Posts Made By: Greg Shaffer

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

In reality, Steve King or David Duke would throw their hats in the ring and win the GOP nomination - provided Trump Jr does not run.

Originally Posted by Richard Whalen

I am still trying to place ad, using ipad. Box does not come up or show?

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

The stimulus, auto-company bailouts, quantitative easing, and more. None of it was perfect, but it was necessary to overcome the great recession. Had McCain been elected instead, he would have done essentially the same things...

Originally Posted by Mel Maki

They admitted that didn't go as well as they thought it would. A lot of that money gets spread around as political favors and payback. And don't forget the money that always disappears into the bureaucracy. No small amount. The Dems favor a large bureaucracy. 

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Neither did the invasion of Iraq but Bush and company didn't admit it although Trump said it was the greatest mistake ever made. Greg said at the time, however, that he "didn't know enough about it" to take a position on it...

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

No, I would preferred you answer the question directly since you have no equivocation is stating in other posts that American intell agencies were wrong on WMDs in Iraq so when Trump offers up the same reason for accepting Putin's word that he didn't interfere with our elections instead of taking the word of  own intell agencies, you hop on the band wagon with him. But somehow you can't comment on Trump's claim that the invasion of Iraq was the biggest mistake ever because you say you don't know enough about it  even though Bush predicated his decision to go to war in Iraq based largely upon the intell agencies information at the time during the run-up to the war. And you can't see the cognitive disconnect with that? As far as I'm concerned, your answer that you don't know enough about it to offer up an opinion on it is bogus.
It's your version of a cut and run.
Beyond that, it's equally bogus to use Trump's inane reasoning that because an intell agency in the past with different people in it than what we have now was wrong back then so they must be wrong now as well is total nonsense, too. That's like thinking a hurricane won't take out my house when a government agency says it will because a forecast ten years ago was wrong because it missed my house by a block...

Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/steve-bannon-were-in-an-economic-war-with-china-its-futile-to-compromise/2019/05/06/0055af36-7014-11e9-9eb4-0828f5389013_story.html?fbclid=IwAR0BBFuSLeJRXXaMdc7YZef5nxze5c51hU8Eevo5Fb_-jwdEQFOu1VSA82E&utm_term=.845cb95e92d5

I nearly 100% agree with this oped by Steve Bannon supporting the Trump administrations hard line with China. This is a defining moment that will have repercussions for generations either way. We shouldn't turn back now and take the pain necessary to tame this menace to business and freedom.

Since the 90's, many of my business friends said that China will liberalize once western capitalism takes hold in China, and the Communist Party could not stop it. I have long argued that they should not get the crown jewel of the west, trade and access to capital and technology, until they reform their government. I believe I had the better argument and have been proven right. We have fueled the creation of a monster, and one that is determined to enslave beyond their own borders. They are devouring, through theft and lawlessness, the engine that has fueled the prosperity we have enjoyed.

Where I nearly 100% disagree with the administration is treating our closest allies and trading partners like enemies. It is insane and just flat wrong to impose tariffs on and bully our North America, Asian and European democratic trading partners. We need to drop all tariffs against them and show a united front against China.

The pain is not over. Make it worth while and do not give in. Do not let the west be sold out by Wall Street and politicians of both parties again.