So having a balanced budget is bad? That actually seems like a pretty responsible thing to do. People always manipulate Keynesian economics. If you actually read the WHOLE thing, the government is supposed to save a surplus during economic booms. Then it spends that surplus during recessions to stimulate growth. Of course we run a deficit during booms, then run a bigger deficit during recessions. That’s NOT Keynesian economic theory.
Our country operated for decades with only having deficits during times of war. Government spending was <5% of GDP. The great depression changed everything. It convinced people that we need a big government to protect and care for us. Ever since then the government has been creating problems that they promise more government will solve. We’ve institutionalized telling people they are incapable of taking care of themselves, and they are victims of the rich. It’s led to people thinking the only way they can improve their life is voting for bigger government to protect them more. They’ve successfully made a large percent of the population feel like powerless victims. Do people not realize the whole point of the bill of rights was to protect citizens from the government?
White House press secretary Sean Spicer reaffirmed the administration’s confidence in Nunes during Wednesday’s press briefing. “There is nothing that I see that is problematic in him conducting an investigation that we asked both the House and Senate intelligence committees (for),” he said.
MAR 30, 2017
The FBI is investigating possible coordination between people associated with the Trump campaign and Russian authorities during the 2016 election. The U.S. intelligence community has said it is confident that the Russian government directed hacking operations and “intended to interfere with the U.S. election process.” Here are some of the high-profile people who have been drawn into the investigation:
◯ = Has agreed to testify before Congress*.
Donald Trump
U.S. president
Michael Flynn
Former National
Security Advisor
Jeff Sessions
U.S. Attorney
General and
former senator
Sergey Kislyak
Russian ambassador
to the U.S.
Sergey N. Gorkov
Chief of Russian bank
Vnesheconombank
Oleg Deripaska
Russian
aluminum
billionare
Roger Stone
Informal Trump advisor
and confidante
Paul Manafort
Former Trump
campaign manager
Carter Page
Former campaign
foreign policy
advisor
Jared Kushner
Trump’s senior
advisor and
son-in-law
Connections
Served as one of Trump’s main campaign foreign policy advisers and surrogates. After the election, was appointed as White House National Security Advisor.
Resigned three weeks into the administration after news reports disclosed that he had spoken with Kislyak in the weeks before Trump took office and had misled Vice President Mike Pence and others about the conversations.
Was Trump’s chief backer in the Senate and a main advisor during the campaign.
Met with Kislyak in July and September, but during his confirmation hearing to be Attorney General said he had not met with Russian officials. After news of those meetings became public, Sessions recused himself from the Justice Department investigation of Russian involvement in the election.
May have been paid millions of dollars by a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine. Represented Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, in business and personal matters.
Claimed direct communications with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, but later said the contacts were through a mutual friend. He twice correctly predicted the release of private documents by WikiLeaks.
Once ran a political lobbying firm together.
Manafort left Trump’s campaign in August after his Ukranian connections became an issue.
Has known Trump for years and worked as his lawyer in New York.
Served as a main contact with foreign officials during Trump’s presidential campaign.
Kushner volunteered to answer questions before the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding his meetings with Russian officials, including Kislyak.
Kushner met with Gorkov at Kislyak’s request. Gorkov has close ties with the Putin government and his bank is under U.S. sanctions that were imposed after the Russian takeover of Crimea.
Early in the campaign, Trump called Page a foreign policy advisor, but later said he had been “a very low-level member” for a short time.
Met with Kislyak during the Republican National Convention in July and traveled to Russia that month.Has had extensive business dealings in Russia, especially with companies in its oil and gas industry.
Michael Flynn
Jeff Sessions
Paul Manafort
Jared Kushner
Carter Page
Roger Stone
*Michael Flynn has been seeking immunity from prosecution in return for testifying to the House and Senate intelligence committees, a congressional official confirmed Thursday.
For all the Trump haters…Hillary is going to run againn…Don’t waste your time on Trump…He only won because of Hillary…and he will win again if she runs…
“Then you have just a lying sack of s—t. And that’s somebody who just—they just lie. They like it. He likes it… It’s just gross. He’s just a gross, crook, dirty, rotten lying sack of s—t.”
haha, Trump donated his first 3 months of pay to the National Park Service. I guess he was serious about not taking a salary for being president. Apparently he was legally forced to be paid the money, so it’ll be donated each quarter to a different cause. I guess some people will still find fault with this.
Obama is right, Bush admitted openly intelligent failure, instead of his failure !
If you listen Obama’s first victory speech, he told that 4 years is not enough to bring the fallen economy, but may take 8 years. He is 100% right on those statements.
