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No one said China was good. More lies by you. Just that they were copying America (who lead the way in this field). https://www.motherjones.com/en... And are clearly still worse than the EU (as always).

Why is it only bad when China copies and does what America does? Why not blame America for doing it first?

Explain how you think America can join something it pioneered (started).

While you are explaining, also explain these lies of yours. Here, here and here for example.

You also constantly claim links say what you want them to when they clearly do not.

You always falsely accuse other people of lying, when it's clearly you who is the liar?
Show some honour for once.

There is a difference. Those can liners are contaminated.

Yeah we see how much of a boondoggle high speed rail is in the US.

Interstate highways - which have cost trillions to construct and maintain - would be a "boondogle" if started today instead of in the 50's, as you'd have to go level out vast tracks of land for the roads while going through urban areas. That doesn't mean that it would be worth doing.

Even CA can't pull it off.

CA is a state that is limited in how much it can borrow and spend. The US federal government is under no such limitations - and if you slashed a trillion off the annual imperial budget you would have plenty to spend without raising taxes a dime. Speaking of taxes, receipts would jump from the resulting jobs boom, making part of the spending pay for itself over the long term.

In addition to the [citation needed]

https://www.motherjones.com/po...

I've been to many DWI check points. Never once have I been asked for documentation.

Thank you for that helpful anecdote that doesn't prove a goddamn thing. Pro-tip: if you start your post talking about statistical fallacy, it's best not to base your argument on personal anecdote.

Zero new taxes needed. Just slash a trillion a year from the imperial budget and you'll have plenty of money for wind and solar. Then there's the fact that the resulting job boom would lead to higher tax receipts - meaning much of a GND would pay for itself over a couple of decades.

Now, all that said - we desperately need a return of the 90% income tax rate we had under Eisenhower, along with Warren's proposed wealth tax. With another zero at the end of it. Not just to pay for stuff, but to prevent the formation of an exempt-from-work aristocracy based on inherited wealth instead of a title.

Ok, you get $383 billion a year.

The US imperial budget is twice the official number. Lots of items that are purely military in nature aren't counted as part of the military budget, like the Department of Energy maintaining America's arsenal of nuclear weapons.

$750 billion a year buys a lot of wind and solar. And as the jobs created would result in an economic boom (and thus more and higher tax receipts) a GND would eventually pay for much of itself.

To demonstrate who is actually the brainwashed idiot, consider this: Trump has, on at least 7 occasions, acknowledged that the climate is warming, and that humans likely play a role in that.

Citations please?

Oh never mind. Trump says lots of things and then says the opposite a short time later. His AGW stance has been a textbook example. He may have grudgingly accepted AGW on occasion, but his most emphatic pronouncements have been decidedly on the other side of the issue.

The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive. -- Donald J. Trump, 2012

Not enough? Okay:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
https://www.theguardian.com/us...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...
https://www.motherjones.com/en...

I hate linking to mother jones but you are only partially right. It is legal on a federal level but at a local level, it can still be considered illegal.

https://www.motherjones.com/po...

Solution
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A Century of Fire Suppression Is Why California Is in Flames : California’s forests emitted more carbon than they soaked up between 2001 and 2010

This is a distraction from the breaking story about possible GOP election fraud scandal coming to light in North Carolina.

The allegation is that someone on the GOP payroll was hiring people to go door to door and collect absentee ballots. This is illegal under NC law.

Additionally, those ballots passed through unknown hands, and may have been culled, substituted or otherwise altered in the process.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1...

Here you go

If you think she's talking about Islam or even Judaism when she says "God's Kingdom"... well, I don't know if I'd call what you have naivete....

Who says prisons have to be non-profit?

Problem solved.

You apparently have never heard of THESE guys:

http://www.correctionscorp.com...

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It's probably much better being homeless in California than the upper peninsula in Michigan all also being equal. Also, it's not as though homeless people have the ability to easily travel. The ones that have severe mental problems aren't going to go anywhere, and even the ones who might like to go to California might not be able to easily afford it or might not want to take the risk of leaving a place where they know they can at least eat regularly. Some probably have heard about the conditions in San Francisco's homeless population and want to stay far away from that. If I were homeless, the last thing I'd want is to be surrounded by loads of zombies that just shit in the middle of the sidewalk.

I think that some years ago the biggest reason for influx of homeless people into California was other states essentially bussing them there. I think that part of California's problem and why the end up spending so much damn money is that they spend as much time fighting against people trying to help as they do trying to tackle the issue in their own ways.

Trump's Lies

All False statements involving Donald Trump

Trump’s Lies Have Grown Far More Frequent—and More Dangerous

The 25 Worst Lies From Donald Trump’s First 200 Days

Donald Trump has said 3084 false things as U.S. president

How Trump Gets Away with Lying, as Explained by a Magician

The Other Side: President Trump’s lies a clear and present danger

Trump lies about having ‘no financial interests in Saudi Arabia’

Trump's Relentless Lying Threatens Our Democracy.

This Is as Obvious and Blatant a Presidential Lie as You're Going to See

It’s True: Trump Is Lying More, and He’s Doing It on Purpose

President Trump Made 1,950 Untrue Claims in 2017. That's Making His Job Harder

Or the Department of Energy managing America's nuclear weapon arsenal. You can basically take the official number and double it (to well over a trillion) with all the military spending the government pretends ins't military spending:

https://www.motherjones.com/po...

It's not a penny in the jar. Remember Sanders' free college plan that was widely mocked as unaffordable? A mere $60 billion a year. Trump's wall? $25 billion once.

Which are pennies in the penny jar next to what's now (probably) over a trillion and a half a year on war pork:

https://www.motherjones.com/po...

I just learned that today. Some claim UPS workers provide better service than FedEx workers, due to UPS workers being unionized.

I can honestly say I've never noticed any difference. Read more here: https://www.motherjones.com/po...

Of course unions can also stand in the way of progress, such as forbidding the use of drones or driverless delivery trucks: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/2...

Nice try.

“We have 100 years of fire suppression that has led to this huge accumulation of fuel loads, just dead and downed debris from trees and plant material in our forests, and in our woodlands,” says Berleman. “As a result of that, our forests and woodlands are not healthy, and we’re getting more catastrophic fire behavior than we would otherwise.”
https://www.motherjones.com/en...

Jerry Brown would rather spend the money on a train to nowhere and banning plastic straws.

"Crazy" is right. Motherjones is a kook website and they "warn" about everything all the time.

I was wondering why so many AC's are hating on MJ. And then I remembered that MJ was the first to report on the contents of the Steele Dossier, in October of 2016, months before any other news org.

So you know what? All you magats, you just go ahead and make america great again by eating receipts that you microwaved in styrofoam containers. That will put all the libtards in their place.

Mother Jones had a series of articles covering the fact that BPA substitutes were untested and likely to have essentially the same endocrine disrupting effects as BPA because they are chemically very similar to BPA.

Here's one article from 2014.

After reading their coverage I switched to glass containers for all leftover food and I never microwave anything in a plastic dish. If I buy something that comes in plastic and is intended to be cookied in the packagin, I dump it into a glass dish and microwave it that way instead.

Here's some crazy stuff you probably didn't know - those thermal receipts that you get at the grocery store and fast food places are chock full of BPA, its a necessary component to the thermal printing process. And just handling a receipt gets BPA into your bloodstream - not very much, one or two receipts isn't going to make a noticeable difference. But, there are two chemicals that massively acclerate the absorption through your skin - grease (like from fast food) and hand sanitizer. Get either of those on your skin before you touch the receipt and you get ~100x the dose. And if you are cashier who touches a couple of hundred receipts every day, well that's not healthy.

This Is Why Your Drug Prescriptions Cost So Damn Much
“It’s Exhibit A in how crony capitalism works.”
by Stuart Silverstein
Oct. 21, 2016
Mother Jones

When [Congress] approved a landmark program in 2003 to help seniors buy prescription drugs, it slapped on an unusual restriction: The federal government was barred from negotiating cheaper prices for those medicines. Instead, the job of holding down costs was outsourced to the insurance companies delivering the subsidized new coverage, known as Medicare Part D.

The ban on government price bargaining, justified by supporters on free-market grounds, has been derided by critics as a giant gift to the drug industry. Democratic lawmakers began introducing bills to free the government to use its vast purchasing power to negotiate better deals even before former President George W. Bush signed the Part D law, known as the Medicare Modernization Act.

All those measures over the last 13 years have failed, almost always without ever even getting a hearing, much less being brought up for a vote. That’s happened even though surveys have shown broad public support for the idea. For example, a Kaiser Family Foundation poll found last year that 93 percent of Democrats and 74 percent of Republicans favor letting the government negotiate Part D prescription drug prices.

It seems an anomaly in a democracy that an idea that is immensely popular—and calculated to save money for seniors, people with disabilities, and taxpayers—gets no traction.

-- Link to source

When I read stories like this I realize as most should it's not a "STEM vs humanities" issue. It's that higher-education no longer represents a good value. People walk away from bad deals all the time...except for education. The system is fundamentally broken, and as long as we keep proclaiming our dependency on it, it'll never get fixed.

Indeed, states like Arizona and Alaska have their own natural solutions to homelessness. And remember when Nevada was caught shipping their homeless to California?

And despite that, California and other blue states continue to subsidize the red states. If that stopped, blue states would be awash in cash and red states (except Texas) would have some very difficult choices to make, like when Kansas nearly bankrupted itself under conservative tax policy. And then the new federal caps on mortage interest and state tax deductions will only increase the flow of money from blue states to red states, by design.

Of course none of this excuses California's rate of poverty and homelessness. There's plenty of money in the state, it just isn't distributed very well. And that's self-defeating for Democrats because poor people tend vote less than wealthier people and when they do, they tend to vote Democrat.

But not by Russia!. https://www.motherjones.com/po... https://www.npr.org/2016/04/19... https://nypost.com/2016/04/21/...

You are absolutely incorrect. I can understand why it doesn't seem like it could impact national elections, but it absolutely does.

Gerrymandering has allowed mostly republicans to hold onto state legislative majorities while receiving far less than half the vote. In 2012 in Wisconsin, Democrats won 52% of the aggregate vote but only 39% of the seats in the Assembly.

That majority in state legislature has allowed republicans to install laws designed to prevent voting, which disproportionately impacts democratic voters. If likely democratic voters aren't allowed to vote at all, national elections are absolutely impacted by gerrymandering.

As a great example, look at Wisconsin. While I know Mother Jones isn't necessarily a great source, feel free to click through and listen to the interview where Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says:

How many of your listeners really honestly are sure that Sen. Johnson was going to win reelection or President Trump was going to win Wisconsin if we didn’t have voter ID to keep Wisconsin’s elections clean and honest and have integrity?

It should be noted that you can count the voter fraud convictions in WI over the last decade on one hand. "if we didn’t have voter ID to keep Wisconsin’s elections clean and honest" is absolutely saying, "if we didn't have Voter ID to keep democrats, especially blacks, from voting".

23k-45k voters are estimated to have not been able to vote due to the voter ID law. Trump won the state by 22k votes.

If the state wasn't gerrymandered, that law wouldn't have passed, and those people would have voted. The supreme court has decided to pass on this lawsuit, because apparently the democrats didn't have standing? Apparently it will take someone losing a gerrymandered district to sue, and then proving that it was the gerrymandering that caused it. I.E., gerrymandering by political parties is fine according to the supreme court. That's fucked up, and pretty undemocratic.

But we got a supreme court that thinks this way in part due to gerrymandering. How's that for full circle?

And yet all the neo-nazi's voted for Trump instead of their own Nazi party candidate. And lets not forget:

https://www.aol.com/article/20...

https://www.motherjones.com/po...

https://www.vice.com/en_us/art...

https://thinkprogress.org/gop-...

So, this begs the question about your statement: Are you a fucking idiot, a fucking liar, or both?

Let me just advise:

The USA scored high on the "Ignorance Index" not so long ago. I am not sure I'd like to have my employees from a country that score so high on this index.

Moral of story: It's ignorant and silly to use a small segment of a population to draw overreaching conclusions about a country. That country you despise is our only link to the ISS and beats us hands down in a number of tech fields.

Thing is, they do not brag about it. Neither do they throw their weight around that much.

Not at all.

They are spending influence dollars.

How'd that work for the 2012 election?

Earlier this year, the Huffington Post reported that Charles Koch has pledged to give $40 million to unseat Obama while David Koch has pledged $20 million. (Their friends and allies have also pledged to help them raise additional millions.) Neither brother has donated to super-PACs (which must disclose their donors), so presumably that money has gone to dark-money groups such as AFP. Which means that the $411,000 in disclosed donations is just the tip of an iceberg of undisclosed campaign money.

Here's what sanctions looks like:

Last month, the Seattle City Council introduced a new tax that would charge firms $275 per worker a year to fund homelessness outreach services and affordable housing. This greatly upset Amazon, Seattle's biggest private sector employer, which threatened to move jobs out of the city. Today, The Associated Press reports that Seattle leaders have repealed the tax on large companies such as Amazon and Starbucks after they fought the measure.

Remember, kids. No amount of actual left-wing violence will ever stop the hand-wringing over potential right-wing violence.

And? What facts do you have to show the election was not as stated in my link?

Rooster, you make it too easy.

https://www.rawstory.com/news/...

https://gizmodo.com/5825014/ho...

https://www.vanityfair.com/new...

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/1...

https://www.motherjones.com/me...

There. I've given you the truth. Do what you will.

The long-term suicide rate for the U.S. has fluctuated between about 10-14 per 100,000 over the last 40 years. 1999 was just the minimum, which the reporter cherry picked to try to turn this into a story. It's been higher in the past.

Exactly.

More fake news from the professional crybabies.

The long-term suicide rate for the U.S. has fluctuated between about 10-14 per 100,000 over the last 40 years. 1999 was just the minimum, which the reporter cherry picked to try to turn this into a story. It's been higher in the past.

Also, suicide rates have been climbing up throughout the world, not just in the U.S. Curiously, homicide rates also stopped the long-term decline around 2010 and started creeping up again. So average global temperature may actually be linked (violence and higher temperatures have been correlated in the past). But nobody really knows for sure why, and anyone who claims they do is just trying to spin the story to fit their preconceptions.

It was because there was some example of someone on "the left" getting something that they didn't want them to have.

Bingo!

You are patiently standing in the middle of a long line stretching toward the horizon, where the American Dream awaits. But as you wait, you see people cutting in line ahead of you. Many of these line-cutters are black—beneficiaries of affirmative action or welfare. Some are career-driven women pushing into jobs they never had before. Then you see immigrants, Mexicans, Somalis, the Syrian refugees yet to come. As you wait in this unmoving line, you’re being asked to feel sorry for them all. You have a good heart. But who is deciding who you should feel compassion for? Then you see President Barack Hussein Obama waving the line-cutters forward. He’s on their side. In fact, isn’t he a line-cutter too? How did this fatherless black guy pay for Harvard? As you wait your turn, Obama is using the money in your pocket to help the line-cutters. He and his liberal backers have removed the shame from taking. The government has become an instrument for redistributing your money to the undeserving. It’s not your government anymore; it’s theirs.

— I Spent 5 Years With Some of Trump’s Biggest Fans. Here’s What They Won’t Tell You.

Isn't all food organic

Not if you live in the US. It's a legal term. And the law is actually pretty good, though there have been problems with loopholes. For example, "organic" California grapes grown with fracking water, because the organic law doesn't specify water source. There are also serious questions about foreign-grown "organic" products. In some cases the US accepts whatever standard the foreign country uses. In other cases we have to trust regulating agents in those countries. But in general, organic produce grown in the US can probably be trusted to be free of non-natural pesticides, chemical fertilizers, glyphosate, etc.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/grade...

Whole Foods, however, is undermining the system. They've been selling "organic" grapes from companies using fracking water:

https://www.motherjones.com/fo...

They routinely label country of origin wrong. I've mentioned it to clerks numerous times. The clerks couldn't care less. Lately even price signs go missing. I wonder if that's an experiment, to see how many people will buy a product with no idea of the price.

WF drove out or bought up small natural foods stores, kept growing, and now they've become a monopoly whose intentions can't be trusted. That happened even before Amazon bought them. Maybe now there will be a niche for the comeback of locally owned natural food stores selling more locally grown produce.

You're confusing inclinations and ethics with power and ability.

Uh, no, that's what Western Exceptionalists do. The prime minister of Bumbfuckistan, with a GDP equivalent to that of the Dallas Cowboys, might want to spy on the electronic communications of every person on the planet. So it's A-OK if the NSA/CIA actually does it.

Russia made very clear during its soviet period that it was very capable and very interested in going to war to expand its empire.

Having taken it up the ass from western empires two times in less than 150 years, the USSR wanted a buffer against future western aggression. A fear that American presidents have shown to be completely irrational paranoia, by breaking a promise not to expand NATO in return for German unification. /s

The anti-Russian alliance has nearly doubled in size, expanded right to Russia's border, deployed a fleet to the Black Sea (like Putin sending a carrier group to the Gulf of Mexico). And you have artillery units in range of St. Petersburg, Russia's second largest city. I'm sure you'd be totally ok if Putin overthrew the elected government of Canada (what Obama did to Ukraine) and had artillery units in range of New York City.

If the US lost hegemonic power and some other power held it

The only countries interested in global hegemony are the United States, France and England - so your own country plus your shitbag allies. If Russia wanted an empire, they wouldn't have just cut their already tiny defense budget to $45 billion dollars. The U.S. spends ten times that much - then another three times on top of that. If China wanted an empire, they wouldn't have a single second hand aircraft carrier. They'd be building their own carrier fleets instead of a high speed rail network all the way to Europe.

What given that knowledge leads you to believe that if the US ceded its hegemony you'd be in a world of peace and harmony?

Your straw man aside, the United States far far FAR and away the worst purveyor of death, instability and outright terrorism since WWII. You could add up the next dozen countries of your choice and together they wouldn't hold a candle to the American Empire.

Claims with no citations? You're either an idiot or an outright troll/liar.

A small sampling of the citations linked in the post in question:
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https://www.law.upenn.edu/live...
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The United States could dismiss the entire Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force tomorrow and have more than enough for it's actual defense needs. You even seen a globe, bro? The United States is surrounded by the world's largest oceans and two friendly allies. You've faced one invasion in your entire history, 200 years ago, and for a war you started.

In national defense, we've been falling backward (in relation to Russia and China) for the last few decades. Our main battle tanks are two generations behind Russia's and their air defense systems are also greatly enhanced. Iran successfully took over one of our most sophisticated drones and captured in, a couple years ago, using electronic warfare... Although we have the F-22 and the F-35 jets, we are falling in most other areas and are even behind in some.

Russia's entire defense budget is $45 billion dollars. You spend over a trillion. The United States doesn't need to defend itself from the rest of the world. The rest of the world needs to defend itself from the United States.

It's not Russia occupying Europe with 30 installations in Germany alone. It's not China starting wars for bullshit reasons and assassinating people on the other side of the planet from it. It's all you. It's only you, and your terrorist allies Saudi Arabia and Israel.

No one does what the U.S. does. Russia, China, bumbfuckistan don't have a drone murder program blowing up innocent people for completely bullshit reasons. And the terrorist countries that come the closest to doing so, Saudi Arabia and Israel, are your buddies using your weapons.

You even know that the entire defense budget of Russia is half the size of the last increase to the American Imperial budget? We're talking 45 billion dollars a year next to over a trillion.

You realize there is a lot more to that department then just the issue you mentioned.

And even what you wrote was actually accurate.. so what? You would prefer them not to tackle this issue for the sake of what you consider consistency?

How about the democrats pushing for cost of living wages for all workers except those who work for their campaigns - which has resulted in the creation of another union
https://www.motherjones.com/po...

Does them paying less than livable wages for campaign jobs mean they need to drop the issue of livable wages for everyone?

In 2013, Mother Jones Magazine reporter Mac McClelland wrote an investigative piece called "I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave" recounting her experience working as a "picker" in an Amazon warehouse in Ohio. In it, she points out that many of her fellow laborers were getting food stamps (aka "SNAP"), because they could not otherwise feed their families on their take-home pay.

It's worth noting that those workers would qualify for Ohio Medicaid - also at taxpayer expense - in addition to SNAP. And HEAP, and an Ohio utilities payment assistance program called PIPP+, as well ...

...the technology isn't mature enough to use on public roads yet.

You mean cars? Those things are more dangerous than guns.

It's probably more appropriate to considering population distribution by race where it's the opposite.
You can examine a number of references that speak to it further, e.g. https://www.motherjones.com/po...

...but the NRA has a whole pile of money they spend buying politicians and in fact, if one wavers in their support, all that money suddenly goes to their opponent.

It seems that way, because you're basing that opinion on your pre-existing beliefs and not facts.

Here's a list of the top 50 organizational donors to US political campaigns - guess who didn't make it?

Here's another list of the top 50 organizational donors to all federal contributions, not just campaigns - guess who's still not on the list?

Here's a list of the top 75 corporate sponsors of legislation - again, the NRA is nowhere to be found.

You have a choice here - learn that you were incorrect, accept it, and correct yourself, or double-down on the ignorance. Your call, but I know which decision I'd make.

And if it was an alien what do you think the press release would be?

It would be one of these.

We had rivers catching on fire and the government got serious about the pollution.

It remained serious until fairly recently. It's been backsliding in republican areas for a while.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...

https://www.motherjones.com/en...

The devastation from hurricanes Irma and Harvey, the two weeks of catastrophic flooding, and the toxic aftermath should have been opportunities for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to snap into action. Had Scott Pruitt done so, it would have been in stark contrast with his tenure so far, which has mostly consisted of making the case that the regulatory power of the EPA should be undermined and advocating that his agency be made smaller in size and scope, be deprived of a robust budget and enforcement power, and shift focus to what he likes to call âoeregulatory certaintyâ for polluting industries.

In the past, the EPAâ(TM)s job in the aftermath of storms has been to help ensure that victims do not return to homes and neighborhoods that are toxic cesspools. The environmental aftermath of Harvey and Irma has been particularly devastating, with Superfund sites that have flooded, pipelines that have have leaked, forced evacuations because of explosions at the Arkema chemical plant, and a hazardous mix of floodwaters and sewage.

A week ago, George W. Bushâ(TM)s EPA administrator, Christine Todd Whitman, wrote a scathing assessment in the New York Times of how Pruitt has been performing on the job. âoeThe agency created by a Republican president 47 years ago to protect the environment and public health may end up doing neither under Mr. Pruittâ(TM)s direction,â she noted. When reflecting on Pruittâ(TM)s performance during Hurricane Harvey, she added that the EPAâ(TM)s recent actions, including the EPAâ(TM)s attack on an AP reporter, âoeare only the latest manifestations of my fears.â

Whitman may have missed some of Pruittâ(TM)s other activities. During the two hurricanes, the EPA administrator has appeared in far-right media, blasted the Obama administration and the mainstream media, disparaged discussions about climate change, and rolled back more regulations. Here are some noteworthy Pruitt sightings that took place during the recent weeks when severe weather battered the United States:

  Trump and Pruitt further sought to significantly shrink the EPA over the past year, proposing drastic budget cuts and offering buyouts that reduced staffing. From December 2016 to January 2018, the size of the agency has shrunk by 1,500 people, according to the Office of Personnel Management, and its current total of 14,162 employees is fewer than worked for it under President Ronald Reagan's administration.

The agency additionally altered its policy on the scientific boards that advise the agency, blocking any researchers from participating if they received grant money from the EPA.

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And governor Snyder set up the Flint Michagan disaster by assigning managers who could override local governments.
Hundreds of kids poisoned with lead. They are still on bottled water. It's just that bad.

Jesse Jackson Is Taking On Silicon Valley

Basically the charts show the same percentage details as listed by the op.

Note how they are comparing the entire "federal budget on defense" to a fraction of the budget spend on healthcare (Medicare); conveniently ignoring Medicaid and the huge tax collected in the form of Obamacare premiums.

Note that you need to take the advertised imperial spending amount and double it. Hundreds of billions of money spent on imperialism is counted separately, and dishonestly in other parts of the budget. Like the Department of Energy managing nuclear weapons, interest on past imperial debt, the GI Bill, the VA, etc etc.

That's very interesting. I followed the link to the Crime Research Prevention Center. They seem to be very picky about the definition of "mass-shooting" and "gun-free zones".

At least they published Everytown's report:

Analysis of Recent Mass Shootings

Here's a response from Everytown:

The Gun Lobby’s False Claims About “Gun-Free Zones”

Of 133 mass shootings identified between January 2009 and July 2015, only 17 (13%) took place in “gun-free zones” (areas where the carrying of concealed guns is prohibited). The remaining incidents took place in private residences, or public places where concealed guns could be lawfully carried.

I got to wondering what the CPRC was and if they were biased. It's founder and president, John Lott, appears to be a fraud:

When the Gun Lobby Tries to Justify Firearms Everywhere, It Turns to This Guy

The organization, headquartered at his home in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, produces and publishes “academic quality” reports that have yet to be published in peer-reviewed journals, but are, according to Lott, informally reviewed by the organization’s academic board.

Researchers pressed Lott, then a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, to release the data behind his claim that 98 percent of defensive gun uses in the United States involved a would-be victim merely brandishing a gun. Lott claimed that it was based on a data from a survey he had conducted—but that the data had been lost in a computer crash.

As criticism of Lott mounted, an online commenter, who identified herself as a former student of Lott’s at Penn named Mary Rosh, lavishly praised her former professor and attacked his critics. “He was the best professor that I ever had,” she wrote. After it came out in 2003 that Rosh and Lott shared an internet address, Lott admitted to the sock puppetry, saying that he had been receiving obnoxious phone calls when using his real name, and some of Rosh’s comments were possibly written by his family members on a shared email account. “In most circles, this goes down as fraud,” wrote Science editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy in the magazine.

Yep, a rich asshole can ruin any media outlet they want to. That's why Mother Jones had to stop publishing. Oh wait....

https://www.motherjones.com/po...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/1...

"Some defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities."

being too stupid to know you are being used, does NOT mean that you were not involved it just means you are stupid AND a participant.