Your views, thoughts or simply opinions. The Economy is not well (understatement). I know there are some here that will try to link the country they are residing in as problems of the USA. Sorry the USA cannot be responsible for 100% of the problems in the world nor should they be expected to help repair all problems.
So let me see if I have this Trump economics plan straight.
-Trump promises to lower grocery prices "on day one".
-Tariffs do not cause food prices to rise.
-When tariffs went on the food items the price rose.
-Tariffs are now coming off some food items in order to lower prices.
Conclusion: Donald Trump finally got it through his thick head that when the cost to the importer goes up, the cost to the consumer goes up.
Trump did achieve something; he angered all the other countries, who have now found other trading partners than the US, and made them consider to abandon the dollar
as the world's principal reserve currency.
By the way, do you want to sell me some fine Canadian products?
You can also come to Europe for your winter vacation.
I know you don't care about anything bad happening under a Republican
and you don't care about anything good happening under a Democrat.
I just don't understand what you are voting for then.
Do you understand that politicians should represent you, not the other way around?
Sure, if you throw out the immigrants that did it, Americans should.
Or you say goodbye to the small bit of production industry, you still had.
It's only 10% of the GDP, who cares? You cannot compete with China anyway.
It is getting to the point it is the quality of what comes from china that is a issue, they are CAPABLE of making good stuff but it never makes it over here.
As for American workers, I have yet to understand what gives the people nowadays the notion they are better than to do actual work than others like immigrants. EVEN YOU should be able to see that when folks check into a motel ,it is never white Americans working there, they are always from over seas. There is dignity in work, our ancestors understood it, why it hasn't been taught now I don't know.
Immigrants are the liberals replacements for slaves, that is the bottom line.
China makes everything from ridiculous scams to complete competition busters.
Some of their good products are kept from you, by your government.
There are often good reasons for it, like China using forced labor.
But, some of it is just protectionism. That might not even be a bad strategy.
However, if they have access to the cheapest electricity in the world, because
they make the best solar panels at the best price, it is not smart to keep them away
from our manufacturing, because then they pay more for electricity. That's a setback
that puts us further behind.
There is no dignity to the people who work in motels, it's exploitation. No American can life of that wage, but immigrants are forced to, out of desperation.
If you want Americans to do those jobs, you need to exploit them less, because that is bad for the economy. Those people cannot spend anything, can only live in slums, cannot afford children or if they have them accidentally, they cannot afford a decent education. Then you are losing against China even more, because they have armies of well educated, highly motivated, young people, to fill any technical position.
I'm saying this about the US, but it's getting more applicable to my country fast.
We are not educating our young people enough for the highly technical jobs.
Young people more often choose Business Administration, Commercial Economics, Finance, Medicine, Nursing, Psychology, Communication, Marketing, HR, Social Studies, Design, Media, Music, Gaming, Tourism, Pedagogy, Cybersecurity, Embedded Systems, AI Engineering, etc.
They keep pulling away to those educations, while the demand for technically educated people is skyrocketing, because we want to be less dependent on China.
I see it in my own work environment. Many of my new colleagues are from another country. I'm surprised if one gets introduced in Dutch to me. I speak more English
than Dutch at work. If the right-wingers in my country win big, and actually stop immigration and sends these people back, my employer can close up shop.
Meanwhile, the right-wing has NO strategy to invest in automation for when they stop the refugees from the horrible countries, who do the lower skilled work now, nor do they have a strategy to invest in technical education, to replace the expats who are filling
the technical jobs now. It's just blind short-term thinking: "We don't like immigrants!".
Well at least we could go in there and fix the place, get rid of the drugs, and eliminate the need for them to illegally come here to get their freebies.
How's that? If we go in there and get rid of the drug cartels and such, and then buy their oil cheaper than we can produce our own, then they will have clean money that is not corrupt and can rebuild their economy,something drug money is not used for.
What Trump wants to do, is replace Maduro with some friend,
who takes your bribes and sells out his people, by selling off
the rights to the oil to some American oil company.
The Venezuelan people will get nothing, because
the American oil company and it's shareholders will
take everything. That's what your country always does,
when it goes into some country, 'to fix the place'.
The drugs story is just an excuse to take take their oil.
Remember how Trump said "I would have taken the oil" about Iraq?
The US had no fucking reason to attack Iraq, but Trump wanted
to take their oil, to pay for your war against an innocent country.
That speaks a lot about his morality and his intent with Venezuela.
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NYC is over 75% democratic voters and incredibly liberal residents
They voted for a 34 year old trust fund socialist with no real life work experience
It’s going to be hysterical watching NYC circle the drain over the next 4 yea
Market will adjust, folks will find work in other areas that are more functional and useful than catering to people from other countries.
The way I look at it, the liberals think it is ok to expect coal miners and oil pipe line workers to find other jobs, so why not folks that cater to travelers?
I am sure that the hundreds of thousands of people in Las Vegas, Florida and California would strongly disagree with that idea. Did you know that Florida and Nevada are both Republican states?
Central Florida, where all the big attractions are like Disney, Universal, and many more, employ mostly Republicans and many are MAGA Republicans. But, what the heck, they can all go work for McDonalds.
As of late 2025, Walt Disney World Resort has approximately 80,000 employees, while Universal Orlando Resort has about 32,000 employees.
The average number of coal mining employees declined to 41,600 in 2020. This was below the previous low of 70,000 in 2003, and the lowest number of US coal miners in at least 125 years.
Those are sad numbers,
There are over 281,008 pipe welders currently employed in the United States. 4.0% of all pipe welders are women, while 96.0% are men. The average pipe welder age is 40 years old.
As of February 2023, there are 72.1k people employed in the Oil and Gas Extraction industry.
And with this number, bare in mind alot of cities and states are restricting natural gas,
Over 3.4 million jobs are connected to the direct use of natural gas in the United States and over 83% of this work happens within local communities.
So I guess in you folks eyes, these people can go to work at mcdonalds? These are people that SWEAT and do MANUAL labor for a living. Not stamping wrist and putting on costumes and answering phones.
I heard somebody say on Wednesday that Donald Trump is going to do something really really stupid(er) on Thursday to change the news cycle away from the Epstein files.
Colombia’s role is much larger, especially in production, while Venezuela
plays a more limited but still significant transit (and potentially processing) role.
The US just wants to end the Maduro government, because he nationalized, restricted and weaponized the oil exports to your country, because the US was extorting them. The US doesn't want their oil at a 'reasonable price', but very cheap. In response, of Maduro nationalizing THEIR oil, the US tried to force regime change for your buddy Juan Guaidó. To push Venezuela on their knees, the US sanctioned their oil. Because that doesn't work like you hoped, Trump has made up this lie,
that Venezuela is somehow the worst offender when it comes to drugs cartels
in South America.
It's a repeat of the US attacking Iraq, in relation to 9/11.
Why waste a reason to attack who you want to attack, even if it's false.
It's easy to sell a lie to Americans, because they don't inform themselves.
Then there are people like you, who want to believe Trump's lies and ignore him
when he runs his mouth, and tells you his real intentions.
Why are Americans stupid enough to take poison?
I can get that poison easily, but I don't.
What about people's personal responsibility?
By the way, it's nonsense, because those boats don't even have the range to reach you.
They are are being targeted thousands of miles away from the U.S. mainland.
It is a argument for sitting the head knockers down at a table and require accountability for sure. Which is what alot of us want for these free benefit programs.
They were accountable long before your side started attacking them.
Even if the claim itself is true, and lots of them were not,
it's still only a tiny fraction of the money.
The investigation reportedly lasted 11 months and involved the United States Secret Service, the Ohio Investigative Unit (which enforces SNAP fraud laws in Ohio),
and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food & Nutrition Service.
That's looking with a microscope, and they only found $100k that they can point to
as fraud. Congratulations on wasting this huge effort on peanuts, while every single billionaire is scamming the taxpayer consistently for billions.
A judge found Trump and his companies liable in a years-long scheme of inflating
asset values (for banks/insurance) and ordered a penalty of $355 million.
A review by House Judiciary Committee Democrats found that Trump’s pardons,
by canceling restitution payments owed to victims, could cost victims and ultimately taxpayers about $1.3 billion.
You couldn't care less. You only care if some poor people might have received
a couple of dollars too much.
During the US government shutdown all of the senators and house representatives have received full pay on time but air traffic controllers and other government workers have not.
Why are all of the senators at house representatives being paid now for not doing their jobs yet so many others are not?
I think a little rule change would help resolve this problem quicker the next time it happens, and it will. How about if all senators and all of the house representatives including their staff do not get paid during a shutdown? I include their staff because the people in power would be more inclined to be personally affected when their staff is not being paid because of their actions. Also their staff interacts with them every day and would definitely be doing what they can to end the shutdown.
A nice simple way to resolve the problem a lot quicker regardless of which party is in power. --------------------------------------- added after 8 hours
I believe you meant to say most senators and house reps have received their pay. You failed to mention that there are some Republicans that can say they received 0. Can you say the same about the libtards. No you say? One even proved it by showing her pay check and stub.
But you have a point, I think all the senators and representatives should receive no pay as long as they have the government is shutdown.
Let us take a closer look, Who shut the government down? Let me help you, libtard democrats and radicals.
I know and I bet you know that Trump would never sign off on supporting illegal aliens with free government help.
I am a lot like him, I would not cave on that bullshit. My only complaint is he is not removing these illegal sob lawbreakers fast enough. They came here illegally, thus lawbreakers.
Oh, how many boats have been blown to hell? Sorry I lost count. I do hope it increases though.
well, i know if i had not done my job, i would not have gotten paid, and i would have been fired.
The shut down should never have happened.
But it did.
And folks need to accept the reasons why and move forward.
Non citizens benefiting from tax dollars needs to stop, thus, alot of the problems and disagreements would stop.
I will go as far as to say neither body of government should get any time off until they present a BALANCED BUDGET to the President for his signature. that would force both sides to get rid of the pork and waste
I'm not asking you to discuss the reasons I'm asking you to discuss the solutions. Do you think it would be a good idea to not pay the senators and House representatives while the government is shut down?
So based on that statement do you agree that the air traffic controllers should have been paid during the shutdown.
President Trump gave $20 billion to Argentina during the shutdown. Based on his America first policy that he has been touting since his return to office, do you think this money would have been better spent to pay working government employees in general?
Do you also think that part of that $20 billion should have gone to pay low income Americans who are recipients of the SNAP benefits as well?
I haven't heard anything from doge in a while , don't know what is up with it.
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-Trump promises to lower grocery prices "on day one".
-Tariffs do not cause food prices to rise.
-When tariffs went on the food items the price rose.
-Tariffs are now coming off some food items in order to lower prices.
Conclusion: Donald Trump finally got it through his thick head that when the cost to the importer goes up, the cost to the consumer goes up.
as the world's principal reserve currency.
By the way, do you want to sell me some fine Canadian products?
You can also come to Europe for your winter vacation.
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and you don't care about anything good happening under a Democrat.
I just don't understand what you are voting for then.
Do you understand that politicians should represent you, not the other way around?
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Never heard of these sources but oh man, if this has 1 ounce of truth to it, wouldn't that be sweet? Prove the democrats to be the real crooks!
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Or you say goodbye to the small bit of production industry, you still had.
It's only 10% of the GDP, who cares? You cannot compete with China anyway.
As for American workers, I have yet to understand what gives the people nowadays the notion they are better than to do actual work than others like immigrants. EVEN YOU should be able to see that when folks check into a motel ,it is never white Americans working there, they are always from over seas. There is dignity in work, our ancestors understood it, why it hasn't been taught now I don't know.
Immigrants are the liberals replacements for slaves, that is the bottom line.
Some of their good products are kept from you, by your government.
There are often good reasons for it, like China using forced labor.
But, some of it is just protectionism. That might not even be a bad strategy.
However, if they have access to the cheapest electricity in the world, because
they make the best solar panels at the best price, it is not smart to keep them away
from our manufacturing, because then they pay more for electricity. That's a setback
that puts us further behind.
There is no dignity to the people who work in motels, it's exploitation. No American can life of that wage, but immigrants are forced to, out of desperation.
If you want Americans to do those jobs, you need to exploit them less, because that is bad for the economy. Those people cannot spend anything, can only live in slums, cannot afford children or if they have them accidentally, they cannot afford a decent education. Then you are losing against China even more, because they have armies of well educated, highly motivated, young people, to fill any technical position.
I'm saying this about the US, but it's getting more applicable to my country fast.
We are not educating our young people enough for the highly technical jobs.
Young people more often choose Business Administration, Commercial Economics, Finance, Medicine, Nursing, Psychology, Communication, Marketing, HR, Social Studies, Design, Media, Music, Gaming, Tourism, Pedagogy, Cybersecurity, Embedded Systems, AI Engineering, etc.
They keep pulling away to those educations, while the demand for technically educated people is skyrocketing, because we want to be less dependent on China.
I see it in my own work environment. Many of my new colleagues are from another country. I'm surprised if one gets introduced in Dutch to me. I speak more English
than Dutch at work. If the right-wingers in my country win big, and actually stop immigration and sends these people back, my employer can close up shop.
Meanwhile, the right-wing has NO strategy to invest in automation for when they stop the refugees from the horrible countries, who do the lower skilled work now, nor do they have a strategy to invest in technical education, to replace the expats who are filling
the technical jobs now. It's just blind short-term thinking: "We don't like immigrants!".
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who takes your bribes and sells out his people, by selling off
the rights to the oil to some American oil company.
The Venezuelan people will get nothing, because
the American oil company and it's shareholders will
take everything. That's what your country always does,
when it goes into some country, 'to fix the place'.
The drugs story is just an excuse to take take their oil.
Remember how Trump said "I would have taken the oil" about Iraq?
The US had no fucking reason to attack Iraq, but Trump wanted
to take their oil, to pay for your war against an innocent country.
That speaks a lot about his morality and his intent with Venezuela.
NYC is over 75% democratic voters and incredibly liberal residents
They voted for a 34 year old trust fund socialist with no real life work experience
It’s going to be hysterical watching NYC circle the drain over the next 4 yea
The way I look at it, the liberals think it is ok to expect coal miners and oil pipe line workers to find other jobs, so why not folks that cater to travelers?
As of late 2025, Walt Disney World Resort has approximately 80,000 employees, while Universal Orlando Resort has about 32,000 employees.
Those are sad numbers,
There are over 281,008 pipe welders currently employed in the United States. 4.0% of all pipe welders are women, while 96.0% are men. The average pipe welder age is 40 years old.
As of February 2023, there are 72.1k people employed in the Oil and Gas Extraction industry.
And with this number, bare in mind alot of cities and states are restricting natural gas,
Over 3.4 million jobs are connected to the direct use of natural gas in the United States and over 83% of this work happens within local communities.
So I guess in you folks eyes, these people can go to work at mcdonalds? These are people that SWEAT and do MANUAL labor for a living. Not stamping wrist and putting on costumes and answering phones.
If No one came here from overseas or over the border, we would still need to mine coal, pump oil and so forth.
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Watch this space.
You can be to the right of fucking Dzjengis Khan,
and still know that Trump is a filthy pe.do.
You wouldn't care, but you would still know.
Oh damn, I just described you.
Venezuela has the worlds largest oil reserves
so of course the US must have that.
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How about your principle of not taking what doesn't belong to you?
but it seems they want to sell dope behind our backs, to hell with them.
So the drug war has been taken to the shores of the invader
Colombia’s role is much larger, especially in production, while Venezuela
plays a more limited but still significant transit (and potentially processing) role.
The US just wants to end the Maduro government, because he nationalized, restricted and weaponized the oil exports to your country, because the US was extorting them. The US doesn't want their oil at a 'reasonable price', but very cheap. In response, of Maduro nationalizing THEIR oil, the US tried to force regime change for your buddy Juan Guaidó. To push Venezuela on their knees, the US sanctioned their oil. Because that doesn't work like you hoped, Trump has made up this lie,
that Venezuela is somehow the worst offender when it comes to drugs cartels
in South America.
It's a repeat of the US attacking Iraq, in relation to 9/11.
Why waste a reason to attack who you want to attack, even if it's false.
It's easy to sell a lie to Americans, because they don't inform themselves.
Then there are people like you, who want to believe Trump's lies and ignore him
when he runs his mouth, and tells you his real intentions.
I can get that poison easily, but I don't.
What about people's personal responsibility?
By the way, it's nonsense, because those boats don't even have the range to reach you.
They are are being targeted thousands of miles away from the U.S. mainland.
Is that an argument for not funding it anymore?
Even if the claim itself is true, and lots of them were not,
it's still only a tiny fraction of the money.
The investigation reportedly lasted 11 months and involved the United States Secret Service, the Ohio Investigative Unit (which enforces SNAP fraud laws in Ohio),
and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food & Nutrition Service.
That's looking with a microscope, and they only found $100k that they can point to
as fraud. Congratulations on wasting this huge effort on peanuts, while every single billionaire is scamming the taxpayer consistently for billions.
A judge found Trump and his companies liable in a years-long scheme of inflating
asset values (for banks/insurance) and ordered a penalty of $355 million.
A review by House Judiciary Committee Democrats found that Trump’s pardons,
by canceling restitution payments owed to victims, could cost victims and ultimately taxpayers about $1.3 billion.
You couldn't care less. You only care if some poor people might have received
a couple of dollars too much.
Why are all of the senators at house representatives being paid now for not doing their jobs yet so many others are not?
I think a little rule change would help resolve this problem quicker the next time it happens, and it will. How about if all senators and all of the house representatives including their staff do not get paid during a shutdown? I include their staff because the people in power would be more inclined to be personally affected when their staff is not being paid because of their actions. Also their staff interacts with them every day and would definitely be doing what they can to end the shutdown.
A nice simple way to resolve the problem a lot quicker regardless of which party is in power.
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phart what do you think?
But you have a point, I think all the senators and representatives should receive no pay as long as they have the government is shutdown.
Let us take a closer look, Who shut the government down? Let me help you, libtard democrats and radicals.
I know and I bet you know that Trump would never sign off on supporting illegal aliens with free government help.
I am a lot like him, I would not cave on that bullshit. My only complaint is he is not removing these illegal sob lawbreakers fast enough. They came here illegally, thus lawbreakers.
Oh, how many boats have been blown to hell? Sorry I lost count. I do hope it increases though.
I suggest you shut up.
The shut down should never have happened.
But it did.
And folks need to accept the reasons why and move forward.
Non citizens benefiting from tax dollars needs to stop, thus, alot of the problems and disagreements would stop.
I will go as far as to say neither body of government should get any time off until they present a BALANCED BUDGET to the President for his signature. that would force both sides to get rid of the pork and waste
President Trump gave $20 billion to Argentina during the shutdown. Based on his America first policy that he has been touting since his return to office, do you think this money would have been better spent to pay working government employees in general?
Do you also think that part of that $20 billion should have gone to pay low income Americans who are recipients of the SNAP benefits as well?
I also want the snap checked over for fraud.
um, sadly looks like it will go away in 2026
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that even he cannot be forgiven for.
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