1st GOP Debate

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by heeeeeeeeeres_BUCKEYE, Aug 7, 2015.

  1. "I don't like the B word," Donald Trump said in 2010 while testifying in a New Jersey bankruptcy courtroom about his gambling company, Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., which had filed for bankruptcy for the third time. Given the number of times Trump has flirted with bankruptcy, you'd think he'd be used to that word by now.

    In 1990, the banking institutions that backed his real estate investments had to bail him out with a $65 million "rescue package" that contained new loans and credit. But it wasn't enough, and nine months later the famous developer was nearly $4 billion in debt. He didn't declare personal bankruptcy, although his famous Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City, N.J., did have to file for it (bondholders ended up taking a 50% stake in the investment). Trump's economic troubles continued through the early '90s, while he was personally leveraged to nearly $1 billion. In 2004, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts also filed for bankruptcy. The company was only a small portion of Trump's real estate empire, but he did still have to personally cough up $72 million to keep it afloat. In 2009, the same company (by then renamed Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc.) filed for bankruptcy again. Yet during all of this, no one ever told Trump, "You're fired!" Probably because no one could."

    ....emm I personally would not want him gambling with my country
     
  2. In all honesty, we dun elect leaders anymore


    We elect those who sounds good, who looks good, who has a clean history - they dun even have to believe what they stand for


    Ultimately lack of true leadership is why Washington is gridlocked - I feel that Reagan was the last great leader we've had. The Oval Office has had great leaders both democrats and republicans.