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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis will be the biggest theft in history
Don the Con will be turning his billionaire buddies loose on our Federal government.
Open season on privatizing, enriching the wealthy, and deregulation. Trillions in jeopardy.
"Houston...we've got a problem".
msongs
(67,394 posts)Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)over 30 TRILLION (I think more like 40 trillion USD, as the 30 tril number is almost 5 years old and many of those programmmes kept running) in USD was globally shuffled into dark pools and OTC derivative overhang and off balance sheet loans and swaps.
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)But for Gods sake, don't get caught shoplifing at Walmart!
Sadie5
(1,933 posts)For the same thing to happen again. These idiots filing Trump's cabinet positions could care less about the people. They only care about getting rich.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)You know...
9/11 happened under Bill Clinton's watch.
It was Obama's Recession but the economy did rebound because of GWB's policies. (I fucking kid you not. For a brief time, Fox News tried to run with that talking-point.)
2009: https://thinkprogress.org/fox-news-neil-cavuto-is-this-now-the-bush-recovery-ffea8c5689a8#.2irrz95mb
2016: http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/05/16/foxs-brit-hume-says-obama-must-share-credit-improving-economy-bush-administration/210449
It was Obama who lost the Iraq-war by honoring the troop-withdrawal-plan that GWB had negotiated with Iraq.
And the economic downturn in 2018 or so will be the fault of Obama's failed policies. Because Trump is new at this and you have to give him some time to settle in. Give him a chance to succeed!!!