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Originally Posted by baddog
Why should a presidential candidate, much less a dozen of them waste time concentrating on a local crime? That's one thing Obama could not keep from doing and all he succeeded in doing is causing more of a rift in this country.
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The cinema shooting, like similar murders, were caused by the lax gun laws, maintained by the gun industry. Which the President would like modified, and by all opinion polls the people would as well.
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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
The West has entered a post industrial era and many citizens have little current skills to offer. So politicians say we can get back what we lost -- that is useless -- it's gone. Neither has any real vision for the future -- just rhetoric that is 30 years old and updated to be relevant to the current drama.
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Edited to make it correct. Also the West is importing millions of cheap low skilled labourers.
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Originally Posted by Joshua G
fucking trump he is jacking me up like cocaine, man! i cant believe that there is a republican candidate that is pro-trade war & is rich enough to not get bought off that position. this guy is fuckin reagan reincarnate.
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Every rich man is buyable, until they get to the stage of people like Gates. Trump has enough money, its now about power.
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Originally Posted by baddog
You're old, what was the last US president, in your esteemed opinion, that used their experience to help the people more than themselves?
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Clinton would be one. Kennedy might of, his brother could of, LBJ did a lot of good things. He was led by the nose of the hawks and arms industry to keep a pointless war spinning on.
The past is the past. You now have to look to the future, and the likely players are Clinton v Bush or Trump.
But how much power do they really hold? Obamacare, from the view of the rest of the West, was a total botch job it would have been far better to go 100% National Health Service, Gun Law is another thing the rest of the West realises favours one industry, and the Americans obsession to pay low tax, demand everything works and see debt spiral is going to lead us all into another crisis.
The Right keeps saying he's too rich to be bribed, as if money is his only motivation. On the other hand if he does approach the problem of the massive amount of consumers goods entering the US. Will Americans be happy to see these goods becomes scarcer or more expensive? That's a problem we all face.