It isn't the federal government out of control, it is the rest of us. Any threat to SS and Medicare (the biggest part of the budget) is met with angst, and threats of revenge. Americans also like the rest of the world not being run by those nice Chinese and Russians. How about that farm bill, gotta fund those family farms even if most of it goes to corporate farms.
To make matters worse, the Republicans decided to pay off their corporate masters and gave them a tax decrease which they promptly spent on share buy-backs so the long suffering corporate officers were not inconvenienced. Trillion dollar deficits are now built in.
When the Fed decides to reel in the easy money policy, Bozo the Wonder President decides it is the reason the stock market stinks rather than the 19th century tariffs as he tries to turn the 21st century economy into the 19th century's. And yet, his "base" thinks he's the Second Coming for screwing those naughty immigrants who want to come here and work and help replace the Americans who are no longer being born at replacement rate. And, in a world where understanding other cultures is necessary to have any sort of decent exports, Bozo and his base have decided they don't need no stinking culture.
Umm...you do intend to retire some day, yes? Are you aware the U.S. is generating new people at below the replacement rate which means that when you retire, you can count on reduced benefits, including Medicare and SS? One way out of this dilemma is to welcome immigrants into the country. They want to come here, they want to work. It would be the Christian thing to do...errr...that is if you are not an Evangelical.
Leave the Kardashians and their large butts out of this...although personally I think they've bellied up to the bacon bar more often than is good for them.
No it won't. Chinese society will explode sooner or later and the bureaucrats running the asylum will be first up against the wall. They have an example to work from.
Did you know that the FBI has assigned a personal watcher each for every man, woman, and child in America. Golly, there's nothing they don't see. And they only use Americans to watch Americans. Yes, I know, that math doesn't add up. But this is the FBI we're talking about, they don't have to abide by any mathematical rules.
There's story out of Texas where the oil companies are paying for their natural gas to be taken away. The gas is produced as a by product of oil drilling and the price has dropped so much they would rather remain in the oil business, not the gas business. Sooner or later though, the U.S. will be fracked out.
Some of it is. Some are are corporate whores. Some are Conservative true believers who believe if they believe hard enough, the tax cut will result in years of 4% GPD growth (the U.S. is headed for 2.3% next year), and that deficits are okay if there's a Republican in the WH. Then there are the politically crass who are merely fellow travelers. They are the ones who tell us that What's-His-Name's base will believe whatever he tells them to...and they are correct.
This particular gem was brought to you by the corporate whores in thrall to the coal industry and who believe human caused global warming is a fiction promulgated by Democrats and Liberals. They also believe that pollution is over-sold as a human malady. It says, in very precise terms, what they think of the American public. A little more pollution won't hurt them.
Hmmm...you mean like Nicaragua? Daniel Ortega, that paradigm of left wing-nut populism, is currently throwing opponents into jail and refuses to allow the people to unelect him. Last we heard, the U.S. hasn't had squat to do with Nicaragua for several decades during which he became Dear Leader, stopped being Dear Leader, and now is Dear Leader again...for life...which may not be long for him.
Cuba has had an exemplary left wing-nut government for many years...still sucks. Try starting a political party there and see what Castro's goons (they are still there after he went all stiff and incommunicado) do to you.
Last we checked, the Central American gangs were winning the drug war, and they won't brook any opposition to their loving rule. Yep, those countries should be breaking out into Left Wing Heaven any day now.
To prevent Trump from finding out, we need to make sure the conservative talking mouth on radio and Fox news do not get wind of this. If that happens, drought will become another Thing Not Happening.
The ocean fish are voting with their fins, the insects are voting with their deaths. How long before the bottom of the food chain affects your bunny world?
The Point of the Map is that drought tends to move about a lot. So doesn't effect those 330 M Americans at the same time. Please learn to think with some perspective.
Yep, that includes a fair part of the Midwest for flooding, the Gulf coast and Eastern Seaboard for hurricanes, a fair part of the Midwest (again) for tornadoes, and California for earthquakes. I might add a fair part of the West for forest fires.
Okay everyone, you should move to....upper East Coast, think Maine, I hear it is lovely this time of year.
You mean where Amazon refuses to bid on the new DoD Cloudy Thing? Or where Amazon refuses to set up a sweet deal where the Fed. Gov. gets access to Amazon's store for government stuff and services?
Since your "evidence" for California spending $23 Billion on illegal immigrants comes from the Washington Examine. The Wash. Ex. is merely a "conservative" mouthpiece. It is owned by Philip Anschutz who is a billionaire, right wingnut religious conservative.
If this is where you are getting your "facts", I think we can dismiss the rest of your post.
The only way he'll get elected is if the Democrats are stupid enough to run a left-wing loon like Bernie or Warren. My bet is on impeachment though. If Mueller turns up enough naughty things, and Republicans in Congress feel he's too toxic, he's toast.
Yeah, those smugglers would never think to save their pennies and dig tunnels, or buy wall scaling equipment and install a few pulleys and ropes. Good thing they are stupid, eh?
To add to that, the Social Security Trust Fund is slowly being depleted due to lack of enough people paying into it. Nope, don't want none of those immigrants here.
BTW: the Trust Fund is not a pile of money in a mattress somewhere. It is IOUs to...the Federal Government, i.e., you and I. Now that the Trust Fund is not really being added to, SS comes calling to the general fund for that dough. So that means yet higher deficits.
And if you thought you didn't need to rely on SS, that you are being a good little boy or girl and have your own retirement in the stock market, it only takes one really stiff recession to evacuate the bowels of your retirement plan. Think of it as an economic cattle prod turned up to high.
Yeah, cleaning up after the Great Recession caused by Bush should have taken, what, a few bil?
Trump will start giving us over 1 Trillion dollar deficits for the as long as the eye can see because those nice corporations and rich people were being taxed too much. Then the Republicans in Congress, passing the bill while shining their halos, declared that it will pay for itself through increase economic activity. How's that working for ya? Even at over 3% growth, it didn't do that. Now growth back down to 2.5 and likely to go lower. It is almost as though the tax cut never happened, except for those pesky deficits.
Yes, let's turn the world over to the loving embrace of the Chinese and the Russians. After all, look at the wonders they are doing for Ukraine and the Uighars. We should ask the Chinese to give Tibet back to the Tibetens, and to stop leaning on Taiwan.
Pulling out of Syria isn't What's-His-Name hitting back at them. It was done merely because he needed a headline with his name plastered on it that didn't involve criminal behavior. The fact that Erogan (the Whore) smoked him is beside the point, as is screwing over the Kurds (they'll never trust the U.S. again). Giving Iran a Christmas present never entered into his "thought". All the bluster over Iran was because Obama had an agreement with Iran that had Obama's name on it. It goes not further than, if he were any shallower, he'd owe the Earth a layer of topsoil.
You can see how myopic he is from what Mattis said but also he didn't really get upset at Mattis' letter. He probably needed someone to read it to him. He only got pissy when he saw the Press that was lauding Mattis and pointing to how Mattis was considered the adult in the playpen.
Similar to that is his pissy mood at the Fed over the Market. It doesn't have anything to do with the Fed, they were just a convenient punching bag to deflect attention to his own incompetence. That and he doesn't appreciate the Market decreasing his alleged wealth. Anyone with his alleged wealth doesn't act like such a grifter. He has an entire family of grifters, one less since his dad went all stiff and incommunicable.
At least on Earth, you just need to find a relatively private copse to go Number 1 or Number 2. On Mars, it's harder, no copses or other plant life for privacy, and then there's somehow hanging your private parts outside the space suit because going inside would really suck. And the first instance means you've polluted the Mars environment thus making your search for extra-terrestrial life bunk.
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It isn't the federal government out of control, it is the rest of us. Any threat to SS and Medicare (the biggest part of the budget) is met with angst, and threats of revenge. Americans also like the rest of the world not being run by those nice Chinese and Russians. How about that farm bill, gotta fund those family farms even if most of it goes to corporate farms.
To make matters worse, the Republicans decided to pay off their corporate masters and gave them a tax decrease which they promptly spent on share buy-backs so the long suffering corporate officers were not inconvenienced. Trillion dollar deficits are now built in.
When the Fed decides to reel in the easy money policy, Bozo the Wonder President decides it is the reason the stock market stinks rather than the 19th century tariffs as he tries to turn the 21st century economy into the 19th century's. And yet, his "base" thinks he's the Second Coming for screwing those naughty immigrants who want to come here and work and help replace the Americans who are no longer being born at replacement rate. And, in a world where understanding other cultures is necessary to have any sort of decent exports, Bozo and his base have decided they don't need no stinking culture.
Umm...you do intend to retire some day, yes? Are you aware the U.S. is generating new people at below the replacement rate which means that when you retire, you can count on reduced benefits, including Medicare and SS? One way out of this dilemma is to welcome immigrants into the country. They want to come here, they want to work. It would be the Christian thing to do...errr...that is if you are not an Evangelical.
Leave the Kardashians and their large butts out of this...although personally I think they've bellied up to the bacon bar more often than is good for them.
No it won't. Chinese society will explode sooner or later and the bureaucrats running the asylum will be first up against the wall. They have an example to work from.
Do you have these gruesome thoughts on and off, or are you just generally a psychopath?
Did you know that the FBI has assigned a personal watcher each for every man, woman, and child in America. Golly, there's nothing they don't see. And they only use Americans to watch Americans. Yes, I know, that math doesn't add up. But this is the FBI we're talking about, they don't have to abide by any mathematical rules.
There's story out of Texas where the oil companies are paying for their natural gas to be taken away. The gas is produced as a by product of oil drilling and the price has dropped so much they would rather remain in the oil business, not the gas business. Sooner or later though, the U.S. will be fracked out.
Some of it is. Some are are corporate whores. Some are Conservative true believers who believe if they believe hard enough, the tax cut will result in years of 4% GPD growth (the U.S. is headed for 2.3% next year), and that deficits are okay if there's a Republican in the WH. Then there are the politically crass who are merely fellow travelers. They are the ones who tell us that What's-His-Name's base will believe whatever he tells them to...and they are correct.
This particular gem was brought to you by the corporate whores in thrall to the coal industry and who believe human caused global warming is a fiction promulgated by Democrats and Liberals. They also believe that pollution is over-sold as a human malady. It says, in very precise terms, what they think of the American public. A little more pollution won't hurt them.
Hmmm...you mean like Nicaragua? Daniel Ortega, that paradigm of left wing-nut populism, is currently throwing opponents into jail and refuses to allow the people to unelect him. Last we heard, the U.S. hasn't had squat to do with Nicaragua for several decades during which he became Dear Leader, stopped being Dear Leader, and now is Dear Leader again...for life...which may not be long for him.
Cuba has had an exemplary left wing-nut government for many years...still sucks. Try starting a political party there and see what Castro's goons (they are still there after he went all stiff and incommunicado) do to you.
Last we checked, the Central American gangs were winning the drug war, and they won't brook any opposition to their loving rule. Yep, those countries should be breaking out into Left Wing Heaven any day now.
To prevent Trump from finding out, we need to make sure the conservative talking mouth on radio and Fox news do not get wind of this. If that happens, drought will become another Thing Not Happening.
The ocean fish are voting with their fins, the insects are voting with their deaths. How long before the bottom of the food chain affects your bunny world?
The Point of the Map is that drought tends to move about a lot. So doesn't effect those 330 M Americans at the same time. Please learn to think with some perspective.
Yep, that includes a fair part of the Midwest for flooding, the Gulf coast and Eastern Seaboard for hurricanes, a fair part of the Midwest (again) for tornadoes, and California for earthquakes. I might add a fair part of the West for forest fires.
Okay everyone, you should move to....upper East Coast, think Maine, I hear it is lovely this time of year.
You mean where Amazon refuses to bid on the new DoD Cloudy Thing? Or where Amazon refuses to set up a sweet deal where the Fed. Gov. gets access to Amazon's store for government stuff and services?
Since your "evidence" for California spending $23 Billion on illegal immigrants comes from the Washington Examine. The Wash. Ex. is merely a "conservative" mouthpiece. It is owned by Philip Anschutz who is a billionaire, right wingnut religious conservative.
If this is where you are getting your "facts", I think we can dismiss the rest of your post.
The only way he'll get elected is if the Democrats are stupid enough to run a left-wing loon like Bernie or Warren. My bet is on impeachment though. If Mueller turns up enough naughty things, and Republicans in Congress feel he's too toxic, he's toast.
Yeah, those smugglers would never think to save their pennies and dig tunnels, or buy wall scaling equipment and install a few pulleys and ropes. Good thing they are stupid, eh?
To add to that, the Social Security Trust Fund is slowly being depleted due to lack of enough people paying into it. Nope, don't want none of those immigrants here.
BTW: the Trust Fund is not a pile of money in a mattress somewhere. It is IOUs to...the Federal Government, i.e., you and I. Now that the Trust Fund is not really being added to, SS comes calling to the general fund for that dough. So that means yet higher deficits.
And if you thought you didn't need to rely on SS, that you are being a good little boy or girl and have your own retirement in the stock market, it only takes one really stiff recession to evacuate the bowels of your retirement plan. Think of it as an economic cattle prod turned up to high.
Yeah, cleaning up after the Great Recession caused by Bush should have taken, what, a few bil?
Trump will start giving us over 1 Trillion dollar deficits for the as long as the eye can see because those nice corporations and rich people were being taxed too much. Then the Republicans in Congress, passing the bill while shining their halos, declared that it will pay for itself through increase economic activity. How's that working for ya? Even at over 3% growth, it didn't do that. Now growth back down to 2.5 and likely to go lower. It is almost as though the tax cut never happened, except for those pesky deficits.
Yes, let's turn the world over to the loving embrace of the Chinese and the Russians. After all, look at the wonders they are doing for Ukraine and the Uighars. We should ask the Chinese to give Tibet back to the Tibetens, and to stop leaning on Taiwan.
Pulling out of Syria isn't What's-His-Name hitting back at them. It was done merely because he needed a headline with his name plastered on it that didn't involve criminal behavior. The fact that Erogan (the Whore) smoked him is beside the point, as is screwing over the Kurds (they'll never trust the U.S. again). Giving Iran a Christmas present never entered into his "thought". All the bluster over Iran was because Obama had an agreement with Iran that had Obama's name on it. It goes not further than, if he were any shallower, he'd owe the Earth a layer of topsoil.
You can see how myopic he is from what Mattis said but also he didn't really get upset at Mattis' letter. He probably needed someone to read it to him. He only got pissy when he saw the Press that was lauding Mattis and pointing to how Mattis was considered the adult in the playpen.
Similar to that is his pissy mood at the Fed over the Market. It doesn't have anything to do with the Fed, they were just a convenient punching bag to deflect attention to his own incompetence. That and he doesn't appreciate the Market decreasing his alleged wealth. Anyone with his alleged wealth doesn't act like such a grifter. He has an entire family of grifters, one less since his dad went all stiff and incommunicable.
At least on Earth, you just need to find a relatively private copse to go Number 1 or Number 2. On Mars, it's harder, no copses or other plant life for privacy, and then there's somehow hanging your private parts outside the space suit because going inside would really suck. And the first instance means you've polluted the Mars environment thus making your search for extra-terrestrial life bunk.
Well golly, going to Mars is just like going to the Moon, except farther.
Venus is only 800 degrees. We've invented air conditioning, right?
Okay, you go first. Write and tell us all about it.