Its prices range from £7,500 to £100,000 (US$11,550 to US$150,000).
The high end of that range is worth more than my house. It's literally obscene.
Good for him. He can afford to buy his wife nice things.
The American way ... by not paying his bills.
I only believe there are Birkin bag owners and soon to be Birkin bag owners. My wife is the latter. Any day we'll be able to afford one. Maybe one on the lower end that only cost as much as our car and not our house.
But seriously. Children are starving while people are buying $150K purses. The solution we get offered by politicians is more tax cuts for the wealthy. When the revolution happens, it will be about stuff like this.
pioneer98 wrote:I checked out Gary Johnson's stance on most issues. On social issues the only thing I really didn't like what he had to say was on school vouchers. Otherwise, I pretty much liked what I read. On economics, I'm struggling to see how he'd be different from some Tea Party extremist though. He wants to cut the federal budget by 43%. He seems open to cutting military spending. But 43% is still insane. I have a feeling we'd all get to experience what Kansas is going through right now. I totally understand voting for him as a protest against the other two parties though.
A few weeks ago on Bill Maher he mentioned cutting 20% of the budget BUT I think it may have just been the military spending at 20%.
Cheddar Tom wrote:
No...and the fact that they have spent 2 nights talking about Benghazi/emails really exposes, IMO, that they have nothing to offer voters. Most conventions are trying to sell voters on the candidate....this convention has been about arresting Clinton. I am quite certain there are some reasonable conservatives out there....and I hope they send a message by voting for Gary Johnson.
I think it's a good strategy for Trump. If it weren't for Trump, Hillary would have the highest unfavorable rating by a nominee in history. The "Never _____" movement swings both ways. I'm worried "Never ____" will sway enough that third party support will go down as we get closer to the election. If enough Johnson supporters reluctantly back Trump because they view him more tolerable than Hillary, then we'll have an awfully close election on our hands. I really really hope Trump doesn't figure out how to keep his mouth shut.
Lynne Patton is a black woman who is going to speak about "the Trump family she knows" tonight. She's also an employee of Eric Trump (she's vice president of his foundation). Then Eric is also speaking tonight.
pioneer98 wrote:I checked out Gary Johnson's stance on most issues. On social issues the only thing I really didn't like what he had to say was on school vouchers. Otherwise, I pretty much liked what I read. On economics, I'm struggling to see how he'd be different from some Tea Party extremist though. He wants to cut the federal budget by 43%. He seems open to cutting military spending. But 43% is still insane. I have a feeling we'd all get to experience what Kansas is going through right now. I totally understand voting for him as a protest against the other two parties though.
A few weeks ago on Bill Maher he mentioned cutting 20% of the budget BUT I think it may have just been the military spending at 20%.
This sounds great in a vaccuum. The defense budget is significantly bloated. But cutting that much spend would have a pretty disasterous effect on the economy. Massive layoffs by defense contractors. Subsequent massive layoffs from suppliers to defense contractors. Domino effects all down the line.
I think defense spending, like most federal spending, needs to be drawn down slowly rather than drastic cuts. Cutting the federal budget 20% would instantly create a depression. The money has to flow.
“As you know from his other career, Donald likes to fire people,” Christie told a closed-door meeting with dozens of donors at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, according to an audio recording obtained by Reuters and two participants in the meeting
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Trump's transition advisers fear that Obama may convert these appointees to civil servants, who have more job security than officials who have been politically appointed. This would allow officials to keep their jobs in a new, possibly Republican, administration, Christie said.
“It’s called burrowing," Christie said. "You take them from the political appointee side into the civil service side, in order to try to set up ... roadblocks for your successor, kind of like when all the Clinton people took all the Ws off the keyboard when George Bush was coming into the White House.”
Christie was referring to pranks committed during the presidential transition from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush in 2001. During that period, some White House staffers removed the W key on computer keyboards and left derogatory signs and stickers in offices, according to a report by the General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress.
"One of the things I have suggested to Donald is that we have to immediately ask the Republican Congress to change the civil service laws. Because if they do, it will make it a lot easier to fire those people," Christie said.
He said firing civil servants was "cumbersome" and "time-consuming."
There was no immediate comment from the American Federation of Government Employees, which is the largest federal employee union in the United States.
Christie also told the gathering that changing the leadership of the Environmental Protection Agency, long a target of Republicans concerned about over regulation, would be a top priority for Trump should he win in November.
I hear people say they want Trump so it'll just blow everything up. I guess this is what they mean?
