Trump Administration Predictions (4 Viewers)

[AccessBlaster]

it's not a stupid law, it's a smart law. I don't want a foreign country to buy up American real estate

Especially adversaries, people forget China is a trading partner not a friend to the US.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The main point of government is improving our standard of living.

The progressive liberal government does this by robbing those who are willing to work for a living, skimming the top to pay the politicians, and giving the dregs to the folks on the dole. The problem with redistributing the proceeds of a "progressive income tax" is that it is zero sum game. Further, it parallels predictions from the laws of thermodynamics. I'll simplify them by using the lyrics from "Scarecrow and the Crows' Song" from The Wiz. In the most basic terms, "You can't win; you can't break even; and you can't get out of the game."

Taxation does not create wealth. It just transfers it. Because there is the overhead of paying the people doing the transference, the taxes don't go entirely to the proposed beneficiaries, so it is analogous to an engine with a frictional component leading to inevitable output losses. I'm not saying "identical to", just "has some striking similarities."

Trump's tariffs are bringing in some money, but more important, they are removing some of the channels whereby we were paying excessive overhead for low-balled imports. If there is ANY similarity between "greasing the gears of the economy" and the laws of Thermodynamics, it is that you get the least loss by reducing the friction of the gears. Back to economic terms, reduce taxes and reduce the overhead. Then the money you generate suffers the least diversion.

I doubt Thomas Jefferson thought about thermodynamic and economic analogs, but he DID say that the government that governs least governs best. The best policy to improve the standard of living is for the government to return SELF-RESPONSIBILITY to the people. Do we need laws? Yes. Do we need as many laws as we have? No. President Trump's rules (actually, his rules on rules) are aligned towards removing the myriad regulations that plague the USA. Don't know if he made it official, but he said he would require removal of 10 old rules for each new rule that any department proposed. I'm good with that.

 

[Isaac]

the worst is the federal agencies that can create Rules that even have criminal sanctions attached (!) that hardly anybody knows about unless you have a current copy of the federal register and some rules don't even make it in there.

currently there is a guy looking at 5 years in prison for accidentally jogging down a trail (a well worn trail jogged by plenty of other people) that had some Erosion sign next to it from the federal parks service. well the parks service has a Rule that decides that's worth prison time

 

[moke123]

the worst is the federal agencies that can create Rules that even have criminal sanctions attached (!) that hardly anybody knows about unless you have a current copy of the federal register and some rules don't even make it in there.

currently there is a guy looking at 5 years in prison for accidentally jogging down a trail (a well worn trail jogged by plenty of other people) that had some Erosion sign next to it from the federal parks service. well the parks service has a Rule that decides that's worth prison time

Park service wanted to drop it. Trumps DOJ said no.

 

[Pat Hartman]

the worst is the federal agencies that can create Rules that even have criminal sanctions attached (!) that hardly anybody knows about unless you have a current copy of the federal register and some rules don't even make it in there.

A friend recently ran afoul of one of these stupid rules. A tenant moved out and left a lot of damage in the unit. The old law said they had 20 days to return the deposit. That gives them some time to get the right people in to assess/fix the damage caused to the hardwood by the leaking AC among other things. Turns out that the law was changed to 14 days OVER A YEAR AGO and no one changed the website which my friends did check just to make sure the law "hadn't changed" since they last looked. They ended up having to return the entire deposit regardless of the damage plus 50% penalty. And it made absolutely no difference to the judge that no one had bothered to publish the law change. Apparently, you are responsible for requesting printed copies of the law at least once per month so you can read them and compare them to the last hard copy so you can find any changes that impact you. And they checked AGAIN after leaving court and the website was still out of date

 

[Isaac]

Park service wanted to drop it. Trumps DOJ said no.

i dont know about trump or the doj, but his prosecutors seem to want to continue it
maybe once it comes across "pam bondi's desk" it will be dropped - but things seem to stay on her desk for a long time

 

[The_Doc_Man]

the worst is the federal agencies that can create Rules that even have criminal sanctions attached (!) that hardly anybody knows about unless you have a current copy of the federal register and some rules don't even make it in there.

The relatively recent Loper-Bright case overturned the so-called "Chevron Deference" policy that allowed this kind of Executive overreach. It SHOULD be possible for someone to bring a suit against a freshly-made rule but at the moment I don't know of any test cases.

 

[Isaac]

Park service wanted to drop it. Trumps DOJ said no.

but who's responsible for having the rule wiht those criminal sanctions threat in the first place? I think the park service

 

[Steve R.]

Immigration also improves our standard of living. Who do you think builds our houses and staffs our nursing homes.

A statement not adequately supported. First, the US labor participation rate is 62.4% which means that approximately 37% of the people who could work are not working for a variety of reasons. Essentially, these non-working people are leaches living off the work of others. Remove the freebies they get. They would then have a choice; starvation or work to buy your food. Next, one can eliminate the minimum wage. Should these non-working people work, we may not need immigrants.

Document your assertion that the immigrants have the employment and educational skills necessary to do the work. Are you going to force all the children of immigrants to get to work immediately? When one reviews the headlines, many of the immigrants are on welfare! They are not contributing to improving our standard of living. Have you made a voluntary increase in your tax obligations to help them out?

 

[Thales750]

The so called free health care is a misnomer, its paid for through taxes obviously. It's government run with little room for innovation, kinda like our veterans administration.

citations? Don't work to hard, there aren't any. Only propaganda, but you can cite some of those, if you like.

 

[Pat Hartman]

citations? Don't work to hard, there aren't any. Only propaganda, but you can cite some of those, if you like.

Everything you disagree with is propaganda.

 

[moke123]

but who's responsible for having the rule wiht those criminal sanctions threat in the first place? I think the park service

the executive branch

 

[AccessBlaster]

citations? Don't work to hard, there aren't any. Only propaganda, but you can cite some of those, if you like.

I didn't think common sense needed a citation.

 

[moke123]

means that approximately 37% of the people who could work are not working for a variety of reasons.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics attributes the decline primarily to the aging population. Older adults are less likely to work than younger ones. As older Americans comprise an increasing share of the population, labor force participation declines accordingly.

 

[Thales750]

I didn't think common sense needed a citation.

Common sense tells you that if your country spends 4.5 trillion per year on healthcare, and your life span is number 27th in the world. Common sense is really not playing a large role in your program.
Keep on believing your common sense.

Brainwashing propaganda is a much more accurate phrase.

 

[AccessBlaster]

Common sense tells you that if your country spends 4.5 trillion per year on healthcare, and your life span is number 27th in the world. Common sense is really not playing a large role in your program.
Keep on believing your common sense.

Brainwashing propaganda is a much more accurate phrase.

No matter how you slice it the public pays the freight on health care, I don't know why that's controversial.

 

[Thales750]

No matter how you slice it the public pays the freight on health care, I don't know why that's controversial.

Ours is the most expensive in the world. So there is no controversy. Our system is flawed. We let the money changers dictate our health care, and many citizens are taught to blame the government.

Where is the common sense in that?

 

[Thales750]

You wanna know if someone is brainwashed? If their responses are all unequivocable, then it is reasonable to predict that they are brainwashed and obsessed with it.

I said we need an immigration policy that works for everyone. Those most brainwashed among this group found every reason to tell me I'm stupid. I have no credibility. One even said multiple times that I believe in open borders. Brainwashed people are easy to spot, unless you are headed to Jonestown with them.

Another one was I said putting tariffs on steel and aluminum is completely backwards, wrong, stupid, and going to hurt the economy. The response I received was I don't like Trump and that I have TDS. And oh yeah, no credibility. Well anyone with half a brain can do a cursory search and limit it to financial news and you will see the the overwhelming position is that the ratio of job loss to job creation could be as much as 70 to 1. If your intent is to reinforce your already decided ways, just look it up on News Max.

I was talking about the China situation way back in the nineties when i owned a small manufacturing facility. We had no choice but to buy Taiwan or Chinese machine tools. We bought better tooling from Poland, but we could not afford German, Japanese or American except for some parts that had to be high tolerance. I was aware of the Chinese invasion of our markets for 30 years. Only it wasn't an invasion, It was the wealthiest Americans that engineered the entire coup. Now they own the news outlets you all get you opinions from. They own all of it, and the Libs get theirs from the same fountain.

My positions are clear, and in no way liberal, if you can't find some agreement with these two topics then maybe you need to find a way to get some critical thinking skills.

So many people (left and right) have given in to fear, and blame, based brainwashing

 

[Pat Hartman]

and many citizens are taught to blame the government.

They are the ones who make the laws that keep us fat, dumb , and drugged to oblivion. Why such a push to legalize marijuana and now hard drugs? People who are stoned don't ask questions. They just vote for the the people who provide the best freebees. These days, it would be the Democrats. They don't have to take the money do they? They could do what their constituents elected them to do.

 

[Thales750]

They are the ones who make the laws that keep us fat, dumb , and drugged to oblivion. Why such a push to legalize marijuana and now hard drugs? People who are stoned don't ask questions. They just vote for the the people who provide the best freebees. These days, it would be the Democrats. They don't have to take the money do they? They could do what their constituents elected them to do.

And there it goes. Complete dogma.