When you say "the n-word" you're forcing me to say ****** in my head, you bastard.

Thanks. I appreciate the civil answer. :D

Of your criticisms, what would you have liked to see him accomplish? Specifically about the economy and owebamacare.

I would have liked to see him do more to bring people together. Everything is so divisive right now. You're either a racist hood wearing KKK member or a purple haired SJW riddled with white guilt.

Most of us are in the common sense middle, yet I feel like the majority is being shouted down by the idiots on both sides.

A president in his last term can do a lot more to call out everyone on their bull****, yet he just mostly stuck to the party line.

Validuz of full sail university fame calling people who went to trump university sucker retards is almost too much.

Uh, ok.

Not seeing how that applies to your criticisms for owebamacare and the economy.

That quote came from the Clinton camp.

Libs are crying sooo hard!

Helping the economy is all about getting spending under control (vgd). Imagine how much waste spending you could eliminate just by properly auditing agencies? Of course spending cuts turn into a "not in my backyard" kind of thing, and someone is getting benefit from even the most wasteful spending. I work for a gov't agency and while I have no love for bean-counters, you need something to control costs.

Otherwise there's no magic fix for the economy. Nobody is bringing manufacturing jobs back to the rust belt or anywhere else. How can we compete on price when people are willing to work for pennies on the dollar?

For health care, that's another complex fix, but Trump's simple ideas would go a long way towards helping. Separate health insurance from employers, remove state lines and open up competition. I work for a really big agency, and our insurance is great. We can negotiate on a huge scale and do what insurance is designed to do - spread out the costs. Small to mid sized companies simply can't do that.

Car insurance is mandated for most (I know, not exactly the same thing) yet the price isn't skyrocketing. You can't fix health insurance quite the same, but again, definite improvement.

The issue with healthcare is the one nobody will admit - people without insurance drain the system no matter what. Since the 1980s anyone can walk into an ER and get treatment. Those costs have been in the system long before Obamacare and will be long after.

Unfortunately anyone selling a plan to keep premiums from going up is selling snake oil.

law of large numbers

the more people paying into the system, the easier it is to spread cost
the 20 million people STILL without insurance are generally young and healthy
ie they wouldnt use it but it allows the system to work

like car insurance. older people pay less per month generally than younger, since younger people are more likely to get into a car accident. lets the system work while being mostly affordable to most people (unlike health insurance though if you ****ing suck at driving you're gonna get raped on insurance costs, to the point where a lot of people will drive with insurance)

If you don't make it hopelessly complicated, how are people supposed to scam millions out of the government coffers?

Remember when:

Clinton: Trump 'threatens democracy' by not accepting election results

Let's only recount the states Trump won even though Hillary won several by smaller margins.

So you want young people who are healthy to pay for the obese, alcoholics, and smokers?

Life choices and responsibility should play into this someway right?

Ok, great. Now thats a much better reply.

I think the common ground here is that it is about the economy and recognizing that gvt intervention in markets is NOT a good thing at all. And I do agree that 'not in my district' is a huge problem as they are expected to bring home the bacon (our tax monies). We do need accountability and have witnessed agencies that over budget in order for them to get what they wanted in the first place, no surprise there. The **** that is unnecessary are the junkets, such as the ones they do on our dime like conventions in Vegas (ref: GSA) and what-not. If anything, we need to trim as much of the fat as possible instead of using base line budgeting.

Example: Baseline budgeting tilts the budget process in favor of increased spending and taxes. For example, if an agency's budget is projected to grow by $100 million, but only grows by $75 million, according to baseline budgeting, that agency sustained a $25 million cut. That is analogous to a person who expects to gain 100 pounds only gaining 75 pounds, and taking credit for losing 25 pounds. The federal government is the only place this absurd and insane 'logic' is employed.

I do believe that we can bring back manufacturing, but its going to require smart, efficient operations. We have the tech to do so, but as far as large scale manufacturing circa the old days, not gonna happen. Caveat: another world war because smart weapons wont last forever and we will need to make alot of [non-smart] **** fast to facilitate the war effort. Our factories will be more automated in order to keep costs down and increase competitiveness against cheap labor. So we are looking at cost per unit to achieve that.

To keep this relatively short, I like the fact you recognize that more competition in markets will help drive health care costs down, but it isnt the magic bullet. The free healthcare gravy train is what is killing us, no doubt. If little Duhwayne stubs his toe, well momma can take him to a clinic to get serviced free of charge because she cant pay, but someone does -the taxpayer.

But in the off-chance you are alluding to single payer, thats where we part ways. I cant see how anyone who knowingly understands how wasteful gvt spending is and rife with inefficiency would be willing to turn such a vital industry over to the gvt.

Yea, there are plenty.

I think he's being too soft, trying to "bring the country together," which is a total waste of time. Progressives can't be reasoned with.

Maybe he'll change his tune once the EC votes and its official. Who knows.

No you aren't. Most are the retarded, impossible-to-reach left and will never be corrected. Once a child is brainwashed into cultural Marxism, there's no coming back.

:rofl: "common sense middle" Jesus Christ, you actually believe that.

p.s. I love the "ObamaCare was a band-aid on a profusely bleeding wound" as if it did ANYTHING to fix the "problem" at all. This is a great example of how oblivious you are even when you're struggling to be objective.

http://media.washtimes.com.s3.amazon...-224799225.jpg

I hope we can get this guy for the recount

Here's the insane part, they are recruiting people for recounting.

So a bunch of butt-hurt progressive ****bags are going to be the ones counting.

:rofl:

And this is a great example of a brainwashed right winger who bashes a man for trying to get clarity on an issue. When you're that far on the right on issues, even normal Joes begin to look like marxists.

Trump should be like: 'You know, we should have a Special Prosecutor against Clinton, we wanna make sure we get it right'

See, we agree on a lot of stuff. Not everything, but a lot.

My only big disagreement is that the gov't is not beyond hope. The less gov't we have in most cases, the better. However you can't just remove them from the equation. When you do, corporations fill that power gap, and they do not act in our long term best interests either. Corporate America has fallen into the trap of focusing on the short term. Forget next year, how does this quarter look? That kind of thinking leads to some very, very bad decision making (see the housing crisis).

You're feelings on gov't are very common and understandable, but if it can't improve then we are all totally ****ed. It won't be easy but it can be done.

I don't want big gov't, but I don't want big business running things either. You have to strike a balance between the two.

trump better counter that **** stat or he may lose

Oh, another wild progressive appears to call his brother a regular Joe.

p.s. You can't be brainwashed into being fiscally/nationally conservative. It's the logical conclusion to having a brain.

i just call it the ******-word now :p:

i actually enjoy your posts

walking_man and MHS others ....

i have been thinking about this a lot and maybe what we need is a "bankruptcy" president right now.

i mean look at how GM Chapter 11 was handled a few years back

General Motors Chapter 11 reorganization - Wikipedia

this idea of we are going to put the taxpayers on the hook for private loses, just to watch a company go belly up anyways, is about as wasteful and fiscally incompetent as it gets.

yes, even moreso than the bad ideas and piss poor prioritization that got us into these messes in the first place.

our bubble economy is in euphoria mode right now......but the global bubble is still doing its stagnation thing and i doubt that even a Trump presidency is going to resolve that beyond more short term "hopium" injections.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ECi6WJpbzE

maybe we don't have the hero we want but the hero we need with our Bankrutpcy King where he is today.

shocking...shocked i tell you

almost like the clinton cartel good at using proxy agents to push their agenda for them

from money laundering through CF, to ISIS, to winning elections

dont forget feannag is our resident "special" kid. goshin is einstein in comparison

we got a lot of special people in this thread, but most of them are old and angry

I am very much in line with minarchism -the nightwatchman State. As I've said before, we do need some gvt in order to function as a viable society. The equation and disagreement always boils down to how much. As younger generations are being brainwashed into accepting the Nanny State, the worse the future will be where it becomes acceptable to give away our Liberties and Freedoms to the State, which is the antithesis to what this Nation was founded on. To date, we have been unable to find a better form of gvt. Communism / Socialism showed its true face by murdering ~100 million people, so yeah, I distrust the power of any State.

The inherent flaw with a capitalist society is the fact that there will be winners and losers, which also applies to amassing wealth. In a free society, it also offers the best opportunity to create upward mobility economically. I believe the key to allaying your fears is a society that actually prosecutes corruption without any mercy. So imo, while the potential to fill the gap you worry over is there, a just society willing to prosecute would mitigate it.

This is where I believe that balance can be achieved, but its going to take willpower to hold people who commit crimes accountable for the actions. Affluenza and twinkie defenses wouldnt cut it in my society. Your ass would be going to prison or being put to death depending on your crime(s). In other words, once people know there are real consequences for their actions, the less likely they are to act on them.

Moral hazard - Wikipedia

who do i blame more....

banks writing bad housing loans, to people who they know were not qualified, couldn't afford it (which government encouraged w/ CRA), or.......

the FHA who gobbled up those bad loans like they were a preteen with pokemon cards

knowing that by doing so morally or ethically corrupted banks (by FED or CEO) could continue to have liquidity needed to write more bad loans and we could put tax payers, not the private banks, on the hook for any future issues or foreclosures.

greed is bad. greed backed by government is evil.

lucky for us we have a system nearly devoid of market competition......and one where government makes everyone responsible for the bad decisions of the few.

and we wonder how we got into this mess. why everything and every idea just keeps getting worse

You're confusing actual marxists from normal people who work jobs and raise families that preclude them from hours upon hours of independent research (which is tough to find and quite frankly tough to analyze also) and have a mixed system of beliefs due to hearing information from both sides.

Making sweeping and rude statements to them pushes them towards the actual Marxist camp instead of being understanding and engaging in reasoned discourse rather than vitriolic rhetoric. I see people like you as more of a danger to the cause of various right aligned movements as you set a very poor example and have over the course of a decade on this forum. I remember you from 2008 when I was young and the idiotic rage fueled statements and you have never served your cause well via it, and you never influenced me (unlike other posters here) into a more aligned viewpoint.

exactly

and i refute this idea that without government we wouldn't have anything to keep snake oil salesmen and usury con artists in check

that is what viable competition is needed for

i don't the government to tell me not to buy from this guy

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...badb71eaad.jpg

just a little Caveat emptor - Wikipedia

and an alternative source

are there people who fall for every nigerian email scam and late night infomercial?

apparently so....but not even government can help those folks

fun fact:

the snake oil guy was fined not for his claims about it's medicinal value, but for selling a product that didn't have snake oil in it.

lol

i was going to say not paying his taxes

a scam is only a scam if uncle sam doesn't get his cut

be it drugs, medicine, or investments

people wonder why sec couldn't find anything fishy about bernard madoff despite all the whistle blowing

Bernard Madoff - Wikipedia

i say there wasn't anything fishy......he just wasn't too big to fail like NASDAQ

On point.

I understand the need to have a gvt that sets guidelines for businesses to operate (I am torn on monopolies -one hand: freedom / liberty v. other hand: stifles markets and is a barrier to entry), but at the same time, I dont need them to manage my decisions. Market forces can easily put ****ty / shady businesses to the torch as word gets out or put on trial through the courts.

But somewhere along the line, we cant protect everyone, especially from themselves. They are going to have to be responsible for the decisions they make. Want to buy something? Research it first before you buy, including signing any contract.

Get back to the basics, first one being: with freedom comes responsibility.

exactly my thoughts....i used to really worry about the monopoly issue

until i realized that meddling often further establishes them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4gRRk2i-M

this really was ron paul at his prime.

at&t and standard oil were fun examples.....but pretty useless and futile attempts compared to promoting viable market competition against them (the last thing the gubmt truly wants because lobbying kickbacks tie to profitability and market exploitation)

.

regulation today is all about feeding the swamp

Leaked Speech Excerpts Show a Hillary Clinton at Ease With Wall Street

making rules so that others can't compete against those government sponsored enterprises who really fund you and those you truly represent

Obama Sets New Record For Regulations ***8211; 81,640 Pages In 2016

and represented well they are

The extreme right wants the nanny state just as much as the extreme left, maybe more.

The bible thumping right (and don't kid yourself, that's who helped put Trump over the top) wants nothing more than a christian theocracy where the state determines what is right or wrong to put in our bodies, etc. They are just as scary as those who want to limit how much sugar we can have.

The monopoly is one thing that must be broken up by the state. Once a company becomes a monopoly, they only act to protect their monopolistic powers. Consumers lose the power to choose, as the barriers to competition become so great as to prevent any competition.

meh....

Utah the Mormon Vote for McMullin | Commonweal Magazine

they had even mcmuffin to rally their crazy behind imo

and the state can't break up monopolies when it is too busy regulating who can and can't compete against the status quo. who can and can't legally compete with any antitrust.

standard oil

Exxon-Mobil $82B deal done after FTC approval - Nov. 30, 1999

back again

at&t

http://www.wikinvest.com/images/thum...tt_history.jpg

better than ever

AT&T to buy Verizon territories, affecting 1M subscribers

getting better by the day

so much for them doing anything that a walmart phone plan couldn't and didn't do better

markets can't be regulated by those who are the biggest benefactors of its obvious exploitation

well, not successfully, or ethically, as is evident by the garbage bag we call our economy today

I wouldn't say the bible thumping right pushed Trump 'the ***** Grabber' over the top. More like the blue union guys in the Great Lakes area that was tired of hearing the same **** and have nothing to lose by giving Trump a chance.

But yeah, the moral control via state people are out there. Morality is a funny thing, and micromanagers don't like people making their own choices in the first place. That's where the Goldwater/Reagan divide in the 80s was so big for the Republicans...Libertarian ideals were kicked to the curb from the party except in small strongholds (the Pauls). The internet, with it's ability to magnify freedom of speech, has brought it back into vogue.