But all we, they, everyone seems to do is point blame. No real solutions are ever pursued, but we continue to play along with the game, when it needs a fundamental change.

We can hold administrations accountable for their actions, but it's also important to figure out exactly where and how things have gone wrong so that corrective action can be taken. I don't see how that is intellectually lazy; if anything, the opposing view point is intellectually lazy, or at least flawed (just as my view point is inherently flawed, because I have no easily implementable solution)

Casting blame, intellectually lazy. This administration fucked up here, we need the other party in office for x,y,z. Why? We continue to vote and contribute to this flawed system that pushes the status quo. Which leads us to Trump, where I believe he saw this opening, and lead with, albeit lies or at least empty promises, jobs, draining the swamp, etc.

Decrease govt spending
Audit govt programs
Lower the defense budget
Shrink overall govt

I've heard arguments for it, and I'm on the fence, but I also think removing the minimum wage may help stimulate the job market, and I think education is at a critical point here. We are dancing on the edge of a student loan bubble already as it is, and we are losing trade/skilled labor force.

Not to derail what was being said, but I think the discussion naturally doubles back to a lot of these things.

It's important to cast blame because it highlights the bad policies to avoid continuing in the future, rather than for scoring points over republicans.

Found a picture of Ghot.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1026150926271143936

But bad policies/political action persist through changes of parties/administrations.. no real change is had. I agree blame is important, but for the large majority of people, the discussion ends there. People can't get past the blame, through to the actual issues that need some form of reformation. Everyone can stand back and criticize things after the hand is played out, or at least some cards are shown (again, not saying I don't do this myself) but our political system is in turmoil to say the least and it appears nothing is really being done to fix it. We get much of the same nonsense going on, govt pockets are protected, maybe a scapegoat is sacrificed for the rest of the political herd, and everyone carries on.

An unfortunate consequence of polarization in the media, which is itself a consequence of unchecked merging of media companies to form giant media empires.

I mean, it sucks, but at least we got the Marvel movies, so it's not all bad.

nowadays there are plenty of ways to mess around with debt, i mean just look at japan

its kind of a funny situation that we have in the united states, as well as in europe
interest rates should go up by all objective criteria, but the central banks know that the state budget couldnt handle it

savings, pensions, purchasing power already get eaten by that policy, slowly, but its happening

Top notch funny guys. They are still toys anyway.