President Trump sat down with Dave Ramsey to discuss specific economic drivers that will jump start the U.S. economy in 2025.
Beginning with an immediate shift in energy policy, President Trump sets the aggregate goal to reduce overall energy prices by 50% in the first year. The drop in energy price then begins to reverberate throughout all facets of the economy as the cost of goods sold, distributed and warehoused immediately lowers. This directly starts to lower the end price of goods.
President Trump then proposes a drop of the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 15 percent. However, in order for corporations and manufacturers to get the lowered rate, they MUST produce their product INSIDE the USA. The tax drop will only apply to companies who produce goods domestically from USA origins. This approach further bolsters employment and wages as the companies shift operations to the USA to gain the favorable rate.
Dropping overall energy prices, targeting tariffs on strategic sectors, decreasing regulations, increasing domestic production, creating jobs, becoming less reliant on foreign goods and enhancing the Gross Domestic Product, directly expands the economy and provides more revenue for government operations. This is the MAGAnomic success formula that allows Social Security to survive without change.
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Around 13:30 of the interview, Ramsey talks about the culture of excellence that exists within the Trump organization. President Trump notes that Eric Trump currently runs the organization and talks about one of the key secrets to their success, ‘promotion from within’.
Many Main Street titans will agree. Selecting excellence within the organization for direct advancement to leadership is the single biggest commonality of organizations who maintain excellent operations. In an era where people jump jobs, in a privately owned company – the ability to promote the best from within ensures long-term employment.
At 20:42, Dave Ramsey asks about President Trump returning to Butler, Pennsylvania to continue the rally interrupted by an assassination attempt. The Butler rally is scheduled for Saturday, October 5th.
I have a suggestion. Make the entire rust belt an economic zone with tax benefits and other forms of incentives for businesses and individuals living there. Give the incentives to residents and businesses that employ residents to prevent it from being exploited in a way that is counter to the intent. Also provide incentives and standards for schools in this same area based on tangible results and classic tried and true teaching methods to again help the people living in this large area in the middle of our country.
I think that is a great idea. But I think that Americans are suffering under the “service economy” everywhere. Perhaps they could come up with regional industries that feed off of each other?
The Rust Belt can become what it used to be.
The Food Belt can become a powerhouse again.
The Tech Belt can be moved out of the CA Bay Area and placed in an region that allows nearby cities and states to service that industry.
We can make North Carolina a furniture giant again and have nearby states be a part of the Furniture Giant ecosystem.
We have lost so much in the last 40 years that it is difficult to remember what good paying manufacturing jobs look like.
The “Service” economy and Government are non-productive Deadweight. A burden that private sector producers carry on shaky legs.
Hence the Debt. Stealing the future of youth and the unborn to mollify free riders today.
It’s way, way past time to stop counting U.S. success by the Stock Market Casino and bring real industry back home.
What service economy? Have you ever called a company looking to get some “service” and all you get is some foreigner that knows nothing but following a damn script?
I think by “service economy,” the Blobsters are thinking (when they think at all!) about the human beings still carrying your food to you in a restaurant, making your bed in a hotel, that sort of thing.
But I agree – service is also being devastated as a profession. It’s been shrunk and automated to the point where it’s mostly non-service.
Phone trees were invented by the CorruptoWoke Pig Corporations to deter anyone from seeking service at their companies unless it’s a matter of survival.
And of course phone trees on gummint CorruptoCracies are so bad that most of us would rather have nails driven into our eyeballs than try to navigate them.
This is part of why they are providing “welcome” and concierge-level “service” to illegal border-jumping criminals. Otherwise they’ll risk some of them falling through the infamous cracks!
Ditto. The service economy is causing all sorts of physical & emotional pathologies in this country. Sedentary lifestyle, coupled with office stress is unhealthy
I like this idea but I’ll play devils advocate. I live in a rural area…NW Va.WV area. Numerous businesses have moved into the area in the last 5 years. You have a huge Procter & Gamble plant, Trex lumber, Amazon distribution center and Rubbermaid plant and HQ. They can’t find enough workers. The ones that want to work and can pass a drug test. Trex will start you at $20 an hour, pick you up and take you to work and bring you home 50+ miles away. Can’t find enough workers. It’s like this all over the rust belt. These people haven’t worked in years and some have never worked. How do you fix that?
Build it and they will come.
That’s the point, they built it and the workers didn’t come.
We need to get people off drugs and off food stamps. Then they will need to work.
Kick people who are capable of working off welfare and disability!
Yes. ^^^THIS^^^
Increase the pay. Inflation has devastated the dollar by malicious design. 20 bucks today is 10 bucks, at most in value, from 3 years ago. The pay must go up. Yeah, weed out the knuckleheads and drug addicts and you will find good employees. They are there. But, 20 bucks is now chicken feed because of inflation. 30 or 40 bucks or more to match the value of 20 bucks three years ago is necessary to attract decent workers. They need increased pay to buy food and gas at greatly inflated prices.
Increasing wages ISN’T the answer. As Pres Trump said, bringing value to the dollar again will increase purchasing power as you bring costs back down. When you raise wages to outrageous levels for a McDonalds worker then you’re paying $15 for a Big Mac meal that used to be $6.
Partly this. But bringing the cost of energy down will also help drive down costs so your money will be worth more AND buy more.
That was implied in my response but I didn’t spell it out as I totally agree…THIS is why our dollar has shrunk because of energy costs which affects all parts of our lives. Thanks.
Our pay has fallen to outrageous levels because of inflation. I am not advocating government mandates to increase pay for jobs to levels that are more than what the job itself produces in value for the company. I do not advocate minimum wage of any kind. What I do advocate is to increase the pay to match the worth of the job, which is solely in the purview of the employer. The dollar’s value has been, at the very least, cut in half. Thus, to find good employees or retain good employees the pay must increase. This is economic reality.
How about freezing the federal budget for one year just to start. We have so much waste, fraud(thanks tampon Tim for screwing taxpayers out of 250 million in MN alone) and unnecessary spending that current government employees have zero clue about how to avoid.
I worked in a large metro county as tax assessor after 20 years in engineering and when I mentioned saving a few dollars, and how, they looked at me like I’m speaking some moon language or something. These are the long time union employees that occupied a chair long enough to move up a ladder due to time, not merit, and have never heard of such a thing.
When efficient private sector hires started being more productive and doing things smarter, the lower level employees file union grievances to stop it, and the good employees quit out of frustration.
Please let Trump be elected, and watch the energy business go ballistic.
THAT will make your dollar worth more, AND will increase demand for dollars from countries that want our energy.
STOP TAXING PAYROLLS UNDER $50,000. Make the first $50,000 of payroll earnings tax free.
There will be inflation, yes. That’s built in. Get used to it. Hopefully we blame who did it, not the McDonalds employees, or ILA unions.
eh. Not sure about that. I know about inflation. Pay has zero to do with them NOT working. IMO
N/M
That’s why I support the port strike.
Sundance made the obvious case why the port strike had to be settled.
The dock workers have leverage – because the Blob, in its infamous ignorance of the Law of Unintended Consequences, handed it to them on a silver platter.
I support it too, mainly because the strike was another strike (hope WordMan likes that ☺️) against the re-electability of the current Blobster Regime.
If minimum wage kept up with inflation , government employee pay & benefits including retirement and Wall Street bonus structures it would be $85 bucks per hour
In 1984 I laughed to tears when I listened to the horse shit from government and business as all the great industrial jobs evaporated
But we can clean each other’s houses cut each other’s grass BUT you don’t own a home support a country and a robust economy on SHIT WAGES and 50 million illegals flooding the nation with cheap labor
Pay the druggies $15/hr…if they want $20/hour they have to get clean and agree to random tests…
Look at low offense former inmates….no felons, just misdemeanors….give them a chance at a crime free life…if they really want it.
What an excellent compromise solution. I salute you, Grey Eagle sir.
This “can’t find workers” crap didn’t exist before 1992, but I didn’t have any decent answers as to how to deal with the druggies of today. How many contractors, farmers, or businessmen have I talked to that said, “they can unstack a pallet or drive a nail just fine, but I had to let too many guys go because insurance required the drug test.”
Having sound money tied to gold helps greatly to reign in inflation.
Provide incentives for people to come from other regions in the USA to move to where the jobs are.
An internal migration of US citizens.
My Mom’s family left Pennsylvania to move to Ohio during WW II, so they could find work.
They went to where the jobs were.
Give US citizens who move to get a job an economic incentive, like a bonus from the employer, or no income tax on the first year’s wages.
Stop the welfare for folks who don’t take a decent paying job when it is available. This is key.
Another key is to send employers who hire illegals to jail.
And another is to strictly limit legal immigrants, and do not let them bring their families.
Hire actual US citizens first.
Start a program in the high schools where if a student stays off drugs, stays out of trouble and maintains a decent GPA, the employer will hire them to work summers and give them a good paying full time job upon graduation.
A sort of apprenticeship.
Give tax incentives for the employers for these programs.
But start by doing these things only for jobs that enhance the economic and strategic security of the US, in sectors like agriculture, manufacturing of essential goods, like microchips, power station transformers, medical equipment and drug manufacturers, food processing plants, oil and gas, etc.
Those industries need to be rebuilt first.
Great ideas. People used to move to where the jobs are. But they have to pay enough to make the trek worthwhile.
When you have no job and your town has no manufacturing, any job will pay more than no job. Government goodies need to be reduced and if you’re not training or looking for a job, or moving, you get less.
Early 80’s manufacturing moved south and my town lost 3 major factories that included offices and technical employees. There was nothing so I moved.
NYS more specifically the Hudson Valley used to have 3-4 chip manufacturers. All have gone out of business or left the area/US.
The last is IBM which is a shell of its original self.
For IBM alone, where there were three huge plants, smaller satellite offices employing 20,000+ people in multiple shifts , there are now maybe a 2-3,000 and only one shift. 2-3,000 is a guesstimate and may be much too high.
I remember when IBM shifted the manufacturing of their laptops to China and Lenovo began manufacturing them and stuck their name on them. One sign of IBM’s decline
… and China’s growing penetration of our critical infrastructure. In addition, Americans should read labels and avoid buying “made in China” whenever possible. More often than not, when I see “made in China” I ask myself: ” Is this a want or a need?” ~90% of the time its something I really do not need … and it doesn’t go in the shopping cart.
Anyone else remember, several years back, a revelation of a couple million CCP members (in other words, tech spies) on the staffs of American companies in the CCP?
There was a spreadsheet circulated with a partial list – about 70,000 or so.
Right at the beginning I found 200+ listed within IBM.
Southern tier NYS – Binghamton area.
I try to explain this concept of relocating to my kids who live in the same area they were born into. It blows their minds. People are somewhat spoiled. They don’t want to pull up roots to find work.
I must say, I anyone wants a job in my area they will find one at the present time. All my kids and grandkids are working. They are all white, males and females, ages 21 to 60. I am retired. Don’t work except around little old lady’s farm.
My sister lives in Austin. She works and is 76. People who want to work, find work. Those who don’t…usually don’t care. If you have been laid off, after a while, perhaps it would be best to find whatever job you are able…many have done that. My son was laid off from middle management once…he worked wherever he could find work…
Another sundance rule –
20% do the lion’s share of the work in any organization.
I think every treeper I have ever read, even including a few of our more persistent trolls/Rolcons 🤣, has been lifelong in the 20%. Solid work ethic.
Now that I’m retired I work harder than ever, simply because none of it is for anyone else.
You could offer me a literal 5 million dollar a year salary, guaranteed by contract (not at will) and I would NEVER move my family to a state or area run by Democrats. EVER. They (and Republicans who aren’t MAGA) are the cancer that must be excised from any area for any of these economic plans to work.
Who the hell would MOVE TO a blue state, county, city? Only the idiots already there.
Apprenticeships and trade skills starting in middle school, absolutely.
Remember when girls took home ec so they could manage a household?
And bring back summer jobs and a training wage as incentives.
We need to step the young into adulthood, not dump them into it untrained.
I guess that means they all need to be homeschooled for a while until the education “system” is taken down to the studs and refinished.
I agree – Val’s plan is very good!
A note for the future assuming the good stuff happens to fix incentives and the USA train is back on a safe track:
Two words: “Birthright” citizenship.
I read somewhere that we’re the only suckers who allow that in the world – can anyone confirm?
Therefore, perhaps in the last days of PDJT47, measures should be taken to stop that!
Remover then from the taxpayer teat
Start cutting govt/state handouts by 6 percent a year, including EBT cards.
Cut off their welfare and snap/EBT
It’s really not difficult to understand.
You work and you eat,
You don;t work, you don;t eat.
The magnificent welfare state has created an economy that challenges the REAL economy.
The COVID thing upped the ante.
Give me $600 a week to stay home….or $750 a week to work 40 hours at a (gasp) JOB
Hmmmm. A tough call for an adult.
An easy call for a pot smoking millenial playing 40 hours of video games in the basement….
Until we seriously reform the welfare state, we won’t turn this mess around.
Remove ALL Of the bennies for able bodied men and women of working age, but not of SS retirement age. Remove free lunches and breakfasts and dinners and child care and, and, and…
There is no reason to pay people even a dime to stay home. Get off your butt and feed your family. House them, clothe them. Become a good citizen and community member.
And this goes for immigrant citizens as well. The culture should be that you come here to bring something to the table LEGALLY and not be a public charge. We owe you nothing.
THAT is how our immigration system works. Not stealing from FEMA and SS and Medicare to give it to illegal aliens, let alone the theft of space and already scarce housing and many other resources of communities all over the USA. Not flying them in and stashing them in airports and all over the USA.
The reason this has gone on so long is because there is no budget and hasn’t been one for almost two decades. Just continuing resolutions. Lot’s of funny money to play with, year after year. We are still paying for disasters of 2012 and since.
And our lily white a-h013 SotH claims there is nothing they can do until we get President Trump back in the White House with a big grin on his face.
I hope he is FIRED as soon as President Trump is in The House again.
The only exception I would say is young mothers with small children shouldn’t be forced into the workforce and forced to place their precious children in the arms of someone else to rear them. Let them stay home with those children and cut childcare bennies. You want to work while you have small children pay for it yourself.
One way is to cut off welfare. I have discovered that people who don’t like to work find ways to secure funds for whatever they need or want. Many can secure a cell phone, drugs, smokes. They don’t care about their surroundings too much. If they have medical issues they find ways to get it…and ways to not pay for it.
Perhaps they need to be encouraged to secure a job. Many jobs require way too much education. If plants will hire illegals or even legals who speak none or little English, can’t read or write it, most likely have questionable habits and backgrounds…they can do the same for Americans.
Just my thoughts.
As a nation we need to be prepared for a lot of withdrawal symptoms.
Idleness is addictive. Once someone experiences it for any length of time, it’s difficult habit to break.
Welfare to work. Stop or greatly reduce all the government handouts and force them to work if they are able bodied. Once a person gets all the free stuff for years, they don’t want to work again. Same problem in my area of rural Northwest Pennsylvania.
Your answer. STOP TAXING PAYROLLS/PAYCHECKS under $50,000 per year. Government taxes wages (the poor) yet Billionaires slide by on capital gains freebees.
And before you start yelling “but Capitalism” may I remind you we live in a Corporatist/Monopoly economy where free enterprise is squeezed out and Congress is on the payroll of the monied interests.
I am fine with completely eliminating income tax and funding the government with tariffs.
Keep government as small as possible, while still able to perform its Constitutional duties.
Tell them if they don’t work they don’t eat and cut welfare.
Decrease the government benefits.
Way too much career welfare, living off of crime from lenient judicial system, endless “training” programs, government meddling in social “engineering” and the excuses they create, etc. It’s much too difficult and scattered tasks to become an entrepreneur and run your own business under government hostility instead of assistance. America used to discourage monopoly, but now they encourage monopoly because the graft is better.
CLEAN OUT POLITICAL CORRUPTION TOP TO BOTTOM!
The “training” from gummint is mostly about how to be a good Communist slave.
get rid of the baby momma welfare benefit for the life of the children
Cut off the welfare and unemployment funds.
End the drug testing. It was designed deliberately for this effect, to destroy employment, to hike insurance, and to feed the prison labor mills.
I realize that’s trying to walk the cat back, but listen. Can’t get the job? How do you make money, you have to resort to the black market- that is, selling the drugs you’ll use, like an Avon or Mary Kay homeseller.
This country was built by deplorables with bad habits, but the drug effect really didn’t take off until testing- a fishing expedition- was put in place.
Of course, that would hit the local deputies’ cut, but the drugs are a market by and for the government anyways.
They could shut down ivermectin (horse dewormer), but by golly they have no idea how to stop fentanyl (horse tranquilizer).
Great Idea. I have thought a gradual conversion of public school classrooms /schools, wings of classrooms, bus systems, etc. be used CONCURRENTLY – side by side as education converts to privatization. This would expose and highlight the superiority of charter schools in general AND expose parents and children to this reality.
Citizens not residents.. too many are living in this country illegally.. Americans First
A good idea, but benefits cannot be for “residents”. How many illegals are now “residents” of those towns? Benefits should be limited to citizens and legitimate immigrants who are already paying taxes into those towns’ economies. Net contributors, not net takers.
President Trump then proposes a drop of the corporate tax rate from 21 percent to 15 percent.
Ultimately all these ideas are social engineering scams.
Until most people understand corporations DO NOT pay taxes the scam will continue.
“Corporate” taxes are simply a cost of doing business passed on to the consumer.
When people scream tax the greedy corporations they are shooting themselves in the foot in the form of higher consumer prices.
As an incentive, ‘lower taxes only if you come home’ is a brilliant idea.
Since Congress won’t pass protective tariffs…we’ll tariff your whole corporation for trying to cheat with slave labor.
God save us from the brainwashed conservatives who think ‘saving the precious multinationals’ is more important than investing in their own people. The Church of the Almighty Dollar will turn this country into Bodega Economic Zone #6, a giant souk bazaar filled with foreigners who have no past, no roots, no identity beyond some current consumer brand.
And no we shouldn’t be moving like sheep herded from pen to pen. The corps and companies should be moving. Detroit’s Eight Mile was built by the car factories to attract workers- they built apartment blocks, put in roads, and ran trolleys just to bring the workers.
Even in the 90s I used to see worker’s buses in rural states. In the 70’s the temp co’s would give you a bus ticket in the morning, and pay you cash at night when you came back, just to staff the assembly line factories.
We don’t need to be “competitive with other countries”, which means “sweatshops like Vietnam” or “cobalt mines like the Congo.” What we need is self-producing and Fortress America.
I like it.
US private ownership of strategic industries, resources and capabilities.
Remove foreign companies that don’t adhere with US audit laws from US stock exchanges.
Including farm land!
That removal should include outfits like Blackrock. Tell me again whose interests these yuuge investment funds serve.
I was excited to see the Texas Stock Exchange moving forward … until I saw Blackrock’s involvement.
https://www.investopedia.com/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-blackrock-backed-texas-stock-exchange-8658496
True. Dump any TX politicians with a finger in that pie.
They serve Satan.
I’m a LEAF, Loyal Economic America First. President Trump’s economic policies are LEAF. Being loyal to this country’s fabric and being America First in all things will fix many of the current ills. It needs to be generational and I hope that one of his plans is to mentor the heck out of his VP so that he can carry on the policies.
I think part of the reason that President Trump selected the VP he did is that JD Vance actually LIVED in the mess created by the policies of previous Administrations, both Republicans and Democrats. He already knows, first hand, what needs to be done and his debate performance showed that he is more than ready to get started!
I was thrilled with this interview and appreciate Dave Ramsey broadcasting it, although I know that he is taking a ton of flack for doing so! TDS is truly a a mental disorder, IMHO. Some people would rather see their lives destroyed and their finances ruined than to let the Orange Man back into the White House!
Vance’s life experience is not one of business. President Trump has a lifetime of business experience, Vance needs to learn from President Trump how the business world works in the real world and how to make it work for America First.
Vance knows what’s wrong with the business world.
JD likes to talk to People , he is not hiding from reporters.
TDS is actually demonic possession!
There is a definite element of otherwordliness/evil about it for sure…
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Ephesians 6:12
Oh stop. That is nonsense.
Maybe it’s PTSD. I don’t want to diminish this as applied to veterans and victims of tragedies, but if you look at symptoms, there is something there.
From Mayo Clinic
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20355967
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition that’s caused by an extremely stressful or terrifying event — either being part of it or witnessing it. Symptoms may include flashbacks, nightmares, severe anxiety and uncontrollable thoughts about the event.
Most people who go through traumatic events may have a hard time adjusting and coping for a short time. But with time and by taking good care of themselves, they usually get better. If the symptoms get worse, last for months or years, and affect their ability to function daily, they may have PTSD.
The event was Trump getting elected and if you think about the behavior of the left, well, I’m not a doctor.
Yes, it’s trauma conditioning.
(And, though I won’t explain the mechanics, yes it’s also a bit of demonic possession.
Betsy Jones was right, yesterday, that there is something new and terrible trying to manifest, to take form in the world. I’m not and will never be a Christian, so please accept this as a second opinion from someone who is not of the Biblical perspective.)
addendum: sorry about that o/t, that sweet lady in the other thread saying, “God was all around us (in North Carolina), all day” has got me rather worked up in the best way…
If you want to find God in your life…
look around you & you will find Him everywhere.
The woman looked & she found God everywhere.
As someone who recently found just that, I say the same.
It’s like being able to breathe free for the first time…
JMO….TDS is a form of hate…all one needs to do is look at the vitriol out of Liz Cheney or Hillary Clinton.
One can disagree without being volatile like the two I mentioned. I agree with Val, the TDS level of hate is not “of the light”.
I dont think so it is leftist Remember Romans 1 when people hate him God Jesus he gives them up to their own devices. A depraved mind void of the Holy Spirit.
Vance pretty much started out with a vulture- excuse me, venture- capital firm. He knows the Devil’s Kingdom inside and out, and walked away from it. That’s the kind of knowledge our side needs.
It has a lot to do with in which direction one chooses to walk.
Look at Mitt Romney for contrast.
JD Vance knows Trump’s policy.
I’ve listened to the JD debate twice.
Vance has a perfect tone .
Calm, cool ,concise and
he makes common sense observations to make his points.
God bless President Trunp.
President Trump/MAGA success equals the destruction of the UniParty business model/criminal operation. That’s why they fear him….and us.
Rust never sleeps.
The Uniparty is rust.
God Bless president Trump!!!
What’s good for the goose…
Hotshot Radio voice, Dave Ramsey, has likewise sharply disparaged gold as an investment, saying it’s just a “shiny, shiny rock,” with no yield, and is a terrible investment.
Yeah, that Dave Ramsey 🙄
Dave Ramsey has an audience. PDJT’s mission is to get his Mission Statement out to as many people as possible.
Ramsey’s audience is a lot of the Bible Belt people who have failed to exercise their civic duty and vote. PDJT is trying to get everyone from everywhere to vote for him.
The RINOs in the uniparty were content to ignore many, many people because they needed to keep the nation at 51/49. They had an agreement with the commie dem wing to not go after their voters.
I’m not a fan of Ramsey but I appreciate PDJT going there to appeal to his fans.
Hopefully, the inaction of the Dems in Appalachia will spur these people to action. Because if it doesn’t, nothing will
So, why then, do central banks world-wide continue to buy it?
You tell us.
They don’t buy it.
They trade it.
https://gata.org/node/23167
No one is perfect, but he advises folks to get out of debt and that is a lesson we need to hear as individuals and as a nation.
Agreed. His main message is great. For me, his message for the last 2 years has been “Buy real property right now. You can always refinance later.” I disagree with that. Too many people cannot afford these inflated housing prices on top of high mortgage interest rates. You add in energy costs, insurance costs, and costs for repairs and people are one incident away from not being able to keep a house.
Lots of good comments & suggestions on this thread.
I get your point regarding gold. Investing in precious metals doesn’t create many jobs. Maybe gold miners. Gold and silver have been real money since time immemorial. Dynasties have crumbled as they’ve diluted purity in their gold and silver coinage. Look what has happened to the US after getting off the gold standard. Run away inflation, a deficit that has allowed government corruption, ordinary folks living check to check, & the American dream of owning a home is all but gone. Gold is at a record high even being manipulated. The reset will come when the average Joe says the dollar is nothing but Monopoly money. Hopefully we return to some type of commodity backed currency. God bless MAGA. God bless Donald J Trump!
Gold is not an investment it is protection. It is best used as a safe asset to protect wealth not a vehicle to build wealth. Betting on gold as a way to build wealth is speculative gambling. Gold is what you buy when you are less concerned with the return on your assets and more concerned with the return of your assets.
I think Dave helps people dig out of a financial hole.
Most people don’t have the coin to buy gold. Gold is a buy and hold, kind of a luxury and under the radar estate planning.
“I think Dave helps people dig out of a financial hole.” I’ve always equated debt with sacrificing freedom. If I can’t pay cash, I don’t buy it. When I was consulting, the Managing Partners always wanted their consultants leveraged to the hilt with big house payments, car payments, private school tuition, etc. Made their employees easier to control.
The thought leaders I trust (e.g., Jim Rickards) suggest perhaps 10% of your portfolio should be allocated to gold. Famed investor Ray Dalio suggests the “holy grail” of investing is to have eight to twelve uncorrelated investments which reduce risk without sacrificing results. Clearly, we each need to choose our own path; however, I will always listen to Dalio, Rickards et al. when making my investment decisions.
attacking the messenger cause he had Trump on his radio show?
I don’t normally listen to Ramsey cuz I already do what he preaches.
Pay cash for my vehicles, pay off my credit card every month etc.
Ramsey;
“So our first question, I’ll go ahead and preview it. I just said Mr. President, we talk to real people every day. Let me tell you what they’re concerned about. They’re not concerned about a bunch of the stuff you’re talking about. The stuff they’re concerned about is $7 eggs, $5 gas, 7% interest rates, and house prices going up faster than their wages are going up. This black cloud that’s over our economic situation right now.
And we could talk about how it got there. We could talk about what you used to do. We could talk about the current administration. But I don’t really want to. What I want to talk about is what you’re going to do in the first 90 days to get this black cloud off of America.
And that was my first question. And I’ll ask Vice President Harris this exact same question if I get the opportunity.”
Where is Joe Biden and Pamela Harris?
Gold?
You mean that 99.9% pure rock….the one alchemists have been trying for more than a millennia, to ‘create’?
That ‘rock’? Asking for a friend…./s
Well, in Blackadder series, one of the characters took up alchemy and produced a lump of something he claimed was better than gold.
It was green.
He called it “pure green.”
It looked like Japanese sushi horseradish.
Needless to say there was no sudden Green Rush.
Kind of prophetic of the Green New Deal, come to think of it…
Ironically, his plan is exactly the same one that Kamala just released (after reading his).
Doesn’t congress have to vote on and approve lowering the corporate tax rate?
Didn’t he try this the last time he was president and congress wouldn’t go for it that low?
2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
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https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/09/raise-corporate-tax-rates-no-cut-them-maybe-take-a-look-first/
(Just a lil take on topic )
PDJT has his 11 inch binder. The one that they tried to find when they raided MAL.
It gets old fighting all the networks and moderators every debate! New ideas MUST be applied. Until then, NO MORE!
Remember Lesley Stahl! SIR, SIR? No more bullchit!
I would think Buddist’s would want less war. If so your choice is easy. Strange how the party that was against the Vietnam war is now the party (Harris) for funding and instigating wars.
I have occasionally listened to Dave Ramsey. He is a pragmatic thinker when it comes to personal finances and wants his audience to be successful.
He tells his audience to pay off their debts, which are sometimes very large and insurmountable. Work two jobs,pay off the student loans and debt and start living debt and worry free
We all live with credit. We take it for granted. Ramsey is a voice of sanity in a consumer sea of debt and instant gratification.
I like this interview with Trump. They have common sense when it comes to handling money .Useful.
I agree.
I also agree. I follow Ramsey’s principles using YNAB software and it works wonders on the personal finance level.
We learned from Larry Burkett in the 80’s, now Crown Ministries. The Lord led us to always live debt free and on one income. Home educated our kids. Own our own business. Tried to encourage others over all these years to live free in every way.
We have never been successful in our communications. Everyone wanted the instant gratification and nicer home (paid cash) or car (cash) than we had. We travel, live simply next to a forest and gorge and stream, yet enjoy NEVER having to worry about food, clothing, shelter. The Lord has provided everything. Our home is peaceful. That is the ONE THING people comment on. They wish they had our Peace. We point them to Jesus.
Remember Larry Burkett as well. He helped a lot of folks. We’re all looking for peace in our lives. My experience also, Jesus is the only way.
“We all live with credit.” Actually, I would respectfully revise that to read: “too many of us live with credit.” I have been debt free for nearly fifty years. I used inexpensive community colleges to get my “core credits” and then my employers paid for the remainder of my “night school” undergraduate and graduate degrees. My credit has been frozen for more than a decade. Btw, all Americans should consider freezing their credit given the wholesale theft of SSNs. Easy to lift the freeze when needed; however, identify theft is a 24/7 nightmare and the guilty parties are rarely caught/punished.
I like Dave Ramsey. He gives people good advice. Credit is a tool that, if used properly, can pay dividends.
I have a credit card that pays me back a percentage of every purchase. I always pay the balance in full every month so I pay no interest, and in most years I get approximately $1500 from the bank for using their credit card. That’s $1500 of free money just for using a tool that makes my life easier.
Ramsey is generally telling people to get some discipline in their lives. To the extent that people will listen to him, he’s telling them the right thing to do to become economically secure. Unfortunately, we have a lot of people who either can’t or won’t rein in their spending. Those are the ones careening toward bankruptcy. Of course, I am not surprised that large numbers of people can’t control their spending. Our government is now 34-35 trillion dollars in debt and we can’t get our politicians to even TALK about a balanced budget.
I got into a rather large credit card debt in my thirties.
As it happened, my job at the time was documenting an amortization schedule for a spreadsheet product.
I took on my own debt as a learning (and coping) exercise. Figured out what to pay and negotiate on each card in order of interest rate, that sort of thing, until each in turn was knocked down so I could go on to pay the remaining ones.
After paying everything down, I kept going – accumulated a down payment and bought my first house.
Later sold that house for enough to pay off the mortgage entirely and own my current one debt-free.
Budgeting is magic if you commit to it.
I’ve always had credit cards since, but never once failed to pay off monthly.
I understand that the card companies call people like me “floaters.” They hate us.
Good!
I just watched this interview. Excellent!
Both gentlemen are trying to help people be successful!
No “woke BS”, and it was refreshing and hopeful!
I hope Trump asks this gentleman to be part of his administration, maybe working with small business companies. Trump picked Great Talent and I sure hope this second term is ALL STAR TEAM to MAGA!
Thanks Sundance for posting this interview.
Very good idea!
Maybe the Small Business Administration?
The Rust belt was prime steel industry. Once that’s removed, a total new shift is required. The high iron (railroads) has been torn out, even though they still have the right of ways, it will be next to impossible to redo any of it. Rails to trails sounded nifty, but once torn up, rails are expensive as Hell to replace! It is difficult to convert any area of what was productive to something totally different. Witness Pittsburgh! What do you replace the empty steel mills with? Shopping malls fill in just a little bit, but the massive removal of empty steel mills are impossible to replace with productive industry. One of the keys to reducing the inflation to bring down prices is “QUIT PRINTING MONEY 24/7” More money chasing less products isn’t going to work! Steel might still be king in the area, but nowhere near what it used to be! Even river traffic is way down!
There is no choice, but to Make America Great Again. The alternative is WW3, WW4 ad nauseam
He also has to shrink federal government. I understand not wanting to discuss that just yet. When the time comes for the tax cuts, then announce federal job cuts.
Thank you, Sundance!
Dave talks about the baby steps needed to get out of debt. Democrats at best would be babies crawling and would never get out of the crib of debt and would demand free baby formula and to be left alone.
They need to get started with the ‘Beans and Rice, Rice and Beans’ diet.
Also, the only time you will see the inside of a budget is when you are working there is to trim and take out the pork fat.
The “promotion from within” strategy is the only long term strategy any company can employ that will secure said company’s future viability.. The employees promoted from within have a tendancy to be loyal and future security driven.. if you doubt this look at UPS, its failure over the last 10 years and how they lost their way..
A BIG change that is needed is to mandate that all online retailers disclose the manufacturing origin of all products in an easy to see location in the product description. The website must tell you “made in China”. Amazon often hides this, for example. And it’s one of those slippery “manufactured in China, assembled in USA” situations, they have to tell you that, too.
A lot of them hide this because they know a lot of people will pay more for genuine 100% Made in USA products. Give an ADDITIONAL tax breaks to companies that not only manufacture in USA, but most of the materials are SOURCED in USA.
If Amazon were smart, they’d set up a pure Made in USA website to capitalize on this. But they won’t.
Hokkoda: If it doesn’t say “Made in USA,” it’s not! Also, “Designed in USA” doesn’t count and “Assembled in USA” means that the important parts were made in China. “Domestic and foreign content/sources/ingredients” means mostly lower-quality foreign stuff.
To buy “Made in USA,” consumers need to do their research.
70% of all fed spending is for social programs including Soc Sec/Medicare/Medicaid/HHS/welfare/food stamps etc. How does a country survive when they cannot grow quickly, and are TIED to these MANDATORY spends? And especially when one party is intent on forever GIVEAWAYS. We always have $ to give away, but 35T is ready to eat us for lunch. We must reform, or we collapse, just like Rome. The arrogance in thinking we can just continue is the problem. 40% of church goers don’t vote. Wake up people.
BigPharma is trying to get Ozempic etc. prescribed to “residents” as young as six. Casey Means claims Ozempic is $1,500 a pop (US price) and is designed to be a lifetime drug. Never are the same kids told to stop drinking soda (diabetes water) and consuming ultra-processed addictive foods (e.g., Doritos). Ozempic alone will balloon our federal deficit while feeding the profits of the Chronic Disease Industrial Complex. – Having spent a decade overseas, in many countries you simply walk into a pharmacy and buy what you need (no prescription required) and I’ve found the cost to be ~1/10 the cost of the same item in the US.
The reason that medication is so cheap and healthcare is free (socialized medicine) in other countries is that Americans are charged a hefty premium that covers everyone else. Now that Americans are struggling the socialists will be devastated.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” Margaret Thatcher
I get your point; however, the countries I was referring to are not socialist and healthcare is not free (even though these countries run a surplus not a deficit). Rather they simply require better pricing in return for market access. IMO our corrupt bureaucrats allow BigPharma to hose Americans in return for lobbyist money and cush post-governmental positions.
Actually ozempic would play and DOES play right into their depopulation program.
A bit slower working than the clotshot – but starting kids out at 6 would mean a pretty unhealthy child for the rest of its short life.
It causes people not to eat enough. The main way this hurts people, is the muscle wasting that goes on – because you’ll never eat/get as much protein as your body requires to be sound.
That’s a lot of the weight ozempic users lose – not fat, though they lose that also, of course.
When you’re older, you’ll never regain that muscle – you’ll be weak and your bones won’t be healthy either. People have been lied to and misled greatly in nutrition, more than just ‘what food is best for you’ but also in what in our bodies are affected by what we eat and don’t eat. Who here thinks bones are all or mostly about calcium?
“If you’re protein-deficient, you can’t build muscle, skin, or bones,” Dr. Rosen warns. “You need protein for strength and stability.”
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/essential-nutrients-your-body-needs-for-building-bone
What ozempic would cause with decreased protein and other food in children…
Protein intake in youth
“In childhood and adolescence, protein plays a key role in bone mass acquisition. At this stage of life, undernutrition, including insufficient caloric and protein intake, can severely impair bone development. Low protein intake lowers both the production and action of Insulin-like Growth Factor (IGF-1), which enhances bone formation. In addition, IGF-1 stimulates the intestinal absorption of the bone mineral elements calcium and phosphate, via an increase in the renal production of calcitriol, the hormonal form of vitamin D. In addition, IGF-1 directly stimulates the renal tubular reabsorption of phosphate. During growth and pubertal maturation, impaired production and action of IGF-1 due to low protein intake may result in reduced bone development. A positive correlation between protein intake and bone mass gain can be detected in children. For further information see Nutrition in Children and Adolescents.”
Ozempic in older diabetics…
Protein intake in seniors
Dietary protein intake plays a critical role at older age. Bone mineral density (BMD), an important determinant of bone strength, appears to be positively associated with dietary protein intakes – variation in protein intakes within the normal range accounts for 2–4% of BMD variance in adults [1]. Seniors with decreased protein intake are also more vulnerable to muscle weakness, sarcopenia and frailty, all contributing to increased risk of falling.
https://www.osteoporosis.foundation/health-professionals/prevention/nutrition/protein-and-other-nutrients
3. Consume Enough Protein
“Getting enough protein is important for healthy bones. In fact, about 50% of bone is made of protein.
Researchers have reported that low protein intake decreases calcium absorption and may also affect rates of bone formation and breakdown (22Trusted Source).
However, concerns have also been raised that high-protein diets leach calcium from bones in order to counteract increased acidity in the blood.
Nevertheless, studies have found that this doesn’t occur in people who consume up to 100 grams of protein daily, as long as this is balanced with plenty of plant foods and adequate calcium intake (23Trusted Source, 24Trusted Source).
In fact, research suggests that older women, in particular, appear to have better bone density when they consume higher amounts of protein (25Trusted Source, 26Trusted Source, 27Trusted Source).
In a large, six-year observational study of over 144,000 postmenopausal women, higher protein intake was linked to a lower risk of forearm fractures and significantly higher bone density in the hip, spine and total body (27Trusted Source).
What’s more, diets containing a greater percentage of calories from protein may help preserve bone mass during weight loss.
In a one-year study, women who consumed 86 grams of protein daily on a calorie-restricted diet lost less bone mass from their arm, spine, hip and leg areas than women who consumed 60 grams of protein per day (28Trusted Source).”
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/build-healthy-bones#TOC_TITLE_HDR_4
Thank you for taking time to enrich the content of this thread. Your informative positions are logical, well-researched and sourced. Look forward to your future posts.
Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to F things up. Our strategic oil reserves have been depleted, our FEMA funding has been depleted, what else has the POTATUS Admin re-allocated to their invasion of foreigners? I think the economic hole is going to be much larger than currently meets the eye.
Totally agree but the above are not an “F up” from China’s perspective. Biden did have the foresight to have taxpayers pay for a wall around his beach house and build multi-generational wealth from “public service”.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-builds-taxpayer-funded-wall-delaware-beach-house-despite-opposing-border-barriers
First, Americans must return to a more sane and lasting existence. We are all caught up in the instant. We must have every new gadget (phones-even though the one we have is perfectly fine; clothes-even though we have only washed them 1; appliances-even though the ones we have work well…and on and on and on.) People buy furniture like they purchase gadgets. We don’t take care of what we have…from material things all the way to our families, friends, God…whatever.
First, Americans must return to a more sane and lasting existence. Then we can begin the begining of the beginnnig of the restoration of our country.
God is shaking. We are not paying attention.
Dave Ramsey’s radio show and book “The Total Money Makeover” changed my life. I’ve always been frugal but was personal finances ignorant. He gave me a plan.
I haven’t listened to him for a while because he’s kind of woke and his advice doesn’t appear to take into consideration the things Sundance talks about. Still he gives a solid financial foundation.
Thank you, that’s why I stopped listening, he’s kind of woke.
It’s the woke Boomer vibe that blinded us to the evil behind it.
(Concur he does have some decent late 80s/early 90s advice for certain situations.)
Trump needs to buy a nice cabin in Siberia for Jared and Ivanka.
kam: Yup.
Go back to Gold Standard. No Fiat Money! Get rid of IRS and Central Bank. No income tax. If an item has been taxed, it will never be taxed again.
The youth beginning to work now are so aware of the taxes on taxes! I have some hope!
In 2015 when Trump was campaigning on his economic plans, a friend of mine appropriately stated
He will do a lot of good in 4 or 8 years but we need him for 20
What Trump will put in place needs the right persons to see it through long term
Regardless of the 2024 election results, I believe Trump will be the last Republican President. We can never undo the damage caused by the Uniparty’s open borders. I pray every night that I am wrong.
The Republicans touting “cheap labor!” have signed their own death warrant.
All the “as long as it’s legal” voters are turning Red states into purple, then blue, meaning the Uniparty Democrats will have a permanent lock on elections from this time forward. We will be a single party nation like Mexico was for 70 years under the left-wing PRI party.
(Finally bringing in the PAN candidate, Vincente Fox, only made things worse, he sent his workers here as we sent our factories there.)
How about cutting federal spending?
Both gentlemen say “do what you LOVE TO DO”! If you are not happy in your job and waking up is bad experience. PRAY.
PRAY a LOT! Ask God to COME INTO YOU! GOD moving you from within, GOD and YOU joining together (GOD in charge).
You have NO IDEA what is right for AnyONE in the Universe! Stop being prideful like Lucifer! Stop it.
Ask God to LIVE in you and Guide you, and keep doing it 100 times a day, until you can feel GOD. If you don’t feel GOD in you, … Keep doing it hour after hour after hour. Until you can feel when you are connected.
GOD wants Trump to do what Trump is doing! Elon is doing what GOD wants Elon to do. Do you see the “GOD POWER” in them, moving them, do likewise. Start at the bottom. First get GOD IN YOU! and … over time … God will direct your WILL, GOD’s WILL flowing through you , and you can truthfully say, NOT my ego, but God moving through me, flowing through me, and I give the GLORY to GOD. Start small.
These 2 guys in video are in the flow! Join them! First things FIRST!
OK – I get that a lot of PDJT’s policies will lower inflation, and lower prices on energy, goods, etc. — and put more money in people’s pockets. And I even hear him talk about lowering interest rates. But I don’t hear anything about the price of housing itself or rents going down. In NE Ohio, our houses and rents have doubled and tripled in price in just 3 years — but incomes here have not doubled or tripled. I have been trying to find a cheap house in an area that had cheap houses before covid. My rent keeps going up — two years ago, instead of the usual $10-2o increase, it went up by $70. And I am in one of the cheaper apartments in this area. But housing inventory remains tight, and the asking prices are not going down.
My question is, how can the price of houses or rents come back to pre-covid levels, even with new policies? (Especially when PDJT has a positive business connection with CEO Larry Fink of Blackrock?) I would like to pay cash for a fixer-upper, foreclosed, or as-is property, but most properties here that sell for under $100,000 never hit the MLS, and end up being bought up by Blackrock-type LLCs and contractors. They snap them up, paint and vinyl everything 50 shades of gray, and then double or triple the price to flip them. In fact, 25% of Ohio’s real estate is being bought by predatory investors, who are keeping these houses from working class folks looking on the open market. Even the prices in low-income “hood” areas are just as high – no real bargains there, either.
I don’t see that landlords are going to lower their rents back to more affordable levels, since they know they can get these high rates, esp if the economy is booming again. I am on Social Security, along with some freelance writing, but my rent is nearly half of my income — and there ARE no cheaper apartments here. My Social Security increase is not doubling or tripling, my Medicare supplement creeps up, and my Plan D Drug plan just went from $5 to $40/mo for 2025, thanks to the Inflation Reduction Plan. (Ha.)
And I don’t know how housing prices will go down, when even the foreclosures that do make it to a sheriff sale are way overpriced, because the assessed value is now based on their value when the market spiked. Local taxes keep going up — will those ever go down? And people will not lower their selling prices as long as they believe they can get exorbitant amounts.
Back during the real estate crash of 2009ish, there was a glut of foreclosures and bank owned houses that hit the market, which brought the frothy toppy housing market back to lower, normal ranges. But with the market rigged as it by Wall Street predatory investors (which accounts for 25% of Ohio’s housing sales), middle class buyers are shut out. (I don’t like Sherrod Brown, but at least he is addressing the issue by wanting to stop the investors from boxing out the middle class. So credit where it’s due.)
Maybe PDJT has addressed this issue and I’ve missed it — if so, please somebody fill me in. Even the so-called affordable housing programs being proposed usually shut out people like me who make just a little too much or have too much in savings to qualify. I really didn’t want to go into debt or completely drain my savings to buy a house — and until a few years ago, that was a reasonable goal. Help!
Sherrod Brown is wanting to stop, I think that’s called political speak in an election year. Name one thing he’s done in his entire tenure that has helped Americans or Ohioans.
You missed the whole point of my post — as well as my disclaimer that I don’t like Sherrod, and won’t be voting for him.
But actually, I find him to be like Bernie Sanders — too far left and liberal on most things, but like a broken clock, occasionally breaking from the Dem party and being on the right side of an issue. Sherrod and Bernie were both against the TPP, and Sherrod publicly applauded PDJT for getting out of it, and offered to work with him to retool NAFTA to favor U.S. workers. He does seem to be more reasonable than most Dems on things like trade and tarriffs.
https://www.brown.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/brown-applauds-executive-action-on-tpp-after-decades-fighting-for-fair-trade
Here’s more info about Ohio’s situation, and Sherrod’s legislation against predatory investors from 2023 — not sure why JD Vance was slow to read it or back it, but he agrees that it is a major problem here in Ohio.
https://abc6onyourside.com/on-your-side/problem-solvers/ohio-housing-crisis-state-federal-legislation-us-senators-jd-vance-sherrod-brown-stop-predatory-investing-act-institutional-investors-foreign-home-buyers
SUCH a great question!
(Another quibble with real estate broker Dave is his “buy rentals!” schtick. This ain’t 1985, nor even 1995, hasn’t been for a while, pal.)
Thanks for the kind words, Alzaebo!
And is Dave still promoting buying rentals? The risks have changed in recent years, especially since covid, when the govt wouldn’t let landlords evict tenants who were behind in their rent. It created a squatter mentality that some landlords are still battling.
Deport illegal alien invaders. Cut off the inflow. Many billions saved here. Less debt on my grandkids.
Energy is low hanging fruit. Household disposable income can rocket up immediately.
Tariffs on any country who cheats us, and refuses to buy our goods. The multinational corps can piss off. Either pay the tariff or invest here. Your choice.
This is week 1.
All you have to do to cause most illegals to self deport is to impose a draft on all military aged illegals. Those that dodge the draft can then be visibly rounded up, put on a bus and sent to a boot camp. They do not need to be trained to be soldiers unless we need them to be but they do need to be deployed to bases and installations that are near their home countries. Deserters, if caught, automatically go to prison for a long time.
All persons on any Voter/DMV database have 60 days to register online at a designated Federal website.
Those verified as citizens will be notified and removed from the database.
Those registering, for whom citizenship can not be immediately determined, will be required to provide legal documents specific to their “status” within 30 days of official notification.
Those not registering or, having registered can not/do not provide substantiating proof of citizenship or legal status, will be given a final 15 days to request assistance from an approved source.
Those individuals who refuse to register or, have registered but can not provide sufficient documentation to prove eligibility to be in the country or, provide false credentials or documentation, will immediately be located (via Govt benefit card/license/
program use data) and detained for processimg and removal.
Yes, I guess reducing energy prices would naturally reduce product prices without the scariness of the dread “deflation” word. Just have to make sure the producers transfer their savings on to the consumer and don’t pocket it.
It’s too bad ramsey doesn’t apply the greater importance of staying healthy physically over money. What a slob.
I appreciate these long form interviews instead of sound bites or gotcha questions.
I learn a lot more.
There is a reason why our Founders chose tariffs to pay for government.
Promote from within means (=) jobs for AMERICANS.
In the past, China has absorbed the cost of US tariffs but simply lowering the exchange rate of the Chinese currency. They do this to maintain the same level of exports as well as market share!
However, by lowering the exchange rate the Dollar strengthens.
A stronger Dollar makes those imports more affordable.
Whatever benefit CHI-NA may receive, WE PAY LESS.
Democrat’s Panicking…
Ukrainian Lines Collapsing With World’s Attention On Middle East War
Thursday, Oct 03, 2024 – 03:22 PM
Moscow’s wide-reaching offensive in eastern Ukraine has continued making steady gains, as looming major war between Israel and Iran has largely taken over the news cycle and daily headlines.
Currently Russian forces have advanced to merely within a few a few kilometers of Pokrovsk, a key Ukrainian logistical hub in the region. As we’ve highlighted before, the collapse of Pokrovsk will likely portend a Russian takeover of the whole of Donetsk.
On Wednesday the Ukrainian army announced that it has fully withdrawn from the eastern town of Vuhledar, describing that it abandoned the area after being almost fully encircled, and coming under heavy Russian artillery bombardment.
Even The Daily Beast recently underscored that while President Zelensky was pitching his ‘victory plan’ in Washington, his forces were suffering loss after loss:
On a visit to the U.S. last week, Volodymyr Zelensky gave the hard sell to his “Victory Plan” for Ukraine. In meetings with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, and an awkward encounter with former President Donald Trump, the Ukrainian leader insisted his country could still–with Western help–emerge victorious in its long-running war with Russia.
…After two and a half years of war, soldiers are tired. The same soldiers who gave Vladimir Putin’s forces a bloody nose after the February 2022 invasion, and pushed the invaders from Kyiv and Kharkiv, say they are under-equipped and complain that they are being ordered to carry out impossible missions as Kyiv struggles to supply the military with new recruits and acquire more Western weapons to ward off Russian advances.
The same report has said that in some instances entire battalions are refusing orders from command centers as they see them as “suicide missions”.
“With little training and battleground conditions far removed from what they signed up for at the beginning of the war, the men are sent on what they describe as suicide missions: They are told to get behind enemy lines to launch attacks, yet are not given the weaponry to do so successfully,” Daily Beast wrote.
As for Vuhledar, Russia’s defense ministry (MoD) and state media are in a celebratory mood. “As a result of conclusive operations by the units of the ‘East’ group of forces, the town of Ugledar in the DPR has been liberated,” the miliary announced Thursday.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukrainian-lines-collapsing-east-worlds-attention-middle-east-war
Polls suggest Republicans are going to lose the House. That puts a crimp in Trump’s plan.
Trump should put Dave Ramsey in charge of federal spending.
“Beans and Rice, Rice and Beans!” until we get the federal budget down to where it can do a “debt-free scream.”
Washington DC needs to have an economic depression caused by massive Fed Government layoffs. Follow the Argentina blueprint. Reduce the size of government, reduce government spending = less borrowed dollars flooding the system and reduced inflation.
I have a suggestion: Get government out of the way of free enterprise by severely cutting spending. Let American ingenuity take care of the rest. Great people out there, but they are shackled to their jail cells by regulations, stolen wages, and loss of states’ rights. Simple.