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Aug 3 2025
06:20 am
By: bizgrrl
No wonder U.S. Rep Burchett (TN) likes him so much.
Oh, my goodness. Did he stomp his feet?
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I'm not yhe only one.What to
I'm not the only one.
What to Do When the President Acts Like a Five-Year-Old?
Imagine a group of 5-year-olds playing a board game. The rules are clear, the goal is fair, and one child edges ahead — until, suddenly, another child starts losing. That’s when the trouble begins. “He cheated!” the losing child yells. “I’m the winner anyway!” he declares. And then, like clockwork, he flips the board. In the world of kindergarten conflict resolution, we expect this kind of behavior. We chalk it up to development. We teach better sportsmanship.
What do we do when the president of the United States behaves this way? On Friday, the President fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics — the nation’s workaday scorekeeper of employment, wages and productivity. Why? Because the data didn’t make the President look good. The statistics were inconvenient. So the president didn’t just challenge the findings; he fired the statistician. That’s not governing. That’s board flipping."
Heh. Did he stomp his feet?
I wish I had your sense of humor......
(in reply to bizgrrl)
I remember when Reagan was president and interest was 9.5%. Despite a union job, home ownership and hope for the future were struggling concepts. The single worst thing Trump has done is destroy the American dream. Our student loan system is run by loan sharks and will suck all available capital from a 2 generations and counting. I got a house by working the cracks in a Reagan economy. Today's kids don't even have that option. I talked to a bartender last night. Same thing. People from her generation have given up hope of ever having stability. When it comes to people messing with children, or my kids, I tend to have a very short fuse. I will take my gloves off. I will describe what is going on in as harsh terms as necessary to get the truth out. I think America's economy is fixing to get ugly and 9% will bust a ton of Trumps allies. The only good thing is when the bubbles burst, prices drop. That's why the board got flipped. We aren't looping at a market recession. We are staring a full blown, rest of our life, depression if we don't change course.
Ah, yes. Those were the days.
(in reply to fischbobber)
Ah, yes. Those were the days. We had a 10% mortgage. Someone very close to me had an 18% mortgage. Housing prices were excellent. I don't think interest is the problem for buying houses right now. It’s housing prices, maybe a shortage or big corporations are buying up housing stock.
Yeah, but....
(in reply to bizgrrl)
I remember thinking that was the new normal and that things would always be that way, and I bought anyway. Kids today don't have that kind of hope or confidence.