President Trump transmitted a message to congress, warning them not to cut Social Security and Medicare {Direct Rumble Link}. Many politicians and pundits will look at Trump’s position from the perspective of it being good to campaign for older voters, but that’s not the core of his reasoning.
In 2016 CTH was the first place to evaluate the totality of President Trump’s economic policies; specifically, as those policies related to the entitlement programs around Social Security and Medicare. We outlined the approach Trump was putting forth and the way he was approaching the issue. In the years that followed, he was right. He was creating a U.S. economy that could sustain all of the elements the traditional political class were calling “unsustainable.”
Before getting to the details, here’s his video message and policy as delivered yesterday. WATCH:
Fortunately, we do not have to guess if President Trump is correct. We have his actual economic policy results to look at and see how the expansion of the economy was creating the type of growth that would sustain Social Security and Medicare. This was/is MAGAnomics at work.
♦ On Social Security – Unlike many other 2016 Republican candidates, Donald Trump did NOT call for rapid or wholesale changes to the current Social Security program; and there’s a very good reason why he was the only candidate who did not propose wholesale changes.
With the single caveat of “high income retirees” (over $250k annually), which previously Trump said he was open to negotiating on, President Trump does not consider these programs as “entitlements”. The American people pay into them, and the federal government has an obligation to fulfill the promises made upon collection.
To fully understand how Donald Trump views the solvency of Social Security, you must again understand his economic model and how it outlines growth.
The issue with Social Security, as viewed by Trump, is more of an issue with receipts and expenditures. If the aggregate U.S. economy is growing by a factor larger than the distribution needed to fulfill its entitlement obligations, then no wholesale change on expenditure is needed. The focus needs to be on continued and successful economic growth.
What you will find in all of Donald Trump’s positions, is a paradigm shift he necessarily understood must take place in order to accomplish the long-term goals for the U.S. citizen as it relates to “entitlements” or “structural benefits”.
All other candidates and politicians begin their policy proposals with a fundamentally divergent perception of the U.S. economy.
The customary political economy theory, carried by most politicians, positions them with an outlook of the U.S. economy based on “services”; a service-based economic model.
While this economic path has been created by decades old U.S. policy and is ultimately the only historical economic path now taught in school, President Trump initiated his economy policy with the intention to change the dynamic entirely, and that’s exactly what he did.
Because so many shifts -policy nudges- have taken place in the past several decades, few academics and even fewer MSM observers, were able to understand how to get off this path and chart a better course.
Donald Trump proposed less dependence on foreign companies for cheap goods, (the cornerstone of a service economy) and a return to a more balanced U.S. larger economic model where the manufacturing and production base can be re-established and competitive based on American entrepreneurship and innovation. This is the essence of MAGAnomics.
The key words in the prior statement are “dependence” and “balanced”. When a nation has an industrial manufacturing balance within the GDP there is far less dependence on the economic activity in global markets. In essence the U.S. can sustain itself, absorb global economic fluctuations and expand itself or contract itself depending on the free market.
When there is no balance, there is no longer a free market. The free market is sacrificed in favor of dependency, whether it’s foreign oil or foreign manufacturing, the dependency outcome is essentially the same. Without balance there is an inherent loss of economic independence, and a consequential increase in economic risk.
No other economy in the world innovates like the U.S.A. President Donald Trump saw/sees this as a key advantage across all industry – including manufacturing and technology.
The benefit of cheap overseas labor, which is considered a global market disadvantage for the U.S., is offset by utilizing innovation and energy independence. This was the core of the economic program that created so much immediate GDP growth in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
2017: […] “This policy will be successful in moving the U.S. economy away from low-growth secular stagnation towards significantly more buoyant performance. We would not be taken by surprise by a doubling of the growth rate of real GDP in the U.S. over the next two years, nor by a further significant move up of equity valuations and a material further appreciation of the dollar.” ~ David Folkerts-Landau, Chief Economist, Deutsche Bank
The third highest variable cost of goods beyond raw materials first, labor second, is energy. If the U.S. energy sector was unleashed -and fully developed- the manufacturing price of any given product would allow for global trade competition even with higher U.S. wage prices. This is why President Trump traveled to Saudi Arabia as his first foreign trip, followed closely by a trip to Asia. He was putting the basics of his U.S. economic policy into place.
Additionally, the U.S. has a key strategic advantage with raw manufacturing materials such as: iron ore, coal, steel, precious metals and vast mineral assets which are needed in most new modern era manufacturing. President Trump proposed we stopped selling these valuable national assets to countries we compete against – they belong to the American people; they should be used for the benefit of American citizens. Period. This was the central point of the Steel and Aluminum tariffs.
EXAMPLE: Prior to President Trump, China was buying and recycling our heavy (steel) and light (aluminum) metal products (for pennies on the original manufacturing dollar) and then using those metals to reproduce manufactured goods for sale back to the U.S.
As President, Donald Trump stopped that practice immediately, triggering a policy expectation that we do the manufacturing ourselves with the utilization of our own resources. Then he leveraged any sales of these raw materials in our international trade agreements.
When you combine FULL resource development (in a modern era) with the removal of over-burdensome regulatory and compliance systems, necessarily filled with enormous bureaucratic costs, Donald Trump began lowering the cost of production and the U.S. became globally competitive. In essence, Trump changed the economic paradigm, and we no longer were a dependent nation relying on a service driven economic model.
The cornerstone to the success of this economic turnaround was the keen capability of the U.S. worker to innovate on their own platforms. Americans, more than any country in the world, just know how to get things accomplished. Independence and self-sufficiency are part of the DNA of the larger American workforce.
In addition, as we saw in 2018 and 2019, an unquantifiable benefit came from investment, where the smart money play -to get increased return on investment- became putting capital INTO the U.S. economy, instead of purchasing foreign stocks.
With all of the above opportunities in mind, this is how President Trump put us on a pathway to rebuilding our national infrastructure.
The demand for labor increased, and as a consequence so too did the U.S. wage rate which was stagnant (or non-existent) for the past three decades.
As the wage rate increased, and as the economy expanded, the governmental dependency model was reshaped and simultaneously receipts to the U.S. treasury improved.
More money into the U.S Treasury and less dependence on welfare/social service programs have a combined exponential impact. You gain a dollar and have no need to spend a dollar – the saved sum is doubled. That was how the SSI and safety net programs were positioned under President Trump. Again, this is MAGAnomics.
When you elevate your America First economic thinking you begin to see that all of the “entitlements” or expenditures become more affordable with an economy that is fully functional.
As the GDP of the U.S. expands, so does our ability to meet the growing need of the retiring U.S. worker. We stop thinking about how to best divide a limited economic pie and begin thinking about how many more economic pies we can create. Simply put, we begin to….
…. Make America Great Again!
We know it works, because we have the results to cite.
It was the Fourth Quarter of 2019…..
Right before the pandemic would hit a few months later…. Despite two years of doomsayer predictions from Wall Street’s professional punditry, all of them saying Trump’s 2017 steel and aluminum tariffs on China, Canada and the EU would create massive inflation, it just wasn’t happening!
Overall year-over-year inflation was hovering around 1.7 percent [Table-A BLS]; yup, that was our inflation rate. The rate in the latter half of 2019 was firmed up with less month-over-month fluctuation, and the rate basically remained consistent. [See Below] The U.S. economy was on a smooth glide path, strong, stable and Main Street was growing with MAGAnomics at work.
A couple of important points. First, unleashing the energy sector to drive down overall costs to consumers and industry outputs was a key part of President Trump’s America-First MAGAnomic initiative. Lower energy prices help the worker economy, middle class and average American more than any other sector.
Which brings us to the second important point. Notice how food prices had very low year-over-year inflation, 0.5 percent. That is a combination of two key issues: low energy costs, and the fracturing of Big Ag hold on the farm production and the export dynamic:
(BLS) […] The index for food at home declined for the third month in a row, falling 0.2 percent. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs decreased 0.7 percent in August as the index for eggs fell 2.6 percent. The index for fruits and vegetables, which rose in July, fell 0.5 percent in August; the index for fresh fruits declined 1.4 percent, but the index for fresh vegetables rose 0.4 percent. The index for cereals and bakery products fell 0.3 percent in August after rising 0.3 percent in July. (link)
For the previous twenty years food prices had been increasingly controlled by Big Ag, and not by normal supply and demand. The commodity market became a ‘controlled market’. U.S. food outputs (farm production) was controlled and exported to keep the U.S. consumer paying optimal prices.
President Trump’s trade reset was disrupting this process. As farm products were less exported the cost of the food in our supermarket became reconnected to a ‘more normal’ supply and demand cycle. Food prices dropped and our pantry costs were lowered.
The Commerce Dept. then announced that retail sales climbed by 0.4 percent in August 2019, twice as high as the 0.2 percent analysts had predicted. The result highlighted retail sales strength of more than 4 percent year-over-year. These excellent results came on the heels of blowout data in July, when households boosted purchases of cars and clothing.
The better-than-expected number stemmed largely from a 1.8 percent jump in spending vehicles. Online sales, meanwhile, also continued to climb, rising 1.6 percent. That’s similar to July 2019, when Amazon held its two-day, blowout Prime Day sale. (link)
Despite the efforts to remove and impeach President Trump, it did not look like middle-class America was overly concerned about the noise coming from the pundits. Likely that’s because blue-collar wages were higher, Main Street inflation was lower, and overall consumer confidence was strong. Yes, MAGAnomics was working.
Additionally, remember all those MSM hours and newspaper column inches where the professional financial pundits were claiming Trump’s tariffs were going to cause massive increases in prices of consumer goods?
Well, exactly the opposite happened [BLS report] Import prices were continuing to drop:
This was a really interesting dynamic that no-one in the professional punditry would dare explain.
Donald Trump’s tariffs were targeted to specific sectors of imported products. [Steel, Aluminum, and a host of smaller sectors etc.] However, when the EU and China respond by devaluing their currency, that approach hit all products imported, not just the tariff goods.
Because the EU and China were driving up the value of the dollar, everything we were importing became cheaper. Not just imports from Europe and China, but actually imports from everywhere. All imports were entering the U.S. at substantially lower prices.
This meant when we imported products, we were also importing deflation.
This price result is exactly the opposite of what the economic experts and Wall Street pundits predicted back in 2017 and 2018 when they were pushing the rapid price increase narrative.
Because all the export dependent economies were reacting with such urgency to retain their access to the U.S. market, aggregate import prices were actually lower than they were when the Trump tariffs began:
[…] Prices for imports from China edged down 0.1 percent in August following decreases of 0.2 percent in both July and June. Import prices from China have not advanced on a monthly basis since ticking up 0.1 percent in May 2018. The price index for imports from China fell 1.6 percent for the year ended in August.
[…] Import prices from the European Union fell 0.2 percent in August and 0.3 percent over the past 12 months.
So yes, we know President Trump can save Social Security and Medicare by expanding the economy with his America First economic policy. We do not need to guess if it is possible or listen to pundits theorize about his approach being some random ‘catch phrase’ disconnected from reality. Yes folks, we have the receipts.
This was MAGAnomics at work, and this is entirely what created the middle-class MAGA coalition. No other Republican candidate has this economic policy in their outlook because all other candidates are purchased by the Wall Street multinationals.
America First MAGAnomics is unique to President Trump because he is the only one independent enough to implement them.
That’s just the reality of the situation.
MAGA for life.
- Donald Trump American Solutions Part I
- Donald Trump American Solutions Part II
- Donald Trump “America First” Conservative Solutions Part III
- Donald Trump “America First” Conservative Solutions Part IV
Author’s note as said in 2016: “If I absolutely did not believe this economic model was doable, I would never expand the concept and place advocacy upon it. I am an absolute believer that we can, as a nation, reignite a solid manufacturing base and generate an expanding middle class.” Yes, I bet on Trump, and he was right.
as seniors get hammered their legacy gets sliced up which effects the next generation also.
Wow. I’ve read this one twice…and plan to read it 2 more times. I hope to God that everyone sends this one to all of their congressional representatives.
I agree this is a great solution. It is a “common sense” solution, however, we all know that common sense isn’t so common anymore.
IMHO, nothing PDJT does or says about any issue will mean anything unless he addresses, and very soon, the covid clot-shot issue…DIRECTLY. From AmericanThinker…
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/01/how_the_vaccine_lies_will_play_out.html
OBJECTIVELY, which means putting ASIDE any emotional influence on your thought processes, make a straightforward Political calculation;
HOW many votes do you think PDJT GAINS by coming out against the Vax (that he wouldn’t get otherwise) vs HOW MANY VOTES HE LOSES, by taking such a stance?
If he doesn’t get in office, he can NOT “turn the ship around”; he can’t GOVERN, he can’t MAGA.
Those of us who are fully convinced the scamdemic WAS a scam, and the clotshot is poison, never the less MUST ask and answer this question, and think HARD about the ramifications.
The concensus verdict, in “the Court of public Opinion” IS shifting, every day. Far more “coverage”, despite the efforts of THEM, is drawing attention TO the scam, and the deaths.
But HOW MUCH? Do you REALLY think PDJT speaking honestly about the shot, will persuade anyone who currently believes in the shot, to reverse their position?
Do you really think there are THAT many MAGA voters, that are “single issue voters” that will NOT vote for PDJT, BECAUSE he refrains from speaking out about the clot shot?
If you can honestly answer that question, and still advocate for PDJT to speak out, you are politically naive, or allowing your emotions to override logic.
The public opinion IS shifting, but it ain’t there, yet.
An ancient King, beset by a populace IMPLORING him to “DO SOMETHING”, did.
He led his people down to the shore, raised his arms, and commanded the tide to go out; it DIDN’T.
Public Opinion IS the tide, and PDJT, or anyone else, CAN influence Public Opinion, but NOT dictate it.
Even the Deep State, with absolute control over MSM and Big Tech, is finding they do not ultimately have such control over Public Opinion.
Those who continue urging that PDJT speak out on the clot shot, are only showing their ignorance.
Tis better to keep your mouth closed, and be thought a fool, than to open it, and remove all doubt.
I agree DUTCHMAN; Do not wallow in your mistakes, but go forward with positive achievements.
semantics but he NEVER “pushed them”…..he RECOMMENDED them for the elderly and those with comorbidities AFTER he had earlier pointed out the actual treatment of Ivermectin and HCQ….notice the LYING Dimm/commies were all against the VAX when PDJT was POTUS but as soon as Slo Joe was installed they PUSHED for and MANDATED their use……THAT is where the blame lies……unless you like permanent lockdown because that is what they had in mind instead
research more thoroughly on this issue
Great, astute post, Dutchman. There’s no easy answer to this one. Best argument I’ve heard so far.
How do you make a horror NOT a horror?
President Trump WAS ‘TOLD’ BY HIS ‘EXPERT’ NIH, CDC a-holes that the vaccine was necessary and was a wonder-drug. He was LIED to, period. President Trump is not a virologist, MD or bio/gene technologist, he is only the Smartest Economic Mind the USA has EVER had and he is unburdened to owing to any wall street slime. If ‘We’ want our country to even begin to come back ‘We’ NEED President Trump back in the WH.
Could you prove it?…..How book smart are you about vaccines and viruses?
Could you absolutely prove it in a court of law that the clot shot was deadly?
Honest question – has anyone ever been convicted of a crime on a preponderance of circumstantial evidence?
I only know of these primary Standards of Proof:
Preponderance of the EvidenceBeyond a Reasonable DoubtClear and Convincing Evidence
Usually criminal trials require the most substantial proof and that is #2. Civil cases use # 1 and #3 based on the severity of the crime vs potential punishment.
However there is an increasing accumulation of correspondence between Pharma execs, gov’t. insiders and others that reveal they knew about the deadly effects of the vaccines. That can well tip the scales in plaintiffs’ favor.
Trump relied on the so-called experts. If you knew coming out of the gate that the VAXX was dangerous, you must be a psychic. So, why don’t you run. Dutchman is correct if you are a single issue voter you will NOT vote for Trump anyway. JMHO
you don’t know him personally
Yes, this is a “keeper”. MAGA
Read the article in AmericanThinker.
The underlieing premise has often been posted here;
That when ignoring and denying the truth of the clot shot no longer works, that THEY will “Blame Trump” and “Operation Warp Speed” saying its all “Trumps fault”.
So, the blogger suggests PDJT “come out NOW” to pre-empt them.
Blaming PDJT and “Warp speed” for the clot shot, will be like when they MISCHARACTERISED PDJT’s “Charelston remarks” to say he was praising White Supremacists, and like ALL of their false narratives, to date.
For “the other side”, they get short term gain, at the cost oflong term credibility.
I am NOT saying they won’t TRY it, or that it won’t INITIALLY gain some traction, mostly from those who don’t support PDJT anyway, but as the article predicts, they will only resort to this “ploy”, when they are FORCED to, and it simply will not “hold water” in the Court of Public Opinion.
The reasons are obvious; PDJT said to speed up the approval process, as much as can be SAFELY done.
He did NOT say to suppress info from the early resting that clearly indicated the clot shot was a killer, or to keep that info buried for 60 years, etc.
Their is the concept of “proof of criminal intent”; that its not JUST what someone DID (commit a crime) but that, in the WAY they did it, they clearly, by action and word, INTENDED to commit a crime.
There are all sorts of ACTIONS and words, by MANY, that demonstrate criminal intent, and none of those actions or words were from PDJT.
EVERY false narrative they have promulgated, since 2016 has eventually been exposed, and backfired on THEM; the bigger the lie, the bigger the backfire.
And COVID was their BIGGEST false narrative/con, and may well be the one that ultimately destroys them.
But trying to shift the blame to “Trump” won’t WORK, and will sound like the 6 y.o. caught with his hand in the cookie jar, saying the Dog ate the cookies, or Space aliens or big foot.
It won’t work.
I actually don’t think that the vaccine is where they are going to attack him, or where he is most vulnerable. He never mandated it after all. I believe they will target the “Two Weeks to Slow the Spread” shutdown and his decision to continue it once it expired. I think they are going to try and pin the resulting economic disruptions in the economy and education on him, and claim that all the ills that came from that are due to his failure to get control of the situation and his personnel. He needs to be ready for this attack and have a plan to counter it. Nikki Haley will be perfect for them to use for this, as South Carolina never shut down. Ditto for Tim Scott.
Trump was the biggest encourager of getting the economy open and up and running again. It was the Democrat governors that insisted on keeping the economy closed.
I dont know how successful that would be since the governors shut it down.
He was saying that the cure cannot be worse than the disease.
He was also demanding that the states open it back up.
NOT ONE of these gov’t assholios has tried to do ANYTHING to fix this, help people, expose the harm. Nada, nobody…
I’ll stand with DJT in the meantime.
Not discussed enough because it is too intangible for most to get their arms sufficiently around is why the US is unique and a global leader. The US culture fosters intellectual expression and innovation through protections of free speech, self-defense and individual property rights. It is creative innovation that produces the wealth that is given away when we permit China to steal it. We do not credit this element of our own society enough to recognize its value as Trump does. Wall Street, which is mostly sociopathic, uses a lower cost of labor model, a dollar measure, to favor China and utterly misses the value of intellectual creativity.
US Bill of Rights = Intellectual creativity basis of Innovation = Wealth
Julian Simon wrote “The Ultimate Resource” in 1982. This is the only full blown treatise to so clearly outline how freedom to innovate and profit from that innovation in US culture results in continuous cost of living deflation. This is the basis of US wealth creation that is not present anywhere else on the globe.
There is NO COUNTRY that thinks and innovates like us…NONE.
I spent 20 years working for an int’l company. Trust me … The reason that China has to steal from us is that their strict tradition of conformity stifles innovation.
It seems that this ability to innovate outside the box and outside the ‘norm’ may have been the same resource PDJT utilized as the underlying basis for his economic restoration through MAGA-nomics. When ‘accused’ of wishing to revert America to prior times politically, economically, or socially I freely admit that in many regards I am guilty as accused.
The term is “American Exceptionalism” and while it was once generally recognised, has been attacked and undermined, almost as much as Christianity, over the last 30-50 years.
And it is BOTH the blessings of natural resources (which mean that the U.S. actually can be fully self-sustaining, needing NOTHING from any other country) AND the blessings of Liberty, bequeathed to us by the Founders.
America IS Exceptional, it is the ONLY country that can sustain itself, and with a restoration of the battered Constitution, can stand apart FROM all other countries, and be “the shining city on a hill”.
Well said Duthman.
I hope we can survive Buraq’s illegitimate third term.
Trump is right on economics.
Sundance is right in his beliefs. His ‘Solutions’ articles are good.
Washington has no Plan to fix anything. Destruction is the goal. Destruction is Washington’s ‘solution’.
This is such a great article. It is so frustrating when I try to explain this to the squishy Republicans I know. They seem to be able to totally ignore what President Trump did for the American GDP and how quickly he did it. All the conservative pundits are currently preaching that this administration is going to successfully drive America into the poor house in order to accomplish their self-serving agenda. Yet, “All” we have to do is get President Trump reelected in 2024. We will be on the way to being back rocking and rolling by 2026. If we can actually get a national sales tax put in place and eliminate the IRS, it might be able to happen even sooner.
President Trump is the only conservative who can currently make this happen. ALL the other candidates, every one of them, have owners who will not allow this to happen. They stand against a strong, vibrant, self-sufficient America. Only President Trump has both the vision and the independence to make this happen AGAIN.
I don’t want the IRS to be eliminated. President Trump could get that cleaned up, too. Then the IRS could be tasked with figuring out why congress people make about $172,000 in their first year, but thereafter make over $1 million each year that they are in Congress. Can’t provide the cite — info was posted by another treeper and I tend to remember stuff that comprises my “elevator speeches” for family members:)
What makes America exceptional, is also what means we don’t NEED an IRS.
TARIFFS sustained our country for over 100 years.
Our abundant natural resources, along with the Constitution, and all it bestows, is HOW/WHY we were able to develop a large “middle class” which is why, in terms of “purchasing power” and therefore “markets”, the U.S. “punches above its weight class”.
EVERY manufacturer of goods, or provide of services WANTS to sell INTO that U.S. Market.
And NONE of them are selling products the U.S. MUST get FROM them, because we can’t produce it, ourselves.
Hence, TARIFFS charging “import duties” on all products/services sourced from outside the U.S.
This, along with downsizing the Federal buerocracy, and we wouldn’t NEED an IRS, or an “Income tax”.
The government needs SOME agency to focus on the revenue that provides the government its operating funds, regardless of from where or from whom those funds may come. The Internal Revenue Service doesn’t necessarily have to focus on personal income tax; they can well monitor and account for other forms of revenue.
I want it eliminated. Period. Other than the national security apparatus, the IRS is the biggest abrogator of privacy in this country.
And every time your salary goes up because inflation, you get taxed more. So every year you have less disposable income because your salary never keeps up with inflation but your tax bracket sure creeps.
Then let’s talk about the tens or hundreds of hours wasted by each person or business complying with a tax code that is not intelligible to even above average people, and that rewards Wall Street more than Main Street.
Still want to keep it?!
It would be a dream come true to see the IRS abolished.
Thieves.
We need SERIOUS campaign finance reform.
Donald Trump is a rarity, one of the very few truly intelligent people to run for high political office, normally sought by egotistical mediocrities. We were lucky to have him derail the obamunists for four years. The big question is whether that can happen again given the obamunists’ success in stealing elections.
My comments simply address basic math. The number to support one retiree has declined to slightly 2 plus working to 1 retiree. The 2 plus must pay in enough to support both Social Security and Medicare for the 1 retiree. Math just doesn’t calc. There are millions not in the workforce and no one has addressed this group. Lastly, the move to robotics and AI must be considered. What happens to the workers replaced by technology? What happens to the young who come into the working age every year? What happens to the millions who are not counted in the workforce presently? All three groups above will also drive down the demand for consumables.
In 1935, when the US Social Security System was created, in today’s dollars (2013) $1.00 now is equal to $21.66 so get that inflation under control, get back to America First, make America great again, get those kids off soy, off the mesmeric devices they call “smart” phones , re-instill personal responsibility for actions, will be a start in changing the calculus.
Here’s a handy website to calculate the worth of $1 USD to any previous year is a handy way to show that these politicians have done to the worth of our nation:
https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1935?amount=1
on the same page scroll down to the tables, and easy to see $100 in 1935 (when the system was started) is the equivalent to $2,166.40 today, the buying power is a huge difference, politicians back in 1935 had no idea how self-indulgent today’s politicians would become. Interesting tables on that page.
the illegal FED created in contravention of the US Constitution delegating power for fiscal and monetary policy to CONGRESS has as part of its charter the target of 2% /year of inflation to gradually devalue the currency….before Slo Joe a 1913 Dollar$ was valued at less than 3% of its value in 2020 Dollar$…..in other words, it took almost $40 to purchase the same amount of goods or services between the two eras where it had been a single $1
all I know is that as a self employed person, I paid way more in than
I will ever get out
The social security system as it exists today is not sustainable. Those who have paid into it deserve to get back what they paid into it, with interest. The government “borrowed” our money without our consent. We want it back.
There do need to be a few changes.
SS Disability- this needs to be redefined back to the truly disabled, and not those who can pay for a fancy diagnosis because they use it like welfare.
Medicaid- this also needs to be redefined back to the truly needy.
Both need to reject illegals, no matter if they work or not. Illegals and their family members should not be able to collect a single $ from SS/Medicare/Medicaid
I can’t wait! I’ve worked in manufacturing most of my life. The tide is finally turning. Americans will all pitch in to MAGA#!
I think this format where he uses a series of short videos to present his ideas on one or two topics is very good. He comes off as an elder statesman who is knowledgeable and caring. It also enables him to shape the debate on these topics for the upcoming campaign. I hope he keeps this up.
SS is a Ponzi scheme that was never meant to be a retirement fund. I think at some point it should be eliminated, but grandfathered in to those who paid into it.
“Socialism works until you run out of other people’s money”
– Thatcher
Explains SS in a nutshell.
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Right on the mark Sundance.
Thank You Sundance!
These economic reviews remind us that Donald J. Trump is the only proven & trustworthy leader of the MAGA movement, thereby the only proven & trustworthy MAGA candidate for President of the United States 2024.
Trump is our Battle Axe Billionaire who can defeat the deep state Marxists …with our financial and shoulder-to-shoulder support!
Like that, Battle Axe Billionaire!!!
Talking about SS or Medicare is bad politics. There is no political benefit to try and “fix” them before a crisis happens. The Dems have a plan and it involves adding 60 million new low-skill workers, but they don’t discuss it, because it is BAD politics.
Exactly. The better option is to let d/prog fix SS via changes. Meanwhile r can work to let an improved broadened, growing economy with higher numbers employed earning higher wages sustain the system short and intermediate term.
The d/prog and their media allies will always accuse any r reform effort as throwing grandma off a cliff. Meanwhile the d/prog expect and need the r party to be the adult on this third rail to save the system.
The r should refuse to do that anymore. Not until they have a large legislative majority in both houses of Congress and hold the Presidency. Even then they should spend political capital on other issues; border security, tax policy, trade policy, environmental policy, regulatory reform.
Once those objectives are accomplished and a r President has jammed a couple of SCOTUS nominees onto the bench then we can work to fix Social Security.
We can only get it done from a position of unassailable strength, the combination of forces arrayed against meaningful reform is too much.
I am all for Trump and his economic policies but there have to be changes in SS (and all government programs) that have gone from 13 workers supporting 1 retiree to 2 or 3 workers supporting 1 retiree over time.
SS was sustainable as a transfer system only as long as that ratio was high. It should have been set up with collection of receipts and investment for each worker’s use as a pensioner 15 or 20 years later, but that would not have gotten FDR voted right away back in the 1930s. So it was made a transfer system without benefit of compound interest over time. In that scenario the system would have been demography proof.
I agree with the above detailed economic analysis. But it’s not about the candidates running for election anymore. It’s not about who gets the most votes anymore. It’s about who is counting ballots, as in the thousands of fake ballots without signature verification, or all the ballot images deleted immediately after the election as in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, or millions of ballots lost in California. We know Donald Trump is the best candidate. He ran and would have won except for those counting the ballots……
Sundance needs to read this aloud at every Trump rally.
Also, get him on the Sunday TV shows Meet the Press, Face the Nation and This Week.
Dayum, Sundance, you must have 6 clones running around helping you stay on top of absolutely everything, while analyzing in detail and reporting articulately. The intellectual energy you burn would power a small city through a hard winter!
The only ‘Deal’ I ever made with the FedGov was to let them keep my SS witholding with the prospect of tapping it when I was dunwurkin. Well, here I am, on the SS retirement payroll, and wondering every day when they are going to screw this up like they have done everything else!
PDJT’s economy was a miracle for America. Energy, trade, every aspect was solid common sense good stuff, and we had a revolution in small businesses springing up all over the country. In the energy sector alone, tens of thousands of new, innovative small manufacturing firms were springing up everywhere, investing in new CNC and 3D printing equipment and CAD systems. Anyone with an idea could see it rendered to production within days. Pipelines, refineries, auto-motive specialities, even the firearms industries were quickened by the renaissance all across the land. The promise of the American Dream was realized in just four years of PDJT, it was like night and day, fueled by unlimited, independent energy.
The Covid madness of 2020 was equivalent to carpet bombing all of that with tactical nukes, all across the country. Over the course of spring and summer 2020, the entire renaissance was leveled, completely destroyed. I have heard estimates that over half of all small businesses vanished, followed by the firebombing of urban centers everywhere.
Now, here we are, getting ready to eat ze bugs, have nothing, and be miserable. A plague flood of deadly drugs and deadlier people is swamping the boat. Innocent American citizens are now raped, murdered, bankrupted, jailed, debased and genocided by the Evil that has swept into power in the biggest, most successful coup ever plotted and executed in human history.
I pray to God Almighty, thankful for the intercession of PDJT in 2016. He is our modern day Moses, and he has shown us the Promised Land, and we have partaken of the milk and honey that overfloweth therefrom. We know what we had, and what we can have, again. Every man has his flaws and PDJT is not perfect, but Donald J. Trump is absolutely heaven sent, and the best thing that could possibly have happened in America. I voted for him twice, and I am prepared to do it again, because God above has spoken to him and touched his heart.
Now, about those elections….
Maybe it’s just me…but a man who not only had the System throw everything including multiple Kitchen Sinks at him and still be able to END Roe Versus Wade with aplomb is a man who can do ANYTHING!
And if anyone has the testicular fortitude and SHEER WILL to fix Medicare and Social Security, it’s Donald John Trump!
Bill Clinton wagged his lying finger into the camera and said “Those Republicans are trying to take away your Social Security” and that one act changed my conservative father to a Clinton supporter for the rest of his life!
Trump needs to repeat some version of this SS debacle with facts or examples every rally he holds. He also needs a “wordless stunt” of walking over to a stove on stage, turning the knob and the gas flame lights up. Promise to get the J6 prisoners out of DC too.
Your anecdote about your father reminds me of what the deceptive Democrat Party does before elections. They put up road signs in areas populated by many retirees, “Like your Social Security? Vote Democrat.”
Always deception-with-fear tactics.
I have to ask you Sundance, in regards to, Pretending Not To Know Things:
What is your opinion of President Trump, pretending not to know things, about the death vaxx and his constant bragging about it?
I have yet to see you criticize that, and perhaps that is because I didnt see it, and you did write about it, but thus far, I see nothing about his pretending…
There is 0 question, he doesn’t know about the dangers and the sudden deaths. Surely he does.
Why the pretending then? and why dont more people question it, even right here? This to me, is the most important topic there is, even his economic policy’s, which are outstanding, and benefit many, cannot benefit people, if they are DEAD!
Serious question, that begs for an answer.
BobofTheNorth,
Covid was a weapon used on an attack on America and President Trump and his MAGA movement.
The democrat / GOPe dc communists, globalists who launched the attack, are the enemy. They also launched the 2020 coup against America and President Trump.
President Trump is our weapon to attack the enemy, the democrat / GOPe dc communist / globalists.
You can find and pick away at selective soundbites ……. your choice …….
People still have different opinions on whether FDR knew or didn’t know about the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japs in 1941….. and both sides can point to selective soundbites.
“Let’s go Brandon!”
Trump never forced anyone to take the shot. Why do you care if other people take a shot?
Yes, you missed it. Sorry I can’t provide the link, but I DO remember Sundance addressing this directly.
Will repeat from above;
HOW many votes do you think PDJT would GAIN, (that he wouldn’t get anyway) by the actions you are urging, vs how many would he LOSE?
How many currently pro-vax, would CHANGE their position, because PDJT comes out forcefully AGAINST the Vax.
If you can answer that honestly and unemotionally, you will understand why PDJT hasn’t changed his position.
Its POLITICS, and you can’t CHANGE Public Policy (which is what Politics is all about) if you don’t get ELECTED.
Is Trump a medical Dr or a scientist? Did he mandate the vax? Did he force you to get it or plans to?
All those answers are, no.
Also pertinent… would anyone at this point care what he says about it or not? We all have our opinions on the subject- would his change your mind?
You know any hardcore Dim would push the vax harder if Trump came out against it. Those who believe the vax is harmful or a bioweapon will not change their minds if Trump pushes it.
So- why should he say anything? He’s not going to force it on you, he’s going to let it be your choice. He took it himself.
I really don’t think you can ask for more than that.
Why? Too late, the injection has been done to so many (not me). Move on to better our country, not to ask for excuses/apologies about the injection, but make the country better. I gave up long ago waiting for an apology from my government for sending me and thousands of others to SE Asia in 1968-70. Learn from yesterday but dream for tomorrow.
Can’t figure it out Bob? Good question and bad timing.
Bring it up after the election. It’s a great question and I’d like to hear an answer too.
How is going to help him get elected again? IMO It doesn’t, instead he loses voters weather they’re vaxxed or not.
you could find the answer yourself if you did some research
NONE of President Trump’s efforts would matter until Social Security and by extension Medicare are CUT loose and DECOUPLED from the US General Fund. With the US Gvernment replacing ALL the money stollen without making any more Entitlement Draw Downs and Borrowing, by congress.
This is necessary to:
Stop congress from borrowing and placing worthless IOU’s in the fund.
Stop congress from ADDING ENTITLEMENT draw downs on these accounts for purposes NOT listed in the Original Charter.
Give Directors of these Accounts a fighting chance to actually manage the money without congressional meddling.
Before adding CONGRESSIONAL draw downs that ARE ENTITLEMENT Draw Downs as well as borrowing of excess funds that were meant to be invested to sustain the fund, there was always enough money being added via taxes as well as on-going investment management of the funds. With constant congressional draw downs, there can never be enough money added.
If there is money to be spent and some sort of give away to use to improve one’s ability to get elected or enriched …. CONGRESS WILL take advantage.
ALL of President Trump’s efforts just add to the pool of slush for CONGRESS to use as long as there is a linkage to the US General Fund.
Increase in GDP goes hand in hand with increased energy production and consumption, which is at odds with the build back better nonsense. We know what it takes to turn around the economy, but the roadblock is the manner of elections have been changed to deny us the power to do so.
Can this be simplified so that the dumbed-down hive-mentality public can understand it? Maybe with some diagrams of PDGJT’s policy decisions driving the rosy economic results, in turn protecting social security and medicare.
And maybe another diagram showing the current destructive policies driving us back to the dark ages.
Our MAGA messaging needs to be developed and honed to (1) grab the attention of the hive-dwellers and (2) to make it as simple as possible to convince them. I know that I can’t begin to explain all of this to those who are apathetic and too lazy to even try to understand.
(This is intended to be an observation and NOT criticism)
I very much enjoy reading Sundance’s work but sometimes I simply don’t have the time.
I think the BLUF* format would be of value here. A couple of sentences up front explaining the larger concept (and whet the appetite for the details) then the “why details”
*A BLUF (bottom line up front) is a framework where the essential information is placed at the beginning of the text, rather than the end. The BLUF framework makes you more credible. You will sound more crisp and confident. That sends a powerful signal that you know your stuff. The BLUF is similar to an elevator speech.
Perhpas lead with the sumation?
……….We know President Trump can save Social Security and Medicare by expanding the economy with his America First economic policy. We do not need to guess if it is possible or listen to pundits theorize about his approach being some random ‘catch phrase’ disconnected from reality. Yes folks, we have the receipts.
This was MAGAnomics at work, and this is entirely what created the middle-class MAGA coalition. No other Republican candidate has this economic policy in their outlook because all other candidates are purchased by the Wall Street multinationals.
Yes as a lead. But diagrams (like a flow chart of sorts) are very forceful in showing how. If the hive-dwellers have some understanding of how each policy decision drives the result and buy into the fact that those decisions are good for all, they may be able to toss aside the attacks on what Trump’s MAGA-nomics achieved and can achieve…. or even ignore them. It might be somewhat like an epiphany when they realize “why yes, that makes perfect sense…and yes it was working.”
I vividly recall, so-called conservatives mocking Americans who thought they had “earned’ their social security. I even remember the media at times running propaganda that the average social security recipient gets back all they paid in, in just a few short years, as if they were sponging off the government after that point.
Completely ignoring that money was taken from workers, money they lost the value of in their lives pre-retirement.
INFLATION; the Govt “takes in” dollars during my “working years” that, because of INFLATION, have far more purchasing power when they take them, than they do 30-40 years later, when I collect them.
So, not only are we not getting the “interest” on the $ we pay in, but Government policies GUARANTEE that, due to INFLATION, I will be “getting back” $0.10 on the 1$ I paid in.
In 1956, my Dad bought a nice 3 bedroom house, for under $10,000.
Couldn’t touch it for less than $250,000, today.
Couldn’t carry $5-10 worth of groceries home, back then.
Not to mention, as a small business owner I paid 15.2% of my total earnings into SS/Medicare. For decades. I maxed each year’s “contribution”.
Since I am now on SS/Medicare, I’m getting out per year about what I paid in per year plus the gain I would have realized if I’d been able to invest that money.
Yes, to me it is not an entitlement. I paid for every penny of that.
My parents, otoh, got out a boatload more than they paid in plus any gain. The Silent generation were the beneficiaries, as they paid a lot less over their working years. The Boomers, and subsequent generations, not at all.
Unlike Trump, Desantis does not support tariffs — which is why Jeb Bush and rest of the Republican establishment are supporting him. If he became President, he would let mercantilist countries steal our industries, further weakening the U.S. and impoverishing the U.S. middle class.
Since 1500, mercantilist countries have stolen their trading partners’ industries *until* their trading partners finally imposed tariffs:
1. England and France stole Spanish industries throughout the 1500s resulting in the rise of England and France, and the decline of Spain.
2. The United States and Australia stole Europe’s industries during the late 1860s and the 1870s until almost all the European countries (excepting Britain) imposed tariffs.
3. Britain let the U.S. and France steal its industries until 1932, eventually becoming too weak to hold its own against Germany.
4. Mercantilist countries have stolen U.S. industries since about 1970. President Trump temporarily reversed our decline through tariffs and was the only President of the 21st century to have rising middle class incomes (as measured by real median income).
Tariffs are *required* to Make America Great Again and reverse the decline of middle class income.
DeSantis is a well laid trap provided by the establishment to trick conservatives into thinking the governor is a clone of MAGA without the tweets and combativeness. Most of the other so called major conservative media sites are propping Ron DeSantis up as a better alternative to Trump. He’s a Trojan Horse who will expose himself the way Ted Cruz did back in 2016 as being nothing more than another establishment toadie.
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The elephant in the room that it seems like almost nobody wants to talk about is that no one person can do anything against the forces that are arrayed and have accumulated for the control and destruction of the US. We saw that last time.
If Trump is going to go anywhere with permanency, he is going to need more than policy and force of character, both of which he obviously has. He is going to need systems behind him that are at least close to equivalently powerful to those that are currently trying, and largely succeeding, in dragging us down. That is key, so much so that nothing else matters.
Trump had at least a couple of years to prepare for the steal that we all saw coming. He arguably got more votes than any presidential candidate in history but failed to deal with the fraud. That can only mean one thing, that he didn’t have the systems and forces arrayed behind him to overcome the enemy. He needs some very big boys lining up behind him. Maybe they’re there and just keeping out of sight, but I need to hear an argument why they are there now when they were not previously.
Otherwise, this is all pie in the sky. It simply won’t do to underestimate the magnitude of evil and Machiavellian stealth that is out there. The swamp is global, and it is deeply entrenched in the fabric of our country. It was reasonable that Trump and whoever was behind him underestimated it last time. It was a forgivable mistake, for example, to let the intelligence agencies take down General Flynn. It was even okay if they were flying on a wing and a prayer last time, but that can’t reasonably be assumed to be adequate this time around. Without adequate backing, the farther he gets politically, the more his life will be at risk. It’s sad to say, but that is how bad this is.
Castelletto, you wrote an important post.
We have a great person at the top and huge numbers of voters at the bottom. This is very good, but it is not enough. There is not much in the middle.
This is not criticism of President Trump. We need MAGA political infrastructure for any lasting success — maybe for any success at all. That infrastructure is definitely not the GOP.
Right. The MAGA revolution, and it is a revolution, is still in its infancy. The House 20 was an example of the kind of small gains that will be needed to be replicated over and over to topple the vandals. They are collapsing, which is great, but they’re still in charge. To me, Trump would be best in a role that recognizes that he’s got something started and should devote his remaining years to supporting and building the middle that you reference.
One one hand you may be right. But who is capable of replacing PT as the movement’s political head?
I can’t think of anyone with similar stature who can command trust and allegiance on a national level. Not even Keri Lake at this point in time.
Most generals don’t fight on the front lines.
Actually, Covid was the driver behind a lot, maybe almost all, the mechanisms for the fraud. That is how ballot harvesting in huge numbers expanded. But I agree that other mechanisms, the machines and media bias/manipulation being major ones, were already having an impact.
I know many will never give up hope, but when you look at all they did to remove Trump from office do any thinking Americans think they will ever let him sit in that office again. My common sense tells me no way on hell, but I do hope he does get the job.
Yeah, the back stabbing GOPe can kiss my ass. For me, it’s MAGA or nothing going forward.
The rate an employee pays into SS is .0765 on their wages, the employer matches that. Not exactly chicken feed! I worked for over 60 years, albeit at young age didn’t make too much. What I am saying is “over the course of 60+ working years, I have paid (along with my employer) *mucho deniro* into the SS System. The cut off is upwards of $100K.
They (g o v ‘t ) does not *increase* their rate, they just increase the wage cut off amount. potato/pohtahto.
Yep, and for those of us who were/are self-employed, we paid both the employer and employee portions for SS and Medicare. FICA.
technically the “employer 7.65%” BELONGS to the employee….it is a cost to do business and is credited to their account….think of it as a “benefit” provided by the employer which the federal government then badly mismanages
It is like an addition to your net pay – you just don’t get to choose who holds it for you. Oh and if you die, you don’t get to claim it.
Excellent thank you for posting this video.
Sundance, should have a key role in Trump’s Presidency.
He already does.
Another factor is the manufactured products we get from China are ‘designed’ to fail prematurely.
Considering the amount of U.S. corporate manufacturing in China, we can infer that it’s our companies setting things up, designing products and manufacturing them there. The Chinese can make products as poorly or as well as dictated and paid for. The same dynamic exists in manufacturing in the U.S. or anywhere in the world.
Science and technology have evolved to produce products that fail at a remarkably accurately predicted time and rate of use. Greed drives the rest. It comes down to humans, as it always does.
One can reasonably estimate the useful life of a product during the design phase. Assuming it’s used within the allowed stresses in the design.
How many miles a car might last with basic maintenance, or how many hours a light bulb will operate before it fails come to mind as examples.
Material quality, manufacturing tolerances, and quality control are factors too.
The examples I like to use are the comparisons between imported “cheap” tools from parking lot sales, tools once supplied by a now defunct department store chain, and tools supplied by sales trucks to various garages and workshops.
The quality of those parking lot sale tools has increased significantly over the past 40 or so years.
I still have the wrench set I received as a gift all those years ago to keep me from borrowing Dad’s tools.
Your post caused me to chuckle a bit remembering there’s two light bulbs in my CA place, or were until it was burgled a couple months ago, that were used daily and were there when I bought the place over 30 years ago.
One was in the hallway; the thieves left it on and it finally burnt out by the time I got back there a month later. The other, still working, appears to be the original appliance bulb in the wall oven and the oven is over 50 years old, original to the house. I know I never replaced it.
Speaking of the oven, it and the dishwasher, yep you heard that right, dishwasher, are original to the house, so over 50 years old. American made. Whirlpool oven, Hobart dishwasher.
I figured SS would be broke by the time I gave the finger to society but I was wrong so when the Covid nonsense hit I closed my business and signed up. Now it’s sand in the machinery, with zeal, every day.
Dunes,
Appliances are another excellent example of estimated design or service life.
I’m glad I gave you a chuckle. Enjoy your well earned retirement.
The parking lot sale tools I received all those years ago still work for what I use them for. I just don’t have to use them every day. I shake my head by how loose they fit on a nut or bolt compared to their competition.
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President Trump, apparently alone and utterly unique amongst the elites, loves and appreciates America and actual Americans. If we could just unleash this guy….
Factor in no new foreign wars and treating other heads of state as legitimate trading partners instead of vassal states, and you get world peace and prosperity.
Times so good that globalists had to resort to bioterrorism (the response to covid as much as the virus itself) and election fraud to defeat Trump.
We are lucky to have Sundance. He’s another VSG, just like Trump.
Now the question is how to get the habitually uninformed and uninterested to pay attention and absorb this.
Destroy the alphabet media. Instead of wealthy republicans giving their money to losing candidates, put it together and buy out one or two of the ABCBS’s and give us at least a fair media. I don’t need all conservative, just fair and honest.
If PDJT can connect an abundant and inexpensive energy policy with expanded domestic economic growth as the only path that will deliver on the purchasing power of the promised benefits, especially in the minds of the average person in or near retirement, he has a real winner.
What good are benefits that have significantly less purchasing power in retirement than what was taxed in the past?
PDJT REVERSED the previous 30+ years of “the exfiltration of wealth”, and with it, the transfer of a “middle class lifestyle” from the U.S. to CHINA.
And he SHOWED US, with actions not just words, how IMPORTANT Public Policy IS.
And THIS, right here is why RDS or any “Maga-lite” candidate simply will not, and can not gain significant support of MAGA voters, or even “split” the vote, to give us 4 more years of HELL, like Biden has given us.
It’s not rocket science. When you take a rock out of the ground, turn it into metal, turn that metal into a consumer product and put that product in a store, you’ve added value to each step. It takes skills to do all of that, those skills pay more and are spread out wider and deeper throughout the economy. This is what I call a Value Added Economy.
When you import a consumer product, wealth is concentrated at the top and the middle class shrinks. This is what I call a Value Borrowed Economy.
In a Value Added Economy the working class pays a greater percentage of the taxes collected. The government then has to be more responsive to the working class.
In a Value Borrowed Economy, because of the concentration of wealth by the globalist and wall street, it is the globalist and wall street that pays the bulk of the taxes, the government is then beholden to wall street and the globalist. The government sets policies, rules, laws and treaties that favor the wall street globalist.
our current economy and currency are set up to be a DEBT based one…..they cannot expand without INCREASING amounts of debt….it is built into the system
Yes, and it’s been that way most of my life, and certainly most of my business life. I was mentored by the old school, asset-based businessmen, so ran my shop that way, and focused on U.S. raw materials.
Bad strategy in a free market dominated by debt-based expansion and foreign sourced materials and customers who couldn’t give a sht about ones patriotism, only paying less for the product. Harsh teacher in modern times.
Has Ron DeSantis said anyting on this issue?
Seems to me as Gov. of a state with significant reitrees; he would be front and center in support of leaving SS alone.
My opinion is is just stimulated them to hurry up and destroy social security, priority one…
I could envision that version (the destruction of SS) of the ‘bonus army’ to be a lot less peaceful and compliant than the one that Eisenhower, McArthur and Patton put down in the early 30’s, ironically over a veteran’s bonus from the Great War, and just before SS came into existence.
Cut the paychecks of all the politicians in Washington DC. Also take what they have earned from their insider trading scheme and scams. Maybe they’ll get the message. I don’t think that’s going to happen given that the uniparty protects itself.
Bring in the Fair Tax. It replaces the current federal taxes (except export/import) with a sales tax.
–Why punish businesses that employ Americans (7.5% employer side FICA and business taxes)?
–Items made in America and sold overseas would be untaxed by America (the extra jobs is benefit enough) making America more competitive.
–A car made in Mexico and sold in America currently has less taxes than a car made in America. The Fair Tax reverses that.
–All that foreign earned income can be repatriated and put to work in America.
According to every politician in the western world excepting MAGA, “economic growth” is baaaad.
Screw Social Security. Get rid of it.
You obviously have not reached the age of using it.You will change your mind by force of no money if no job.
I’d agree with you if I wasn’t in my 70s and had not paid so much into it over 57 years of earning wages.
Phase it out so that young people entering the workforce have the opportunity to NOT pay into it but instead can invest that money for retirement as they see fit.
Just read on the juvenile alt right news site that Harvard can reset the age of mice at will now. Trials on larger primates are underway.
Then read this.
So social security becomes Universal Basic Income, we all live however long we want to take the gene therapy shot, and we have utopia at last.
Just eat that apple.
Sundance, would be great to have a post from you on the vaccine. Tired of seeing people bitch about what Trump did and didn’t do. He did the most important thing, he gave CHOICE. He was also forced between a rock and hard thing while the media stoked fears, and Pence helped them along.
Knowing the adverse effects of seasonal flu on the sick and obese, he was probably terrified when staring at the US 85% obesity rate and the fact they may die from what they were touting as the plague to end all plagues!
I will not vote for multinational donor-controlled DeSantis, I will just keep my voting local where it really matters.
“Yes, I bet on Trump, and he was right.”
From my viewpoint: “Underestimate Donald J. Trump at your own peril.”
I won’t and don’t underestimate President Trump.
It matters not how many newbies come here and spew doubt, derision, desultory comments on President Trump’s policies,
past statements (interpretations of same) and armchair quarterbacking, not to mention his personality (eyeroll emphasis), I’m with him all the way. Steadfast, unyielding, stronger than ever before, not giving up or giving in to anymore lyin’ BS.
So, thank you very much Sundance for an outstanding factual document on the truth and reality of President Trump’s economic policy.
As soon as more people FEEL the economic hardships purposely foisted upon them by this illegitimate, criminal, demented cabal, the more those same people will be lured to the alternative(s) that President Trump is carefully laying out on a weekly basis now.
So many continue to underestimate President Trump.
After two years of destroying America’s ability to produce income and spending Trillions that we didn’t have Democrats and their corrupt presstitutes are now blaming the Republicans in the House who have been in control for less than three weeks.
The saddest part is most people will believe their lies.
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This is not only a smart fiscal move by Trump but also a smart political one. And let’s be dead honest the left wants to shrink the economy to facilitate their green agenda so if SS and medicate suffers they don’t care because they only want those actively paying into those entitlements to have access to them…the informed and elderly can just die….enter Canada’s active euthanasia policies.
But government officials certified that Joe Biden won
Are you implying that government officials might be dishonest or incompetent or both? Isn’t that undermining confidence in the government? Isn’t that sedition?
The FBI monitors sites like this one, I am sure. Do NOT question authority! Or else…..have you learned nothing from Jan 6 prosecutions and the Mar-al-Lago raid?