2020 Presidential Race

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BowlBrother85 said:
The most troubling thing about this Vulcan stock situation with Elaine Chao, is that she did not disclose this stock holding during her senate confirmation hearing (despite it's obvious relevancy). It seems like she probably thought she could get away with not disclosing it, and holding on to the stock (which she did for over two years) because her husband, Mitch McConnell, is the Senate Majority Leader and he would steer her nomination through to confirmation with no questions asked (and there weren't any). This was an outrageous conflict of interest and an incredibly unethical situation.
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Gee, you'd think that if she owned all that Vulcan stock, Mitch would have voted for Obama's shovel ready projects.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
No, sir.
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Then it is understandable why you don't know that she probably didn't even know that she owned that in one of her funds. I have four mutual's and if you put a gun to my head I could not tell you every single company that I own stock in, nor the dollar amount. It would behoove you to get off it.
 
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T-TownVol said:
Then it is understandable why you don't know that she probably didn't even know that she owned that in one of her funds. I have four mutual's and if you put a gun to my head I could not tell you every single company that I own stock in, nor the dollar amount. It would behoove you to get off it.
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This is questionable... especially, someone facing a Senate confirmation hearing. My response to that would be, that if she didn't know, she should have known.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
When I have time to deliver a more detailed post I will... but this is not accurate. For one, as a system of government, communism tends to center on a one-party state that bans most forms of political dissent. As an ideology, communism makes fewer concessions to market capitalism and electoral democracy than do most forms of socialism.
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Communism is simply socialism on steroids. One lets people believe they are in control; the other makes sure they know they aren't. Communism only works as a dictatorship, and there are no true socialist or communist paradises ... even in what could be a tropical paradise.
 
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tvolsfan said:
Our health care is incredibly expensive. Really fixing the system should save us money. We have to be big boys and stand up to insurance companies, though. The military budget has an enormous amount of bloat that does nothing to advance our interests or make us safer. And yes, taxes would increase.
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Who do you think is really going to "fix" our healthcare? Obama and the Dims didn't repair anything but they certainly did "fix" it for insurors and a lot of other health industry staples. They managed to "insure" a minuscule fraction of the country and in doing so increased prices both for medical care and for the mandatory insurance. That's quite a feat. We really need an encore ... or more succinctly, with friends like Dims we have all the enemies we need.
 
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tvolsfan said:
It’s cheaper in other countries. We’re basically getting scammed.
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You are at least partially right. Medicare ... a good old fashioned government program doesn't negotiate drug prices. Why not? Why do we not tell our drug manufacturers that if you sell Xecelia on the foreign market for $20 a whack you can't charge $250 here? As a comparison, GSA basically says a supplier can't charge the government more than the lowest price they offer the item elsewhere. My guess: congress gets too much income like campaign donations etc from the healthcare industry to mess with a good thing, but you expect congress to fix the problem when they consistently prove they only make things worse every time they diddle in it.
 
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McDad said:
Offset increases in social spending with equal decreases in military/defense spending? Raising taxes? Anything else to find the money necessary without increases the 22T in debt?
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Our proud socialists love to gush over the European socialists and their programs ... made possible because we rebuilt Europe from it's last tiff and have provided most of their defense needs ever since. They fear Russian collusion and interference but think defense is unnecessary.
 
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volfanjustin said:
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Dims don't need the money for advertising/campaigning ... the polls have them well in the lead ... it's all over for Trump. The dead and buried don't have or need TV and newspapers anyway. You really have to more progressive in your thinking about this kind of stuff.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
Do you

Know how many points something touches when sent across the internet?
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I hear it's pretty easy to set up a mirror drive especially if you have a user's password...i.e. John Podesta.
Gives you access to everything on the computer. Plus any computer connected to the internet can also be a relay network computer for Microsoft to use as they see fit. It's in the small writing. They promise not to look at your stuff though.... Very comforting.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
The total that Trump has subsidized the farming industry with during his prolonged trade war is obviously much more than that. That is just the latest amount. However, socialism is socialism regardless of the size of the subsidy and the average Trump supporter wouldn't know what socialism is, if it bit them in the butt. They just see it as a Trump trigger word and are not intelligent enough to realize that he is engaging in it himself.
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I wonder how America survived before all the social programs were instituted?
 
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