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Country for sale. This is what Trump does: he liquidates assets and over-leverages debt, then fails to pay the piper. washingtonpost.com/local/traffica…
2/ In 1990, Trump filed bankruptcy on $3.75 billion in debt. His personal assets were sold off, and the bankruptcy trustee put him on a monthly budget. newyorker.com/magazine/1997/…
3/ That same month, Trump maxed out a $100 million unsecured loan, and within 3-weeks, he failed to pay a $43m payment due to bondholders of the Trump Castle Casino, saying: “Leverage is an amazing phenomenon. I love leverage.”
4/ Trump turned to his Atlantic City casino for cash, converting his casino to public ownership in 1995 & leveraging junk bond debt of $1.750b. He was sued by shareholders, then lied to shareholders by arranging for sales of common stock which were deceptively really a loan.
5/ All Trump knows how to do is to overly leverage and to then avoid the consequences of his debt. Problem is, this time, the @GOP has given Trump the keys to the kingdom of fiat money. cnbc.com/2018/02/12/tru…
6/ During good economic times (such as NOW), government should not incur massive debt. The @GOP is so Kremlin-compromised, that it lacks all discipline.
7/ This is a dire emergency, and the @GOP is too morally incapacitated to avert this inevitable disaster.
8/ Trump is literally addicted to debt. It is his narcotic, and the morally bankrupt @GOP is his drug dealer. newyorker.com/magazine/1997/…
9/ Trump is a grifter, with a decades-long history of over leveraging, then welching. He tried to avoid paying $40m in personal guarantees on a Deutsche Bank loan. ft.com/content/8c6d9d…
10/ Trump has filed bankruptcy 7 times. In 2004, he was (AGAIN) completely broke and bankrupt, causing him to turn to Russian mobsters and corrupt oligarchs, using his businesses as a front for money laundering.
11/ This is truly a crisis which places our national security in jeopardy. The @GOP has propped up a debt-addicted money launderer in the WH, who is more than willing to sell off assets of the people to gratify his debt addiction.
12/ The damage inflicted by this infantile debt-addict and his merry band of Kremlin-compromised @GOP #PutinHo’s is irreversible. They are selling out our children and grandchildren. reuters.com/article/us-usa…
13/ The @GOP is so utterly compromised right now that Trump is able to place our country on the auction block—and even this will not curb his insatiable appetite for debt. independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
14/ What Trump fails to grasp, is the Lockean Social Contract that citizens of democracy have with their government, which is to be a steward of “the Commons”. Privatizing government obligations is a disaster. floridatoday.com/story/tech/sci…
15/ The grubby-greedy dirty paws of the @GOP wants to scratch the backs of its corporate donors. Privatization is a nice word for cronyism. newsweek.com/2017/09/15/don…
16/ Privatization is a fiction designed to rob citizens. Pence’s toll road privatization was a disaster. forbes.com/sites/realspin…
17/ Infrastructure is for the people, and not for incompetent corporate-owned politicians who want to return favors to their donors. indystar.com/story/news/201…
18/ We are being conned by Trump and the @GOP commondreams.org/news/2017/08/0…
19/ Privatization is a scam, and the @GOP knows it. reuters.com/article/us-ind…
20/ Trump (who has no ideology or standards) and the compromised @GOP wants to pimp out American citizens to foreign countries—a huge hidden tax increase on working people. ibtimes.com/political-capi…
21/ Americans will pay higher tolls and fares to foreign companies, rather than paying taxes to government, to use the infrastructure. Trump, who supposedly embraces a creed of "buy American, hire American" will sell every last asset of the people to foreign powers.
22/ Trump cares only about Trump, and has no qualms about turning US citizens into servile subjects of China, Saudi Arabia, UAE, or Russia. Indeed, the US citizenry is an asset to Trump, to be manipulated, used up and exploited.
23/ Trump’s playbook is Putin’s playbook. Trump’s quest to privatize is rooted in kleptocracy. independent.co.uk/news/business/…
24/ The privatization fantasy comes with a lack of transparency. Citizens will be relegated to servitude to an unknown master. reuters.com/article/us-rus…
25/ Trump/GOP’s chorus of privatization is merely an attempt to avoid accountability to US citizens.
26/ America is being conned and “privatization” is code-switch for corruption.
27/ Kleptocratic “privatization” is a slippery slope where accountability to the governed is replaced by concentrated power and wealth into the hands of an unaccountable few. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
28/ This is not a drill. Trump and the @GOP are rushing to establish a “parallel state” which can be used to establish and maintain power over the state, and at the very least to undermine the state. Privatization is their gateway. justsecurity.org/48594/thoughts…
29/ (May 2016) Treasury prints more money, unleashing inflation & destablizing bond markets, resulting in a parade of horribles, least of which, downgrade of US credit rating. He has no ability to control debt and @GOP won’t reign him in. #BananaRepublic amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/05/09…
30/ Trump has no ability to control the generals, who will ALWAYS ask for more. Because. Military industrial complex. This is a runaway train. The bill represents $28 billion *more* than Trump’s request and more than $60 billion above last year’s levels. defensenews.com/congress/2018/…
31/ Privatizing the electric utility grid (including dams) is a national security risk. Also, “market” control of the electrical grid will only harm citizens in terms of costs.
32/ At a time when federal government should be expanding to protect citizens from hostile actions by Russia, Trump is holding the door open for Putin under a pretext of privatization, to just walk right in with impunity. vox.com/world/2017/9/6…
33/ Six Things That Should Never Be Privatized: water, prisons, fire departments, social security, medicare, gas/electric (I would add military and police) alternet.org/economy/6-thin…

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