I can't answer your question......I don't generally pay much attention to politicians who don't directly represent me or are running to do so. I probably should...but there are but 24 hours in each day it's just not a priority to me.

That said....what I really liked about Trump was the same thing I didn't like.....his lack of tact. It's abrasive, but at the same time he isn't concerned with what anyone thinks of him and is not posturing for re-e******n. He says, perhaps not always eloquently or politely, what a lot of people are thinking....even if not politically correct.

Here is an excerpt from the "ECONOMIST", about their attitude on air polluion:

A study released by America’s National Academy of Sciences in July found that air pollution in the north of China reduces life expectancy by five-and-a-half years. The rivers are filthy, the soil contaminated. The government has long known this and attempted to clean things up. Yet still the smog comes.

And there is something else in the air, less immediately damaging but with a far bigger global impact. China’s greenhouse-gas emissions were about 10% of the world’s total in 1990. Now they are nearer 30%. Since 2000 China alone has accounted for two-thirds of the global growth in carbon-dioxide emissions. This will be very hard to reverse. While America and Europe are cutting their emissions by 60m tonnes a year combined, China is increasing its own by over 500m tonnes. This makes it a unique global threat.

Nonsense, say Chinese officials. China is not responsible for the build-up of greenhouse gases. The West is. There are environmental problems, true, but China is simply following a pattern set by Britain, America and Japan: “grow first, clean up later”. China grew unusually fast but it is now cleaning up unusually fast, too. Its efforts to rein in pollution are undervalued; its investments in wind and solar power put others to shame; its carbon emissions will peak sooner than people expect. China will one day do for zero-carbon energy what it has already done for consumer electronics—put it within reach of everyone. It will not be a threat to the planet but the model for how to clean it up.

Well, here is what Obama tried to do for you:

"...air pollution that originated in China in 2007 was linked to an estimated 3,100 premature deaths in the United States and Western Europe that year.

Globally, some 410,000 deaths in 2007 could be linked to air pollution that began in another region of the world. (In total, 3.45 million people died prematurely from air pollution in 2007.)

By multiple measures, China is particularly hard hit by air pollution. Some 650,000 Chinese died prematurely due to bad air in 2007.

In 2012, about 1 in 8 deaths worldwide ― 7 million people ― were due to air pollution, according to World Health Organization estimates. Exposure to air pollutants is linked to myriad health problems, including heart disease, stroke, cancer and respiratory illness."

You can thank him later....


I guess things are going just great! My mistake, I guess.

I think most of the third graders got it. Let me make it clear for the kindergarten class:

Obama fought for the air you breathe. People--many people--even people in this country, your relatives and friends perhaps, someday maybe even you, die each and every day--die in a way that is measurable and that can be attributed to air pollution, and the situation is getting worse every day.

This is not some pie-in-the-sky statistic that someone pulls out of his ass, but fact, measurable fact, attributable fact, assigned by knowledgable professionals who know that bad air k**ls, in this country, in Europe and China--EVERYWHERE!

Coal burning (among other things) K**ls People in Every Country and Every Day. Period!

Burn Coal, Thousands Die, someplace, sometime, always, all the time, everywhere, always, continuing forever.

Read this everyday until you understand it; might take months, but worth the effort.

Well, here is what Obama tried to do for you:

"...air pollution that originated in China in 2007 was linked to an estimated 3,100 premature deaths in the United States and Western Europe that year.

Globally, some 410,000 deaths in 2007 could be linked to air pollution that began in another region of the world. (In total, 3.45 million people died prematurely from air pollution in 2007.)

By multiple measures, China is particularly hard hit by air pollution. Some 650,000 Chinese died prematurely due to bad air in 2007.

In 2012, about 1 in 8 deaths worldwide ― 7 million people ― were due to air pollution, according to World Health Organization estimates. Exposure to air pollutants is linked to myriad health problems, including heart disease, stroke, cancer and respiratory illness."

You can thank him later....

((The material below is from Wikipedia, and speaks for itself.))


Paul Robin Krugman (pronunciation: /ˈkrʊɡmən/ kruug-mən;[1][2] born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for The New York Times.[4] In 2008, Krugman was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to New Trade Theory and New Economic Geography. The Prize Committee cited Krugman's work explaining the patterns of international trade and the geographic distribution of economic activity, by examining the effects of economies of scale and of consumer preferences for diverse goods and services.

Krugman was a professor of economics at MIT and later at Princeton University. He retired from Princeton in June 2015 and holds the title of professor emeritus there. He is also Centenary Professor at the London School of Economics and was President of the Eastern Economic Association in 2010. As of 2016, Research Papers in Economics ranked him as the world's 24th most influential economist based on citations of his work. Krugman is known in academia for his work on international economics (including trade theory, economic geography, and international finance), liquidity traps, and currency crisis.

Krugman has written over 20 books, including scholarly works, textbooks, and books for a more general audience and has published over 200 scholarly articles in professional journals and edited volumes. He has also written several hundred columns on economic and political issues for The New York Times, Fortune and Slate. A 2011 survey of economics professors named him their favorite living economist under the age of 60, followed by Greg Mankiw and Daron Acemoglu.

As a commentator, Krugman has written on a wide range of economic issues including income distribution, taxation, macroeconomics, and international economics. Krugman considers himself a modern liberal, referring to his books, his blog on The New York Times, and his 2007 book The Conscience of a Liberal. His popular commentary has attracted comments, both positive and negative.


Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (officially Swedish: Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne, or the Swedish National Bank's Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel), commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics, is an award for outstanding contributions to the field of economics, and generally regarded as the most prestigious award for that field.

The prize was established in 1968 by a donation from Sweden's central bank, the Swedish National Bank, on the bank's 300th anniversary. Although it is not one of the prizes that Alfred Nobel established in his will in 1895, it is referred to along with the other Nobel Prizes by the Nobel Foundation. Laureates are announced with the other Nobel Prize laureates, and receive the award at the same ceremony.

Laureates in the Memorial Prize in Economics are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It was first awarded in 1969 to the Dutch and Norwegian economists Jan Tinbergen and Ragnar Frisch, "for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes."

(Snip)

The Prize in Economics is not one of the original Nobel Prizes created by Alfred Nobel's will. However, the nomination process, se******n criteria, and awards presentation of the Prize in Economic Sciences are performed in a manner similar to that of the Nobel Prizes.

Laureates are announced with the Nobel Prize laureates, and receive the award at the same ceremony. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards the prize "in accordance with the rules governing the award of the Nobel Prizes instituted through his [Alfred Nobel's] will," which stipulate that the prize be awarded annually to "those who ... shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind."

Here is a news flash for you, you lying prick. krugman is not a Nobel Laureate. That is a lie promoted by you insane lefty sycophants. He won what is known correctly as the Bank of Sweden prize. Dumb ass. Or the Nobel Memorial Prize.

Here is the t***h, from one of you lefty web sites no less. Stop lying ass hole.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/4/14/1167782/-Paul-Krugman-Did-Not-Win-a-Nobel-Prize-in-Economics

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/2008/krugman-facts.html

http://austrianeconomists.typepad.com/weblog/2008/10/you-cannot-be-s.html

"We can see the huge discrepancy in coal mine productivity between Western and Eastern mines. Montana (with 942 coal miners) produces more coal than Virginia (with 5,262 coal miners). Wyoming (with 5,837 coal miners) produces more coal than West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Alabama, and Illinois combined (with a total of 58,995 coal miners).

Due to this discrepancy, the coal mining industry has increasingly moved production to these Western states (especially to the Powder River Basin), and has dramatically cut its workforce in Appalachia.

Since 1900, technological developments in the coal mining industry have dramatically increased miner productivity; thus, while U.S. coal production is currently at a record high, mining employment is a fraction of what it was during the heyday of coal mining in the 1910's and 20's."