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LenaBaby61

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2. What's baffeling ....
Tue Mar 19, 2019, 06:51 PM
Mar 2019

Is that the economy is NOT doing that well for what's left of the middle-class.

We have monstrous trillion dollar deficit that's growing at an alarming rate out of control. Where are those coal jobs in West Virginia? Where's the help for opioid-addicted people? The farmers in the mid-west are taking it on the chin: some losing family farms, soy bean contracts, wheat and other food-related contracts. We're on the fritz with Canada, Mexico and a whole host of other countries we used to do business with, and let's not forget the tariff 'deal' he made which was no deal at all. Did I mention that we have NO infrastructure deal he promised? Bridges and roads in this country are in deplorable shape, but there had to be tax cuts permanently given to corporations, businesses and the uber-rich.

Wait again, did I mention that he wants US Taxpayers to pay for his unnecessary border wall too that he swore to GOD that Mexico was going to be paying for?

We have a pear-shaped economy:

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