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Trump's cabinet poised to loot the country (Original Post) tenorly Dec 2016 OP
Just as TRMS exposed two weeks ago, Putin did it. Now we're going to do it. ffr Dec 2016 #1
Trump may end up being far worse than Putin - all of the bad, none of the good. tenorly Dec 2016 #2

ffr

(22,669 posts)
1. Just as TRMS exposed two weeks ago, Putin did it. Now we're going to do it.
Thu Dec 29, 2016, 05:33 PM
Dec 2016

Raid the U.S. Treasury and America's natural resources for all they're worth.

All the time we'll have to work against the Fox Entertainment cheerleaders who will be hyping up justification for the looting and raiding of our nation's assets.



How do you like him now Joe and Jane rust belt voter?? Dumb-asses!

tenorly

(2,037 posts)
2. Trump may end up being far worse than Putin - all of the bad, none of the good.
Thu Dec 29, 2016, 06:35 PM
Dec 2016

Because as autocratic and corrupt as Putin has been, he's managed to revive Russia's economy, stabilize society, expand its infrastructure, recover lost social benefits, and improve living standards generally.

Russia, of course, is still well behind most developed countries, and its certainly much more troubled in many ways. But considering where they were in 1998/99, the effect his expansionist policies have had on Russia overall has to be one of the great turnaround stories so far in the 21st century (second only to the Chinese boom and possibly that of Vietnam).

Trump will instead inherit an already strong economy, and through financial deregulation and an orgy of government corruption (some of it his own, no doubt), he may end up pushing us back into a Bush-style crisis - or, God forbid, worse.

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