You can parrot him about the economy if it makes you feel better but considering the POTUS came in with the worst economic downturn in 80 years and 7 out of the last 8 quarters have seen growth your whinging about the economy is not getting traction amongst independents and the opposition. Unemployment has been dropping and if you think either oligarch is going to do anything about the rich poor gap then you are delusional.
There is an FBI probe in the Clinton Foundation. Pay attention. BTW your take is a parrot from Lewandowski. You claim to criticize the Trump campaign yet you parrot it's mouthpiece like a good minion. The press reported that too btw.
BTW its not 'free.' We pay taxes remember? The notion that free market can handle things like infrastructure, health care, education, and mass transit at a reasonable cost is empirically false.
You continue to harp on the low GDP growth, and while it has been depressed since the Great recession, you have to look at it in the context of other industrialized countries. What you'll find is that it is in-line with or better than most.
This is my primary issue with your posts RMT...you take the latest GOP talking point, repeat it ad nauseam without any critical analysis. If it's anti Obama or anti democrat, it's gospel to RMT.
Establishment Repugs won't let Pres Trash (gag!) do anything non-Repug, eg
GOP Obsession With Austerity Is to Blame for Sluggish Economic Recovery
New analysis provides opportunity to challenge austerity policies 'directly, unambiguously, and fearlessly'
Fiscal austerity in the wake of the Great Recession—imposed by Republicans on the federal, state, and local levels—is responsible for the sluggish pace of economic recovery since 2009, states a new paper that undercuts conservative attempts to pin the blame on President Barack Obama.
"By far the biggest drag on growth throughout the recovery from the Great Recession has been the fiscal policy forced upon us by Republican lawmakers in Congress and austerity-minded state legislatures and governors," wrote Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Ins ute (EPI), which put out the analysis on Thursday.
Because the "ability of conventional monetary policy to spur recovery following the Great Recession was more limited than in any other post-war recovery," Bivens explained, increases in government spending and federal aid to states were necessary to help working Americans following the recession that began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009.
Given the degree of damage inflicted by the Great Recession and the restricted ability of monetary policy to aid recovery, historically expansionary fiscal policy was required to return the U.S. economy to full health," said Bivens, who is EPI's research and policy director.
"But this government spending not only failed to rise fast enough to spur a rapid recovery, it outright contracted, and this policy choice fully explains why the economy is only partially recovered from the Great Recession a full seven years after its official end."
s he said.
(In fact, even the stimulus measures that were enacted were criticized at the time as too small to make a real difference.)
As the Guardian notes, "[t]he report comes as the Republican party once again calls for the reining in of government spending and reductions in the deficit."
But, while it's clear that "Republicans remain steadfast in their opposition to government spending—even for government jobs like teaching, firefighting, and emergency management," Campaign for America's Future blogger Richard Eskow notes that "a lot of Democrats have bought into the myth, too."
Indeed, he wrote on Friday, "[t]here are strong hints of austerity-oriented thinking in Hillary Clinton's rhetoric,"
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Why is recovery taking so long — and who’s to blame?
http://www.epi.org/publication/why-i...o-is-to-blame/
Repug/conservative strategy is to up govt so people will hate govt for being ed up (eg: Repug strict obstructionist in Congress).
Repugs tried to make Obama one-term Pres by ing up the economy with austerity so they could run in 2012 on "Obama's bad economy"
You're gonna blame the media for this instead of your candidate's stupidity? Seriously, he's on his way to getting destroyed in the election and costing his party many seats in the house and senate.
Pardon me, if I don't think that 0.8 and 1.2 GDP in the last 2 quarters is as great as you do. Go ahead and believe that unemployment is dropping when people have just given up. How do you explain the labor participation rate? Do you really think that everyone who wants a job has one and hasn't just given up (or aren't working 2 or 3 part times ones)?
You are the one who isn't paying attention. What does the FBI have to do with this? I was talking about the media (specifically about NYT) and how they cover Trump as opposed to Hillary. I know it's not free stuff - but isn't it being sold as "free" and that we're gonna tax those evil rich people and corporations to pay for it. But guess what, it's those evil rich people and corporations who create jobs - jobs that we so desperately need. And if you tax them severely to pay for healthcare, college tuition, parental leave, etc - do you think they are going to invest in new equipment to improve worker productivity, create new jobs, etc?
And we'll just have to disagree on whether the government can do infrastructure, healthcare, education and transit as cheaply/efficiently as the private sector. Look at this mess we're in with Obamacare when yes, Obama and the democrats, do something about healthcare. Soon the premiums/deductibles/copays will be so high that the young and middle class will not be able to afford it, will drop out and then instead of poor people being the ones without health care, it'll be the young and middle class who'll still be helping to fund it with their penalties and getting nothing in return. All those billions wasting on the website, advertising, help desk, operators, etc could have gone to helping those with major health problems and left the rest of the country able to buy what they want/need (mostly catastrophic insurance to cover major incidents) instead of coverage we don't want or need.
Maybe you missed the part where I said "sometimes deservedly so"? LOL - if you think the media's coverage of Trump and Hillary are equally fair.
Pardon me, if I don't want to go down the road that the other industrialized countries are going - overrun with migrants, very susceptible to terrorism, negative interest rates, huge pension and retiree obligations, etc.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/europe-f...ent-1457287588
Illinois (iirc) faces less than 50% pension funded ratio but I guess when the fan hits the ceiling, some can just move to other states - the people from other industrialized countries - not so much.
I guess you'd rather hear from the democrats how rosy the economy is instead of the doom and gloom from the GOP/Trump. You can go ahead and believe the promises that Hillary is spouting - believe that we can have "free" healthcare, college tuition and parental leave. I'll continue to believe that we can't even afford what we already have - SS, Medicare, Medicaid and servicing our $19.4+ trillion debt.
Economic Policy Ins ute
They have even shilled for big tobacco after getting paid to do it.
https://www.activistfacts.com/organi...icy-ins ute/
Same to you, asshole.
Hasn't school started yet?
Yeah, it's real funny how a flaming got like Bonnerific can twist my statement that I would have ed a hot female teacher in high school given the opportunity into participating in his ed up fantasy world of hunting little boys.
Like I said...I'm not participating in that flaming gots fantasies about little boys.
Someone's being defensive.
Someones tired of the gots fantasy bull .Someone's being defensive.
August 16, 2016
An Open Letter to Reince Priebus, Chairman, Republican National Committee
In every election cycle, the Republican National Committee (RNC) must make difficult decisions in the closing months about where to allocate its limited resources – money, time, staff, and ads – to ensure the best possible opportunities for the Party’s success. Given the catastrophic impact that Donald Trump’s losing presidential campaign will have on down-ballot Senate and House races, we urge you to immediately suspend all discretionary RNC support for Trump and focus the entirety of the RNC’s available resources on preserving the GOP’s congressional majorities.
The signatories to this letter have been involved with Republican politics at the local, state, and national levels for more than three decades. We have served as past and current elected officials and as staffers for the RNC; appointees in every Republican administration since President Reagan; advisors on the last nine GOP presidential campaigns; aides on leadership, personal, and committee staff in both the House and Senate; grassroots workers; and delegates to multiple GOP conventions.
We believe that Donald Trump’s divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck. This should not be a difficult decision, as Donald Trump’s chances of being elected president are evaporating by the day. Since the GOP convention, less than a month ago, he has alienated millions of voters of all parties by:
• Attacking Gold Star families of soldiers who died serving their country;
• Urging a hostile foreign government to intervene in a U.S. election;
• Suggesting that gun owners take action against his opponent if she is elected;
• Repudiating our NATO treaty obligations to protect our allies;
• Reportedly expressing interest in the preemptive use of nuclear weapons;
• Exposing his total ignorance of basic foreign policy matters;
• Stating his admiration for violent foreign autocrats;
• Refusing to disclose any of his past taxes, including those not under audit; and
• Deliberately and repeatedly lying about scores of issues, large and small.
Those recent outrages have built on his campaign of anger and exclusion, during which he has mocked and offended millions of voters, including the disabled, women, Muslims, immigrants, and minorities. He also has shown dangerous authoritarian tendencies, including threats to ban an entire religion from entering the country, order the military to break the law by torturing prisoners, kill the families of suspected terrorists, track law-abiding Muslim citizens in databases, and use executive orders to implement other illegal and uncons utional measures.
Those disqualifying elements of Trump’s personality and positions are reflected in his plummeting support. As respected polling analyst Nate Silver recently wrote, “recent Fox News, Marist College and NBC News/Wall Street Journal national polls show Trump trailing Clinton by 9 to 14 percentage points, margins that would make for the largest general election blowout since 1984 if they held.”
Commenting on the Marist poll, The Washington Post said, “Those numbers are, to put it bluntly, shocking. Mitt Romney was never down by that much to President Obama in 2012; his worst poll was a survey in June from Bloomberg that had him down 13, with 40 percent of the vote.” On Clinton’s seven-point lead in the overall polling average, the article continued, “Relative to Election Day in 2004, 2008 and 2012, Clinton's lead is more than twice that of the eventual victor at this point. “
According to Silver, whose analysis correctly picked 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 presidential election and all 50 states in 2012, current polling gives Trump barely a 11 percent chance of being elected president in November. That polling projects a potential 365 electoral vote blowout for Hillary Clinton, including a sweep of every battleground state from Florida to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Virginia, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, and North Carolina. Trump’s across-the-board collapse has put even Republican bastions like Georgia and Arizona in play
As you know, there are very rarely large shifts in support at this late stage in a presidential election cycle, particularly with two candidates as well known to the public as the current nominees.
Beyond Trump’s likely electoral failure, his actions toward his fellow Republicans should disqualify him from receiving any further support. Since winning the primaries, Trump has claimed he wants to unify the party but instead has doubled down on vicious and vengeful attacks on fellow Republicans, including:
• Threatening to set up a super PAC with tens of millions of dollars of his own money to go after Republicans who did not support him;
• Dismissing a GOP Senator who spent more than five years being tortured as a prisoner- of-war as “not a hero;”
• Warning another GOP Senator that he might work against his reelection;
• Calling yet another in bent Republican Senator a “loser” to his Senate peers;
• Repeating his false and outlandish claims that yet another Senator’s father played some role in the Kennedy assassination;
• Falsely accusing the nation’s first Hispanic woman Governor of “not doing her job;” and
• Refusing to initially endorse the Speaker of the House and at least two Republican Senators, despite their support for his presidential bid.
In summary, every dollar spent by the RNC on Donald Trump’s campaign is a dollar of donor money wasted on the losing effort of a candidate who has actively undermined the GOP at every turn. Rather than throwing good money after bad, the RNC should shift its strategy and its resources to convince voters not to give Hillary Clinton the “blank check” of a Democrat controlled Congress to advance her big government agenda.
Signing an appeal such as this is not easy for any of us. But in our view, Trump’s divisive and dangerous actions are not only a threat to our other candidates, but to our Party and the nation. Only swift and decisive action can save the Republican Party and protect the hundreds of other GOP candidates running for office. We urge the RNC to immediately halt all support for Donald Trump and invest its resources in a real and winnable campaign to save the Republican Senate and House.
"how bad the economy is"?
He could talk about that, but it would fall pretty flat with a low unemployment rate, rising wages, and a stock market triple where it was when the last disastrous Republican president handed the reins to a Democrat.
There are arguments to be made on both sides of that, which means they will wash each other out as an election issue.
Imagine how much better it could have been if we didn't have a Congress throughout those years screwing around trying to sabotage economic growth with manufactured crisis after manufactured crisis in an effort to take back power.
Ivanka and Putin's vacationing together
Had American citizens and Russia not saved Odumbos ass wed be talking about ISIS capital being in Damascus and Israel waging a full scale war in the area and taking over 1/3 of Syria. And our economy would be complete
Obomber and co basically dodged a bullet by pure luck
You mean Ivanka and Putins gf?
Ivanka and Putin's vacationing together
We all know Putins is Barrack Obummo
Donald Trump’s Campaign Manager Worked for Warlords, Arms-Dealers and Dictators
Paul Manafort doesn’t care who writes his checks
Even the most brutal dictators and the bloodiest warlords could benefit from having a friendly public-relations operative in Washington. Access to high-ranking officials goes a long way in the nation’s capital.
There’s always somebody willing to take on the vilest of clients — and one of those somebodies is Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s new campaign manager.
Manafort has worked on behalf of
an Angolan warlord,
a Lebanese arms-dealer,
the Pakistani spy agency that went on to create the Taliban,
the Putin-aligned president of Ukraine and
a who’s-who of 1980s dictators.
He helped enrich clients who left trails of death and destruction in their wakes.
https://warisboring.com/donald-trump...3d8#.xvqv0wwda
Trash hires the tiest people, Manafort, Katrina Pierson, and probably lots of other people in his dis-organization.
Please provide more than a twitter claim about Deng Murdoch dating Putin.
Ivanka and Putin's vacationing together
A credible link. Not some "rumor" from a gossip magazine.
they are the only reliable news source. haven't you seen men in black?
Trump supporters: How will you celebrate when he wins?
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