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Bryan's avatar

Our food is garbage in the US, full of plastics and chemicals injurious to the health of the population. Yet, government does nothing to change it as they are subservient to the lobbyists. We need to eliminate lobbying, period. Politicians should not be able to receive so much as a hamburger from anyone. That is the only way we will ever get our country back

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Petra Kehr's avatar

These are two positives that stick out. Praise for that.

But at the same time ramping up war spending by 50% when it was already levied by 25% last year? Any good in that except it vastly outpaces the disadvantages of housing for BR, Vanguard, State Streat and the other ilk?

And who remembers the then Sec of Defense Cheney on Sep 10 2001 admitting that Pentagon couldnt explain 2.8 trillion in spending when conveniently all the archives were destroyed the next day? And that Pentagon has failed Audit seven times now in a row?

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John Miller's avatar

Yes, Blackrock and others bid up the prices ...

... because they have UNLIMITED FUNDS ...

... FROM "WE THE PEOPLE" via the FED, the IRS, and who knows how many "spending bills" that actually end up AT BLACKROCK!

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Randy's avatar

So from a home seller’s viewpoint, those “evil vulture capitalists” should not be allowed to buy my home? No matter that they’re offering me thousands of dollars more than a young couple looking for a “starter home.” I should just bite the bullet and take the lower offer? Oh, wait… Here’s a single mom who only works part time and can’t qualify for the amount I’m asking. I guess I should knock 25% off the price and sell to her, simply to keep Trump happy and snatch it away from the multinational conglomerates with their deep pockets.

This is one of Trump’s greatest ideas yet! He’s sharp as a tack, in a Biden sort of way.

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Petra Kehr's avatar

Interesting. You like distorted markets if they serve your individual benefit. OK. What about thinking a bit further?

You sell and move elsewhere and try to buy a house there? Do I need to elaborate?

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Angk's avatar

Actually, Trump put them on notice. He can't ban the purchases, but he can eliminate or restrict corporations access to home buying benefits meant for us commoners through government entities. Without those sweet deductions, etc. it no longer is as lucrative. Trump said it best. People live in houses, not corporations.

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Allan Richard Wasem's avatar

The Food pyramid is HUUUUUGE!

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Peggy's avatar

I'm with you! However, there is still also a HUUUUUGE concern about all the sprays and insecticides on and IN all that "healthy" food. How about the very REAL problem of "Natural Flavorings", food colors and other hormone disrupters in, specifically, foods "designed" for children? Get the pyramid straightened out and then, hopefully, the specifics of the food "INDUSTRY". Why does food, including water, have to be an industry anyway? Because we don't make anything so people actually can find satisfying work anymore. Consequently, new industries needed to be created out of the minds and pockets of those able to do that. Then along came the 80's monopolies fattening themselves on the competition consolidating control (and POWER) into a few (wrong) hands. Awwww maybe I'm just full of wheat.

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Petra Kehr's avatar

It's a long and thorny way to better all that. But appreciating what's been done seems appropriate, doesn't it?

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Peggy's avatar

Yes, indeed!

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Allan Richard Wasem's avatar

You’re correct. As we say in my Twelve-Step Program: “One Step at a Time”.

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Ray Noack's avatar

I never feel right if I don’t have meat for a few days .

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LV OLD MAN's avatar

wish they would buy my house..in las vegas been sitting to long already down 75k

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Bruce C.'s avatar

Arron Rogers still hasn't sold his house either, but its in Green Bay.

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William Voelz's avatar

Best small town in America. Just ask any Packer fan.

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john galt's avatar

Blackrock and other like vultures are no friends of the U.S. or the citizens. They impose their leftist will on too many corporations and organizations through their massive cash holdings and stock purchases where they have an outsized vote and even control. They have pushed the weather hoax and the green energy scam which further enriches them and makes the nation weaker and more vulnerable. Trump faces a huge fight to reign in these basically anti-American vampires.

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Desert Jewel's avatar

And a cap on Defense Contractor CEO's salaries, don't forget that one!

Who needs a roller coaster, wild horse ride, or circus? Not me.

Keeping up with current events is a race car on steroids...head thrown back during takeoff.

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Joe's avatar

Regarding the "Equity Landlords," there is the typical confusion and confounding of cause v. effect. Trump ought to remove the government intervention(s) that had wrongly allowed for such a situation to occur, rather than to do more interventionism in the market. Misinterpreting cause v. effect happens way too often, especially with Conservatives, Leftists, and Liberals. And, no, Libertarianism is NOT being advocated. Just saying here that the market ought to be allowed to function, not yet more government interference that had caused the problem in the first place. Trump's effort to fight mere effects is truly dumb and, hence, terribly misdirected.

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Angk's avatar

That's what he's doing.

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Bruce C.'s avatar

I like your basic point, but what intervention(s)?

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Gordon Groves's avatar

labels: conservatives, leftists and liberals. Define them. I bet you can't. Just making yourself sound lazy

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Joe's avatar

Conservatives want a truly nice society of proper ladies and gentlemen. Leftists want a revolutionary society of radicalized beings who seem to be supposedly human enough. Liberals pretend, on average, to be less than Leftists but more than Conservatives who want an "enlightened" society of abstractionized individuals maximizing themselves ... for whatever that means. LOL

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Petra Kehr's avatar

What wonderful stereotypes. Good base to do judgements.

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Joe's avatar

Yes, I know, ... the truth hurts, doesn't it?

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Petra Kehr's avatar

Lol. Nice try

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Joe's avatar

OK Thanks!

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