What criminal are you referring to?themadscientist wrote:That means 30% would rather have nothing. You are proud of that? No wonder you actively support a criminal, you have no standards.
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Telcoman
What criminal are you referring to?themadscientist wrote:That means 30% would rather have nothing. You are proud of that? No wonder you actively support a criminal, you have no standards.
The Hillary Recession
By Lawrence Kudlow
July 30, 2016
This economy may be perilously close to recession. That was the message of the second-quarter real GDP report and its meager 1.2 percent growth rate.
Over the past year, real GDP has slipped to a paltry 1.2 percent. Business investment continues to fall. Building and factory construction has dropped sharply. Productivity is flat. The profits recession is still in force.
And what's the Hillary Clinton plan? Tax us into prosperity.
In her own words at the DNC on Thursday night, this is the fix: "Wall Street, corporations, and the super-rich are going to start paying their fair share of taxes." Why? "Not because we resent success. [!] Because when more than 90 percent of gains have gone to the top 1 percent, that's where the money is."
Let me get this right. In order to spur growth, Hillary intends to raise taxes on individuals, businesses, capital gains, stock trading and firms that move overseas (which they do because the U.S. has the most uncompetitive tax system in the corporate world). In addition, Hillary's door is open for a carbon tax, higher payroll taxes, and a gun tax of 25 percent.
She also argued in Philadelphia that the economy is not working the way it should because our democracy isn't working the way it should.
Huh?
What she's getting at is appointing Supreme Court justices who "will get money out of politics" and passing "a Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United."
Citizens United removed spending limits for super-PACs. And yet those mean and nasty super-PACs have thus far benefited from pro-Hillary hedge-fund contributions to the tune of $48.5 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Donald Trump, on the other hand, has received only $19,000 from hedge funds.
Get it? Citizens United, according to Hillary, is the source of our weak recovery and must be overturned. Meanwhile, she is the big beneficiary of the Supreme Court decision to allow unlimited political donations.
Next there are the recurring themes of class warfare and inequality, roots of evil according to Hillary. Turns out that the top 1 percent received a big share of income growth during the recovery. Okay, but it also suffered the biggest loss during the Great Recession.
Research from Scott Winship of the Manhattan Institute shows that during the recession, the top 1 percent lost 36 percent of its income while the bottom 90 percent lost 12 percent. And through 2014, the top 1 percent was still poorer by 18 percent than it was in 2000. That's compared to a 9 percent decline for the rest of us.
According to Winship, income for the top 1-percenters was basically no higher in 2014 than in 2000. Turns out that group bumped into the same income stagnation suffered by the U.S. middle class since 2000.
And according to new studies by Aparna Mathur of AEI, raising top marginal tax rates reduces growth incentives and yields very few revenues. Yet in addition to higher tax rates, Hillary wants $1 trillion in new spending programs.
The numbers also don't add up for Obama, who defended his so-called recovery at the DNC and even called Hillary, a 30-year member of the establishment, a change-maker.
Obama's seven-year recovery averaged 2.1 percent real growth at an annualized rate. For historical comparison, after seven years, JFK's economy increased by 5.4 percent yearly and Reagan's by 4.5 percent.
Did JFK and Reagan beget long booms by raising taxes? No. They cut tax rates across the board.
Hillary is a combination of Barack Obama 3.0 and Bernie Sanders 2.0. This is not change. This will not yield strong growth, lift jobs and wages, and make America more globally competitive.
A week prior to the DNC, Donald Trump offered a different perspective at the RNC: "America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world. Reducing taxes will cause new companies and new jobs to come roaring back into our country. Then we are going to deal with the issue of regulation, one of the greatest job-killers overall ... We are going to lift restrictions on the production of American energy ... With these new economic policies, trillions of dollars will start flowing into our country."
So Trump wants to reduce tax rates and regulations, unleash energy, and make America the most hospitable investment destination in the world. Hillary wants to raise taxes, regulations, and spending, and put the energy sector out of business. (She would abolish coal and oil-and-gas fracking.)
No wonder the blue-collar, hard-hat, Democratic middle class is going for Trump.
Hillary is not an agent of change. Nor does she have any idea how to restore rapid economic growth. Instead, she is a prisoner of the Left. Tax the rich, inequality, redistribution.
If Trump stays on his growth message, he'll whup her in November.
No he won't!Rogue One wrote:If Trump stays on his growth message, he'll whup her in November.
telcoman wrote:No he won't!Rogue One wrote:If Trump stays on his growth message, he'll whup her in November.
Telcoman
Well we both have something in common.AZhitman wrote:Me too.
I voted for GJ, but I wanted to come in and kick Howie in the a$$ for good measure.
He's probably boo-hooing over a bowl of Malt-o-Meal and fondling himself to a picture of Barack on a bicycle.
Apparently he's still alive as he was last active: Fri Nov 11, 2016 @ 5:21 am. I'm guessing he's been holding a vigil hoping that The electoral college could still stop Trump. It's a fantasy to be sure, but there's several petitions that were started just after Hillary's defeat was announced, demanding that members of the electoral college usurp the will of the people.RicerX wrote:Came here to see if I had finally seen Nostradamus visit the boards. Left disappointed.
I not only watch Rachel but I also watch some of Hannity and O'Reilly on Fox. Rachel does have some good shows and she was one of the first to report on the Flint water crisis. For those that enjoy politics listening to both sides makes one smarter. Even as a kid I had a short wave radio and still remember listening to Radio Moscow during the Cuban Missile crisis. I was scared s#it.AZhitman wrote:No time to get into it right now, but Rachel Maddow is about as reliable as a mesh condom.
Howie, thanks for working the polls. I pick on you, and probably always will, but like you said, it's time to watch and wait - not behave irrationally. I have my reservations about DT, but I am optimistic that he will do just fine. Remember, we have had inexperienced POTUS-Elects before (not so very long ago).
I have absolutely no tolerance or patience for the misbehavior of the butthurt segment of the population who are behaving like animals. I'd love to round them all up and find out which ones actually voted - the ones that did not, become fish food. Problem solved, lesson learned.
But ... but ... during Obama's entire term in office (including the first term, in particular) lots of things were "Bush's fault", according to Democrats, no?telcoman wrote:Whatever happens after January 20th 2017 will become Trump's fault as well as the Republican Party.
Stay tuned.
Telcoman
The answer to that has always depended on which side of the aisle you supportszh wrote:But Trump does not get to blame Obama for anything? Literally right after the Inauguration?
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There is a huge difference in the favorability ratings between when Bush left office and Obama's favorability rating nowszh wrote:But ... but ... during Obama's entire term in office (including the first term, in particular) lots of things were "Bush's fault", according to Democrats, no?telcoman wrote:Whatever happens after January 20th 2017 will become Trump's fault as well as the Republican Party.
Stay tuned.
Telcoman
And, Democrats still fault Bush today for a lot of things.
But Trump does not get to blame Obama for anything? Literally right after the Inauguration?
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Apparently!Bubba1 wrote:The answer to that has always depended on which side of the aisle you supportszh wrote:But Trump does not get to blame Obama for anything? Literally right after the Inauguration?
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So what? Even if true, it does not change my point at all ...telcoman wrote:There is a huge difference in the favorability ratings between when Bush left office and Obama's favorability rating now
At the risk of catching flack for doing a copy & paste...flartius wrote: ↑Fri Apr 27, 2018 4:31 am...I meant on the forum. I'm sure there are millions who haven't slept since he was elected because they no longer believe in the democratic process now that their beloved Hillary lost the election.
At this point, I think, you're only posting copy paste info because you want to seem relevant?
You have no interest in having a conversation about any of it, you copy paste info, when someone calls you out on it you ignore it and move to the next CNN article you've just read, or sometimes just read the title I think, and copy paste again. Rinse and repeat. Personally I don't care if he is impeached, Hillary didn't get the seat so I'm still smiling every day.
The Democrats want a refund from Hillary Clinton — and they want her to go away, too.
Apparently, Clinton is still cashing in off her failed 2016 campaign.
Instead of just donating her campaign email list to the Democratic National Committee, her organization Onward Together is charging the DNC $1.6 Million for access to it. Even Barack Obama gave his email list to the DNC as an in-kind contribution back in 2015, and his list was valued at $1.9 million!
Does Clinton not realize the DNC is “dead broke,” like $6 million in the red? The DNC recently took out another $2 million dollar loan just to to keep its operation running as usual.
Keeping the DNC in debt says a lot about the Clinton organization. The Democrats are desperate for funds for the 2018 midterm elections, yet the Clintons won’t step in and help their own party.
It’s the least they could do, considering the DNC rigged the primary for Hillary.