Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

He thinks so himself. Here is a retweet from today that he really agrees with.

Donald J. Trump
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“Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world...and the Jewish people in Israel love him....

....like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God...But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense! But that’s OK, if he keeps doing what he’s doing, he’s good for.....

.....all Jews, Blacks, Gays, everyone. And importantly, he’s good for everyone in America who wants a job.” Wow! 

Originally Posted by James Brown

Hi James:

I don't think that tactical D arguments of the economy actually being no good are going to fly.  Many, many people are experiencing the benefits of the good economy, and this overwhelms the lesser number of folks who are specifically impacted by crummy tariff policy and such.  

I really think this is an interesting comment:  "Why anyone is still supporting this pathological lying charlatan with decades of well documented fraud and failures can only be attributed to party loyalty."  My short answer is yes.  You are certainly describing me in 2016 and 2020 (if I vote for Trump.)  As a Republican, I would prefer a Republican government.  Not on 100% of the issues of course, but on more than 50% of the issues.  I definitely like conservative judges, conservative tax policy and I distrust big government "plans for that."  You probably know where I stand on almost any issue in view of a decade and a half of banter.

Character does matter to me, but it does not swamp everything else, particularly since I'm pretty jaded about the character of anyone in Washington DC.  Secretary Clinton was certainly not a model of virtue in my opinion, so the character issue washed out to become simply a choice between bad and worse.  Virtually everyone who considers character important lined up on which candidate was bad and who was worse based upon ideology alone.

So, at the end of the day, I think that your phrase, slightly modified, will accurately describe the vote of most Democrats and Republicans:

Why anyone is still supporting this (fill in a long list of personal shortcomings, vices, and felonious behavior) can only be attributed to party loyalty. 

Jim

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

LOL.....the sky is falling, the sky is falling

The facts on tariffs just dont add up to the hysteria you are blowing out your ass Rod......Tariffs are nothing more than taxes. Trump cut taxes by far more than he added in tariffs

President Trump hiked tariffs from 10% to 25% on about $200 billion in Chinese imports. In other words, he just raised taxes by … $30 billion a year.

Oh, no!

The total amount we all paid in taxes last year — federal, state and local — was $5.51 trillion. This tax increase that has everyone’s panties in a twist is a rounding error.

Even if Trump slapped 25% taxes on all Chinese imports, it would come to a tax hike of … $135 billion a year. U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) last year: $20.5 trillion. So even this supposedly scary “escalation” of this “tariff war” would, er, raise our total tax bill from 26.9% of GDP all the way to 27.5% of GDP.

Oh, and isn’t it interesting to see some people’s priorities? Apparently the most shocking part of this trivial tax hike is that it might raise the price of new Apple AAPL, -4.62%  iPhones.

Right now we export less to China than we do to Japan, South Korea and Singapore put together. That’s the point. So the effect of China’s new tariffs on the U.S. are yet another rounding error. Even if China banned all imports from the U.S., that would amount to only 0.6% of our gross domestic product. And we’d sell the stuff somewhere else.

Don’t buy the hysteria. President Trump is simply trying to pressure our biggest competitor to buy more American goods. That should be a good thing, even if you don’t like him.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

The thing is Greg if fixing U.S. and China trade and investment relations was as easy as going it alone and imposing hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs on Chinese imports, then why didn't anyone think of it or do it before? Is it that everyone else before Trump was just monumentally stupid, or is it that Trump truly has a simple solution to a complex problem? Given all available evidence, it seems pretty clear that what Trump is doing is not working; it's only making things worse. Maybe pulling out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership was a colossal mistake. Maybe it would have made a lot more sense to stay in the TPP and form trade alliances that would have been able to effectively battle China's unfair trade practices and protected statuses it no longer deserves. Let's be honest, Trump pulled out of the TPP simply because his ultra-fragile ego couldn't handle the fact that the TPP was started under Obama. The man is a moron and the sooner we are rid of him, the better.

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

You guys sure are blowing a lot of smoke.......

Here is a little icewater to cool you off.....

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/steve-hilton-trump-recession-economy?fbclid=IwAR0uyuCCFjTzrhhqZ2HjIeR78469OD0FxQh55JFM0UHZrhwvGtMLWvYh0fI

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

I suppose you consider that a SOURCE because it is on CNN and agrees with you? I get it