Posted on 11/30/2015 7:30:55 PM PST by djstex
The Title is self explanatory. I believe it's a now or forget it. We need a fighter. Un-afraid Leader to take control to re-gain our rights as Americans that are sick and tired of being taken for granted! I don't or want another politican making promises they don't keep. I'm done with another good ole boy mouth-piece. I want action. Too many are controlled by others. So many in office that are too weak to speak up on behalf of us get us nowhere,still to this day. TRUMP is the only one that has proven he has no one to answer to but US. Trump is all about getting America to be GREAT Again!
From Governor....Political History...
To POTUS...
Yes!! I so admire the fact that Reagan actually managed, before running for Governor....he was head of the Screen Actors Guild and managed a working ranch. Great leadership and business skills (making payroll, etc.).
Thank you for posting that!!
I think EVERY candidate should come with such experience. We should be so lucky.
And if "eminent domain" is the ONLY thing bothering you, then you need a reality check......ASAP!
Have you EVER had any dealing that entailed ED ?
I had the best pizza on the planet there in .... '69 or '70
You mean lobstah
That’s a long time ago, so who knows?
Well, if you ever heard me say “lobster”, yes, that IS how I would pronounced it. LOL
Trumps record as a businessman, which has to be central to establishing his qualifications because in fact it's essentially really all that he has.....and that is not the string of brilliant successes he'd have people believe....though he certainly knows well how to put his own twists to the facts....and there were plenty of jobs lost along the way.
Here's a few...
....His Taj Mahal resort in Atlantic City, funded largely with junk bonds, went into bankruptcy.
....His Trump Plaza Hotel was forced into Chapter 11 in the early 1990s, when his personal and business debt had grown to more than $4 billion.
....His forced sales of prime New York property and restructured deals by his creditors to keep himself barely afloat.
....In 2009, 'after' his resurgence, Trump Entertainment Resorts filed for Chapter 11, the 'second time' his casino properties had done so.
....He was sued by Deutsche Bank for defaulting on a $40 million loan for the Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago.
....His failed ownership of the New Jersey Generals was noteworthy enough to become the subject of a damning ESPN documentary, "Small Potatoes."
....Not to mention the Trump Shuttle planes that lost money for three years before being merged into nonexistence in 1992.
Added to this is his Hollywood set of values and three marriages....I'll just stay with Cruz Jane...however... ....The reason Trump might be elected plays out like Obama's election as I see it.... the masses are "attracted" to the kind of rhetoric Trump dishes out for it appeals to their 'emotions' in how the country is today...but they are not inclined 'to study his record' dispassionately.
I want the best we have and I don't see any other than Cruz who has been years at the fore front fighting against Washingtons corruption and powers taken from the people and abused......he knows who they are, where they hide, and how they manipulate everything in Washington.....Trumps going in totally green....and there will be landmines waiting for him he''ll have no clue about.
You need to take a closer look at TED CRUZ !
The government just doesn't march in and take one's land away for nothing!
Just WHAT does being "retired military" have to do with anything ?
I looked at him long ago, was with him from the time he ran for the Senate, and now want Trump !
Hate to think you would ever fall down. Am sure you would never get back up. Criticize Trump over his submitted tax plan, Criticize Trump over his submitted immigration plan, etc, etc.
A businessman with a vast empire have failures? Thats standard. Come on. By that standard, the greatest athletes should never play again, the greates actors should retire for all the times they failed. By your standard this country should only be in the hands of Professional Politicians. Yeah thats the answer.
BTW I am a huge supporter of Cruz. Plenty of great arguments to be made for Cruz without getting in the gutter with the libtards.
And also, I know its terrible, but great "leaders" and visionaries attract large masses of people.
Don’t be fooled by The Donald. Take it from one who knows: I’m a South Jersey gal who was raised on the outskirts of Atlantic City in the looming shadow of Trump’s towers. All through my childhood, casino developers and government bureaucrats joined hands, raised taxes and made dazzling promises of urban renewal. Then we wised up to the eminent-domain thievery championed by our hometown faux free-marketeers.
America, it’s time you wised up to Donald Trump’s property redistribution racket, too.
Trump has been wooing conservative activists for months and flirting with a GOP presidential run — first at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington and most recently at a tea party event in South Florida. He touts his business experience, “high aptitude” and “bragadocious” deal-making abilities. But he’s no more a standard-bearer of conservative values, limited government and constitutional principles than the cast of “Jersey Shore.”
Too many mega-developers like Trump have achieved success by using and abusing the government’s ability to commandeer private property for purported “public use.” Invoking the Fifth Amendment takings clause, real estate moguls, parking garage builders, mall developers and sports palace architects have colluded with elected officials to pull off legalized theft in the name of reducing “blight.” Under eminent domain, the definition of “public purpose” has been stretched like Silly Putty to cover everything from roads and bridges to high-end retail stores, baseball stadiums and casinos.
While casting himself as America’s new constitutional savior, Trump has shown reckless disregard for fundamental private property rights. In the 1990s, he waged a notorious war on elderly homeowner Vera Coking, who owned a little home in Atlantic City that stood in the way of Trump’s manifest land development. The real estate mogul was determined to expand his Trump Plaza and build a limo parking lot — Coking’s private property be damned. The nonprofit Institute for Justice, which successfully saved Coking’s home, explained the confiscatory scheme:
“Unlike most developers, Donald Trump doesn’t have to negotiate with a private owner when he wants to buy a piece of property, because a governmental agency — the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority or CRDA — will get it for him at a fraction of the market value, even if the current owner refuses to sell. Here is how the process works.
“After a developer identifies the parcels of land he wants to acquire and a city planning board approves a casino project, CRDA attempts to confiscate these properties using a process called ’eminent domain,’ which allows the government to condemn properties ‘for public use.’ Increasingly, though, CRDA and other government entities exercise the power of eminent domain to take property from one private person and give it to another. At the same time, governments give less and less consideration to the necessity of taking property and also ignore the personal loss to the individuals being evicted.”
Trump has attempted to use the same tactics in Connecticut and has championed the reviled Kelo vs. City of New London Supreme Court ruling upholding expansive use of eminent domain. He told Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto that he agreed with the ruling “100 percent” and defended the chilling power of government to kick people out of their homes and businesses based on arbitrary determinations:
“The fact is, if you have a person living in an area that’s not even necessarily a good area, and government, whether it’s local or whatever, government wants to build a tremendous economic development, where a lot of people are going to be put to work and make (an) area that’s not good into a good area, and move the person that’s living there into a better place — now, I know it might not be their choice — but move the person to a better place and yet create thousands upon thousands of jobs and beautification and lots of other things, I think it happens to be good.”
Like most statist promises of bountiful job creation, government-engineered redevelopment math rarely adds up. Trump’s corporations have backed casino industry bailouts and wealth-redistributing “tax-increment financing” schemes — the very kind of taxpayer-subsidized interventions we’ve seen on a grand scale under the Obama administration.
Championing liberty begins at the local level. There is nothing more fundamental than the principle that a man’s home is his castle. Donald Trump’s career-long willingness to trample this right tells you everything you need to know about his bogus tea party sideshow.
You and your ilk ( not all Cruz supporters; just more than enough of them, here ) are NOT winning influence nor friends with your stupid anti-Trump posts; didums.
You'll notice that Trump supporters do NOT post anti-Cruz articles, do NOT insult him or his supporters, and we really don't take kindly to this incessant barrage of tripe and vituperative replies.
We're talking about Presidential ‘qualifications’.....not your standards of Hollywood or The Olympics....Running a country, which affects millions of people, is far from stepping on a Holly wood stage or entering an Olympic race....which even they have to "qualify for".
Furthermore you and I are done....for to mention getting in the gutter with the Liptards just ‘disqualified’ you from further exchanges.
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