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2017-02-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-03 09:19|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 "open borders" = denial of US sovereignty

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-02-03 10:31|| 2017-02-03 10:31|| Front Page Top

#2 If some government freezes Soro's bank accounts the rioting would fizzle out fairly quickly.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-02-03 10:59|| 2017-02-03 10:59|| Front Page Top

#3 One is forced to recall that DT, as he was called, throve at that military academy. It sounds like he studied more than countermarching.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-02-03 11:53|| 2017-02-03 11:53|| Front Page Top

#4 There's no need to look for analogies outside Trump's experience such as making him a latter day Sun Tzu based on his stint at military school.

Just apply what he actually is - a corporate CEO with a job to do.

Think of him as a corporate raider involved in a hostile takeover of a company that was once the industrial leader but has fallen on hard times.

The problems he faces are:
- a management that is more interested in their benefits package than the stockholders
- a series of contracts with other companies that is not in the company's best interest.
- entrenched special interests that want their own area of the company to prosper at the expense of the company as a whole
- Aggressive competition from other companies who are catching up technologically.
- Built in headwinds from an industry association that exists in part to prevent the company from re-attaining primacy in the industry

Just think of how Carl Ichann would deal with these problems and you can see the next few years

Posted by Mercutio 2017-02-03 13:49|| 2017-02-03 13:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Your analysis/analogy is spot on, Mercutio!

Posted by Whitch Turkeyneck3879 2017-02-03 14:26|| 2017-02-03 14:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Just think of how Carl Ichann would deal with these problems and you can see the next few years
Posted by Mercutio

In other words, there will be a reduction or sell-off of lagging product lines.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-02-03 14:42|| 2017-02-03 14:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Over the last eight years, the Left has taken the offensive continually while Republicans either capitulated,...

Try ever since the 1995-96 shut down.

Posted by magpie 2017-02-03 15:41|| 2017-02-03 15:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Mercutio - consider that Icahn owns 8.7% of this firm being shook down..
Regulatory standoff could close Indonesia’s golden mine

US mining giant Freeport McMoRan has challenged government mandated divestment and export bans. The fate of its Grasberg mine lies in the balance

Posted by 3dc 2017-02-03 20:31|| 2017-02-03 20:31|| Front Page Top

#9 "Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits should be conferred gradually, and in that way they will taste better."

Niccolo Machiavelli

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