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Anonymous
Another liberal snob. |
Anonymous
Wow. The liberal snobs are just coming out of the woodwork. |
Anonymous
Interesting you should say that. I am mildly handicapped (although I don't like to classify it as "handicapped" as much as having a condition which brings about some mild physical limitations), and cruises are perfect for me. |
Anonymous
To be fair, the original pro-Trump pro-cruise poster is also as snob, as she wrote:
She wanted EVERYONE to know that she was on one of the classy cruises, not those low-brow Carnival cruises. And she was speaking to "college educated professionals", not "morons". She got outsnobbed. So sad. |
Anonymous
Maybe she knew that the liberal snobs would come out with their put-downs about cruises and the low-class people that go on them and won't to cut that off at the pass. Same with "college-educated professionals" - to stop the liberals from saying "uneducated morons" on cruises. Liberals are predictable if nothing else. |
Anonymous
If she was worried about being mocked for taking a cruise, why mention the cruise? Why didn't she say "All of the college educated professionals I meet are for Trump"? Because she was bragging about taking a non-Carnival cruise with college educated professionals. |
Anonymous
Maybe because she wanted to show that once you leave the DC bubble, the people you run into all want Trump. |
Anonymous
Are cruises the only way to leave the DC bubble? I live in Alabama, btw. Please tell me that people only leave the DC bubble by cruising out. |
Anonymous
WOW. You liberals just argue about anything. It was just a way of showing she was out of the DC area, and among people from all over the country. |
Anonymous
| Tell us, cruise poster, did you do the eastern Caribbean, or did you get really wild and do the western Caribbean? |
Anonymous
Yes it is. But that chart is not the whole picture, which should be viewed with nuance. Corporate profits have increased in pace with growing corporate debt. The share of debt in corporate financing is near its lowest level of the century, around 25% (the rest is equity). This contrasts with the high of 40% in 2009. Leveraged loans are an area of concern and firms dependent on short-term borrowing could be caught should interest rates start to rise. This article gives a balanced view of the rise in corporate debt. Here is the conclusion: "The amount of corporate debt has been growing since the recovery from the Great Recession, but this aggregate growth in the amount of debt appears mostly consistent with the robust growth in corporate profits. Debt as a share of the total firm financing mix is much lower today than it was during the 1980s and early 1990s. The mix of debt tilts in the direction of loans versus publicly-traded bonds, and because well-crafted covenants are an important tool for protecting against loss, it is important to continue to pay attention to changes in covenant quality over time. Finally, rising interest rates could quickly erode the profitability of firms that have borrowed at floating rates or using short-term debt." https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/is-the-rise-in-u-s-corporate-debt-cause-for-concern |
Anonymous
Ironic, isn’t it? And I didn’t know that ‘college educated professionals’ was a high bar. |
Anonymous
Not anymore it's not. |
Anonymous
Yes, was that supposed to be shocking? That’s like saying everyone eating at Golden Corral voted for Trump. |
Anonymous
Excuse me, it was a *premium* line. The proper analogy is that it’s like saying everyone at Cracker Barrel voted for Trump. |