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President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Nov 12, 2016.

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  1. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    Cleaning up toxic waste is a job, so maybe it is all just a jobs plan.
     
    SnarkShark, Feb 28, 2017
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  2. BitterYoungMatador2

    BitterYoungMatador2 Well-Known Member

    Not my problem. He should have known the risk of signing me to a policy. They knew the risks. They're In the business of risk assessment.
     
    BitterYoungMatador2, Feb 28, 2017
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  3. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    I'm not sure if it was a Superfund site, but I've been by the Times Beach ghost town many times.
     
    swingline, Feb 28, 2017
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  4. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Inky_Wretch, Feb 28, 2017
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  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I advocate laws that we broadly agree protect each of our individual rights. Beyond that, c'est la vie. It's how our system of justice works. When you commit a crime against the government, we have a criminal law system in place. And we have a civil law system to regulate disputes between private parties. It covers environmental disputes.

    When you create entrenched "agencies" with political appointees being given dictatorial powers, in an effort to preemptively try to manage people's behaviors as some politicized tool sees fit (either because of corruption or because of asinine arbitrariness), you get the government we have ended up with. It is costly, it is inefficient and it creates a tremendous drag on our economy -- we are talking about trillions of dollars of waste.
     
    The Big Ragu, Feb 28, 2017
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  6. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    Remember the coal-mining town in Pennsylvania that's been abandoned after being on fire for more than half a century?
     
    MisterCreosote, Feb 28, 2017
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  7. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    You had posted on the thread again, so that excuse in bold does not hold up. In fact, you had posted multiple times, two of them very long ones, since Justin asked the question and once since he posted a reminder. You also didn't exactly answer his questions. You chose to respond with rhetorical questions of your own.

    You make a habit of ducking out of such conversations, but thank you for finally checking back in.

    Also, the comparison you make at the end of this post is crap. If Trump can take blame for something without losing his job, can't the same happen to McCarthy?
     
    outofplace, Feb 28, 2017
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  8. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    The free market at work.
     
    SnarkShark, Feb 28, 2017
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  9. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    In YF's defense, that excuse always holds up. It's not as if all of us check this thread every three minutes.

    (Although I will for a few minutes now just to see how I can be described a cretin for disagreeing with you.)
     
    jr/shotglass, Feb 28, 2017
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  10. Oggiedoggie

    Oggiedoggie Well-Known Member

    I think that to claim that President Trump is any less of a statist than past presidents is comical. Given what he has said and done in his short tenure, I think that he wants to increase the power and control of the government. The only difference he and his team seem to be working toward is a change of who wields that power.
     
    Oggiedoggie, Feb 28, 2017
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  11. Justin_Rice

    Justin_Rice Well-Known Member

    You're the first pro-pollution-because-otherwise-it's-a-drag-on-our-economy person I've ever met.
     
    Justin_Rice, Feb 28, 2017
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  12. MisterCreosote

    MisterCreosote Well-Known Member

    The government should not be in the business of telling people they can't live in a town that's been swallowed by plumes of toxic smoke.
     
    MisterCreosote, Feb 28, 2017
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