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US has become 'third world country': Donald Trump
The Times of India ^ | March 19, 2016 | The Press Trust of India

Posted on 03/20/2016 6:43:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has said the US has now become a "third world country" as compared to infrastructures in Dubai and China, and promised that things would change once he is elected the American president.

"We have become a third world country, folks!," Trump, 69, told his supporters at an election rally at Sal Lake City in Utah, which goes to presidential primary elections on Tuesday.

"If you go to places like Dubai, China, you look at the roads, at the rail roads, they have the bullet trains that go 100s of miles an hour. And if you go to New York, they're like 100 years ago," he said.

Trump said the US under him would knock out the ISIS and rebuild the country.

"When it comes to trade, we are going to start being smart, because our country is poor. We are going to make American so great again. It is not great now. We need education to that," he said.

Reiterating that Trans-Pacific Partnership is a "disastrous" trade deal, Trump said the US under him would have deal that would favor America.

"It is not a question of free trading. Free trading is wonderful. The problem of free trading is that we need smart people on our side also. If I am president, I guarantee you they (Mexico) would pay (for the wall) and they would be very very happy about it," he said.

Trump said his administration would negotiate great trade deal amid applause and cheer from the audience.

"We are going to bring wealth back again because our country is a poor country. We have a deficit that you can not believe. We're sitting on a bubble, very dangerous bubble. We are sitting on a big fat ugly bubble. At some point unless we act quickly and smartly, it is going to explode. You need the right people. We have the wrong people now," Trump said.

He promised his supporters that things would start changing fast if he is elected the president.

Trump's address in Salt Lake City was the first election rally after his impressive victories in three States of Florida, Illinois and North Carolina on Tuesday.

On March 22, the presidential primary is scheduled to be held in American Samoa, Utah and Arizona which have more than 100 delegates in all.

Trump currently is leading the delegate count with 678. He is followed by Texas Senator Ted Cruz (423) and Ohio Governor John Kasich (143). To become the Republican nominee for the November 8 presidential elections, Trump needs 1,237 delegates.


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues
KEYWORDS: economy; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Glad someone is pointing this out. And someone who isn’t likely to use it as an excuse to fund a lot of graft like Obama was when he spoke of infrastructure.
Walking through an airport in NYC is an embarrassment if you travel anywhere else in the world. LAX is dirty.
And the damned neocon nonstop nationbuilding wars of convenience make it hard to spend money for cool things here.

Go Trump.


21 posted on 03/20/2016 6:57:44 PM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble mined asses overthrown,,,)
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To: deport

No more life time appointments to the supreme court. They’re just political appointees, anymore. Shouldn’t spend decades on the court.


22 posted on 03/20/2016 6:57:46 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I would hope he would accomplish this by getting government out of business. The way I’m reading this he would be using more government, not less.


23 posted on 03/20/2016 6:58:53 PM PDT by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives - ban gun free zones)
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To: Slyfox

[America needs to become good again before it can even think of being great again]

2 Chronicles 7:14

14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.


24 posted on 03/20/2016 6:59:01 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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25 posted on 03/20/2016 6:59:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

I am thinking of that quote every day.


26 posted on 03/20/2016 7:02:26 PM PDT by Slyfox (Donald Trump's First Principle is the Art of the Deal)
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To: deport
And a good start would be to get rid of the career politicians. It has become a lifetime job for them, they aren’t helded accountable, once elected they get reelected with no skin in the process. America has slowly gone down the tube with career policticians, imo.

Amen!

Join my Two Term Limit Party.

The liberal wing of the party say this means two terms in office. The hard-core wing insists the second term should by default be a prison term.

27 posted on 03/20/2016 7:02:35 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Of Obama,who was it that said:

"We're flat broke and he thinks these solar shingles and really fast trains will magically save us," she said. "So now he's yelling 'all aboard' his bullet train to bankruptcy."

A). Thomas Friedman B). George Will C). Sarah Palin

That's right, C). Sarah Palin

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sarah-palin-wisconsin-backs-governor-walkers-union-bill/story?id=13394545

But Thomas Friedman really likes them ,too. And George Will looks really good in a beanie with a propeller.

28 posted on 03/20/2016 7:04:20 PM PDT by gusopol3
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To: deport

Its called the 17th amendment
.....repeal and do not replace


29 posted on 03/20/2016 7:04:23 PM PDT by mythenjoseph (Separation of powers)
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To: dp0622
Well, they have been working on I65 since the 1960’s and they are still at it. The roads here were not built to handle today's traffic. I use to stay away from certain areas during rush hours but that is an all day thing, now. Even roads which did not have much traffic a few years ago are now bumper to bumper. They did a good job on 565 but that is now a raceway. People do not care what the speed is. A new north-south road needs to be built but I do not know where it would be. It is just a mess.
30 posted on 03/20/2016 7:04:55 PM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We're sitting on a bubble, very dangerous bubble. We are sitting on a big fat ugly bubble. At some point unless we act quickly and smartly, it is going to explode.

On this point, he is spot on.

He is talking about the Stock Market bubble, and the debt bubble. He has referred to both of them in interviews.

Despite the recent Dow "rally", the economic fundamentals point to a horrible economic meltdown and crisis looming.

31 posted on 03/20/2016 7:08:18 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We kill off 3,000 [give or take] young patriots every day in America, and Donald Trump talks about bullet trains.

I wish there was a man, somewhere, courageous enough to speak of the ills of abortion these past 43 years..... oh wait, there is......

“As president I will do everything possible to end abortion.” -Ted Cruz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQlmvEQFgV4


32 posted on 03/20/2016 7:08:55 PM PDT by mlizzy (America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe/Wade has deformed a great nation. -MT)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t know where they get the delegate count. Trump is at 695 currently


33 posted on 03/20/2016 7:09:09 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

34 posted on 03/20/2016 7:09:32 PM PDT by Pelham (more than election. Revolution)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

We are a third world Country now. The middle class workers have been reduced to living on credit cards while the cost of living keeps going up. The poor are living on welfare and we are talking about damn near have the population. How hard is it to realize that millions are using their savings and retirement funds to support living cost. Where in the hell are our brains to not understand that the come back, if ever, will take years and we will suffer like hell. Wake up America.

Trump for President. And that will be a start but the climb back will take years because the destruction is so great.


35 posted on 03/20/2016 7:11:11 PM PDT by Logical me
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are shopping areas around Las Vegas that I used to frequent and now will not got to anymore as they look like you are in a 3rd world country. Nobody speaks English and it isn’t just Spanish, who knows what the hell they are speaking.
Took a trip across country last fall and in Des Moine, Iowa they whole Walmart was like a 3rd world country, Muslim greeters and Muslims all through the place along with Hispanics.
Our country is changing right before our eyes.
CLOSE THE DAMN BORDER, BUILD THE DAMN WALL,
I WA NT TRUMP.


36 posted on 03/20/2016 7:11:15 PM PDT by sweetiepiezer (MY COUNTRY WAS OF THEE!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Come on, Trump, not choo-choo trains. And here I was liking you these days. Statists love trains and other mass transit— that way they can herd the proletariat into railcars and ship them where the elites want them to go, and force them to live in hive cities like the elites want.


37 posted on 03/20/2016 7:11:36 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; All

38 posted on 03/20/2016 7:11:45 PM PDT by Veracious Poet (Trump 2016 - Let's make America great again!)
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To: dp0622

No one can turn it around unless that person can engage and inspire Americans, particularly young Americans, to greatness. JFK did it for technology and education. Reagan did it for western ideology and military strength. Maybe Trump can do it for economics and infrastructure.


39 posted on 03/20/2016 7:14:07 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: sweetiepiezer

Des Moines? I lived in Des Moines until 2002 and was the head of the veterans unit at the unemployment office...


40 posted on 03/20/2016 7:16:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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