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Originally posted by 0ne_Capitalist View PostYou must not know Cruz. Cruz was Trumping it up in the Senate years before Trump was doing it.
He just wrote this about his own party: http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...o-obama-213448
Originally posted by Jim Jeffries View PostI think a lot of people are pretty disgusted at the fecklessness of Republican leadership. Despite landslide elections in 2010 and 2014 to win back the House and Senate, McConnel, Boehner and now Ryan doing their very best to make Republicans the most useless opposition party in history. Cruz has a history of going after them. Trump, Carson and Fiorina together have had about half the support of Republican voters because they're outsiders. Cruz is the only one who's actually stood up to the Republican establishment, which is why from what I hear, Fox News has been attacking him incessantly.
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Originally posted by Weebler I View PostHe does seem to have a similar message, I guess it's all in the delivery.
Which Republican voters are you referring to here?
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Originally posted by Jim JeffriesUm, all of them.
Basically, you're saying Republican party leadership have alienated their electoral support-base so the public is looking to outsiders for reform or an improved approach and that Cruz is seen as a semi-outsider (of the politicians) because he's been critical of the party leadership.
Originally posted by Jim Jeffries View PostYeah Trump has about a 4th grade level delivery. Reminds me of an old Tarzan movie. "Me Trump, you chump."Last edited by Weebler I; 12-19-2015, 01:30 AM.
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Originally posted by Jim Jeffries View PostI think a lot of people are pretty disgusted at the fecklessness of Republican leadership. Despite landslide elections in 2010 and 2014 to win back the House and Senate, McConnel, Boehner and now Ryan doing their very best to make Republicans the most useless opposition party in history. Cruz has a history of going after them. Trump, Carson and Fiorina together have had about half the support of Republican voters because they're outsiders. Cruz is the only one who's actually stood up to the Republican establishment, which is why from what I hear, Fox News has been attacking him incessantly.
But I say ****'m. There is no adapting for these kind of Rubio and Lindsey Graham types. They are completely out of touch and have no shot at winning the trust of the primary voters.
The establishment seriously hates Cruz though. For years they have. Absolutely hated him. Now they might be trying to prop him up, hoping he battles Trump long enough in the polls, and thus giving an opening for Bush, Rubio or maybe Christie to take him down. That only being the case if Trump self destructs. With his rise and poll numbers along with his adaptability, I don't see that happening.
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Originally posted by creekrat77 View PostThe establishment seriously hates Cruz though. For years they have. Absolutely hated him. Now they might be trying to prop him up, hoping he battles Trump long enough in the polls, and thus giving an opening for Bush, Rubio or maybe Christie to take him down. That only being the case if Trump self destructs. With his rise and poll numbers along with his adaptability, I don't see that happening.Last edited by Weebler I; 12-19-2015, 01:57 AM.
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Originally posted by 0ne_Capitalist View PostThis is one is correct...and one could write a whole paper on it. Why would you post this when this is exactly what the other poster was getting at...which is Democrat/Leftist policies and their unintended consequences on the poor.
Originally posted by 0ne_Capitalist View Post[B][COLOR="DarkRed"]
Yes...but the problem isn't so much a lack of access to capital. Rather, the problem is barriers to entry...like having to start out by paying your workers a Government imposed minimum wage, instead of just paying them whatever the heck you want [or can afford] until your business grows. Just one of the many barriers.
See...if the starting point is that you have to have 1 million dollars to do X, Y, Z...majority of it being compliance costs, then the problem isn't lack of access to capital, the problem is all the Government created hurdles.
Businesses: Revisiting Key Variables
Originally posted by 0ne_Capitalist View Post
One-Capppy's anecdotal observation. The vast majority of jobs in big cities are Fluff jobs. If you have no skills or aren't credentialed to your eyeballs...all you will get is the odd security job, restaurant job, call center or service sector fake job in general.
All the real goods producing jobs are outside of the cities. As a matter of fact, I was in Nashville just a while back and a few bums asked me for a dollar and I told them, that they're mass hiring at a manufacturing plant in Gallatin, Tn about 30 mins outside of nashville. The bum wasn't interested. Poor ppl with no skills have no business living in a big city where the cost of living is inflated in the first place. If they have access to the internet, they should be looking for labor jobs outside of cities, not in the cities. They can move just like anybody else, and go live in a cheaper town with lower rents and cost of living...as long as they're willing to leave behind the Big City social program tit which keeps them voting Democrat in every election. It's called free movement of labor and ppl.
We are all individuals and should take some self-responsibility, using our intelligence [if we have any] instead of playing the perpetual victim card
It's super simple right? But what I'm talking about are the working poor and those frozen out of the system because of a lack of opportunity. There isn't a question of if they want to work or start a business, the question becomes will anyone give them the opportunity?
I agree about some people overplaying the victim card as well. Instead of it being the card of absolute last resort it has become an all too familiar go to strategy of the disgruntled perpetual victim, for even the most innocuous of issues. They can turn a perfectly reasonable situation into a pity party in seconds. I avoid people like that because they make my nuts itch.
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Originally posted by Weebler I View PostMy bad. I thought you were referring to within the party (British party politics overlap in my mind).
Basically, you're saying Republican party leadership have alienated their electoral support-base so the public is looking to outsiders for reform or an improved approach and that Cruz is seen as a semi-outsider (of the politicians) because he's been critical of the party leadership.
lol true, but he's good at grabbing headlines to get his message across and that's half the battle when rallying support (I'm not a Trump fan at all fwiw).
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer...mb-rivals.html
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Originally posted by Slip Stream View Post
recent study finds no evidence of disparate application of credit scores to women or minority business owners".
Another highlight was that minority business ownership has increased. The rest of it is just fluff. She didn't address the cost/ease of doing business, or the ability of the individuals to pay it back. Maybe she is in favor of guaranteed loans to minorities the way they do it with student loans...except this would be affirmative action for would-be minority business owners.
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Originally posted by 0ne_Capitalist View PostI read the whole thing. A highlight for me, "Regarding the question of whether these credit scores are used in a discrimantory manner, a
recent study finds no evidence of disparate application of credit scores to women or minority business owners".
Minority small business owners are disproportionately denied credit when they apply for it even after controlling for other variables such as business credit scores, personal wealth, and revenues. These findings hold true particularly for black and Hispanic business owners. Evidence is mixed on disproportionate credit denials to non-minority women small business
owners and may vary based on data and year specifications.
Originally posted by 0ne_Capitalist View PostAnother highlight was that minority business ownership has increased. The rest of it is just fluff. She didn't address the cost/ease of doing business, or the ability of the individuals to pay it back. Maybe she is in favor of guaranteed loans to minorities the way they do it with student loans...except this would be affirmative action for would-be minority business owners.
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