Yes, except for one thing, the rest of the world sucks, legally. The reason the U.S. dollar is THE reserve currency is because of trust. The reason the Chinese renminbi is not is because no one trusts the Chinese government further than they can spit a two-headed rat. No other currencies are big enough.
"forcing all government funded contracts to be carried out by US citizens within the US, will force companies to comply"
Nope. You forget companies are adept at gaming a system, any system. They have legions of lawyers to figure out how to do that and they can pay much more than the hired guns for the U.S. government. And the U.S. spends roughly $4 Trillion out of a $19 Trillion economy, but most of that is cash payments and stuff that could only funded within the U.S. regardless of what is offered in foreign countries.
What's likely to happen is that Trump does his Monkey Dance on Twitter complaining about some perceived inequality. Companies will make treks to Trump Tower where Trump will receive them. Trump will make some grand pronouncement of a deal that only he could make. Companies will laugh all the way home on how they took that rube to the cleaners. Everybody is happy.
Cortana is on the cusp of MS Intelligent Design. Before long, Cortana devices will be talking OTA to other Cortana devices, it will be called VoiceNet. It will also collapse as soon as one device figures out how to insult the rest.
Lemme guess, you are under 40, yes? You still have friends that can play and not collapse from overheating, or whose wives and sproggs let them out of the asylum long enough to play?
Hmmm...I ditched Comcast for Satan (FIOS) several years ago. Comcast never seems to have stopped offering their undying love for my return since. I'm not convinced they really love me.
Satan isn't great. However, their tech support in India seems to be okay. I've contacted them 3 times and was satisfied. There's a small glitch in their TV, some static. I haven't yet gotten together the balls to deal with their support since the fellows in India cannot fix it: "Could you reconnect your coax for us, again?" "Yes, Goddamn it for the 30th time. And no it doesn't fucking happen with my DVD. Yes, sure, I'd be happy to fuck off a day from work to wait for your tech to come at 5pm."
Like the fellow up above, they started me at $99 and then slow-cooked my ass up to $186. I complained and they did me a "favor" of backing it to $150. And then I had to get the new fucking router which seems just like the old router but (my guess) with new FPGA code, which they could have done from Hell but it was more fun charging me the $70 or so. Satan is a hard dominatrix who likes to treat her captives with "strictness".
I take exception that Trump stands for absolutely nothing. He stands for himself, and only himself. He'd throw the U.S. under bus if it suited his purpose.
His modus operandi is well-known. He sees something he doesn't agree with (today, tomorrow might be a different story), finds an opposing figure or group, starts a food fight like he was in high school, and then counters the inevitable blowback with a wookie defense.
Unless you'd like to succeed in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science (not programming), electrical or chemical or mechanical or civil engineering, law, medicine, architecture, etc.
In short, if you are good at cherry picking and gluing stuff together around the edges of hard work that others have taken the time and money for the deep training that requires math and theory, then you might succeed in making money. Standing on the shoulders of giants requires the giants actually be there.
More precisely, the Republicans in Congress will repeal the ACA. Their plan is to replace it with something else that keeps the provisions they like, such as coverage for prior conditions and keeping sproggs on their parents' plan until age 26.
The problem for them will be that insurance companies are not going to support keeping those provisions as an unfunded mandate. That means Congress will have to cover the bill. Problem there is that Congress would have raise taxes which they pledged to that moron Grover Norquist they would never do.
A bigger problem will be that insurance companies are in it for themselves, covering people is only something they must do to stay in business. Government pulling back from the ACA means they have their privates hanging out there and so will pull back their plans. Congress figures they have 2-3 years to replace the ACA after they vote to repeal it, but the insurance companies probably won't wait and will start canceling policies early.
The only fix is to find money elsewhere in the budget to keep the wheels on. That will be difficult since they also wish to increase defense spending AND supply the jack needed for a large public infrastructure program, which the U.S. does need. They claim they will find the money elsewhere. But they've already cut discretionary spending quite a bit. Going after mandatory spending means mixing it up with the blue hairs and AARP and would take years.
Congress figures that relaxing regulations and fixing the tax code will increase GDP to such an extent that tax receipts will go up. Yet their plans will decrease tax receipts. During the Kennedy administration when taxes were relatively high, cutting taxes would get a big bang for the buck. Now it will only supply a whimper. Decrease regulations is all wonderful except that ignoring regulation and not properly regulating led to the last recession. And companies are not complaining about regulation except polluting companies. Relaxing regs on them means increased costs for the resulting pollution.
If the Republicans are correct and 95% of climate scientists are in on the global warming scam, then a bit more pollution won't matter. However, if they are wrong, then there will be increasing costs (regardless of deregulation) for droughts, stronger storms, etc.
And then there is the Black Swans out there. One really big national disaster, say a big California earthquake, means their budget projections will be very wrong very fast.
Trump...business savvy? Errrr...3 or 4 bankruptcies, no U.S. bank will loan to that deadbeat, the word in business is to get your money up front if you deal with Trump. I think the appellation Sgt. Bilko is more apt.
I beg to differ on Taiwan. My own belief is that Trump simply stepped in a pile of shit without malice of forethought or any forethought at all. When the shit hit the fan, his people realized he looked like a bull in a China shop (I should be shot for that reference). His people rummaged about, finally pulling out the Dole connection to make it look like he intentionally went to find the pile, walked up to it, and purposely stepped in it.
I don't believe his campaign intentionally did anything except as a shoot from hip sort of action. He saw what got their crowds excited, and like a true reality host, he just gave them more of that. He has the attention span of gnat, whatever he sees last is what he believes.
I don't think people elected him to solve certain problems. They projected on to him the anger they'd been taught is okay, then back-assward argued he'd fix "their problems". He will fix nothing because he has no firm policies nor any idea how to implement them. Think of him as blank slate that gets written to every day but erased again at night.
I don't think it bad that he kicked China in the shins over Taiwan, but I cannot believe it was thought out ahead of time.
I don't think the economy is broken, well, it might be but even if it were 100% healthy, we'd still have these people. Mostly, they are people who do not fit into companies working for someone else. They are freelancers. They do not have what it takes to start their own legitimate company. In the past, we'd call them pickpockets or snake oil salesmen or in some cases, politicians. The intertubes are just vehicles for them. If they weren't doing it there, they'd find some other form of criminal vice. Their lives are built around leeching. The medium is secondary.
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Yes, except for one thing, the rest of the world sucks, legally. The reason the U.S. dollar is THE reserve currency is because of trust. The reason the Chinese renminbi is not is because no one trusts the Chinese government further than they can spit a two-headed rat. No other currencies are big enough.
And your conspiracy theory is stupid.
"forcing all government funded contracts to be carried out by US citizens within the US, will force companies to comply"
Nope. You forget companies are adept at gaming a system, any system. They have legions of lawyers to figure out how to do that and they can pay much more than the hired guns for the U.S. government. And the U.S. spends roughly $4 Trillion out of a $19 Trillion economy, but most of that is cash payments and stuff that could only funded within the U.S. regardless of what is offered in foreign countries.
What's likely to happen is that Trump does his Monkey Dance on Twitter complaining about some perceived inequality. Companies will make treks to Trump Tower where Trump will receive them. Trump will make some grand pronouncement of a deal that only he could make. Companies will laugh all the way home on how they took that rube to the cleaners. Everybody is happy.
"He'll do his little angry dance"
What we need is Trump doing Ballmer's Monkey Dance. Now that would be an youtube sensation.
Coal's lunch was eaten by cheap natural gas. Incidentally, that lunatic is also on the record for opening federal lands for more oil and gas.
"Talk big, do little, blame others, be popular." I give up, how is that different than what he already does?
They know where everyone else's skeletons lie.
Cortana is on the cusp of MS Intelligent Design. Before long, Cortana devices will be talking OTA to other Cortana devices, it will be called VoiceNet. It will also collapse as soon as one device figures out how to insult the rest.
Fracking happened in the last 16 years.
2016 is the warmest year of the last 136 of modern record keeping. Do ya feel lucky? Punk?
Lemme guess, you are under 40, yes? You still have friends that can play and not collapse from overheating, or whose wives and sproggs let them out of the asylum long enough to play?
Hmmm...I ditched Comcast for Satan (FIOS) several years ago. Comcast never seems to have stopped offering their undying love for my return since. I'm not convinced they really love me.
Satan isn't great. However, their tech support in India seems to be okay. I've contacted them 3 times and was satisfied. There's a small glitch in their TV, some static. I haven't yet gotten together the balls to deal with their support since the fellows in India cannot fix it: "Could you reconnect your coax for us, again?" "Yes, Goddamn it for the 30th time. And no it doesn't fucking happen with my DVD. Yes, sure, I'd be happy to fuck off a day from work to wait for your tech to come at 5pm."
Like the fellow up above, they started me at $99 and then slow-cooked my ass up to $186. I complained and they did me a "favor" of backing it to $150. And then I had to get the new fucking router which seems just like the old router but (my guess) with new FPGA code, which they could have done from Hell but it was more fun charging me the $70 or so. Satan is a hard dominatrix who likes to treat her captives with "strictness".
I think it depends on how much land rising sea levels reclaim. All hail Poseidon.
Hehehe...including to American banks which now have a standing policy to never invest in his companies again.
I take exception that Trump stands for absolutely nothing. He stands for himself, and only himself. He'd throw the U.S. under bus if it suited his purpose.
His modus operandi is well-known. He sees something he doesn't agree with (today, tomorrow might be a different story), finds an opposing figure or group, starts a food fight like he was in high school, and then counters the inevitable blowback with a wookie defense.
Shut up, Satya.
Unless you'd like to succeed in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science (not programming), electrical or chemical or mechanical or civil engineering, law, medicine, architecture, etc.
In short, if you are good at cherry picking and gluing stuff together around the edges of hard work that others have taken the time and money for the deep training that requires math and theory, then you might succeed in making money. Standing on the shoulders of giants requires the giants actually be there.
Okay, there are aliens. Now what?
Defense budget was about 17% of the national budget in 2015, stop repeating lies.
Apples and oranges. It all come back to fruit.
More precisely, the Republicans in Congress will repeal the ACA. Their plan is to replace it with something else that keeps the provisions they like, such as coverage for prior conditions and keeping sproggs on their parents' plan until age 26.
The problem for them will be that insurance companies are not going to support keeping those provisions as an unfunded mandate. That means Congress will have to cover the bill. Problem there is that Congress would have raise taxes which they pledged to that moron Grover Norquist they would never do.
A bigger problem will be that insurance companies are in it for themselves, covering people is only something they must do to stay in business. Government pulling back from the ACA means they have their privates hanging out there and so will pull back their plans. Congress figures they have 2-3 years to replace the ACA after they vote to repeal it, but the insurance companies probably won't wait and will start canceling policies early.
The only fix is to find money elsewhere in the budget to keep the wheels on. That will be difficult since they also wish to increase defense spending AND supply the jack needed for a large public infrastructure program, which the U.S. does need. They claim they will find the money elsewhere. But they've already cut discretionary spending quite a bit. Going after mandatory spending means mixing it up with the blue hairs and AARP and would take years.
Congress figures that relaxing regulations and fixing the tax code will increase GDP to such an extent that tax receipts will go up. Yet their plans will decrease tax receipts. During the Kennedy administration when taxes were relatively high, cutting taxes would get a big bang for the buck. Now it will only supply a whimper. Decrease regulations is all wonderful except that ignoring regulation and not properly regulating led to the last recession. And companies are not complaining about regulation except polluting companies. Relaxing regs on them means increased costs for the resulting pollution.
If the Republicans are correct and 95% of climate scientists are in on the global warming scam, then a bit more pollution won't matter. However, if they are wrong, then there will be increasing costs (regardless of deregulation) for droughts, stronger storms, etc.
And then there is the Black Swans out there. One really big national disaster, say a big California earthquake, means their budget projections will be very wrong very fast.
Trump...business savvy? Errrr...3 or 4 bankruptcies, no U.S. bank will loan to that deadbeat, the word in business is to get your money up front if you deal with Trump. I think the appellation Sgt. Bilko is more apt.
Err...this year is the hottest on record. We should stop believing in science...after all, what's it ever done for us, eh?
I beg to differ on Taiwan. My own belief is that Trump simply stepped in a pile of shit without malice of forethought or any forethought at all. When the shit hit the fan, his people realized he looked like a bull in a China shop (I should be shot for that reference). His people rummaged about, finally pulling out the Dole connection to make it look like he intentionally went to find the pile, walked up to it, and purposely stepped in it.
I don't believe his campaign intentionally did anything except as a shoot from hip sort of action. He saw what got their crowds excited, and like a true reality host, he just gave them more of that. He has the attention span of gnat, whatever he sees last is what he believes.
I don't think people elected him to solve certain problems. They projected on to him the anger they'd been taught is okay, then back-assward argued he'd fix "their problems". He will fix nothing because he has no firm policies nor any idea how to implement them. Think of him as blank slate that gets written to every day but erased again at night.
I don't think it bad that he kicked China in the shins over Taiwan, but I cannot believe it was thought out ahead of time.
I don't think the economy is broken, well, it might be but even if it were 100% healthy, we'd still have these people. Mostly, they are people who do not fit into companies working for someone else. They are freelancers. They do not have what it takes to start their own legitimate company. In the past, we'd call them pickpockets or snake oil salesmen or in some cases, politicians. The intertubes are just vehicles for them. If they weren't doing it there, they'd find some other form of criminal vice. Their lives are built around leeching. The medium is secondary.
See Trump for a counter-example...errr...forgetting the bankruptcies.