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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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Donald Trump Vows to Create 25 Million Jobs Over Next Decade
But wait, I thought that only rich private citizens created jobs, not the government? Shouldn’t transitioning from *cough* successful *cough* entrepreneur to President severely hamper his job-creating ability?
I’m so confused.
Comment provided as is, with intent of sarcasm, and full understanding that it is futile to ascribe any sort of logic to anything in conservative policy / blather these days. Futhermore, no, I don’t think pointing this out will change anybody’s mind who is already planning on voting for him.
Heaven forbid that should he win, we’d have to deal with him for a decade.
Odd, though. If we go by his numbers, 93 million americans are unemployed, so 25 million would be a failure.
If we use government statistics, given the number of people who are going to exit the workforce via retirement and the number in the pipeline who are going to enter during that time, he’s not getting that to number based on the current population. Maybe he’s planning on having it come from outside the country.
Sheryl Sandberg being eyed for Secretary of the Treasury.
Putting a billionaire in the job feels right somehow.
might be better than the tradition of picking a wall street insider.
Are you thinking of the famous youtube?
They’ve got no shame, that’s for sure.
that was.
It’s very difficult to give a damn about America anymore. I think I’ll just take care of myself and leave the rest of you to do the same.
This shocks me not at all. I am shocked that the media doesn’t report stuff like this or dig even a millimeter beneath the surface of the things Trump says.
Economic anxiety on parade!
It’s so encouraging to see so vivid a condemnation of off-shoring TPP, and excessive executive compensation.
It’s “Wrentham,” for Christ’s sake. Not “Wrenthem.”
Spelling. Just one of the many indicia of civilization destroyed by the Internet.
An ear-spelling. Forgivable. I spent my youth watching people try to spell Scituate by ear.
Or Leicester? Or the name St. John?
Given the way people with RP can gobble down and garble whole syllables when pronouncing their own County and pesonal names I think you can forgive folks for not picking up the ‘a’ here. We are lucky the RP version is not ‘Wrum; or ‘Erm’.
As to spelling it is not “Jeeves and Worcester” after all.
You write:
Indeed!!!
I agree wholeheartedly!!!
AG
This is not one of the choices that’s on the fuckin’ table, and exuding a smug sense of superiority about something that’s not going to be fixed in the moment is distracting from taking on those things that can.
Do you really think that you’re the only person reading this site that’s concerned over this issue? Or are you about the only one who needs to constantly try to one-up everybody in the purity olympics?
Honestly, your constant holier-than-thou crap is tiresome, uninformative, and unhelpful.
It is, however, a tradition, and as is often the case in America today, it’s the liberals who are the true small-c conservatives.
I harbor no illusions; anyone who quotes themselves on the internet is beyond help, as the Authentic Frontier Gibberish(tm) in response to my post will show.
I do, however, intend to make sure that the glib self-regard shown in that post doesn’t go unanswered, lest others on the road to said glib self-regard aren’t immediately presented with why that’s an unserious position.
End transmission.
You write:
Precisely.
As long as we…as a subculture, as a voting bloc and (hopefully) eventually as a nation…do not insist that it be put on the table along wth at the very least global warming and the depredations of international corporations, then we may as well just shut up, hunker down and await whichever form of apocalypse first arises.
What I am trying to say is “tiresome, uninformative, and unhelpful”, to you, eh?
If so, then you do not have he sense to mind your own mortal ass and those of your loved ones.
Here’s how the struggle goes:
Or of course you retreat from the mocking, the ignoring and the fight.
LIke dat.
Deal wid it.
Of course, if we all retreat to defensive positions like electing the least objectionable candidates…those who offer the least objectionable timetable for the least objectionable bad ending…then we are doomed as a species.
If so?
So it goes.
I will at least have had my say and fought the good fight the best way that I understand how to do it.
As will have people like you, I suppose.
Right now in this country we are in full retreat. As Booman said this morning in his post above:
Maybe, maybe not.
Posts like yours?
On a supposedly progressive blog?
Maybe he’s right.
AG