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Looks like his plan to pay for the wall is to stop money going south.
Works for me. It least put a fee on. Every Friday, any grocery store in Houston has line 20 people in line transferring money to south of the border. Those dollars are not buying stuff in the USA.
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Looks like his plan to pay for the wall is to stop money going south.
Works for me. It least put a fee on. Every Friday, any grocery store in Houston has line 20 people in line transferring money to south of the border. Those dollars are not buying stuff in the USA.
Sounds like just what we need, a POTUS who dictates what you can do with your money and where you can send it.
I earned everything I have, if I want to burn it all or send it to Antarctica, it's nobody else's damn business.
Looks like his plan to pay for the wall is to stop money going south.
Works for me. It least put a fee on. Every Friday, any grocery store in Houston has line 20 people in line transferring money to south of the border. Those dollars are not buying stuff in the USA.
agree 100%
trump is an outside the box thinker, and this country could use that kind of leadership.
oh, and burdell the key word in your post is EARNED, a lot of that money is NOT.
mexico's transfer payments now outstrip their tourism industry to give you an idea of how big a fail that is for America and American business.
Sounds like just what we need, a POTUS who dictates what you can do with your money and where you can send it.
I earned everything I have, if I want to burn it all or send it to Antarctica, it's nobody else's damn business.
I agree with you. I always find it amusing about how people are upset about the government dictating what they can or can't do (the old freedom thing), but they are just fine with the government dictating what someone else can or can't do.
Based on the way he has managed any conflict over his career, the 'theories' espoused in his books, and his personal attitudes and behavior over a lifetime... he would be a disaster.
Edited do add: one of the yuuuuge things that his followers love about him is that he tells it like it is, says what they are thinking. No way 'president' is going to be any different than 'candidate' for him. That is a definite pipe dream, and someone expects that to happen if he is elected, and votes for him expecting that to happen is not living in reality.
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Reason: 'you see what you will get'
There is Campaigner Trump and there can be President Trump...and the two can be vastly different. We only have to look at Obama to see this paradox...Obama was a masterful campaigner, convincing the majority of this country that he would be The Messiah of 'Hope and Change'. As president, he not only fell short of executing, but may have even delivered the direct opposite.
We now have The Republican opposite...Campaigner Trump, whose campaign seems to be like nothing that this country has seen in our lifetime. The media, political pundits, party establishment, and scholars have predicted his demise, over and over again, just to watch him grow stronger...the direct opposite of how they treated Obama in his campaigns. Trump "shoots from the hip", says crazy things, changes his mind and has seemed to run a campaign that would have brought others down long ago. He truly is a 'Campaigning Enigma!'
So, if we are presented with the masterful campaigner (Obama) who turned out to be a divisive president...Who's to say that we are not witnessing the divisive campaigner (Trump) who may turn out to be a masterful president?
The decision will, again, be left to the majority.
I'd suspect him of having had a personality transplant.
He's been the same person in public for 30 years now, and that persona definitely does not have what it takes to be president.
I'd suspect him of having had a personality transplant.
He's been the same person in public for 30 years now, and that persona definitely does not have what it takes to be president.
I'd have to agree. I question two premises of the post by jfkIII:
1. Obama asserted to be a divisive president, when the "division" seems to be people who were not, are not, and will never be reconciled to his presidency. You're entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts: he has redeemed the US in the eyes of the world, and closed the gap between our values and our behavior in a positive way.
Trump does this too--in a negative way. He closed the gap between our values and ourselves in a negative way. These two show us all at our best, and at our worst.
2. It's not reasonable to project for years out and assume not just a Trump presidency, but a successful one at that. Too many variables. The one constant is Trump himself. About that, there doesn't seem to be much to say that Trump hasn't said already.
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