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Participant“We’ll make Mexico and China pay our taxes.”
ParticipantLet’s hope that after people realize how unstable Trump is, that the market gains will go *poof.* Market gains going *poof* plus a lot of uncertainty as far as policies would be great for buyers.
Add to that the fact that 23.5% of SD County’s population is foreign born. Trump’s immigration games just threw a huge amount of uncertainty into the back of any non-citizen’s (or even recent citizen’s) minds.
(Bonus points if four years of Trump chaos means that GOP will be locked out of the White House for the next 20 years. Buying opportunity and the Teabaggers discredited once and for all, who can argue with that?)
ParticipantQM repeal (aka loans to skells) isn’t going anywhere fast.
What he did away with are fiduciary requirements that investment managers put their clients’ best interests first — more likely to make a stock bubble.
ParticipantI hope flu is wrong — the market needs a right hook to the jaw from Crashius Cray.
ParticipantOur fertility rate is below or at replacement, so population increases are mainly by immigration.
1 million per year is 0.3% per annum. Hardly unsustainable.
BTW – I’m close with someone whose parents were from a “southern neighbor” that isn’t Mexico, but has a similar per-capita income. Her father was a taxi and later a truck driver, her mom became a teacher. They went back and forth, she spent about 2/3 of her childhood outside the US.
The siblings and cousins that I’ve met generally have at least a master’s — quite a few lawyers, doctors, and engineers. Don’t assume that people from a humble background won’t educate themselves.
Let’s grant MORE visas. Even manual work needs doing. Better to satisfy the demand for immigration from all social strata vs allowing criminal gangs to control it.
ParticipantThe cynic in me says that outsourcing, even with some sort of tariff in place, will be easier than hiring foreign workers in the US if Trump’s proposals pass.
ParticipantI hope Drumpf will be on the impeachment block soon enough. “YOU’RE FIRED!” Immigration is one of the only things that makes the US worth living in.
ParticipantObamacare, low labor participation, add trillions of $ in debt that he called Bush unpatriotic for doing.
Obamacare: agreed, he should have gone with a public option. But hey, at least self-employed people with pre-existing conditions could finally get insurance in many states. In states that didn’t deliberately do a poor job of implementation, rates and coverages are actually reasonable. Cheapest gold plan ($600 deductible) is $532/mo in NY, but many people get a tax credit ranging from $70 to about $300 per month.
Low labor participation: that’s not actually an awful thing. More women chose not to work under Obama — having one parent stay home when raising kids is a good thing for families, IMHO. Once you take away over-65s, students, people in jail, and SAHMs, the numbers don’t look all that bad.
Debt was necessary to undo the fuckery that happened under Bush’s idiot son, who should have never got us into the homicide spree in Iraq (among many other errors).
ParticipantAs far as I know, people other than the President have to validate a nuclear launch order — do you think STRATCOM officials will be very cooperative if they suspect that the President has gone barking mad?
ParticipantThe dumb bint who wrote this article really thinks that Obama showed contempt for Congress? As opposed to Congress blocking his every appointee and move? Come on.
ParticipantSpineless jellyfish of a judge didn’t go far enough — she still allowed detention of green-card holders, just not actual deportation.
Participant10 billion Zimbabwe dollars.
January 26, 2017 at 8:59 PM in reply to: OT: San Diego Unified School District loses another $1.25 million #805159Participant“Still in therapy”. Come on.
Court should have awarded her a ten grand plus lawyer fees. Half to be paid by whoever made up the policy, the other half the the teacher herself.
ParticipantHorseshit. Financial benefit doesn’t take long-term environmental costs into account right now.
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