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What the next president's No.1 priority should be
CNBC ^ | June 20, 2016 | James Simons

Posted on 06/23/2016 9:42:05 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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1 posted on 06/23/2016 9:42:05 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I don’t see that happening with President Trump.


2 posted on 06/23/2016 9:43:58 AM PDT by WENDLE (CRUSH THESE TRAITORS TO TRUMP)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Congress passed Porkukus early in Obama’s first term. It was supposed to have gone to infrastructure. Where the heck did that money go????

So I would note that congress didn’t exactly do nothing. They did pass porkulus but for unknown reasons we have nothing to show for it.


3 posted on 06/23/2016 9:45:26 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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“... the country’s infrastructure is in a shambles. Highways and roads, bridges, tunnels, water systems, airports, mass transit,...”

WAIT A MINUTE. Didn’t Obama demand and receive a $trillion dollar spending plan from congress for this exact purpose?

WHERE THE HELL DID ALL THAT MONEY GO?


4 posted on 06/23/2016 9:45:48 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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"In 2008, we had a perfect opportunity. Millions were out of jobs, and there were thousands of projects worth doing. But instead of undertaking anything constructive, the members of our Congress did nothing but argue with each other, and as a result virtually nothing got done – particularly nothing that would truly strengthen our nation."

BS. The media trying to rewrite history again. For 2 years after 2008 dems had a filibuster proof majority in both houses of congress and were able to and did ram through every single thing they wanted. Their policies just failed miserably with regard to the economy.

5 posted on 06/23/2016 9:46:27 AM PDT by circlecity
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WHERE THE HELL DID ALL THAT MONEY GO?

Social programs

6 posted on 06/23/2016 9:46:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Firing 20,000 Federal employees per day for the first 90 days.


7 posted on 06/23/2016 9:46:36 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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As important as refurbishing our infrastructure is, our immediate concern needs to be:

1) CLOSE the Border!

2) STOP ALL immigration, muslim and others.

8 posted on 06/23/2016 9:47:00 AM PDT by PROCON (Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Actually, only a small portion of the Porkulus was dedicated to infrastructure.


9 posted on 06/23/2016 9:48:13 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Where the heck did that money go????

It went to state and local governments, to keep their unionized workforces employed, so they would not suffer layoffs like so many did in the private sector.

Mass layoffs of unionized public employees would have pulled the power cord from the Democrats' money machine and put a serious crimp in their electoral viability.


10 posted on 06/23/2016 9:48:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

My first preference would be to UNDO every effing thing that Obama ever did, thought about, or even talked about. Undo it all. Every damn bit of it.


11 posted on 06/23/2016 9:48:43 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Flavious_Maximus

See #9.


12 posted on 06/23/2016 9:48:48 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cuckservative: a "conservative" willing to raise another country's ideology in his own country)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“So I would note that congress didn’t exactly do nothing. They did pass porkulus but for unknown reasons we have nothing to show for it.”
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I’ll take a wild guess: corruption?


13 posted on 06/23/2016 9:49:10 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christ is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If we had a real president, the priority would be on returning to the first principles of our republic.

The first step to restoring liberty, and justice, and the rule of law, and self-government, and the sovereignty of We the People in this country, is our own personal, individual acknowledgment of the sovereignty of God, and the reality of His objective, self-evident Truth, and the supremacy of the natural law He created. Once you sort that out, everything else is relatively easy to figure out and fix.


14 posted on 06/23/2016 9:49:36 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
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Before they go, the illegals can be put on chain gangs filling in potholes.

Two birds with one stone.


15 posted on 06/23/2016 9:50:35 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Wait just a cotton picking minute.

The Erie Canal and the transcontinental railroad were private ventures!

16 posted on 06/23/2016 9:51:26 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EternalVigilance

Look at what FDR built and what Obama built

The money was stolen


17 posted on 06/23/2016 9:53:37 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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Oh I do...

He’ll start with this Big Wall you see, and move on from there. After our border is secure and jobs start coming back to the US, our country will be rich enough to reinvest in infrastructure just like China and others have been doing.

It’s all part of MAGA!


18 posted on 06/23/2016 9:55:54 AM PDT by bigbob
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Exactly, instead of a Civilian Conservation Corps, it’ll be a Criminal Conservation Corps.


19 posted on 06/23/2016 9:55:55 AM PDT by PROCON (Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
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Just realized something:

MAGA = Make America Great Again

MARA = Make America Rich Again

MAR-A-LAGO = Trump resort in Palm Beach

MARA-MAGA = TRUMP 2016!!!


20 posted on 06/23/2016 9:58:07 AM PDT by bigbob
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