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You can't just get disability, to think you can just go from unemployment to disability is absurd.

Please explain how this is so easy that you can just go from one to the other.

I already posted the numbers showing disability claims have gone down over the last 2 years.
if you don't know look it up then look at the stats increase then deduct the troops which is a small number then you will see how it happens.
 

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Trump doesn't rule out national database for U.S. Muslims

Trump doesn't rule out national database for U.S. Muslims

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/19/politics/donald-trump-barack-obama-threat-to-country/index.html

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump isn't ruling out requiring all Muslims living in the U.S. to register in a national database to protect the country against terrorism.

Trump, who also said this week that he would consider shutting down mosques, said in an interview with Yahoo News published Thursday that "we're going to have to look at a lot of things very closely" when asked about a national database for Muslims.

Trump has repeatedly suggested it would be "insane" to allow Syrian refugees into the U.S. for fear that terrorists could infiltrate their ranks and slammed President Barack Obama for his plans to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States over the next year.

"I think he's a threat to our country. I mean he must have some kind of a thing going because, you know, when you see that he won't even call them by their name, attack after attack after attack," Trump said Wednesday on Boston's WRKO radio. "It's radical Islamic terrorism and he won't even acknowledge it -- it's like they're coming out of Denmark or something."

Trump added that Obama "doesn't have any clue" when it comes to defeating ISIS.

The Republican front-runner's attack on the president came after Obama had slammed Republicans' calls to stop admitting any Syrian refugees into the United States as "offensive," "political posturing" and a "potent recruitment tool" for ISIS.

"We are not well served when, in response to a terrorist attack, we descend into fear and panic," Obama said earlier on Wednesday. "We don't make good decisions if it's based on hysteria or an
exaggeration of risks."

Trump also slammed Hillary Clinton for not labeling the terrorist threat the U.S. faces as "radical Islam."

But Trump went beyond knocking Clinton for the language she uses in discussing the threat of terrorism, suggesting she lacks the "strength or the stamina" to lead the country.

"She doesn't have the strength, she doesn't have the stamina," Trump said. "Hillary does not have the strength or the stamina to be president, and she doesn't have the ideas."

In a separate interview, Trump knocked ripped Democratic presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, as a communist.

"I think he's a communist. I think he's actually a communist with a socialistic bent," Trump told Yahoo News. "Anybody that would say that the Paris attacks were caused by global warming, there's something missing."

Sanders calls himself a "democratic socialist" and has said that he believes the greatest threat facing the country is global warming, and he linked climate change to unrest in the Middle East in the last Democratic debate
 

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I'm convinced that, if asked, Trump would offer tacit support of anything he thinks has the remote possibility of appealing to the paranoid moonbat demographic. The man has ambition but lacks principles.
 

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I'm convinced that, if asked, Trump would offer tacit support of anything he thinks has the remote possibility of appealing to the paranoid moonbat demographic. The man has ambition but lacks principles.
Which would be fine if he was getting JEB numbers. In between his horrific racism, and Carson's more soft spoken but equally insane racism they account for about half of the GOP.
 

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I'm convinced that, if asked, Trump would offer tacit support of anything he thinks has the remote possibility of appealing to the paranoid moonbat demographic. The man has ambition but lacks principles.
He is a savy capitalist and a guy who knows marketing. But he is too much of a cartoon character to run a country. Unfortunately his ability to market makes him very appealing to some of less educated Americans. Sort of like Obama was able to do.
 

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Which would be fine if he was getting JEB numbers. In between his horrific racism, and Carson's more soft spoken but equally insane racism they account for about half of the GOP.
What does being conservative have to do with being racist. That's a label that liberals like to throw around.
 

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What does being conservative have to do with being racist. That's a label that liberals like to throw around.
Towsend is a Liberal?

And he never said anything about conservatives so why bring that up he mentioned 2 specific people.

It's hilarious that you think Trump is a conservative though.
 

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Towsend is a Liberal?

And he never said anything about conservatives so why bring that up he mentioned 2 specific people.

It's hilarious that you think Trump is a conservative though.
Have no idea. And what has Trump to do with anything I said to Townsend. The issue was in Townsends depiction of Republicans being racist.
 

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What does being conservative have to do with being racist. That's a label that liberals like to throw around.
Being Republican has nothing to die with being conservative. Racists are controlling the GOP now. Thanks to establishment republican bungling. Now the inmates are running the asylum and idiots like Carson, and Trump are winning in the polls.
This is an abject failure by the party and a severe incrimination on their constituents.
 

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Have no idea. And what has Trump to do with anything I said to Townsend. The issue was in Townsends depiction of Republicans being racist.
Because they are. If they weren't Trump would have never earned a single percentage point. That buffoon managed to talk his way into the lead spot by appealing to the least common denominator. Which is exactly what I consider the average republican voter.
 

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Anyone who knows me knows I've been a Rand Paul supporter for years. He's by far the closest to a Barry Goldwater republican as far as political stances go. He's also a distant outsider. If Rand and Rubio were out there fighting for the top spot fighting over boots on the ground in the Middle East. I would have far more hope in this party. But we have two guys who couldn't find the Middle East on a map winning the hearts and minds of the right wing thanks to their profound and unparalleled ignorance.
 

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Because they are. If they weren't Trump would have never earned a single percentage point. That buffoon managed to talk his way into the lead spot by appealing to the least common denominator. Which is exactly what I consider the average republican voter.
I have no idea where you are coming from or how you arrived with your hypothesis but it is a pretty far fetched and subjective bias conclusion as far as I am concerned.
 

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I have no idea where you are coming from or how you arrived with your hypothesis but it is a pretty far fetched and subjective bias conclusion as far as I am concerned.
Understand that I don't think all republicans are racists (they kind of are, since all people ever are at least somewhat racist) but I don't think all republicans are exceptionally racist, but the fact that people like Trump haven't been laughed out of the primary is a horrific indictment of the entire party. That at the very least racists are very well represented among the right wing.
 

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Understand that I don't think all republicans are racists (they kind of are, since all people ever are at least somewhat racist) but I don't think all republicans are exceptionally racist, but the fact that people like Trump haven't been laughed out of the primary is a horrific indictment of the entire party. That at the very least racists are very well represented among the right wing.
I suppose what you are saying is since Trump is leading in the polls that makes a statement about racist. I just cannot connect that. You apparently think Trump is a racist but I am not sure I have heard the basis for that.
 

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Anyone who knows me knows I've been a Rand Paul supporter for years. He's by far the closest to a Barry Goldwater republican as far as political stances go. He's also a distant outsider. If Rand and Rubio were out there fighting for the top spot fighting over boots on the ground in the Middle East. I would have far more hope in this party. But we have two guys who couldn't find the Middle East on a map winning the hearts and minds of the right wing thanks to their profound and unparalleled ignorance.
Rand disappointed me.
 

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Rand disappointed me.
Me too, desperately. The guy was easily flustered and came off as a dork too many times in the early going on. Afterwards he tried to suck off the tea partiers and came off as a dime store Ted Cruz. One reason Trump is doing so well is that he's weirdly unflappable. Republicans respond well to confidence.
 

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I suppose what you are saying is since Trump is leading in the polls that makes a statement about racist. I just cannot connect that. You apparently think Trump is a racist but I am not sure I have heard the basis for that.
Did you miss the Muslim database? I posted about it a couple pages ago. That's far far far beyond the pale, and smacks of the holocaust. There's no way any person worthwhile could defend Trump after that.
 

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Did you miss the Muslim database? I posted about it a couple pages ago. That's far far far beyond the pale, and smacks of the holocaust. There's no way any person worthwhile could defend Trump after that.
Yes I heard that but it wasn't a direct question and a direct response. He said there needs to be a lot of databases created for security interests. The fact that he included Muslims isn't surprising given the state of things going on. He may have meant a lot of things . I really don't know but him making a statement like that isn't the end of the world nor does it make anyone who may be inclined to support him a racist. These type responses are made in the context of terrorist activities and trying to avoid this happening on US soil. I am not a Trump supporter but I don't think anyone who does support him is automatically a racist. That's just to much of a convenient quantum leap.
 

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Yes I heard that but it wasn't a direct question and a direct response. He said there needs to be a lot of databases created for security interests. The fact that he included Muslims isn't surprising given the state of things going on. He may have meant a lot of things . I really don't know but him making a statement like that isn't the end of the world nor does it make anyone who may be inclined to support him a racist. These type responses are made in the context of terrorist activities and trying to avoid this happening on US soil. I am not a Trump supporter but I don't think anyone who does support him is automatically a racist. That's just to much of a convenient quantum leap.
Did you also miss where he said Mexicans are rapists?
 
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