Trump at 500 days plus

justducky

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Dubya ran up a massive deficit the same way ... big tax cuts to the top earners while fighting TWO wars simultaneously on the other side of the world.

Does't anyone read or understand any history, down there?

Meant to force cuts to social programs. 'Starve the beast'. Republicans always do that. Only George Bush Sr. balked at the GOP plan to cause massive deficits when they are in power forcing Democratic Presidents to reduce/manage the deficits when they win. Corruption by another name. The money goes to the well off in tax cuts or defence spending. Social mobility decreases. The ladder is pulled up behind the rich.
 

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Meant to force cuts to social programs. 'Starve the beast'. Republicans always do that. Only George Bush Sr. balked at the GOP plan to cause massive deficits when they are in power forcing Democratic Presidents to reduce/manage the deficits when they win. Corruption by another name. The money goes to the well off in tax cuts or defence spending. Social mobility decreases. The ladder is pulled up behind the rich.

The "American Dream" is a sick joke.
 

justducky

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The "American Dream" is a sick joke.

Not if they get their country back in Nov. It is a wake up call. And the world needs the might of the US behind democracy and its' spread around the world. Right now Americans are going through a lot. I have confidence they will fight and be so wise when this is all said and done.
 

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Not if they get their country back in Nov. It is a wake up call. And the world needs the might of the US behind democracy and its' spread around the world. Right now Americans are going through a lot. I have confidence they will fight and be so wise when this is all said and done.

Their educational system appears to be shyte in too many jurisdictions. They are never going to recover.
 

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Just came out today that 70% of Americans want single payer. That is a huge number. I have great hope.

I'm honestly surprised, as they are constantly bombarded on how their health Care system is simply the best on the planet. Americans will never be allowed to have a single payer system. There are trillions of dollars of profit at stake and Aetna, Blue Cross, etc. will spare no expense to get the movement squashed by lobbying, propaganda, subterfuge ... whatever. What's at stake for them is the equivalent wealth of a country.
 

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I'm honestly surprised, as they are constantly bombarded on how their health Care system is simply the best on the planet. Americans will never be allowed to have a single payer system. There are trillions of dollars of profit at stake and Aetna, Blue Cross, etc. will spare no expense to get the movement squashed by lobbying, propaganda, subterfuge ... whatever. What's at stake for them is the equivalent wealth of a country.

I agree it will be hard. But you can still have private companies involved in single payer. You just divide up the country by insurance company.

And look at this on the Paris Climate Deal:

https://thinkprogress.org/trumps-ow...-paris-climate-deal-was-a-fraud-addeb1f0e84d/

Everything Trump said about the Paris climate deal was a lie. His own EPA just confirmed it.EPA concedes that achieving Obama's plan to cut carbon pollution would have cost very little but have huge benefits.

JOE ROMM

PRESIDENT TRUMP DURING A POLITICAL RALLY IN CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA ON AUGUST 21, 2018. CREDIT: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Everything President Trump has said about President Obama’s climate plan and why he had to pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris Climate Accord turns out to be a lie.

That’s the inescapable conclusion from the EPA’s 289-page “Regulatory Impact Analysis,” (RIA) released by the administration on Tuesday along with Trump’s*new “Affordable Clean Energy Plan.”*

This new analysis reports a very low cost of complying with Obama’s much-vilified “Clean Power Plan,” (CPP) which set the rules for cleaning up the dirty U.S. power sector and was the cornerstone of America’s climate pledge at Paris.

Trump’s EPA now calculates that achieving the emissions reductions of the CPP would cost just $700 million in 2030 dropping to $400 million in 2035. The Obama EPA’s estimate for the 2030 costs were seven times larger.

There are so many good, smart pieces of policy and legislation getting trashed by the GOP over the years.
 

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https://sputniknews.com/world/201808241067441467-rfe-rebrand-cia-nazis/
The Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), the little-acknowledged US government body employing thousands of journalist and media professionals, has been rebranded the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).

In a statement, the newly-minted USAGM's CEO John F. Lansing boasted the organization operated "far beyond traditional broadcast mediums", such as television and radio — the name change was thus necessary as "the term ‘broadcasting' does not accurately describe what we do".
However, the new moniker arguably doesn't accurately describe what the organization does either.
CIA Front
Some hint as to USAGM's true nature lies in the press release itself. As Lansing states, the agency's "global priorities…reflect US national security interests", which are broadcast to "an unduplicated weekly audience of 278 million people in 59 languages and in more than 100 countries".
Further clue as to USAGM's objectives and operations can be found in USAGM's portfolio of media assets includes Voice of America (VOA), Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), Office of Cuba Broadcasting (Television and Radio Marti), Radio Free Asia (RFA), and Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN). As is now openly admitted by the US government, each outlet was established to perpetuate pro-Washington propaganda — both in the nations and regions in which they broadcast, but also in the USA itself — and undermine and discredit ‘enemy' governments.


Trump should know who is writing all his speeches. 'Clueless' is the most important qualification to become an American Politician.
 

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The one that makes treason a crime rather than it being a qualification if a person hopes to climb higher on the ladder of success. Insider trading rules no longer apply if you are a politician, after all what good is being in the loop if you can't make a few bucks while other make a lot of bucks.
 

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Probably based on the same method used in this story. You can't make up shit like this, lol.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-same-press-stories-to-justify-fisa-warrants/
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows dropped a bombshell Monday evening.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) revealed Monday evening Congressional investigators have learned new information suggesting the FBI and DOJ previously leaked information to the press then used those same press stories as a separate source to justify seeking FISA warrants on Trump advisor Carter Page.
Twice-demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr will be interviewed Tuesday in a closed-door session byCongress. Meadows then asked of Bruce Ohr, “Did he ever do this?”
MEADOWS: We’ve learned NEW information suggesting our suspicions are true: FBI/DOJ have previously leaked info to the press, and then used those same press stories as a separate source to justify FISA’s. Unreal. Tomorrow’s Bruce Ohr interview is even more critical. Did he ever do this?
 

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Probably based on the same method used in this story. You can't make up shit like this, lol.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-same-press-stories-to-justify-fisa-warrants/
Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows dropped a bombshell Monday evening.
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) revealed Monday evening Congressional investigators have learned new information suggesting the FBI and DOJ previously leaked information to the press then used those same press stories as a separate source to justify seeking FISA warrants on Trump advisor Carter Page.
Twice-demoted DOJ official Bruce Ohr will be interviewed Tuesday in a closed-door session byCongress. Meadows then asked of Bruce Ohr, “Did he ever do this?”
MEADOWS: We’ve learned NEW information suggesting our suspicions are true: FBI/DOJ have previously leaked info to the press, and then used those same press stories as a separate source to justify FISA’s. Unreal. Tomorrow’s Bruce Ohr interview is even more critical. Did he ever do this?
This whole story is really unbelievable, people will soon be before the courts , and it is looking more and more likely that those people were in the employment of the U.S. Government. Bring out the beer and popcorn .
 

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Not hard to figure that out when Israel's Bibi met with Trump and Hillary for 90min each before the first debate. The FBI might figure that out in about 2118

oh brother.
They would die before they would be allowed to spill their guts to the public.