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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: zzpat who wrote (50374)1/2/2018 10:59:13 AM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 363983
 
<<<< a nation of fat, ignorant and lazy people.>>>>>

And that's why we have to let all the Mexicans in because we are too fat, ignorant and lazy to pick cabbages.



To: zzpat who wrote (50374)1/2/2018 11:13:57 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 363983
 
What would you have these strong backed active girls/boys do for a living?

As I was writing that, I was picturing him fighting fires in California.

But what you mention is a problem beyond the signaling problem. Sending him to college exacerbates the signaling problem without making a dent in the serious problem you bring up. It's a terrible misallocation of resources.



To: zzpat who wrote (50374)1/2/2018 11:15:51 AM
From: neolib  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 363983
 
I get three Farm magazines, and while Farmers as a group are strongly Republican, almost every issue has some article or news lamenting the trade environment that Trump has created. Even the WSJ periodically has articles about that.

Farms need free trade and we have someone in the WH who doesn't know anything about free trade or farming