Kend: STOP, For christ sakes, listen to me for one second, every Dept. head Trump has installed, every cabinet pick, every sexual assault, every lie, all is reality...How can you defend him and the party that supports him, unless you live in an evil alt reality??????? What don't you get here?????.. are you simply naive, misinformed, what the hell...or are you a troll looking for this response to make it look like I'm picking on you???? What the hell?

Legend. The problem with your fascism and oligarchs theory's is the Democrats out spent the Republicans last election and lost. So the one person one vote holds true. Plus most new billionaires are Democrats. So I am not convinced money has a whole lot to do with elections anymore. I think Democrats should start looking at their policies and candidates to blame for their loses.

It is easy to research. Amazed how right wing trolls seem to be incapable of crasping fact and reference. Do they teach this in Canada Kend? Do you ever have a fact or reference to your points? That is what makes an opinion writer. Not just posting what comes out of your asshole. Simple research. Just 1 of many.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/26/1-percent-in-each-state-map_n_...

The real problem is the 0.1%. The ones that dropping a billion into an election is like me donating a $100. Just the other night they showed Rupert Murdochs home in CA being threaten by fire. They said it was worth $39 million. They did save it. But when you are worth $80 billion that property is nothing but pocket change. These people are so rich that they cannot conceive of the way that anyone else thinks. They donate so much that they now have total control.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oligarchy

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism

Stopgap you didn't answer my question. Is it 100 thousand or 100 million or somewhere in between.

Kend, since we have no way of verifying your wealth or lack of it, your point about the wealthy regarding Social Security or Medicare cannot be considered valid. For all we know, you may think you are Napoleon too.

Again and again it has been said here a million times; to insure the longevity of the Social Security trust, all that would have to be done is to at least raise the earnings cap that is paid into Social Security from about 117,000 currently, to say 250,000 or so. That is by far the easiest and most feasible way to solve the Social Security problem. And it could be done immediately. If it was raised to a million or so, we would never have to worry about it at all.

A sure sign of the rightwing's desperation is Diane "Pussy Hat" Chelsea Clinton Reynolds' reaching back into the old Republican bullshit lie bag and pulling out one of their old tried and false myths about Gore claiming that he invented the internet. However, I guess if you believe a pathological liar like Trump, why wouldn't you believe all the other Fox News and rightwing think tank lies.

Stopgap. I respectfully disagree. The "wealthy" which I guess I am. Do not want to touch Social Security or Medicare. Actually we would like to increase it. The problem is it is not substantial at the rate we are going. Our population is aging, living longer and the medical advances that make that possible are extremely costly. So how can we maintain even what we have. The problem is people like me are not going to invest or spend our wealth if the return after tax is minimal. Why would we we have a great life now. So for the last eight years the fifty rich sat on their wallets waiting for a government who they believe would put in some ridiculous tax to pay for their spending problems. I know that sounds bad but it is the reality. I wouldn't be to worried about the debt as soon as this tax cut is passed the Republicans are going to go on a massive spending cut so it will balance. They just can't say it now.

By the way what do you consider rich or wealthy. Million or millions.

Less than 11 months to vote as many Republican Congressmen and Senators out as possible.

Actually, I give the deficit hawks about 6 months after the ink is dry to emerge. Given the current unpopularity of this "tax reform" bill, it would be too much for the majority of Americans to swallow the immediate need for deficit reduction after being sold the promises of sweeping economic growth resulting from this action. And even his sycophantic base is starting to show cracks and after all the 2018 elections are right around the corner.

No, better to wait 6 months or so while the public's attention span loses focus and the propaganda machines can do their work. Then as the failings of the new "tax reform" begin to sink in, then the need for deficit reduction could be more easily sold to the American public as the next logical step in Trump's guarantee to "Make America Great Again." Not to mention fulfilling a major campaign promise of Trump and his fellow Republicans.

Yes Kend, as always, you are a bit confused. If fact you are more than a bit confused. You are very confused in your Hooverish appraisal of the economy and state of the Union.

But it begs to question, if everything is going so swimmingly as you say, then why would you want to fuck it up by gambling on this "trickle down" gimmick…the biggest, so called "tax reform" ever? If everything is going so well? Why change horses in midstream?

But of course, the billionaire oligarchs cannot stand the fact that there are trillions of dollars in the Social Security and Medicare trusts that they cannot get their hands on. It no doubt, eats at them every second of every day. Like the bank robbers they are, they cannot stand the idea that there is this money there that is not in their pockets, where they believe it belongs! After all, God made them rich and God wants them to be richer. Wouldn't it be immoral and anti-American to think otherwise? There is no end to their ability to convince themselves that this money belongs to them and not to the people that put it there.

They somehow assume that their wealth was given to them by divine intervention…in a vacuum...without any help or obligation to anything or anyone else. Least of all, the great unwashed masses.

Of course, this is not the first time they have tried to raid the treasury and bankrupt the country for the purpose of gaining complete control over the wealth of the nation. It started with the "Voodoo Economics" of Reagan, then again with the Bush's. But now they believe this is their best opportunity. They are literally licking their lips and foaming at the mouth in anticipation of the great windfall…the great "sucking sound" of money gushing into their bank accounts as the middle-class and poor are left more and more to fend for themselves.

Much of the nation seems mesmerized by their prophet Trump. There is nothing he can do or say…no lies…no hypocrisies to great, that can dissuade them from their adoration of Trump. They can easily ignore his obvious transgressions and his total ignorance of all things presidential, his myriad of lies, his endless contradictions, his embarrassing lack of diplomacy, his total lack of knowledge of foreign policy. In fact, they believe Trump can do no wrong or say no wrong. The cruder and more unbalanced he seems, this they interpret as desirable and the new normal, even though it flies in the face of everything that thousands of years of societal evolution, progress and enlightenment have brought to us in the forming of our constitutional government. To them, he is perfect in every way, and to say otherwise is blasphemy.

So, the greedy power hungry oligarchs watched as Trump descended from his heavenly perch, via the Trump Tower escalator, as the selfish, ignorant bigots bowed and scraped and groveled at his feet, and they said to themselves "now is the time."

Every step of the way since the 1990s, it is Democrats that have been dismantling the New Deal/Great Society. Reportedly, Dems agreed to slash or end Medicaid in 2018, the program that current liberals disregard. The elderly poor and the disabled rely on dual benefits, Medicare/Medicaid, with Medicaid covering essential prescriptions, etc. Targeting Medicaid ensures a falling number of elderly poor and disabled. This is not a surprise. Note that in 2015, Democrats agreed to slash food stamp bemnefits to the same group, from $115 per month down to $10. Did you hear the liberal outrage? Right, neither did I.

You cut taxes and lower interest rate when a recession starts to stimulate the economy. The Economy is booming with low unemployment and Bull Market. Interest rates cannot go to much lower and how can you cut more taxes If the economy turns, and it will. This will only make a recession worse and make it longer to recover from. A repeat of the Bush 2007 Depression. If you gave the middle class and poor a tax cut, increased minimum wage dramatically then money would be spent to stimulate the economy. As it is the 1% are just going to stash more money. Corporations will buy back more stock. All proven before.