Yep, and they always use that power.

Once you need a license, you are under control of their whims.

That seems to be our lesson in all of this. Never let them issue a license to you for anything - not restaurants - not hairdressers - not doctors - not dentists - not anyone! Take away all of their power.

the lesson is to nover give people governmental powers. they will just misuse them

Good; yet very sad.

thats a good way to look at it actually. all they care about is that it works for THEM (those in power)

No, they don't want something to work; only that which works for them. Communism is what works for them. They have the power; they have the money. That is all they care about.

I wonder if the leftists actually want something that would WORK, I kind of doubt that. Their ideology is all they want- what happens in practice doesnt seem to be very important to them. socialism has never worked, but they argue that it WOULD have worked IF ONLY>>>

its all about power and money- unbridled human nature without reason based philosophy

Definitely!
A free market of competing currencies would allow much better decisions and efficient markets.
But that wouldn't make the central banksters wealthy beyond the dream of avarice (and beyond imagination.)

Maybe competitive currencies with backing and without governmental interference would be better. If one currency was inflated through printing, people would reject it as a store of value and use the others.

Somehow I think that might work better than a government guaranteed federal reserve like we have now

Yes. The fed banksters have created this problem to enrich themselves with other corrupt businesses
(and looting politicians) as accomplices, e.g., military suppliers, construction firms, labor unions,
insurance companies, big pharma and 'health' services.
Next the fed increases interest rates to enrich banks using the excuse of slowing inflation.

so in the end, when the usd isnt the reserve currency, the demand for it will go down and the dollars will wind up back here and cause massive inflation in prices?

well, I would say that all the claims by USA are to be taken with a grain of salt. The USA invaded iraq based on supposed facts that werent even true, and we killed thousands of citizens in the process. So the USA propagandizing that russia is evil is a bit disingenuous.

That said, I would say that Russia shouldnt invade another country that didnt invade it, no more than USA should have invaded iraq .

Here is evidence to reinforce my statement.
The officials say the Biden administration has been rapidly pushing out “intelligence” about Russia’s plans in Ukraine that is “low-confidence” or “based more on analysis than hard evidence”, or even just plain false, in order to fight an information war against Putin.

The report says that toward this end the US government has deliberately circulated false or poorly evidenced claims about impending chemical weapons attacks, about Russian plans to orchestrate a false flag attack in the Donbass to justify an invasion, about Putin’s advisors misinforming him, and about Russia seeking arms supplies from China."
Instead of Ad hominem response where is your evidence.

What I meant was to starve the government, so the leftists have to pay for the stupidity that they promote. I dont care if THEY feed the poor. I just dont want to have to go to work and do it for them while they eat at the French Laundry.

Putin IS an evil bastard. Just stop ignoring what he is doing in ukraine with his indiscriminate bombing and killing

How do we starve half the country?

Consider the left as the ENEMY unless the are ranting about Putin?

I liked the idea of being called deplorable. I even wore a t shirt with than it

We have to somehow starve the left. Each dollar we give them means more control they exert over us

What we had when trump was president

I like that idea

5000 rubles per gram. Europe can buy their gas with Gold which increases the value of Gold or buy Rubles with dollars or euros and that increases the value of the ruble. BRILLIANT.

That statement she made, fascinates me. "You know, HALF of the Trump supporters are in what I like to call a BASKET of deplorables."

She said Half because she hoped to divide the Right and get them saying "I'm not a deplorable, you are, I'm with Her!" Divide and conquer, didn't work.

She said Basket because she was referring to the Bread Basket, rural Republican America.

That pissed off a lot of people and motivated them to vote against her. Dumb move. Don't insult the people who you are trying to persuade to vote for you.