Trump · 8:09pm Oct 8th, 2017
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Trump alleged in a trio of tweets that Corker "begged" him for his endorsement, did not receive it and decided to retire because he "didn't have the guts" to run for reelection next year in Tennessee
For a draft dodger like Trump to question someone else's courage is a bit much. Of course, with Trump that's just another drop of water in the ocean of outrage.
The proposed budget has a 1.5 Trillion dollar deficit. The deficit alone (never mind the rest of the budget) will spend more in 1 week than all 4 years of the War Between the States (& we WON that war). In 1 year's time, the deficit alone will cost more than the USA spent in all of WWII (& we won that one too).
What do I know? I mean, I'm poor & he's a billionare. Well, I know that he's been bankrupt twice & I've never been bankrupt even once. So my advice is "Hey Donny When you're 20+ trillion in the hole, it's not the time to be talking about a tax cut for millionaires. This 'the economy will expand to cover it' crap? It's called Reagonomics & it didn't work 30 years ago. What makes you think it will work today?"
But, it's already been said better than I could
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=schoolhouse+rock+money+rock&view=detail&mid=517C3F13B2110F3FCE2F517C3F13B2110F3FCE2F&FORM=VIRE
I'll also point out that that it took almost 200 years & 4 major wars to get the first 5 trillion in debt. It's quadrupled in sized in the last 30 & all we've done is screw around with Iraq. Dr Johnson (18th century curmudgeon) said "Whatever you have, spend less"
At least Trump has a rough idea of how much money he can spend. Here in the UK, the opposition leader, Corbyn, seems to be pulling magic imaginary money out of thin air, with the promise of ending all austerity measures overnight. We're going through the single messiest divorce in history, and he wants to start spending like there's no tomorrow.
What worries me is that the traditional way the US gets a cash injection in times such as these is arms production, like the old Lend Lease deal they did in the last war. Between his backward Middle Eastern policies, his apparent desire to turn on the Kurds, and the continuous bitch fight with North Korea and China, he's cooking up a hell of a lot of flash points to profit on. And that's ignoring the fact that Spain is currently standing on the brink of another civil war, and no one seems to have noticed in the States.
You know, I remember hearing once that apparently, the whole Brony phenomenon was due to a growing fear among young people in the post 9/11 world. Maybe they were onto something?
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Well, I remember the whole Y2K / Harmonic Convergence thing -the Mayan calendar said that the world is coming to an end. My theory is that "They were right. This is a new (& worse) world"
4691565 Believe it or not, I think, despite all that's happened, the world has actually gotten better. I mean, back in the 1980's, every now and then a rubbish bin blew up courtesy of the IRA, we were waiting for the Russians to come storming through West Germany, Reagan was babbling about space lasers, and we came within seconds of nuclear war, but no one in the West realised until the early 2000's. I mean, even in the nineties, I remember PSA films like this one on the telly:
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That was the 1950s in the USA. After Nixon & Jimmy Carter (1970s), Nuclear War just didn't seem so bad anymore.
Carters little brain waves included the national 55 MPH speed limit, giving away the Panama Canal, the 1 China policy, & the Iranian hostage crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvV3nn_de2k
This became sort of the theme song for the hostage crisis & a lot of people wore yellow ribbons
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=tony+orlando+and+dawn+tie+a+yellow+ribbon+%27round+the+ole+oak+tree+(redux)&&view=detail&mid=CBC2151887D4F99D3AA7CBC2151887D4F99D3AA7&FORM=VRDGAR
4692253 The 80's were definitely the scariest time in the UK. The Troubles were at their peak, the Falklands Campaign happened in '82, Maggie Thatcher, Privitatisation, Iranian embassy Siege, the film 'Threads' which made The Day After look like a Disney movie. Now it's more a sort of a Divine Comedy, i think it's the same on your side of the pond.
But having studied US history in uni, the 70's certainly seemed to mark your low point, both at home and abroad. I actually wrote a paper on the Iranian Hostage Crisis, and spent most of it poking holes in the Rangers. I mean their plan was, fly helicopters into desert through a sandstorm, land, refuel without being noticed, fly into Tehran, somehow find all the hostages who had been moved all over the place, then somehow fight their way to the airport and steal a plane and somehow get back to friendly territory. Thank god it all went wrong at Desert One. Although I'm not quite sure what they were thinking firing an anti-tank rocket at a fuel tanker.