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Posted on 01/29/2020 3:46:37 AM PST by Kaslin
WTH is with Dems in IOWA?
It’s always amazed me that they’re as loony as their left and right coast counterparts.
For perspective, there are a total of 3.04 trillion trees on planet earth.
I don’t get it either. But then, I don’t understand any Democrat. They are out-of-touch with reality since the arrival of the Lying Kenyan Usurper.
100 years ago there was a commie Midwest agricultural movement. Some of them had retarded children. Their descendants are still there. Hope this helps.
Decades ago I was a flaming socialist.
I grew out of it.
Note to Iowa Dems: Don’t stay stuck in stupid.
Trees are made into paper.
Paper is made into money.
Profit?
“ What’s this about trees?”
It puts the concept of a x-trillion dollars in perspective. A $10 dollar bill hanging from every tree on earth would not begin to pay for all this nonsense.
I think to be fair to Trump, if memory serves correctly I believe the first budget he sent over to the house/senate had a lot of cuts, not decreases to the increases but actual cuts. And (memory still working) the turtle said it was DOA. So blaming the president on spending increases, I believe if he was given a free hand there would be a lot of hurt in DC and the rest of us would be cheering.
Everybody grows up. Well, maybe not everybody but most people.
Hurt stimulates self-reliance.
ohhhh...the entitlement “Americans” ...not the people who are on assistance that don’t actually need it (although, that a problem and not just monetarily but spiritually)...not even the illegals who are using up resources that are not rightfully theirs..not to mention committing crimes that should never have happened because they should not have been here in the first place..but our beloved elected(?) officials.
The stupid, like the poor, will always be with us.
Time to cull a few.
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Well, I don't know how much hurt we'd have if the EPA's budget was cut in half. ;^)
Some of us grow old. If Bernie promises me a paid for live in massage therapist for my back and also promises to convince my wife it is a good thing I might vote for him.
Also I want flying pigs.
GIBSMEDAT!
This is not to debate the necessity or the wisdom of that program, rather it is to observe that quantitative easing has so distorted our perception of financial reality that it is unrealistic to expect the voting public to vote itself out of goodies and into austerity.
Once that state of mind took possession of the electorate it was hopeless to expect a politician to campaign against spending -the cost of spending has been entirely masked by our power to borrow. Enter Steve Bannon who points out to all who will listen on virtually every continent that the borrowing spree indulged in by the Fed and other national banks went to not only save an elite but to enrich an elite that had themselves caused the great recession. Worse, much of the fiscal and monetary policy that followed impoverished much of the middle class.
So we have an electorate that is largely uninformed that has no idea of the dangers of overspending because there are no observable consequences to overspending, we simply borrow more. They simply know that something is wrong and the system is not working for them -enter Donald Trump.
To those in the electorate who are informed, why should they volunteer to have their rice bowl broken even as they see the elites prospering the more? The odds are that Trump will not be able to convince the electorate that the music must stop, and in fairness we must acknowledge that he is not tried to do so. Rather he has sought to improve only one side of the balance sheet, to improve the economy for the stricken middle-class.
That means that we will continue on this course with the electoral advantage always running toward the spendthrift (read Democrat) over those politicians who would prudently manage our balance sheets. It will require another Great Recession or even, God forbid, another Great Depression to alter the national mindset and open the way for reform.
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