That Trump doesn't understand. He truly is a complete moron. Who voted for this fuckfaced idiot? Sad.

As a hatchet man for Reagan, he loved screwing Federal workers and the underprivileged, all in the name of "balancing the budget". Of course, the Reagan tax cuts for the wealthiest got his full support.

As he was doing this, the Federal debt exploded, leading to decades of "borrow and spend" Republican policies.

The same Republican policies that have us in an endless cycle of increasing debt and cutting government services for the people.

Supply-side, my ass.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/04/12/David-Stockmans-famous-trip-to-the-woodshed-was-prompted/2637513666000/

I seem to recall that, but I can't be sure. Later on Stockman disavowed it, after Reagan was out of office. When Stockman was no longer working for the government, he made it clear that he never believed in the "trickle-down" theory. He thought it was a joke that people in the media bought it when it obviously was never going to work like that. The guy's an asshole, or at least he was back then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

In 1896, United States Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan claimed in his Cross of Gold speech that his opposition based their policies on the idea that the success of the rich would "leak through" to the lower classes, stating: "There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity will leak through on those below."[8][9][10]

In 1932, humorist and social commentator Will Rogers wrote a column criticizing Herbert Hoover's policies and approach to The Great Depression and stated: "The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot."[11] In 2007, political commentator William J. Bennett credited Rogers for coining the term "trickle down" and observed its persistent use throughout the decades since.[12] ...

Following Reagan's election, the "trickle-down" reached wide circulation with the publication of "The Education of David Stockman", a December 1981 interview of Reagan's incoming Office of Management and Budget director David Stockman, in the magazine Atlantic Monthly. In the interview, Stockman expressed doubts about supply side economics, telling journalist William Greider that the Kemp–Roth Tax Cut was a way to rebrand a tax cut for the top income bracket to make it easier to pass into law.[17] Stockman said that "It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory."[17][18][19] Reagan administration officials including Michael Deaver wanted Stockman to be fired in response to his comments, but he was ultimately kept on in exchange for a private apology.[20] Political opponents of the Reagan administration soon seized on this language in an effort to brand the administration as caring only about the wealthy.[21] In 1982, John Kenneth Galbraith wrote the "trickle-down economics" that Stockman was referring to was previously known under the name "horse-and-sparrow theory", the idea that feeding a horse a huge amount of oats results in some of the feed passing through for lucky sparrows to eat.[22] ...

It shows how far off the Republicans have gone that he is attacking them from the left!

that we and Stockman would be on the same team 40+ years later? Or we and Rick Wilson for that matter. They were our sworn enemies once and now strange allies. The only thing weirder would be Lee Atwater if he'd lived.

A lesson for those who think "Trump-time" will last forever. It won't. What will the future be and when? Who the hell knows, but it won't be exactly like now. Maybe way different. That much we do know.

He's more like a digital clock....power gets cut off, it flashes once and then, blanks.

What a losing combination!

Peace ☮️

Because Iran was just hours away from a full scale invasion of America, with their mighty navy parked just miles offshore from Mar a Lago. You f*cking mutt.

"The GOP once stood for free markets, balanced budgets, sound money and rigorous observance of the Bill of Rights and Constitution. If you can't see that Trump is the sworn enemy of all four of
those principles, then you are blind as a bat."

and a warning to anyone else that refuses "The Art Of The Deal".
Make No Mistake.

That's REALLY the crux of the biscuit here in the upside-down.

It might remind him of Pope Leo.

has enough fertilizer in him to supply every farmer on the planet.

They are blind as a bat.

(Also completely delusional, but that is another matter....)

Hiring and promoting only loyalists leads to costly and stupid mistakes like this.

Most farmers are millionaires and that's the only reason Trump has some interest in this topic. It will be somewhat interesting in seeing who he goes after. Hopefully, it will be one of the contributors to his library, ballroom or some other grifts he's got going.

Oh, and bats may be blind eyesight, but they can see well enough to feed, take care of themselves and their young and not destroy whole ecosystems, unlike the orange turd.

EPA, CDC, FDA, FEMA, Immigration, he's working on destroying social security, medicare, medicaid, foreign policy.

he doesn't care about his voters. his goal is destruction for whatever reason. I don't believe he thinks he's fixing ANYTHING.

The GOP never ever stood for free markets, which isn't a thing. They stood for rigged markets that benefited their cronies and harmed the workers.
The GOP never ever stood balanced budgets or sound money policy. They used that to bludgeon anyone who advocated spending money for the benefit of the people. Instead the GOP supported bloated and ever expanding budgets for war and tax cuts for the rich which expanded the debt and were not sound money policy. The stood for monetary policy that benefited the rich and harmed workers.
The GOP never ever stood for rigorous observance of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. The GOP continually violated or reduced the rights or marginalized or vulnerable people, essentially anyone who did not fit their narrow rich, white, fake Christian class. The GOP routinely violated the Constitution or twisted its meaning to benefit and expand its privilege and power.
The GOP was never a party of principles. It was always the party of power, greed and exclusivity.

K&R

So it's not just me? Phew!

I don’t care if the Southwest Michigan product is a Republican. Stockman has stood for the Constitution and against the plutocrat class.

... deposit some "natural fertilizer" - free of charge - at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. Or 1100 S Ocean Blvd, Palm Beach FL. Probably better off in Florida he can make use of it there easier.

Better yet they can spread it for free.

in government and have the power to do something positive.

Thanks for nothing Mr. Stockman!

and FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF, every last one of you.

Did farmers ever get the bailout money from the last trump disaster?

Donald has his diapers.