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...$275 billion government works program dressed up as "rebuilding the nation's infrastructure."

imho this is stupid, and it's why I disagree w/ folks who like T's offering twice as much.

1 posted on 08/12/2016 4:37:12 AM PDT by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama

Rush was funny yesterday imitating Hillary giving the speech in that annoying monotone style.


2 posted on 08/12/2016 4:40:01 AM PDT by petercooper (All the world's problems are caused by the sandrats, hoodrats, gimmedats, democrats and commiecrats.)
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To: expat_panama
imho this is stupid, and it's why I disagree w/ folks who like T's offering twice as much.

Trump's offering is predicated on revising the tax structure and spending money where it is intended to be spent, efficiently and within budget. Hillary's plan is to do what Obama did - tax more business types and divert the money to slush funds.

How can you disagree with the folks who prefer Trump's offering?

3 posted on 08/12/2016 4:43:33 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: expat_panama

The problem with spending Government money to stimulate the Economy is that as soon as the spicket is turned off, the jobs dry up and all you have is debt. It is also one of the least efficient/most expensive ways of creating jobs. Government stimulus seemed to work in WWII, only because the rest of the world was in ruins after the war and needed our stuff badly.

This phenomenon happens time and time again, but you don’t see the politicians deviate from this formula. Why? Because spending $$ is how they derive their power.

The current problem with the World Economy is that all the productive nations are “developed” and many of the emerging nations will never develop. So we are all trying to sell each other the same stuff and have largely reached a state of equilibrium, where growth will be weak at best, or negative at worst.

We need a real game changer—like the colonization of space to break out of the doldrums.


4 posted on 08/12/2016 4:45:22 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: expat_panama

Her tv spot is cartoonish and designed to appeal to the morons she needs to vote for her. Exit tax? Really? That will be a one time cost of moving then it will be business as usual screwing America and American workers.


5 posted on 08/12/2016 4:54:11 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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6 posted on 08/12/2016 5:06:29 AM PDT by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama

Allowing the Bush Family and other RINOS to trash Reaganomics for 30 years has consequences.


12 posted on 08/12/2016 5:53:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: expat_panama; All

Once the grid collapses, and Society with it, I will be Queen - baking my own bread, sewing my own clothes, fixing my own farm implements (bio-fuel powered, which I make myself), tending my small livestock, manning my secure perimeter and smiling, sittin’ here on my sack of veggie seeds. ;)

Seriously, I have NO answers for what ails us. All I know is that Mother Government is going to do the same sh#t over and over again, expecting different results.

The very definition of Insanity...


18 posted on 08/12/2016 8:54:07 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: expat_panama

Trump said this morning that a trillion won’t be enough for all the “infrastructure spending” we need.


19 posted on 08/12/2016 10:18:54 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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