Posted on 10/12/2015 7:47:11 AM PDT by Biggirl
Its insane that Obama is being allowed to even think about bringing 200,000 of these Godless barbarians here to the US>
Merkel is an old bitter childless crone from East Germany. Perhaps her destruction of Germany is her way of getting back at the former West Germnay.
There is no comparison between HH and Donald Trump. Trump isn’t running for President to tinker around. Everything he does is yuge. And he plans on making yuge changes. He is the only candidate with the force of personality to actually effect significant change. The guy is a natural born problem solver. Would you want to be the GOP politician that says no to Trump?
Certainly he has a more forceful personality than HH. Agreed.
By tinker, I didn’t mean making small gestures.
I really meant that in a technical, economic sense, in that he (Hoover) wanted to command the economy. He was sort of the pre-Roosevelt Republican. He wasn’t committed to a free market path (though late in life he did). And it has been argued, credibly, in my opinion, that his soft command of the economy prolonged the recession and paved the way for FDR, and well, the rest is history.
Back to Trump. I support him btw. But I don’t think we can say that he is deeply committed to free market principles. He is focused on fixing problems. And he might be willing to use governmental power to fix things...and that is what makes me nervous, because government always makes it worse....and that may set us up for who knows what.....
That’s the thought anyways....
Hoover was very much a bureaucrat-—food production during the war-—NOT entrepreneurship. Despite his comments on Kelo, he understands the problems government causes in the economy. Hoover didn’t. Trump is more in line with Andrew Mellon/Calvin Coolidge on his tax policy, Hoover more with FDR. Hoover was far more like Roosevelt.
Nearly everyone hates the GOP for rolling over and not fighting the stolen elections. Worrying about the beauty pageant theatrics for the nominees is the red herring.
One other thing to keep in mind about Trump: He’s not an engineer, he’s a capitalist and a businessman. He understands macro and micro economics and sees firsthand the damage that Obama’s policies have done - not only to the US economy, but to the country as a whole.
I have several engineers working for me and they are, by and large, obsessed with details and can’t help it. Trump is a “big picture” kind of guy who isn’t likely to “tinker” with things, but pursue and institute policies that are likely to succeed on a broader level.
ok!!!
You gotta love this guy. Sounds like a Freeper.
from a bio from Hoover...I do think he was entrepreneurial, at least somewhat:
“He opened his own mining consulting business in 1908; by 1914, Hoover was financially secure, earning his wealth from high-salaried positions, his ownership of profitable Burmese silver mines, and royalties from writing the leading textbook on mining engineering.”
From the same bio, this pretty well says it all about political Hoover:
“Hoover encouraged research into measures designed to counteract harmful business cycles. He supported government regulation of new industries like aviation and radio. He brought together more than one hundred different industries and convinced them to adopt standardized tools, hardware, building materials, and automobile parts. Finally, he aggressively pursued international trade opportunities for American business. To win these reforms, Hoover strengthened existing agencies in the Commerce Department, like the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, or simply established new ones, like the Bureau of Standards, for the standardization project. He also formed commissions that brought together government officials, experts, and leaders of the relevant economic sectors to work towards reform.
The initiatives Hoover supported as commerce secretary—and the ways in which he pursued them—reveal his thinking about contemporary life in the United States and about the federal government’s role in American society. Hoover hoped to create a more organized economy that would regularize the business cycle, eliminating damaging ebbs and flows and generating higher rates of economic growth.”
A more organized economy....riiiiiight.
He supported two tax increases, one a general tax increase, the second a “check tax” on every check written; supported the Reconstruction Finance Corporation-—an early version of the National Recovery Administration, etc.
all so true.
it’s sort of depressing: Hoover was enormously capable. One of the most capable men in US history, certainly one of the most capable who became President.
But no matter how capable you are, you can’t run an economy.
This is hubris, bad epistemology, bad anthropology, bad economics, bad ethics, and just all around bad.
You’re right. That’s the bottom line. The democrats have taken every measure they can identify at this time to steal the election. They’ve done it in prior years.
They’re happy that the GOP is fighting among themselves now because the GOP isn’t concentrating on the fact that the fix is in. Actually, GOPe doesn’t care who’s in office as long as they get to keep their positions in DC. Half of a loaf is better than no loaf.
I believe that Merkel was trying to rebuild Germany with allies from old WWII friends. Merkel would like to see Germany once again as the power house of Europe. Germany and I suspect Japan see the US as an enemy as in the days of WWII without the warfare.
Trump is a free marketer. Don’t get too hung up on his tariff talk. Like he said he would never even have to put the tariff’s on. Just saying he was going to do would make China stop manipulating. I believe that’s true.
thank you. that’s much appreciated.
I’m going to believe Trump is a free marketer, as well.....
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