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1 posted on 01/29/2016 10:53:18 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
The author had a great string of valid points here, but he undermined his whole case with this one item:

Had I not allowed banks to manipulate us into those personal guarantees, those entities could have survived through Chapter 11 restructuring.

Someone who makes a statement like this in a public venue has zero credibility. Nobody manipulated you, dude. You signed the papers yourself, so you are responsible for your actions.

2 posted on 01/29/2016 10:59:23 AM PST by Alberta's Child (My mama said: "To get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom.")
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I don’t know how much of this stems from America’s latent hatred of business. Hollywood never portrayed a businessman as anything but the villain and maybe the impression stuck.

Or it could be socialism’s fear and loathing of capitalism. At any rate, it’s as ingrained as TV commercials that show the husband as a boob with a smarter wife. We come to resemble how we are portrayed.

And yet, there’s hope. To this day, Michael Douglas gets a majority of fans thinking Gordon Gekko’s “greed is good” was a breath of fresh air. It irritates him.


3 posted on 01/29/2016 11:01:56 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Kaslin

Logical and coherent. Thanks.


4 posted on 01/29/2016 11:04:37 AM PST by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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To: Kaslin

What’s that sound?

Sound like people jumping.

GOPe jumping.

Jumping in the band wagon.


5 posted on 01/29/2016 11:05:48 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Kaslin
"Don't wish to vote for him for any other legitimate reason? That makes you an American."

That list is extensive!

6 posted on 01/29/2016 11:08:01 AM PST by RasterMaster ("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Kaslin

From what I understand, Trump himself didn’t go bankrupt, it was some of his developments that did. Liberal media never get their facts straight.


14 posted on 01/29/2016 11:16:52 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Kaslin

My father had a bankruptcy. So did my main business partner, before we became partners.

When you are self-employed and the govt changes the rules in the middle of a 5-8 year project, yes, you might go bankrupt.

There are also different types of bankruptcy. Chapter 7 is when you lose it all, like my partner did.

Chapter 11 is a reorganization and partial forgiveness of debts. That’s what my father had to do.

Volker took my partner down, Reagan took my father down.


20 posted on 01/29/2016 11:26:57 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Trump and/or Cruz, it's all good)
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All the casinos took a hit after they started opening indian casinos everywhere. He has some of the best NYC and international real estate. he overcame the bankruptcies to become a billionaire. He will whip this country back into shape. He’s tireless and unlike hussein he will roll up his sleeves and get to work. Will probably even bring back the traditions of family Christmas in the White House.


26 posted on 01/29/2016 11:40:39 AM PST by jersey117
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Thanks, Kaslin.


29 posted on 01/29/2016 11:43:51 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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31 posted on 01/29/2016 11:56:25 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Kaslin
Trumps bankruptcies alone do make him "unqualified" for the presidency.

The genius who believes he has mastered the art of the deal was told by many people before his bizarre investment in the Taj Mahal that the numbers simply could not work. Trump's megalomania and narcissism is so extreme that he simply would not listen to reason. He was the subject of an analyst's report which predicted bankruptcy for the Taj Mahal. Typically, Trump sued the analyst, caused him to be fired from his position, and then witnessed the Taj Mahal go bankrupt within months.

Donald Trump is not unqualified just for his bankruptcies and appalling business judgment alone but for his cruelty. His treatment of his tenants to evict them from his properties to in order to convert those properties was clearly cruel, and unlawful.

Donald Trump is not unqualified just for his bankruptcies or for his cruelty but for his associations with mafioso, convicted criminals, corrupt union officials, corrupt politicians, and even Democrats who have not yet been proved to be corrupt.

Donald Trump is not unqualified just for his bankruptcies or for his cruelty or for his associations alone but for his deceits. His outright misrepresentations concerning the quality of his buildings to tenants who have been misled and cheated with shoddy quality are notorious.

him him him him Donald Trump is not unqualified for his bankruptcies or his cruelty or his associations or his deceits alone but for his bullying of vulnerable people such as those he sought to deprive of their property by exploiting condemnation laws.

Donald Trump is not unqualified for his bankruptcies or his cruelty, or his associations, or his deceits, or his bullying alone, but for his boorishness, his grotesqueries, his endless puerile sexual innuendos.

Donald Trump as a human being is thoroughly unqualified for any position of power where ego, narcissism or greed might take the place of decency.


34 posted on 01/29/2016 12:01:45 PM PST by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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Fourth Time's A Charm: How Donald Trump Made Bankruptcy Work For Him
40 posted on 01/29/2016 2:23:25 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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To: Kaslin

Jimmah Carter filed bankruptcy 3 times on the family peanut farm, which he inherited.

How come no one remembers this?

HE was a terrible businessman.

Trump has a large number of investments. He isn’t declaring bankruptcy on everything. Only pockets of trouble.

Example: My ex-husband was driving a car we had only owned about 5 months. He was not in the city we lived in. He was drunk. It was raining. He decided to drag race someone at a stoplight. He lost control of the car, went across the lawn & hit a large old stone church. He cracked the wall of that church from the basement to the belfrey.

We split up immediately, as it was the last straw for me. However, I was forced to declare bankruptcy because of the incident. Our insurance didn’t cover the list of his damages. I do not know what he did in his name about bankruptcy. This was about 1960.

However, I paid all of the outstanding debts on that list except for the car loan....after the bankruptcy. I was 20. I am now 76. I never had to do that again, and while not nearly as successful nor as wealthy as Trump, I have done OK.


41 posted on 01/30/2016 10:17:23 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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