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Aug 9, 2025 ~ 'Trump Scores Another Win: Apple To Pump $100 Billion More Into U.S. Economy' "Today’s announcement with Apple is another win for our manufacturing industry." "Apple initially announced in February that it would spend $500 billion in U.S. investments during the president’s time in office, including a massive factory in Texas and around 20,000 jobs focused on research and development."   “This is the largest investment Apple has ever made in America and anywhere else,” Trump said, adding that the company is “coming home.”   Apple CEO Cook: "I'm very proud to say that today, we're committing an additional $100 billion to the United States, bringing our total U.S. investment to $600 billion... We believe deeply in the promise of this great nation." [Economics, Economy, Tariffs, Trump Win]
Aug 9, 2025 ~ John Stossel, 'My Socialist Mayor' "Mamdani mocks those of us who fear socialism. He says socialism just means that the state 'provides whatever is necessary for its people to live a dignified life.' Sounds nice. But socialism doesn't bring a dignified life. It never has. It's wrecked lives wherever it's been tried." "Whether you call it the abolition of private property," said Mamdani, "or you call it just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now."   "No! It's not! This idea has failed, again and again! Socialism, in various degrees, was tried and abandoned in the USSR, China, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Myanmar, Angola, Mozambique, Benin, Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Guyana, Chile, Israel, Sweden, and India. Countries that didn't abandon socialism, like Cuba, Bolivia, and North Korea, stay poor. Venezuela was once the richest country in Latin America. Now it's the poorest."   "Socialism destroyed Venezuela," says Venezuelan-born economist Daniel Di Martino. "No government has the capacity to run thousands of businesses."   "People need capitalism -- a profit motive -- to do that." [Economics, Economy, John Stossel, Poverty, Socialism]
Aug 17, 2025 ~ "Aluminum Producer to Invest $50M in US Jobs as ‘Direct Result‘ of Tariffs" Trump's tariffs are bring more investment into the United States.   "Century Aluminum Co. is planning to create about 100 local jobs at its Berkeley County facility after the plant operated below full capacity for the past decade, the Post and Courier reported. The boost is expected to increase U.S. aluminum production by nearly 10%... Ramping up domestic production was dubbed a 'direct result' of Trump’s trade policies, which includes raising import fees on primary aluminum shipments to 50%." Century Aluminum CEO Jesse Gary said in a statement: "Today’s announcement was made possible by President Trump’s commitment to onshoring manufacturing of critical metals, protecting America’s national security, and to protecting American workers in our industry whose expertise is needed to ensure future generations do not have to rely on foreign supplies to build our communities and grow our economy." [Economics, Economy, Trump Win]
Aug 17, 2025 ~ 'Donald Trump Is Truly Historic'   "If you had to sum up President Trump’s second term so far in one word, you could do worse than 'epic.' Trump may be on the path to the most consequential presidency since Ronald Reagan’s."   In addition to his accomplishments on immigration, trade, peace, tax cuts, NATO, DEI rollback, making tax cuts permanent, DOGE cuts, Medicare reform, ending Iran's nuclear weapons program, etc. "Almost any one of these items would be a notable first-six-months accomplishment, but he’s done them all, with lots of other activity besides. His EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, and his energy officials are rolling back the left’s climate agenda. Trump defunded public broadcasting and kneecapped the Department of Education (for now). The administration has taken important steps to protect female sports and to keep minors from being subjected to “gender-affirming care.” With brute-force threats, he’s pushed universities into agreements to adopt reforms and probably upended forever the assumption that billions of federal dollars would flow to top universities as a matter of course." [Anti-Semitism, Climate Change, CRT DIE Wokeness, DOGE, Economics, Economy, Environment, Illegal Immigration, Iran, Nato, Rich Lowry, Tariffs, Tax Cuts, Trans, Trans Athletes, Trump Win]
Aug 29, 2025 ~ Reported by Nas on X: @Nas_tech_AI, "Americans pay 8X more than Europeans for the exact same drugs. When Trump uncovered the scam, he gave Big Pharma an ultimatum: 'Cut the prices in 60 days… or make the world pay.'" "$300 in America vs $30 in Germany." Trump's ultimatum: "Slash US prices (and profits). Or raise prices everywhere else to match America's. Do you think Big Pharma would take a $600 billion pay cut?" No. Companies are already responding: "Eli Lilly announces a 170% price increase for Mounjaro (weight loss drug) in the UK." "Eli Lilly admitted exactly why they did it: 'We're raising foreign prices in order to make them lower in the US.'" [Economy, Health Care, Trump Win]

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