Posted on 05/08/2019 11:04:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Stupidity on parade.
The ONLY thing that can sink Trump is not enforcing the election laws and borders.
“GHWB lost re-election because he violated a campaign promise. “Read my lips...” “
That and that buffoon Ross Perot siphoning off 19% of the vote.
And the Deep State can manipulate the economy to suit their timetable.
What the author didn't point out here is that U.S. expansions have almost consistently become longer and weaker over time. That's why we're celebrating a 3% growth rate that would have seemed almost like a depression 30 years ago ... even while we're in the midst of a "record" expansion.
These are classic characteristics of a nation with an aging population and a fascist economic model.
And the people who wanted him permanently removed from political office for deciding to leave Iraq in the hands of Saddam Hussein.
The meme that he lost the election over taxes never stood up to even the most cursory scrutiny. That was a notion promoted by the neocons because the rejection of HW was a direct rejection of their policy of eternal foreign wars.
I’ll name three:
1. Trade war with China
2. War with Venezuela
3. War with Iran
Any recession will be caused by raising taxes, raising interest rates too high or too fast, cutting the rate of increase in the money supply, and credit crunch.
Subjectively speaking what you said is not true relative to me.
I deliberately did not vote for him because he lied about increasing our taxes. Every of my conservative friends threw him under the bus for the same exact reason.
WE did so with spite as he was a read my lips LIAR.
And the Deep State can manipulate the economy to suit their timetable.
Of course, at his age, he could be dead by election day. We don’t know what the future holds.
I wonder what would happen if he did die a few months before the election.
I still contend that the Fed intended to cause a recession just before the 2008 Presidential elections, but they messed up and went too far, causing the banking crisis.
It was an expensive gamble which paid off in the Soviet Union realizing that overwhelming the west militarily was never going to happen for them.
Not finishing Saddam off was stupid, however. That resulted in decades of preventable U.S. Mideast entanglement.
So the bottom line in our differences is that the faction to which I belong believes that collapsing the Soviet State (that's an established result which is no longer rationally debatable) was worth it. You belong (by your own post) to a faction who believes that collapsing the Soviet Union wasn't necessary.
You may believe as you wish, but the article's assertion that the tax increase caused H.W. to lose the election all by its lonesome is still utter trash because there are not enough of you to have made that happen all by yourselves.
Hi.
“The is another variable in the current boom: an influx of foreign capital seeking safe haven.”
Good point. Increasing the money supply (M1), without printing the money is non inflationary. More over, the multiplier effect will expand disposable income and increase savings.
Imho...and other things.
5.56mm
No need for a massive, pork-barrel “infrastructure bill” with the Dems in the House!
Just send those illegals packing and we’ll have plenty of infrastructure capacity (that the states can more modestly upgrade as needed), as well as far less of an immediate and long-term drain on our coffers from the illegals nesting themselves in here.
George H.W. Bush lost re-election after only a mild economic downturn that ended months before 1992’s election day.
That may be true time wise, however his election was lost
after democrats were able to make him go back on his word
by agreeing to new taxes.
Never, never trust a democrat!
At last.
I’m glad to see someone gets it around here, We’re going to be getting nothing but the-sky-is-falling about the economy from now until Election Day. RINODEMS have absolutely no other possible path than to convince America that the smoking Trump Economy will crash and burn any second no .
It will be The Grapes of Wrath all over again.
Weren’t these the same imbeciles who were always yammering on about green shoots?
GHWB lost because of Ross Perot ...
Hand wringing bump.
That too.
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