Remember, if the minimum wage is raised to $15 per hour, the number of people working will decrease accordingly, realistic net gain=0.....Stupid is as stupid does!!!

Gosh, I hope that you are right, but so far the Republican congress has done nothing, and I don't see much hope, but I will try to think positive....well, maybe.

Latin America in the 20th century is full of examples of what happens then. You survive by being small and hoping they don't notice you.

Think positive! A Republican Congress can still lock her out. And maybe the next "justice" to croak will be one of theirs.

I think the next step is to try to get some major donors, and some media personalities (Glenn Beck?) into the Johnson camp. With Tweedledum truly running against Tweedledee, the argument "you're wasting your vote" has never made less sense than now.

I'll still vote for Republicans for Congress and state offices, but only the ones that aren't big spenders, as rated by Club For Growth and National Taxpayers Union.

I don't think I'll change my mind even if the GOP delegates manage to pull a surprise. Cruz was never that great to begin with, and Rubio is worse.

and wait till we pass $15 an hour wage floor. that will make it boom. We should restrict minimum wage laws to citizens ONLY

As you know, retirement income is pretty well fixed. While we have money coming in, the constant rate of inflation keeps us from getting ahead. In any case, we are probably better off than many. However, we keep to a pretty strict budget in order to not only stay afloat, but to maintain a pleasant lifestyle. As to contributions, that also is budgeted so that pre-chosen charities or causes are figured in with a bit of space left over for unexpected causes or events. I have already lived longer than I expected and I'm sure my wife (Wonder Woman) will outlive me by considerable years. Both of us would consider it hell on earth to be beholden to charity, children or government assistance .

Current Mexican immigration is only low right now because the economy is circling the drain. With an economy that was not on life support, illegal immigration would once again be at unsupportable levels.

One must deal with reality. Failure to do so and reality can destroy you. (paraphrasing A.R.)
I said nothing about quitting. Hell, during my career(s) I had at least 4 opportunities to quit, but never did. Instead, I was giving advice on what needed to be done in order to succeed.

Yes, things are different now. Also, those settlers back in the day just came on a boat on a difficult journey and landed in an empty place where they HAD to be independent to survive. Different crowd for sure. Today, people are entitled and used to getting stuff easily from the socialist government.

The only thing the president can really do is encourage US to make America great again by getting the government out of the way.

I really do want to restore our liberties. It would be so refreshing to live in a free country again. If given $1m, I really dont know if I could turn it into $100m- I dont think I am smart enough for that one. I turned $1000 into $10m, but that was with my own inventions. Trump did it with managing people, which I am not nearly so good at !!

As to the wall, I read that the actual illegal immigration is slowed to a trickle. We need to restrict minimum wages to us citizens. As wages rise to $15 an hour, there will be a flood of illegal immigration if we dont restrict application of the law to citizens. There should be a guest worker program so people can come here and work, and then go home without worrying about ever being able to come back next "season"

"the founding fathers were revolting against the king of england."

Not denying that, but the very nature of the circumstances involved was totally different. It was a new land with possibilities for the people to chart their own course. That doesn't exist any longer. The only way to change our course is either to rebuild after a major meltdown or a natural disaster. Simply changing the President isn't going to effect the kind of change we need because the change we need is cultural and widespread.

I am not in total disagreement with you on most of the points you made however, it should be pointed out certain things.

First of all, Trump being a successful business man and having failed on several occasions and having learned from his mistakes. That is True however, success in business has different meanings. If a person started out with nothing other than his brains and hard work and made billions that is one thing and is very admirable if he did it without cheating or destroying people on the way up.

On the other hand, being given a great private school education along with a $1mm startup seed fund and then down the road having reach back to over $100mm is not quite as difficult an endeavor.

Another what I believe is a salient point (something that I have first hand knowledge of) is that there is already a wall if you will across our southern border. It is the law that is not being enforced, not the lack of a viable barrier (electronic) that if utilized to its fullest extent with a viable law enforcement component, we might not be having this conversation now. That is something that is True that Mr. Trump has little if any knowledge of.

As for buying off politicians and playing their games, that is the stuff books like Atlas Shrugged are made of. Crony capitalism is just that and from where I sit, Mr. Trump seems to fit the bill quite nicely.

Anyway, I fully respect your thoughtful response.

If a man stands with his back too close to the fire, he's the one who has to sit on the blisters.
Unfortunately, when that's applied to politics, all of us suffer, not just the silly bleeps who voted for the sorry candidates offered by the two old parties.
Rational people -- surely that includes everyone who visits here -- will this year vote for the Libertarian Party candidate, Gary Johnson, John McAfee, or whoever.
Oppose voting? In many ways so do I. But I compare it so shooting people: Sometimes you have to -- In Self-Defense.

"GOP - Rest in Pieces". Love it!

When did the "head du[d]e" make this statement? Before yesterday? If so, it doesn't matter. You are correct that the Rules Committee is not controlled by state (or federal) laws or the popular vote. However, any changes to the Rules would have to be adopted by the full Convention. I may have been sleeping, but you are living in a fantasy world. Trump is the presumptive nominee.

The Kochs are supporting nobody right now and seem unlikely to enter the fray. Charles thinks both Hillary and Trump are unsupportable. David may be more sympathetic to the Libertarian Party based solely on the fact that he ran as the LP VP nominee in 1976, but he has made no public statements on the race at all.

Minuscule is better than nothing, but if you don't currently have the resources, I understand.

Very funny. I was using the red/blue language used by the current US media. They use red to mean Republican and blue to mean Democrat. I was making a point about blind partisanship.

i don't know what you mean by "form a coalition." They do a lot of outreach, but if you mean a formal legally binding coalition with another party, that is not allowed under U.S. election laws. We live in a winner take all country.

Cant argue with that. If Hildebeast or Sanders gets elected in the fall, that will signal that we are in a death spiral like Venezuela. It would pay to investigate just what happens when a society gets into the death throes, and how one might preserve ones life in that scenario..

Not all his businesses were bankrupt. His current businesses are doing fine. The real mark of a business person is how they get back up once they have fallen. Real estate has bubbles and its easy to be a victim of those bubbles.

As to buying off politicians, if government didnt have power over him, he wouldnt have to buy them off. He also said that he did buy politicians off, but this system isnt right and should be abolished. Thats an honest thing to campaign on. Lets c if he can in face clean up the cronyism.

As to the wall, I can understand that if you want to have a country, you have to have borders. The immigration could be stopped immeditely without a wall if they just eliminated minimum wage and freebie welfare for non citizens. Also, stop the process of granting instant citizenship to babies just born over here after being dropped off inside the USA border. Makes the walls unnecessary.