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Omnipotent, they are.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Let me point out to you what your problem was. You were using common sense! If it's so common why don't more people have it? The Democrats, using their Common Core New Math will tell you that the deficits are not caused by too much government spending as government continues to expand exponentially, but rather too little tax revenue from the top earners, even though the top ten percent pay more than half the federal budget. How can that be if they are always avoiding paying taxes? Must be from using that Common Core math they keep foisting upon all the kids.

straightUp Loc: California

I'll assume the 2.9 figure is a reference to growth rate since the GDP is measured in dollars not ratios and I'm just going to laugh at how you say Obama never went beyond 2.9% and then fail to mention that Trump hasn't either.

And before you point to that graph in the CNBC article you linked to, have a closer look. It's very misleading. The numbers on the chart are not the actual growth rate numbers; they are expressions of the percentage increase from the previous quarter. So you can have a 1% growth rate but if in the next quarter it goes up to 1.25% that's a 25% increase. See how that works?



The stock market can't go from 0 to 60 in 2 seconds zoo. We are seeing higher numbers under Trump by virtue of the simple fact that Trump came AFTER Obama who started at ZERO where Bush left him. He had to pull the car out of the ditch, get in, start the engine back up again and shift into first gear, by the time Trump took over we were already in 5th gear and pushing 50. So even though Trump got to 60 and Obama didn't, doesn't mean that Trump deserves all the credit for getting there.

That being said, I will agree that Trump's deregulations MAY have had some additional influence on the stock market but then again, it also works the other way. Regulations also have a similar effect - it really depends on what stocks we're talking about. Regulations on Big Oil for instance will send g***n e****y stocks soaring.

On the other hand, I have no problem crediting the 2017 tax cuts for the current spike we see now. These tax cuts, which were sold on the idea that they will encourage companies to invest in jobs, resulted instead in a wave of stock buybacks, which pushed the index to these record breaking levels we see now. It is in effect a result of Trump's failure to create jobs with a corporate tax cut. But hey, you get lemons you make lemonade, right? So he fell short on the job creation promise, but look at that stock market, eh?

But here's why people like me aren't dancing in the streets about it.

The direct cost of this tax cut is a massive increase to the deficit. "In the two years since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 took effect on Jan. 1, 2018, the annual U.S. federal deficit has grown from $681 billion to a bit over $1 trillion, according to the Treasury Department." https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-23/blame-1-trillion-federal-deficit-on-trump-tax-cuts-and-spending
Of course this all gets added to the national debt, that Republicans, who were lighting themselves on fire with outrage over the national debt when Obama was in office, suddenly don't have a problem with anymore.

So here's the question... is the dribble-down from engorged companies worth the critical services of our republic. Is it worth our national security? 'Think I'm being dramatic? Well, the impact of the 2017 tax cuts have been projected over the next ten years and the impact on the national debt is THAT bad.

Also, (and this is more perspective than dispute) there is the inescapable fact that the 2017 tax cuts took money previously allocated to our republic and put in in a globalized stock market that can be manipulated by anyone in the world that has the financial leverage, including Russian oligarchs and Saudi sheiks. In other words, trading in federal revenue for an elevated stock market is the opposite of "putting America first"

straightUp Loc: California

I know where England is. I lived there for a while.


Except for the colonies in North America, which were under English rule and therefore Common Law since they were established as far back as the 17th century. And really, that's all that matters in this debate because the dispute is over the U.S. legal system which is based on Common Law, a tradition that goes back to medieval England.


It was the seed that started the tradition back in the 13th century. Common Law was well developed by the time the Americas were discovered in the 16th century.


No, it's not. A house is private property, the United States isn't. You are comparing apples to t***sistor radios for crying out loud.

I think you're projecting what you think the rules SHOULD be... But t***h is different... The Defense of Infancy is a legitimate legal argument and it's the reason why no child under 11 can be convicted by the federal government.

Personally, I don't understand this white-knuckle defense of prosecuting children. I see people trying to justify these attacks on families, where their children are torn away and put in cages, by saying... "it's the law".

You don't find that d********g?

I remember that little dweeb Jeff Sessions, back when *he* was the "big" AG. He admitted to the atrocity just I as I had described it, as a warning to all the potential immigrants. You come here - we will take your kids away - you may never even see them again. Big scary words from a wee little prick. Point being... this BS isn't right.

straightUp Loc: California

So... thanks for the banter folks... there was a few good ones, that made me think.. But I gotta big week ahead so catch y'all later.

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The attacks on the children came from their own families in 2014 and 2015 when they sent tens of thousands of their children thousands of miles through strange territory unaccompanied in the hopes their children would eventually anchor them in. The families attacked their children again the last few years by d**gging them again through Mexico, sometimes accompanying them and sometimes giving them up to others so those other adults could get in when the word got out if they brought a child it was a free ticket in. Rather than an attack on the families by the US government when they did cross the border, all were put in humanitarian facilities to be processed and, as with all criminals who commit crimes, their children were put in facilities for children while their parents were processed in adult facilities. None were put in cages; the pictures you saw of children in cages were taken during Obama's presidency. Blindness like yours is unexplainable as is your misquoting and slandering of people like Jeff Sessions and the use of emotional words like "atrocity" to erroneously describe the proper and humanitarian process these i******s went through once entering the US. Atrocity more accurately describes the hundreds of American "volunteers" sent to Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras to misinform and goad citizens of those countries to undertake dangerous journeys whose end result for most was not to be what they expected. Blah, blah, blah but what is the point? Your mind has been clouded by TDS and obviously fail to see the legitimate responsibility of a sovereign country to enforce an orderly flow of people through it borders and to remove those persons it finds within its borders who do not have its permission to be there.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Ask the Europeans how they feel about the influx of immigrants to their countries. Most now regret it.

son of witless

Since HE did not answer me, I am happy you did and explained it to me. Since Liberal C*******ts took over the AmeriKan Education System in the late 60s-early 70s I have been unable to keep up with all of their advances in theory and practice.

I thank God that at least the teachers who taught me through third grade in the early 60s still were old school. We were grounded in the basics. When I hit Junior and high School I had a combination of old and new. Old was far better.

My kids in the 90s were subject to a lot of incompetent instruction. My younger daughter in particular got messed up when they stopped teaching phonics. It took years to fix. My older daughter's 4th grade math homework was totally not understandable, when she brought it home. I felt I should have gotten some of her teacher's salary for t***slating it into something she could learn.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

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lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

I don’t believe it came from a sight at all other than a picture sight such as photobucket or another such place...

Love this tho~~ right-leaning conservative bigoted anti-left sites or is it just a coincidence, LOL~~~ see you’re in good humor today.. So am I~~~😂😂😄👍

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

He does hammer both sides equally..👍 Its why he catches hell from both sides as well~~

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

All for show on both sides is what it boils down to~~ how about some business for the country?? This stalemate BS has gotten rather old, don’t you think?? How many bills did Reid can never bringing to the floor?? Pay backs and karma go a long way in accomplishing nothing!!!

Where you get confidence I have nothing but disgust...

Cuda2020

Ah yes, I'll take your OPINION into consideration, which is considerably more than you do with me. I've listened to him...enough.

JFlorio Loc: Seminole Florida

Morning LJ. Why not just once a clean bill?About one topic and not written by a staff of attorneys so the American people can have their legitimate input. I believe the weasels in congress only name the Bills, if they even do that.

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Too many won’t agree to the clean bill unless this or that is added... Called appeasement and buying the v**e “for”!if they add a bunch of stuff for others!! Usually the stuff added would never be sustained Or has already been kicked down by wh**ever group so they sneak it in helping passage because of the alleged original intent of the bill. Absolutely correct in that the bill drawn is by lawyers and the title goes to whoever authored the “purpose of the bill.” Likewise, often one person will be given credit for the bill when in fact it was cosponsored by any number of people...Done for name recognition showing how they are bettering our country so they can use it later in their campaigns...

The American people can have a legitimate say-so in the bills being considered, they just don’t go the extra mile to challenge that bill and call for reduction or constitutional violation or suppression of the people. Most don’t even know what bills are being drawn because our Congress likes to hide that from us until it’s law.The only for the people organization I know fight tooth and nail is the judicial watch they are constantly suing the government and I love every minute of it! I support them because they truly are for the people by the people....

You would be surprised at how many things you were able to get if we just bothered to do it. Public records are not excluded in government either....