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2016-08-11 Home Front: Politix

Carl Icahn: "Extremely Important For Country To See Trump Win,"

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-08-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

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"I still question the pundits that said, 'Oh, it's great, we're a service economy,'" Icahn said. "What does it do? What does that mean? We sit around and just text each other. What do we produce?"

This guy gets it.

Unfortunately, the fix for our problem requires the disruption of at least 50-75% of public sector rice bowls, plus a much higher level of volatility in financial markets. Those two sectors alone will fight and spend to get HRC elected with every ounce of energy and every penny they have.

Some of the higher-ups in those groups know damn well that we are headed towards collapse because half or more of the people want more pay, health care, and government (especially regulations) than they are producing the wealth and value to justify.

But they are hoping they can delay the inevitable, if only for a few years, or months or even weeks.

Posted by no mo uro 2016-08-11 05:59|| 2016-08-11 05:59|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not going to get into personal thing about her.

And why not share?
How can character demonstrated by behavior NOT be a critical decision factor for the American voter?

Posted by Skidmark 2016-08-11 06:54|| 2016-08-11 06:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Trump's economic speech was good. It got buried by his stupidity going off script about the Second Amendment.

Someone needs to keep that rambling idiot on the teleprompter.

Now I know how Obama supporters felt.

Posted by Unusons Oppressor of the Hatfields5392 2016-08-11 12:17|| 2016-08-11 12:17|| Front Page Top

#4 I know it sounds trite, dividing people into two groups, but my take is that the world divides into the makers, the takers, and the fakers.

The makers are those who create useful stuff, or who help the makers make useful stuff. The takers are those who don't make stuff, but just take it. The Fakers are those who fake being useful without actually making anything, but act as middlemen to help the takers take from the makers without any consequences. (The takers and fakers wouldn't be able to take if the makers hadn't made the guns used to do the taking.)

Granted, there are takers that are that way by necessity, such as the young and their mothers who consume resources and stuff in the process of becoming makers, and the old and elderly who can no longer make stuff. The education crisis is about the young and their educators who took and took and took, and wound up not being able to transition to making. Those who formerly made, and who now take (in their old age) from a store that they themselves "made" by storing for the future, are NOT the causes of the pension crisis: It IS a crisis for the retired fakers however, and who propose, as a solution to their problem, that the fakers take from the makers to give to the fakers.

Ichan and Trump want to help the makers. Sounds good to me.

Posted by ptah 2016-08-11 12:55|| 2016-08-11 12:55|| Front Page Top

#5 It got buried by his stupidity going off script about the Second Amendment.

Can somebody remind when was the last time what anything a R candidate for potus said what wasn't presented by MSM as stupid and/or evil?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-08-11 14:11|| 2016-08-11 14:11|| Front Page Top

#6 When McCain was making the case for arming once a future ISIS.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-08-11 19:18|| 2016-08-11 19:18|| Front Page Top

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