Hire American, Buy American?

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  1. snakestretcher

    snakestretcher Banned

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    Does he profit from his clothing line? Yes he does. No excuses.
     
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    So you're not against people who refuse to pay their fair share?
     
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    The hypocrisy is astounding from Trump supporters. Pre-election and Trump supporters were stating that those US people without jobs should be forced to take those jobs instead of claiming welfare, now in your desperate defence of Trump, state that they only have to be willing and available to do that work! Then you add temporary as if that makes a difference. 'Your' side were also saying that those on welfare should be forced to do the true "temporary" fruit picking too.
     
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    Didn't you see Trump turn over all his business holdings to be run by his kids? He wasn't even required to do so by law but he did so anyway to remove any conflict of interests.
     
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    and there we have it, in a nutshell
    It's like liberals have retreated to a corner and are talking among themselves how terrible Trump is, as if this will have some kind of impact on elections moving forward.
    unless of course they have just given up altogether, like the football team losing 49-0 with one minute left in the game so they resort to kicking the opponents as they pass by.
     
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    so Trump is America first unless it's his businesses?
     
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    The idiocy of "Buy American" becomes more clear if one stresses it further and say "Buy Marylandian". Protectionism is economic suicide and one of the reasons Rome fell was Merchantilist policies.
     
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    I guess businesses doing business worldwide is an issue if Trump does it (before he was elected and now after) but everyone else gets a free pass. Trump has his sons running the company(s) now and they are free to do as they wish to grow and prosper. This is something that drives liberals up the wall. Doing business globally is a very sound strategy. Trump wants more manufacturing to come back to the United States. That is a sound strategy as well. If Apple and other companies were to keep their manufacturing here, it would have been a huge boom to our middle class and to the overall economy. They chose China instead.

    Trump is the first President I have seen actually dedicated to our lower and Middle Classes. Most Presidents before him were all hot air.
     
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    They know what they are doing. It is all part of their plan. The Left nurtures itself by creating conflicts, they need an "us" and a "them" to get a raison d'être. They will keep pushing their collectivist, identity politics agenda until the end of time.


    Their problem is that people are starting to see through this and are fed up with their bs.
     
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    not hardly, Trump only won cause so many democrats did not think he stood a chance and did not get out and vote sadly
     
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    He said he did. No proof he actually did, and considering how he lies who in their right mind would believe him?
     
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    What has he done for the middle class? He won't even bring back the jobs he has sent out of country, he is cutting programs that help the poor, and the disabled, and he has done nothing to decrease health care costs. Then too, he lied to the coal miners.
     
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    Not sure what that has to do with the topic, or your post. Then too, what do you consider to be ones "fair share"? When a corporation, or a 1 percenter, pays 0% in taxes, is that a "fair share" compared to the worker who earns minimum wage, and has 0% tax liability?
     
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    Ask that question in 4-8 years. An Administration should be judged after it is completed, not before. Hence, we can look back at Obama's and conclude it was an epic disaster. Especially for the poor and the Middle Class.
     
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    you're a comedian, right?
    lololol...THAT WAS GOOD
     
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    Yes, depending on the circumstances. Sometimes its much better for the country to give tax breaks to corporations to spur production and growth. Trump paid $38 million in 2005 for his Federal taxes. What did you pay? How many jobs did you create? Attacking those that are wealthy seems to be your mantra. Why the hatred?
     
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    I own some stocks. I make some profits from the dividends. But I have no freaking say so over the day to day operations of the companies or even if they decided to close down their factories in American and relocated over seas.

    There are nine buildings that have the Trump name on them that Donald Trump doesn't own. The building owners pay Donald Trump to have his name on their buildings.

    You can go to a gun store and buy a rifle or shotgun that has the Winchester name on it but it's not a real Winchester, Fabrique Nationale (FN) bought the Winchester name after Winchester Repeating Arms went out of business.
     
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    Trump is still in business. No more excuses for your hypocrite-in-chief.
     
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    Trump is the POTUS, you might want to pay attention. His sons run his business empire. His daughter works in his cabinet. Here she is holding a meeting with Hispanic business owners:

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    Because the left are not concerned with employment as their goal is Gov subsidies off those they piss all over, refer to as inbreeds, trailer/white trash, knuckle draggers and Racist bigots! But they sure don't mind sopping up the gravy and coppers those working slobs provide their democrat politicians with!
     
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    Many of us have known for more than a few years or even decades that the Democrat Party was a corrupt banana republic political organization. Wikileaks only confirmed it was true.
    Looks like the Russians did America a huge favor exposing the DNC, Pedosta and Crooked Hillary.
     
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    Just think if Crooked Hillary were have won the election. The quote from the Hillary White House would have been..."Here she is holding a meeting with taco bowls business owners."
     
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    But the undocumented Democrats filled the vacuum.
     
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    And now Trump is refilling the swamp. What's the next White House scandal going to be; any guesses, because sure as the sun rises there's going to be some more for you to defend.
     
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    It's a priority if you want to make America great again.
     

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