Tell me again why Trump is a bad guy

[Vern Humphrey]

I mentioned earlier I took $200K out of my investment accounts to buy a house for my younger daughter. That was on the 16th of October. Today, the 13th of December, I've made it all back.

How can anyone hate the President with an economy like that?

[togor]

There is more to life than money?

Seriously, I can give you reasons. The history book on Trump is already written.

[Roadkingtrax]

There is more to life than money?

Seriously, I can give you reasons. The history book on Trump is already written.

Miraculously, this is one thing he didn't screw up from the previous administration.


"It seems Trump takes no responsibility for stock market performance when share prices fall. As that same Wall Street Journal editorial noted, “No logic exists that will allow Mr. Trump to take responsibility only for sunny days"

"From March 4, 1929, through July 5, 2016, U.S. stocks returned an average of 1.71% under Republican administrations and 10.83% under Democratic administrations. Can this be a coincidence?

https://www.financial-planning.com/opinion/how-the-markets-performed-under-trump-and-obama

What Vern is not including in his data point, the sum of his investment. My suspicion is the account is 7 figures+. ROI is much easier if you start with capital.

[togor]

Well good thing she has dad. Not everyone is so lucky that way, to be born into money. Too bad wages are squeezed the way they are.

[bruce]

Re: OP. Good for you! Good for your daughter! Sincerely. bruce.

[JohnMOhio]

Glad to see somebody I know is getting part of the American Dream.

[Vern Humphrey]

Anyone can have their share of the American Dream.

There's a little student nurse who comes a couple of hours a day and helps Jane. She was telling me how she has some "clients" -- husband and wife and mother-in-law -- who have a combined income of $2700 a month from welfare, etc., and she makes out their budget. They insist the FIRST item on the budget is cigarettes -- to the tune of $900 a month!

Tell me those people "can't save" when they spend a third of their income on tobacco!

[Roadkingtrax]

This administration should ban smoking, and call it an income credit?

[lyman]

This administration should ban smoking, and call it an income credit?

or have it declared a medical necessity and write a script for it, get medicare to pay for them?

[Roadkingtrax]

or have it declared a medical necessity and write a script for it, get medicare to pay for them?

That's taxation on those that dont smoke. We already have to front EVERYTHING, let's not add more substance abuse to our tax burden. Prescription drugs are already weaponized for maximum geriatric inspired profits.

[togor]

I have a buddy who works for an unnamed pharma multinational. He has had some visibility into how emerging potential therapies are evaluated for business purposes. People talk about how big oil stymied the electric car by burying some battery patents, and this is kinda true, but what really is true is that pharma will bury promising new technologies that would threaten their revenue streams through just word getting out of their potential. The lie pharma people tell themselves is that it's about saving lives, not making money.

[Johnny P]

There is already taxation on those that have to work for those that don't want or have to work.

[Vern Humphrey]

There is already taxation on those that have to work for those that don't want or have to work.

Amen. We have a system that penalizes hard work and rewards shiftlessness.

[lyman]

I have a buddy who works for an unnamed pharma multinational. He has had some visibility into how emerging potential therapies are evaluated for business purposes. People talk about how big oil stymied the electric car by burying some battery patents, and this is kinda true, but what really is true is that pharma will bury promising new technologies that would threaten their revenue streams through just word getting out of their potential. The lie pharma people tell themselves is that it's about saving lives, not making money.

this is somehow news to you?

[Vern Humphrey]

this is somehow news to you?

And there's a pill that converts water to gasoline, and a match that will light 2,000 times . . .