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The US cannot afford eggs, healthcare, medicare, social security, education. (Original Post) Irish_Dem 18 hrs ago OP
How dare you question the brilliant businessman's economic genius! Diamond_Dog 18 hrs ago #1
I know, we just aren't smart enough to figure it out. Irish_Dem 17 hrs ago #3
In my case COL Mustard 16 hrs ago #10
reminds me of the bush chimp and the phrase "fuzzy math" (so i googled...) orleans 16 hrs ago #13
Unfortunately- young Americans can no longer buy a house womanofthehills 15 hrs ago #19
He's a GENUIS!!! dchill 16 hrs ago #9
He has a concept of a plan for this too. Norbert 5 hrs ago #25
Yeah, but he was shrewd enough to use high interest loans AdamGG 15 hrs ago #21
A month ago voters couldn't afford eggs yet they can spend thousands on holiday travel. nt yaesu 17 hrs ago #2
Yep, maybe it wasn't about the price of eggs after all. Irish_Dem 17 hrs ago #4
Imagine that. nt 2naSalit 17 hrs ago #5
And tickets to nfl games Felicita 16 hrs ago #8
Eggs are bad for you COL Mustard 16 hrs ago #14
Trump is so thoughtful that way. Irish_Dem 6 hrs ago #22
The own $80,000 pickups and LakeVermilion 4 hrs ago #27
please add to that...electricity and cable television PeaceWave 17 hrs ago #6
Tsp is such a great business man Panama and Greenland will give their countries to him. MLAA 16 hrs ago #7
and Mexico will pay for it RainCaster 16 hrs ago #12
Not to worry. Once Republicans gain power... ananda 16 hrs ago #11
And we can afford thousands of new H1B immigrants JCMach1 16 hrs ago #15
What do we expect from MAGA Lemmings. Hoosier_Progressiv 16 hrs ago #16
Canada, Panama, and Greenland will pay for their own purchase IronLionZion 16 hrs ago #17
Not to mention the 20 TRILLION Elon wants to spend on a tunnel connecting NYC and London. Sogo 15 hrs ago #18
Trump isn't in the business of being 'nice' to normal folk. Aussie105 15 hrs ago #20
Plus travel to Mars. Irish_Dem 6 hrs ago #23
He's trolling Canada, but he's serious on the Panama Canal and Greenland HereForTheParty 5 hrs ago #24
All our Traildogbob 4 hrs ago #26
No worries, they have a plan kerouac2 4 hrs ago #28

Diamond_Dog

(35,178 posts)
1. How dare you question the brilliant businessman's economic genius!
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 08:22 PM
18 hrs ago

It’s not for us mere mortals to understand!

orleans

(35,272 posts)
13. reminds me of the bush chimp and the phrase "fuzzy math" (so i googled...)
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:56 PM
16 hrs ago


To the Editor:

As a mathematician, I was interested when, in the debate, George W. Bush described Al Gore's economic figures as ''fuzzy math'' (front page, Oct. 4). But I was chagrined when Mr. Bush left it at that. Although he repeated the phrase several times, he never discussed specific problems with Mr. Gore's reasoning or his figures, nor did he offer any alternatives. I gradually came to understand that by ''fuzzy math'' Mr. Bush meant, ''Math is confusing and fuzzy, so ignore it.''

This is dismaying to see in a man who says he will be a leader of educational reform. We can at least be thankful that if elected, Mr. Bush intends to assemble panels of experts that will presumably know how to work out numbers when economic crises arise.

WILLIAM THURSTON

Davis, Calif., Oct. 5, 2000

The writer is a professor of mathematics at the University of California at Davis.



https://www.nytimes.com/2000/10/06/opinion/l-bush-vs-gore-debate-aftermath-fuzzy-math-520543.html

womanofthehills

(9,336 posts)
19. Unfortunately- young Americans can no longer buy a house
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:49 PM
15 hrs ago

They also can’t afford an apartment unless multiple people share rent. My grandson has to share an apartment with 4 other guys. Couples I know have to rent out rooms in their houses to be able to make their mortgage.

I went to art school & college for $1000 or less a yr. My grandkids could never go to the same artschool - as it’s now $60,000 a year without housing.

Luckily- my honey & I actually built my house - because there is no way I could live and make a house payment. Food prices are off the wall - my weight actually went from 160 to 140 because I’m buying less food because the prices are outrageous. I’ll probably be 130 by next month - that’s a good thing I guess - forced intermittent fasting.

AdamGG

(1,525 posts)
21. Yeah, but he was shrewd enough to use high interest loans
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:57 PM
15 hrs ago

to finance his purchase of the Plaza hotel, the Eastern shuttle and his 2nd casino and that all worked out well.

If it wasn't for reality tv bullshit and fraud, he'd have been broke decades ago.

yaesu

(8,360 posts)
2. A month ago voters couldn't afford eggs yet they can spend thousands on holiday travel. nt
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 08:41 PM
17 hrs ago

Felicita

(44 posts)
8. And tickets to nfl games
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:50 PM
16 hrs ago

The stadiums have been full! And college playoff football games where the cheapest tickets are usually $200.
No $ left for eggs...

MLAA

(18,677 posts)
7. Tsp is such a great business man Panama and Greenland will give their countries to him.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:37 PM
16 hrs ago

ananda

(30,942 posts)
11. Not to worry. Once Republicans gain power...
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 09:56 PM
16 hrs ago

none of us will be able to afford anything.

IronLionZion

(47,129 posts)
17. Canada, Panama, and Greenland will pay for their own purchase
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:17 PM
16 hrs ago

just like Mexico paid for the wall

Sogo

(5,843 posts)
18. Not to mention the 20 TRILLION Elon wants to spend on a tunnel connecting NYC and London.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:35 PM
15 hrs ago

But, noooo, we can't afford universal healthcare, social security, medicare, or medicaid.


Aussie105

(6,477 posts)
20. Trump isn't in the business of being 'nice' to normal folk.
Thu Dec 26, 2024, 10:54 PM
15 hrs ago

If that is news to anyone, please leave that rock you have been living under for years!

Traildogbob

(10,199 posts)
26. All our
Fri Dec 27, 2024, 09:38 AM
4 hrs ago

Trade partners are gonna pay for it. We are gonna rake in trillions on tariffs THEY will pay us.
Never underestimate Donny’s business genius.
Just look at the cash he has raked in since 2016.
And never working a day. Just golfing and hosting Jamborees.

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