Posted on 07/24/2015 12:44:27 PM PDT by Jim W N
If you’ve been paying attention the news the last few weeks, you’ve no doubt seen the meteoric rise of GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, as the hype train for the real estate mogul shot into light speed after some brutally honest remarks about illegal immigration.
Well, who he just pointed the finger at for the 2008 financial crisis might just hit the emergency brakes and bring this whole thing to a screeching halt.
I’m pretty sure this isn’t going to sit well with a huge portion of his followers, and this may have been the gaffe that shoots down his presidential aspirations.
Then again, maybe it won’t, and folks will just chalk it up to the fact the guy basically has no filter and just says what he thinks.
Do you think this hurts Trump’s chances at nabbing the 2016 nomination?
You have to ask yourself which is worse/better:
1) a guy who isn't worried about political correctness and politics but who doesn’t seem to have an ardent understanding of how the free-market economy works to create wealth and how the federal government creates poverty, OR
2) a politico up to his ears in bribes and lobbyist commitments and/or who doesn’t say what needs to be said regardless of political ramifications who also may or may not understand the free market vs. big government.
The difference is Trump spews it out, the good the bad, and the ugly, whereas your politicos are so careful not to say anything offense even though they think it and will later act accordingly.
Even though I think Trump doesn’t get who the REAL economic & jobs culprit is – THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BY A LANDSLIDE – he’d do less damage than Hillary and is at least close to as good as any and better than most.
Cue Yoda...
“In it he steps.”
They sure as hell helped.
This is such a myth. He's plenty politically correct. Even the un-P.C. stuff he says he walks back in the fine print. He certainly doesn't say anything to offend gays.
Jim 0216, Trump has to deal with government regulations every day.
He understands their nature and harm to our economy better than you and I ever will.
Hire this unqualified person here. Build that ramp over there. Pay this city fee to do that. If you want that permit, talk to my campaign people...
He knows...
Wait a minute Mr. Scott, just before the massive crash, was it not Republican Bush who was urging banks and lending institutions to give home loans to totally unqualified minorities?
Yes they did. Part of the Washington Cartel
He’s a NYer. He probably doesn’t feel the urge to offend gays.
As a New Yorker he obviously doesn’t feel the urge to offend Hilary or any other Democrat as far as that goes.
I will always appreciate Trump for forcing the exposure of GOP complicity in Liberal politics. Plenty of us have harped on it for years but his fame made people listen.
Sad commentary on the American voter that it takes a TV star to get them to listen to facts, but whatever works.
The crisis was caused by the socialist democrats and the laws and regulations imposed to force banks to loan money to people who could not pay it back. Bush didn’t help matters, though, with his “ownership society.”
Bush and McCain lost the election, though. Especially McCain.
agreed- never mind the fact the spineless GOPe did nothing when they had control from 2000-2006 about devastating legislation such as the CRA or demoKrat campaign funding vessels like FANNIE Mae because they were afraid of being branded racist...
hence yes- the GOPe for the 2000’s does shoulder a large portion of the blame...
We found out (much) later that the 700+ billion bank bailout that Bush championed went largely to european banks.
I don’t think this harms Trump in any way.
Both the Bushes deserve considerable criticism for economic mismanagement. This doesn’t say anything good about the Democrats economic mismanagement, just that the Bushes were also wrong.
In either case, it might take a century for America to recover from all the economic mismanagement, and we cannot even begin to do that until we can look at *both* the Democrats and Republicans and say, “You screwed up, royally. We have to reverse your bad ideas so that our economy can recover.”
The Community Reinvestment Act, which at the time had been most recently revised in 1995, was the guiding principle to the then-push for an “ownership” society.
And about those banks and lending institutions, racial pressure groups such as Rainbow PUSH, the NAACP and ACORN were marching on the headquarters of lenders throughout the country, especially in 2005, DEMANDING they loosen their standards for loans to low-income households.
This was very much a SHARED responsibility. For Trump to lay that at the feet of the GOP is... once again... wrong.
He was critiquing the housing bubble specifically in that interview.
A calling of sort!
Sit back and enjoy the ride. Trump Cruz and even bobby J who told GOP elite and doners to “ take a step back, inhale and let the American people sort it out
What did the republicans do to stop the failing? Oh, maybe Bush offering “immigrants” $200,000,000 dollars for down payments on houses helped?
Shall I find the Bush speech for ya?
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