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Trump administration 2024-2028

Brad Sallows said:
And that brings us to a question "sovereign wealth fund" advocates don't bother to answer. What happened when the money was spent? What utility was achieved by government spending that year?


- Government borrowing competes with private borrowing. The resulting negative effects are not easily measured, but are part of the equation when determining whether a profitable borrowing-investing gap really exists. (The government debt instruments and the SWF are "seen"; the economic effects are "unseen".)
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Your point about government borrowing vs. competing with private sources. I was trying to think of the implications of the loss of the Canada Savings Bonds being issues by the Government direct to Canadians...and now you fighting private capital return rates.

To battle tariffs will need a combination of changes - political will and focus, regulatory changes (some in the works), simplifying business especially for small owners, and fiscal discipline. When I look at how much of the current federal budget is going to debt that becomes a key focus to me. Some will require spending cuts - and that becomes a good discussion into itself as to where that exists - and some will be through economic growth.

Raise the GST back up to 7%...but at least 1% must go to debt repayment. The other 1% goes to dealing with Canadian border security and the CAF.

Where my mind goes is next what is produced in Canada? What is currently in use that will be demanded not just by the CAF but also other agencies? For example does it make sense to hand over C-!46 helicopters to the RCMP for border patrols and instead upgrade CAF to a newer larger fleet? Thinking of what meets political tariff demands while keeping production in Canada...or buying off the shelf internationally.
 
foresterab said:
To battle tariffs will need a combination of changes - political will and focus, regulatory changes (some in the works), simplifying business especially for small owners, and fiscal discipline. When I look at how much of the current federal budget is going to debt that becomes a key focus to me. Some will require spending cuts - and that becomes a good discussion into itself as to where that exists - and some will be through economic growth.
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The assumption that we need to battle tariffs is not a given. Yes, tariffs are harmful to the exporting businesses of the exporting country because they will tend to reduce demand. But tariffs fall hardest on the people who buy the goods.

Let Americans battle the tariffs for us, while we focus on improvements entirely under our control. Remove the oxygen that the issue is providing to people who are using it to jockey for political advantage under the guise of fighting the "crisis".
 
FJAG said:
The DOGE firings are hitting veterans.



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Sure; preferential hiring for disabled veterans is not 100% merit based. It’s a DEI program. IMO, an extremely reasonable and defensible one, but DEI nonetheless, as it seeks to artificially increase the participation of people with a certain characteristic who may otherwise face barriers to equitable inclusion in the workplace/workforce. Why would anyone think that preferentially hired vets would be safer than anyone else from federal employee purges?

The leopards are hungry for faces.
 
brihard said:
Sure; preferential hiring for disabled veterans is not 100% merit based. It’s a DEI program. IMO, an extremely reasonable and defensible one, but DEI nonetheless, as it seeks to artificially increase the participation of people with a certain characteristic who may otherwise face barriers to equitable inclusion in the workplace/workforce. Why would anyone think that preferentially hired vets would be safer than anyone else from federal employee purges?

The leopards are hungry for faces.
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When people in the US are against DEI, it usually means they don't want brown people to have the good jobs.
 
OldSolduer said:
One only has to recall what he said about McCain.

"He's not a war hero."

The man - McCain - spent over five years as a "guest" of the North Vietnamese.
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Hey, buddy, give The Donald a break. He would have served …except for him having heel spurs. Although he no longer has them (if he ever did), he still remains a heel.
 
Watching a James Carville chat on YouTube openly speculating if Trump has Syphilis…..something about red blots all over his hands and that this is a symptom of having Syphilis.
lol.
 
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