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01-17-2017, 05:46 AM
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Your Expectations For The Trump Administration
I posted a similar thread in the ASPD days. Back when Obama was taking office I asked "What were you expectations? It has to specific and measurable. It can't be "he's not Bush."
Sadly most of the responses, especially by the Austin Reacharound Crew was "Not Bush."
So again I ask, what are your expectations for the Trump Administration? They can either be results you want him to achieve or results you think he will achieve.
My expectations:
-GDP growth will reach 5% by end of 4 years
-Fed Interest rate goes up 2%
-Unemployment around 5% with many more people in workforce
-NAFTA and TPP re-worked to our advantage
-Major US Market Indexes up 25%
-BLM airtime drastically reduced
-Trillion dollar US infrastructure approved by Congress
-US/Mexico Fence built
-400K dangerous criminals illegally in country deported
-My health insurance premium cut in half
These are some of mine. Yours?
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01-17-2017, 05:53 AM
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TRUMP will stick to our principals... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2654...-dennis-prager
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Source of Human Rights
Left: government
Right: the Creator
Human Nature
Left: basically good (Therefore, society is primarily responsible for evil.)
Right: not basically good (Therefore, the individual is primarily responsible for evil.)
Economic Goal
Left: equality
Right: prosperity
Primary Role of the State
Left: increase and protect equality
Right: increase and protect liberty
Government
Left: as large as possible
Right: as small as possible
Family Ideal
Left: any loving unit of people
Right: a married father and mother, and children
Guiding Trinity
Left: race, gender and class
Right: liberty, In God We Trust and e pluribus unum
Good and Evil
Left: relative to individual and/or society
Right: based on universal absolutes
Humanity's Primary Division(s)
Left: rich and poor; strong and weak
Right: good and evil
Ideal Primary Identity of an American
Left: world citizen
Right: American citizen
How to Make a Good Society
Left: abolish inequality
Right: develop each citizen's moral character
View of America
Left: profoundly morally flawed; inferior to any number of European countries
Right: greatest force for good among nations in world history
Gender
Left: a social construct
Right: male and female
Most Important Trait to Cultivate in a Child
Left: self-esteem
Right: self-control
Worth of the Human Fetus
Left: determined by the mother
Right: determined by society rooted in Judeo-Christian values
Primary Source of Crime
Left: poverty, racism and other societal flaws
Right: the criminal's malfunctioning conscience
Place of God and Religion in America
Left: secular government and secular society
Right: secular government and religious society
American Exceptionalism
Left: chauvinistic doctrine
Right: historical reality
Greatest Threat to the World
Left: environmental catastrophe (currently global warming)
Right: evil (currently radical Islamist violence)
International Ideal
Left: world governed by the United Nations, and no single country is dominant
Right: world in which America is the single strongest entity
Primary Reason for Lack of Peace in Middle East
Left: Israeli settlements in the West Bank
Right: Palestinian, Arab and Muslim denial of Jewish state's right to exist
Purpose of Art
Left: challenge status quo and bourgeois sensibilities
Right: produce works of beauty and profundity to elevate the individual and society
Guns
Left: ideally universally abolished, except for use by police, the armed forces and registered sportsmen
Right: ideally widely owned by responsible individuals for self-protection and the protection of others
Race
Left: intrinsically significant
Right: intrinsically insignificant
Racial, Ethnic and Gender Diversity at Universities
Left: most important
Right: far less important than ideological diversity
Black America's Primary Problem
Left: racism
Right: lack of fathers
Greatest Playwright
Left: entirely subjective; there is no greatest playwright
Right: Shakespeare
War
Left: not the answer
Right: sometimes the only answer
Hate
Left: wrong, except when directed at the political
Right: wrong, except when directed at evil
Cultures
Left: all equal
Right: some are better than others
America's Founding Fathers
Left: rich white male slave owners
Right: great men who founded the greatest society
Purpose of Judges
Left: pursue social justice
Right: pursue justice
National Borders
Left: a relic of the past
Right: indispensable for national survival
View of Illegal Immigrants
Left: welcomed guests
Right: illegal immigrants
Nature
Left: intrinsically valuable
Right: made for man
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01-17-2017, 06:09 AM
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I believe he will not be Hillary.
If he can decrease the size of government and along with it our taxes, I will be more than pleased.
I do not care so much about a wall but rather that our immigration laws are enforced.
The leftists "care" about people so they create sanctuary cities filled with immigrants that are not here legally. These "immigrants" drive down the value of the labor market to the point that our citizens cannot make a living wage. Then the leftists cry out that the wage must be artificially increased and blame everybody but themselves.
I hope he eliminates as many bureaucracies as possible and stop allowing those other than legislators to pass laws.
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01-17-2017, 06:16 AM
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My greatest expectation has already been met.
HILLARY CLINTON WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT.
Anything else is just icing on the cake.
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01-17-2017, 06:40 AM
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Originally Posted by The2Dogs
I do not care so much about a wall but rather that our immigration laws are enforced.
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The existence of barriers along our borders enhances enforcement.
Creating an environment that favors job and income growth for employees, which means positive changes to increase revenues for small business, which drives our economy.
With increased economic activity will come increased government revenues (taxes) even at lower rates to spend on defense preparedness and infrastructure development.
In the second term building on those gains and improving our relations around the world to assure that conflict does not increase and/or spread ... and hopefully reduce that which currently exists. By making it safe to travel abroad and export our productivity we can increase our revenues from overseas and improve our economy.
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01-17-2017, 06:51 AM
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More hate crimes.....against white people. More sjws rioting.
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01-17-2017, 06:53 AM
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You know you pasted something 10 pages long that could of easily have fitted onto one page if you used "paste as text" and done a little editing. The kicker is you didn't specify whether you were left or right.
just sayin'...
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01-17-2017, 06:57 AM
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Originally Posted by gnadfly
You know you pasted something 10 pages long that could of easily have fitted onto one page if you used "paste as text" and done a little editing. The kicker is you didn't specify whether you were left or right.
just sayin'...
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A "link" is nice .... that way one has an option ..
....and it doesn't get "downloaded" .. on the one's computer.
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01-17-2017, 07:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Jackie S
My greatest expectation has already been met.
HILLARY CLINTON WILL NOT BE PRESIDENT.
Anything else is just icing on the cake.
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+1 !!!! And that shrilLIARy won't be making any nominations to SCOTUS !
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01-17-2017, 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by gnadfly
I posted a similar thread in the ASPD days. Back when Obama was taking office I asked "What were you expectations? It has to specific and measurable. It can't be "he's not Bush."
Sadly most of the responses, especially by the Austin Reacharound Crew was "Not Bush."
So again I ask, what are your expectations for the Trump Administration? They can either be results you want him to achieve or results you think he will achieve.
My expectations:
-GDP growth will reach 5% by end of 4 years Too much of this is out of the hands of the president to "control" so I don't know that I have an expectation on this one.
-Fed Interest rate goes up 2% OK
-Unemployment around 5% with many more people in workforce That would be good, but 5% may be a bit too optimistic.
-NAFTA and TPP re-worked to our advantage Agree, but the changes might be less than some want.
-Major US Market Indexes up 25% Again, may be a bit optimistic. I think anything over 18% would be very good.
-BLM airtime drastically reduced Hopefully many of the fragmenting vocal groups will be less visible, because there will be real progress on reducing the underlying problems.
-Trillion dollar US infrastructure approved by Congress I certainly hope so, and one with as little wasted pork as possible.
-US/Mexico Fence built I will be surprised if this one happens.
-400K dangerous criminals illegally in country deported OK
-My health insurance premium cut in half Yours might, but at what cost? This is a blob of silly putty--reduce yours, it balloons somewhere else. Unless both parties take this one off the front page and work on something in a truly non-partisan way this is going to be an ugly mess for a lot longer than four years.
These are some of mine. Yours?
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Overall I think that's a good and reasonable list. Except for the last one--in today's Politics Is About Winning mindset I don't expect any viable solution to the health insurance problem any time soon.
The one I would add to my wish list--but it is every bit as difficult as health care--is sound educational reform.
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01-17-2017, 07:44 AM
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The one I would add to my wish list--but it is every bit as difficult as health care--is sound educational reform.
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That should be easy:
Dismantle the "Department of Education" (or least defang it) and enforce the 10th amendment ... let the States control their own educational programs and curriculum.
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01-17-2017, 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by LexusLover
That should be easy:
Dismantle the "Department of Education" (or least defang it) and enforce the 10th amendment ... let the States control their own educational programs and curriculum.
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And how would that fix the problem? The DOE has NOT be a productive organization--I grant you that--but getting rid of it does not fix the problem. Fixing education will take at least 16 years of dedicated non-partisan cooperation. It has to be fixed from 1st grade on up. And the DOE is not the reason we focus on "fixing"things once kids get to HS when we have set 12+ years of rot into their K-12 education.
Eliminating DOE will fix very little. Within five years we would likely be back to Separate But Equal, and the quality of schools in rural WV, MS, urban ghettos, and on reservations would be be no better. Paying exorbitant amounts of money to bus one student to a different school because of trumped up "orthodox Judaic needs" (NYS) is a LOCAL travesty, not a federal one. Schools in parts of FL with outhouses because "there is no $$ to fix the toilets"--while a school in the same school district with a different ethnic demographic gets a new gym (nothing was wrong with the old one) is a LOCAL decision. School buildings in mostly native American area of SD with almost no heat is a LOCAL decision. The city of Albuquerque currently paying 4 different heads of APS (and two Univ presidents) because they keep hieing/buying out criminals and buffoons is a LOCAL incompetence. There is very little evidence to say that state or local control will make things any better.
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01-17-2017, 08:40 AM
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Italia Italia Italia
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01-17-2017, 08:45 AM
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IIFFORRDB +++++++++100% (however w/ all the damage the libertarts have done 4 years may not be enough tome)
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01-17-2017, 09:18 AM
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And how would that fix the problem?
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What "problem"?
Some folks need to "create a problem" so they can "fix it"!
Let's assume for the purposes of this discussion that you had a good basic education before moving onto "higher education," and you accomplished the academic skills to qualify to experience "higher education" ... which means you had good RRR's that facilitated your self-learning and self-regurgitation skills so you could absorb material and repeat it on exams and thereby graduate from some level of "higher education," if not a "vocational school" that provided you employment skills.
At your age you accomplished that WITHOUT THE "DOE"! Right?
You know the old saying: If ain't broken, don't "fix it."
And, according to your success story, it WASN'T BROKEN until the Liberals decided they know more about "education" than those hicks from wherever you went to primary and secondary education.
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