I see Trump has jumped on the Glen Beck bandwagon and is predicting doom and gloom for the economy…..the difference is that Beck wants you to buy gold from his sponsors and Trump wants you to vote for him.
Donald is saying that we will be sucking if we do not vote for him…..
In a wide-ranging interview this week, Donald Trump said the US economy is headed for disaster—unless, it seems, he takes the reins. He also compared himself to the Lone Ranger and predicted the American people will “be falling asleep” if he becomes president. Among the highlights of his Washington Post interview with Bob Woodward and Robert Costa:
- The economy is going into a “very massive recession,” says Trump, despite popular economic forecasts to the contrary. “It’s a terrible time right now” to invest in stocks, he adds. Will his words hurt financial markets? “I know the Wall Street people probably better than anybody knows them. I don’t need them.”
- “I’m pessimistic,” he says about the economy. “Unless changes are made. Changes could be made. I can fix it. I can fix it pretty quickly.”
- Trump says he can wipe away $19 trillion in US debt without gouging the nation’s $4 trillion annual budget. “I’m renegotiating all of our deals, the big trade deals that we’re doing so badly on,” he explains. (Barry Bennett, a senior Trump advisor, also says Trump could sell off $16 trillion in government assets—although NBC News notes that the US government values its own assets at just $3.2 trillion.)
- “I bring rage out,” Trump says of his combative style. “And after it’s all over, [my opponents] end up being my friends. And I see that happening here.” But maybe not his GOP rivals: “I’m not sure they can ever go back to me. I was very rough on Jeb.” He used phrases like “Jeb: Low energy. Little Marco,” Trump recalls. “Names that were devastating.”
- With his go-it-alone style, is he the Lone Ranger? “I am,” he says. “Because I understand life. And I understand how life works. I’m the Lone Ranger.”
- “And after I win, I will be so presidential that you won’t even recognize me. You’ll be falling asleep, you’ll be so bored.”
I think he is right….the economy is headed to some treacherous waters but for me it is more the games being played by the financial institutions than who we vote for……
Are we headed for a problem?
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We have a problem here, Houston! As long as I can remember people have been predicting dire things for our economy and many times they have been right on the money. (Pun intended.) — But the thing is sooner or later it all levels out again and here we are. I am getting along alright with what little I have and so are most of my friends and associates. We have heard all the economic gloom before and sure enough it has come to pass and then it has passed. I think these cycles are prefabricated by the ruling elite to keep the peasants on their toes and to keep them dependent on the promises of Big Gubmint.
These predictions are all right…we all do it at some point….but I think that if you are going to predict something like this then you should offer how you will stop it or how you will make it less stressful.
That would represent a most welcome “First” in American Politics, wouldn’t it? Ain’t gonna happen!
Predicting disasters is not a typical Trumph thing!
I have to say he is a natural.
Everywhere, in the media, films, broadcasts, diaster is everywhere, if you would believe the Americans.
In my opinion Americans see dangers around every corner.
Mostly immaginary and some real.
That wouldn’t be such a big problem. The problem is that they keep screaming disaster but don’t take action, untill a real disaster has evolved from this lack of action.
Followed by the blaming game.
For me, being Dutch, it is sometimes unbelievable how obssed some Americans can become. The so called “preppers” leave the normal taking care into a realm of peudo science that funy if it wasn’t taken so serious by them.