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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (135141)8/18/2017 11:49:42 PM
From: Elroy Jetson  Respond to of 217795
 
Maurice, I suspect you're the original "grumpy old man".

The funniest aspect of the Trump delusionists is they still think they're "winning", just like Charlie Sheen snorting lines of drugs with his skanky hooker pals.

By the way Trumpo has already chosen Steve Bannon's replacement. Guess who?




To: Maurice Winn who wrote (135141)8/19/2017 3:32:06 AM
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Atlanta Fed Estimates U.S. Third-Quarter GDP Growing at 4.0 percent…
Posted on August 19, 2017 by sundance
“It can’t be done”, they said. “There’s no way Trump can achieve 4.0% economic growth” they said. The Congressional Budget Office said economic projections were “improbable”, they said…. “Impossible”, they said.

Yeah, well, Donald Trump said: “ Impossible is just the starting point“. And now:

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. economy is on track to expand at a 4.0 percent annualized pace in the third quarter with inventory investment contributing 1.12 percentage points to growth, the Atlanta Federal Reserve’s GDP Now forecast model showed on Thursday. ( read more)



How is this possible? Well, if you’ve never had to wash your hands with Lava – it might seem impossible. For those who have washed with Lava, it’s simple common sense.

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, is the growth in value of all goods and services produced within the economy over a specified period of time. A key part of that equation is the sum total of exported goods minus imported goods is part of the measure. Only the stuff created in the U.S. increases the growth dynamic. If you import more, the GDP shrinks. It’s simple arithmetic.

If you grow exports, and maintain a constant on imported products, the net lowering of the trade deficit adds to GDP growth. It’s not a hard equation. If our economy is making more stuff, our economy is growing.

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (135141)8/22/2017 4:14:45 AM
From: TobagoJack  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217795
 
looks like the afghanistan war shall go on a bit longer and involve more folks, after 17 years, and
the indians are tee-ed up, along w/ the pakistanis
and of course iranians

am wondering what the russians would do

let us watch & brief