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Inflation is a transfer of wealth from the Middle Class and working people to the Government, banks and the rich.

Deflation is a transfer of wealth from the Government, Banks and Rich to the middle class and working people.

Wonder why they don’t like deflation.

Rushed him = panicked him, made him hurry.

It was so close it was supposed to be a chip shot.

The cop on the ladder rushed him and a 2nd copy fired a round that broke his rifle. It wasn’t until 8+ shots that the secret service took out the shooter. Which is very suspicious by itself.

That doesn’t mean that some were still getting benefits.

Absence of proof does not equal proof of absence.

The hospitals and funeral homes are supposed to notify social security when someone passes away.

I doubt their is a mechanism to automatically remove them from the voter rolls and that is a big problem.

37 Trillion in debt and rising and that is just the Federal Government debt, not state, local and private debt. That doesn’t sound like prosperity to me.

Even with 2 incomes families are struggling to provide basic needs and many can’t afford to have children. Does that sound like prosperity to you?

Nations that make things and are energy secure are rich, not counties who print a lot of money.

The governments job is to promote the General Welfare of the majority of its people.

That is in the Constitution and its also good government.

Shipping a large part of our industrial base to a potential enemy and improvising the country is really bad corrupt government.

“Question for the environmental whackos... which is better: multiple local refineries in the state or the mileage logged by extra trucks to bring the gasoline in? “

That is a great question!

Notice that they also never complain about all the carbon emissions required to import all the junk from China and then ship it all around the country. That is invisible to them.

The only difference between the butler shooter and oswald is that the butler shooter actually shot the President.

Both ended up dead so they couldn’t talk.

Generations of labor pay suppression policies and inflation has destroyed the standard of living for many people.

Yes their is much to criticize in some young people, but many/most are trying very hard to do the right thing.

OK - he is not a Rino, but he is an idiot on this issue.

In the end its always about “cheap labor”.

But Americans always pay the hidden costs.

Yes I agree.

When I see the cities in SA, Dubai, etc. I think of all the oil we left in the ground due to our stupid policies.

Same for China where we sent much of our industrial base at the expense of our middle class.

Like you said it is by design.

Your 5% GDP government was in the pre-industrial revolution era when America was an agricultural society. Not in a world of hostile nuclear superpowers.

Our ocean’s don’t protect us anymore.

Trump/Musk want to find 1 trillion in waste to cut and grow the economy, find other sources of revenue to make up the difference.

And for that they get 1000’s of death threats every day.

Going over to the other side? The other side loves strawman arguments just like you. You sure your not on the other side?

I want smaller more accountable government that hardly makes me a leftists.

“Deficits don’t matter”

Until the money is worthless and the economy is reduced to barter or using other currencies.

You can only steal via inflation until the money is worthless.

You live in dreamland not the real world.

Government will never be around 5% of GDP. I wish it was much smaller but that is very unrealistic.

Again look at standard of living for the vast majority of our population, it has been going down for generations.

Free from Government Interference? You’re joking right?

Our Federal Government has many policies that make the US non-competitive in energy and manufacturing.

Then on top of that other countries have high tariff’s to keep our products from being sold in their countries while they are allowed to dump products into our market.

The middle class has been shrinking for generations and working people are in despair. Seriously Wake up.

So what is Rand’s plan to reindustrialize the US? Oh, he doesn’t have one.

He thinks multi-trillion dollar trade deficits are a good thing?

It’s money leaving the country and we have become poorer over the years.

He is an idealogue.

“Oswald did the act, alone.”

Sure.

Oswald said he was a patsy and then a few days later he was murdered on Nation wide tv.

How convenient.

Sure, and that kid who took shots at Trump was a genius who outsmarted the entire secret service.

Thank goodness we know everything about him/s