Doug

[Doug @daegr]

@woodsonwhiskey @CharlesWoodson @InterceptWines Packers. Love the whiskey. Bo Blue!

[Doug @daegr]

@GodlyNations Yes, I also support that any member of congress that in office during a shut down is ineligible for re-election.

[Doug @daegr]

@SaveAmericaNew I also support that if the government shuts down on their watch that they are not eligible for reelection

[Doug @daegr]

@SaveAmericaNew Yes!

[Doug @daegr]

@WesternJournalX Other

[Doug @daegr]

@Suzierizzo1 Greed

[Doug @daegr]

@conantbarbian @AnnieAgar It’s a bar in Grand Rapids. They bring in palm trees from Florida each summer and return them back in the winter.

[Doug @daegr]

@DHeilman44781 @AnnieAgar She’s at a bar in Grand Rapids. Been there many times. They bring in palm trees from Florida every summer then donate them back each winter.

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

No Fortune 100, 500, or 1000 male CEO, college president, industry exec, or Partner in a firm could publicly call one of his female employees a "dog"-or "nasty" or an "animal"-and not be fired!! Why in God's name do we tolerate this from the President of the United States?

[Doug @daegr]

@PattyMurray I don’t believe our public lands should be put up for sale, but if they are I would love to see a rich philanthropist buy up the property and donate it back to the state along with a deed restriction preventing the property from ever being developed.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This…

[Doug @daegr]

@BulwarkOnline You don’t need to go golfing every weekend. Three times a year is enough.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I don't care who you are.

If you are complaining we need tariffs to bring manufacturing and jobs to the USA, and you don't buy American EXCLUSIVELY ,

YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE

You want to bring manufacturing back, lead by example and get friends and family to do the same

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Yes!

[Doug @daegr]

@Suzierizzo1 Since Trump is an employee should that money go to the U.S. Treasury?

[Doug @daegr]

@trump_repost Lies are up, deceit is up, fascism is up.

[Doug @daegr]

@Suzierizzo1 If it is against the law for a citizen to lie under oath to congress then the same should apply to our elected officials that took an oath of office. There should be accountability for lying to the people.

[Doug @daegr]

@ThePatriotOasis And 97% of people think you’re lying

[Jo Thomas @rthomas86]

I own a small dessert business. My business has a 100% trade deficit with the grocery store. I’m always buying from them, and they’ve never once bought anything from me.

Now, of course, I take products I buy from the grocery store, turn them into delicious baked goods, and make a 50%+ profit, while the grocery store is running on 2-4% profit margins, but WE HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT! They’re ripping me off with their low, low prices, because they NEVER buy anything from me!

Of course, the alternative is for me to grow, harvest, thrash, grind, then finely mill all of my own flour, including into the various mixes of flour that I use for various products (cake flour, bread flour, all-purpose, etc…), maintain and milk a dairy cow, churn my own butter, make that milk into heavy cream, yogurt, sour cream, condensed milk, and evaporated milk, etc…grow cacao, and then turn into all the different kinds of chocolate and baking cocoa… grow and harvest sugar cane, sorghum, mine salt, make baking powder, baking soda, grow vanilla beans, etc, etc, etc…

All of that (plus WAY more), and we haven’t even talked about all the different fruits and nuts I would need, or how I would only be able to offer certain products during certain times of the year, or how a lot of what I said before wouldn’t even be possible in the climate I live in, but I digress.

If all of that wasn’t cost-prohibitive enough to completely wipe out my profits (it would be, and then some), the time commitment and significant additional physical labor certainly wouldn’t make any of it worth the tiny remaining profit.

Now, compare that to the current screeching about the trade deficits we have with other countries. We import raw materials (aluminum, steel, lumber, etc…) from other countries, which would be labor and/or cost prohibitive for us to make, or that we simply cannot produce or source here, and then we take those materials, and turn them into higher profit margin products, which we then export to other countries. It is exactly the same as my example, but on a macro scale.