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To: RetiredNow who wrote (1111825)	1/19/2019 3:44:53 PM
From: ryanaka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570307

Many conservatives like me still believe in a balanced budget, not in this neocon and liberal belief that deficits don't matter. "The federal budget deficit swelled to $779 billion in fiscal year 2018, the Treasury Department said on Monday, driven in large part by a sharp decline in corporate tax revenues after the Trump tax cuts took effect. The deficit rose nearly 17 percent year over year, from $666 billion in 2017. It is now on pace to top $1 trillion a year before the next presidential election, according to forecasts from the Trump administration and outside analysts. The deficit for the 2018 fiscal year, which ended Sept. 30, was the largest since 2012, when the economy and federal revenues were still recovering from the depths of the recession."

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1111825)	1/19/2019 3:46:39 PM
From: ryanaka	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570307

We believe that Christian morals still matter, not in atheism, nihilism, or the non-believe in anything that liberals engage in. Like what? Please be specific what morals the right wing Trump supporters have.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1111825)	1/19/2019 3:53:10 PM
From: ryanaka	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570307

We also believe in diversity and equal rights, but we don't believe in affirmative action. I believe in performance above all other things like gender or color of skin. If you are talking about the "affirmative action" in college admissions, you should know the legacy admissions and athletes are more than the so-called affirmative action related admissions. Also they play one minority group (Blacks and Hispanics) against another (Asian Americans) while leaving the white admissions largely alone. Although I am also in more favor of performance over color of skins, I also believe in the importance of social mobility. When the elite colleges admit socially disadvantaged students at full ride, I am all for it and affirmative action plays a large part in it.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1111825)	1/19/2019 3:56:37 PM
From: ryanaka	1 Recommendation Recommended By pocotrader Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570307

The reality is that 99% of conservatives hate Nazies, the KKK, and White Supremacists just as much as you do. But you support your leader who openly supports such groups at the worst, or tacitly embrace such groups (alt rights and even hire in the WH such racist bigots like S Miller and S Bannon). What Trump does or doesn't, define you as well, as his supporters.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1111825)	1/19/2019 4:02:19 PM
From: ryanaka	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570307

Calling us those pejoratives doesn't make it true, but it does mean you are using the playbook of Socialist and Communist Dictators throughout history. It IS true that Trump took such slogans as "America First" from the KKK marchers and "Make America Great Again" from Hitler's "Make Germany Great Again." We liberals always have supported the country, sacrificed for the country, more than the so-called conservatives. The conservatives were draft dodgers like Trump and Bush and populists like Trump. All American administrations in the past always put America first, they just did not use it as such divisive and hate mongering slogans as Trump did. Trump wanted to Manipulate America's Gullible Assholes = MAGA. This is far more accurate description of the racist hate mongering trump's slogan than you you think.

To: RetiredNow who wrote (1111825)	1/19/2019 4:17:07 PM
From: ryanaka	Read Replies (9) \| Respond to of 1570307

conservatives typically believe in Capitalism, not Socialism. That is such a simpleton dichotomy. Democrats believe in capitalism, not in socialism that you think. Democrats tend to believe in social democracy, for example the Northern Europe model. It is the rightwing fascists calling socialism as if the democrats are after this. Before the tRumptards open their ignorant mouth, they should first know the difference between "socialism" and "social democracy", With the runaway income inequality, the runaway Republican agenda of enriching the stinking super riches with no limit, you are an idiot if you don't see what is going on. When the Republicans continue to suffocate the social mobility in America, they are asking for violent social revolution like what you were talking about. The share of top 1% in wealth is only growing, every time a Republican takes the WH, they redistribute wealth to the super stinking riches. Reagan did it. Trump did it. I paid my maximum social security tax for over 35 years. I need it for my retirement. I need Medicare for retirement. We do not want the government to steal from the 99% and give the money to top 1% like Trump did and Reagan did. Look for the share of bottom 40% (Green color) in the wealth distribution chart: en.wikipedia.org