@Allen46 The thing though is we absolutely can, making people like Kim believe that we will consider that as a serious option is the key. We have to scare them to the table, not beg them to the table.

I agree that the Iranians could be a key to peace. Such a complicated issue, the civil war in Syria is still being supported by Iranian fighters as well. It’s just a screwed up mess. I believe that death and destruction is in their DNA

Just a very difficult topic

We can what if all day, but I believe huge change is the only answer. I fear it won’t be a diplomatic change

I believe we can get it done, it's all about fear and leverage. The worst thing that can happen is Iran's instability causes a civil war and proxy war, which will end up creating tons of new terror groups in its wake, a refugee crisis bigger than the one with Syria, we only should want destabilization to the point of making them scared enough to flock to the table.

http://theconversation.com/syrias-war-at-home-is-giving-way-to-dangerous-proxy-conflicts-92203

It just boils dow to the Middle East is one screwed up mess and Iran got some 1.9 billion from US along with pallets of cash sent in unmarked planes. Something you’d only see in movies, that is become a reality. Crazy

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The economy is booming around me.

More help wanted and hiring now signs than ever.

Nice

@Pielover19 Didn't Wallace have a strict Welfare Policy?

Everything is a whole lot more crowded, too. New businesses opening and all.

Yeah.

Similar to Trump kinda

He was a real capitalist.

Work or GTFO

Need to make that a bumper sticker. Lol

These deals Trump's gonna have with all of these nations really are going to put the economy on overdrive. Equalizing trade has done so much good for us already, steel is back and the Chinese are selling their real estate in NYC because now they have a deficit. Once we get both an equal playing field and much less trade barriers, we'll have a crazy export boom, manufacturing is going to go through the roof, the economy in general will skyrocket, if you thought 4.1 was good, trust me, it can go a lot higher than that.

I think that's overly optimistic, I doubt we're going to have an export boom, we'll still be heavily reliant on imports, manufacturing won't comeback unless you stop raising minimum wage and deregulate, which is debatable if is happening.

Also I don't think Steel "is back" China still out produces and sells us by substantial amounts in steel, and I don't think our steel industry has really recovered that much at all.

But I dunno, I haven't looked at that data.

Like even after leaving the TPP, it really had no positive effect, the damage was done.

I'm still glad we left, because now we have a chance of fixing this (((free-trade))) garbage.

Hi still glad we left, because now we have a chance of fixing this (((free-trade))) garbage., I'm Dad!

But, the damage to our industrial sector hasn't diminished.

https://twitter.com/brithume/status/1026132329700446208

Brit Hume retweeted Mark Collett lol

That’s one reason why Trump calls the media fake news and enemies of the ppl. Double standard, bias, backstabbing, dirt graveling, bottom dwellers

@zakattack04 fair argument

manufacturing isn't a wage job, it's salaried income

deregulation is happening right now, pretty rapidly

Doesn't matter, It's the act of raising minimum wage will destroy the other sectors, which might use resources produced by industrial jobs.

And I don't think that's always the case.

Not every industrial job is salary.

Usually more skilled labor jobs are salary and unskilled is wage.

LIke doctors and engineers works salary.

regardless there will be a pretty big rise in exports once we get the trade partners to drop their existing tariffs

But they aren't right now.

Definitely much more than prior. I think

A much better alternative is to raise the EITC