Trump going from Win to Win to Win

[P@triot]

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/---- Not Teddy - you gotta keep TR. Put Trump on the other side of Lincoln.

Seriously? TR is a joke. There are at least 25 Presidents exponentially more deserving to be on Mount Rushmore than that tool..

 

[P@triot]

Ronald Reagan should have gone up on Mount Rushmore decades ago. He is right up there with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

 

[P@triot]

Barely passing a bill in the House with 20 Republicans voting no with no guarantee to pass in the Senate is not a victory.

Congress may not be getting it done, but Trump's on the job every day!

Do you say that when he golfs even though he said he wouldn't have time to?

Him using golf as a tool to accomplish certain goals is genius!!
Trump is a man who knows how to make things happen.

Please. He's golfing whether he gets stuff done or not. It's not a tool to accomplish stuff. That's just spin from the White House to cover their tracks.

As a constitutional conservative, I can't stand when those on the right defend Trump's golfing after spending 8 years crying like little bitches about Obama's golfing.

Trump swore he would be working too hard to find time to golf. While Trump is doing a phenomenal job, there is no defending him on this one.

 

[RASTAMEN]

Ronald Reagan should have gone up on Mount Rushmore decades ago. He is right up there with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

How Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan Pulled off the Greatest Fraud Ever Perpetrated against the American People
by Allen W. Smith / April 14th, 2010

David Leonhardt’s article, “Yes, 47% of Households Owe No Taxes. Look Closer,” in Tuesday’s New York Times was excellent, but it just scratches the tip of the iceberg of how the rich have gained at the expense of the working class during the past three decades. When Ronald Reagan became President in 1981, he abandoned the traditional economic policies, under which the United States had operated for the previous 40 years, and launched the nation in a dangerous new direction. As Newsweek magazine put it in its March 2, 1981 issue, “Reagan thus gambled the future — his own, his party’s, and in some measure the nation’s—on a perilous and largely untested new course called supply-side economics.”

Essentially, Reagan switched the federal government from what he critically called, a “tax and spend” policy, to a “borrow and spend” policy, where the government continued its heavy spending, but used borrowed money instead of tax revenue to pay the bills. The results were catastrophic. Although it had taken the United States more than 200 years to accumulate the first $1 trillion of national debt, it took only five years under Reagan to add the second one trillion dollars to the debt. By the end of the 12 years of the Reagan-Bush administrations, the national debt had quadrupled to $4 trillion!

Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan pulled off one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated against the American people in the history of this great nation, and the underlying scam is still alive and well, more than a quarter century later. It represents the very foundation upon which the economic malpractice that led the nation to the great economic collapse of 2008 was built. Ronald Reagan was a cunning politician, but he didn’t know much about economics. Alan Greenspan was an economist, who had no reluctance to work with a politician on a plan that would further the cause of the right-wing goals that both he and President Reagan shared.

Both Reagan and Greenspan saw big government as an evil, and they saw big business as a virtue. They both had despised the progressive policies of Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson, and they wanted to turn back the pages of time. They came up with the perfect strategy for the redistribution of income and wealth from the working class to the rich. Since we don’t know the nature of the private conversations that took place between Reagan and Greenspan, as well as between their aides, we cannot be sure whether the events that would follow over the next three decades were specifically planned by Reagan and Greenspan, or whether they were just the natural result of the actions the two men played such a big role in. Either way, both Reagan and Greenspan are revered by most conservatives and hated by most liberals.

If Reagan had campaigned for the presidency by promising big tax cuts for the rich and pledging to make up for the lost revenue by imposing substantial tax increases on the working class, he would probably not have been elected. But that is exactly what Reagan did, with the help of Alan Greenspan. Consider the following sequence of events:

1) President Reagan appointed Greenspan as chairman of the 1982 National Commission on Social Security Reform (aka The Greenspan Commission)

2) The Greenspan Commission recommended a major payroll tax hike to generate Social Security surpluses for the next 30 years, in order to build up a large reserve in the trust fund that could be drawn down during the years after Social Security began running deficits.

3) The 1983 Social Security amendments enacted hefty increases in the payroll tax in order to generate large future surpluses.

4) As soon as the first surpluses began to role in, in 1985, the money was put into the general revenue fund and spent on other government programs. None of the surplus was saved or invested in anything. The surplus Social Security revenue, that was paid by working Americans, was used to replace the lost revenue from Reagan’s big income tax cuts that went primarily to the rich.

5) In 1987, President Reagan nominated Greenspan as the successor to Paul Volker as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. Greenspan continued as Fed Chairman until January 31, 2006. (One can only speculate on whether the coveted Fed Chairmanship represented, at least in part, a payback for Greenspan’s role in initiating the Social Security surplus revenue.)

6) In 1990, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, a member of the Greenspan Commission, and one of the strongest advocates the the 1983 legislation, became outraged when he learned that first Reagan, and then President George H.W. Bush used the surplus Social Security revenue to pay for other government programs instead of saving and investing it for the baby boomers. Moynihan locked horns with President Bush and proposed repealing the 1983 payroll tax hike. Moynihan’s view was that if the government could not keep its hands out of the Social Security cookie jar, the cookie jar should be emptied, so there would be no surplus Social Security revenue for the government to loot. President Bush would have no part of repealing the payroll tax hike. The “read-my-lips-no-new-taxes” president was not about to give up his huge slush fund.

The practice of using every dollar of the surplus Social Security revenue for general government spending continues to this day. The 1983 payroll tax hike has generated approximately $2.5 trillion in surplus Social Security revenue which is supposed to be in the trust fund for use in paying for the retirement benefits of the baby boomers. But the trust fund is empty! It contains no real assets. As a result, the government will soon be unable to pay full benefits without a tax increase. Money can be spent or it can be saved. But you can’t do both. Absolutely none of the $2.5 trillion was saved or invested in anything. I have been laboring for more than a decade to expose the great Social Security scam. For more information, please visit my website or contact me.

 

[P@triot]

Ronald Reagan should have gone up on Mount Rushmore decades ago. He is right up there with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

How Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan Pulled off the Greatest Fraud Ever Perpetrated against the American People
by Allen W. Smith / April 14th, 2010

I'm sorry...were you under the impression that any of us gives a shit about progressive propaganda?

History has firmly cemented Ronald Reagan as one of the three greatest presidents in U.S. history. Left-wing propaganda will not be able to rewrite history no matter how hard they try. Too much technology (video, audio, documentation, etc.) for the left to get away with that shit like they were almost able to with Thomas Jefferson.

 

[P@triot]

Trump has on-set early Dementia.

You have early on-set stupidity. It appears incurable in your case.

 

[RASTAMEN]

Trump has on-set early Dementia.

You have early on-set stupidity. It appears incurable in your case.

 

[RASTAMEN]

Ronald Reagan should have gone up on Mount Rushmore decades ago. He is right up there with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

How Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan Pulled off the Greatest Fraud Ever Perpetrated against the American People
by Allen W. Smith / April 14th, 2010

I'm sorry...were you under the impression that any of us gives a shit about progressive propaganda?

History has firmly cemented Ronald Reagan as one of the three greatest presidents in U.S. history. Left-wing propaganda will not be able to rewrite history no matter how hard they try. Too much technology (video, audio, documentation, etc.) for the left to get away with that shit like they were almost able to with Thomas Jefferson.

So you have admitted you are a Ray-gun and Trump "Cock-Sucker!!! Nothing to see here.....lets move on.

 

[Dr Grump]

Ronald Reagan should have gone up on Mount Rushmore decades ago. He is right up there with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

BS...Raygun will go down in history as a tool......He doesn't even deserve to be said in the same breath as Jefferson or Washington. I thought he would be the worst president in my lifetime. Then along came Dumbya who took that mantle. And just when you thought you couldn't scrape the bottle of the barrel along comes the orange gunk right at the bottom..trumplethinskin...

 

[Dr Grump]

Ronald Reagan should have gone up on Mount Rushmore decades ago. He is right up there with George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

How Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan Pulled off the Greatest Fraud Ever Perpetrated against the American People
by Allen W. Smith / April 14th, 2010

I'm sorry...were you under the impression that any of us gives a shit about progressive propaganda?

History has firmly cemented Ronald Reagan as one of the three greatest presidents in U.S. history. Left-wing propaganda will not be able to rewrite history no matter how hard they try. Too much technology (video, audio, documentation, etc.) for the left to get away with that shit like they were almost able to with Thomas Jefferson.

Total utter crap. Clinton was better. Obama was better. Jefferson, Washington, both Roosevelts and Lincoln were ALL better. Easily...

 

[RASTAMEN]

 

[RASTAMEN]

Trump has on-set early Dementia.

You have early on-set stupidity. It appears incurable in your case.

 

[P@triot]

So you have admitted you are a Ray-gun and Trump "Cock-Sucker!!! Nothing to see here.....lets move on.

I haven't advocated for President Trump to be on Mount Rushmore so I don't know what you're talking about. But history has firmly cemented Ronald Reagan as one of the three greatest Presidents in U.S. history.

 

[P@triot]

Total utter crap. Clinton was better. Obama was better. Jefferson, Washington, both Roosevelts and Lincoln were ALL better. Easily...

Snowflake...Obama surpassed Jimmy Carter as the worst President ever. Bill Clinton is a joke. He accomplished nothing and is remembered as a sex offender who committed perjury and embarrassed the Oval Office. He was even impeached you dimwit. This is why Australians should mind their own fucking business. They are too ignorant about other nations to be commenting on them.

History has firmly cemented George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ronald Reagan as "the Big 3". Beloved presidents.

 

[RASTAMEN]

So you have admitted you are a Ray-gun and Trump "Cock-Sucker!!! Nothing to see here.....lets move on.

I haven't advocated for President Trump to be on Mount Rushmore so I don't know what you're talking about. But history has firmly cemented Ronald Reagan as one of the three greatest Presidents in U.S. history.

History has also proven Ray Gun to be the Father of the American Debt and Deficit!!!!!! Reagan has a Sad Legacy!!!!
In 1980, Jimmy Caner's last year as president, the federal government spent a whopping 27.9% of "national income" (an obnoxious term for the private wealth produced by the American people). Reagan assaulted the free-spending Carter administration throughout his campaign in 1980. So how did the Reagan administration do? At the end of the first quarter of 1988, federal spending accounted for 28.7% of "national income."

Even Ford and Carter did a better job at cutting government. Their combined presidential terms account for an increase of 1.4%—compared with Reagan's 3%—in the government's take of "national income." And in nominal terms, there has been a 60% increase in government spending, thanks mainly to Reagan's requested budgets, which were only marginally smaller than the spending Congress voted.

The budget for the Department of Education, which candidate Reagan promised to abolish along with the Department of Energy, has more than doubled to $22.7 billion, Social Security spending has risen from $179 billion in 1981 to $269 billion in 1986. The price of farm programs went from $21.4 billion in 1981 to $51.4 billion in 1987, a 140% increase. And this doesn't count the recently signed $4 billion "drought-relief" measure. Medicare spending in 1981 was $43.5 billion; in 1987 it hit $80 billion. Federal entitlements cost $197.1 billion in 1981—and $477 billion in 1987.

Foreign aid has also risen, from $10 billion to $22 billion. Every year, Reagan asked for more foreign-aid money than the Congress was willing to spend. He also pushed through Congress an $8.4 billion increase in the U.S. "contribution" to the International Monetary Fund.

His budget cuts were actually cuts in projected spending, not absolute cuts in current spending levels. As Reagan put it, "We're not attempting to cut either spending or taxing levels below that which we presently have."

The result has been unprecedented government debt. Reagan has tripled the Gross Federal Debt, from $900 billion to $2.7 trillion. Ford and Carter in their combined terms could only double it. It took 31 years to accomplish the first postwar debt tripling, yet Reagan did it in eight.



Taxes

Before looking at taxation under Reagan, we must note that spending is the better indicator of the size of the government. If government cuts taxes, but not spending, it still gets the money from somewhere—either by borrowing or inflating. Either method robs the productive sector. Although spending is the better indicator, it is not complete, because it ignores other ways in which the government deprives producers of wealth. For instance, it conceals regulation and trade restricdons, which may require little government outlay.

If we look at government revenues as a percentage of "national income," we find little change from the Carter days, despite heralded "tax cuts." In 1980, revenues were 25.1% of "national income." In the first quarter of 1988 they were 24.7%.

Reagan came into office proposing to cut personal income and business taxes. The Economic Recovery Act was supposed to reduce revenues by $749 billion over five years. But this was quickly reversed with the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982. TEFRA—the largest tax increase in American history—was designed to raise $214.1 billion over five years, and took back many of the business tax savings enacted the year before. It also imposed withholding on interest and dividends, a provision later repealed over the president's objection.

But this was just the beginning. In 1982 Reagan supported a five-cent-per-gallon gasoline tax and higher taxes on the trucking industry. Total increase: $5.5 billion a year. In 1983, on the recommendation of his Spcial Security Commission— chaired by the man he later made Fed chairman, Alan Green-span—Reagan called for, and received, Social Security tax increases of $165 billion over seven years. A year later came Reagan's Deficit Reduction Act to raise $50 billion.

Even the heralded Tax Reform Act of 1986 is more deception than substance. It shifted $120 billion over five years from visible personal income taxes to hidden business taxes. It lowered the rates, but it also repealed or reduced many deductions.

According to the Treasury Department, the 1981 tax cut will have reduced revenues by $1.48 trillion by the end of fiscal 1989. But tax increases since 1982 will equal $1.5 trillion by 1989. The increases include not only the formal legislation mentioned above but also bracket creep (which ended in 1985 when tax indexing took effect—a provision of the 1981 act despite Reagan's objection), $30 billion in various tax changes, and other increases. Taxes by the end of the Reagan era will be as large a chunk of GNP as when he took office, if not larger: 19.4%, by ultra-conservative estimate of the Reagan Office of Management and Budget. The so-called historic average is 18.3%.



Regulation

For all the administration's talk about deregulation (for example, from the know-nothing commission which George Bush headed), it has done little. Much of what has been done began under Carter, such as abolition of the Civil Aeronautics Board and deregulation of oil prices. Carter created the momentum and Reagan halted it. In fact, the economic costs of regulation have grown under Reagan.

Some deregulation has occurred for banks, intercity buses, ocean shipping, and energy. But nothing good has happened in health, safety, and environmental regulations, which cost Americans billions of dollars, ignore property rights, and are based on the spurious notion of "freedom from risk." But the Reagan administration has supported state seat-belt and federal air-bag requirements. This concern for safety, however, was never extended to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) rules, which, by imposing fuel-efficiency standards, promote the production of small cars. The shift to small cars will cause an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 highway deaths over the next ten years.



Bureaucracy

By now it should not be surprising that the size of the bureaucracy has also grown. Today, there are 230,000 more civilian government workers than in 1980, bringing the total to almost three million. Reagan even promoted the creation of a new federal Department of Veterans' Affairs to join the Departments of Education and Energy, which his administration was supposed to eliminate.



Trade

The Reagan administration has been the most protectionist since Herbert Hoover's. The portion of imports under restriction has doubled since 1980. Quotas and so-called voluntary restraints have been imposed on a host of products, from computer chips to automobiles. Ominously, Reagan has adopted the bogus fair-trade/free-trade dichotomy, and he was eager to sign the big trade bill, which tilts the trade laws even further toward protectionism.



Results

Reagan's fans argue that he has changed the terms of public-policy debate, that no one today dares propose big spending programs. I contend that the alleged spending-shyness of politicians is not the result of an ideological sea-change, but rather of their constituents' fiscal fright brought about by $250 billion Reagan budget deficits. If the deficit ever shrinks, the demand for spending will resume.

This is the Reagan legacy. He was to be the man who would turn things around. But he didn't even try. As he so dramatically illustrated when he accepted the plant-closing bill, there has been no sea-change in thinking about the role of government.
The Sad Legacy of Ronald Reagan

 

[Dr Grump]

Total utter crap. Clinton was better. Obama was better. Jefferson, Washington, both Roosevelts and Lincoln were ALL better. Easily...

Snowflake...Obama surpassed Jimmy Carter as the worst President ever. Bill Clinton is a joke. He accomplished nothing and is remembered as a sex offender who committed perjury and embarrassed the Oval Office. He was even impeached you dimwit. This is why Australians should mind their own fucking business. They are too ignorant about other nations to be commenting on them.

History has firmly cemented George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ronald Reagan as "the Big 3". Beloved presidents.

Petal, history proves you wrong. List after list says otherwise from people and institutions much more qualified than you and I.. Look especially at the rankings list by lefties and cons. Raygun doesn't make the list in either. I could post a lot more lists. As per usual, you are being more delusional than normal.

Historical rankings of presidents of the United States - Wikipedia

 

[Toro]

Our beloved Pres, Trump is systematically dismantling the Democrat party on a daily basis.

And there is nothing the loony liberals can do to stop him. ..... ..

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

You are a Fake American if you support Trump.

You are a fake American if you don't support our wonderful and beloved Pres. Trump. .....

That's not how it works.

Mutiny on the Bounty

All you Antifas care about is what works for you. It's time for the rest of us to stand up and be counted in order to count you out.

 

[P@triot]

President Trump continues to have among the most successful first few months of any president in U.S. history...

The number of employed Americans hit a record high of 153,168,000 in June, according to latest numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

There were 245,000 more Americans who gained employment over the month and more individuals joined the labor force as well.

Here's the Astronomical Number of Americans Who Now Have Jobs

 

[P@triot]

President Trump continues to show what a a real leader looks like. What an effective leader looks like. A government "shutdown" would be the best thing to happen to the United States as we are $20 trillion in debt and would curb spending as much as possible (obviously stuff like defense, the post office, etc. would still be running and thus funded). But the unconstitutional nonsense would stop.

After being heavily criticized for not including funding for a border wall in a previous budget bill, President Trump is said to be willing to take drastic steps to force funding in the next budget. A Freedom Caucus congressman says Trump is willing to force a government shutdown if his border wall isn’t funded.

Of course, the left can't handle that. So if they choose the other option, then the wall gets funded and built - exactly as President Trump promised. So we either get border security or a reduction in government spending. We win either way (also as President Trump promised).

Trump to take drastic steps to force Democrats to fund border wall