Trump’s America [OF COURSE WE'RE ANGRY!]

American Enterprise Institute ^ | February 12, 2016 | Charles Murray

[expat_panama]

This is the article that we heard about from Rush yesterday (tip'o'the hat to SomeCallMeTim for the llnk). Note that there's nothing there about college not being a step up or student loans being a waste --that was Rush's fantasy that he felt he had to toss in.

[WMarshal]

Americans still believe in America, it is the elites who have given up on it as they want to rule the world like it was Mexico.

One of the reasons reasons I like Trump is that he has all the right enemies:

The Obama is against Trump... Check
The Media is against Trump... Check
The Democrats are against Trump... Check
The Republicans Are against Trump... Check
The Pope is against Trump... Check
China is against Trump... Check
Mexico is against Trump... Check

[exDemMom]

But the immigrants I actually encounter, of all ethnicities, typically come across as classically American—cheerful, hardworking, optimistic, ambitious.

That's because there are really two groups of foreign residents in America.

The one group follows all the rules, applies for visas, and waits patiently for their applications to be processed before they enter the country legally. Those are true immigrants, and the ones who more or less adopt our culture because they want to be here.

The other group are the illegal aliens who sneak across the border in order to have anchor babies, work under-the-table jobs, get on welfare, and make ghettos with most of the attributes of the ghettos they left. Let's not forget that the illegal aliens also feed a thriving slave trade aka "human trafficking." They do not assimilate.

We should not allow the left to use linguistic tricks to muddle the difference between legal immigrants and illegal aliens. Make it clear that "immigrant" is someone here legally, and "alien" is an invader.

[cba123]

I am currently visiting Vietnam.

I must say, the country has things going on. While we fritter away the mightiest industrial base in history to import everything from the People’s Republic of China, Vietnam is also illustrative of a country on the go.

It, like China, also has a communist government technically, but both countries are growing fast, and we are handing them the future.

Our industry is handing them the future.

I must say, what I am seeing here is pretty much a country on full throttle. There are motorcycles EVERYWHERE. And every single person, seems focused on something, all of the time. It is wide open here. Everywhere.

We need to grow. For real.

America needs to get with it.

Go Trump. :)

While we fight back and forth, these countries are focused on the future.

We should also. America needs to focus on the future. Big time.

America needs to grow once again.

Grow.

Produce.

Innovate. Right in America for a change.

[RC one]

[OF COURSE WE'RE ANGRY!]

They have no bleeping idea of just how angry we are.

[Viennacon]

So sick of people pimping Rubio. He notched one state. He’s a lose. Trump is the candidate and that is that

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

If Trump never ran, Rubio would most likely have been the nominee in my opinion, and he would have lost his ass to Hillary. She would have eaten him alive in the debates. I saw how she debated Rick Lazio when she was running for Senator in 2000, and she utterly destroyed him, made him look like an inexperienced little boy, and she would have done the same thing to Rubio and we would have been looking at 8 years of a Hillary Presidency. I like to tell that to all these people who keep bashing Trump, if it wasn’t for him, guaranteed we would have had her as POTUS! Now at least there’s a fighting chance she can be beat. This is a EXTREMELY important election, it can go two ways: The most corrupt politician in US history and a traitor to the USA in my opinion, becomes President, OR she is stopped and the Clinton political Holocaust that this country has suffered through for 23 years will FINALLY be over!

[eartick]

America is like old garden soil.

When soil has its nutrients taken away, weeds and grass spurs start taking over. There is only one cure.

A good weeding of the nauseous weeds that continue to drain the nutrients and a high dose of high nitrogen fertilizer (chicken shiite) to kill off the grass spurs.

A good weeding would get rid of the free loaders that continue to suck on the working man's paycheck. Deport and remove from the welfare chain.

DC is full of chicken shiite basturds that can lay down a steady stream of the high nitrogen nutrient. Dig it up and spread it across the US.

IF they do not want to contribute, feed them to the pigs....

[TalBlack]

Ping

[cba123]

I disagree.

I believe Trump is the one, who is for America. A whole huge section of what used to be AMERICAN excellence has sold out our very own country, now for over one entire generation.

Everyone. Democrats. Republicans. Every single politician, every leader. Everyone.

Every one, is sold out.

Someone, anyone, needs to be for America once again.

That is what Trump is saying.

Everyone else is for continuing out the sell-out.

Every single person.

[sheik yerbouty]

“We’re mad as Hell and we’re not going to take it anymore!”

[arl295]

I am tired of these bought and paid for sell outs telling me that Donald is wrong for America

Since when do we listen to the mouth piece of Goldman Sachs that is doing noting but to destroy America?

Look at what the GOPe threw at Trump this past week, the KKK/David Duke, “secret NYT tapes” (seriously, the GOPe and the Liberal NYT are joining forces), penis jokes, spray tan, various false scandals, etc AND THEY STILL LOST!

Trump is still winning

[arl295]

If Trump never ran, we would be discussing JEB’s 7 state win right now....

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yep, that definitely could have happened as well. Either way the GOP-E or what I like to call “Democrat operatives” would have handed Hillary the Presidency. Oh my God, can you imagine that hell? Sgt. at arms for state of the union: “Mr. Speaker, the President of the United states” and she walks out high fiving these backstabbing punks while making her bizarre faces, then screeching for an hour like this..........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxmpTMGhU0

[expat_panama]

Whoa --morning 'o the middle 'o the week already!   Yesterday stocks saw broad gains (led by the NASDAQ up 3%), gold hung on ($1,231.05) and silver continued to sag ($14.85).  Today our futures pals are expecting more of the same old deja vu again.

The econ stat folks are promising this stuff--

7:00 AM MBA Mortgage Index
8:15 AM ADP Employment Change
10:30 AM Crude Inventories
2:00 PM Fed's Beige Book

--and their ISM Index for manufacturing suggested that our soft econ was really not what we'd call a 'recession'.  And...

Who's Afraid of Negative Interest Rates? - David Ranson, RealClearMarkets
The Changing Makeup of Global Wealth - Elizabeth Anderson, Telegraph
Hard Times Americans Often Forget - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post
Dismal Science Doesn't Signal Dismal Future - Cutter, Litan, Stangler, RCM
Scalia's Death: Huge Consequences for Business - James Surowiecki, TNY
Yahoo, Google, & the Rise of Bernie Sanders - Richard Finger, Huffington
Green Energy Can't Compete With $30/Barrel Oil - Editorial, Investor's
Who Wins and Loses with Cheap Oil? - Charles Wolf, The Weekly Standard
Best Offense In This Market Is a Good Defense - Adam Koos, MarketWatch
Why Is U.S. Investor Sentiment So Bad Now? - Simon Constable, U.S. News

[expat_panama]

...we fritter away the mightiest industrial base in history to import everything from the People’s Republic of China...

You're talking about "we" in the U.S.?  Yeah, so while I realize that lots of folks on these threads feeeel that way what I'm dealing w/ in the hard world of assets and debts is that America makes far more than it imports and it imports a lot more from say, Canada & Mexico than a from China.

[expat_panama]

They have no bleeping idea of just how angry we are.

Apparently so, and I'm constantly amazed at how they repeatedly fail to see the elephant cr@pping on their living room carpet.

[miss marmelstein]

I’ve never really liked Darwinian conservative Charles Murray. I don’t know where he hangs out that all white working class men live off “their women,” take drugs and engage in criminality. I look around and I see men in trees, mailmen, working hard in supermarkets and 7/11s, digging the roads, working on bridge infrastructure, etc. And since I just moved to an area that has a high level of Indian immigrants, I see nothing but greed and incompetence in them from bank tellers to cashiers at Wal Mart.

I’ve always like white working-class men because I came from that. And if he thinks those who live on the Upper Westside of Manhattan are the smartest people in the world, I’d invite them to the parties that I attend. Despite their college degrees and Broadway credits, they still read with their lips moving.

[Dr. Ursus]

It’s a long day’s journey into night.

[from occupied ga]

I am currently visiting Vietnam.

You should have visited it 48 years ago. There were things going on there then too.