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malaise

(297,947 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:38 AM Jan 2019

A monster who is inflicting suffering and hardship on over one million people

as hostages for his wall is tweeting about how unfair people are to some entitled racist MAGA wearing kids who were never taught to respect their elders. Ah well!

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A monster who is inflicting suffering and hardship on over one million people (Original Post) malaise Jan 2019 OP
It is to be expected of the orange criminal... Ferrets are Cool Jan 2019 #1
The multiplier effect of 800,000 federal jobs... kentuck Jan 2019 #2
Throw in the thousands of contractors and their employees and families... Wounded Bear Jan 2019 #4
Malaise bdamomma Jan 2019 #3

Ferrets are Cool

(23,048 posts)
1. It is to be expected of the orange criminal...
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:40 AM
Jan 2019

but please do not forget the REAL culprit in this shutdown debacle...McTurtle.

kentuck

(115,627 posts)
2. The multiplier effect of 800,000 federal jobs...
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:42 AM
Jan 2019

..Each worker probably has an average family of three or four? Those are part of the suffering from the shutdown also.

And as foodstamps might have a multiplier effect of 5-7 times in the economy, many millions more are affected by lack of spending by the federal employees.

Wounded Bear

(64,637 posts)
4. Throw in the thousands of contractors and their employees and families...
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:57 AM
Jan 2019

Trump is pushing several million people out of the active economy.

Trump Slump is teetering on the edge of becoming Donnie's Depression.

bdamomma

(69,629 posts)
3. Malaise
Tue Jan 22, 2019, 11:42 AM
Jan 2019

this is more than the wall, we see them dissembling the US and grinding everything to a halt and using the American people as hostages. A complacent Congress, Repigs who are in the pocket of Russian Oligarchs.

Who is giving him the go ahead Putin?? Stephen Miller??? or there are others in Government who want to see everything come crashing down.

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