Trump: The First Year

https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2017/05/21/young-men-falling-bottom-income-ladder/ncYhOoItuoqdlApn6qZRSL/story.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-23/trump-proposes-selling-off-half-the-u-s-strategic-oil-reserve

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I would genuinely be on board with this 100% if Trump was also pushing for green energy instead of baiting the coal industry into thinking it’s coming back.

They had low rates crime rates before the ban, to be fair. So did the UK. Not that I’d doubt you hadn’t considered that.

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Trump’s words were appropriate. Losers is a far better term for them than anything so far suggested.

So +1 like for Trump. Makes a change from the last 2 weeks of untrammeled incompetence.

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Thought the Losers comment by Trump was very fitting. You have to be a special type of degenerate troglodyte to take your own life at 22 years old and take a innocent 6 year old girl a long with you.

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Saving $16.6B over 10 years is nothing and would put us in a precarious position should there be a supply issue.

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One of the ways Donald Trump’s budget claims to balance the budget over a decade, without cutting defense or retirement spending, is to assume a $2 trillion increase in revenue through economic growth. This is the magic of the still-to-be-designed Trump tax cuts. But wait — if you recall, the magic of the Trump tax cuts is also supposed to pay for the Trump tax cuts. So the $2 trillion is a double-counting error.

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Math is the new Fake News.

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Like when Ronald Reagan DID NOT use boots on the ground but instead chose to bomb a list of targets in the two main Libyan cities These were military and military training targets. And also Qadhafi’s own palace.

Yeah…Trump is doing things like just about any other republican President would.

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Hey I have an idea maybe Trump should run up the national debt to more than twice what he inherited like Obama did?

Oh no…that’s another topic…never mind.

If he actually passed everything he ran on, that’s likely what he’d do.

Based on what we know so far, the plan could cost $3 to $7 trillion over a decade– our base-case estimate is $5.5 trillion in revenue loss over a decade. Without adequate offsets, tax reform could drive up the federal debt, harming economic growth instead of boosting it.

But it’s cool, because Republicans rule and Democrats drool, etc.

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Oh I agree…he is a politician just like all the others in that regard. But, aside from that I was simply mentioning a fact about the previous administration. I wonder, did it bother you when Obama more than doubled the debt?

Back to the drawing board I guess

All of which was targeted directly at specific groups and was backed up & justified PRIOR to issuing the ban. You can choose to see no difference, it doesn’t really matter to me either way. Calling them the same is silly.

Of G HW Bush’s 21 cabinet members, 2 weren’t in the public sector prior. 1 of those 2 was forced to resign to avoid charges being pressed for some (probably) asinine reason. You need to rethink your definition of ā€œmost.ā€

I’m just basing this off of Trump’s tweets about sharing intel with the Russians. Not sure if I can ever find a better source.

I’ll give you this one. Missiles instead of boots has precedence with the GOP.

Look at Obama’s cabinet…many came from academia.

Where do you get this stuff? Bill Clinton also used bombing on a few occasions. That is the first choice of any President regardless of party. No President wants to put troops in harms way unless they feel it is completely justified.

Kennedy even went to the trouble of attempting to recruit disgruntled Cubans in additon to CIA members to invade Cuba…it was of course a disaster but the point is the same.

Which would make perfect sense if Trump was a democrat. Since you are comparing Trump to other Republicans, I’m not sure why that matters in this example.

Also both of which are Democrats. See above for response.

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I was merely pointing out that sometimes neither republicans or democrats choose former politicans for their cabinet and in fact most times neither do. Republicans turn to heads of large companies and democrats choose from acadamia and also have been known to choose from the private sector…So my point being Trump has done just that! No different than other republicans.

GW Bush who put boots on the ground after 9-11 in two areas, Afghanistan and Iraq. But other than him what other republican are you referring to? George HW Bush drove Saddam back into Iraq but that was very short lived. FDR sent troops to fight the Germans and Japanese. Yes…he was a democrat.

My point is that most Presidents of either party would much rather bomb from the sky, or shoot from a nearby ship than put boots on the ground.

Are you bored today?