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How about the important principles... Tolerance, and responsibility.

What has every one lost that???

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DID I hear echoes of liberal thought? Jobs, Jobs... You don't need no stinking jobs... You got big government...

WE CAN PAY FOR EVERYTHING! ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS SIT ON YOUR FAT A** ... And vote for legalized theft of personal property.

Sheep every where. BAAAAAHHHHH !!!!

Fortunately, this station permits public announcements from anyone, since they removed the censorship ability of MIKE BIRCH.

Can't leave it alone can you Glenny? Don't you think EVERYONE here is tired of your whining about the alleged 'censorship'?

Obviously birch this is still bothering you enough to keep standing up for your personal belief of CENSORSHIP. I don't quit, you should. You pressed the wrong person against the wall and said it with actions... I HAVE TO SHUT THIS GUY UP. Funny, funny as you defending your actions, even NOW!

JimmyD

"Taxes pay the bills?" Nah. Constitutionally, tariffs are supposed to do that. Realistically, we pay our bills with loans from China, Saudi and so on - plus what we print. Taxes should probably come out to enough to pay the interest on the national debt. (roughly 40% of the budget at this time)

To get an idea what this does to the value of our money: In 1912 you could by a Colt .45 or a brand suit for a twenty dollar gold piece. You still can. Just don't try it with cash.

In high school - I learned that banks were required by law to back up cash with gold and we were invited to try it. I did and it was true.

Then a wonderful Republican president took the blatantly illegal step of taking us off the gold standard - this was a way to hide the fact that Nixon was devaluing our currency - we had a little problem or two called the War on Poverty and the War on Various Asian Countries (VN in particular) which had pretty much bankrupted us.

Clueless Jerry Ford wanted us all to wear WIN badges - Whip Inflation Now - as if it were our fault. Right - so many of us had printing presses in our homes - cranking out dough...

Clueless Jimmy Carter paid the dues for this as inflation rose to a whopping 20% although not without lots of help from Carter himself.

To me - our last hope of getting out of this mess came with the end of the cold war but two miserable buffoons ruined any hope of that: George Bush I and Bill Jeff Clinton - they ringed a very friendly Russian with missiles and built up NATO and here we go again.

And now Zero with his coup in Ukraine...whatever...

Talbot

Fartfie our what ever you want to call your self... THAT WAS RIDICULOUS.

The whole problem is that without people like you to control and provide a slave workforce, wealthy politicians will have no reason to exist. The point that all your liberal views miss... That TRUMP points out... That so many still want to become LEGAL citizens... This is supposed to be the land of the free, where anyone and everyone has the OPPORTUNITY to become wealthy...

And you come up with some stupid patriot and taxation comment. YOU WILL NEVER GET IT. Maybe not your fault, you did have to go through the Detroit school system with all those patriot taxpayer dollars wasted on you. You really should go back and study AMERICAN history. Even just learn why George Washington was forced to shoot Davey Crockett.

Trump has filed with the FEC, so I guess he should be considered a serious candidate now.

He might have a chance, judging by the reaction so far. It's not hard to tell who has a good chance, just watch who the media is attacking. Trump and Cruz mostly...the people they fear the most. The Democrats are scared shitless of facing Cruz in a debate, he's probably the only one that will give Trump much trouble too. He was debate champion and comes to the table with loads of facts ready to go and has the ability to think quick on his feet.

Trump can be crude and egotistical, but he can thumb his nose at donors, he doesn't need them, so he owes no lobby groups or donors any favors. Lobby groups might get his attention, but big money donor who have a lot of control over other candidates can't sway him. He's also very aware of economics, which is going to be a huge issue, no matter how hard democrats try to swing focus over to other areas. Economics and national security are the big two. What they mainly don't like though, is he's not afraid to tell the truth about their corruption and incompetence.

It's interesting that after more than a month most of the others are struggling to stay in the polls at all, a few days and Trump is #2, and only a few points below Bush. It's going to be interesting to watch...

Media isn't attacking him because they would love for him to be the candidate.

Easily destroyable.

Obviously birch this is still bothering you enough to keep standing up for your personal belief of CENSORSHIP. I don't quit, you should. You pressed the wrong person against the wall and said it with actions... I HAVE TO SHUT THIS GUY UP. Funny, funny as you defending your actions, even NOW!

No, obviously it bothers YOU, you're the one who keeps bringing it up - not me! And no one here believes you about me censoring you (which I didn't) - no one saw the supposed post you made - I suspect you messed up your posting and it never got on the site at all, and you had to blame someone for your ineptness. Now give it a rest - again YOU are the one who keeps bringing it up, not me.

I posted it 3 times... Three times it was taken down... Go back and read the fourth post that was left up in censorship failure. Shame on you for being such a liberal.

Trump is now running 11% on the republican side... We will see...

Seems to me, if you want to pay off 18 trillion in debt and be able to service all the future liabilities which seem to be ignored.... Our nation has to develop an extremely vibrant economy. Funny all the products I see are coming from CHINA and MEXICO. Mostly crappy products.

Can't have a vibrant economy if the laws of a republic keep changing so fast that the real jobs providers.... JUST MOVE.

STUPID, STUPID, TAX and SPEND POLITICIANS of all parties... Steal from the poorest, they won't know any better...

Trump seems to be gaining ground. I've been doing some reading on other sites, I'm seeing more and more people making similar comments. Trump just had a row with NBC and didn't back down, gained more followers. People are seeing this as a breath of fresh air. Most politicians, on both sides, depend on big donors to stay in the race. So they say whatever those donors want them to say, even if it means changing horses in mid stream. Trump seems to be standing his ground so far, not backing down from comments he made even before getting into the race.

The comments about Mexico and illegal immigration are not exactly new, he's been opposed to illegal immigration for a long time, the only difference is recently he's been getting into more specifics.

The incident with NBC is just one shot in a long battle by the media trying to bring Trump down. Both sides don't like him because he speaks the truth and won't back down, but more and more of the people are starting to like Trump because he says what the thinks, doesn't back down, and doesn't pander to big donors. Everyone else is same story different day. Nobody else has proposed an actual plan to stop illegal immigration. Trump did, and it should work. and without the wall he proposed I think.

Plenty politicians try to say what the voters want to hear. The difference is we all know it and we know they will turn their backs on us soon as the election is over and go back to working for corporations and special interest groups. Trump says what he thinks and doesn't back down, and that's resonating with people.

He may not get the nomination, that's probably the last thing establishment republicans want. He goes after both sides and says what they don't want you to hear. Cruz is doing a little of this, speaking out about the corruption and back room deals going on with Obamatrade, he's also the only one who actually did try to do something about repealing Obamacare while the rest of the GOP turned their backs on the voters and handed it to Obama on a silver platter. Cruz is still beholden to major donors...That's the main reason I'm not firmly in his corner. That and the fact that he is still a republican and I don't trust them any more than I do Democrats. Ditto for Trump. As much as I like Trump he's still a Republican and I have to be wary of that.

Still, I'm liking Trump more every time something else comes out...Sure he's brash, egotistical...but so far I can't come up with a thing he's said that wasn't 100% right...and so far he hasn't backed down once...and he seems to be genuinely concerned about what's best for this country...that's worth watching.

Fortunately, this station permits public announcements from anyone, since they removed the censorship ability of MIKE BIRCH.

Can't leave it alone can you Glenny? Don't you think EVERYONE here is tired of your whining about the alleged 'censorship'?

Here's a little news flash for you Mike, the only people tired of reading Glens post's are YOU, Jimmy, Mark the liberals with your heads stuck up.....................er uh.....in the sand!