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Post by Don on Oct 16, 2018 18:43:05 GMT -5
Put Bernie in office and we won't have that luxury, ce. We could be just like Venezuela. Although if Trump keeps up with the trade war and growing the deficit, we may not need Bernie.
ETA: $4.4 billion in new taxes on businesses and individuals via tariffs, the largest budget deficit since 2011, $779 billion, and an expansion of the national debt by more than $1 trillion for the 2018 fiscal year, the sixth-largest in history.
And they say Trump's a "businessman?" This just shows more of his crony crapitolist roots. He's never met a bill for the taxpayers that he didn't like. The Imperial Presidency is alive and well on Trump's watch.
He's "put us on a firm financial footing" about as well as he "drained the swamp." Yet another freakin' lying liar who lies. He and EW should have fairy-tale-spinning, pocket-picking babies together. They have far more in common between themselves than either has with a legitimate tax-paying citizen.
There. That's my morning rant for the day.
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Post by robeiae on Nov 1, 2018 10:00:18 GMT -5
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Post by Don on Nov 17, 2018 19:37:49 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Nov 27, 2018 9:20:22 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Nov 30, 2018 10:05:56 GMT -5
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Post by Don on Dec 7, 2018 15:49:10 GMT -5
“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion–when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing–when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors–when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you–when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice–you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot. ... "Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to be the tool by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of men. Blood, whips and guns–or dollars. Take your choice–there is no other–and your time is running out." Whole Economics 101 speech here.
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Post by Don on Dec 7, 2018 15:52:18 GMT -5
Bonaire is a salt flat in the middle of the ocean, Curacao smells like oil everywhere, but Aruba is okay. (there's actually some good scuba diving off Bonaire) Bonaire was awesome. The other two okay. We're snorklers, and the reef is awesome there. We're considering a week there someday instead of a cruise. Getting up every morning, having coffee and walking out to snorkel the reef would be a dream vacation for us.
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Post by robeiae on Dec 11, 2018 9:48:03 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Jan 24, 2019 9:25:27 GMT -5
Trump recognizes opposition leader as legitimate leader of Venezuela: Trump is not alone on this and is--in my view--doing the right thing. Russia, of course, is backing Maduro still, is is Turkey and Cuba. I think Putin has fucked up royally here. Maduro is going bye-bye in fairly short order and the opposition leaders are not going to see Russia as any sort of ally, going forward. China is backing Maduro, too, though maybe not quite as hard as Russia. It might be able to weasel it's way back in down the road. And in Venezuela, proper, more protests:
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 15:00:30 GMT -5
This may be one instance where I agree Trump is probably doing the right thing.
What a damn mess.
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Post by mikey on Jan 24, 2019 15:51:47 GMT -5
I think Maduro still controls the guns in Venezuela. Unless or until that changes, Maduro is still the boss. We'll see how bloody this thing gets.
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Post by robeiae on Jan 26, 2019 13:27:28 GMT -5
www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-47014322While it's true that Maduro still controls the military, it's not the 1950's anymore. There's no real "cold war" to speak of, no bloc of countries that Maduro can align himself with that is economically significant enough to offset what is lining up against him. His allies--such as they are--are far flung and not really in it for him, but rather to be there when it goes poof, in order to be first in line to get back the money they've "invested" there. But the day is quickly coming where Maduro will no longer be able to pay the military, I think. And I suspect China will waiver, once there is enough international support for Gauido.
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Post by robeiae on Feb 4, 2019 9:25:29 GMT -5
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Post by robeiae on Feb 6, 2019 16:58:04 GMT -5
Aid? We don't need no stinking aid...
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Post by Don on Feb 16, 2019 6:57:33 GMT -5
Where's the CIA when you really need them? Does Maduro smoke cigars? Maybe they could send him a poisoned one?
I guess it's a good thing for him that his predecessor rounded up all the guns back in 2012. I suppose he learned that lesson from a long line of tyrants.
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