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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPresident blamed his staff for not telling him $1 TRILLION on infrastructure would drain the treasur
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underpants
(182,938 posts)Everyone around you is either scared or manipulating you.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Dems have proposed infrastructure projects in the past, funded over years with tax increases on the ultra-rich. Didn't happen due to the fact that this country is controlled by the 1%.
Generic Brad
(14,276 posts)Apparently his genius is on the same level as Wile E Coyote's.
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)Those of us who admire him, laugh at him and enjoy is pursuit ...............realize that he is much much smarter than Drumpf...Look at the incredible efforts and projects that he puts together to catch the road runner..Now that is true intelligence, far greater than the idiot who now sits in the White House
simguy225
(80 posts)was buying that junk from Acme. You have to give it to him- he had a goal.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,025 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)He can have infrastructure if he cuts back on the $$$ spent guarding him, his nude model wife and two residences, trips every weekend to Florida. He also has more "aides" than normal, paid for out of the treasury. Maybe HE should cut back a little? I would prefer he quit, go back to bankrupting small businesses and leave the rest of us alone.
meow2u3
(24,774 posts)Ligyron
(7,639 posts)I must be getting old...
meow2u3
(24,774 posts)Wile E. Coyote remains silent when he tries to catch the Road Runner.
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)Never saw him tangle with the bunny before this one.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)To Trump.
lame54
(35,328 posts)"because no one tells you anything, Mr. President."
tblue37
(65,490 posts)in anything but watching TV for references to himself and vengefully whining on Twitter when he is criticized.
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)Why?.....He hasn't got the slightest clue...not even a little..on how the budget is made up and spent..how it affects the treasury, deficit, interest rates, etc. Not the slightest clue..he defines these two words....
......stupid idiot........
BREMPRO
(2,331 posts)thousands of building projects, not know that you have to have revenue to pay for a massive infrastructure project somehow?? oh yeah, he's a dilettante phony businessman who when bankrupt 4 or 5 or 6 times... Even i could run a better government that this joker.
Tanuki
(14,923 posts)Easy answer, Easy D: Because you're stupid and incompetent, but that doesn't stop you from making catastrophically uninformed decisions on everything from healthcare to energy to the environment to foreign policy. Sadly, this revelation will not cause you to rethink your disastrous agenda, because you are incapable of self reflection and impaired in a critical area of cognition called "executive functions."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_functions
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)appalachiablue
(41,182 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,738 posts)mountain grammy
(26,656 posts)The Republicans will never make major investments in infrastructure. And Trump's big plan will be to sell off public roads and land at pennies on the dollar so corporations can start charging people to go for a walk in a park or drive on a road.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Twenty years ago you didn't pay to hike but congress starved the park and forest service so they had to come up with ways to pay for their agencies. I see it as more taxes. This is what is in store for water cos, roads, bridges and anything else they can charge you for.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)It all sounds good to conservative voters. They are lowering taxes (small print is that most of the tax relief goes to the top 1% in their circle of peers), and then hike fees, licenses, parking, access passes, tolls, etc. etc..or as you say they force those agencies to do it to survive with the explanation that those that use those services should be the ones that pay them. The ruse is that they hike everything. including essential services. ie.. one can't avoid a bridge to go to work for instance.
And then also sell off traditional park land, and bridges, roads to private interests, and those are then gone forever from public cost control. Its a one-way deal. Its no problem selling off public assets to private interests, but you know that their would be screams of "communism!" if they ever in future tried to take it back.
For someone who has not paid taxes for many, many years, he sure likes spending other people's money!!
The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)He is totally unprepared and ill-tempered to lead a nation. He and his like need to leave their offices and go home.
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)get the red out
(13,468 posts)Trump makes W look smart.
dalton99a
(81,635 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)... polls should be in the 30s again by summer or we're really screwed up nation
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)bring Dubya back to finish out trumps term.
Squinch
(51,025 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The republican draft-&-tax-dodger-in-chief is now dodging responsibility for being a dumb loser who does not do his homework, and who is not prepared to to his job for the citizens who write his paycheck with their hard-earned tax dollars.
As the 3-million-plus majority of decent, honest Americans agree, the republican family-values role model is an exceedingly poor example of dignity, honor and integrity.
MineralMan
(146,336 posts)They didn't tell him, because they're as clueless as he is. They don't want to run a real country. They want to run a fantasy world.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Like giving the fucking 1% another damn tax cut. You stupid fool!
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Dems have pointed this out many times. Rethugs wouldn't let the proposals get out of committees or voted it down in budgets.
We do NOT need a wall but we do need to repair bridges, roads, schools. The $Trillion needs to be spread over a few years and TAXES on the 1% MUST be increased.
It's a matter of HOW, not if.
Except for the fucking wall and lower taxes, I'm a bit on Trump's side on infrastructure than his advisors. We need more JOBS created. We need long-term spending on infrastructure projects. Dems have supported this, when done right. Remember, folks?
logosoco
(3,208 posts)so maybe he just figured all this work could be done like that.
Wounded Bear
(58,728 posts)is not conducive to having people tell you shit that you don't want to hear, even the true shit.
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)We are going to get it from Iraq....
Dick Cheney promised....
Hekate
(90,849 posts)Every so often I forget how much I hate the 21st century Republican Party. Then I awaken from my brief nap and remember they are rotten to the core, and that they have labored for 40 years to do this to themselves.
dae
(3,396 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)You are not generally constrained by facts. Why this time?
progressoid
(49,999 posts)KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Perhaps if he and his other rethug billionaires had been paying their fair share of taxes over the years and really invested in their own country we might have less of a deficit? oh that's right the con doesn't think..........
JHan
(10,173 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,302 posts)From an old "Blondie" cartoon -- portraying her as the stereotypical ditzy blonde, a caricature now monstrously mutated into 45
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Prepare for a typical republiCON economic disaster.
Ms. Toad
(34,113 posts)Docreed2003
(16,880 posts)Oh wait, that's right....that's a total fabrication on the part of the Don!0
yardwork
(61,712 posts)He thought he got to be King Midas. In fact, being president is probably similar to being treasurer of the most dysfunctional coop preschool imaginable.
HuskyOffset
(891 posts)...that Uncle Sam's dad would give him the $trillion, just like his dad gave him money when he needed it. I mean, that's how it works, right?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)meadowlander
(4,406 posts)"Can't we just borrow the rest from Russia?"
dchill
(38,556 posts)Wouldn't that be a major item on the so-called president's to-do list, anyway?
What's the big deal?
DippyDem
(659 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,385 posts)Basically, Cohn is the only person competent in economics that Trump has. He's nominally a Democrat, but is working to try and implement the Trump policies in a realistic fashion where that's possible. And sometimes he has had to say "it doesn't work that way". Anything that happens is going to be good from the Wall Street bankers' point of view, because they are the only ones in the SCROTUS regime who know what they're doing.
world wide wally
(21,756 posts)Vinca
(50,314 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)Nitram
(22,900 posts)Who knew?
Hekate
(90,849 posts)Just roll around in it and take whatever he wants for whatever he wants.
He thought being POTUS was akin to being Emperor, and that he could run things as he had run his business empire, which is built on bullshit interspersed with air and has failed repeatedly.
A constitutional government, be it democracy, republic, or monarchy -- is not run like either a household or a personal business.
Christ on a trailer hitch these people are stupid.
Well not Bannon. He a self-described Leninist intent on reducing the federal government to rubble -- he's just evil. And Cohn thinks he can mitigate the damage -- that's just delusional.
The Mad King needs to be returned to his Golden Tower.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)I can't tell if I am beside myself or just plum scared shitless.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)Like... on the wall?
Adopt-A-Wall?
"This part of the wall maintained courtesy of Chik-Fil-A"
"This part of the wall maintained courtesy of Papa John's"
"This part of the wall maintained courtesy of your local chapter of the Klu Klux Klan"
I... I... my brain hurts.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)on the daily health of their companies. Simple things that indicate there may be a problem, for example, like how much money is in the bank account this morning, and how does that compare to 14 days ago? (Is anyone removing large amounts of cash that I should know about? If I had to act quickly to an emergency, what is my ready cash limit?) Obama and Biden always knew the financial status of the Federal Government. #45 is incompetent.
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)It pissed me off at no end How our Laborers President Sullivan, Kissed the Cons Ring & tried to legitimize this Fascist Piece of shit. Even bad mouthing Obama, about never getting a meeting,
I called Their offices & really let them have it!
I said as long as pukes hold the purse strings, no infrastructure spending will never happen that Sullivan & other labor leaders were used as cheap whores Like Mitt was used to legitimize a illegitimate piece of shit!