Cruz and the media blamed Trump for this violence which was organized and planned by Marxist and other violent leftist hate groups.
Posted on 03/15/2016 5:58:25 AM PDT by tatown
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I’m a long-time voter, by Mr. Mabelkitty is a new voter to Ohio.
Higher turnout in Ohio reported this morning :)
And I was attacked as soon as I got out of my car. I couldn't believe it. It was outrageous. Have these people no dignity? Do I have to put up with this sort of abuse as soon as I open the door to my car?
Damned municipal candidates!
“Drove by my precinct this morning and there was nobody in line.
I live in Georgia.”
You made me smile! :)
If I lived in Georgia, today I would be going fishing instead of driving by the polling place. Come to think of it, perhaps that’s where everyone was! :)
Isnt a trade deficit when we import more from China, then we export to them? If so, that is a problem regardless of whether we get dollars for goods. It is a trade imbalance in their favor which means they employ more people on their turf with our dollars!
Lets hope he’ll have good advise before jumping into anything. I really think hes very in tuned to the situation and seems to have a knack for picking smart people for advise. He’s had to have a good ear and business sense through the years to be where he is today. I’m putting mt faith in him knowing he has an extreemly hard up hill job ahead. Go Trump!
I support Trump but sharply disagree with his views on trade which are basically about imposing tariffs (taxes) which in turn hurt the American consumer and the American economy and are thus counter-productive, and utterly fail to attack the underlying root causes of businesses fleeing America.
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Are u kidding.
Do this> Tariffs on countries without fair cost of labor, ie. Asia and all if Latin America where low cost of labor because of no social services and little regulation combined with traded deals send jobs over seas and have created near serdfom here, for those without College Edu. Also, tariffs incentivize companies to stay on shore. And yes it will work. Higher wages always better than cheap stuff.
Personally I think Trump still wins even without Ohio, but if he wins it that pretty much puts the nail in the coffin, though Cruz supporters will of course disagree... the longer this chaos goes on, particularly if it goes to a brokered convention, the White House is Hillary’s because the GOP will literally implode if they use a brokered convention to keep Trump off the ticket.
I know the establishment doesn’t care, because holding onto their power is more important than anything.
I said it a while ago, Trump will face far more attacks and ugliness from the right than he will ever face on the left.
No, “trade deficit” is another misleading modern-day term, like “liberal” or “feminist”. Again, if I go to the store and buy $100 worth of grocers, is that a “problem”? Of course not. I’ve received goods for dollars - a fair trade, beneficial to both parties.
An historical example of the absurdity of this thinking is tiny little Hong Kong perched on a rocky peninsula with no natural resources of its own. Yet it became an economic powerhouse. How did it do that? Hong Kong didn’t have any natural resources so all they could do was import goods - “trade deficits”. And yet Hong Kong became an economic giant. How? Because they thrived on a market economy that was essentially free of government interference including no sales or income tax.
Don’t try to argue with the free trade guys, they have their talking points down.... and won’t accept any other view.
They always ignore, that if the cost of importing goes up, domestic production will increase, raising wages and opportunities here to more than compensate for the fact that your wal mart items now cost you 5-10% more.
Agreed. I think Trump really cares for America and has shown me he is teachable as well as intelligent. I too am hoping for the best.
Our factories and jobs are being exported. The OECD, an organization of wealthy first-world countries, reports: “During the past three decades, the share of national income represented by wages, salaries and benefits–the labour share–has declined in nearly all OECD countries.” To explain this, it cited cheaper technology and a reduction in workers’ bargaining power.
How does an unemployed population buy the wonderful products robots and cheap foreign labor make? There’s a story that Henry Ford II escorted United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther around his new robotic assembly plant. “Walter,” said Ford, “How you gonna get union dues from these guys?” To which Reuther replied: “Henry, how you gonna get these guys to buy your cars?”
With Florida and Ohio, two key swing states, this might be the most important primary date.
My wife and I just voted in Illinois (NOT a swing state). Me for Cruz, she for Trump. We discussed this: she thinks Trump will win the general election and will be more practical than Cruz. She fears Cruz will lead to a logjam in Congress, like Obama. I fear Trump’s character; I don’t believe he has real principles and will say or do anything to achieve his goals. Cruz has demonstrated he is pro-Constitution to his his own detriment—that’s just what we need.
In either case, they’re better than the Democrats.
Hong Kong has a smaller population than Pennsylvania, and has a per person GDP nearly 20,000 less than the US.
Playing middle man broker for other folks trade can work to help you make some cash, but it isn’t a viable option for a nation of 330 Million. Trying to compare HK to the US is patently absurd.
HK is sort of like the San Fran or SEATAC of the asian rim... lots of goods going elsewhere flow through it, causing a lot of centralized wealth from it, but it isn’t something that flows out or scales up. Playing a broker by a small state and taking a margin works for HK, it doesn’t work for a country like the US. SF and SEATAC are examples... those ports get a lot of wealth, because huge amounts of goods sold throughout the rest of the country flow through there, but they are just middle men taking a cut, not producing anything and that wealth doesn’t flow to the rest of the nation where those goods are actually consumed.
Would have been pretty cool if the GOP would have fought this hard against Obama huh?
Cruz and the media blamed Trump for this violence which was organized and planned by Marxist and other violent leftist hate groups.
Yes. Because ultimately the establishment, right and left, has more in common than either do with the voting public.
We voted in Peoria at 10am. Usually, I vote at 6am and I’m one of the first 50. Today, there were stacks of hundreds of registration forms of voters for Democrats and Republicans.
Just voted, wife voted at 8:00 AM, twin boys will turn 18 on June 20th (their Bd’s are before general so they can vote in primary).....4 votes in Illinois for cruisen Cruz!
RINOcrat candidates. Just say no!
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