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        I believe the proper technical term is “Corporate self-dealing”. He will loot the entire country, causing trillions of dollars of damage just so he can pocket a few billions, leaving it in ruins, just like Lampert looted and destroyed the SEARS company.

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    "We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of day care, It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare – all these individual things. They can do it on a state basis. You can’t do it on a federal.”

    The America First administration ladies and Genleman

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    Hey look, our Social Security is about to be becoming insolvent. The post office has got serious financial problems. I have an idea let’s spend $1.5 trillion extra on the military.

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      The post office doesn’t have financial problems. It is a service, not a business. It’s not meant to generate profits. The UPS/FedEx boards are pushing this story to try and gobble it up to end to the competition and jack up your mail costs.

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      Any times of USPS crisis are basically just manufactured by people in government who want to privatize or eliminate it for personal gain. The PAEA and Trump’s bullshit come to mind.

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    There’s alwaysmoney for guns and bombs, isn’t there. I would say it’s amazing but it’s been many years since I was amazed to realize this.

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    The base budget for the Pentagon in 2015 was almost a trillion dollars less than what is being asked for here. Two years of this could fund the forgiveness of all student loans, the expansion of Medicare to include dental and vision and the lowering of the age of Medicare eligibility to 60.

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    With these new raids on the blue states, the rising coat of oil and the coming recession it will be all deficit.

    Maybe he shouldn’t be trying to destroy the his best state economies and rather trying to get his red states to perform better.