I’m not hung up on Beto. You mentioned him being a VP candidate.
Trump just proposed a budget that cuts over $1 trillion from Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, which is all stuff you’ve already paid for.
Go ahead and cut your own balls off. I’ll go a different way thankyouverymuch.
Amongst others. Then you went to the Beto well twice more for your own reasons.
No, I simply stated that Beto won’t help anyone in an election. His gun comments ruined any political career he ever thought he was going to have. You’re the one who started talking about Beto.
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When Bernie has no explanation about how he’s going to pay for all of the crazy things he wants to implement, that’s a pretty bad sign. Give me Trump any day over a crazy Socialist.
National debt increased by more than $3 trillion in first three years of Trump’s presidency. Link
President Trump massively exacerbated that problem with the laws he signed, which included creating lower revenues and higher spending. And obviously, because of the laws of math, that means we’re left with much larger borrowing, What’s unusual is that during a period of economic expansion the borrowing would be increasing from year to year, but that’s what’s been happening under President Trump.
Well, if the economy turns south, he’ll want to default and then sue the lenders. It’s just what he does. He’ll tout some stupid reasons about China cheating and World elites, Fox and Breitbart will report this insane bullshit seriously and the Trump base will dutifully follow.
The thing about the economy is that it’s not necessarily strong. The Dow is strong, because Trump’s tax cuts put $1 trillion into the coffers of corporations, but there are lots of other not good indicators:
- GDP is falling
- investment is falling
- unemployment is a very low, but incomes are not growing (as they should by simple supply and demand forces)
- factories are still closing
The media fixates on the Dow because it’s an easy metric to report on. But it’s, what, 40 blue chip stocks? That is not indicative of the health of the economy let alone the wealth of a middle class family.
Further, Trump’s budget is cutting the social safety net because, he says, “we” can’t afford it. He also canceled a previously budgeted government pay raise, because “we” can’t afford it.
How can we be in the greatest economy the world has ever seen, yet not be able to pay our debts or pay our employees?
This commentary is somewhat flawed and imprecise, but the accurate explanation for why the stock market continues to go up despite some flagging economic data—i.e. the fed is purchasing $60B a month in treasurys— only supports your broader points. Using a few similar historical periods as analogies, stock market watchers would expect a 5-15% correction based on correlating market performance to key economic indicators, which hasn’t happened because the Fed is juicing the market.
Trump has overstepped the traditional boundaries between the Fed and the President, and one could argue that he’s done so purely for selfish political reasons. I don’t want to see the stock market go down for the sake of seeing the stock market go down, but the narrative that the stock market is so high because this is the greatest economy of all-time is a false equivalence because the market has a Fed fluffer.
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It’s almost as if someone is using the levers of power to rig the economy to help with re-election. But that would never be the case, right?
Who is this mythical Democrat whom you would vote for?
[did I do that grammar right?]
Jefferson Davis.
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Yes, I would. I’ve voted Republican before. I can even respect some. But I know no Republican that can say the same about Democrats.
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You might be surprised. Many people that are quiet vote for candidates, not parties. We just don’t argue about it. I think I am registered as a Republican because I voted in a primary years ago for a local representative. I will always be stuck with that.
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Texas does not register party affiliation.
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Well…other than that…
If Bill Clinton could run again, I would vote for him. He was a great president. Of the people running, the most intriguing to me is Bloomberg. If he gets the nomination, I’ll consider voting for him. If John Kerry were running, I’d think about voting for him as well. I don’t hate Democrats. I just hate to see them work so hard against the president. Honestly I didn’t like the way the Republicans did much the same when Obama was president. Did I like Obama? No. But he was still president and deserved respect and cooperation from both sides. As hard as both sides work against each other, I wish they could work that hard for each other and for the country.
I was selected to represent Voters in Texas’s 7th Congressional district for the 2020 Congressional district census.
I am not be registered with the Republican party. And the questions on the form would make Fox news and Breitbart happy.
Okay. My bad. I either have a bad memory (which is extremely likely), or maybe it just had something to do with voting in multiple primaries that year.
Anyway, I will be quiet again.
