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re: Recession next year?

Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:51 pm to
Posted by lsuwontonwrap
Member since Aug 2012
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Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:51 pm to
You're a "glass half empty" type, huh?
Posted by RummelTiger
Official TD Sauces Club Member
Member since Aug 2004
93992 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:52 pm to
You want to be tied up with socks?
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122525 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:52 pm to
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The problem is that neither side is willing to make cuts to their pet programs when in power. Military for the right and social programs for the left.



Another problem. Party before country...

And pet programs have always been an overlooked problem. Maybe someone smarter than me can answer this, but I wonder how much money is spent on these pet projects (pork)?

I am for doing what's best for the country as a whole and while I understand some of these pet projects help fund projects that are needed, but there are also some completely bullshite projects that money goes towards as well.
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:52 pm to
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Yeah and it would have collected a frick load more and the debt would not have exploded had trump not passed his idiotic tax cut plan that people like me will pay for in spades in a fee years.


Wrong. Without the tax cuts no new jobs, no new tax base. No new revenue for American companies and American made products.
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:53 pm to
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a big portion of my retirement is tied up in stocks.



You mean mutual funds.
Posted by RummelTiger
Official TD Sauces Club Member
Member since Aug 2004
93992 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:53 pm to
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Maybe someone smarter than me can answer this, but I wonder how much money is spent on these pet projects (pork)?


Yeah, it’s called Google. Do you use it, motherfricker?!
Posted by Tester1216
South Louisiana
Member since Jul 2018
22149 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:53 pm to
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You want to be tied up with socks?


Only if they’re argyle
This post was edited on 10/11/18 at 5:54 am
Posted by Tester1216
South Louisiana
Member since Jul 2018
22149 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:54 pm to
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This post was edited on 10/11/18 at 5:54 am
Posted by ItNeverRains
Offugeaux
Member since Oct 2007
28166 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:55 pm to
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told you MAGA baws this many moons ago. You cannot cut taxes without cutting spending and expect anything good, AT ALL, to happen.


You dumb bastard, this has nothing to do with taxes and everything to do with the Fed raising rates. Rates that were kept artificially low for almost a decade for another dumbass community organizing white guilt winner of the affirmative action sweepstakes shitty, broken policies based off a shitty dumbass ideology.

Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122525 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:55 pm to
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Yeah, it’s called Google


Never heard of it..

Just joking Rummel, thanks for the suggestion.
Posted by Tiger n Miami AU83
Miami
Member since Oct 2007
45656 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:56 pm to
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Without the tax cuts no new jobs


Wtf? You do realize the trajectory of the pace of new jobs added to the economy did not change at all with the tax cuts, right? You do realize job growth under trump is slower than under Obama? You do realize the vast majority of tax savings went toward stock buybacks and very little if any went toward job creation, correct?
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122525 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:56 pm to
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Whatever, I’m just here to hit on Rummy.



Rummy is fricking awesome.... Until awesome has a baby for him.
Posted by RummelTiger
Official TD Sauces Club Member
Member since Aug 2004
93992 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:57 pm to
Uhhhh...you know awesome?
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53816 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:58 pm to
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And pet programs have always been an overlooked problem. Maybe someone smarter than me can answer this, but I wonder how much money is spent on these pet projects (pork)? 

The pork projects need to go but it's mostly SS, Medicare and military. We should phase in raising the eligibility age and slash all other spending across the board.

Those programs weren't created when people were expected to collect them for 20 years. It will never happen though. It would be too unpopular for whichever party voted for it.
Posted by tgrbaitn08
Member since Dec 2007
148031 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 7:58 pm to
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You do realize the trajectory of the pace of new jobs added to the economy did not change at all with the tax cuts, right? You do realize job growth under trump is slower than under Obama? You do realize the vast majority of tax savings went toward stock buybacks and very little if any went toward job creation, correct?




Do you realize you’re an idiot and you’re completely wrong?
Posted by Tiger n Miami AU83
Miami
Member since Oct 2007
45656 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 8:00 pm to
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Maybe someone smarter than me can answer this, but I wonder how much money is spent on these pet projects (pork)? 


Not nearly as much as in the 80s and 90s by a long shot.

Pork spending is bullshite. But really its a drop in the bucket these days. Entitlements and the military and interest on the debt are the problems.

No one is touching entitlements in either party. And trump and the Republicans are jacking military spending and the interest on the debt through the roof. Its a fricking disaster, but yay fricktarded lying conman Donald trump. He has played 30% of the country for idiots and keeps doing it.
Posted by Tiger n Miami AU83
Miami
Member since Oct 2007
45656 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 8:01 pm to
Sure lil fella.

I broke my rule about trying to talk sense to an idiot trump supporter who ignores reality in my last post, and I guess in this one too.

That is enough of my time wasted for tonight.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122525 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 8:02 pm to
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You do realize job growth under trump is slower than under Obama?


You just hit a nerve. The only truth this board knows is that Obama was the worst president ever and that Trump will end up being the best president this country has ever seen.
Posted by Martini
Near Athens
Member since Mar 2005
49696 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 8:03 pm to
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And bam, in less than 1 year since he signed them, we have gone from 400b in deficits to over 1 trillion for the foreseeable future. Which is basically until the Dems get back in control and get the deficit back down again.



If you think the Democratic Party is going to reduce the deficit you are hiding your own fricking Easter eggs.
Posted by OweO
Plaquemine, La
Member since Sep 2009
122525 posts
Posted on 10/10/18 at 8:03 pm to
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Uhhhh...you know awesome?


Through a fake friend.
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