Rant from another thread: Years ago, when factory jobs were disappearing, we were told that was OK because the US was..

[FadedMullet]

.......moving towards being a service economy and displaced workers needed training to get them ready for these new jobs. I sat in classes with 40 year old unemployed foundry workers from Kaiser Aluminum who were being counseled to learn coding. This before computer programs took over coding. That said, it's about time that this idiot country of mine got serious about creating a "Sovereign Wealth Fund" that invested some of the wealth that this country creates every year and invested it for the benefit of all, not just the wealthy who skim off the top.

[Melon]

1. What money to invest? 18.6% of all of our revenue goes to paying a trillion dollars a year in interest

We need to balance spending to our earnings and hopefully reduce debt. By 2036 that will be $2 trillion a year debt. How do you invest when you are borrowing trillions a year?

[Cirsium]

2. Right wing argument

There are always $$$$ billions available to invest in prisons, the military and ICE. But when it comes to the health and well being of the people, suddenly we are broke?

[Melon]

4. I'm not right wing. Those aren't investments, their debt. Cutting the spending and debt.

We borrow money to pay our debt now. Our spending is so high we have a hard time servicing our debt. Just like a struggling household there is no money to invest. Bill Clinton balanced our budget. It needs to happen again.

Bill was not right wing.

[Cirsium]

5. I didn't say you were

I didn't say you were right wing.

The government is NOT "just like a struggling household," and that IS a right wing concept.

Clinton had a propensity for compromising with right wing ideas.

But you are avoiding answering my point. If the country is so broke, how come their is so much money for prisons, the military and ICE.

[Melon]

6. The country needs to cut spending. I agree with you.

Prisons are in relation to the incarceration rate. Decrease one and it decreases the other. If you release without cutting the crime it the same problem. I won’t argue ice. The police could also handle immigration enforcement. The military spending needs cut absolutely.

[WmChris]

3. TAX THE RICH & BIG BUISNESSES

[efhmc]

7. And do it in relationship to their profits like the rest of us are.