He hasn't done anything wrong why would he need to pardon himself? I think every modern president secretly pardons themselves anyways. I really do.I still hope he decides not to. Pardon himself and step out. Good of the country. He's a family man. He's got his businesses to run. So long and thanks for all the fish.
Pence-Haley 2020 (although Pence would not be my preferred top line, he is next up).
There wont be any Democrat majorityWell, many times in my adult life, I've been thankful for gridlock. "Don't just do something, stand there."
I hate how the word "compromise" has become verboten in politics. It doesn't mean to compromise one's principles. It means to compromise on specific piece of legislation (or rule, or whatever) because something is better than nothing. If nothing is better than something in any given situation, then government shouldn't be involved at all!
The best ought not be the enemy of the good.
By the way - another 2 years of gridlock with a Dem majority in the House might make it MUCH easier for Trump to get re-elected, or for Pence to get elected.
Show me the money, Jerry.
You've got the party line down pat, but you haven't put any numbers to it.
Plus Printcraft beat you to the snark.
"Biggest lie told by mankind?" You need to ease up on the Wild Turkey. I can name a handful bigger without a sweat.
I don't begrudge Obama deficit spending during the worst recession since the 1930's. I believe Keynes was mostly correct. And I also recognize that the economy regained it's footing because of that spending and the significant actions by the Federal Reserve. Still, we aren't the country we were in the 1990's. Very few have extra income to spend on non-essentials. But, to some degree, the non-essential spending in the 1990's was fueled with consumer debt and home refinancings. So the surplus of available "income" for the average family was rather ephemeral.
And now we've reduced taxes, which everyone really enjoys. No one likes to pay taxes. But it is one of the factors affecting debt. If you believed in 2012 that debt mattered, why doesn't it matter in 2018 when it is even higher than it was back then?
Healthcare costs, nationally, have risen from an average of $15,600 per family in 2008 to $28,200 in 2018 (Milliman index). The economy is at "full employment" largely as a result of increases in headcount in the medical sector of the economy. So, have your health care costs increased? Yes. How much is Obamacare and how much is due to other factors? I don't know. I'm not a health care guy. What I do know is that employees AND employers are paying higher amounts for health services than 10 years ago. Again, I don't know how much is attributable to Obamacare or the medical industry itself.
The growth in healthcare costs is not sustainable. Something has to give. I don't know what is likely to happen, but at my age, I'm prepared not to have much available to me as the years roll by, and that's OK with me. We spend too much on old people now. It will only get worse.
Alpo thats a stretch even for you man. I know you're wiser than to believe all that.
I'm no financial expert but Obama screwed our economy. Killed jobs, hell he lost faith in even trying to bring jobs and industry back. He said where are they gonna come from thin air?
While he was busy running around trying to mushroom stamp the Obama name on as many "firsts" as he could the country was bleeding out. He just was an absent president on so many economic issues. Was the recession Obama's fault? No It wasnt. But it didnt need to slide so far down and it didnt need to last as long as it did. Bush has blame in it too.
But Obama was a complete bs'er and loser and a bigger liar than people claim trump is. Obama was just smooth
Wow. Are you kidding me? Your response sounds straight out of academia 101. Health care cost increases before Obama averaged 5 to 10 % annual. I didn't like it, but it was manageable. You say very few have extra income to spend; and you mention some academic theories. I'm going to stop here, because I don't want to get banned, but your response is rubbish. In terms of the economy 'regaining it's footing' due to obama spending, I'm sure there's some Solyndra execs clapping for you right now. Carry on with your dementia, and best of luck to you. Still waiting on the answer to the question I asked twice.
Alpo thats a stretch even for you man. I know you're wiser than to believe all that.
I'm no financial expert but Obama screwed our economy. Killed jobs, hell he lost faith in even trying to bring jobs and industry back. He said where are they gonna come from thin air?
While he was busy running around trying to mushroom stamp the Obama name on as many "firsts" as he could the country was bleeding out. He just was an absent president on so many economic issues. Was the recession Obama's fault? No It wasnt. But it didnt need to slide so far down and it didnt need to last as long as it did. Bush has blame in it too.
But Obama was a complete bs'er and loser and a bigger liar than people claim trump is. Obama was just smooth
The most recent evidence points to skeletal remains in Peru that are 14,500 years old (give or take). North America might have been inaccessible from Russia. American Indians are no more "indigenous" than your or I. They didn't spontaneously pop from the soil. While they may claim ownership due to time held, it seems that we are all cousins of a group out of Africa. I wonder how much African DNA exists in the tribes.
It really has no practical value where the migration occurred other than to improve the accuracy of the migration patterns.
"We"? You believe everyone else thinks Pochanontas is more important than the national debt, which Trump is not talking about? Do you get your cues from the media or the tweeter in chief?
Another wasted news cycle on jibberish.
I don't like the radical crazies any more than you do. What I really don't like is the screaming radical crazies. You'd never catch me at a demonstration of that type, even though at some base level I might agree that a legitimate grievance could possibly exist. You don't win me over by screaming about my over-privileged life. I've had a job since 15 and grew up working for everything I ever owned.
I was thinking tonight that we used to have a society that might be characterized as consisting of two parts: blame and shame. I think blame is a trait we learned from the English. Someone is always at fault. Someone needs to be punished. But we also tempered that with our own form of morality and understood that wrong actions were shameful and if we were honest and repentent, we felt that shame.
Something has changed. We now have victims and blame...but few ever feel ashamed. Why is that? What happened?