From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: What Did I Tell You?
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2025 18:26:46 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-04-08 15:40, Skeeter OG wrote:
> In article <vt44n3$33iuk$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
> says...
>>
>> On 2025-04-08 14:27, Skeeter OG wrote:
>>> In article <XnsB2BB827AF69C8629555@185.151.15.160>,
>>> noemail@aol.com says...
>>>>
>>>> pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
>>>> news:vt3hgf$2ip22$1@dont-email.me:
>>>>
>>>>> On 2025-04-08, Skeeter OG <invalid@none.com> wrote:
>>>>>> In article <XnsB2BAD99FE195629555@185.151.15.190>,
>>>>>> noemail@aol.com says...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> wrote in
>>>>>>> news:vt1lqp$rtpj$1@dont-email.me:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2025-04-07, AlleyCat <katt@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Robert Reich
>>>>>>>>> @RBReich
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The richest 0.1% own 17% of stocks
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The richest 1% own 50% of stocks
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The bottom 50% own 0.7% of stocks
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Repeat after me: "The stock market is not the economy."
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> WE will be fine.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Robert Bernard Reich (born June 24,1946) is an American
>>>>>>>>> professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator. He worked
>>>>>>>>> in the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy
>>>>>>>>> Carter, and served as Secretary of Labor from 1993 to 1997 in the
>>>>>>>>> cabinet of President Bill Clinton. He was also a member of
>>>>>>>>> President Barack Obama's economic transition advisory board.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Reich has been the Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the
>>>>>>>>> Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley since January
>>>>>>>>> 2006. He was formerly a lecturer at Harvard University's John F.
>>>>>>>>> Kennedy School of Government and a professor of social and
>>>>>>>>> economic policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and
>>>>>>>>> Management of Brandeis University. In 2008, Time magazine named
>>>>>>>>> him one of the Ten Best Cabinet Members of the century, and in
>>>>>>>>> the same year The Wall Street Journal placed him sixth on its
>>>>>>>>> list of Most Influential Business Thinkers.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Reich has published numerous books, including the best-sellers
>>>>>>>>> The Work of Nations (1991), Reason (2004), Supercapitalism
>>>>>>>>> (2007), Aftershock (2010), Beyond Outrage (2012), and Saving
>>>>>>>>> Capitalism (2015). The Robert Reich-Jacob Kornbluth film Saving
>>>>>>>>> Capitalism debuted on Netflix in November 2017, and their film
>>>>>>>>> Inequality for All won a U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for
>>>>>>>>> Achievement in Filmmaking at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. He
>>>>>>>>> is board chair emeritus of Common Cause and blogs at
>>>>>>>>> Robertreich.org.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As I have always maintained, follow the money.
>>>>>>>> Additionally look at the reaction to some event by both the left
>>>>>>>> and the right. Words mean nothing but reactions mean everything.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So looking at current events, why would ANYONE be opposed to
>>>>>>>> cutting government waste and spending?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Government waste:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Park Rangers
>>>>>>> Air Traffic Controllers
>>>>>>> VA doctors
>>>>>>> Government watchdogs
>>>>>>> Firefighters
>>>>>>> Nuclear safety engineers
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Vital Government Spending:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Trump golf trips
>>>>>>> Vance Greenland trips
>>>>>>> A military birthday parade for Trump
>>>>>>> Space Contracts for Musk
>>>>>>> Plans for invading Gaza
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Again your stupidity is showing.
>>>>>
>>>>> The TDS is strong in the Hollow specimen.
>>>>> LOL.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2017 - 2021: "Mever mind current
>>>> president Trump, we need to talk
>>>> about Obama"
>>>>
>>>> 2025 - now: "Never mind current
>>>> president Trump, we need to talk
>>>> about Biden."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Never mind 50 countries caving to the tariffs.
>>
>> How are they "caving" exactly?
>
> They want to negotiate. That was the plan.
What's there to negotiate?
Australia and the US have a free trade agreement already...
...and the US has a TRADE SURPLUS with Australia...
...yet Trump still imposed a 10% tariff on them.