Trump Calls for Stimulus to ‘Prime the Pump’

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@Suppressed

Actually nazi economics would be an interesting discussion all by itself. Punishment vs reward for obedience.

@Cripplecreek

Interesting point. 

Italian Fascism and German National Socialism are close siblings.  While I don't believe Mr. Trump approaches Hitler's extent, some of the basic ideas of totalitarian required-loyalty are similar.

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This stimulus thing is scary... all we can hope for is that there is enough push back from Congress to defeat it.

Congress is going to be under a tremendous amount of pressure. They are going to hear the demands of the Progressive Wing of the party represented by Trump with an eye on our rising debt

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That Time Donald Trump Praised The Stimulus Package On Fox News
“This is a strong guy knows what he wants, and this is what we need.”
posted on Jul. 20, 2015, at 2:03 p.m.

President Obama held his first prime-time press briefing — designed to build support for the economic stimulus package that was his top priority upon taking office — on Feb. 9, 2009. Later that same night, real estate mogul Donald Trump took to the airwaves to sing the plan’s — and the president’s — praises.

“I thought he did a terrific job,” Trump told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren. “This is a strong guy knows what he wants, and this is what we need.”

“First of all, I thought he did a great job tonight,” said Trump. “I thought he was strong and smart, and it looks like we have somebody that knows what he is doing finally in office, and he did inherit a tremendous problem. He really stepped into a mess, Greta.”

Van Susteren then asked Trump if a simple payroll tax holiday might be a better way to stimulate the flagging economy. Trump, however, held firm in his support for Obama’s plan, which he praised for the wide breadth of approaches it took to combatting the crisis.

“Well, I think taxes are very good. I think it goes quickly. It is easily done, and etc., etc.,” Trump told Van Susteren, “but building infrastructure, building great projects, putting people to work in that sense is also very good, so I think you have a combination of both plus he is doing a rebate system and I think that is good also.”

Van Susteren tried again, questioning whether Trump thought that “the breakdown between spending projects and taxes” in the president’s plan was the right one. And again, Trump offered praise for Obama’s proposal.

“Well, I have analyzed the bill as closely as it can be analyzed in this quick a period of time, but he’s really got a combination of both,” Trump replied. “He is doing the taxes, he is doing rebates, and he is also doing lots of public works.”

Trump went on to qualify his enthusiasm slightly, noting that a “couple of things slip in there which are bad.”

In the end, however, he returned to his strong support for the president and his plan.

“It is a bad sound bite,” said Trump, “but I thought he did a terrific job. This is a strong guy knows what he wants, and this is what we need.”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ilanbenmeir/that-time-donald-trump-praised-the-stimulus-package-on-fox-n?utm_term=.pqxv1LZMr#.poMlOa1pP

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@Right_in_Virginia

They (the Trump haters) are very lucky that the mods here do not allow me to engage them in an honest debate.

Oh no don't call us Hillary supporters again! Oh No! Oh Woe! Oh how could we handle your incorrigible bombastic illogical supercilious ad hominems?
 
You're a funny guy. I'll give you that much.

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I will assure Mr. Trump that passing REAL tax and regulatory reform measures will be more than sufficient all by themselves.  No additional stimulus needed or warranted.