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LamarkNewAge Member Posts: 2424 Joined: Member Rating: 1.2 |
quote: I think Donald Trump is simply a (closet) 9/11 Truther who really really hates the CIA. He came super close, in February 13 South Carolina debate, to mentioning the fact that the CIA's Inspector General said that 60 CIA agents (and the FBI) knew about Khalid Muhammad Abdallah al-Mihdhar and Nawaf Muhammed Salim al-Hazmi being in the USA for over a year (and their plans). The media choose to only make an issue of his fight with Jeb over Bush's failures, but Trump sis seem to express disgust at the "failure of the CIA to talk to the FBI" standard excuse. Trump knows that ISIS is CIA funded (he is good friends with Jesse Venture as he has been since WrestleMania 4 on March 27 1988) and he is surely aware of Scott Bennett tracing the ISIS funding to over 1000 CIA Swiss bank accounts. Trump might be sincere in his anti-free trade views, but he isn't sincerely anti-immigration. Obama has deported millions (more than every previous president combined) and Trump is just using rhetoric and language that will be meaningless if elected. He has already admitted that he will allow amnesty once the wall is built (truthfully the wall is almost there already and there is no practical difference). Trump is just using anti-pc tough guy rhetoric and it worked. He won the SEC primaries (that started on March 5). He won every southern state except Cruz' Texas. I can't believe he pulled it off! Trump is against this phony "China threat" b.s. (where the USA is supposed to need to "defend" Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, South Korea, and the Philippines against "big, bad China" ; thankfully India won't play this "we fear China", "we need an alliance" game), against this crappy alliance with an ever aggressive (Libya invading) NATO, against the (ever so exploitative)CIA and (corrupt, bigoted, tyranical Sunni)Gulf states going after the Druze and Alawite minorities in Syria, and against going after Iran (he supports the Iran deal!). Trump will tear up the warmonger Hillary Clinton if he can manage to fight off the GOP. He can't take her on now because he could offend (too many)GOP primary voters he needs to get to 1237. Trump made a big mistake for going after the anti-union (and other) policies of Scott Walker (who is loved by a legion of powerful right-wing talk radio hosts in Wisconsin), and he got eaten alive. He needs to be careful. Trump is simply a Pro-Life liberal (with libertarian anti-war views) IMO. I'll admit that I disagree with him on a lot of issues, but he is really awesome in my estimation.
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LamarkNewAge Member Posts: 2424 Joined: Member Rating: 1.2 |
quote: A New York Times reporter said that Trump, on March 1 (?), made him take an answer to an interview question about deportation "off the record" where Trump then said that the deportation "wasn't going to happen". Considering that (an already fully developed and relatively newly extreme) Trump had 3-4 years earlier criticized Romney's anti-immigration views as too harsh, this NYT revelation had been the iron-clad evidence conservatives were looking for to "expose" him. Right wing radio (as well as Trump's already suspicious opponents) went wild, but Rush Limbaugh cautiously said that he suspected Trump simply had the same response as he already had given to (hostile conservative interviewer)John Fund - "not until I build the wall". In open camera interviews (and debates) Trump simply said, "Not until I build the wall" when asked about the amnesty issue. Here is a Politico report.
quote: Trump knows that the angry elements of the populist/center-right consider immigration a problem. He wisely choose this as an issue to win votes from a somewhat energetic segment of the population (or at least a large part of the GOP voting population). But he knows that he can rant and rave about "the wall" (as if it isn't already there BECAUSE RIGHT WING RADIO SAYS IT ISN'T) while not doing anything practical to make life harder for immigrants. In a general election match-up, Trump will simply say to Hillary "I want immigration but I don't want them to have to risk their lives coming over. Let's have a nice big door (on a nice big wall) so they don't have to risk their lives as a price of entry and it can be done LEGALLY." As for the war issue, Trump can just sound some anti-PC sound bites like "what's wrong with torture" then argue against overseas agitation for a foreign policy. His anti-war views will be much more intense in a general election (not to mention undiluted with the sound bite stuff that he knows is so pleasing to conservative GOP primary voting ears). Trump is a master politician. He knows how to target a GOP primary like a marketing genius. (he does seem to be getting tired of the GOP primary though. He wants to take on Hillary real bad. He is only trailing her by 7 to 10% in polls. Not bad considering all the GOP voters that are telling pollsters they will be voting for Hillary NOW but will switch later on. He will also get 20% black support when all is said and done. Most younger black males I know support him over Hillary.) Here are the 2 latest national polls.
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LamarkNewAge Member Posts: 2424 Joined: Member Rating: 1.2 |
Rrhain.
Thanks for those revealing charts. Though, somebody correctly pointed out that in-migration is quite low. Real "Unemployment" (not reflected in the headline number) is very very high for poor and lower-income groups. More like 40% than 5%. Trumps stated immigration (not to mention trade) policies won't help to even dent the employment troubles (in the long term will actually make them much worse) but that is another story.
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LamarkNewAge Member Posts: 2424 Joined: Member Rating: 1.2 |
quote: He hates ISIS but remember that he will be groundbreaking as a successful primary (?) candidate with the (otherwise) anti-war views he has. He attempts to come across as something more hawkish, but that is background noise to muddy the GOP primary waters.
quote: I'm angry at him "buying" votes with his support of the $100 billion home-mortgage deduction but most voters are homeowners. Politicians are those who win elections. You have to appeal to the least common denominator.
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LamarkNewAge Member Posts: 2424 Joined: Member Rating: 1.2 |
I was looking at the labor fore participation rate of around 62% for those over age 16.
I was looking at the even worse numbers for large cities like Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, etc. "Poor people" have a hard time getting a job. I'm not sure how to classify people exactly. My 40% number can't be too far off. IMMIGRATION Immigration numbers might be different than what I have heard though. China has a purchasing power of 25% of the USA per capita income, and Mexico 33%, which is a good ways higher than decades past. I assumed immigration was stalling, but perhaps it isn't. The "undocumented" / "Illegal" population is down to around 11 million, and there have been headlines of "record deportations" , so perhaps I have gotten confused along the way. I'm not so sure now, but I still think the lower income folk from Mexico and China have a better chance getting a job in their native countries than here. Wages might be smaller perhaps (though the poorest segment there might not have all that lower purchasing power than here). There are many factors that cause immigration though. It's only a small number of a given country's population that leaves for the USA.
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