"It would have been no different under a Clinton presidency. It's what makes our Ponzi economy appear to be prospering."

You don't even believe that nonsense. Hillary would not have supported tax cuts for the 1% which added 2 trillion to our debt. She would have supported raising tax cuts as her husband did which have now been evaluated and experts have concluded that, if they were allowed to stay in place, we would have already greatly diminished our national debt. You can lie Ray but you can also be called out on your lies.

"Q: During the Clinton administration was the federal budget balanced? Was the federal deficit erased?

A: Yes to both questions, whether you count Social Security or not."

"those companies put their employees in a similar situation"

I think you need to document that, otherwise I'll consider it to be a lie.

Kids have been seperated from their parents and then abused yet this thread doesn't attract any attention. Sort of indicates why Trump gets away with doing the horrible things he does, if it doesn't affect us directly our attention span is like 15 minutes. This is an ongoing problem even if it lasts longer than our attention spans.
We all need to refocus on it, children are being abused, we can't lose sight of that fact. It's time to remember humanity. OK, they're brown, they speak Spannish, but they are human beings, children for God's sake. I have to ask, how can all these Christians support Trump while he is treating children like animals? I suspect God does not respect their claims of being Christians. They aren't. They are just cult followers. Don't drink the green Kool Aide cultists.

"Bill Maher is the beloved voice of the left. He and Colbert are the high priests of Democrat theology."

Do not conflate Bill Maher with Steven Colbert. Bill seems to side with the view that Israel can treat Palestinians like animals, to my knowledge, Colbert has not joined in that idiotic thought process.
I honestly do think Colbert is intellectually far superior to Maher.

"I truly hope you never have to find out how much Muslims love LGBT...."

You are a disgusting piece of crap using sexuality as a weapon Boaz. I've further lessened by respect for you, there isn't much farther that it can fall. People like Laura joined Civil Rights marches to demand your equality and you thank them like that? Pathetic. And, just so you know, I witnessed it, I was there in Mississippi -------. I was just a young teenager but the battle was real, the hate was probably the most important thing that I ever experienced in my life. You need to apologize to Laura.

Trump doesn't think we have enough enemies yet. We have to create more. Realize one thing, China has like 5 times our population and the EU has twice our population. One has to consider the idea that Trump is trying to bring down the United States. On orders from Putin. OK, don't consider that because it seems like a conspiracy theory, but then, you tell me why he would try to undermine the economies of 2 billion people. Without a club, without any power, he's totally clueless. They are laughing at him in Berlin, and Paris, and London, and Beijing, and Tokyo, and Hanoi. Even in Mexico City. He is a worldwide laughing stock. But let's go one step farther. What does that make his supporters? They are, without a doubt, the dumbest group of people in American history.

"If Hillary was president, they would have done the same."

Utter nonsense and we have the Presidency of Bill Clinton as evidence. He raised taxes, didn't cut taxes for corporations. Taxes effect the behavior of those who pay them, the Clintons still believe in the incentive affect of taxes to induce ownership to invest instead of to pocket the money.
You were away from here for a while Ray but you learned nothing in your vacation.
Hillary Clinton would have been a very good President as was her husband. You can review the stats, both Clinton and Obama exceeded every Republican in job growth, stock market growth, just about every stat possible.
Republicans do one thing, they cut taxes on the rich and use social issues to bring in idiots to their pack, they ALWAYS incur more debt, ALWAYS bring about recessions, ALWAYS eventually bring about catastrophic consequences for working people. But hey, they're good Christians, right?
Question: Does anyone actually believe Donald Trump is a Christian?

"A 2-3% decrease in fertility rates between 2017-2018 means we need to import 28-yr-old chicken plant workers?"

Unless you are willing to stop eating chicken or start paying a lot more for it....yes. All those jobs used to be union jobs. No one with a choice is going to choose to work in a meat packing plant. So, it's either pay high wages or hire people without a voice to object, the industry chose to hire people with no voice. Americans aren't lining up to take those jobs are they? Because the owners pay crap wages, jeopardize workers' safety, offer no benefits. Hell, only an illegal alien would want those jobs and that was the intent of the ownership.
And yes, the birth rate will be, increasingly, a factor in the argument about immigration. That's just arithmetic. You can argue with me, you can play partisan games but, in the end, you can't argue with arithmetic.

"Not with AOC and her Squad the new voice of the Democrats."

None of whom hurt farmers at all. Ray doesn't realize it but he is a victim. A victim of right wing propaganda. They can demonize anyone they want and they do. If any really rational individual actually examined what "The Squad" actually supports they would discover that they support what is best for America and probably best for people in other nations being persecuted by an American ally. I support "The Squad" 100%!
So many other Americans are so intimidated by the status quo that they can't even think about what is wrong with it. Their brains won't even allow them to question. Their brains know that questioning can bring about penalties, in jobs, in social interaction, even within families. So they go along like "good Germans."

Amazon paid zero income taxes last year, you go figure out why their columnists bash Bernie. If you can't figure it out you're just dumb.

"After failing to tie Trump to Russian meddling. Then after trying to tie Trump to Epstein.
Now the left is going all out to convince voters to lose confidence in Trump."

I would have to say Trump is going all out to convince voters to lose confidence in Trump. Ask our soy bean farmers. Ask him why he delayed his increase in tariffs. Tell you the truth, Trump is losing confidence in Trump.

How's that deficit going under Trump?

Great story, I love nurses. They are far more educated and competent than most people give them credit for.

So, the attendees had to be paid to attend. Trump whines when CNN or anyone else notices his small crowd size at events, so if he offered more pay he'd have more attendees. It would only have cost him a few million dollars to have a real crowd at his inauguration instead of that pathetic attendence he actually had. It would have been a smart investment and he probably could have found a way to charge us taxpayers for it.

AU you are a bad boy but a funny boy.

"Switches, back sheds, copperfield, etc."

I was raised in such a household but I give my parents credit, they totally evolved and all that stuff was left in the past before I was 10. Thank God. My parents were very good people, raised by very confused people but who were actually able to understand the truth. They supported John Kennedy and then later Lyndon Johnson. They lived in Mississippi but supported Civil Rights. I have always been very proud of them for that. They died a long time ago but I am proud of them to this very day. They had courage, something that I think is lacking today. Too many people see what is wrong but won't speak or act against it because of peer pressure. This is true even among us older adults.

Hey, I remember my previous life.

"And the same Democratic leadership is fighting to import and protect even more illegal immigrants."

Pay a little more attention to the consequences of our low birth rate and it will make sense to you. And Democrats are fighting to import anyone they are just fighting to have those who come here to work be treated humanely.

And now Trump has postponed the increased tariffs. The Great Negotiator got nothing but the farmers lost their markets for the crops. Trump is all mouth, no real plan for anything.

I can only think of $22.03 trillion reasons to say the, so called, Conservatives are anything but conservative. They really should be referred to as Oligarchists.

When Trump attacked the relationship between Rashida Tlaib and her Grandmother he really sank to the lowest level any President has ever sank to in history. He's a complete piece of crap.

"There are always some people who are 'hurting' in even the best economy, and that is why your govt 'safety' nets exist."

In the Great Recession millions lost their jobs and many states reduced unemployment benefits they depended on. We have no safety net, we should have one but we don't have a real one.

"The only thing I have to say about Peter Fonda is; he was nothing like his father."

The times were changing. The Vietnam war was raging when Peter was young, it was no time for unthinking blind patriotism. Peter was on the right side of history.

"Get back to me when sufficient evidence of wrongdoing exists to file criminal charges"

You'd just mimic Trump and call if fake news. You don't even feel anger about employers doing what those crooks do. You ideology owns you, you can't think for yourself.

As we have all read in the last several weeks, it's greedy employers who fired union meat cutters and hired illegal aliens but the six oclock news won't explain it that way to you. They prefer you just learn to hate brown people and American are learning quite readily.

I want to hear some of your Trumptiles call us Dems sore losers again so I can laugh in your face. Trump is the biggest sore loser ever!