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Post by DADDY O on Apr 28, 2017 13:13:56 GMT
Yesterday, President Trump rolled out several new initiatives. The first was his "Tax Plan", which includes the same tired stuff tried by all Republicans in as much as if you lower taxes on the rich, it will make business spend more money and help the economy. That was never true with Reagan. It was never true with George Herbert Walker Bush (in fact, he had to raise taxes just to make ends meet), and it hasn't been true with any President at any time in history.
The truth of the matter is, if you give big business tax breaks, you will only make the CEO's of big business richer. They won't spend that money on anything other than themselves. And, furthermore, when you increase taxes on the poor in order to pay the rich, you create more deficit thus increasing the cost to run government.
So, Trumps new tax plan does exactly that.......rob from the poor and give to the rich. When asked how he plans to pay for the tax plan, he said "I'll eliminate NASA and save a trillion dollars. After all, NASA has never given us anything."
NASA has never given us anything? Seriously? How about satellite imagery, Defence of our nations, Anti-Ballistic capabilities, GPS instruments, Teflon, the Hubble Telescope, cooperation with Russia on the space station.....the list goes on and on.
How stupid can one idiot be?
His proposal was as well received as a fart in church.
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Post by sherri on May 3, 2017 15:07:32 GMT
NASA has probably been one of your country's best investments of all time. I'm sure the future will show that.
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Post by DADDY O on May 3, 2017 15:14:21 GMT
He's not going to be able to kill NASA, but whenever he opens his mouth, or tweets, he proves beyond any reasonable doubt that he is an idiot.
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Post by sherri on May 3, 2017 15:17:06 GMT
I agree that tweeting sensibly is not his strongest point. Someone needs to take his phone off him at times. Or get him onto candy crush instead of tweeting.
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Post by DADDY O on May 3, 2017 15:19:51 GMT
I don't know what Candy Crush is. Is that the girl he likes to grab by the..............well, you know?
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Post by sherri on May 3, 2017 23:12:03 GMT
You're not on facebook? Candy crush is probably one of the world's most popular games. I read a news item about the world's second most intelligent man (or member of mensa, which isn't necessarily the same thing in my opinion, but I digress). He finished by saying he didn't spend all his time thinking lofty thoughts and would meet us at the 2037 candy crush world championship. I loathe the graphics of the game (childish) and it starts out ridiculously easy. I almost never bothered with it past level 3 but I wanted to see what the attraction was. I had a look at it after a distant relative in Britain talked about how addicted she was. Thought I would check it out. Now I have a go at it most days (it gets harder fast but luckily has some easier levels in between the impossible ones). I don't play for hours on end or anything, which I believe some phone users do. Computer users can't anyway as the game only gives you 5 lives then there is a wait of half a day or more till the lives reboot. Clever strategy I think. I often actually look at the elements surrounding the game and it is extremely clever. It actually keeps improving and the company goes back and tweeks different levels too. But the cleverness is the marketing strategies in place. They have a map and anyone who is a FB friend and who plays it-even a person who plays on private settings- is shown on the map, with an icon of where that person is at.
If you play a game, up comes a list on the side of friends who are already through that level and what score they got. I am now up to a place where I suspect it is almost impossible to get through some levels without using some of their 'boosters' but it will be a cold day in hell before they get me to part with a cent of my money. There are other ways to get boosters. But having said that, I know several people who have paid money to buy boosters. Must be a gold mine for the company.
It's a relaxing past time for 5 minutes or so with a cup of coffee, that's about all, but as I said, I do watch the way they present their product and strategies they use, it is very interesting. Reminds me a bit of the classroom.
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Post by DADDY O on May 4, 2017 1:22:37 GMT
My biggest challenge (as a kid) was to figure out how to get out of a Chinese Finger Trap.
What I wouldn't give for YouTube in those days...........
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