From: Skeeter OG <invalid@none.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 19:41:35 -0600
Organization: UTB
In article <vt4icn$3fl0m$1@dont-email.me>, nuh-uh@nope.com
says...
>
> 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.
So? That's one country.