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EarlG

(21,826 posts)
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:09 PM Mar 2019

Pic Of The Moment: So... Anybody Surprised By This?



Trump promised to shrink the trade deficit. Instead it exploded.

Trump Economic Plan



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Pic Of The Moment: So... Anybody Surprised By This? (Original Post) EarlG Mar 2019 OP
K & R & bookmarked! SunSeeker Mar 2019 #1
Not surprised one little bit! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2019 #2
And yesterday........... MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #3
Well PatSeg Mar 2019 #6
LOL. CrispyQ Mar 2019 #19
Obviously he failed Basic Chart Reading 101 at Wharton. n/t dixiegrrrrl Mar 2019 #17
But we'll never know..... MyOwnPeace Mar 2019 #18
Just another example of trump using bait and switch tactics duforsure Mar 2019 #4
His responses? Via Twitter, of course Fritz Walter Mar 2019 #5
Trump promised to zero out the national debt in eight years too........ Bengus81 Mar 2019 #7
The same thing happened under Raygun sandensea Mar 2019 #8
K&R Gothmog Mar 2019 #9
Putin is Pleased Martin Eden Mar 2019 #10
No, this is intentional Loge23 Mar 2019 #11
Sad but true. n/t Victor_c3 Mar 2019 #13
If you're quick to take credit for the successes, you gotta take the bad too n/t Victor_c3 Mar 2019 #12
STILL surprised that even one person fell for it! FiveGoodMen Mar 2019 #14
Reducing imports is not the answer TexasBushwhacker Mar 2019 #15
Nope orangecrush Mar 2019 #16

MyOwnPeace

(16,884 posts)
3. And yesterday...........
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:19 PM
Mar 2019

he said he has accomplished more in the past 2 years than any president ever.

That chart sure prove it!

PatSeg

(46,559 posts)
6. Well
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:26 PM
Mar 2019

From my perspective he actually has accomplished more than any president I can recall, but it is all negative. It is like a race to destroy our democracy as fast as possible and no one does it better than Trump.

CrispyQ

(36,112 posts)
19. LOL.
Thu Mar 7, 2019, 12:46 PM
Mar 2019

Only it's not really funny. Everyday I ask my husband how much longer are we going to let this man take a wreaking ball to everything good & decent in this country? Who the fuck is going to stop him? And if we manage to do that, who will put in place, new laws, to make sure this never happens again? Because clearly, too much has depended on rules & norms & we have been lucky that as bad as some of our previous presidents have been & as much as some of them may have pushed those rules & norms, we've never had one who just shit all over everything like the Con.

And we need more laws with Congress too. The dishonorable shenanigans that Mitch McConnell has played for the past decade plus, has got to stop. There must be some rules with consequences if you break them. Like a rule that when there is a vacancy on SCOTUS, the Senate must have a confirmation hearing. Or if the House passes a bill with X% approval, the Senate must bring it to a vote.

McConnell won't allow vote on election reform bill

When asked at a press conference why he wasn’t bringing the House electoral reform bill to the Senate floor, McConnell responded, with a grin: "Because I get to decide what we vote on.”

“What is the problem we’re trying to solve here?” McConnell asked. “People are flooding to the polls.”


Fuck you, McConnell. I hate him most of all.



duforsure

(11,880 posts)
4. Just another example of trump using bait and switch tactics
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:19 PM
Mar 2019

Saying one thing, knowing the opposite would happen. He knows what he did was going to do this , and now again is desperately trying to excuse it away. This IS what happens when a President is totally compromised by an enemy country's dictator, and does things intentionally to hurt our economy with.

Fritz Walter

(4,278 posts)
5. His responses? Via Twitter, of course
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:20 PM
Mar 2019

1. Fake News
2. Blame the Democratic control of the House of Representatives
3. Blame the Fed
4. Blame Canada, Mexico, the EU and -- his newest target for sanctions -- India

Then he'll fly down to Mar-a-Lago for another weekend of golf. And two scoops of ice cream for dessert.

Bengus81

(6,901 posts)
7. Trump promised to zero out the national debt in eight years too........
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:31 PM
Mar 2019

Instead he's added another $2 trillion and is on track to hit $3 trillion this summer.

sandensea

(21,460 posts)
8. The same thing happened under Raygun
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 12:47 PM
Mar 2019

Including services, trade was balanced until 1982 - and in fact sometimes produced sizable surpluses.

By 1986, we were running around $125 billion in current account deficits (i.e. merchandise trade plus services) - making us utterly dependent on foreign investment (largely money laundering).

The outright ownership of a U.S. president by the Putins and MBSs of the world was the inevitable result.

Loge23

(3,922 posts)
11. No, this is intentional
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 02:17 PM
Mar 2019

The R (Racist) party does this every time.
Their moron supporters look the other way while the so-called "fiscal experts" (remember the fraud Ryan?) run up the deficit.
They do this in order to ruin the Democrat's agenda when the inevitable happens and the R's get booted out of office.
The deficit won't matter one bit until a Dem is sworn in.

TexasBushwhacker

(20,010 posts)
15. Reducing imports is not the answer
Wed Mar 6, 2019, 04:37 PM
Mar 2019

Yes, we would like a better trade balance via other countries buying more American products. But there are American companies, lots of them, that depend on importing foreign goods and selling them here. Does Trump want to shut down every dollar store? How about Walmart? Are we going to force everyone to stop drinking imported wine and liquor?

One thing that's rarely mentioned is that a big reason that we buy some many imports and have such a hard time exporting American goods is the strength of the US Dollar compared to other currencies. If the dollar was weaker we could sell more goods overseas and that could mean more jobs, but our dollars would BUY LESS here. It is a delicate balance, and Trump doesn't do delicate.

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