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Post by happyhoya1979 on Oct 31, 2024 21:40:56 GMT -5
For anyone with an interest in political history the play Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground at the Olney theatre is an outstanding review of Ike's Presidency and why he is rated among our best Presidents. John Rubinstein does a fabulous job and there is a lot of good material from Evan Thomas' book Ike's Bluff incorporated into the play. It's run ends this Sunday if you want to catch it. Many lessons for today's geopolitics.
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Post by tashoya on Oct 31, 2024 22:48:39 GMT -5
For anyone with an interest in political history the play Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground at the Olney theatre is an outstanding review of Ike's Presidency and why he is rated among our best Presidents. John Rubinstein does a fabulous job and there is a lot of good material from Evan Thomas' book Ike's Bluff incorporated into the play. It's run ends this Sunday if you want to catch it. Many lessons for today's geopolitics. If you mean in the sense that Eisenhower would be a Democrat today and would be absolutely appalled by the state of the former Republican party, you're, certainly, correct. Trump's attacks on the press alone would cause Eisenhower to toss his cookies.
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Post by happyhoya1979 on Oct 31, 2024 22:57:43 GMT -5
For anyone with an interest in political history the play Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground at the Olney theatre is an outstanding review of Ike's Presidency and why he is rated among our best Presidents. John Rubinstein does a fabulous job and there is a lot of good material from Evan Thomas' book Ike's Bluff incorporated into the play. It's run ends this Sunday if you want to catch it. Many lessons for today's geopolitics. If you mean in the sense that Eisenhower would be a Democrat today and would be absolutely appalled by the state of the former Republican party, you're, certainly, correct. Trump's attacks on the press alone would cause Eisenhower to toss his cookies. Do a web search of the 1954 Mass deportation Ike accomplished, view his comments on the military-industrial complex which put him way on the other side of Bush-Cheney Foreign Policy and look at his non-intervention in the Soviet takeover of Hungary in 1956 (no vital American interest)and tell me who Ike would endorse. I think the answer is obvious. Also see how Ike diffused the SUEZ crisis in 1956 in a Trumpian talk softly and carry a big stick way. This was the kind of foreign policy which kept the peace between 1953 to 1961 and from 2017 to 2021.
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Post by tashoya on Oct 31, 2024 23:39:52 GMT -5
If you mean in the sense that Eisenhower would be a Democrat today and would be absolutely appalled by the state of the former Republican party, you're, certainly, correct. Trump's attacks on the press alone would cause Eisenhower to toss his cookies. Do a web search of the 1954 Mass deportation Ike accomplished, view his comments on the military-industrial complex which put him way on the other side of Bush-Cheney Foreign Policy and look at his non-intervention in the Soviet takeover of Hungary in 1956 (no vital American interest)and tell me who Ike would endorse. I think the answer is obvious. Also see how Ike diffused the SUEZ crisis in 1956 in a Trumpian talk softly and carry a big stick way. This was the kind of foreign policy which kept the peace between 1953 to 1961 and from 2017 to 2021. Trumpian? The man can't form a complete sentence that stays on one topic. And, Eisenhower was a strong ally to the press (or, as your pathetic candidate refers to them, the "fake news"). If you think the man that said this: "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people." Would identify with or vote for modern "Republicans," you're out of your wildly biased and compromised mind. Notice all of the infrastructure he mentions? Seeing the problem yet? Notice how he actually considers schools and housing? Trump can't spell either one. He can lie about them, though.
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Post by happyhoya1979 on Nov 1, 2024 3:21:40 GMT -5
Do a web search of the 1954 Mass deportation Ike accomplished, view his comments on the military-industrial complex which put him way on the other side of Bush-Cheney Foreign Policy and look at his non-intervention in the Soviet takeover of Hungary in 1956 (no vital American interest)and tell me who Ike would endorse. I think the answer is obvious. Also see how Ike diffused the SUEZ crisis in 1956 in a Trumpian talk softly and carry a big stick way. This was the kind of foreign policy which kept the peace between 1953 to 1961 and from 2017 to 2021. Trumpian? The man can't form a complete sentence that stays on one topic. And, Eisenhower was a strong ally to the press (or, as your pathetic candidate refers to them, the "fake news"). If you think the man that said this: "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people." Would identify with or vote for modern "Republicans," you're out of your wildly biased and compromised mind. Notice all of the infrastructure he mentions? Seeing the problem yet? Notice how he actually considers schools and housing? Trump can't spell either one. He can lie about them, though. If there was ever a human being on planet earth that has been more involved with infrastructure, it is Donald J. Trump. He has built more housing, ice rinks, hotels, office towers etc. etc. etc. and paid more property tax for schools than any human being I can think of that is not Jerry Speyer or David Simon. And Trump does one other thing Eisenhower did which is he fully supports social security which the Romney-Haley-Ryan-Bush folks with their privatization schemes and benefit cuts do not.
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 1, 2024 6:32:21 GMT -5
Ike for Big Government!! After a bitter fight, the party decided it liked Ike. So did the voters. Eisenhower’s 1952 landslide put the GOP back in control of the White House and Congress. But Eisenhower did more than just win. He made the Republican Party competitive by accepting the broad outlines of the New Deal and expanding it under the umbrella he called “Modern Republicanism.” Under Eisenhower, the federal highway system was created, the Department of Health Education and Welfare was established, the minimum wage was increased, the first civil rights bill since the post-Civil War era was passed and the National Defense Education Act began an infusion of federal dollars to train more math and science teachers. Winning another lopsided victory in 1956, Ike gloated: “I think Modern Republicanism has proved itself. And America has approved of Modern Republicanism.” But Eisenhower did something even more important — namely, to steer the GOP away from those who embraced conspiracy theories. Those voices became louder during the two decades Roosevelt and Truman occupied the Oval Office.
But Donald Trump has brought the Republican Party one defeat after another. Republicans lost in 2018, Trump lost the presidency in 2020 and the supposed Red Wave of 2022 never materialized. In 2023, abortion rights became a motivating issue for Democrats after the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case, and in 2024, it is Joe Biden who is seizing the GOP mantle of freedom to make it his “sacred cause.” thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4420353-todays-republican-party-desperately-needs-an-eisenhower/And for a good laugh, read moron Bret Baier's misreading/thoughts at the advent of the Don the Con's regime in 2017. Moron Baier missed the fascism part of Demented Donnie. It’s true that many partisans don’t have a high opinion of bipartisanship; some see it as a form of weakness. But President-elect Trump appears to be more pragmatic than ideological in his dealings. If he finds an opportunity to get elements of his agenda passed, most political watchers believe that he will cultivate support from both sides of the aisle. www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/what-ike-would-tell-trump-214614/
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Post by hoyajinx on Nov 1, 2024 6:46:15 GMT -5
Trump cultists kill me. One of Trump’s most notorious failures, among the vast number, was his inability or unwillingness to do anything about infrastructure. Thankfully Biden was able to successfully address Trump’s dramatic and embarrassing failure.
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 1, 2024 6:50:03 GMT -5
Trump cultists kill me. One of Trump’s most notorious failures, among the vast number, was his inability or unwillingness to do anything about infrastructure. Thankfully Biden was able to successfully address Trump’s dramatic and embarrassing failure. While every other week in the Trump Regime was called "infrastructure week" I"m sure he and the geniuses who kowtowed to him had the "concept" of an infrastructure plan. Like the Bermuda Triangle or Spinal Tap’s new drummer, the words “Infrastructure Week” seem to be cursed. No fewer than seven times – including this very week – has Trump’s White House declared that its chosen theme of a week would be infrastructure – only to see those plans thwarted, often by the President himself. www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/donald-trump-infrastructure-week/index.html
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Post by hoyajinx on Nov 1, 2024 6:55:17 GMT -5
Trump cultists kill me. One of Trump’s most notorious failures, among the vast number, was his inability or unwillingness to do anything about infrastructure. Thankfully Biden was able to successfully address Trump’s dramatic and embarrassing failure. While every other week in the Trump Regime was called "infrastructure week" I"m sure he and the geniuses who kowtowed to him had the "concept" of an infrastructure plan. Like the Bermuda Triangle or Spinal Tap’s new drummer, the words “Infrastructure Week” seem to be cursed. No fewer than seven times – including this very week – has Trump’s White House declared that its chosen theme of a week would be infrastructure – only to see those plans thwarted, often by the President himself. www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/donald-trump-infrastructure-week/index.htmlFacts schmacts! Trump is the greatest champion of infrastructure ever!
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Post by Massholya on Nov 1, 2024 8:02:53 GMT -5
While every other week in the Trump Regime was called "infrastructure week" I"m sure he and the geniuses who kowtowed to him had the "concept" of an infrastructure plan. Like the Bermuda Triangle or Spinal Tap’s new drummer, the words “Infrastructure Week” seem to be cursed. No fewer than seven times – including this very week – has Trump’s White House declared that its chosen theme of a week would be infrastructure – only to see those plans thwarted, often by the President himself. www.cnn.com/2019/05/23/politics/donald-trump-infrastructure-week/index.htmlFacts schmacts! Trump is the greatest champion of infrastructure ever! Many people are saying he is the greatest president for infrastructure. I’ve heard that George Washington himself came back from the dead, fought off the demon that attacked Tucker Carlson while he was sleeping and then declared Donald Trump the “father of infrastructure” since infrastructure didn’t even exist really until Trump invented it. He’s so good at it that on January 6th, 2020 he convinced “millions” of people to come to the capitol and make new infrastructure there for free. What a guy! On another note, some historians maintain that the US abandonment of the revolting Hungarians after secretly encouraging them to do so may have been one of the worst Foreign policy blunders in US history and may have facilitated the rise of the Soviet Union.
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Post by hoyajinx on Nov 1, 2024 8:08:20 GMT -5
Facts schmacts! Trump is the greatest champion of infrastructure ever! Many people are saying he is the greatest president for infrastructure. I’ve heard that George Washington himself came back from the dead, fought off the demon that attacked Tucker Carlson while he was sleeping and then declared Donald Trump the “father of infrastructure” since infrastructure didn’t even exist really until Trump invented it. He’s so good at it that on January 6th, 2020 he convinced “millions” of people to come to the capitol and make new infrastructure there for free. What a guy! I didn’t even think of that! The gallows created to hang his VP and sitting members of Congress definitely count as infrastructure.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 1, 2024 8:34:04 GMT -5
If there was ever a human being on planet earth that has been more involved with infrastructure, it is Donald J. Trump. He has built more housing, ice rinks, hotels, office towers etc. etc. etc. and paid more property tax for schools than any human being I can think of that is not Jerry Speyer or David Simon. This has to be one of the most hilarious exaggerations about Trump that I have seen in a long time.
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Post by Filo on Nov 1, 2024 9:17:18 GMT -5
If there was ever a human being on planet earth that has been more involved with infrastructure, it is Donald J. Trump. He has built more housing, ice rinks, hotels, office towers etc. etc. etc. and paid more property tax for schools than any human being I can think of that is not Jerry Speyer or David Simon. This has to be one of the most hilarious exaggerations about Trump that I have seen in a long time. Seriously, this is so damn sad. It really is a cult. There is no other explanation. I guess if you consider golf courses as infrastructure? Because all of those Trump courses have benefitted the masses so bigly.
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 1, 2024 9:19:21 GMT -5
This has to be one of the most hilarious exaggerations about Trump that I have seen in a long time. Seriously, this is so damn sad. It really is a cult. There is no other explanation. I guess if you consider golf courses as infrastructure? Because all of those Trump courses have benefitted the masses so bigly. It amazes me that someone with the benefit of a Georgetown education (assuming OP is an alum) can somehow fall into such a cult.
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Post by happyhoya1979 on Nov 1, 2024 9:32:16 GMT -5
While all you guys are chuckling, the fact is that under Trump there was a large increase in business fixed investment fueled by the cuts in regulation as well as the tax cuts-2017 to 2020 before the pandemic was very good for infrastructure.
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 1, 2024 9:49:53 GMT -5
By increasing the cost to finance infrastructure for states and local governments, the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will lower investment in our nation’s infrastructure. This runs counter to President Trump’s repeated desire to tackle the major problems associated with America’s crumbling infrastructure through increased investment. The impact may be large and immediate enough to swamp the short-term impact of any infrastructure package Congress can put together in the immediate future. www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-new-tax-bill-will-cut-infrastructure-investment/But it had little impact on business investment through 2019 (at which we stopped the analysis, to avoid confounding TCJA effects with those of the COVID-related shutdowns that ensued). Investment growth increased after 2017, but several factors suggest that this was not a reaction to the TCJA’s changes in effective tax rates. First, the timing of the investment response was not consistent with a supply-side response. Much of the investment increase was concentrated in oil and related industries and appeared to be a response to increases in oil prices, not lower tax rates. Indeed, other investment did not grow very much, and even overall investment growth petered out by the end of 2019. www.brookings.edu/articles/searching-for-supply-side-effects-of-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act/Between new cost estimates and the White House’s own budget numbers, the wheels are coming off Republican claims that President Donald Trump’s tax cuts will pay for themselves by generating increased growth and government revenues over the next decade. But that’s a gamble that rests on many moving pieces other than the tax cuts — such as now finding the resources for big infrastructure projects. Most important, perhaps, it means that even if successful, all the valuable economic growth will go to pay for the tax cuts — and not reduce the deficit. www.politico.com/story/2018/02/28/tax-cuts-trump-gop-analysis-430781Two years ago Friday, Republicans in Congress passed a sweeping tax cut. It was supposed to be a gift-wrapped present to taxpayers and the economy. But in hindsight, it looks more like a costly lump of coal. The tax cut, along with increased government spending, did give a short-term lift to the economy and businesses temporarily boosted investment. But the rocket fuel burned off quickly. Business investment declined in the last two quarters. www.npr.org/2019/12/20/789540931/2-years-later-trump-tax-cuts-have-failed-to-deliver-on-gops-promises
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Post by hoyajinx on Nov 1, 2024 10:14:49 GMT -5
By increasing the cost to finance infrastructure for states and local governments, the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will lower investment in our nation’s infrastructure. This runs counter to President Trump’s repeated desire to tackle the major problems associated with America’s crumbling infrastructure through increased investment. The impact may be large and immediate enough to swamp the short-term impact of any infrastructure package Congress can put together in the immediate future. www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-new-tax-bill-will-cut-infrastructure-investment/But it had little impact on business investment through 2019 (at which we stopped the analysis, to avoid confounding TCJA effects with those of the COVID-related shutdowns that ensued). Investment growth increased after 2017, but several factors suggest that this was not a reaction to the TCJA’s changes in effective tax rates. First, the timing of the investment response was not consistent with a supply-side response. Much of the investment increase was concentrated in oil and related industries and appeared to be a response to increases in oil prices, not lower tax rates. Indeed, other investment did not grow very much, and even overall investment growth petered out by the end of 2019. www.brookings.edu/articles/searching-for-supply-side-effects-of-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act/Between new cost estimates and the White House’s own budget numbers, the wheels are coming off Republican claims that President Donald Trump’s tax cuts will pay for themselves by generating increased growth and government revenues over the next decade. But that’s a gamble that rests on many moving pieces other than the tax cuts — such as now finding the resources for big infrastructure projects. Most important, perhaps, it means that even if successful, all the valuable economic growth will go to pay for the tax cuts — and not reduce the deficit. www.politico.com/story/2018/02/28/tax-cuts-trump-gop-analysis-430781Two years ago Friday, Republicans in Congress passed a sweeping tax cut. It was supposed to be a gift-wrapped present to taxpayers and the economy. But in hindsight, it looks more like a costly lump of coal. The tax cut, along with increased government spending, did give a short-term lift to the economy and businesses temporarily boosted investment. But the rocket fuel burned off quickly. Business investment declined in the last two quarters. www.npr.org/2019/12/20/789540931/2-years-later-trump-tax-cuts-have-failed-to-deliver-on-gops-promisesOof. You absolutely bodied him with facts. Well done. You would think the same posters would get tired of being disproven over and over again, but they keep coming back. It’s borderline masochistic.
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Post by SSHoya on Nov 1, 2024 10:18:26 GMT -5
By increasing the cost to finance infrastructure for states and local governments, the recently enacted Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) will lower investment in our nation’s infrastructure. This runs counter to President Trump’s repeated desire to tackle the major problems associated with America’s crumbling infrastructure through increased investment. The impact may be large and immediate enough to swamp the short-term impact of any infrastructure package Congress can put together in the immediate future. www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-new-tax-bill-will-cut-infrastructure-investment/But it had little impact on business investment through 2019 (at which we stopped the analysis, to avoid confounding TCJA effects with those of the COVID-related shutdowns that ensued). Investment growth increased after 2017, but several factors suggest that this was not a reaction to the TCJA’s changes in effective tax rates. First, the timing of the investment response was not consistent with a supply-side response. Much of the investment increase was concentrated in oil and related industries and appeared to be a response to increases in oil prices, not lower tax rates. Indeed, other investment did not grow very much, and even overall investment growth petered out by the end of 2019. www.brookings.edu/articles/searching-for-supply-side-effects-of-the-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act/Between new cost estimates and the White House’s own budget numbers, the wheels are coming off Republican claims that President Donald Trump’s tax cuts will pay for themselves by generating increased growth and government revenues over the next decade. But that’s a gamble that rests on many moving pieces other than the tax cuts — such as now finding the resources for big infrastructure projects. Most important, perhaps, it means that even if successful, all the valuable economic growth will go to pay for the tax cuts — and not reduce the deficit. www.politico.com/story/2018/02/28/tax-cuts-trump-gop-analysis-430781Two years ago Friday, Republicans in Congress passed a sweeping tax cut. It was supposed to be a gift-wrapped present to taxpayers and the economy. But in hindsight, it looks more like a costly lump of coal. The tax cut, along with increased government spending, did give a short-term lift to the economy and businesses temporarily boosted investment. But the rocket fuel burned off quickly. Business investment declined in the last two quarters. www.npr.org/2019/12/20/789540931/2-years-later-trump-tax-cuts-have-failed-to-deliver-on-gops-promisesOof. You absolutely bodied him with facts. Well done. You would think the same posters would get tired of being disproven over and over again, but they keep coming back. It’s borderline masochistic. As risk of repeating myself, cultists are immune to facts and reason. A likely "response" is to attack Brookings, Politico and NPR as entities controlled by the radical leftists and Marxists.
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Post by happyhoya1979 on Nov 1, 2024 10:37:04 GMT -5
All of you, the best intellectual treatment of Trump's economic program, which includes analysis across all four years, not just cherry picked time frames as the Brookings information you cite does, is Arthur Lafffers's book The Trump Economic Miracle. The point the book really captures is how Trump actually had two economic miracles, the first after the low growth Obama years and the second after the Pandemic. The book has all the key metrics in full perspective. You can get it at amazon and be improving your minds by the end of the day.
I refer liberals to this book all the time. It serves the same purpose as Alex Epstein's Fossil Future when confronting misguided green activists.
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Post by hoya9797 on Nov 1, 2024 10:46:38 GMT -5
My son applied to GU yesterday and, to date, I’ve been hopeful he can get in and attend. But, reading your drivel makes me wonder if the GU degree is worth anything.
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