Like the weather.

2016 34 Comments

Wait five minutes, it’ll change.

“Now that he is backtracking substantially on that, and even a 10 year elimination,” Bell said, “I gather that his advisers have brought him a bit more up to speed on the deficit/debt situation.”

At least this position is grounded in reality. (an odd thing for this candidate, so we’ll see if this time it lasts)
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  1. There are plenty of ideas on how to eliminate debt out there and I’m sure President Trump will settle on one of them.
    At least he’s willing to change the direction of those currently in office who love how much they’re loved while spending other people’s money.

  2. Lance, your denial of the Trump Movement, is interesting to observe.
    Our age will be noted for its abandonment of truth and reason how else do we explain same sex marriage and the false rights generated from the identity industry?
    Trump is following the same celebrity populism of the Oh Bummer Movement and Trudeau Movement.
    It’s all about feelings baby! And its Huuuge.

  3. Maybe all he has to do is take the, apparently, revolutionary step of introducing a budget – after all, they haven’t had a budget during the two Obama terms. Instead, they just rolled over year after year, without any scrutiny. The current deficit/debt numbers also include all of the Obamacare costs.

  4. Of course there was never going to be a discharge of US national debt in 10 years. It was an utterly stupid commitment. First the US has to return to fiscal surplus, and that will come only, like in Canada in the 1990s, from a combination of tax increases and program cuts.
    Far more realistic would have been a commitment to return to budget surplus. The secret in politics is under-promise and over-deliver.
    And Adler’s statement in the article on low interest rates was completely daft. Even a small interest rate hike, which the US cannot control, and the US federal budget is blown to pieces.

  5. Racking up debt, like running up the credit cards, is easy and painless as long as the minimum payment is made. Paying off the balance is the hard part, and no one – not even Trump – wants to incur the pain resulting from responsible debt servicing.
    I know people who run their personal finances this way, so it shouldn’t be surprising that there is little political problem with huge debt as long as the can is kicked farther down the road. Few want to consider what happens when, like Greece, there is no more road.

  7. Trump is only a SYMPTOM. Many of you need to stop focusing on the man and start thinking about the WHY.

  8. Lance, people don’t particularly care about what he says his policies will be. They are fed up with politicians, especially RINOs, promising conservative policies and then pandering to Obomber, or the GOP establishment.
    They know promises are worthless. They see Trump as a savior from business-as-usual in Washington, a chance to poke the establishment in the eye. They also know that he is obviously NOT stupid and will run the Presidential office in a truly executive way. He will be involved and bash people’s heads to get results. He will not micro-manage nor will he shy away from defending perceived American interests. Unlike The One.
    Expect lots of shock and awe in the political world over the next ten years; enjoy the ride. Vote Trump!

  10. re: “The secret in politics is under-promise and over-deliver.” Just stop and think about that for a second. You have that 180º completely backwards. Obama’s, Hillary’s, Trudeau’s, Sander’s, and even Trump’s campaign is all about promising everything to everyone. It’s the Liberal/Democrat/Progressive way.

  11. Robert, it’s legal simply by motions of continuance.
    rgraham, indeed think about it. The people you name have achieved exactly zero in positive public policy developments. Today we still talk with at least some respect of the Chretien government getting Canada’s fiscal house in order in the 1990s. Older Ontarians still talk with some respect of the understated and efficient way that the Davis government ran Ontario in the 1970s.

  12. There are close to 100 million people who have dropped out of the work force in the U.S. If those people could be put back to work, what would be the value of their production? How much additional revenue would that provide to the U.S. treasury? And how much money would the U.S. save in not having to provide social assistance to these people?
    There is no point talking about how fast the U.S. could pay down its debt under current conditions. The economy is not a zero sum game. The U.S. is the most powerful economic engine in the world and I am completely confident that if the U.S. elects a president that will get the federal government out of the way of the private sector that it will bring the U.S. government an economic windfall that will astonish people. That said, it is one thing to be confident of the future and quite another thing to be speculating about specific timelines. Trump’s advisors are reminding him of that and Trump is reacting accordingly.
    As for candidate Trump, I have thoroughly read his history and I think that, while imperfect, he is at least as qualified as any candidate for president since the second world war. There are people who do not share my opinion. They complain that he does not have the perfect answer to every question put to him. Now, if I were his campaign advisor, I would tell him not to answer any questions that do not directly relate to the duties of the office. He is not a philosopher king nor should he allow himself to be baited into trying to be one.
    The president is not a legislator. Questions about abortion, trans-sexuality, the environment, and so forth are questions more properly put to candidates for congress. The laws of the land are not for the president to make; they are for him to administer. The U.S. has had 24 years of presidents who have thought otherwise, especially the current one. The U.S. does not need nor can it afford another eight years of a president who is too big for his britches. The most important question that should be put to all the present candidates, and to Trump in particular since he is the odds-on favorite to win is: What does he think is the proper role and duties of a U.S. president and what are the limitations of the office?
    Any presidential candidate should be made to run the gauntlet. Serious questions can and should be asked. Serious answers should be demanded. Spitball artists and nit-pickers should stay home.
    There is an old adage that says: The perfect is the enemy of the good. All of us should be mindful of that.

  13. This is more a sad commentary on America’s financial situation than Trump’s platform. Even Donald is throwing in the towel on the debt.

  15. Lance, your friend Brad would never change his stripes; not like D.J.T.?
    Another CINO?

  17. Edward Teach and Robert of Ottawa have it right.
    People are fed-up with the status quo, and like Edward says, Trump is the symptom.
    Too bad Canadians are still beguiled and misled by the Club of the Laurentian Elites and being led down the garden path to the destruction of freedom.

  18. The “Trumpophobia” of leftard Canuks is hilarious. They’ll probably wet themselves when he wins.

  21. “…The secret in politics is under-promise and over-deliver. …”
    No, that’s the secret in government. In politics it is the opposite, as rgraham4444 said, promising everything to everyone, though it cannot come true, gets you elected.

  22. So, if Trump is not grounded in reality, (even though he is the only candidate who has ever accomplished anything with his own money, made payroll, or run something that did not lose money) which candidates or current office holders ARE grounded in reality? Bernie?

  23. So a candidate changes his policy on something when he learns it isn’t possible (paying of the debt) or isn’t in line with majority morally (legal punishment for women who get abortions)
    I see that as good thing.
    A candidate who can’t learn (global warming isn’t caused by man)
    I see that as a bad thing.

  24. “So, if Trump is not grounded in reality, (even though he is the only candidate who has ever accomplished anything with his own money, made payroll, or run something that did not lose money)”
    This is a joke, right? Trust Fund Trump uses Daddy’s money and declares Chapter 13 how many times and this is what you say is accomplished, did not lose money, and is “grounded in reality”?

  25. Nationally Trump’s unfavorability rating is over 67% – African Americans will be voting for Hillary as will Latinos, Jews and of course, the Muslims.
    If Trump is the Republican nominee and Hillary is the Democratic nominee, Hillary will trounce him in the debates. Trump’s inability to respond in a deliberate, positive, intelligent manner to any suggestion he is spewing nothing but bombast with respect to, i.e., a national security question, will elicit the familiar change of topic to the I, DONALD rant. After the debate he will naturally resort to the usual insults and rants against his opponent [whomever it may be]. Trump, in many ways is the typical megalomaniac suffering from an inferiority complex.
    ha ha
    Most of my family in the U.S. are resigned to the inevitable. Hillary as Commander-in-Chief in 20127.
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  26. Nationally Trump’s unfavorability rating is over 67% – African Americans will be voting for Hillary as will Latinos, Jews and of course, the Muslims.
    If Trump is the Republican nominee and Hillary is the Democratic nominee, Hillary will trounce him in the debates. Trump’s inability to respond in a deliberate, positive, intelligent manner to any suggestion he is spewing nothing but bombast with respect to, i.e., a national security question, will elicit the familiar change of topic to the I, DONALD rant. After the debate he will naturally resort to the usual insults and rants against his opponent [whomever it may be]. Trump, in many ways is the typical megalomaniac suffering from an inferiority complex.
    ha ha
    Most of my family in the U.S. are resigned to the inevitable. Hillary as Commander-in-Chief in 2017.
    `

  27. seems a whole bunch of people are confused between “Could and would”.
    Sure Trump could drastically reduce/eliminate the debt in 8 years.
    But that would threaten so many parasites he would never get elected.

  28. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
    From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.
    The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.
    — Attributed to Alexander Tytler

  30. His inheritance was around $100-million that was used to finance his first project; he’s worth a minimum of $4-billion today and that’s alot more than his father had.
    He’s had four bankruptcies out of 500+ companies. That’s a pretty good track record for an entrepreneur. (By way of comparison, Mitt Romney had 37 bankruptcies out of the companies he came in to to save. They all weren’t the successes that Staples was.)

  31. Who is the better debater, Elizabeth, Paul Ryan or Joe Biden? And how did that work out?

  33. @elizabethm I think you mean, Hillary as Commander-in-Chief in 2017 with a $20127 trillion debt by the end of her presidency. Clinton Foundation net worth of $20108 trillion.

  34. “he’s worth a minimum of $4-billion today”
    Says who, Trump? Just search ‘Trump net worth exaggerated’ and you’ll find he has been regularly overestimating his value for decades. It’s a technique he uses to make deals.

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