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Old 07-10-2024, 22:59   #322
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Re: US Election 2024

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
From policies like those mentioned below.

The non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget warns of heightened risk of ‘an eventual fiscal crisis’ and his plans will see the USA in debt by double the amount that Kamala Harris's plans would.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...la-harris.html
It’s an opinion piece, it plainly says in the first few lines …….

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Trump, who has not yet released a comprehensive economic plan,
If he hasn’t put forward a plan/policy how can they claim a crisis?

Hmmm

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And he is shocked when regular economic growth occurs

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...cy-msna1027741
Yes, from that article …..in October 2017

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No one actually thought that -- because 3.1% quarterly growth has been quite common since the end of the Great Recession.

But from just six months earlier…..

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The US economy slowed dramatically in the first three months of the year, according to official data, external.
GDP expanded at an annual rate of 0.7% in the first quarter - the slowest rate since the first quarter of 2014.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39748165

That would appear to be well below the very common 3%, wouldn’t it?

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And thinks that tariffs just tax foreign companies

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/10/u...m-tariffs.html
Tariffs have their place, but that is just another opinion piece.

---------- Post added at 22:56 ---------- Previous post was at 22:53 ----------

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
Ha ha ha, you are truly a comedy legend.

Seriously though, you with that statement, are an an authoritative administrations wet dream.
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Originally Posted by Mr K View Post
Seems some, still haven't got over the UK GE result, and are looking elsewhere for their loony kicks...

Try following Halifax Town AFC, if you're in need of some entertainment . ( if not results....) Surely more important than a country you don't live in.
If there was an actual point to that post, please do write in, although I can’t reply to all letters I do read them.

---------- Post added at 22:59 ---------- Previous post was at 22:56 ----------

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Originally Posted by 1andrew1 View Post
If you and I were eminent political commentators, I doubt we would be spending our time on a forum when the world's TV studios waited upon our wisdom.
Point accepted, but I think we’d be great on the Jeremy Vine show. Just waiting for the call.
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