IOW, you are a principled, diehard free trader until the free traders f up so bad they need government assistance to maintain their country club lifestyle.
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No. It isn’t. Any leader understands what FEMA should be doing at the moment and at least provide words of what they are assessing and what they are currently assisting state/local agencies with response. Harris doesn’t have a handle on any facts.
You literally have no idea what was happening behind closed doors. He assigned Mike Pence a load of responsibility. Most other world leaders made the same type of decisions as Trump did. It was poorly handle worldwide.
You need something to justify your vote against your own self interest. Congrats!
You may now carry on complaining about our open southern border causing problems in your town.
Is this how political debate works? Give opinions then demand facts to disprove them? I’m not arguing with your opinions, just asking…
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Free trade had absolutely nothing to do with the financial crisis in 2008.
Mortgages were being originated by mortgage brokers who had no stake in the quality of the loans. I knew someone who worked in the industry and he told me incomes were not being verified and loans were given to people who could not afford them. The brokers didn't care since they would not be on the hook if the loans defaulted.
The loans were then sold to investment banks who deconstructed the loans and repackaged them into mortgage backed securities. These mortgage bonds were held by institutional investors including large financial institutions.
Of course, everything came crashing down when the housing market went bust. The Fed bought over a trillion dollars of these securities to prevent everything from going up in flames. The reason Lehmen Brothers went under was due to having a large portfolio of these securities and being highly leveraged.
If the Federal Government did not bail out certain financial institutions the entire banking system would have collapsed which would have cost much more than the 500 billion in bailouts.
There was a great deal of moral hazard going on but none of this had anything do with free trade.
The only other big bailout I can think of was GM. The cause of this was an undesirable portfolio of vehicles and high fixed costs that could not be reduced significantly. Now I suppose one could argue that if free trade did not exist then people would have been forced to buy vehicles they did not want. FYI, the bailout of GM only cost $11 billion which was peanuts.
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I did think Trump messed up. I was pretty irritated about Covid and the shut down. He certainly allowed unelected officials to heavily influence policy. As a person who did not vote for Trump in 2016, I did so in 2020, even with that irritation. Unlike JeffT, I knew exactly what was going to happen with the Biden Admin. Rilla can complain all he wants about the southern border. He is aiding the opposition. When Kamala wins and he's still here complaining about illegal alien gang members and anti-semitism, I will continue to remind him he chose not to do anything about it other than complain about the wrong person. Trump is 78 years old and not hiding in a basement. Comparing him to Basement Joe and complaining he is a shell of his former self is beta crap listening to Lincoln Project morons and leftist media. Is he getting old? Yes. Is he older than a candidate I would have wanted? Yes. Are his mental and physical faculties comparable to Biden's in 2020? Not even close. 4 more years of Biden policy or should I say the puppeteers of Biden/Harris will ensure the continued destruction of the US, it's citizens and its culture, let alone its government institutions. I will take William Barr's choice and opinion, the opinion of one who has seen Trump up close and personal and has also seen the Democrats up close and personal, far and above any crying whining unRepublicans posting in this thread.
This would not even be a question if the Republicans did not nominate Trump. If Trump loses, I believe the Republican party will be much less Trumpian in 4 years.
I am glad you respect William Barr. He said the idea of significant voter fraud in the 2020 election was complete BS and that Biden won without a doubt.
Trade is why Wall Street gets bigger. Free trade allows multi-national US chartered companies to make much more profit by using cheap child labor in China, let alone the forced labor of Uighurs. There is nothing about Wall Street that is responsible.Then you add in the bailouts, it isn't any different than letting crooks out with no bail and not pressing charges just so they can commit more crimes. In fairness to Bush, he/Administration warned of the housing bubble and Congress did absolutely nothing. The government bailed out Chrysler for the 2nd time. Speaking as a current customer, Stellantis sucks. If Bush and DC elected officials wanted to do what was right, they could have figured out how to ward off bank runs without saving the likes of Goldman Sachs. Why does the government work for the wealthy, but not the people declaring bankruptcy because of overwhelming medical debt? Then you wonder why the little people don't believe Washington works for them and are made af.
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So Bill Barr understands that mail-in ballots are a real issue with fraud potential. We do know as soon as Trump was defeated he was a baby. Barr says right here he went off the rails. Now why would someone who knows Trump went off the rails vote for him? #1 The Democrats. #2 Trump can't run in 2028, so he can't be a post-election baby. #3 Note he supported Trump's policies. As an AG with Trump going off the rails, why would he go out of his way to prove election fraud existed? He wouldn't. No one has still explained in any credible way how basement Joe received 81 million votes and Trump increased his vote totals from 2016, but lost. Fraud cannot be proven, but it's clearly a statistical anomaly that raises a lot of questions and Bill Barr point blank says he stands by the assessment about mail-in ballots. Article is from 2022.
In regards to medical debt, the only solution I can see is to decouple medical insurance from employment. That would mean some sort of Medicare for all. However, you would have rationing of health care that would be an adjustment for all. The very wealthy could still bypass the system for better private care.
I understand that Barr will vote for him based on policy and the fact that if he loses he can't be as troublesome as when he was in office.
I guess it comes down to this: if you are on the right and a populist Trump's policies make the tradeoff worth it. I am center right and I actually prefer some of Kamala's policies to Trump's so it is tradeoff I am not willing to make.
All of these businesses employed people that worked their pay plans to the detriment of their company. When a company does does a poor job of directing and overseeing key employees, that is their fault. Not the US taxpayer. Free market.
Trump is a dummyhead.
Who cares that this administration opened the southern border creating chaos ?
Who cares that they satisfied the far left in the war on oil and caused a major spike in prices everywhere
Who cares that to solve the inflation crisis they spent absurd amounts of money in a bill that had the opposite affect
Who cares that they have promoted people to important positions based on a DEI order and that hasn't aged well
Who cares they weaponized the DOJ against their political opponents.
Who cares they plan on making legal voters out the newly imported illegals to further finish off the swing states into Blue
Who cares that the rest of the world is on fire right now with wars
Who cares that this administration opened the southern border creating chaos ?
Who cares that they satisfied the far left in the war on oil and caused a major spike in prices everywhere
Who cares that to solve the inflation crisis they spent absurd amounts of money in a bill that had the opposite affect
Who cares that they have promoted people to important positions based on a DEI order and that hasn't aged well
Who cares they weaponized the DOJ against their political opponents.
Who cares they plan on making legal voters out the newly imported illegals to further finish off the swing states into Blue
Who cares that the rest of the world is on fire right now with wars
