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Or, you can provide incentives and penalties to keep jobs at home rather than have corporations take the jobs offshore for slave wages. At home you can get out of the way and stop forcing companies to face insurmountable hurdles and micro-regulations that require fulltime lawyers and accountants to run a mechanics auto repair or a barber shop, and get nickel-and-dimed to death so that employers have to lay off their workers to stay alive instead of hiring new ones. I reckon Trump’s track record for maintaining a company and setting a budget and making a profiit and maintaining a payroll of thousands of workers measures up pretty well against his predecessor. Maybe he knows something, but he’s stupider than everybody, right, and luckier too?
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
Or, you can provide incentives and penalties to keep jobs at home rather than have corporations take the jobs offshore for slave wages. At home you can get out of the way and stop forcing companies to face insurmountable hurdles and micro-regulations that require fulltime lawyers and accountants to run a mechanics auto repair or a barber shop, and get nickel-and-dimed to death so that employers have to lay off their workers to stay alive instead of hiring new ones. I reckon Trump’s track record for maintaining a company and setting a budget and making a profiit and maintaining a payroll of thousands of workers measures up pretty well against his predecessor. Maybe he knows something, but he’s stupider than everybody, right, and luckier too?
Well, that's certainly a viewpoint but I thought we were discussing the soaring economy?
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Unemployment is down (especially for minorities) & wages are up. Stock market is not doing too badly. And this all happened during the biggest witchhunt of our lifetimes.
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
Unemployment is down (especially for minorities) & wages are up. Stock market is not doing too badly. And this all happened during the biggest witchhunt of our lifetimes.
Unemployment figures (as opposed to employment figures), I’ve already touched on regarding the usefulness of the data, the Fed pretty much discount it now. The stock market is doing ok primarily due to QE being supportive of asset prices. The S&P 500 is overvalued by virtually any normal metrics. It would take some serious earnings upgrades to make the index look fair value. At a time of falling consumption and poor PMI figures that seems unlikely.
You seem to want to make this all about Trump and grasp at any straw when really all I’ve said was that the economy is not soaring.
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AG Forms Team to Review FBI's Actions in Trump Probe.
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The Washington Free Beacon has been doing some excellent supercut edits for months, and dropped another brilliant one today. Says everything.
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This is by the author Duluth recommends (Andrew McCarthy) on the actions of the FBI in investigating Trump.
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Spygate: (this will blow your mind)
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Byron York interviews George Papadopoulos
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Liberal journalist Michael Tracey interviews George Papadopoulos.
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Handicapping the field:
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@Salacious-Crumb said in US Politics:
Handicapping the field:
Gold! 'Sleepy'...kinda rhymes with his more popular moniker.
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