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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.

That chart is highly exaggerated.

https://www.truthorfiction.com/comparing-the-cost-of-insulin-pens-in-the-united-states-with-other-countries/

Also, from Consumer Reports:

As is the case with most other medications, prices can vary depending on where you fill your prescription. Our shoppers have frequently found that getting a lower price requires some shopping around. Try Walmart, where you can get Novolin N for just $25, says Jeremy A. Greene, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of medicine and the history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-author of the NEJM commentary. “Walmart has the cheapest insulin in the country. They use their distribution muscle to demand a much lower price.”

Check with Walgreens, too; we found Novolin N priced as low as $64 there. And Costco is worth a try as well, especially if you're a member. Costco pharmacies in New York and New Jersey told us it would cost $130 for Novolin N. You can fill prescriptions at Costco without being a member, but membership can bring the out-of-pocket price down to just under $100.

6rdB says

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

Remember he was spreading that hoax that America was so fat and sickly it had to be high. That's how he got a friend of mine at the time, a Diabetic fist throwing mad over a bad talk about Obamacare. He was going to get free $750 insulin shots. He didn't care that a $35 insulin shot, selling for $700 was the problem. Not mandated Healthcare, with baked in corruption and price gouging.

jazz_music says

And why didn't St. Obama get us something better than Heritage Foundation Romney care???

Why did he let them call it Obamacare when he was pushing single payer plan?

What did the Republicans want us to have for healthcare? ANSWER: even Heritage foundation care was too good for us termites to get. Republican bastards want to kill us if it means FUCKING donations for reelection.

I personally think that Romneycare is worse than lack of Romneycare, as it was written by insurance companies. It is just a more efficient method to transfer our tax money into pockets of more deserving 0.001%-ers.

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