This is no clown car... Republican debate

[globuli]

The US has come out on the short end of every deal Obama has negotiated. It's hard to know if that is because of epic incompetency or because he has an agenda that is hostile to our interests.

Businessmen can and do walk away from deals. Pols, like John Kerry and Obama, have different incentives, like no one ever got a Nobel Peace Prize for walking away from a bad deal. Maybe we'd be better off with a guy with street smarts whose entire ego is based on being a great dealmaker, not pandering to foreign elites or the media.

AAA,

Well, I would say two things in reply to this. 1) The dislike of current leaders doesn't necessarily make the crop of contenders for high office any better than they really are. 2) Trump's ego is based on the fiction he spins that he is a great deal maker. His record is mixed at best. Have you noticed that he is the only one saying that he is a great deal maker? Where is the rest of the real estate industry corroborating that sentiment? He has made plenty of bad deals. And to his profit, his investors have been screwed royally. He's just not the guy I would want to invest in politically.

 

[Fractals 'R Us]

Trump will get us a better deal with Mexico, no? Our Cathlo-Fascist Democrats have the border wide open while they declare "get Whitey's money!!" to all the losers and criminals they produce in Mexico.

 

[BSAM]

ROFLMAO
A man makes TEN FREAKIN' BILLION DOLLARS and some folks still think he doesn't know how to make a deal.

Throw some water on this thread.
I must be dreamin'.

 

[BSAM]

Any Carly Fiorina fans out there?
You think she's gonna knock off Trump?

Okay, tell me how many business success stories she has.

 

[globuli]

ROFLMAO
A man makes TEN FREAKIN' BILLION DOLLARS and some folks still think he doesn't know how to make a deal.

Throw some water on this thread.
I must be dreamin'.

The only person, outside of Trump, to mention $10 billion and Trump in the same sentence is you. He's not reading this thread, BSAM. You'll have to find another way to rub the Donald's pecker.

 

[Pricechange]

The only person, outside of Trump, to mention $10 billion and Trump in the same sentence is you. He's not reading this thread, BSAM. You'll have to find another way to rub the Donald's pecker.

bump

 

[Pricechange]

A recent example, of course, is GWB, who also didn't create value. His investors got cents on the dollar, but got compensated due to tax loopholes.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/05/13/president.2000/jackson.bush/

Maybe GWB should also "co-author" a book about business, too...

Jeb as well...lol.. transferred all of Florida's pension money to Lehman Brothers in the last years of his governorship then, the day after he left office, went to work for Lehman and was there right up to the day they crooked. He even transferred over to Barclay when Barclay bought up all of Lehman's assets. Florida lost a cool billion in three years on that deal.

http://www.ibtimes.com/election-201...ter-florida-shifted-pension-cash-bank-2059224

 

[achilles28]

The only person, outside of Trump, to mention $10 billion and Trump in the same sentence is you. He's not reading this thread, BSAM. You'll have to find another way to rub the Donald's pecker.

Trump inherited a 40 million dollar business and turned into a 10 Billion dollar business. Have you made 10 Billion dollars? Are you a billionaire? Do you think you could make 10 billion dollars?

This is what makes me laugh. Lefties who hate Trump dismiss his business achievements. He's one of the richest people in the world, largely through his own business acumen and success. And people who are far less successful then Trump, minimize it and insist 'it doesn't count'. Pure stupidity.

Trump/Carson. That's the ticket. Both are self-made, plain-spoken, outsiders. Carson is polling second, and captures the minority/black vote which Trump needs. Carson is also more pro-Constitution and authentically Christian, compared to Trump. That pulls in the Christian conservative right, Libertarians, and independents. It's a good ticket. Will mash Hillary.

 

[Ricter]

Trump inherited a 40 million dollar business and turned into a 10 Billion dollar business. Have you made 10 Billion dollars? Are you a billionaire? Do you think you could make 10 billion dollars?

Yes. If I inherited that big, at a young enough age, and I had learned daddy's business by following him around from the time I could walk, and have all the connections that come with that history, as Donald has, I could turn it into $10 billion. The first million is the hardest, as they say, and he started well beyond that.

 

[achilles28]

Yes. If I inherited that big, at a young enough age, and I had learned daddy's business by following him around from the time I could walk, and have all the connections that come with that history, as Donald has, I could turn it into $10 billion. The first million is the hardest, as they say, and he started well beyond that.

So that's a 25,000% return. What have you returned on your money, since you began investing?

Even if you started with 50K and returned one-third Trump has, you'd be a millionaire 4 times over. You wouldn't be working a 9-5 job, as you currently are. So your returns are obviously much less then Trump. Am I right? Or am I right?