Donald Trump attacks Hillary Clinton as wins set stage for brutal election

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Arizona_Mike said:
The fact that she can’t finish an aging socialist who honeymooned in the U.S.S.R. tells us a lot. People are voting for her out of partisan habit, not because they actually like her as a candidate. (With some demographic exceptions).
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I was going to say that too, but I didn’t want to appear cranky.
 
Somewhat no different in both parties. That said she has just 37 percent of people who believe Hillary is honest and trustworthy while 57 percent say they don’t think she is.

With all the bets on Trump and rain forecasts, my bet remains the same that Hillary will not make it to the general election, I don’t trust Hillary but I trust the FBI. 😉
 
GaryTaylor said:
Somewhat no different in both parties. That said she has just 37 percent of people who believe Hillary is honest and trustworthy while 57 percent say they don’t think she is.

With all the bets on Trump and rain forecasts, my bet remains the same that Hillary will not make it to the general election, I don’t trust Hillary but I trust the FBI. 😉
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Now if only something comes to light that could cause the FBI to investigate Trump, too…
 
tomarin said:
I was going to say that too, but I didn’t want to appear cranky.
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I’m always willing to appear cranky.

I was looking at Trump’s economic policy plan today. I have to say it’s better than the Clintonista plan:
  • Trump slashes the corporate tax rate to 15 percent, down from the current 40 percent, the highest rate in the industrialized world. Not all American companies pay that staggering rate, but even after deductions and accounting maneuvers, companies in the United States end up clobbered by taxes nearly twice the global average (24 percent).
In Ireland, a magnet for tax-weary companies, the rate is only 12.5 percent and their economy is growing about three times as fast as ours. Conversely, Japan and Argentina are stuck in the doldrums along with America, partly because of their high rates.
  • Trump also proposes a one-time 10 percent repatriation tax on profits US companies made overseas and kept there to avoid the 40 percent rate. That bargain could lure back as much as $2.5 trillion in capital urgently needed here.
  • To promote investing in plants and equipment, Trump would allow companies to write off the purchases the year they’re made, rather than over several years, as current law requires.
Economist Larry Kudlow predicts that if Trump’s corporate tax plan becomes law, you’ll see “a tremendous movement of capital and labor back to the United States.”
  • Trump’s lower 15 percent business rate would also apply to small businesses that usually get taxed at individual income tax rates. That would give a break to mom-and-pop operations, startups and other small businesses that are the source of most jobs. (This would help my business enormously.)
  • Trump’s “make America rich” plan targets impoverished cities like Baltimore with incentives for companies to move there. For African-Americans, whose unemployment rate is twice as high as the nation’s overall, Trump’s has a four-letter remedy: J-O-B-S.
  • For young blacks with no job experience, he’s got plans. One is borrowed from the left-leaning Century Foundation. Every summer, the State Department brings about 100,000 young foreigners into the United States to work in restaurants, camps and seaside resorts under J-1 visas. Trump says convert the program into a jobs bank for our own inner-city youth.
(Source: nypost.com/2016/05/04/donald-trumps-policy-plans-are-real-detailed-and-great/)
 
Exiled_Child said:
Donald Trump’s new finance guru: once a Clinton donor, Soros employee

publicintegrity.org/2016/05/05/19634/donald-trumps-new-finance-guru-once-clinton-donor-soros-employee
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About one-third of Mnuchin’s giving has benefited Republicans. The rest has gone to nonpartisan political action committees such as the PAC of Goldman Sachs, where Mnuchin worked for 17 years.
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They’re trying to get their meat hooks in like with Hillary and Bill who are bought and sold already. :eek:
 
Arizona_Mike said:
I’m always willing to appear cranky.

I was looking at Trump’s economic policy plan today. I have to say it’s better than the Clintonista plan:
  • Trump slashes the corporate tax rate to 15 percent, down from the current 40 percent, the highest rate in the industrialized world. Not all American companies pay that staggering rate, but even after deductions and accounting maneuvers, companies in the United States end up clobbered by taxes nearly twice the global average (24 percent).
In Ireland, a magnet for tax-weary companies, the rate is only 12.5 percent and their economy is growing about three times as fast as ours. Conversely, Japan and Argentina are stuck in the doldrums along with America, partly because of their high rates.
  • Trump also proposes a one-time 10 percent repatriation tax on profits US companies made overseas and kept there to avoid the 40 percent rate. That bargain could lure back as much as $2.5 trillion in capital urgently needed here.
  • To promote investing in plants and equipment, Trump would allow companies to write off the purchases the year they’re made, rather than over several years, as current law requires.
Economist Larry Kudlow predicts that if Trump’s corporate tax plan becomes law, you’ll see “a tremendous movement of capital and labor back to the United States.”
  • Trump’s lower 15 percent business rate would also apply to small businesses that usually get taxed at individual income tax rates. That would give a break to mom-and-pop operations, startups and other small businesses that are the source of most jobs. (This would help my business enormously.)
  • Trump’s “make America rich” plan targets impoverished cities like Baltimore with incentives for companies to move there. For African-Americans, whose unemployment rate is twice as high as the nation’s overall, Trump’s has a four-letter remedy: J-O-B-S.
  • For young blacks with no job experience, he’s got plans. One is borrowed from the left-leaning Century Foundation. Every summer, the State Department brings about 100,000 young foreigners into the United States to work in restaurants, camps and seaside resorts under J-1 visas. Trump says convert the program into a jobs bank for our own inner-city youth.
(Source: nypost.com/2016/05/04/donald-trumps-policy-plans-are-real-detailed-and-great/)
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Thank you for posting a summary of the economic issues proposed by Trump,

The tax items could literally be done on Day One of the Trump Administration.

As you know, the new Congress takes office on January 1, whereas the President doesn’t get sworn in until January 20.

So, Congress could pass the tax law changes and if Trump is elected in November, then he could sign those laws on January 20th.

Easy peasy.

Other things could also be done on Day One of the Trump Administration.

He could order the Border Patrol to go back to work. [Right now, they have been ordered by President Obama to stand down. He could just reverse that.]

There are some controversial administrative rules such as the EPA outlawing carbon dioxide … [Yes, I simplify] … he could reverse that.

Then there are the Waters of the USA … the Army now “owns” all drainage ditches and mud puddles. He could reverse that.

There are some squishy “science” issues … such as coal generated electricity being blamed for air pollution … and asthma … all based on speculation, not based on science. All is part of the Obama agenda to “make the cost of electricity necessarily skyrocket”. He could reverse that.

Add to that the CAFE … miles per gallon … for cars … Corporate Average Fuel Economy … which lead to such lightweight cars that they become unsafe in crashes. He could reverse that.

All kinds of bureaucratic things.

Trump wants education returned to the states … he could implement that. He could order the Dept of Education bureaucrats to drive to Texas and New Mexico and be merged in with the Border Patrol.

We used to have medical insurance with HSA’s and catastrophic; he could re-allow those and make ObamaCare to be optional.

Quit subsidizing wind and solar power … saves billions and gets reliability into the system. That would also allow nuclear and coal power to continue without mandating unreliable, expensive, boutique power.

There are lots of things he could do on Day One.
 
President George W. Bush was very pro-life. Donald J. Trump could implement the same pro-life policies as former President Bush:

President George W. Bush was VERY pro-life, even though the Democrats fought him every step of the way.

PRO-LIFE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
  1. Appointed Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. The appointments resulted in the upholding of the federal partial-birth abortion ban by a 5-4 decision.
  2. Reinstituted the Mexico City Policy, begun by the Reagan Administration and reversed by the Clinton Administration (when Congress tried to reinstitute the policy, Clinton vetoed the bill), that bars foreign aid funding to groups that perform or advocate for abortions. In 2003, the Bush Administration expanded the Mexico City Policy to include not just funds dispensed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), but also the State Department.
  3. Discouraged advancement of pro-abortion legislation by announcing early in his administration that he would veto legislation that threatened pro-life policy.
  4. Signed the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, which made it a federal crime not to treat babies who survive abortion.
  5. Signed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban of 2003.
  6. Signed Unborn Victims of Violence Act, recognizing the unborn child as a separate crime victim if injured or killed during an assault.
  7. Cut off all federal funds to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for its involvement in China’s one-child policy which includes forced abortion and sterilization. President Bush sent a fact-finding mission to China which found that the nation’s one-child policy was indeed coercive in nature and that the UNFPA was an integral part of implementing that policy, placing the UNFPA in clear violation of the Kemp-Kasten Amendment that prohibits any aid to any program that involves forced abortion or forced sterilization. Tens of millions of dollars that otherwise would have gone to the UNFPA were redirected to maternal and child health programs.
  8. Thwarted efforts at the United Nations to promote abortion by instructing U.S. delegates to state at every appropriate opportunity that America does not regard anything in any document before the U.N. to establish any international right to abortion.
  9. Issued Executive Order banning the use of new lines of embryonic stem cells in federally funded experiments. Later vetoed legislation passed by Congress to permit federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
  10. Signed the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, which will fund research using umbilical cord and adult stem cells. The measure provides funding to increase the inventory of cord blood units available to match and treat patients and to link cord blood banks so that doctors have a single source to search for cord blood and bone marrow matches. It also reauthorizes the National Bone Marrow Registry.
  11. Launched public awareness of adoption campaign, working with the National Council for Adoption and pregnancy help centers across the country. The campaign sponsored conferences encouraging faith based communities to promote adoption and produced public service announcements featuring the First Lady urging the adoption of foster children.
  12. Established the first federal government and national website listing and showing children available for adoption across the country (www.AdoptUSKids.org).
  13. Increased the tax credit for adoption related expenses from $5,000 to $10,000; for special needs children, the credit was raised from $5,000 for qualified adoption related expenses to $10,000 for any adoption related expenses. This was done as part of the President’s tax relief bill.
  14. Annually declared Sanctity of Human Life Day.
  15. Issued a federal regulation allowing states to include unborn children in the federal/state S-CHIP program, which provides health insurance for children in poor families. This allowed states to include pre-natal care in the health insurance they offer to poor children under the program.
  16. The Bush Administration did what it could to stop assisted suicide from taking further hold in Oregon. The state of Oregon passed an assisted suicide law that allows doctors to prescribe federally controlled drugs in lethal amounts to certain of their patients who say they want to die. Federal law holds that federally controlled drugs may only be prescribed for legitimate medical purposes. During the Clinton Administration, Attorney General Janet Reno decreed that assisted suicide was a legitimate medical purpose in those states that permit it.
During the Bush Administration, Attorney General John Ashcroft changed that ruling, saying that assisted suicide was not a legitimate medical purpose, thereby barring doctors from prescribing lethal drugs. A lawsuit was filed and ultimately, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing the drugs to be used for assisted suicide.
  1. Signed legislation making it possible for a federal court to hear whether Terri Schiavo’s constitutional rights had been violated by being denied hydration and nutrition.
  2. Dramatically increased funding for abstinence education through the Department of Health and Human Services, although Congress did not approve the full amount the Bush Administration requested.
 
Monte_RCMS said:
President George W. Bush was very pro-life. Donald J. Trump could implement the same pro-life policies as former President Bush:

President George W. Bush was VERY pro-life, even though the Democrats fought him every step of the way.

PRO-LIFE ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION
  1. Appointed Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. The appointments resulted in the upholding of the federal partial-birth abortion ban by a 5-4 decision.
  2. Reinstituted the Mexico City Policy, begun by the Reagan Administration and reversed by the Clinton Administration (when Congress tried to reinstitute the policy, Clinton vetoed the bill), that bars foreign aid funding to groups that perform or advocate for abortions. In 2003, the Bush Administration expanded the Mexico City Policy to include not just funds dispensed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), but also the State Department.
  3. Discouraged advancement of pro-abortion legislation by announcing early in his administration that he would veto legislation that threatened pro-life policy.
  4. Signed the Born-Alive Infant Protection Act, which made it a federal crime not to treat babies who survive abortion.
  5. Signed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban of 2003.
  6. Signed Unborn Victims of Violence Act, recognizing the unborn child as a separate crime victim if injured or killed during an assault.
  7. Cut off all federal funds to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) for its involvement in China’s one-child policy which includes forced abortion and sterilization. President Bush sent a fact-finding mission to China which found that the nation’s one-child policy was indeed coercive in nature and that the UNFPA was an integral part of implementing that policy, placing the UNFPA in clear violation of the Kemp-Kasten Amendment that prohibits any aid to any program that involves forced abortion or forced sterilization. Tens of millions of dollars that otherwise would have gone to the UNFPA were redirected to maternal and child health programs.
  8. Thwarted efforts at the United Nations to promote abortion by instructing U.S. delegates to state at every appropriate opportunity that America does not regard anything in any document before the U.N. to establish any international right to abortion.
  9. Issued Executive Order banning the use of new lines of embryonic stem cells in federally funded experiments. Later vetoed legislation passed by Congress to permit federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
  10. Signed the Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research Act of 2005, which will fund research using umbilical cord and adult stem cells. The measure provides funding to increase the inventory of cord blood units available to match and treat patients and to link cord blood banks so that doctors have a single source to search for cord blood and bone marrow matches. It also reauthorizes the National Bone Marrow Registry.
  11. Launched public awareness of adoption campaign, working with the National Council for Adoption and pregnancy help centers across the country. The campaign sponsored conferences encouraging faith based communities to promote adoption and produced public service announcements featuring the First Lady urging the adoption of foster children.
  12. Established the first federal government and national website listing and showing children available for adoption across the country (www.AdoptUSKids.org).
  13. Increased the tax credit for adoption related expenses from $5,000 to $10,000; for special needs children, the credit was raised from $5,000 for qualified adoption related expenses to $10,000 for any adoption related expenses. This was done as part of the President’s tax relief bill.
  14. Annually declared Sanctity of Human Life Day.
  15. Issued a federal regulation allowing states to include unborn children in the federal/state S-CHIP program, which provides health insurance for children in poor families. This allowed states to include pre-natal care in the health insurance they offer to poor children under the program.
  16. The Bush Administration did what it could to stop assisted suicide from taking further hold in Oregon. The state of Oregon passed an assisted suicide law that allows doctors to prescribe federally controlled drugs in lethal amounts to certain of their patients who say they want to die. Federal law holds that federally controlled drugs may only be prescribed for legitimate medical purposes. During the Clinton Administration, Attorney General Janet Reno decreed that assisted suicide was a legitimate medical purpose in those states that permit it.
During the Bush Administration, Attorney General John Ashcroft changed that ruling, saying that assisted suicide was not a legitimate medical purpose, thereby barring doctors from prescribing lethal drugs. A lawsuit was filed and ultimately, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of allowing the drugs to be used for assisted suicide.
  1. Signed legislation making it possible for a federal court to hear whether Terri Schiavo’s constitutional rights had been violated by being denied hydration and nutrition.
  2. Dramatically increased funding for abstinence education through the Department of Health and Human Services, although Congress did not approve the full amount the Bush Administration requested.
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Thank you for compiling this list. I am tired of hearing that no Republican president has done anything to stop some of these horrors.
 
In_Hoc_Signo312 said:
Now if only something comes to light that could cause the FBI to investigate Trump, too…
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Pretty doubtful. Law enforcement gets “reports” on people like Trump every day because they’re high profile and a lot of people resent them for what they are. Some they look into, and some they don’t. If Trump was dirty we would have heard about it long ago.
 
Arizona_Mike said:
The fact that she can’t finish an aging socialist who honeymooned in the U.S.S.R. tells us a lot. People are voting for her out of partisan habit, not because they actually like her as a candidate. (With some demographic exceptions).
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I like her. Obviously you have never been in the USSR. Parts of it are uncommonly beautiful, and if your ancestors are from there, I see no problem with wanting to visit it. I wouldn’t have voted for Trump, Cruz, or Kasich if I hated Clinton, though. I am not a conservative, though. Well, neither is Trump, but I still can’t stand him.
 
Lily_Bernans said:
I like her. Obviously you have never been in the USSR. Parts of it are uncommonly beautiful, and if your ancestors are from there, I see no problem with wanting to visit it. I wouldn’t have voted for Trump, Cruz, or Kasich if I hated Clinton, though. I am not a conservative, though. Well, neither is Trump, but I still can’t stand him.
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I have indeed been to the U.S.S.R., Lily, on several trips while I was a government employee. Some of my family on my father’s side left there before the Bolshevik Revolution and came to America, those who didn’t were murdered by the Soviet regime during collectivization. There are no family members left there now.

Yes, it can be quite lovely.
 
Ridgerunner said:
Pretty doubtful. Law enforcement gets “reports” on people like Trump every day because they’re high profile and a lot of people resent them for what they are. Some they look into, and some they don’t. If Trump was dirty we would have heard about it long ago.
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I don’t think it’s that kind of “dirt” we’re likely to hear about Trump. Maybe instead something like he paid for women to have abortions – his refusal to answer questions about this is weird. And then of course there are the hours and hours of Howard Stern shows and the like that HRC staffers are probably being paid to pour over to find more Trump gems from the past. I hate to wish away a summer but I think I’d be somewhat happy to skip this one.
 
Arizona_Mike said:
I have indeed been to the U.S.S.R., Lily, on several trips while I was a government employee. Some of my family on my father’s side left there before the Bolshevik Revolution and came to America, those who didn’t were murdered by the Soviet regime during collectivization. There are no family members left there now.

Yes, it can be quite lovely.
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Apologies for my mistake, and I’m sorry to read of your family tragedy there. The Soviet regime was, indeed, quite brutal and horrifying.
 
Another thing for Mr. Trump to do on Day One:

Immediately repeal the “Gun Free Zone Act”!!
 
Arizona_Mike said:
The fact that she can’t finish an aging socialist who honeymooned in the U.S.S.R. tells us a lot. People are voting for her out of partisan habit, not because they actually like her as a candidate. (With some demographic exceptions).
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Bernie is only 6 years older than Hillary – and she’s only 1 year younger than Trump. They’re all aging.

I don’t think anyone under 40 cares where he honeymooned – I’m pretty sure that they don’t assume anything negative about him as a result of where he took his bride.
 
gracepoole said:
I don’t think it’s that kind of “dirt” we’re likely to hear about Trump. Maybe instead something like he paid for women to have abortions – his refusal to answer questions about this is weird. And then of course there are the hours and hours of Howard Stern shows and the like that HRC staffers are probably being paid to pour over to find more Trump gems from the past. I hate to wish away a summer but I think I’d be somewhat happy to skip this one.
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I would guess he’s donated heavily to places supporting abortion like PP. Or he paid little tax. He refuses to release his tax return. I think he should do that. I’m not interested in Melania’s nude photos, though, but I saw a link to them this morning. Did not click on it, of course. If Trump is elected, I suppose Melania will be the first First Lady who has posed in the nude! She seems nice enough, and she is pretty, and every time I think that I pause and remember she is married to Trump.
 
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