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

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (255475)	10/27/2022 8:29:20 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358594

Others here are being equally ignorant and dishonest on the other side of the political aisle. I don't know if you are aiming that at me, but I'm not claiming all of inflation is due to the increased minimum wages, which of course are only in selected States. But IMHO, you can't ignore the impact on housing. The problem for Biden is he should have started tapering things down as soon as he got in, rather than continuing on at full gallop with every stimulus strategy he could get through Congress. But the FED is the fundamental one who has created this mess for the last two decades, and they don't seem to learn.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (255475)	10/27/2022 8:53:18 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 358594

Connecting the dots, the entire world is dealing with inflation, so it has little to do with anything we are doing specifically, as ours is lower than most, so we are doing better than most.. So we are just sort of floating with the rest of the world and doing better than most with a strong dollar and good GDP growth! An manufacturing jobs are coming back to the US and unions on the rise. This portend a good future. Biden is doing a good job considering he has the GOP Millstone of ignorance and criminality hung around his neck. My point about the poor, is that they are not the problem. They are the victims of the rich's greed. We had this problem in the Gilded age, and TR addressed it, and again in 1932 and FDR subdued the greedy aristocracy who would keep their heel on the neck of the worker, and we have it now, but no TR's or FDR's have yet arisen. And they only exist in the Democratic party and we have a fare number of them. The GOP does not have even one!

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (255475)	10/27/2022 8:57:37 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 358594

>> BUT so did Trump who compounded the issue. Put two inflationary administrations together and you have the mess we have today. Respectfully, if you actually look at the numbers and history Trump was not “inflationary”, where inflationary is defined as printing money in excess of new goods and services produced. It may be helpful to review the inflation rates for the period in question. As you will recall, Trump was ejected from office in Jan 2021. The reason there was no inflation during Trump's term is that new goods and services continued to be produced for most of 2020, and it takes several months for inflation rate to follow the excessive money printing. For several months after Biden took office inflation remained low. Only after the effects of Biden's early blinders did it begin to seriously climb. Biden has to shoulder the lion's share of the blame because he hit door taking highly inflationary measures, he was warned about it, and blustered right ahead. Had he come in and heeded the warnings, perhaps there would be an argument to to be made there might be an argument that some was on Trump. Historically, this will be the Biden inflation. It didn’t have to happen.

To: Steve Lokness who wrote (255475)	10/27/2022 9:46:29 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 358594

Still worshiping Ronnie Raygun steve?... ouch Raygun, the instigator of the forever failed fantasy/lie of supply side economics, which all Rcons still worship which only blows up the debt/deficit and gives govt handouts to the wealthy The killer of union jobs... The killer of the The Fairness Doctrine which ushered in the likes of hate-mongers like Rush Limbaugh The instigator of the "Southern Strategy". A Rep party electoral strategy to increase political support among white voters in the South by appealing to racism. The instigator of conspiracy theories about "socialism". On a mission to destroy medicare and social security. And of course, Raygun, The war criminal >>> Reagan's crimes are many and started well before he was President when he and Bush committed treason and paid the Iranian's to not release the hostages in order to prevent the re-election of Jimmy Carter in 1980, not to mention his reign of stupidity as Governor of California. The hostages were released as promised as Reagan was sworn into office. Reagan then secretly sold chemical & biological weapons to Iraq and told CIA buddy Saddam Hussein to step up bombing of Iran while still selling weapons to Iran in a war that claimed an estimated one million victims. The criminal activities in the Mid East stretched around the world to Central America in the spectacle that came to be known as Iran-Contra. In Afghanistan, Reagan was busy funding Osama bin Laden and a terrorist army to displace the Russians. Once the Mujahideen had completed their task with American firepower and intelligence they were partially abandoned and became the Taliban and Al Qaeda. With no real replacement intended for the Russian backed secular government, the radical Muslims quickly took power. Only a bit later did the army without a war become the enemy so desperately needed by the US war industry to conceal the looting of hundreds of billions in taxpayers money. In Central America, Reagan-Bush ran a massive criminal operation that imported hundreds of tons of cocaine into the US and shipped arms illegally to the terrorist Contras that Reagan affectionately called "Freedom Fighters". Under direct US control, Reagan's 'Freedom Fighters' raped, tortured and murdered tens of thousands of innocent civilians in Nicaragua supposedly in an effort to bring down Nicaragua's first democratically elected government. The terrorists thugs were too cowardly to actually take on the Nicaraguan military so they just preyed upon civilians in remote areas. ...Reagan's blood-fest wasn't limited to Nicaragua, his puppet military dictators abducted, tortured, murdered and mutilated over 200,000 civilians in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in the name of 'democracy' and "fighting communism". Nor was the slaughter done only through the US controlled dictators. In operations that are still highly classified, US AC-130 gunships, crewed by US personnel, flew at night over mountainous areas with potential resistance forces and killed anything that gave off body-heat. The AC-130s used were highly sophisticated computerized killing machines that "incorporate side-firing weapons integrated with sophisticated sensor, navigation and fire control systems to provide surgical firepower or area saturation during extended loiter periods, at night and in adverse weather. The sensor suite consists of a television sensor, infrared sensor and radar." - US Air Force In 1999 the United Nations determined that the wholesale slaughter of Guatemalans, constituted "genocide." It was a genocide ordered and directed by the White House under Reagan. For their part in Iran-Contra, fourteen high level government officials were charged, yet few of them were convicted and received any real penalty. Bush pardoned six of the criminal conspirators. Some of those involved in the Iran-Contra crimes were quickly back in power under the little Bush regime and again under the moron Trump. Despite some environmental concessions to voters while Governor of California, Reagan's real views on the environment became clear during his Presidential campaign when he claimed that trees caused more air pollution than cars. During his criminal reign of terror he systematically dismantled environmental protection laws and rolled back decades of hard-won progress to protect the Earth and the health of its inhabitants. To help ensure the rape of the land he appointed lunatic James Watt as Secretary of the Interior who claimed "We don’t have to protect the environment, the Second Coming [of Christ] is at hand." It wasn't until Watt was trying to defend his decision to give away more than 1 billion tons of coal from federal lands in Wyoming that he was finally acknowledged for what he was. His defense for the coal giveaway was that he was immune to criticism because members of his coal-advisory panel included "a black ... a woman, two Jews, and a cripple." This idiotic comment got finally him fired in 1983. His appointee for the EPA was the environment molester Anne Gorsuch who tried her best to gut the hard-won Clean Air and Clean Water Acts. Gorsuch's Superfund Director, Rita Lavelle, was jailed for lying to Congress under oath about the corruption in her division. Gorsuch was fired in 1983 when documents exposed by Congress revealed the corruption and crimes committed by the EPA under her direction.