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    The Wall Street Journal‏Verified account @WSJ 11 May 2017

    In Trump's embrace of "priming the pump," an old economics expression has a new fanhttp://on.wsj.com/2qXOA5y 

    10:27 AM - 11 May 2017
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      1. Judith Hamlet‏ @lakotawoman77 11 May 2017
        Replying to @WSJ

        He didn't just embrace it. He says he just came up with it. Never been heard before him making it up, says he.

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      2. Jack Brooks‏ @MJBJD 11 May 2017
        Replying to @WSJ

        Govt spending creates inflation, more $s chasing goods & services, not growth result ppl jobless poor homeless hungry

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      3. Aretha  🙌🏿‏ @fafa019 11 May 2017
        Replying to @MJBJD @WSJ

        unsustainable problems right now are low demand, borne of income inequality, borne of supply side voodoo

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      4. Jack Brooks‏ @MJBJD 11 May 2017
        Replying to @fafa019 @WSJ

        No, from Govt control regulate tax debt spend print end Free Mkt eg Venezuela

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      5. Aretha  🙌🏿‏ @fafa019 11 May 2017
        Replying to @MJBJD @WSJ

        nonresponsive. you don't know our econ problems or your 'free mkt' if you think we risk becoming Venezuela. not a problem solver

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      6. Jack Brooks‏ @MJBJD 11 May 2017
        Replying to @fafa019 @WSJ

        We're Venezuela, just starting from a richer position so it will take longer Prof Friedman said all Govt control economies failed in history

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      7. Aretha  🙌🏿‏ @fafa019 11 May 2017
        Replying to @MJBJD @WSJ

        US economy is way more diversified & by no means govt controlled. unsustainable banana republic inequality is way more immediate threat

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      8. Jack Brooks‏ @MJBJD 11 May 2017
        Replying to @fafa019 @WSJ

        Rep try to reverse 80 yrs of ever more Dem Govt regulate tax debt spend print which has Free Mkt small biz, 70% job creator, starts down 20%

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      9. Aretha  🙌🏿‏ @fafa019 11 May 2017
        Replying to @MJBJD @WSJ

        wages have been down for decades. talking jobs & not wages (inequality) is to not understand the *actual* structural probs, beyond theory

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      1. Aretha  🙌🏿‏ @fafa019 11 May 2017
        Replying to @WSJ

        the POTUS, a 'businessman', does not know that he did not invent the phrase 'priming the pump'...america, we really need to reflect.

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      1. Baader Daily‏ @Lemmits92 11 May 2017
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        Keynesianism actually worked. However, criminal bankers wanted world domination and pushed failed "Free Market" ideology to enslave us.

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      1. Pennie Embry‏ @pennieorwp 11 May 2017
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        I'm 65, heard old ranchers say this when I was a little kid. Doubt any of them ever met an economist

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      1. Disgusted‏ @CMEPROS 11 May 2017
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        Idiot ecomonic policy is another word for it - he still thinks we're in a recession. Perhaps his intent is to bankrupt the USA for Putin

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      1. Pennie Embry‏ @pennieorwp 11 May 2017
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        It's an even older expression used by everyday people to mean starting a conversation

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      1. Joano‏ @mimilu 11 May 2017
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        70 yrs old and he's just discovered a new phrase. Shouldn't he have taken eco in college? #everydayanewday

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      1. Glenn Amurgis‏ @gamurgis 11 May 2017
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        Wonder how @seanhannity thinks about this? Is he a Keynesian now?

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      1. Grant Bosse‏ @grantbosse 11 May 2017
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        This was an awful idea centuries before Trump adopted it.

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