It's official. There has never been a POTUS as --vile-- unpopular as Trump. Sad! Trump cont.

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It seems the tide is turning, at least on the business & industry side - Trump is toxic. I wonder how long it's going to take for the penny to drop for the GOP.

Lweji

How are roads supposed to be funded, then?

Run the government like a business, find a income stream such as oil or sell arms.

They had roads and schools before income tax was adopted in the 1940's

This is why I am a bit dubious of the public naming and calls for firing of people photographed at the Charlottesville marches. It is too easy to make mistakes and mistakes like that can ruin someone's life. If someone openly admits they were there and outs themselves, fine, but I don't like the idea of random people on the internet guessing who someone is from a grainy photo and then demanding they lose their job.

Professor wrongly labelled as racist in Charlottesville
www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-us-canada-40935419

For someone who has such a dependent relationship with twitter, this must rankle:

(From Wikipedia)

This list of most liked tweets on Twitter contains the top ten tweets with the most likes of all time on the social networking platform Twitter; Twitter does not provide an official list. As of August 2017, the top tweet was made by Ariana Grande and has over 2.7 million likes.

Also, as of August 2017, six of the top ten most liked tweets in history were tweets made by Barack Obama.

(And whilst Wikipedia isn't that reliable, a twitter spokesperson confirmed that obamas tweet about hate being taught that was obliquely in response to Charlottesville is officially the second highest liked tweet so far)

Run the government like a business, find a income stream such as oil or sell arms.

You know what's called right, Kursk?

That's socialism

I'm actually crying here

For the business leaders leaving in their droves, he's tweeted more or less saying there's plenty more where they came from!

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For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!

Dan Merica @danmericaCNN
A WH official tells CNN the image of a train hitting a man/CNN logo was "inadvertently posted" & "immediately deleted" once it was noticed

Are there any Press briefings at the moment?

Gosh. I do so hope that there's no 'inadvertence' in his approach to NK.

Zack Colman
Zack Colman @zcolman
per source, WH has confirmed they will rescind Obama order that flood-prone infrastructure be built with sea-level rise in mind

And yet:

www.politico.com/story/2016/05/donald-trump-climate-change-golf-course-223436

A permit application for the wall, filed by Trump International Golf Links Ireland and reviewed by POLITICO, explicitly cites global warming and its consequences — increased erosion due to rising sea levels and extreme weather this century — as a chief justification for building the structure.

And meanwhile, Mr Mueller's people continue to work away.

find a income stream such as oil or sell arms
That's hardly sensible is it? Let's just arm all the tinpot dictatorships out there to provide enough to fund the country!

Kursk you really need to learn to check your facts. Of course they had tax in the 1940s. FFS, a quick Google would tell you that. Here let me help you...

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States

16 minutes after Trump tweeted about the CEO's, another one, Scott Paul, has said he's leaving.

Mass exodus!

catgirl1976

Ok please educate me, I don't see how the government taxing oil companies, imports, etc rather than taxing its people is socialist?

Run the government in such a way that it's own people are not a revenue stream

I would assume that Paul phoned 45 - or the WH - first to tell them.

BiglyBadgers

Apologies I got my dates mixed up. It was 1913 it was introduced

And I had thought that Wall St would have a quiet, contemplative sort of day with a modest rise.

I was wrong.

Rats deserting the ship comes to mind. And where or where is Steve?

Kursk the population of America was around 77.5mil in 1900, it is now around 323mil. The country was a completely different place. No public healthcare at all, no social security at all, no farming subsidies or welfare programs. Do you know anything about what the country was like in the 1900s? You really want to drag your county back there?

Actually, don't answer that. I don't have the energy to argue with someone who would rather watch innocent people die of preventable illnesses than give a small proportion of their earnings to provide decent healthcare for all.

BiglyBadgers

I live off grid, with no access to the programs that you mention so sounds like business as normal to me.

Honestly, I am not sure that the country is better than it was in 1900. Yes we have gained a lot but we have also lost a lot.

Well Kursk, when the profits of the enterprise of a country are distributed to the people to pay for their well being (roads and schools and things) that's erm, pretty much socialism.

I mean, the dictionary definition is "a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state"

Which sort of sounds like what you're advocating so........hey, you're a socialist :) Where shall I send your badge?

By the way, on your point that they didn't have tax prior to the 1940s - it started in the UK in 1779. Prior to that we had tithes and window taxes and stuff like that. In the US, erm what do you think paid for the Civil War?

I am am English and moved to the US, so I lived 20 years with the NHS.

Don't farming subsidies keep the price of food down (many items are costly compared to the UK)

I hear many people talking about living off grid in the states seems to be the thing at then moment but how many truly do is questionable