I Just Thought Of How Trump Can Get My Vote

[Borillar]

Maybe.

I hate Trump. This is no secret.

But...

The single biggest crisis facing America today is not ISIS, or homosexuals, or blacks, or Mexicans, or Muslims. Not even close.

It's our debt.

Our debt will be our downfall. During the next downturn, and there will be a downturn no matter who is President, our debt will prevent us from recovering quickly, if at all. Just like it prevented us from recovering quickly from the last one.

At the very least, we will be looking at negative interest rates. A possibility I actually considered to be an impossibility three years ago when I started a topic about the Fed's bond bubble on this forum.

Our debt is a bi-partisan effort. Anyone who claims it was the Democrats is an idiot. Anyone who claims it was the Republicans is an idiot. It was BOTH.

U.S. government debt now stands at 103% of GDP. If private debt is included, the ratio climbs to about 370% of GDP. Scholarly studies indicate that real per capita GDP growth should slow by about one-quarter to one-third from the long-run trend when the total debt-to-GDP ratio rises into the range between 250% and 275%. Since surpassing this level in the late 1990s, real per capita GDP has grown just 1% per annum, much less than the 1.9% pace from 1790 to 1999.

These results indicate that the relationship between debt and economic growth is non-linear, or progressively negative, as debt advances to higher levels, a pattern confirmed by academic research (Chart 2). The latest information further supports this relationship. The current expansion began in 2009, and since then real per capita GDP growth has been 1.3%, less than half the 2.7% average growth in all expansions from 1790 to 1999.

http://www.hoisingtonmgt.com/pdf/HIM2015Q3NP.pdf


You all should be familiar with me enough to know what I have proposed as the solution to our debt problem. Primarily, raise the Social Security and Medicare eligiblity age to 70, indexed to 9 percent going forward, and ban most of the $1.2 trillion in annual tax expenditures.


Do you know who the two candidates this go-round are who most closely align with me on this?

Ted Cruz and John Kasich.


Now, right away, some of your stomachs churned at one or both of those names. Especially Ted Cruz.

But think for a second. What is it about Ted Cruz which turns off a lot of people?

It's his social agenda, right?

But what if Ted Cruz was Secretary of the Treasury? He would be strictly a financial policy guy in a Trump Administration, not a social policy guy.

Treasury. Where the IRS lives.

Ted Cruz rose to fame for opposing raising the debt limit. He's a financial guy more than a social issues guy.

Ted Cruz's tax plan is acceptable to me. He would ban most tax expenditures.


As for John Kasich, he balanced the federal budget before.


So...

If Donald Trump said he would appoint Cruz or Kasich as Secretary of the Treasury, I would seriously consider voting for him.

Because our debt is the most serious crisis facing America today. And either one of those guys can solve it.

Then all we have to do is hope Trump spends most of his time golfing.

Democrats literally don't think the debt exists, so....

Republicans don't think that deficits matter (at least when a Repug is president), so...

 

[yiostheoy]

public debt is the end result of deficits ... Mr. Trumps economic plan would increase the deficit $12 dollars over the next decade.

TA DAAAAAA !

$12.00 dollars ??

Or $12 billion dollars ?!

 

[g5000]

I hate Trump. This is no secret.

But...
If Donald Trump said he would appoint Cruz or Kasich as Secretary of the Treasury, I would seriously consider voting for him.

But temperamental Caligula would fire Kasich on the spot for any real or imagined insubordination. Patching cures for Trump's pathological personality by promising staffing to bolster him is not impressing anyone. Donald Trump's most famous line that is synonymous with his bone marrow is "YOU'RE FIRED!"...at the drop of a hat.

So it doesn't matter who he picks for his cabinet....his temperament means that none of those picks will be a permanent remedy for the gaping maw of lack that is Trump's pathology..

Your point has some merit. If there was one person who would chafe a President Trump's nerves, it would be Ted Cruz.

And vice versa.

 

[Siete]

public debt is the end result of deficits ... Mr. Trumps economic plan would increase the deficit $12 dollars over the next decade.

TA DAAAAAA !

$12.00 dollars ??

Or $12 billion dollars ?!

actually it's TRILLION .... I didn't even bother to fix it because the Trumpbots don't give a shit.

 

[g5000]

public debt is the end result of deficits ... Mr. Trumps economic plan would increase the deficit $12 dollars over the next decade.

TA DAAAAAA !

$12.00 dollars ??

Or $12 billion dollars ?!

Trillion.

 

[boedicca]

HEHEHE!!!!

 

[ptbw forever]

Maybe.

I hate Trump. This is no secret.

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The people who elected Obama twice are the same people now supporting Trump.

You just keep telling yourself that....

It's a fact. You pseudo-con tards deserved Obama, just like you deserve Clinton. You work very hard to turn people against the Republican candidate and get the Democrat elected. Your lies, your bigotry, your stupidity, all ensure the Democrat wins.

I sure as fuck didn't vote for Obama either time moron, and I have been a Trumplican since before Trump ever was.

All I ever do on here is hit the Democrats over the head with their own racial double standards and bigotry. If you can't handle the elimination of double standards you sure as hell aren't a Republican.

 

[bodecea]

Maybe.

I hate Trump. This is no secret.

But...

The single biggest crisis facing America today is not ISIS, or homosexuals, or blacks, or Mexicans, or Muslims. Not even close.

It's our debt.

Our debt will be our downfall. During the next downturn, and there will be a downturn no matter who is President, our debt will prevent us from recovering quickly, if at all. Just like it prevented us from recovering quickly from the last one.

At the very least, we will be looking at negative interest rates. A possibility I actually considered to be an impossibility three years ago when I started a topic about the Fed's bond bubble on this forum.

Our debt is a bi-partisan effort. Anyone who claims it was the Democrats is an idiot. Anyone who claims it was the Republicans is an idiot. It was BOTH.

U.S. government debt now stands at 103% of GDP. If private debt is included, the ratio climbs to about 370% of GDP. Scholarly studies indicate that real per capita GDP growth should slow by about one-quarter to one-third from the long-run trend when the total debt-to-GDP ratio rises into the range between 250% and 275%. Since surpassing this level in the late 1990s, real per capita GDP has grown just 1% per annum, much less than the 1.9% pace from 1790 to 1999.

These results indicate that the relationship between debt and economic growth is non-linear, or progressively negative, as debt advances to higher levels, a pattern confirmed by academic research (Chart 2). The latest information further supports this relationship. The current expansion began in 2009, and since then real per capita GDP growth has been 1.3%, less than half the 2.7% average growth in all expansions from 1790 to 1999.

http://www.hoisingtonmgt.com/pdf/HIM2015Q3NP.pdf


You all should be familiar with me enough to know what I have proposed as the solution to our debt problem. Primarily, raise the Social Security and Medicare eligiblity age to 70, indexed to 9 percent going forward, and ban most of the $1.2 trillion in annual tax expenditures.


Do you know who the two candidates this go-round are who most closely align with me on this?

Ted Cruz and John Kasich.


Now, right away, some of your stomachs churned at one or both of those names. Especially Ted Cruz.

But think for a second. What is it about Ted Cruz which turns off a lot of people?

It's his social agenda, right?

But what if Ted Cruz was Secretary of the Treasury? He would be strictly a financial policy guy in a Trump Administration, not a social policy guy.

Treasury. Where the IRS lives.

Ted Cruz rose to fame for opposing raising the debt limit. He's a financial guy more than a social issues guy.

Ted Cruz's tax plan is acceptable to me. He would ban most tax expenditures.


As for John Kasich, he balanced the federal budget before.


So...

If Donald Trump said he would appoint Cruz or Kasich as Secretary of the Treasury, I would seriously consider voting for him.

Because our debt is the most serious crisis facing America today. And either one of those guys can solve it.

Then all we have to do is hope Trump spends most of his time golfing.

Democrats literally don't think the debt exists, so....

Interesting. What gave you that impression?

 

[bodecea]

So baby boomers - who were mandated by the government to give up over 6% of their earnings their entire working lives to this slush fund - can't collect until, well, death?

Social Security shouldn't exist, anyway.

That should be part of the GOP platform......a big and vocal part.

 

[bodecea]

Note to g5000
We DON'T want you.
Trump supporter
Fury

When your candidate (Trump) needs every vote he can get, tell a prospective voter to fuck off. Beautiful man. You should run a political campaign. You and Cory.

Brilliant!

 

[ScienceRocks]

Maybe if he told cut, slash and burn to fuck off and started to talk about infrastructure, r&d, science and education as necessary investments.

Next; told the tea party caucus to fuck itself.