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The GOP is largely anti Trump. Wake up Michael. Establishment Republicans who run the GOP HATE Trump. He is not one of them, and not a career politician like them.Exactly.
I think that what Trump says on twitter is deliberate just to get a rise out of people.And it works spectacularly. I swear every time I’m sitting in an airport I see Wolf Blitzer talking about a Trump tweet. Funny as hell. He’s living rent free in their brains.
Bill Clinton saw an huge artificial economic expansion and thought to exploit it with a tax increase. Worked fine until the dot-bomb. That crash was well on its way when Bush tried to slow it down with tax breaks.Exactly. He was an opportunist and parasite to the pre-existing tech boom, not the cause of it.
Darn I was hoping you would point me to an orgasm thread I missed.Or operate heavy machinery!
No you didn't fail, I knew it was humorous somehow I just couldn't put it together. I'm still on drugs you know. I'm not supposed to sign any legal papers today.
Its funny, when someone in the government tells you something you don't like, they're lying through their teeth. When they same something you like, they are incorruptible.I would put a career Marine Officer’s credibility over, say, a career politician or a mere college professor, any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
A tax cut has never increased tax revenue. It is a myth of the right, just like the Laffer curve.You’re delusional, and denying the very effect happening today that you say is impossible to happen. Home ownership is up. Minority unemployment is at historic lows.
My problem with the wealth being created now is it become stratified and may not work efficiently for the economy. Note I said efficiently. After WWII wealth was widely distributed, so everyone had the means to buy houses, cars and other material things. That created jobs for folks to make those things, and jobs for the people to take care of the folks who made those things.
Wages have been stagnant for decades. Fewer people have the means to afford such things, thus fewer people make them (and what is made is highly automated). Fewer jobs, fewer people to take care of the people who make things. In the mean time more wealth is going into fewer hands. The idea is that these will all be perfect actors, and will put that money back into the economy in the form of business, infrastructure, or technology. Problem is not everyone is a perfect actor.
I don't like putting in any more to a wasteful government, but like it or not a big enough collection of people gets wasteful. Happens in big companies too. Archaeology is the study of dead people's garbage. But the way to stop the deficit is to spend less and collect more. It doesn't get any simpler than that. I think a balanced budget amendment is useless in an age of debt, but if the deficit is ever tamed and paid back, it will be time. But cuts to teh department of Education, or PBS, or Planned parenthood or whatever your pet peeve of the discretionary program WILL NOT DO IT. You could get rid of the entire discretionary program, send Congress home, send Trump packing, and we'd still run a small deficit. And its going to get worse, because very soon the interest payments on said debt are going to become monstrous.
You've guessed right. I don't usually use "lesbian" to describe myself except among lesbian friends. Maybe I should, as it would be clearer. I just have a rather uneasy relationship with the lesbian community, as a large segment of that community believes in pseudoscience. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused!Enlightening conversation! Thanks for sharing.
I beg your pardon! PilotSpin is real life. This morning I woke up and thought, we’ve heard how Rush’s colonoscopy went, but I wonder how Stan’s went!It went well, thank you for asking. I’m always reminded of Led Zeppelin’s album “In Through the Out Door.”
You don’t get much realer than that.
I gotta admit I pretty much agree with all of this, you have a great point that cutting social programs is very difficult once you have people dependent on them. And cutting military is also difficult because we definitely don't want to reduce our ability to defend and protect ourselves. Even all the other miscellaneous expenditures are hard to cut once agencies have a budget, they fight to keep it and increase it every year. The federal government and all its spending is like a malignant cancer - it is self-regenerating.You’re on the right track, but I say we can and should work on austerity measures. We must.
Where I disagree with you is that you seem to think feeding it by confiscating money from the private sector is a good way to handle it. When what that does is contract the total wealth available to draw from. Companies send their money overseas, markets shrink, consumers have less to spend and invest.
If the deficit is going to exist and we cannot get rid of it, better to at least let people keep their money, have more jobs, better quality of life with a good economy. You may be right it's not sustainable in the long run, but neither is doing it your way.
If the Federal government and its spending deficit is too far gone to reverse then eventually our nation will collapse. I think keeping money in the private sector will prolong the life of the nation and we will be happier in the meantime. But killing us with high taxes will bring about our decline faster and we will suffer more sooner.
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