2016 Presidential Elections in the US

Clinton is in legal trouble and might get indicted before she's even nominated. Too many skeletons in the closet to make a good president.


True that.


The Pledge of Allegiance was formally adopted by Congress in 1942.

If presidential means scandal ridden, flip flopping, old guard then yes, Clinton is the most presidential.


These candidates only discuss things that will bring them more votes i.e. granting amnesty for illegals. They discuss taxing the wealthy, the corporations, and making them pay their fare share (which I may add they already pay more than their fair share) since now in the US society rich people and corporations are viewed as villains. They don't spend much time talking about tax breaks because this would not affect the individuals that rely on the government to support them. Clinton stated that she would bring middle class taxes down and get rid of 'quarterly capitalism' through her new capital gains tax plan. However, if you look at the details, income taxes won't change for the vast majority of people. Furthermore, the only changes to the capital gains tax do not change 'quarterly capitalism' as in her tax gains tax plan it states that profits on investments held under 1 year would be exactly the same as they are now. HOWEVER, she is increasing the capital gains tax for every annual bracket between 1 year and 6 years. Capital gains taxes will be exactly the same whether you hold an investment for 1 day or 700 days. This is a huge blow to the middle and upper middle classes who hold mutual funds, blue chips, participate in employee stock purchase programs, etc. since they're taxes on investments are going to go up like crazy - unless they hold them over 6 years - for every other annual bracket there is a sharp increase with the highest increase being the bracket between 1 year and 2 years. There are not many people who hold investments for more than 6 years except for perhaps annuities and CDs. However, most people don't hold stocks for over 6 years. In fact, according to some estimates (Peter Cohan - AOL Finance, also New York Times and the Telegraph gave similar estimates), 70% of stocks are held for only 11 seconds on average - that's mainly because of High Frequency Trading firms. Since Clinton's capital gains tax plan doesn't change the under 1 year bracket, Capital gains taxes will be exactly the same whether you hold an investment for 11 seconds or 700 days. In fact, on average investors have not held a stock for 5 years or more since the 1970's. So when Clinton says that she is going to fight the corporations, big banks, traders, etc. and their 'quarterly capitalism' it's a total lie - for one she is extremely close with the Wall Street types since they contribute to her campaigns, second her capital gains tax proposal proves it. She is essentially attacking everyone except the corporate Wall Street trader types.

For any middle to upper middle class member that buys stocks or other investments in the US, this is bad news. The way myself, and many other ambitious people have made their wealth is by living within their means, saving their money, and investing it for a period of around 1 to 2 years. Well, this is going to totally change things as people, including foreign investors, will not make plans for longer term investments as too much profit will be taken out. Furthermore, more people from the US will try to find ways to conceal their investments and gains through off shore banks or by investing in countries with more favorable taxes.


As is every candidate - especially Clinton. She only pretends to care about people but all she cares about is their votes. She will say or do whatever is popular at the time - i.e. the immigration examples I stated earlier how she would flip flop year to year on her stance. However, Trump has business sense and actually he does care about his employees as he is very much involved in day to day operations. Furthermore, Trump listens to his advisers - something that Obama does not do and something that Clinton will most likely not do either. I have read Art of The Deal - in it he discusses the relationships with some of his employees. Property managers were paid $50,000 a year - a decent salary by current standards but in the early 80's that was a fortune. If anyone is actually connected to the common citizen, it's Bernie in my opinion. However, the US is the largest economy in the world - it's going to take a businessman to get it going again because before long China is going to overtake us. Trump is a negotiator and deal maker - the treaties that we have signed are slowly leaking capital, intellectual property, and employment out of this country.

In other news, in my crooked corrupt anti-white Chicago, the Chicago Terrorists Union, sorry meant Chicago Teachers Union is again striking and walking out of their jobs for 1 day. This means that in over 100 schools, children will not be taught anything. They pull this kind of garbage almost every year. A little while ago, they had a strike again because of 'unfair' pay. I will add that a 1st-2nd year Chicago public school teacher will make around $55k-$65k a year, entry level. However, this is not enough for them. In some other districts, like in my area the teachers make over $100k and tenured teachers make $130k-$150k a year. Again, not enough for them. They had a strike for a week, harming the taxpayers and the children. The CTU seems to change CEOs literally like every 6 months. I don't know the exact estimate, but I'd be willing to bet they've had at least 6-8 CEOs in the past 5 years alone. They are constantly striking to get better pay, to shut down charter schools, to get more funding from a city that's already totally broke, etc. The biggest threat to them is the charter schools since the students at these institutions tend to have way higher test scores and they are able to do it with 1/2 the amount of money spent per child. Most importantly, the teacher's are rated on their performance and can be fired unlike the union teachers where it ends up costing nearly a million dollars to fire a teacher.

John Stossel did an excellent report on this and it actually cost him his job. He refers to the teachers union's as the glob - which isn't a far stretch since it sucks up tax payers money, does not care about the education of children, and is constantly hungry swallowing up more precious resources that cities and states simply do not have.

Excellent 13 minute video - I highly recommend you watch this - youtube.com/watch?v=4Xr4KC251pU
This was the reason why Stossel got fired. Under the first minute it shows how test scores are flat or even declining but the costs are going up significantly.

OMG !
There will be rioting in Chicago, Detroit and Washington D.C. for sure.
WORK for my food after all these years of getting it free ? How do you expect me to do that ?
Watch the crime rates and birth rates increase now.

More than 500,000 Americans receiving food stamp benefits will no longer qualify for them beginning on April 1. This is a result of government requirements linking the assistance to an individual's ability to find a job and work.
In order to keep their access to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) for more than three months, able-bodied adults ages 18-49 who don't have children or other dependents must work, volunteer, or enroll in a job-training program for 20 hours a week or more.

Food is getting ridiculously expensive - and it's still kept artificially cheap due to subsidies. In the 90's, people were living fairly well off even if they were only making like $80 a day. You could go to the grocery store with $100 and have food for a week for a family. Now, $100 of half decent food (not counting ramen noodles) will feed a family of 3 for like 4 days. Everytime I go to the grocery store for like a quick 'milk, eggs, bread, and a 12 pack' type of quick trip I always end up spending like $50-$70 and it's just basic stuff not even counting very much meat except for some deli. When I go on a bigger shopping trip and fill the cart up, it ends up being like $400-$500 and lasts us maybe 2 1/2 - 3 weeks with $50-$70 quick trips in the middle for perishables.


GOOD! 1/5 Americans are on food stamps - that's just ridiculous. After reading the articles that states 35% of people receive some type of government assistance and that 1/5 receive food stamps, I was sitting at a stop light and counting every 3rd car and that comes out to be a ton of people. When you make the scale larger, that's like all of NYC, Chicago, and LA combined plus some more all receiving some type of government aid. It's like duck duck goose but with tax payer, tax payer, free loader!


It's about damn time!!! That is of course if it's realistic and not some bogus stuff like the changes he enacted in July 2012. Obama totally dismantled workfare - unfortunately this appears to only be for foodstamps and not TANF from what I can understand from your post. A common statistic is that 50% of able bodied people receive TANF while doing no work. Under Obama, there was a big change to the 1996 reform law. Work requirements were totally changed in a way to make the public believe that more people were working while on welfare and also reduce caseload burden. Obama simply allowed states to 'waive' the work requirement for TANF. Not only did this reduce the percentage of people who were considered to be 'work participants,' but it also broadened the definition of 'work participation' to include such bogus things such as bed rest and 'journaling.' Obama also made it so that 'universal engagement' could be used 'in lieu of work participation' and such universal engagements, which were previously thought of as going to school or volunteering, would now including things like going to the doctor. Long story short, he totally undermined the welfare reform act of 1996 which promoted workfare to something that will make people even lazier and allow things like 'bed rest' and 'doctor visits' to count as activities that a recipient of TANF is support to be doing, as opposed to looking for work, attending school, or volunteering.

The issue with that is many will just go to their local hood church and just hang out in front for a few hours each day, which they'd end up doing anyway but on a corner. I'm sure the pastor will sign off in exchange for a small donation. Those are actually wonderful businesses to have since they don't have to pay taxes. Catholic priests make around $36k a year, Rabbis make around $200k a year, the Baptist/Protestant/etc. preachers make $250k+.

Donald Trump does not tolerate free loading and laziness - that's evident in the art of the deal. He appreciates people trying their best and will respect them for at least trying. He would certainly clean up all this unnecessary spending that goes towards able bodied freeloaders and put them to work. Under Obama, I could actually qualify for disability and get $900 a month for free. However, I am a proud person and I refuse to live on government handouts. In Chicago, an unemployed single woman with 1 child who takes advantage of all the federal, state, and local programs that she would qualify for (food stamps, welfare, rent assistance, utility assistance, etc.) would come out to the same as if she earned $55,000 gross. This is with 1 child - some of the ghetto queens have 3, 4, or even 5 or more children. Furthermore, if she moved to Evanston she could take care of the following 2 programs: For low income homeowners, you can receive a zero percent interest loan from the city (I believe it's up to $50,000) to fix up your home like if you want a new roof, new bathroom tiles, new paint, etc. and you won't have to pay it back till you sell your house. So, in theory you can technically never be liable for the loan since you only have to pay it back once you sell your house - if you die from old age first you basically got your house fixed up for free. 2nd, if a low income/welfare person wants to start up a business in Evanston, they will be given $30,000 interest free and can chose a business that 'benefits the community' meaning no liquor stores but beauty salons, extension shops, greasy fast food, etc. is fine. This is a total boon to taxpayers and the neighborhood as a whole because these all tend to be located in the ghetto part of town due to cheaper costs. There is literally at least 4 beauty shops that sell wigs, extensions, etc. within 2 city blocks that I can think of off the top of my head. If we bring the area a bit higher to say a 2 mile radius, the estimate would go up closer to 10 beauty shops - all selling the same garbage, most are failing businesses with start-up capital from taxpayers.

@Adrian,

Thing is though, most of America isn't the one percent aka investor class:-) A president addresses the needs of the entire nation or ought to do something else (with an even better salaryLOL).

Fairness is equitable, not what certain people determine is fair simply because they are or think they are free to take advantage of those less fortunate or who weren't endowed with the same level of testosterone:-) There are plenty of folks are are plain decent, hardworking and educated; let's reward them as well... the way we once did!

The investor class is NOT the 1%. Yes, the 1% makes the majority of their money off investments, especially short term investments, a.k.a. the 'quarterly capitalist' type of people that Hillary said she's going to fight again. People cheered wildly when she said this, but that's because they don't bother to check the facts. When one looks at the numbers THERE IS NO CHANGE for individuals who hold investments under 1 year - THESE ARE THE 'QUARTERLY CAPITALISTS.' It is EXACTLY the same tax as it is right now. Not every investor is in the 1% - there's millions of Americans that purchase stocks, have mutual funds, or participate in employee stock purchase programs. These are the people that hold onto their stocks a long time. These include people such as farmers, ranchers, and other everyday type of people. I would know because I use to work as a commodity broker and I have a series 3. I've sold investments from as little as $5,000 to an active U.S. Army soldier, average ones from $40,000 to a cattle rancher who had no internet even at his house and $25,000 for a doctor, to as high as $400,000 to a wealthy real estate developer - only that real estate developer would be the 1% and he got their through hard work and wise investments. Only about maybe 4-5% of my clients where 'whales' which in broker speak is basically the .1% - people who have assets of $10 million or more. Although we typically targeted the top quintile households, meaning $100k and up, I had many customers that were not wealthy and totally middle/upper middle class like nurses, teachers, contractors, small business owners, etc. These are the people who buy an investment and hold onto it for a long time - these are the 99% that are going to get screwed by Hillary's tax plan. Entrance to the top 'quintile' starts with a household making $100k which really isn't that much because it could include a plumber making $60k a year and a counselor making $40k a year. Not the 1% investor class...

When Hillary says that she's going to 'help the middle class,' go after corporations and Wall Street in an attempt to reign in 'quarterly capitalism' as she calls it, it's a total lie. Here's why: the 'quarterly capitalist' people hold stocks for very very short period of time - definitely under 1 year. Hillary's capital gains tax WILL NOT raise taxes on those people as a description of her capital gains tax policy shows that rates for investments held under 1 year WILL STAY THE SAME AS CURRENT. The middle class investors that have perhaps $3k, $5k, $10k, in a mutual fund or participate in an employee stock purchase program typically hold onto those investments around 1-2, maybe 3-4 years but usually not longer than 6 years. These are people that are getting the shaft, the people who Hillary said is trying to protect from quarterly capitalism, since her capital gains tax will raise rates for EVERYONE that holds investments between 1 and 6 years.


Hillary claims that she is helping those people, the thing is when someone digs a bit deeper which most people don't, you will realize what she says is total B.S. A good example is the above statement - the middle class people who put invest a couple grand in a stock or mutual fund for a few years - she is screwing those people over. Yes, maybe she'll help the McDonald's workers by giving them $1-$2 more an hour, which I am for - I personally think our minimum wage is unlivable. I think $10, maybe even $12 would be fair but $15 is a bit too high and this will greatly increase the cost of goods and services for consumers and U.S. exports.

I read today where the feminists in this contry are now demanding that the tax on tampons and maxi pads be lifted as they consider it a "discrimination tax". LMAO ! (Total of about $4 a year)
Where is gonna stop ?
Oh and they are coming out with a new two shot folding pocket gun designed to look like a cell phone.
It looks like a cell phone when folded but when you unfold it becomes a workable gun.
It is made of plastic and is the size of a cell phone.
A gang bangers special and a cops nightmare.
Again, where is it gonna stop ?
Is there a shred of sanity left in this world ?
The old ways worked so much better and that is what Trump supports, common sense.

At least now there's 3D printed AR-15s - no registration, no background check, no serial number. A 2nd amendment lover's dream - the liberals nightmare. Gangbangers like .25 to carry on their person because they can hide them quickly and 9s because they can be easily hid in the snow or or near a rock and can be pulled out quickly if someone threatens the corner. Random guns are find all the time on the south side and west side. It's not uncommon for the news to report that like 3 kilos of heroin and 5 handguns were found in an abandoned building.


Unfortunately, isn't that common. However, in Poland and the Visegard 4 it seems that at least there is far more common sense than in the US.

I really am going to move out of the country if Hillary wins. I know people say 'oh if such and such person wins I'm moving out' and then 2 years later they're still working at the same crappy job making $12 an hour. Well, I am dead serious and I am in a position to do so. I will not live in a country with Hillary in charge - no way. It's one of those things that's a principle to me - like not paying my medical bills. We live in the US and a fortune is already spent on medical insurance - I am not going to pay more.

At least Hillary claims to be helping; Trump'd just as soon see 'em all drop dead!
And his ilk DARE to call themselves Christians??? There's some common ground, I've no doubt here, between "Hell boy, Jesus wasn't no creampuff!!!" and complete hypocricy:-)

The bottom line is that when tax-paying US citizens of impeccable moral standing, on occasion, need government's help, it ought to be there for them, otherwise what's the point in living here? Not every recepient of said aid is some union bum or lazy moocher who's never gotten off his keester!!

How could the trumpster be any worse than the idiot below?

America a great nation and people let down by the odd spell of leadership, hmm what will Hilary bring to the party?

Peace out, fools! Obama plays the clown by flashing the peace sign for nuclear security summit 'team photo'... and gets a very unimpressed look from David Cameron and bemused world leaders

Read more:
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3519583/Peace-fools-Obama-plays-clown-flashing-peace-sign-nuclear-security-summit-team-photo-gets-unimpressed-looks-bemused-world-leaders.html#ixzz44bj92lqx

To which "idiot" would you be referring, pray?

Lyzko Idiot! Obama fthe one who is playing the clown, Hilary is the lady Clown in waiting

I think I just heard my favorite Donald Trump statement:

CNN Reporter: What about the xenophobia? What about the misogyny, bigotry?

Donald Trump: It's called intelligence.

(It's somewhere toward the end)

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So when Trump doesn't get enough delegates for the nominee......who do you think will be the appointed nominee ?
1. Mitt Romney
2. Paul Ryan
3. Marco Rubio
4. Newt Gingrich
We already know that they are not going to let Trump be the nominee.

I would say - Paul Ryan.

Gingrich's "Contract with America" was in fact a contract OUT ON America (if you catch my drift)!

Who is being served, if only the investor class aka The Koch Bros. and similar Neo-Nazi filth are being treated like royalty in a country which allegedly has none?

Paul Ryan would probably make the most sense, but if necessary at all I believe it'll be Romney.

i just heard that Donald Trump said how is NATO obsolete.

You know, man is right. Time to think, what after NATO.

Russian invasion?

With Trumps plan or inclination to abandon the old NATO and replace it with some sort of multilateral counterterrorist operation, and his insistence that our "allies" pay up, Trump is forcing an issue onto the stage that hasn't been seen since the days of Bob Taft.
And with the bogeyman of Communism absent, he is free to say he could get along with Vladimir Putin and only catch flak from committed neocons.
NATO isn't just an expensive luxury of the sort we can no longer afford it is a tripwire that could be set off by a minor border conflict involving Moldova, the status of Kaliningrad or more likely another round of hostilities in Ukraine.
Would we start World War III in defense of the oligarchs of Kiev ?
I wouldn't put it past them.
Every nuclear country in the world harbors between 150 to 200 nukes.
Russia and the United States have about 1700 to 1800 each.
And that scares the hell out of me.
Time to bring home our 60,000 troops we have maintaining NATO in the EU and let those countries start paying their own way.
I can't imagine the EU starting a draft for men and women between 18 - 36 years old to replace those 60,000 American troops.
Captain Crow at your service Sir..........

Amusing, but will be happily seen by many Europeans as an excuse to finally get rid of the Americans. There's plenty of us that would happily see them gone and replaced with a genuine European military force that can solve European problems without having to worry about what America might think.

The idea of NATO is pretty much outdated anyway. It's time to embrace potential members such as Singapore, Australia and New Zealand, all of whom would play a valuable part in any modern alliance.

It should. Especially when someone as unpredictable and short-fused as Trump has his finger on the red button.

US ! Does that include YOU ! In the military. HAhahahahahahaha !
Europe would feel so secure knowing you were on the front line to protect them. HAhahahahahaha !

Australia and New Zealand are already alliances to the U.S.A. but we would share with you if you couldn't handle Russia.

No kidding, that was my point and another reason that they will never let him get the nomination.

I see Putin keeps digging his hole deeper.
A network of secret offshore deals and vast loans worth $2bn has laid a trail to Russia's president, Vladimir Putin.
An unprecedented leak of documents shows how this money has made members of Putin's close circle fabulously wealthy.
This should be unsettling for the starving people in Russia that have been sacrificing during the sanctions.
Wonder how long before they have a revolution.

True... but it is necessary as a balance against an alliance of China-Iran-Russia. These countries are starting to realize that the US isn't quite the superpower it use to be. It's still the strongest nation in the world, but the gap between 1st and 2nd place is shrinking more and more.

I love it how the US and NATO dumped trillions into Iraq on numerous occasions and yet the Iranians are now in control of the majority of Iraq. Think the hundreds of thousands in Iranian militias are going to leave because we asked them nicely? Please....

The problem is that American politicians and US military leaders have no creativity, no thinking outside of the box mentality and if it's not 'by the book' they won't even consider it. The US solution is just throw money at the problem, sign military contracts with buddies, and let the taxpayers worry about it.

People love Putin in Russia - they really do. Also, Russian propaganda is about as good as ours. The majority of people don't see another choice besides Putin. Also, money laundering, wire fraud, larceny are all par for the course in Russia. I'd be more worried for the people that leaked the info out than the oligarchs.

This happened in Poland too - not to the same extent as in Russia and not in as sophisticated of a manner. People in the know were tearing apart valuable assets like factories, machinery, mines, etc. You could get a factory worth perhaps $2 million for a down payment of maybe $100k-$200k and were suppose to pay the remainder $300k, $400k or whatever it was during a term specified on the loan. Well, that never happened because the machinery, tools, anything of value would be stripped and sold abroad. So people were making 400-500% ROI from purchases of government assets. Ukraine had a similar fire sale where they were selling government assets for pennies on the dollar to raise money for a war with Russia.

NATO is imperative for future cooperation between Europe and the States:-)

Paul Ryan?? Loved the way VP Biden absolutely made mince-meat out of Ryan during the second-presidential debates for Obama's re-election!
He looked like such a jerk with those puppy-dog eyes and that clueless stareLOL

"Peace and freedom" my foot!!! The man's as rabidly Republican as Walker, Cruz or the rest of that bunch.

This is big Adrian, real big.
It doesn't concern just Putin.
This is going to be golden before it is over.
Can't wait to read some of the fat cat Bilderburg names.

Even though, as we said in our previous post, the starting role in today's record document leak should be that of Mossack Fonseca (and its heir apparent, Rothschild, operating out of Reno, NV) the general population is far more curious to learn which names will emerge as a result of this historic crackdown involving 11 million documents and 2,600 gigabytes of data.

I feel it'll be HUGE... for a while... then things will cool down and business will go as usual... just like with the Pentagon Papers and Wikileaks... All Wikileaks did was really prove things we already knew - especially about the Iraq war - deflated civilian casualties, PMCs doing whatever they want, although that video of those civilians helping an injured person but getting shot anyway by an Apache was really sad.

What's going on with Snowden and Assange these days anyway? Is Snowden still in Russia and Assange still at the Ecuador embassy in the UK?

$20 says Trump's name won't be there though...

That is one reason why I trust him - he isn't a lying, corrupt klepto like the rest of the bunch that's loyal to special interests and lobbyists - not tax paying citizens...

The best way to become a multi-millionaire is by becoming a politician. Your official salary might be like $100k, $200k - far from 'multi-millionaire' status, but the contracts, kickbacks, bribery, corruption are all par for the course. The US criticizes Russia and other countries for doing this but our politicians are the pro's at this - I mean it's even part of bureaucracy. I even know from my dealings with typing up construction contracts, invoices, etc. for my dad's company with a local town government. A lot of the jobs that we bid on, especially lead abatement, we're actually the only company.

I just wonder if Trumps name will be on the list.
For all the media excitement about the disclosed names in the "Panama Papers" leak, in this case represented by the extensive list of Mossack Fonseca clients, this is not a story about which super wealthy individuals did everything in their power, both legal and illegal, to avoid taxes, preserve their financial anonymity, and generally preserve their wealth. After all, that's what they do, and it should not come as a surprise.
No surprise but can't wait to see some of the names and amounts.

Today Trump has warned of a major world wide recession coming in the near future.