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packman

(16,296 posts)
Thu Sep 27, 2018, 11:08 AM Sep 2018

Huh- Talk about smoke and mirrors




Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) took aim at the Trump administration on Thursday as farmers across the United States prepare to receive government checks amid rising concerns about a trade war sparked by the government's global tariffs.

We are borrowing money from China to pay our farmers to not sell their crops to China,” Schatz said on Twitter Wednesday.


https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/408494-dem-lawmaker-trump-is-borrowing-money-from-china-to-pay-our
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Huh- Talk about smoke and mirrors (Original Post) packman Sep 2018 OP
Whatever happened to the noisy deficit hawks among the Republicans when Obama was president? Ohiogal Sep 2018 #1
Amazing is it not. Wellstone ruled Sep 2018 #2

Ohiogal

(32,001 posts)
1. Whatever happened to the noisy deficit hawks among the Republicans when Obama was president?
Thu Sep 27, 2018, 11:12 AM
Sep 2018

Paid to keep their mouths shut?

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