-book-americas-bogus-wars-since.html

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Trump-0-Nomics FAILED the 99% Embroidered Baseball Cap FOR SALE!

Awaken Americans! The Talking Heads on TV Keep on Saying that the Economy is "Booming" - BUT - That's only true for the SUPER RICH... We the People are Hurting BAD!

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tRUMP Fired the Entire Pandemic Response Team in 2018... INSANE! #TrumpVirus Has Killed 150,000* Americans SO FAR... More than World War One, 9/11 and Charles Manson Combined! (Death Total as of 7/29/2020) https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/true-trump-fired-entire-pandemic.html

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Remember: REFUSE TO VOLUNTEER FOR THE US MILITARY. Why Die For Corporate Profit? I Interviewed Hundreds of Veterans and They ALL Said It Was A Mistake... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/01/remember-refuse-to-volunteer-for-us.html

There Was Fifteen Years of Peace Following the End of The Vietnam War. WE WOKE UP! Americans Refused to Participate in Bogus Wars for Corporate Profit. https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2020/05/there-was-fifteen-years-of-peace.html

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Former GW Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson

"President Richard Nixon demonstrated that the GOP could win with a message of White grievance. That dubious achievement somehow got lodged in Donald Trump’s brain as a political ideal. But this time it will lead his party toward eventual and deserved failure.

Amid the social turbulence of the late 1960s and early 1970s, many White people were convinced that American identity was being assaulted, diluted or corrupted. Some tried to blame African American rioters, radicals and “agitators.” Some placed the main responsibility on hippies, weak-kneed liberals and pointy-headed intellectuals. Nixon took such resentments and sent them into political battle.

The strategy made political (though not moral) sense. When Nixon announced the existence of a “silent majority” in late 1969 and employed the “Southern strategy” in two presidential elections, he had two things going for him. First, about 88 percent of the U.S. population was White. Second, the social disorders that Nixon decried were widespread. In July 1967 alone, there were riots in Newark (where 26 people died), Plainfield, N.J.; Minneapolis; Detroit (where 43 people were killed); and Milwaukee. After the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in early 1968, violence spread to more than 100 cities. In that demographic and social environment, appeals to “law and order” were often disturbingly effective.

It sometimes seems like Trump has just emerged from a time machine — fresh from a delightful strategy lunch with Vice President Spiro Agnew, an instructive discussion on campaign ethics with Attorney General John Mitchell and an editing session with speechwriter Pat Buchanan. Trump stokes fears that minorities will invade the suburbs, that migrants will steal jobs and rape women and that Muslim refugees are “Trojan horse” threats. He attacks journalists as “enemies of the people.” He tries to lump peaceful protesters with violent provocateurs. It is all very much like Nixon — without the intelligence, military service, governing experience or geostrategic insight.

Trump’s advocates cite some factors in their favor. They claim that the dislocation caused by globalization is the dry underbrush for their populist wildfire. And among White evangelicals, Trump has taken full advantage of the fear and resentment fueled by lost social status.

But this is not Nixon’s America. About 72 percent of the American population is now White, and more minority children than White children are being born each year. Even given recent events in Portland, Ore., and Chicago, the level of social disorder does not compare to the late 1960s. A solid majority of Americans supports the aims of the Black Lives Matter movement, rather than fearing (as Fox News’s Tucker Carlson charmingly put it) that it will “come for you.”

It is absurd to talk about White grievance politics as the wave of the political future. Republicans are now determining if the 2016 presidential election was the last time this message worked, or the second-to-last time. The stakes are high between those two possibilities. But the direction of American society toward greater diversity is not in doubt.

This recognition (or its absence) matters greatly to the immediate future of Republican politics at the national level. One faction of thinkers and prospective presidential candidates (such as Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton) believes that the Trump wave is the new, permanent level of the ideological tide. They seek to practice Trump’s grievance politics minus the crazy. But they underestimate how discredited this type of politics has become because of Trump’s cruelty and deadly incompetence — and how complete the public repudiation of the GOP is likely to be in November.

The Nixon/Trump practice of White grievance politics is just one Republican ideological option. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Ronald Reagan reorganized the GOP message around the principle of economic opportunity, arguing for the moral achievements of democratic capitalism. Reagan disciples such as Jack Kemp turned a message of economic empowerment into an instrument of outreach.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, George W. Bush attempted to reconstitute the Republican message around the theme of community. Since human beings are shaped in the context of social institutions — such as families, neighborhoods and charitable organizations — compassionate conservatives sought ways to strengthen civil society.

These are the three elements of the modern Republican ideological triad: identity, opportunity and community. Contending that the last two are discredited or irrelevant is a ploy by Trump supporters and Trump’s liberal opponents to reduce Republican ideology to identity alone.

The appeal of opportunity is never spent because it is the economic expression of human creativity and institution building. The appeal of civil society is never finally exhausted because it emerges from our need for belonging and love. You might as well declare that the human kidney or liver is outdated.

The Trump occupation of the GOP is an intellectual and moral disaster. But there are paths of intellectual recovery beyond the ruins."

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