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Trump Tweet about Daylight Saving Time
Twitter ^ | Mar 11, 2019 | President Trump

Posted on 03/11/2019 9:23:26 AM PDT by McGruff

Making Daylight Saving Time permanent is O.K. with me!

10:17 AM · Mar 11, 2019

(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dst
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To: McGruff

This, like a broken clock is right twice a day, is right twice a year ... and that’s how far it ever goes.


121 posted on 03/11/2019 1:33:35 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: CatOwner

You just made my point about the Church of Perpetual Panic. Thank you.


122 posted on 03/11/2019 4:34:34 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Red Badger
The value of DST is greater at higher latitudes. Length of day is fair constant at the equator. At my +42N latitude, length of day varies from 9 hours new the end of December to 15 hours, 20 minutes in June. Earliest sunset occurs at 1655 in December on standard time. Having sunset at almost 6 PM as the earliest would be just fine. Latest sunset here is 9:13 PM in late June. A net 3 hours, 13 minutes of extra daylight at the end of each day. I work until after midnight most days, so I'm not getting up much before 7 AM.
123 posted on 03/11/2019 5:35:30 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: editor-surveyor

“Daylight time makes the whole country more productive”

Dozens of economic studies have proven that idea is a myth.


124 posted on 03/12/2019 7:36:41 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: editor-surveyor

ANYONE can change their operating schedule, without ANY kind of law anywhere dictating what time your clock should read. ANYONE can choose, independently, to call their “work-day”, 9:AM to 6:PM, instead of 8:AM to 5:PM, or 8:AM to 5:PM, instead of 9:AM to 6:PM, depending on their seasonal preference, and they can so inform their clients and vendors of that business choice of theirs. Clients and vendors who need to be “totally in-sync” with them might choose to do the same, and some may not if it is not so necessary for their operations.

Schools can do the same sort of thing.

But no one NEEDS to mess with the actual time of day.


125 posted on 03/12/2019 7:45:17 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: editor-surveyor

“Daylight time makes the whole country more productive without passing tyrannical laws on how to operate business.”

Daylight savings time IS a tyrannical law.


126 posted on 03/12/2019 7:46:16 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: All

Go for a half hour difference, and make it permanent.


127 posted on 03/12/2019 7:50:01 AM PDT by Exit148 ( (Loose Change Club founder) Put yours aside for the next Freepathon!)
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To: Wuli

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The opinion of an established idiot.


128 posted on 03/12/2019 7:54:34 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

“The opinion of an established idiot.”

You silly little nit. You think all the economists who have shown there is no NET economic benefit to daylight savings time care that you have nothing but ad hominem personal attacks in the arsenal of your arguments?

No one cares what your silly uneducated opinion is.


129 posted on 03/12/2019 8:56:41 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

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The uneducated opinion is your own.

I speak from the standpoint of having to get work done by a staff of experienced and educated engineering propessionals.

Daylight time is quite effective, and that is why it is being attacked. Dumping it is “Common Whore” time.

Everything functional in our system is under the same attack. Look in a mirror and say “Well Done Soros lacky.”
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130 posted on 03/12/2019 5:00:15 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: SamAdams76
That way everybody is happy for at least half the year!

I bet they still gripe.

131 posted on 03/12/2019 5:01:53 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Wuli

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Thanks George!
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132 posted on 03/12/2019 5:02:30 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

“Daylight time is quite effective”

NO. It is being discredited because the evidence, in study after study, discredits it. Any gains at one end of the day, or one time of the year, are offset by negative effects on the other end of the day or time of the year. Due to the negative impacts of the change over days themselves, the NET ANNUAL change to the economy is negative. There is zero net proven productivity gain, no matter what myths people believe.


133 posted on 03/12/2019 5:09:44 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: UCANSEE2

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All the gripes are comming from “socialism central.”
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134 posted on 03/12/2019 5:11:57 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Wuli

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Keep your web of socialism; I’ll stick with productive reality.

Thanks George!


135 posted on 03/12/2019 5:13:10 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

I am a capitalist, not a socialist.

You, with your tyrannical government dictating artificial time represent the socialists and progressives.

Free thinking people can adjust their schedules without changing the time on their clocks in accordance with government dictates.


136 posted on 03/12/2019 5:18:19 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

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What you are is the socialists toy.

Our system is “Free Enterprise,” not crapitalism, that was our adversary’s mockery of our way.

Use their words, do their deeds.
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137 posted on 03/12/2019 5:21:35 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: McGruff

the conversation needs to be changed. Rather than thinking of Day Light Savings, think of moving the time zone


138 posted on 03/12/2019 5:22:12 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Honduras must be invaded to protect America from invasion)
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To: bert

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We need to stop using our adversary’s terms, and letting them pick the battles.
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139 posted on 03/12/2019 5:34:21 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

“What you are is the socialists toy.”

You are an idiot.

Adam Smith has long been considered the lead philosohper in the lineage of advocating what we know today as capitalism. Captialism and “free markets” - as Smith wrote - are not opposites, but both behaviors - as Smith wrote - of economic Liberty. Free markets in ownership of companies as well as things results in the necssary formation of capital - thus capitalism - upon which production and invention can progress.


140 posted on 03/12/2019 6:07:26 PM PDT by Wuli
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