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re: Trump caps credit card interest at 10%

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 1/9/26 at 10:28 pm to Kjnstkmn

The wording is important. He's calling for 10%, not requiring it.

It's a political chess move.

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re: Trump directs cash rich Fannie/Freddie to buy $200B in mortgage bonds to drive down rates

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 1/8/26 at 8:30 pm to KosmoCramer

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Yeah we had the fed reserve do this for 10yrs. It got us into the mess we are in now.

Wasnt the issue the quality of the bonds (sub-prime) and not the act itself?

After the subprime crisis we had 15 years of historically low rates that climaxed with the stupid low COVID era rates due to the treasury market.

People got the golden handcuffs (low rates) and for the most part have chosen not to move because their debt service will increase dramatically with a new mortgage, even if they borrow the same amount as their existing principal.

Cheap money has consequences.

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re: POTUS: "All United State Defense Contractors, and the Defense Industry as a whole, BEWARE

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 1/7/26 at 9:42 pm to Ailsa

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Therefore, I will not permit Dividends or Stock Buybacks for Defense Companies until such time as these problems are rectified — Likewise, for Salaries and Executive Compensation. MILITARY EQUIPMENT IS NOT BEING MADE FAST ENOUGH! It must be built now with the Dividends, Stock Buybacks, and Over Compensation of Executives, rather than borrowing from Financial Institutions, or getting the money from your Government. Longer term, this is good for both Executives and Shareholders, because it will be GREAT for our Country! Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

I'm all for getting rid of the bloat in the MIC. I'm really curious what the contracts say and if they allow for the government to do this. Thinking back to TARP and PPP requirements, etc., when the banks got government money.

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re: POTUS: "All United State Defense Contractors, and the Defense Industry as a whole, BEWARE

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 1/7/26 at 9:41 pm to Ailsa

That X poster needs to check his math. It fell less than 1%. :lol:

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re: Look at Keith’s face! This is hilarious!

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 1/7/26 at 9:36 pm to Geekboy

He's been unhinged for 15 years or so. I got him to yell at me on Twitter when he was still on MSNBC. :lol:

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re: That ICE agent should sue Mayor Frey into oblivion.

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 1/7/26 at 9:35 pm to loogaroo

This is a great video and one of the main reasons I still come to the Poliboard.

When the SHTF, the real story will be here.

:cheers:

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re: EU officials warns the US: If you take Greenland, we will take all US bases in Europe

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 1/6/26 at 7:33 pm to DyeHardDylan

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We’re probably paying for those bases anyway.

This would crush local economies in western Germany.

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re: 12th Grade Girls Are Far Less Likely Than Boys To Say They Want To Get Married Someday

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 1/4/26 at 10:19 pm to NC_Tigah

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WTF are we doing?

Pop culture has been working on this for 20+ years.

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re: Rut Roh - The New Democrat Talking Point Is Out "Trump's Health".

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 1/2/26 at 2:08 pm to The Torch

This was on the front page of the WSJ today. I got a chuckle out of it. None of the “concerns” are red flags and certainly don’t come close to Biden.

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re: +1,000 people registered to vote from one address in Fulton Co., GA, and it’s a church

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 1/1/26 at 9:25 pm to Padme

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No doubt they will harvest Alzheimer’s patients in nursing homes votes. Congress should set some standards on crap like that, but of course they wouldn’t want to.

I worked the polls in 2024 and saw a voter escorted by someone who appeared to be a home health worker. The voter was unable to speak and had some serious social interaction issues and anxiety. The voter never spoke.

The voter was directed to go to the ballot box alone and the home health worker told them where to go after they were told by the other poll workers.

I remember wondering if this voter had the capacity to make their own decisions in the ballot box. I don’t know how to monitor this type of activity, but it was odd and still stands out as a gray area.

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re: Rand once again makes this board look silly

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 12/31/25 at 3:23 pm to 50_Tiger

Just think of all of the stuff we wouldn’t know if Rand weren’t in the Senate.

Glad he’s there.

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re: What would happen if the USD was displaced as the global reserve currency?

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 12/30/25 at 7:14 pm to Bass Tiger

If the US government got out of subsidizing agriculture, deregulated energy and employment law, we’d be completely self sufficient with our resources. That whole manifest destiny thing and all.

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re: Elon Musk tracked the money funding Ilhan Omar!!

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 12/30/25 at 7:10 pm to Ailsa

Isn’t this what they were supposed to be doing the whole time?

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re: New York City passes COPA Act-NGOs & Government get right of 1st refusal on 4+ unit homes

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 12/30/25 at 7:07 pm to MrLSU

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What is really awesome about this is the unintended consequences of such a proposal--what is the unintended consequence you ask? Well non-profits do not pay property taxes in New York City so they are taking those buildings off of the tax assessors' role and that money will need to be made up by increased property taxes on the others who pay taxes.

Kicking communism into overdrive. :rotflmao:

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re: Trump admin can share immigrants’ Medicaid data with ICE, judge rules

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 12/30/25 at 2:51 pm to trinidadtiger

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The disgusting thing, this is the model the dems wanted kept in place and one of the issues for the govt shutdown. If you dont allow us to steal we will just shut down the govt you are paying for.

Thanks for spelling it out a little further. :cheers:

I try to stay on top of the macro elements, but specifics of these programs elude me due to the time needed to research and to fully understand them, which I’m sure is by design. Coming full circle, it certainly paints a better macro picture when the micro details are understood. But unless someone is in the healthcare industry (specifically working with these programs), who has the time to research?

The federal government is so much bigger than originally intended.

Last night I was reading about Washington as the chief executive selecting a mint location and contractor as prescribed by Congress. For a split second, I thought, “Man, he was spending his time on that???” But then I thought about it more and thought, yes, the federal government shouldn’t have had too many demands that a POTUS wouldn’t have time to make that level of a decision.

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re: Trump admin can share immigrants’ Medicaid data with ICE, judge rules

Posted by TerryDawg03 on 12/30/25 at 10:32 am to Major Dutch Schaefer

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Undocumented immigrants are not eligible to enroll in federal Medicaid programs, but California and other blue states — Illinois, Colorado, New York, Washington, Oregon, Minnesota, as well as Washington, D.C. — allow some people to receive state-funded benefits through their Medicaid implementation programs regardless of immigration status.

Chhabria’s order is narrowly tailored to six categories of “basic” personal information: citizenship, immigration status, address, phone number, date of birth and Medicaid ID.

Interesting. I hope these aren’t federal dollars being used.

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