Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Does DB in California think that the 1962 Nobel Prize winning Novelist John Steinbeck should have his books banned?

Does DB in Cal think that Pulitzer Prize winning Novelist Haper Lee should have her book banned in California?

Does DB in Cal think that Huckleberry Finn should be banned?   

Does our resident Dick?

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Not read any links on this topic..... but I would be willing to bet even odds that neither FL nor CA were statewide book bans. I could be wrong of course but I would say it was more localized than that for both. Thus making Rod's post little more than a dog whistle in his campaign to smear the FL Gov......

“Now, Florida has passed very broadly worded laws that limit what books can and cannot be in schools. Teachers who do not obey face penalties … Some activists and parents have taken these laws as free reign to remove whatever books they personally do not deem acceptable,..."
"Last year, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed legislation that requires school libraries in the state to seek community input on the materials made available to children."
Above as per the link in the OP.

“My books were removed because they were, according to the sole parent who made the challenge, ‘adult romance that should not be on school shelves.’ It is worth noting I do not write adult romance. The majority of the books that were targeted do not even have a kiss in them,” Picoult wrote in her opinion piece.

“What they do have, however, are issues like racism, abortion rights, gun control, gay rights, and other topics that encourage kids to think for themselves.”

"Also among those stripped from shelves were Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” Judy Blume’s “Forever…,” Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Angie Thomas’s “The Hate U Give,” as reported by Treasure Coast’s TC Palm."

"Picoult highlighted her book “The Storyteller,” a novel about the Holocaust that “chronicles the growth of anti-Semitism and fascism in Nazi Germany.”


“There was a strange irony that a parent wanted this particular book removed, because it felt a bit like history repeating itself,” she said, pointing to Nazi book burnings."

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3898749-jodi-picoult-doubles-down-against-florida-book-bans-in-new-op-ed/

“There should be no mistaking that Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse was a direct result of the Fed’s persistent and excessive interest rate hikes,..."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/13/business/svb-employees-angry-at-ceo/index.html

The nonsense of the so-called "woke" rationale for the bank failures aside, being blatantly false and intentionally misleading, as evidenced by Faux news erroneously claiming that SVB gave 73 million to black lives matter when, in fact, it gave zero dollars, the real reasons have been aptly stated by Senator Warren:
"Jerome Powell has failed at two of his main jobs, citing the raising interest rates and his support of bank deregulation."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/19/business/lloyd-blankfein-fareed-zakaria-gps/index.html
In Jerome Powell's world, it becomes necessary to destroy the American economy in order to save it....

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

The nonsense of the so-called "woke" rationale for the bank failures aside, being blatantly false and intentionally misleading, as evidenced by Faux news erroneously claiming that SVB gave 73 million to black lives matter when, in fact, it gave zero dollars, the real reasons have been aptly stated by Senator Warren:
"Jerome Powell has failed at two of his main jobs, citing the raising interest rates and his support of bank deregulation."
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/19/business/lloyd-blankfein-fareed-zakaria-gps/index.html
In Jerome Powell's world, it becomes necessary to destroy the American economy in order to save it....

Jerome's commentary today, along with today's latest interest rate increase that's tanking the markets:
"In response to the collapse of two banks and nearly two weeks of banking turmoil, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said that "it's clear we do need to strengthen supervision and regulation," noting the central bank would doing an internal review."
Er, ah it's a bit too late for the failed banks, and it shows Powell's and the GOP's failures in rolling back regulation in favor of de-regulation. It's a safe bet the GOP will fail to learn anything and not change its ways no matter what...

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Put forth your solution to controlling inflation.  So far I haven't seen it.  When you do, please provide evidence to show that in past decades your solution has resulted in inflation going down.

Here's the problem.  Democrats as well as many Republicans are morons who can't add 2 and 2 and they come up with 5.

It was warned by those on the right that this is exactly what would happen when spending was never controlled by the left.

Joe Biden, the leftist Democrats, and the majority of leftists who never question the Democrats, (those like yourself) don't ever challenge the spending and printing of money that your Democrats favor. 

So what happened is precisely what many Republicans predicted would happen.  

So deal with it.  You and yours caused the inflation you are witnessing, now you want to blame someone else.  

But then that's what people like you do every time.  

Oh, it's up to me to put forth my solution for controlling inflation? Is that your order for today? You're so full of it, as usual. Maybe I'll "put forth" my solution when the GOP, via its speaker of the house, puts forth their budget just as Biden has already done. Thus far, the only thing we've seen from the GOP is a threat to not raise the debt ceiling, forgetting it already did three times under Trump, and placing the US in a potential default with disastrous consequences. 
That said, the main point of my post, which you have obviously missed, is that the lack of regulation, as advanced by the GOP, is a major reason the bank failures have occurred in the first place.

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

Horse shit..... bank regulations will not stop out of control government spending and that is the primary problem. 

Educate yourself, please:
Current article on causes of inflation:
https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/what-causes-inflation
Current article on why SBV/Signature failed:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/03/11/why-did-silicon-valley-bank-fail/11452253002/
And the effects of de-regulation on the above banks:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/13/business/signature-silicon-valley-bank-dodd-frank-regulation.html

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I'll use James Lacey's method of evidence to shoot down your response.

The NY Times, USA Today, and Business Insider are all well known far left schills lying and covering for the Democrat party and the Biden Administration and they will say whatever they need to say to cover for the Leftist Democrats and Joe Biden.

Fact:  The Republican party and honest Economists everywhere said that Biden's outrageous and reckless out of control spending without having the money to back up the reckless spending was going to cause massive inflation.

Fact:  The exact thing that Republicans and honest Economists warned of then occurred.

Fact:  Janet Yellin, Joe Biden, and all the DS party members on Capitol hill lied to the American people and said that Inflation was "transitory".

Fact:  It is not and was not "transitory", and it is still causing havoc and pain for all Americans.  

But we conservatives already knew all those things above and we knew that your DS party was full of shit and full of liars.

“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”

― Mark Twain

"Sens. Rick Scott, Elizabeth Warren join forces for Federal Reserve oversight bill"
"Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on Wednesday unveiled legislation that would beef up oversight of the Federal Reserve following two high-profile bank failures."
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3912446-sens-rick-scott-elizabeth-warren-join-forces-for-federal-reserve-oversight-bill/
 When you have two polar opposites agreeing, it's has to be noteworthy. Gotta have proper regulation of the Fed and hence the banks...