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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 5:27 AM

JO753

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The link that you provided shows
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a summary of U.S. objectives, negotiating round and public forum information, T-TIP blog posts, facts sheets, reports, and press releases.
But no actual. yanno, copies available for analysis....YES, IT WAS A SECRET despite your snide comment.



I stand corrected.



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The simpl way iz to require all payroll recordz to be submitted along with their inkum tax filingz. Naturally, if they are dealing with forin vendorz, it gets much more complicated.- JO
Actually, it gets impossible. The vendors in this market (Walmart, The Gap, etc) simply "subcontract" to another company in another nation, and let THEM do the exploiting. It's called "the gig economy", haven't you heard? Everyone is paid piecework.



Ye, I no how it wrks. But not every company or even every industry iz able to do that and thoze that can cant do it 100%. So, wen Jimmy Lee in Shen Qua iz making 10x wut hiz nayborz are, it starts to spred. Pretty soon, even the novelty fake dog doo factory haz to start paying more to keep employeez.

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JO .... WHO has killed more people and destroyed more nations in the past 20 years or so? Us? Or Russia? - SIGNY

US. And yet we are still sumhow the good guyz! - JO-

Good lord, how is that? Because our intentions are pure?



Sumthing to do with the US being a nation uv lawz (more or less) rather than a jiant corrupt cleptocrasy like Russia, China, India, Pakistan.

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Why is it in OUR interests to keep sway over an entire planet? What do YOU get out of it?


Good Q. The biggest paje on my site will probably end up being the ENVIRONMENT paje. Part uv it will go into that.

The short ansr iz individual power.

Due to the great amount uv power, especially the power to destroy, available to each uv us AND to groups uv any size, the survival uv the planet iz dependent on having sum sort uv indesputable unchallenjable Cop keeping a watch on thingz. The big dog on the block haz to be a good guy.

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The immigration system iz krap. Total krap. The GoPs blocked Obama frum fixing it and you want to blame Hillary? - JO
What was Obama's "fix"? Let everyone in? Legalize everyone?



Hard to say sins the GoPs blocked it!!! I suppoze its available sumwhere anyway.

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Trump is being just like I said he would be: A LOOSE CANNON.

Well, we need a loose cannon.



Az per abuv about power - no we do not.

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What's your goal here, JO? What are you aiming at?


Same az alwayz. Increase averaj intellijens, wizdom and empathy. Redoos evil. Contain and incapasitate the bad guyz.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 5:30 AM

JO753

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OOPS! Hit the 'reply with quote' butn insted uv 'edit'. Iz there a 'delete post' butn hidden sumwhere?

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 6:54 AM

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
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Originally posted by second:
How much land did the USA rob from Mexico? Millions of square miles, you know, all of Texas, California, New Mexico. Having that land part of Mexico would have made Mexico a much different country.



It definitely would have made the US a much different place. There almost never would have been a Democratic president without those 55 electoral votes from California.

Trump should be grateful to the 21st Century Mexicans for their ancestors "giving" Texas and the Western USA to Trump back in the 19th Century. It was not a voluntary gift, but it was a wonderful thing the Mexicans did. Speaking of voluntary:

Is Trump nuts not to voluntarily let us see his taxes?

Other Presidents have voluntarily disclosed their taxes because it protects them from innuendo and speculation such as: Is he secretly on the payroll of Russian oligarchs? Did he pay no taxes at all for years in the late 1990s? Is his every position on tax policy motivated by nothing more than personal greed?

But through all this, Trump still isn’t releasing his returns. And here’s what that means: Whatever is in his returns is not great. Trump has decided he prefers the picture where the president of the United States is shrouded in a perpetual haze of corruption, self-dealing, and impropriety to whatever clearer picture would emerge from full disclosure.

So what is it that’s in those tax returns?

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 7:30 AM

6STRINGJOKER


I'm not going to have a debate with you or anybody else about what we owe to the wonderful Mexicans.

If you feel so guilty about that, donate all of your money to the American Indians since all of it was made on their land.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 8:42 AM

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
I'm not going to have a debate with you or anybody else about what we owe to the wonderful Mexicans.

If you feel so guilty about that, donate all of your money to the American Indians since all of it was made on their land.

1kiki was demanding that I present a citation ("cite") proving that illegals from Mexico have it worse in Mexico than when they are in the USA, or else 1kiki won't believe me. I doubt that illegals left better paying jobs in Mexico to steal poorly paid jobs from good old USA citizens for patriotic revenge against the USA stealing land from Mexico. Mexicans would have to be nuts to go to that much trouble for a little revenge.

Instead, Mexicans have been coming North for a century to take the worst jobs in the USA because the worst is better paying than the average job back in Mexico and the worst jobs in the USA are wide open to anybody who wants them. US citizens quit the worst jobs sooner than illegals will. Those jobs look comparatively good to what is in Mexico. (1kiki would want a "cite" to prove that about Mexicans' and US citizens' attitudes toward work, but that's 1kiki's nutty rhetorical trick.)

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:16 AM

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Republicans are threatening to expose Trump as the emperor with no clothes

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-republicans-are-threatening-t
o-expose-trump-as-the-emperor-with-no-clothes/ar-AAolZAe?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp


Not the Republican voters, but the Congressional majority is a little peeved by Trump's nuttiness. The Republican Congress might even beat some sense into Trump or kick the crazy man in the nuts, despite what Trump's voters think of their wonderful man who vowed to fulfill ‘every dream you ever dreamed’. That promise, all by itself, was a giveaway that Trump is nuts.
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-vows-fulfill-every-dream-you-ev
er-dreamed


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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 10:30 AM

THGRRI


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Originally posted by second:
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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
I'm not going to have a debate with you or anybody else about what we owe to the wonderful Mexicans.

If you feel so guilty about that, donate all of your money to the American Indians since all of it was made on their land.

1kiki was demanding that I present a citation ("cite") proving that illegals from Mexico have it worse in Mexico than when they are in the USA, or else 1kiki won't believe me. I doubt that illegals left better paying jobs in Mexico to steal poorly paid jobs from good old USA citizens for patriotic revenge against the USA stealing land from Mexico. Mexicans would have to be nuts to go to that much trouble for a little revenge.

Instead, Mexicans have been coming North for a century to take the worst jobs in the USA because the worst is better paying than the average job back in Mexico and the worst jobs in the USA are wide open to anybody who wants them. US citizens quit the worst jobs sooner than illegals will. Those jobs look comparatively good to what is in Mexico. (1kiki would want a "cite" to prove that about Mexicans' and US citizens' attitudes toward work, but that's 1kiki's nutty rhetorical trick.)

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly



An honest broker SECOND would not ask for that cite. They too would have to admit hearing for years and even decades these people saying themselves, they come here for a better life.

Unfortunately, 1kiki is one of several here that hate America so much, they can't utter a decent word about us.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 10:44 AM

THGRRI


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So you have cut down on illegals - check. What's it going to be like when the only way to get a vegetable or a piece of fruit is to pick yourself?
International agribusiness gets diminished? Slave labor goes bye-bye? Those are good things. Don't you agree?




I dunno - is "International agribusiness gets diminished" a good thing? I already buy as much local as I can, will others? Do you?

"Slave labor goes bye-bye a good thing?" You seem to have no shame is making the dumbest assumptions and then asking the dumbest questions. I can't take you seriously when you do that. You pov is way too simple.

So fewer field hands/illegals means the price of produce sky rockets. How do you think Consumers will react? I made it simple for you Kiki!



A study done years ago showed if you doubled a field hands wages to $15.00, it would raise the price of cabbage 12 cents a head. Image how much better off the community would be if those field workers could pay their own way and had money to spend.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:17 AM

6STRINGJOKER


At this point I say just raise the minimum wage to 20 bucks and lets see who was right.

We're all a decade or two away from being poor and completely dependent on government anyways.

All of us, except for Second.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3:11 PM

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 3:45 PM

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
At this point I say just raise the minimum wage to 20 bucks and lets see who was right.

We're all a decade or two away from being poor and completely dependent on government anyways.

All of us, except for Second.

So long as Texas turns natural gas into plastic and exports liquefied natural gas, I'll have my royalty checks. But this is "Is Trump Nuts?" Trump made another seriously nutty decision today:

Trump is hiring the Bear Stearns economist who promised the economy was fine right before it went bankrupt! You are crazy, Trumpy!

David Malpass has been nominated to serve as undersecretary of Treasury for international affairs. In 2007, Malpass was chief economist at a soon-to-be-bankrupt investment bank, telling a country teetering on the brink of disaster that everything was okay. No amount of natural gas, no matter how large, will compensate for bad thinking at the Treasury if there should be another emergency like 2008. The whole USA could suffer for Malpass's (and Trump's) stupidity or insanity, take your pick in what you want to call what is wrong with these guys.

The fact that Malpass was utterly wrong didn’t stop him from trying again. In 2011, he popped back up with another Wall Street Journal op-ed urging the government to implement a policy of higher interest rates. Malpass said higher rates would lead to a stronger dollar and bigger economic growth. This is, to say the least, not how the majority of economists think this works. In 2012, Malpass warned that rejecting his advice was going to lead to a recession in 2013.

Obviously, that didn’t happen. Instead, the Fed kept interest rates low, leading to years of continuous job growth, which, in turn, led to a gradual strengthening of the dollar.

Bruce Bartlett, writing four years ago about Malpass’s poor track record, used it as a prime example of partisan bias in economic forecasting.

A perhaps optimistic view would be that Malpass was being deliberately biased in his past forecasts — trying to boost the fortunes of GOP politics as an outside propagandist while as a senior member of the Treasury team he’ll be boosting their fortunes by offering sound advice.

A bleaker view, however, would be that Malpass is a die-hard true believer who couldn’t contemplate the possibility that the low taxes and light regulation of the Bush years could be compatible with a catastrophic financial crisis. In an administration that’s already packed to the brim with Wall Street voices, that could be a very dangerous setup indeed.

www.vox.com/2017/3/15/14596938/david-malpass-treasury

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 6:15 PM

OONJERAH



^at Second: Look, I don't understand any of the financial principles &
maneuvers that you are explaining.
But I think you just said that with Trump & many of his like-thinking
cronies in charge, we are teetering on the brink of disaster as bad as
the stock market crash of 1929.

(So much for "Trump is a billionaire; he'll balance the budget.")



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I've given up looking for the meaning of life. Now all I want is a cookie.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 7:39 PM

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
I have serious doubts that Trump is going anywhere.

You libtards keep up the drama you're just ensuring that the GOP stays in control. Keep it up. ;)


Did you forget to capitalize "Libtard" here?

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 7:54 PM

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Besides, they've been ignoring the democrats and the chattering class for a while, and both lost any remaining semblance of credibility during the last election, with Hillary as a candidate, and her media-predicted cruise to victory.

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You still harping on that same old story? What's his name, Bernie, lost by millions of votes in the Democratic primary. In the general election he would have looked like a Commie and been annihilated, same as George McGovern was by Nixon, even after Nixon's "secret" plan to win the Vietnam War had achieved nothing for four years. And Watergate.




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Trump didn't win, Clinton lost. I'm reposting these - yanno - facts, because you ignored them the first time around. And I put an especially relevant quote in larger font to help you focus on the salient point.
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How did your beloved 'democratic' party fuck up so badly?

CBS News exit polls suggest Trump’s win was in large part a repudiation of Hillary Clinton by a substantial number of white voters.
There are also indications that Clinton’s gender was a factor in the outcome.
Among white voters, 57 percent said Trump was not honest and trustworthy while fully 70 percent said the same of Clinton.
In the exit polls, voters were asked whether they strongly favored their candidate, liked their candidate but with reservations, or if they voted because they disliked the other candidate. While 21 percent of Clinton voters said they disliked the other candidates, more – 28 percent – of Trump voters reported that. There appears to have been more people voting against Clinton than against Trump.
It is difficult to say with any certainty, but with razor thin margins in some states, a small number of voters who might have supported Clinton (who voted for either Johnson or Stein) could have altered outcomes in some states.
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CBS News Exit Polls: How Donald Trump won the U.S. presidency

by Stanley Feldman and Melissa Herrmann

Many observers thought this presidential election would be decided by Donald Trump’s polarizing rhetoric, his history of behavior toward women and his questionable qualifications for the office.

Instead, CBS News exit polls suggest Trump’s win was in large part a repudiation of Hillary Clinton by a substantial number of white voters. While Clinton did win big majorities of minority voters, she did not get the level of support from those groups that she needed to overcome her deficit among white voters.

There are also indications that Clinton’s gender was a factor in the outcome. The gender gap was substantial. Trump beat Clinton by 53 percent to 41 percent among men while Clinton won among women by 54 percent to 42 percent. Four years ago, President Obama won 45 percent of men’s votes and Mitt Romney won 44 percent of women’s votes.

More telling is the gender breakdown among white voters: Trump beat Clinton among white women 53 percent to 43 percent. This was close to Romney’s margin in 2012. While Mr. Obama won 35 percent of white, male voters in 2012, Clinton lost to Trump among this group by 63 percent to 31 percent.

As expected, Trump did best among white voters without a college degree, beating Clinton by the enormous margin of 72 percent to 23 percent. Trump also won among white, non-college women 62 to 34 percent and white college-educated men, 54 to 39 percent. Among white voters, Clinton only won among women with a college degree by a 51 to 45 percent margin. Interestingly, among white voters, there is no evidence in the exit poll that income affected the likelihood that they supported Trump.

Clinton needed extremely strong support from African-American voters to try to offset Trump’s margin among whites. She did win 88 percent of the black vote to just 8 percent for Trump. However, this was significantly lower than the 93 percent of black voters Mr. Obama won four years ago. The falloff in her share of the black vote was entirely due to black men. Clinton won among black women by a 93 percent to 4 percent margin. Among black men she won by 80 percent to 13 percent.

Many political observers thought a significant number of Republicans would either vote for Clinton, one of the third party candidates, or stay home rather than casting their votes for Trump. According to the exit polls, Republicans stayed loyal to their presidential candidate. Some 89 percent of self-described Republicans voted for Trump; 91 percent of white Republicans did. In contrast, only 84 percent of white Democrats voted for Clinton. She did win 86 percent of white Democratic women, but only 81 percent of white, Democratic men voted for her.

Surprisingly, given all of the attention to Trump’s attitudes and behavior toward women, he did virtually as well among white, Republican women (91 percent support) as he did among white, Republican men (92 percent). Clinton was more competitive among white independent women than men, losing to Trump by a 49 to 41 percent margin among independent women and by 57 to 31 percent among independent men.

The Candidates’ Personal Characteristics

These were not likable candidates who instilled a great deal of confidence in their supporters. Many voters supported one of these candidates despite significant misgivings.

The majority of voters had unfavorable impressions of both. Twelve percent of Clinton voters and 20 percent of Trump voters had an unfavorable opinion of the candidate for whom they opted. So despite their misgivings about the candidates, something still compelled them to support one of them.

Both candidates were seen as not being honest or trustworthy by more than 6 out of 10 voters. However, among white voters, 57 percent said Trump was not honest and trustworthy while fully 70 percent said the same of Clinton. Almost 3 in 10 white voters said neither candidate was honest and trustworthy. Among this group, Trump won 52 percent to Clinton’s 32 percent. 13 percent of these voters supported one of the third party candidates.

Voters in the exit polls were asked if each of the candidates was qualified to serve as president. Almost half thought Clinton was not qualified but only 5 percent of her voters thought that. Even more voters, 6 out of 10, thought Trump was not qualified to be president. Almost a quarter of Trump voters gave him their support despite saying he was not qualified.

Voters were also asked whether each candidate has the temperament to serve effectively as president. By a slim margin, 55 percent to 43 percent, voters said Clinton did have the right temperament. Sixty-three percent said Trump did not have the temperament to be president. Just over half of all white voters said both candidates did not have the right temperament. While very few of Clinton’s voters questioned her temperament, 1 in 4 Trump voters backed him while saying he did not have the temperament to be president.

Voters were asked how they would feel if Clinton were elected president and 53 percent said they would be concerned or scared. Similarly, if Trump were elected president, 58 percent said they would be concerned or scared. Among Clinton voters, 10 percent would be concerned or scared if Clinton were elected and 95 percent would be concerned scared about a Trump presidency. Interestingly, while 94 percent of Trump voters would be concerned or scared about Clinton being elected, 17 percent said they would be concerned about a President Trump.

If many people had serious doubts about both candidates, is there a way to determine how they distinguished between Clinton and Trump? In the exit polls, voters were asked whether they strongly favored their candidate, liked their candidate but with reservations, or if they voted because they disliked the other candidate. While 21 percent of Clinton voters said they disliked the other candidates, more – 28 percent – of Trump voters reported that. There appears to have been more people voting against Clinton than against Trump.

A Verdict on Major Policy Issues?

Can we say Trump did better than expected in the election because a majority of voters supported his most powerfully articulated policy positions? Exit poll voters were asked whether most illegal immigrants working in the U.S. should be offered a chance to apply for legal status or deported to the country they came from. Fully 7 of 10 voters said they should be allowed to apply for legal status. Similarly, more people opposed building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico than supported it. And virtually as many voters (38 percent) said trade with other countries creates more U.S. jobs as said it takes away jobs (42 percent).

How did Trump win when many of his core positions were so unpopular? Some people voted for him regardless of that. Among those who favored giving illegal immigrants a chance to apply for legal status, one in three voted for Trump. Thirty-five percent of people who said international trade creates jobs voted for Trump. And even 27 percent of white voters who said they want the next president to change to more liberal policies voted for Trump.

One issue that may have motivated some white voters is the ongoing national debate over the way police treat African-Americans. The exit poll asked voters whether they think the country’s criminal justice system treats all people fairly or treats blacks unfairly. Half of white voters said blacks are treated fairly while 41 percent say they are treated unfairly. Among the first group, 8 in 10 voted for Trump. Sixty-five percent who said blacks are treated unfairly voted for Clinton.

Did Johnson and Stein Affect the Outcome?

With so many tightly contested races, the votes cast for candidates such as Gary Johnson and Jill Stein may have impacted the overall results. The exit polling asked voters they would have cast ballots for if there were only two candidates (Clinton and Trump). A quarter of Johnson voters said Clinton, 15 percent said Trump, and 55 percent said they would not have voted. Numbers were similar for Stein voters, with about a quarter saying they would have chosen Clinton, 14 percent saying Trump, and 61 percent saying they would not have voted. It is difficult to say with any certainty, but with razor thin margins in some states, a small number of voters who might have supported Clinton could have altered outcomes in some states.

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Stanley Feldman is professor of political science at Stony Brook University; Melissa Herrmann is president of SSRS



In addition, you need to see the interesting graph here showing how many democrats stayed home. I can't imagine how anyone could have done worse.:



http://www.politicususa.com/2016/11/09/graph-shows-hillary-clinton-los
t-democrats-vote.html

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Interesting.

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 9:48 PM

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Originally posted by Oonjerah:

^at Second: Look, I don't understand any of the financial principles &
maneuvers that you are explaining.
But I think you just said that with Trump & many of his like-thinking
cronies in charge, we are teetering on the brink of disaster as bad as
the stock market crash of 1929.

(So much for "Trump is a billionaire; he'll balance the budget.")

The USA is NOT teetering on the brink of financial disaster, but if Trump and his regulators follow the financial deregulation pattern of G.W.Bush, in eight years or less the USA could have a repeat of the crash of 2008 with one ugly twist: at least Bush and his people were not paralyzed with indecision during the disaster they caused. Trump and his people have totally wrong instincts & misunderstanding.

Trump would be as dumb as Herbert Hoover was about handling a crisis the size of the Crash of 1929. When in business Trump couldn't wrap his brain around a problem bigger than defrauding his investors and cheating on his taxes. As President he seems a smaller man than he was in business.
https://millercenter.org/president/hoover/domestic-affairs

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Wednesday, March 15, 2017 11:22 PM

DREAMTROVE


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Originally posted by second:

The USA is NOT teetering on the brink of financial disaster, but if Trump and his regulators follow the financial deregulation pattern of G.W.Bush, in eight years or less the USA could have a repeat of the crash of 2008 with one ugly twist: at least Bush and his people were not paralyzed with indecision during the disaster they caused. Trump and his people have totally wrong instincts & misunderstanding.

Trump would be as dumb as Herbert Hoover was about handling a crisis the size of the Crash of 1929. When in business Trump couldn't wrap his brain around a problem bigger than defrauding his investors and cheating on his taxes. As President he seems a smaller man than he was in business.


?!

Yeah, I know, someone is wrong on the internet. No going to throw an opinion in here, just see some alternative facts that need correcting.

1) Deregulation was Bill Clinton, not GHW Bush.
2) It's hard to see how Glass-Steagall would encourage a crash.
3) The current president has far more experience in business than his precessor
4) The Hoover plan was what FDR based his 100 days on. The major difference was that FDR had congress on his side. There wasn't really difference of opinion there.

Srsly. Did a democratic ever do anything wrong or a republican ever do anything right?

If the answer is "no" then maybe you should rethink the whole democracy thing.

also this
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So long as Texas turns natural gas into plastic and exports liquefied natural gas, I'll have my royalty checks.
You signed a gas lease?

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Thursday, March 16, 2017 8:10 AM

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Originally posted by DREAMTROVE:

Srsly. Did a democratic ever do anything wrong or a republican ever do anything right?

If the answer is "no" then maybe you should rethink the whole democracy thing.

There are degrees of wrongness, shades of gray. The shade you see depends on who you are. For example, if you were me, you'd see the following story as demonstrating in big black letters that "Trump Is Nuts". If you were a dyed in the wool Trump voter the same story is all white letters on a white background and you see no hint of gray anywhere:
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Trump campaigned for the presidency by pledging no tax cuts for the wealthy, but newly leaked pages from his 2005 taxes demonstrate how the wealthiest Americans — like Trump — would benefit from some of his tax proposals.

Trump’s proposals to eliminate the alternative minimum tax, cut the capital gains tax rate and curb income tax rates would have shrunk his tax bill dramatically if they had been in place over a decade ago. The AMT alone was responsible for roughly 86 percent of his federal tax bill.

The Trump administration has said it would make up for lost revenue by closing loopholes, but the specific deductions Trump’s plan would eliminate have not been laid out in detail.

Trump’s promise to not slash taxes for the rich has already been called into question

I believe the Republican formulation for explaining Trump's promises is "Take him seriously, not literally." http://bigstory.ap.org/article/112dc47ef9ac4371958ae63d1aa824de/trump-
tax-bill-would-have-been-slashed-his-plans


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Thursday, March 16, 2017 8:16 AM

SIGNYM

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^at Second: Look, I don't understand any of the financial principles & maneuvers that you are explaining. But I think you just said that with Trump & many of his like-thinking cronies in charge, we are teetering on the brink of disaster as bad as the stock market crash of 1929. - OOJ


OONJ, we have been teetering on the brink of a collapse since .... well, it would be hard to figure out when this all really started.

Was it when Nixon untied the dollar from gold and linked it to oil instead ("petrodollar") in 1973?

When Clinton repealed the Glass Steagall Act and signed the Commodities Futures Modernization Act in 1999?

Was it when we started running trade deficits in 1976, or when our cumulative trade deficit topped our entire GDP output ten years later?

Or when hedge funds racked up somewhere in the realm of 10-1000X of the entire world's output in DEBT, based on the dollar, in betting on derivatives contracts?

Or maybe it was when the Fed bought toxic assets from the bad banks which created them, spewing money into the hands of the already-wealthy?

Or maybe it was our Ponzi-style scheme of fractional reserve banking?

Whatever and whenever it happened, we are really just a pending disaster. I know its fashionable to blame Trump for well, everything, but many people in both parties had a had in setting this up. Give credit where credit is due.

Although much of our trade, manufacturing, banking, and currency problems can be laid at the feet of Nixon who opened trade with China and negotiated the petrodollar deal, Bill who pushed for Permanent Trade Relations with China even though his own administration foresaw spiraling deficits and shrinking manufacturing, http://www.epi.org/publication/issuebriefs_ib137/ and Bush who oversaw the accession of China into the WTO in 2001.

Oh, that Bill Clinton: never a "free trade" deal that he didn't like!

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Thursday, March 16, 2017 8:39 AM

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Whatever and whenever it happened, we are really just a pending disaster. I know its fashionable to blame Trump for well, everything, but many people in both parties had a had in setting this up. Give credit where credit is due.

You are using the wrong analogue of a cliff that the whole world is standing on the edge. A better analogue is that humanity is riding in thousands of buses with thousands of drivers, drivers being leaders. Any driver could crash his bus into a ditch or another bus at any moment because the driver forgot about the steering wheel. A blind driver in the biggest bus on the road, Trump at the wheel of America, could run most of the other buses off the road. The potential for disaster is because we are moving at high speeds in huge machines designed by people we don't understand and never meet with. The confusion comes from thinking that we should be living slowly, peacefully in the year 30 AD, before Jesus was crucified, if only those capitalists and their money and armies hadn't taken over the world.

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Thursday, March 16, 2017 11:37 AM

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Whatever and whenever it happened, we are really just a pending disaster. I know its fashionable to blame Trump for well, everything, but many people in both parties had a had in setting this up. Give credit where credit is due. - SIGNY

You are using the wrong analogue of a cliff that the whole world is standing on the edge. = SECOND

Not "the whole world" but quite a lot of it, and there is nothing wrong my description which - BTW- was NOT an "analogy". "We" .... and by "we" I mean "they" ... the IMF, the World Bank, the Central Banks, the various heads of state but especially China and the USA .... have walked us here, step by step.
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A better analogue is that humanity is riding in thousands of buses with thousands of drivers, drivers being leaders. Any driver could crash his bus into a ditch or another bus at any moment because the driver forgot about the steering wheel. A blind driver in the biggest bus on the road, Trump at the wheel of America, could run most of the other buses off the road. The potential for disaster is because we are moving at high speeds in huge machines designed by people we don't understand and never meet with. The confusion comes from thinking that we should be living slowly, peacefully in the year 30 AD, before Jesus was crucified, if only those capitalists and their money and armies hadn't taken over the world.


That was just about the most irrational post I've read from you lately.

I wasn't posting "analogies" SECOND, I was posting FACTS: Dollar-denominated debt is somewhere in the realm of 10-1000X the entire world GDP, and the vast the bulk of that debt is funding "derivatives" speculation. We could NEVER pay that off, ever. It took many steps by many institutions and leaders to get where we are today, and yet: Here we are.

I'll leave the "analogizing" to you.



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I wasn't posting "analogies" SECOND, I was posting FACTS: Dollar-denominated debt is somewhere in the realm of 10-1000X the entire world GDP . . .

I really love the way you think. No, not really. Trump is blessed with congressional majorities. One would expect his budget to be a fairly literal legislative proposal. Trump’s budget is different.

Its military spending increases would violate the Budget Control Act of 2011, meaning that it could not actually be passed as a budget. (The law itself could be amended, but that, unlike a budget, would take 60 votes). Which is just as well, because a budget that completely ignores both taxes and the domestic entitlement programs — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, plus some smaller items — isn’t really a budget at all.

Instead, it’s simply an effort to translate a policy-ignorant candidate’s often nonsensical campaign rhetoric into something budget-shaped. Trump promised to balance the budget while cutting taxes and preserving entitlements — which isn’t possible. So huge swathes of the budget are simply missing. He promised a big defense hike, so it’s in there even though it’s illegal.

The blame for most of what has gone wrong with the USA ought not be distributed to the rest of the world as you, Signym, have just now done: "... the IMF, the World Bank, the Central Banks, the various heads of state but especially China and the USA .... have walked us here, step by step." The blame for what is wrong with the USA can be found within the budget. Trump's is a crazy budget from a crazy man. Remember, this topic is "Is Trump Nuts?" The topic is not "Is Somebody Not Trump Nuts?"

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Thursday, March 16, 2017 12:29 PM

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I really love the way you think. No, not really- SECOND
I really love the way you don't think. No, not really

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Trump is blessed with congressional majorities. One would expect his budget to be a fairly literal legislative proposal. Trump’s budget is different.- SECOND


Dollar-denominated debt is made of all kinds of parts: individual debt (made of mortgages, student loans, car loans and credit card debt), business debt (including private pensions, loans taken out to repurchase stock or for M&As), public debt (Federal state, city etc which also include public pensions), and financial debt- loans taken for speculation in futures, hedge funds, commodities, and derivatives. Of those, by far, the largest and scariest part of the debt problem is DERIVATIVES. Oh, and BTW- derivatives are denominated in dollars and ONLY in dollars, so only the dollar would get hit in a derivatives melt-down.

How do I know this? Well, people who deal in derivatives say so, and all of the bank regulators say so, too. The reason why nobody knows HOW MUCH debt there is ... but they know it's a lot ... is because THIS debt is "off book". It's the one category of loans that banks get let off the hook, for the most part.

The Federal deficit in a pimple on the ass of a much, MUCH larger problem. It's important, but it's not THE most important problem. Banks have a much bigger problem.

So, yeah- let's go for that balanced budget (BTW, Obama raised the Federal debt more than all other Presidents combined, so why weren't you bitching about that then?) but remember that there are much bigger fish to fry out there, and re-impose Glass Steagall so that our retail savings don't get "invested" in derivatives.



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Thursday, March 16, 2017 12:47 PM

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HEY JO! I didn't want to have this discussion get lost in the shuffle! Right now this is one of the few intelligent ones going. By topic:

THE TPP/TTIP
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The link that you provided shows a summary of U.S. objectives, negotiating round and public forum information, T-TIP blog posts, facts sheets, reports, and press releases. But no actual. yanno, copies available for analysis....YES, IT WAS A SECRET despite your snide comment.- SIGNY

I stand corrected.- JO

And the specific problems with these "free trade" agreements isn't the usual economic one (where the people at both ends suffer a reduced standard of living and only the transnationals benefit, like NAFTA) but also a POLITICAL one:

A nation relinquishing control over its internal policies (where they conflict with "usual and expected profits" ... which is pretty much everywhere) to a private tribunal of transnational corporations. That's a one-way step. Now, what kind of leader (President or Prime Minister) would sign such a deal except a traitor? This is so much bigger than Trump versus Hillary. The transnationals will, for sure, attempt to negotiate something similar in the future, whether in a series of "bilateral" deals (a la Trump) or as part of a whole new multi-party package. All new trade deals need to be examined closely, no matter who is President.

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The simpl way iz to require all payroll recordz to be submitted along with their inkum tax filingz. Naturally, if they are dealing with forin vendorz, it gets much more complicated.- JO

Actually, it gets impossible. The vendors in this market (Walmart, The Gap, etc) simply "subcontract" to another company in another nation, and let THEM do the exploiting. It's called "the gig economy", haven't you heard? Everyone is paid piecework.- SIGNY

Ye, I no how it wrks. But not every company or even every industry iz able to do that and thoze that can cant do it 100%. So, wen Jimmy Lee in Shen Qua iz making 10x wut hiz nayborz are, it starts to spred. Pretty soon, even the novelty fake dog doo factory haz to start paying more to keep employeez.- JO

What you are talking about is a regulatory requirement: make payroll receipts and tax filings a necessary submission. Let's assume that extends to subcontractors and sub-subcontractors and down the the individual who has been "scraped off" the wage system and is working as a sub-sub-subcontractor him/herself. THEY have to submit their income statements, too!

Hey, I work in a regulatory agency, and we demand a lot of paperwork, and yet all of that paperwork has not prevented some terrible environmental crimes. So you need actual inspectors ... people going to the shops and homes to examine their standard of living etc to make sure that the paperwork is correct. And then, assuming you find a violation, you still need to have a hearing ... at which point the vendor will devolve responsibility to those below* ... and then assign a penalty. What's the penalty?

*the problem of "shared responsibility" where each party is guilty only of a small part of evil-doing. It makes participation much easier on the conscience of the individuals and much harder to prove guilt.

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JO .... WHO has killed more people and destroyed more nations in the past 20 years or so? Us? Or Russia? - SIGNY

US. And yet we are still sumhow the good guyz! - JO

Good lord, how is that? Because our intentions are pure?- SIGNY

Sumthing to do with the US being a nation uv lawz (more or less) rather than a jiant corrupt cleptocrasy like Russia, China, India, Pakistan. - JO

So being a nation of laws instead of a "giant kleptocracy" explains why we have been destroying and exploiting nations for years and why the system that WE stand behind- the IMF, the World Bank, and Free Enterprise has created a situation where 8 people own more than the bottom 50% of the world, and we have the largest wealth gap .... ever? Oh, you mean THAT "nation of laws"??? Hmmm.... maybe there's something wrong with our laws, then, because they don't seem to be preventing kleptocracy very well.

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Why is it in OUR interests to keep sway over an entire planet? What do YOU get out of it?- SIGNY

Good Q. The biggest paje on my site will probably end up being the ENVIRONMENT paje. Part uv it will go into that.

The short ansr iz individual power.- JO

Okay, you got me there. I have no idea what you're saying.

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Due to the great amount uv power, especially the power to destroy, available to each uv us AND to groups uv any size, the survival uv the planet iz dependent on having sum sort uv indesputable unchallenjable Cop keeping a watch on thingz. The big dog on the block haz to be a good guy.- JO

Can't figure this out, either.

If you're saying that individuals SHOULD have power, I disagree with that concept.
If you're saying that individuals DO have power, I disagree with that concept too. Most individuals have no power at all, not even over their own lives.

And then you propose that there has to be some "big dog" to ride herd on this group of death-dealing individuals, because that is the only way to survive.

And then you make some kind of tautology that the big dog has to be the good guy, but no way of defining what "the good guy" is or ensuring that the big dog WILL be the good guy.

I'm totally flummoxed. What are you saying? I feel that you're making sense, from your assumptions, and that your statements are connected, but I don't know how. Please explain.

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The immigration system iz krap. Total krap. The GoPs blocked Obama frum fixing it and you want to blame Hillary? - JO
What was Obama's "fix"? Let everyone in? Legalize everyone?- SIGNY
Hard to say sins the GoPs blocked it!!! I suppoze its available sumwhere anyway.- JO

I'm not blaming Hillary for whatever Obama did, I'm only blaming Hillary for what she said she would do, most of which I disagree with. https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/immigration-reform/ I have my own plan which I like a lot better.

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Trump is being just like I said he would be: A LOOSE CANNON. Well, we need a loose cannon. - SIGNY

Az per abuv about power - no we do not.- JO

Not understnaind what you said about power, I have no idea about this either.

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What's your goal here, JO? What are you aiming at? - SIGNY
Same az alwayz. Increase averaj intellijens, wizdom and empathy. Redoos evil. Contain and incapasitate the bad guyz.- JO

First of all... does this apply worldwide? Do you feel that it is ethical to impose your views on others? and how do you intend to do this?


I do agree about the environment by the way.



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Thursday, March 16, 2017 8:06 PM

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There are degrees of wrongness, shades of gray. The shade you see depends on who you are. For example, if you were me, you'd see the following story as demonstrating in big black letters that "Trump Is Nuts".


The problem with "Trump hate" for me is that it's ridiculous to pretend we don't already know exactly who Donald Trump is. I remember Ivanka being born. I remember her and him being in the news nonstop for most of my life. We know exactly who he is. I was discussing the idea of Trump as a politician at RPUSA almost 15 years ago and they said "Trump is only in it for himself. And his family."

That said, I'm sure he'll do things for the inner cities, for America, but probably not unless he's getting something out of the deal.

I don't think there are dyed in the wool Trump voters. I think he's to the left of me, and I'm a moderate dem.

HINT: Lose the tax story. I mean this sincerely. I'm an undecided american, re: Trump. I think Trump is in it for Trump. Trump wants to convince me otherwise. I don't know how I vote in 2020. You want to make sure I vote for Trump? keep thumping that tax syort. And throw in a "but Russia" for good measure. And really, that's jsut my solid advice. Some arguments are losers. presidents are 1%ers, and 1%ers dodge taxes. We get that.

"Trump — would benefit from some of his tax proposals." Yes, but nothing compared to the benefit of Rex Tillerson's trillion dollar oil deal, which, btw, I support. And me a moderate dem and environmentalist. I'm almost a one issue eco-voter, but I just judge for myself what I think is bad for the earth and I know a lot about it. So, oil deal? I like it.It gets rid of a lot of bad energy policy like fracking, which I hate. Alternative Energies? I love 'em. Trump, not so much. But I think he'll be overruled on that. As I said, I'm undecided. I don't know. On Hillary? I was decided. No Hillary. Never Clinton. So, Bernie, even though I can't stand socialism, I like Bernie. And Stein, because, it's a protest vote, "Go Earth!" hug a tree, etc.

I'm not so atypical from what I hear. I like peace, prosperity, clean air, clean water, and no coporate monopolies. I don't really care whether anyone else pays their taxes. Federal Taxes are for Discretionary Spending, which means military, which means war. So yeah, no one should pay taxes,including Donald Trump. He should build hotels and casinos, that employee people. Taxes just kill people. Entitlement spending, that comes out of FICA. But this:

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Trump’s proposals to eliminate the alternative minimum tax, cut the capital gains tax rate and curb income tax rates would have shrunk his tax bill dramatically if they had been in place over a decade ago. The AMT alone was responsible for roughly 86 percent of his federal tax bill.

Good for him. Get rid of the AMT, please. Why?I know what you're thinking, this guy who make <20k doesn't know what's good for him. But here's my argument

If you earn 20k, you spend it all on goods and services, commerce.
If you earn 100k, you pay at least half in taxes, and 20-40k on commerce.
people earning 1 million? they spend maybe 50-100k on commerce, and the rest they invest.

So, my income goes to commerce, where i buy things. The price of those things is determined by the value of the dollar (a mix of how much America is producing as an industrial power, and how much oil* we own) and how much Tax the merchant who is selling me goods and services has ot pay in taxes. And AMT is 7% of that. So, it's just a chip, but we can knock it down, then good. No one in this country wants to pay it, and I don't want to pay the higher prices that result from them paying it.

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The Trump administration has said it would make up for lost revenue by closing loopholes, but the specific deductions Trump’s plan would eliminate have not been laid out in detail.

Okay, the income of the federal govt. goes down. So what. It doesn't run school or repair roads, pay for healthcare or food stamps, it just goes to war with people who have never seen a soda fountain or Disneyland, they've probably never seen a Disney movie in osme of the places we're bombing.

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Trump’s promise to not slash taxes for the rich has already been called into question

Donald Trump said he would slash taxes repeatly in his campaign. Where are you getting that he said he wouldn't?
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"Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes would be offset by less deductions, so there would be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told CNBC in November.


Okay, but that's the Goldman guy. Trump said the big earners would create the big jobs, and they should get a tax break. I think he said that in the debates. I disagree that they'd do that, but I'm prepared to be wrong. I know I'd hire more people if I have more money. But who knows.

Basically, I think this is his economic plan, and he pretty much said so. I don't know if it's a good idea or not, but I'm not going to jump up and down on ti just because Olberman and Maddow don't like republicans. Maybe that's what makes America great again. I'm not naive or stupid, but the liberal govt. control version was tried by CLinton, Bush and Obama, and it did not work out well, so I'm willing to listen to someone else's economic plan.

What I want to know is what the fuck are we doing in Yemen?

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HEY JO! I didn't want to have this discussion get lost in the shuffle!



It iz lost. A plastic needle in a haystack uv endless Trump topics. unfindabl unless you no exactly where to look.

So I'll move it over to the 753 for Prez topic.


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Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon is calling for a war to reset the entire world, a war bigger than Vietnam or Iraq.

Steve Bannon’s advice is that America can return to its previous Greatness only after a devastating war. Do you remember “Make America Great Again”? That is how Bannon does it.

Before he worked in the White House, Bannon was writer and director for nine “documentaries” propagandizing his theme of redeeming America with a World War.

You can watch a 9 minute video about the themes within Bannon’s propaganda films at https://qz.com/933459/to-understand-steve-bannon-you-need-to-watch-thr
ee-of-his-movies
/ or on youtube.

Trump is nuts for hiring Steve Bannon. If Trump starts Bannon’s War for the good of American Christians, Trump is extra nuts.

Trump's first budget proposal will call for $54 billion increase in defense spending. It's a step toward war. The budget could be indicating that Bannon has already convinced Trump that war will fix everything, make America great again.



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Friday, March 17, 2017 10:20 AM

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I'm not happy seeing an increase in military spending, but 54 billion is a drop in the bucket really...

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/defense_spending

After inflation that's about a 4-5% increase, and still well under its peak during the early Obama years.

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Second,

the video strikes me as mostly honest, except the bit about the necessity of war and that bannon is the at the center of power. Bannon is there to get people on board, not because Trump believes in him.

That said, bannon is a little distorted. here's some origins of that kind of thought.
Winter is Coming. LOL.
The Crisis Prosperity Decay. this is a take on the stand conspiracist model
French Revolution IS the beginning of evil, it's the dawn of rationalism
Socialism soon follows, and those "evils" are a result. That's just a common conservative perspective, which I agree with. I'll go so far as to say nazi in japan were part of it, but not japan by itself. I happen to think we were wrong to go to war with japan, we should have just tried to cut off german control of japan.
Cold War=Third world war. that's a neocon thing. Neocons themselves are commies, and this is a way of them saying "but russia"
islam? no, we created radical islam using religion, that's just a bogus idea. I think that along with the pro-christian thing is a snow job, probably of zionist origin, to lure people into a crusade.
However, we've been in that crusade for some time. We've been at war all over the muslim world since 2003.
When did these movies come out?

I'm not convinced that this is calling for a new war, but maybe just setting up to claim victory over radical islam to get that reaganesque glow of herosim.
just my spot thought on the video

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I'm not happy seeing an increase in military spending, but 54 billion is a drop in the bucket really...

Drop in the bucket my ass. $54 billion is enough to build Trump's Wall two and a half times. Trump border 'wall' to cost $21.6 billion. Trump can build a wall, then another behind that, then another behind the second one. Some places along the border really won't need a third wall for triple redundancy.

www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-immigration-wall-exclusive-idUSKB
N15O2ZN


And $54 billion is not a onetime increase. Next year there will be another $54 billion or more. And if Trump starts the war Steve Bannon wants, a World War that resets everything, there will be emergency appropriations. Iraq cost $823.2 billion in emergency appropriations. Steve Bannon is selling Trump on a War bigger than Iraq. Is Trump nuts enough to buy what Bannon is selling? Maybe.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/11/us-public-defrauded-hidd
en-cost-iraq-war


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I’ve got proof Trump is nuts. He can’t show that Obama used Americans to spy on Trump, so now he is claiming that Obama asked the British to do the spying. Trump is certifiably nuts.
www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/british-prime-minister-latest-b
e-pissed-donald-trump


Trump needs to get it through his head that he's now the president of the United States. When he tosses off random crap because he's bored and wants attention—and then refuses to back down because Trump never backs down—as President he is wasting everyone's time and risks far more than just his own tattered reputation.

The result so far of Trump's nuttiness is that the House and Senate are wasting time pretending to investigate Obama for a crime worse than Watergate; the Justice Department is wasting time responding to the House and Senate; the conservative media is wasting time inventing ever more crap to defend Trump's original crap; the White House communications shop is wasting time desperately trying to research spin to back up their boss; and the prime minister of Great Britain is pissed off. All because nutty Trump got bored one morning.

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Friday, March 17, 2017 1:25 PM

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I spent less than $5,000 last year.

The amount of money the Government spends on anything is ridiculous. It's all just made up 1's and 0's at this point. More than 90% of the US currency out there today isn't even backed up by worthless paper anymore.

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
I spent less than $5,000 last year.

The amount of money the Government spends on anything is ridiculous. It's all just made up 1's and 0's at this point. More than 90% of the US currency out there today isn't even backed up by worthless paper anymore.

Congratulations! $5,000 per year places you high up in the world's elite since 71% of the world's population lives on less than $10 a day or $3,650 per year.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/08/news/economy/global-low-income/

Bringing back gold as currency is very appealing to Trump. If he does it, the dollar will be more than worthless paper. The reason why they stopped using the gold standard is that people who already own all the gold would end up owning everything else in the USA, too. Leaving most gold-less Americans owning nothing might be less than a good idea, but I would like Trump to try. The chaotic aftermath could be nutty & funny. Or depressing & starving. Who's to know which without trying? Trump will try anything at least once just to see what happens in order to satisfy his curiosity.
http://thedailycoin.org/2017/02/19/will-trump-return-gold-standard/

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Friday, March 17, 2017 4:07 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
I spent less than $5,000 last year.

The amount of money the Government spends on anything is ridiculous. It's all just made up 1's and 0's at this point. More than 90% of the US currency out there today isn't even backed up by worthless paper anymore.

Congratulations! $5,000 per year places you high up in the world's elite since 71% of the world's population lives on less than $10 a day or $3,650 per year.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/08/news/economy/global-low-income/



You are a silly, silly woman.

More than 1/5th of that $5,000 was property taxes. If I lived in Illinois in the same house, 15 miles west of me, I would have paid $5,000 in property taxes alone.

The 71% you speak of don't have the high cost of living that is a built in part of the American "dream".


"Elite". That's funny. My income in 2 years has been $0. My income since 2009 has not come close to what I used to make in a year.

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:

You are a silly, silly woman.

My income in 2 years has been $0. My income since 2009 has not come close to what I used to make in a year.

You think I'm silly, do you? Then you will be thinking that Paul Ryan is wise and serious.

Ryan is passionate about the idea that the government helping low-income people such as yourself can actually hurt them. As he explained, social assistance programs make it less painful for people to be jobless.

“The left,” he said, “thinks this is a good thing. They say, ‘hey, this is a new freedom — the freedom not to work.’” But they’re “making a big mistake here. What they're offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul.” Under Ryan’s health bill, strongly endorsed by Trump who in my opinion is a nut, but perhaps not in 6stringJoker's, if you want medical care then you’re going to have go out there and hustle and make sure you find yourself a soul-filling job.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/17/14960358/paul-ryan-medicaid-
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Friday, March 17, 2017 6:02 PM

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Buying power of currency and international exchange rates are totally differnt things. A family living off of $2000 in Moldova is potentially better off than a family living off of $20000 in the US.

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Friday, March 17, 2017 7:39 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Quote:

Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:

You are a silly, silly woman.

My income in 2 years has been $0. My income since 2009 has not come close to what I used to make in a year.

You think I'm silly, do you? Then you will be thinking that Paul Ryan is wise and serious.

Ryan is passionate about the idea that the government helping low-income people such as yourself can actually hurt them. As he explained, social assistance programs make it less painful for people to be jobless.

“The left,” he said, “thinks this is a good thing. They say, ‘hey, this is a new freedom — the freedom not to work.’” But they’re “making a big mistake here. What they're offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul.” Under Ryan’s health bill, strongly endorsed by Trump who in my opinion is a nut, but perhaps not in 6stringJoker's, if you want medical care then you’re going to have go out there and hustle and make sure you find yourself a soul-filling job.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/3/17/14960358/paul-ryan-medicaid-
keg


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I agree with Ryan. I haven't gotten any foodstamps or any other assistance since my unemployment ran out. I'm not of retirement age, so the government shouldn't be subsidizing my choice not to work. And yes, it is a choice. I don't want to work another part time bullshit minimum wage job, but there are plenty of them out there. Eventually I will have to accept one of them if nothing better pops up.

If Obamacare hadn't come out I wouldn't be getting health insurance either, but because of the mandate I file for it because I'll be damned if I have to pay an extra $695 a year in taxes for not accepting free healthcare.



That's not why you were silly.

DT covered that in the previous reply.

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Saturday, March 18, 2017 6:15 PM

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Trump has history of debunked claims.
CNN's Victor Blackwell looks back at five claims President Trump made via Twitter that were proven to be false.



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Saturday, March 18, 2017 6:49 PM

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I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Trump has history of debunked claims.

Trump GWB has history of debunked claims.

Trump Hillary has history of debunked claims.

Trump CNN has history of debunked claims.

Trump McCain has history of debunked claims.

Trump NYT has history of debunked claims.

Trump Obama has history of debunked claims.

Seriously. Your obsession with Trump is pitiful.



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Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:16 PM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Trump has history of debunked claims.

Trump GWB has history of debunked claims.

Trump Hillary has history of debunked claims.

Trump CNN has history of debunked claims.

Trump McCain has history of debunked claims.

Trump NYT has history of debunked claims.

Trump Obama has history of debunked claims.

Seriously. Your obsession with Trump is pitiful.

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If we did not MAKE men poor"- William Blake

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Yup, there is something wrong with Trump. As for all those other institutions and obsolete/retired politicians, nobody cares anymore.

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Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:25 PM

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
And yes, it is a choice. I don't want to work another part time bullshit minimum wage job, but there are plenty of them out there. Eventually I will have to accept one of them if nothing better pops up.

What's Trump going to do to fix you?

In a 2015 paper, “The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market,” Deming writes:

High-paying, difficult-to-automate jobs increasingly require social skills. Nearly all job growth since 1980 has been in occupations that are relatively social skill-intensive. Jobs that require high levels of analytical and mathematical reasoning but low levels of social interaction have fared especially poorly.

What this means, according to Deming, is that

the economy-wide shift toward social skill-intensive occupations has occurred disproportionately among women rather than men. This is consistent with a large literature showing sex differences in social perceptiveness and the ability to work with others.

David Geary describes a vicious cycle that entraps men who either drop out of the work force or take low-skill jobs with few prospects of improvement:

The long-term political implications of large numbers of unengaged and underemployed men are potentially very serious. Marriage typically reduces men’s aggressiveness and rule breaking and focuses them on family and engagement with the community. However, if large numbers of them are not attractive as potential husbands, due to poor long-term economic prospects, then this “civilizing” influence is lost to them. I don’t know what the tipping point would be, but the potential for large-scale discontentment and destabilization increases as the proportion of these men increases.

David Buss elaborated on Geary’s point in an email, stressing the lower proportion of men than women getting college degrees:

Women have strong mate preferences such that they do not want to mate or marry men who are less educated, less intelligent, and less successful than they are.

And this, Buss said, “creates a surplus of men” at the low end who are not going to get married.

Millions of these less well educated men are not going to get the benefits of marriage:

Married men live longer, are less likely to become alcoholic, take drugs, commit suicide, etc.

What's Trump going to do to fix you?

www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/opinion/the-increasing-significance-of-the-
decline-of-men.html




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Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:38 PM

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Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Quote:

Yup, there is something wrong with Trump. As for all those other institutions and obsolete/retired politicians, nobody cares anymore.
What do you mean 'anymore'? You never cared in the first place. As long as they were someone on 'your side', they were OK in your book.




Originally posted by G:
I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago.

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Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:41 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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Yup, there is something wrong with Trump. As for all those other institutions and obsolete/retired politicians, nobody cares anymore.- SECOND


Well, since Hillary, NYT, and CNN are "obsolete" does this mean you won't reference them anymore?

You seem to think that you represent the world, since if YOU don't care, "nobody" cares.

Wow, narcissist much? Obsessive much? Irrational much?

Is SECOND nuts?

SECOND, hon, see if you can spend at least ONE day without posting about Trump. 'Mkay?




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Saturday, March 18, 2017 7:43 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Quote:

Originally posted by second:
What's Trump going to do to fix you?
www.nytimes.com/2017/03/16/opinion/the-increasing-significance-of-the-
decline-of-men.html

An opinion piece, in the NYTimes no less, with absolutely no relevance to REAL. WORLD. EVENTS.




Originally posted by G:
I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago.

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Saturday, March 18, 2017 9:01 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Trump has history of debunked claims.

Trump GWB has history of debunked claims.

Trump Hillary has history of debunked claims.

Trump CNN has history of debunked claims.

Trump McCain has history of debunked claims.

Trump NYT has history of debunked claims.

Trump Obama has history of debunked claims.

Seriously. Your obsession with Trump is pitiful.




And your continued defense of the defenseless shows your ignorance, as well as your alt right perspective of the world.

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Saturday, March 18, 2017 9:25 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Quote:

And your continued defense of the defenseless
is a noble calling indeed. For who else will stand up for those who can't stand up for themselves?

I'm just having fun with your atrocious thinking.




Originally posted by G:
I coined the slogan "We Suck!"© many years ago.

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Sunday, March 19, 2017 3:49 AM

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lol... Getting married to show you have it together is so last century. 50% of marriages end in divorce, and many of them just completely ruin the children.

I'm fixing myself. Even with my problems I already have my shit together more than 90% of other Americans. Getting married is not on my bucket list.

Do you have any actual points that you want to discuss second, or are you happy making like Wish and taking time out of your busy schedule to try to personally attack other people?

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
lol... Getting married to show you have it together is so last century. 50% of marriages end in divorce, and many of them just completely ruin the children.

I'm fixing myself. Even with my problems I already have my shit together more than 90% of other Americans. Getting married is not on my bucket list.

Do you have any actual points that you want to discuss second,

Saying “Honestly” as often as Trump, says he is a liar. For example of him lying: under Trumpcare in 2018, average premiums for single policyholders would be 15 percent to 20 percent higher than under current law. Need another example of Trump lying? 14 million more people would be uninsured under Trumpcare in 2018.
www.businessinsider.com/cbo-congressional-budget-office-score-ahca-tru
mpcare-2017-3
Quote:

Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
or are you happy making like Wish and taking time out of your busy schedule to try to personally attack other people?

This is how I originally wrote this, starting with a personal attack on you: Saying I got my shit together does not get your shit together. Saying “Honestly” as often as Trump, says he is a liar. For example of him lying: under Trumpcare in 2018, average premiums for single policyholders would be 15 percent to 20 percent higher than under current law. Need another example of Trump lying? 14 million more people would be uninsured under Trumpcare in 2018.
www.businessinsider.com/cbo-congressional-budget-office-score-ahca-tru
mpcare-2017-3


Need I add that Trump is nuts to lie as often as he does about his important policies?

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Sunday, March 19, 2017 8:45 AM

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Having my shit together makes my shit together. I don't have anything to prove to you.

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Originally posted by 6STRINGJOKER:
Having my shit together makes my shit together. I don't have anything to prove to you.

Apparently Trump doesn't have to prove anything to you, either. He can lie to you about any policy, any fact, anytime, anywhere, with no consequences.

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Originally posted by G:

You misunderstood again. Defenseless ideas not defenseless people. Think about it. The former is the idea that Trump is fit to be president. The latter would be the people that will have their insurance taken from them by Trump. See?

As many as a half-million Texans could become uninsured under Trump's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, wiping out at least half the gains the state has made in reducing the number of uninsured residents in recent years.

Texas still has the nation's highest percentage of people without health insurance, but that uninsured rate has dropped significantly, falling to about 19 percent from 26 percent over the past four years.

www.houstonchronicle.com/business/medical/article/A-half-million-Texan
s-could-be-without-insurance-11011934.php?t=8747e7f3f2438d9cbb&cmpid=email-premium


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