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Russia Backs Trump's Re-election, and He Fears Democrats Will Exploit Its Support

Conservative said:
I really feel sorry for you and how poor your understanding of this country is. From what I can tell you really need that nanny state the left offers. Your problem is you are in the minority

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LOL Democrats are a majority and Trump is a minority President. He lost by more votes than any "winner" in history.
 
Conservative said:
Please one of the dumbest posts I have read. Your hatred says a lot about you. Are you a family member of a liberal elite member? After November you better find another ideology as it is going to be a bloodbath for liberals like you

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Dream on. If I were you I would be thinking of who will I support after Trump is gone. That is a tough nut to crack.
 
iguanaman said:
LOL Democrats are a majority and Trump is a minority President. He lost by more votes than any "winner" in history.
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In what country would that be? The Senate still has a majority of Republicans and there still are a majority of Republican governors in the nation? You really need to get better information and learn how to do research. He lost the state of California by 4 million votes, maybe you ought to move there as Florida is going Red this fall. California apparently has exactly what you are looking for, the best homeless areas in the nation
 
GDViking said:
Please, Putin knew his agenda was over if Hillary was in charge, he couldn't deal with someone more Intelligent and just as experienced as him.

He had been grooming trump as a Russian asset for decades so he pulled out all the stops and to put an ignorant puppet In office...
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Sorry but the party puppet has been Hillary from day one. Just ask Bernie. She couldn't beat Trump with a stacked deck. Putin schooled her plain and simple. She tried to turn a riot into a revolution when Putin won the election and failed. Putin showed her how it is done. Either way losing to Trump with all the Super PACs and money she had shows she was never the leader her husband was. He even tried to tell her to stick to the issues or Trump would beat her. She said he didn't know what he was talking about. It seems she is the one who didn't know what she was talking about. The country needed a leader and she just wasn't up to the task. The bet part was Hillary calling out Trump over him not saying he would accept defeat. Well we found out who couldn't accept defeat. Or maybe her delusional story about running from sniper fire that never happened. Talk about slandering a country and its people as secretary of state. Falsely stating they tried to kill her when it never happened.
 
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iguanaman said:
Dream on. If I were you I would be thinking of who will I support after Trump is gone. That is a tough nut to crack.
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I couldn't care who you support, you will be relegated to third party status after November. There is nothing you offer that appeals to the American people. Politics of personal destruction and economic ignorance are today's radicals which you represent
 
iguanaman said:
You keep acting like Trump changed our economy when all he did was continue the growth that Obama started. Goosing with massive tax cuts that benefited the rich and deficit spending like has never been seen in a supposedly "good" economy is not genius it is burning the candle at both ends.


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OM, do you understand the term context?? Look it up and get back to me. You really don't understand data at all do you? U-3 is irrelevant, U-6 matters and that is what Obama generated under employed, you must be so proud, people working two to three jobs in that Obama economy just to make ends meet
 
Conservative said:
In what country would that be? The Senate still has a majority of Republicans and there still are a majority of Republican governors in the nation? You really need to get better information and learn how to do research. He lost the state of California by 4 million votes, maybe you ought to move there as Florida is going Red this fall. California apparently has exactly what you are looking for, the best homeless areas in the nation
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California going red

Care to make a wager?
 
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PIPEWRENCH said:
Well that statement shows how little you know about Putin if you think he is Trumps friend. Putin's only friends are me, myself, and I. But he does get even when you stick your nose in his elections and try and incite a riot into a coup. Just ask Hillary. The only good thing Putin did was prove to the American people she was never up to the task to lead tis country or play with the big boys.
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You sound like Trump, always sticking up for Putin. Always excusing Putin's goals as "understandable," even when it includes ordering the murder of his opponents overseas.
 
eman623 said:
Not really. Some authoritarian countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia support Trump. Others like China and Iran don't. I bet Venezuela and Cuba aren't too keen on Trump either, seeing as he re-blocked travel to Cuba and backs the Venezuealan opposition leader.
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Blocking Cuba and ending the Iran nuclear treaty plays into the hands of the hard-liners in both countries. The real loser in Iran is Hassan Rouhani while the radical clerics are cackling in glee.
 
Court Jester said:
When the government provides subsidies to the poor very little of that ends up stimulating the economy. It becomes a drain on businesses, a drain on taxpayers, a drain on government budgets which could be better allocated than be encouraging more entitlements.
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Few economists believe that. Just so you know.
 
Court Jester said:
When the government provides incentives for business there is a trickle down effect in that it provides jobs and opportunity to workers. Salaries which end up being used to buy cars, other goods and services, educations for the children of workers without it being paid by the taxpayer.

When the government provides subsidies to the poor very little of that ends up stimulating the economy. It becomes a drain on businesses, a drain on taxpayers, a drain on government budgets which could be better allocated than be encouraging more entitlements.
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This is what is widely know as voodoo economics and has been a failure every time it has been attempted.

The last time leading to the second largest economic collapse in history...
 
Court Jester said:
When the government provides incentives for business there is a trickle down effect in that it provides jobs and opportunity to workers. Salaries which end up being used to buy cars, other goods and services, educations for the children of workers without it being paid by the taxpayer.
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That is a simplistic view that doesn't always work as you say it does, and you ignore the effects of globalism. The state of supply and demand must be examined to determine where to target tax cuts. In periods of high demand, like the '80s, trickle down can be effective. In periods of high supply, investors will keep cash and securities, or go international looking for more lucrative opportunities.

When the government provides subsidies to the poor very little of that ends up stimulating the economy. It becomes a drain on businesses, a drain on taxpayers, a drain on government budgets which could be better allocated than be encouraging more entitlements.
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That is just nonsensical. When tax cuts are given to the working class, nearly all of it stimulates the economy. Perhaps counterintuitively, but the smaller the tax cut (or the smaller pieces it can be divided into), the larger the stimulation. People complained that Obama's tax cuts amounted to only $20 a week. That was the whole point; people spend that $20 locally, starting the trickle up phenomenon. We saw that even $300 is too much to provide a stimulus effect, as in Bush's rebate. People used that money to pay down credit, which is a great thing, but not stimulative.

As far as other subsidies go, they are not intended to stimulate the economy, so if that's your argument, it's a non-sequitur.
 
JANFU said:
California going red

Care to make a wager?
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Why would anyone bite the hand that feeds them? The radical left will keep supporting the homeless, those in poverty and thus keep buying votes in LA, SF and San Diego. Learn to read before spouting off
 
jpn said:
Few economists believe that. Just so you know.
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Key is two grow the economy by lowering taxes and eliminating unnecessary regulations. The trick however is to ALSO control spending, because as the economy grows and along with it the tax base, there is a trend with government to get drunk on spending.
 
Court Jester said:
Key is two grow the economy by lowering taxes and eliminating unnecessary regulations. The trick however is to ALSO control spending, because as the economy grows and along with it the tax base, there is a trend with government to get drunk on spending.
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I like this statement. Right On. That is indeed the trick. By the way Russians endorsing something is not a crime. Saying that they are interfering is just a way of creating a case so that several false accusations can be made. There is no such issue. There has always been favoritism anyway. That is just a fact of life. What you really have to watch is immigration from countries crossing into the USA who have the most opportunity to interfere in an election. The ones you need to fear and investigate are the Democrats (Liberals). Their behavior makes this obvious.
 
Court Jester said:
Key is two grow the economy by lowering taxes and eliminating unnecessary regulations. The trick however is to ALSO control spending, because as the economy grows and along with it the tax base, there is a trend with government to get drunk on spending.
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I've always found it interesting that Republicans are always screaming about cutting taxes and cutting spending, yet they never say a damn word about paying down the dept.

They're all for borrowing a trillion dollars in order to cut taxes for the wealthy,but never with a plan to pay t back.

No wonder they love trump, that has been his business model his whole life...
 
jpn said:
You sound like Trump, always sticking up for Putin. Always excusing Putin's goals as "understandable," even when it includes ordering the murder of his opponents overseas.
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I never liked Putin. Putin has always been a problem. The only reason Putin hasn't attacked Trump is the democrats are doing such an awesome job of disrupting our government that it serves him better to let them continue to do his job for him.
 
Court Jester said:
Key is two grow the economy by lowering taxes and eliminating unnecessary regulations. The trick however is to ALSO control spending, because as the economy grows and along with it the tax base, there is a trend with government to get drunk on spending.
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That's the traditional conservative approach. They are concerned with lowering taxes and stripping regulations. But what about schools and health care and infrastructure and clean water and clean air?

The trick is to "control" spending? Sure it is. But it's also to not myopically reduce spending on key elements of society that enable it to compete in a global economy.

As far as the "tendency for government to get drunk on spending," the tendency in America in the last 40 years is to explode deficits with unnecessary tax cuts.
 
ELKMAN said:
I like this statement. Right On. That is indeed the trick. By the way Russians endorsing something is not a crime. Saying that they are interfering is just a way of creating a case so that several false accusations can be made. There is no such issue. There has always been favoritism anyway. That is just a fact of life. What you really have to watch is immigration from countries crossing into the USA who have the most opportunity to interfere in an election. The ones you need to fear and investigate are the Democrats (Liberals). Their behavior makes this obvious.
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It's more "obvious" the more you watch Fox "News." To the rest of the world, less so.
 
jpn said:
That's the traditional conservative approach. They are concerned with lowering taxes and stripping regulations. But what about schools and health care and infrastructure and clean water and clean air?

The trick is to "control" spending? Sure it is. But it's also to not myopically reduce spending on key elements of society that enable it to compete in a global economy.

As far as the "tendency for government to get drunk on spending," the tendency in America in the last 40 years is to explode deficits with unnecessary tax cuts.
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How about you learn what taxes you pay and their purpose. The Federal gov't doesn't control schools, the states do and they pay for the schools through state and local taxes mostly property taxes. Obviously you people are nothing more than big govt liberals who believe all things come from the federal gov't. My state doesn't support your schools and yours doesn't support ours.
 
jpn said:
That's the traditional conservative approach. They are concerned with lowering taxes and stripping regulations. But what about schools and health care and infrastructure and clean water and clean air?
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Education:

Schools get more money than they need. The constant cry for more money for schools is really about more money for teachers salaries and pension. Los Angeles public schools get more money than just about any place in the country yet have some of the worst results. More money doesn't help education when you have corrupt liberal politicians and greedy public employee unions.

Healthcare:

Healthcare IS NOT a human right. The government has no business in trying to run healthcare/health insurance---- especially when it is being given out to non citizens and tax payer expense.
You want healthcare, then pay for it yourself or negotiate with your employer either directly or through your union.... the way it has always been done.
Government can't run the department of motor vehicles correctly, why in the hell do people think it can run healthcare?

Clean water & clean air:

Used by the left as a scare tactic and to herd votes. Nothing wrong with environmental protections and regulations, but when it goes to the almost religious extreme on the left where it destroys the economy, then what is the point?

jpn said:
The trick is to "control" spending? Sure it is. But it's also to not myopically reduce spending on key elements of society that enable it to compete in a global economy.
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You mean like punishing oil companies, pharmaceutical companies, aerospace, and auto manufacturers?

jpn said:
As far as the "tendency for government to get drunk on spending," the tendency in America in the last 40 years is to explode deficits with unnecessary tax cuts.
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The only way to curb the government thirst for more and more money and power is to cut them off at the knees--- cut taxes. Give the money back to individuals and businesses to re-invest in their own futures. Grow the economy and then you grow the tax base---albeit one taking less taxes from each individual taxpayer. One you have a growing economy then the deficit is easier to pay down. Try paying off a deficit with a shrinking economy. Can't be done unless you drastically increase taxes--- which then just slows growth even more.

Government does NOT know how to grow an economy, only business--- people and corporations taking entrepreneurial risks can do that. Government best serves when it encourages and allows for tht kind of opportunity, all over taking does is thwart the natural growth potentiality in a free market. Will some people be left behind? Sure, but who cares, they aren't the ones paying the bills.
 
OscarLevant said:
I'm filing this in the 'friend of my enemy is my enemy' file.

In other words, Trump really has to go.
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When are you all going to stop falling for this nonsense?
 
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