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WookieMan says

When in France everyone must do the double air kiss.

You know that’s not accurate

I’ll give you bill and bush. The rest was way off.

Obama will be remembered for screwing up healthcare.
Trump for fixing economy.

marcus says

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How they will be remembered

Fortwaynemobile says

Obama will be remembered for screwing up healthcare.
Trump for fixing economy.

This does seem to be correct.

Forcing US citizens to pay unaccountable private insurers unlimited amounts of money is not good.

Dramatic improvement in US economy since Trump's election is very good.

Deficits suck. You can take a pay cut mrgovernmentt employee. Want one?

Point is economy is great, jobs are plentiful. Future seems bright. And that’s the truth you are ignoring.

marcus says

Patrick says

This does seem to be correct.

Only among hopeless egomaniacs that want to defend their votes.

Patrick says

Dramatic improvement in US economy since Trump's election is very good.

Only if you live in fantasy land.

When were in the next recession (god only know what that will be like if we are running deficits over $1trillion defitis going in ), you can explain to us all, why that awesome continuation of Obama's economy was worth those kind of deficits.

If you're lucky a democrat will be President then, and you can just blame them. That way, who knows, maybe you can go the rest of your life lying to yourself.

marcus says

Yep, the new normal is that America doesn't bow and scrape to shine shameful treaties that put all the compliance on us, and exempts everybody from their sins (like diesel-fueled vehicles and nat gas imports from Authoritarian countries)

Natural Gas Imports from Authoritarian Countries, Marcus.

What country is the start point for nat gas pipelines ending in Germany?

What the Democrats accomplished

marcus says

Trump has talked about our trade imbalances and his desire for it to be fixed for decades.

He talked about solving the China trade problem while campaigning. He knew tarrifs + a trade war would strain our economy, and so juicing the economy via tax reform + cuts would give us the boost we need beat China. If it all works, this could truly go down as one of the very great presidential accomplishments.

We've gotten accustomed to presidents promising tiny petty things at best because they don't want to attempt and fail at big impactful things. Trump is a fuckin boss for attempting this.

Budget Deficits are impacted by Trade Deficits

Chinese subcontractors and their employees don't pay:

* US Corporate Tax
* US Income Tax
* Local Property Tax
* US Excise Taxes
* US/State/Local Business Taxes
* Don't Add to the Economy of Scale of Electric Production

They create a fraction of the Jobs a similar firm, even if highly automated, would do in the USA.

Futhermore, deindustrialization causes:

* Underfunded infrastructure
* Underfunded Schools
* Higher Property Taxes on Residential and Commerical
* Knocks down property values (nobody moves to jobless places)
* Increased Crime
* Increased Drug Use
* Increased Family Breakdown

What does that equal? Worse Deficits.

Not a meme but a history lesson

marcus says

Do you think FDR, Truman, LBJ were Fascists? They ordered companies to do things. And used force to do it.

Booger says

Actually, Thomas Jefferson was a slave owning Democrat. Washington also owned slaves, but Washington at least made provisions to free his slaves after his and Martha's death, and made provisions for taking care of the freed elderly and to educate the freed child slaves.

Why did St. OBAMA! do nothing about these price rises? Perhaps rising prices might be related to his Obamacare at least partially???

In a recent investigation, Lee Newspapers reported that the price of insulin in the U.S. has tripled, quadrupled, and more in the last two years. One physician described an increase from $45 to $1,447 for one concentrated form of insulin since 2001. (quote from sept 2016)

https://mtstandard.com/news/local/insulin-price-scandal-hurts-many-more-than-epipen-issues-do/article_2f8dd916-a425-5404-bba9-7b6c37f5e13b.html
marcus says

marcus says

Bottle of insulin is still $25 at Walmart. You don't have to use the expensive stuff.