This is economic illiteracy as most Leftists exhibit. There is no economic model that suggests "austerity" leads to economic expansion. Nor are there any models indicating tax increases, or removing individual's earnings from the private sector grows an economy, or will cause a worldwide depression! Trump cut taxes and regulations on businesses and individuals and revenues to the treasury increased! The economy is expanding. We do not have a revenue problem with an economy growing in excess of 4% GDP generating in excess of 3 trillion dollars for the Government to spend! We have a spending problem. Again, this statement is simply Leftist economic propaganda and economic illiteracy.
I'm aware that austerity and tax cuts don't lead to expansion. The expansion part already happened. Increased spending with some tax cuts as well as QE was policy from 2008-2017. This was done to kickstart the economy. It's basic Keynsian economics. And when the economy starts to kick into gear, you are generally supposed to "pay it back" and increase taxes or start austerity measure to stop the economy from overheating and to lower the risk of running into another recession without some slack for the central bank to increase money supply to avoid a potentially deeper recession. Trump is not doing this. He is posting giant deficits while cutting taxes further. What happened to fiscal responsibility? That's one of the major policies I completely 100% agree with conservatives on. Budgets should have a purpose. The GOP budget signed into law at the end of last year just seems reckless to me.
Ben Bernanke (appointed by Bush, mind you) did an absolutely brilliant job preventing the world economy from going into a depression in the late 00s. My fear is that we are going to waste his work by not completing his Keynesian maneuvers now that the economy is recovered. (IMO, he's more to credit for the current economy than Obama or Trump, for that matter. We should have statues of the man.)
You talked about not being "intellectually lazy" but what is more lazy than suggesting someone believes in their inherent "superiority" over other races without having a specific case or analysis backing it up?
Um...I agree...?
Again you were asked for specific policies or legislation detailing Trump's racism. "Dog whistles" is an intellectually lazy Leftist pejorative against Trump with no solid basis in fact. What is a "dog whistle" anyway? An intellectially lazy statement. Nothing more.
It's not outright saying what the policy aims to accomplish. Trump declines entry of people from only majority Muslim countries. But it was claimed that it "wasn't a Muslim ban." The Chechnian Republic of Russia harbor more extremists than some of the countries on the ban, but they didn't make the list. Pretty odd, no? The reality is that Trump was playing to middle Americas fear of Muslims.
"Targeting" illegal ailiens who break our immigration law is not racist. It is enforcing our law. Canadiens or Europeans who overstay their Visas are not here breaking immigration laws, they are simply not fully in compliance with their legal status. There is no Muslim "ban". What race are Muslims? Most are allowed to immigrate provided they are not from countries devoted to international Terrorism. Trump's response to Charlottesville was to call out against all violent protesting. Again, simply an intellectually lazy Leftist "dog whistle" statement about Trump.
A white nationalist ran over a person protesting white nationalism. The false equivalency of saying that there were bad actors on both sides was a dog whistle. Muslim isn't implicitly a race, but to deny that people of Arabic decent don't face mistrust from a large portion of the country is putting your head in the sand.
You were asked to explain what someone Black would be upset about regarding Trump or his economic policies? How are they hurting you? I understand you may not be Black, but answering the question by saying you are a Pharmacist therefore you are doing OK is irrelevant to the question!
Specific to them being black, like I said, there is no law that has been passed targeting blacks, so I'm not sure what you are going on about or why this is relevent.
I am Black. I know many other Black people who are thrilled to be gainfully employed now and making decent money. There is nothing in Trump's economic policies preventing them from enjoying the full benefits of an expanding economy, nor is Trump preventing them from doing so.
I agree with this. Trump has had no policies that prevent certain races of people from having economic success. For the 4th time.
Once again, it was a simply intellectually lazy answer to a very straightforward question as to what issues if any Blacks have with Trump if their support for him is only @ 3%.
I'm not black, I have no idea. Perhaps we should ask the 97% of those that dislike Trump why they dislike them. But the polls have been clear that they do not like the man for whatever reason. It may be economic, social, religious, they are just straight-ticket Democrat level-pullers, maybe they just don't like him...but how should I know? It's not my place to speak for those people. And the reasons they dislike them are irrelevant. This is a non-sequitur and you are just trying to deflect from the original point that I was trying to make...which is that the 36% number was likely an outlier. Which it is looking to be true as more data and polls are released.
Why you can't honestly answer that, and used the opportunity in answering the way you did by dishonestly presenting yourself as a non Leftist intellectual is both amusing and deceitful.
I've been pretty straightforward. You just don't seem to understand what a poll measures from what I can tell. And just because I don't suck on Trump's pole like all the mindless conservatives doesn't mean I'm automatically leftist/liberal/whatever. For example, I think Obamacare is a piece of crap gift to Big Pharma and insurance companies. A bandaid of a solution over a gaping wound. Does that automatically make me a conservative? No. Believe me, I think all of you are idiots for an assortment of varying reasons. Right now the conservatives are bigger idiots, but that's mostly because they happen to be the ones in charge. Governance by ideology rather than pragmatism is one of the major fallacies of the false left-right dichotomy the country has found itself stuck in and it isn't the sin of only one of the major parties.
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