Yet we are sure enough it was the Russians, even though everyone associated with the leaks swear it's not the Russians, and there is zero proof that it was the Russians. Just trust Obama, he won't start yet another war on fake grounds, would he?
Majority vote is a meaningless metric. It's not how the election is judged, just like football games aren't judged by the number of yards from scrimmage.
I guess what we can conclude from all this is that President Bush was smarter and a better salesman than President Obama. After all, he fooled Hillary, Reid, Pelosi, and most of the MSM to support Iraq, and Obama can barely get half the MSM on his side...
No good Democrat (as would be defined by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, or Harry Reid) would own a gun! Guns are evil, they kill people, and oppress minorities. Only hateful, racist, misogynist bigots would dare own a gun. The 2nd Amendment only relates to our military or police, not the general populace!
Exemptions allowed for security personnel protecting those same good Democrats
One can start a "kinetic military action" in 30 days, no problem. Or at least a big lead up, to really try to screw the incoming Administration. What better way to put a wrench in the system than to force the new Administration to start with a brewing war? Gotta do something to try to stop the incoming Administration from undoing your own "signature piece" of work....
First link is, again, the generic "subsidies" without saying WHAT the subsidies are (at least for the US). The second talks about loans to "clean coal" (green) approaches, as well as letting municipal (Government) power companies to sell bonds. The third? It is about Federal power agencies (BPA, TVA, etc) buying from public (Government) utilities first, and for providing loans to clean energy companies.
When you dig into it, you'll find that the "subsidies" that go to "Big Oil" and "Big Coal" amount to tax breaks that ALL businesses can claim and use. There aren't any subsidies to traditional power companies. There ARE exemptions to costs and grants from the Federal Government to State and Local governments, and loans and grants to clean energy efforts (of which, Exxon is one of the biggest players - yes, they are huge in clean energy efforts), but nothing to "Big Oil" and "Big Coal" for traditional, dirty energy.
And those subsidies are? I keep hearing about them, but all I ever get is some handwaving and "tax breaks" which are available to ALL companies, not just energy companies...
We're being asked to support our President taking action against a world power, on the basis of "trust me", when ZERO information, or even definitive claim, is made. It's all "maybe", "could", "perhaps" from the intel guys - but the political leaders take it as concrete proof.
No surprise. The only ones who will end up making money in cloud technology will be the people hosting the cloud. All others will engage in a race-to-the-bottom in terms of pricing, simply because the cost to start a cloud company is minimal - but the cost to operate a cloud company is pretty static for all (AWS, Azure, etc), and there is ALWAYS someone who thinks they can do the startup cheaper and somehow break through the hosting costs (and fail, yet again, to do so).
So - how is it a conflict of interest for his family (who are NOT in Government) to run a business? Like Lady Bird Johnson did for LBJ? Like the Kennedy clan did for JFK? Like Bill and Chelsea did for Hillary?
Put it this way.. if the government was really wanting to act like a business, they'd just jack up your taxes by 10-20% and then all expenditures would be covered. I mean if you want to think in business terms, your taxes are essentially payment for services rendered and if the price of the service doesn't cover its cost, a "business" will simply increase the price. And its not like you can just take your money to a competing government (at least not for a reasonably large sample of "you.")
I don't think you understand business. Jack up the costs, and you lose customers. Jack up the tax rates, and we find tax avoidance skyrockets. It's why total tax receipts INCREASED after the capital gains tax rate was cut. Laffer curve and all.
So how about this: treat Government like a business in terms of costs. Budgets are allowed to increase at a rate commensurate with the cost of doing business (inflation rate) and the number of consumers (population growth). Peg budget increases to no more than inflation + population growth. Makes sense? That would also put the budget growth at about half of what it currently is - and at less than GDP growth (historically). Business would do that - why don't we try it?
So which of those cabinet appointees so far loaned Trump millions of dollars? We know that dozens of Wall Street guys GAVE the Clintons millions of dollars, and gave millions more for Hillary's campaign. What about Trump? You made the accusation - where's the proof?
You guys are crazy and extremely unpatriotic to dismiss the reports of all of your intelligence agencies just because the Russian influence fits your personal preferences this time.
Correct. And since not a single intelligence agency has actually laid the charge or presented ANY information to corroborate the "It's the Russians!" meme, there is no crazy and unpatriotic action taken.
The laws about Presidential exemption have not changed, however. And Trump's family will always come under fire even if they were exact clones of the Clinton or Obama clans - simply because of the name Trump.
Because you at least have to wait until enough people drop off the UI rolls to update. While it's a shell game and a lie, they still like to use "real numbers" so they can push the narrative. Do you seriously think that we're at 100% employment, which historically has been any time the unemployment rate is under 5%, meaning everyone who WANTS a job has one, and just those 1 in 20 who are taking a little break between jobs is all that are unemployed? And note that now we count part-time workers as fully employed. So if you were working 40 hours a week last month, but now are working 20 hours - you're still considered fully employed.
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Yet we are sure enough it was the Russians, even though everyone associated with the leaks swear it's not the Russians, and there is zero proof that it was the Russians. Just trust Obama, he won't start yet another war on fake grounds, would he?
Majority vote is a meaningless metric. It's not how the election is judged, just like football games aren't judged by the number of yards from scrimmage.
I guess what we can conclude from all this is that President Bush was smarter and a better salesman than President Obama. After all, he fooled Hillary, Reid, Pelosi, and most of the MSM to support Iraq, and Obama can barely get half the MSM on his side...
But at least the MSM "media" isn't #FakeNews!
No good Democrat (as would be defined by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, or Harry Reid) would own a gun! Guns are evil, they kill people, and oppress minorities. Only hateful, racist, misogynist bigots would dare own a gun. The 2nd Amendment only relates to our military or police, not the general populace!
Exemptions allowed for security personnel protecting those same good Democrats
One can start a "kinetic military action" in 30 days, no problem. Or at least a big lead up, to really try to screw the incoming Administration. What better way to put a wrench in the system than to force the new Administration to start with a brewing war? Gotta do something to try to stop the incoming Administration from undoing your own "signature piece" of work....
I generally don't spend 20-120 minutes at a gas station filling my vehicle...
When I'm not in my car, how can I charge my iPhone? I'm listening to my Lightning earbuds after all...
All Glorious Leader! All The Time! He so ronery after all...
First link is, again, the generic "subsidies" without saying WHAT the subsidies are (at least for the US). The second talks about loans to "clean coal" (green) approaches, as well as letting municipal (Government) power companies to sell bonds. The third? It is about Federal power agencies (BPA, TVA, etc) buying from public (Government) utilities first, and for providing loans to clean energy companies.
When you dig into it, you'll find that the "subsidies" that go to "Big Oil" and "Big Coal" amount to tax breaks that ALL businesses can claim and use. There aren't any subsidies to traditional power companies. There ARE exemptions to costs and grants from the Federal Government to State and Local governments, and loans and grants to clean energy efforts (of which, Exxon is one of the biggest players - yes, they are huge in clean energy efforts), but nothing to "Big Oil" and "Big Coal" for traditional, dirty energy.
And those subsidies are? I keep hearing about them, but all I ever get is some handwaving and "tax breaks" which are available to ALL companies, not just energy companies...
Cool - so the solution is? Public defenders for all?
We're being asked to support our President taking action against a world power, on the basis of "trust me", when ZERO information, or even definitive claim, is made. It's all "maybe", "could", "perhaps" from the intel guys - but the political leaders take it as concrete proof.
No surprise. The only ones who will end up making money in cloud technology will be the people hosting the cloud. All others will engage in a race-to-the-bottom in terms of pricing, simply because the cost to start a cloud company is minimal - but the cost to operate a cloud company is pretty static for all (AWS, Azure, etc), and there is ALWAYS someone who thinks they can do the startup cheaper and somehow break through the hosting costs (and fail, yet again, to do so).
No, 1 to change the lighbulb, 99 to collaborate on the action plan about changing the light bulb, and 500 to discuss and update the status on Slack.
Then we can cut subsidies and zero-interest loans to those companies, right? If they are at "parity" then let the market decide...
So - how is it a conflict of interest for his family (who are NOT in Government) to run a business? Like Lady Bird Johnson did for LBJ? Like the Kennedy clan did for JFK? Like Bill and Chelsea did for Hillary?
Because public defenders don't exist? Neither does the media?
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Put it this way.. if the government was really wanting to act like a business, they'd just jack up your taxes by 10-20% and then all expenditures would be covered. I mean if you want to think in business terms, your taxes are essentially payment for services rendered and if the price of the service doesn't cover its cost, a "business" will simply increase the price. And its not like you can just take your money to a competing government (at least not for a reasonably large sample of "you.")
I don't think you understand business. Jack up the costs, and you lose customers. Jack up the tax rates, and we find tax avoidance skyrockets. It's why total tax receipts INCREASED after the capital gains tax rate was cut. Laffer curve and all.
So how about this: treat Government like a business in terms of costs. Budgets are allowed to increase at a rate commensurate with the cost of doing business (inflation rate) and the number of consumers (population growth). Peg budget increases to no more than inflation + population growth. Makes sense? That would also put the budget growth at about half of what it currently is - and at less than GDP growth (historically). Business would do that - why don't we try it?
So which of those cabinet appointees so far loaned Trump millions of dollars? We know that dozens of Wall Street guys GAVE the Clintons millions of dollars, and gave millions more for Hillary's campaign. What about Trump? You made the accusation - where's the proof?
You guys are crazy and extremely unpatriotic to dismiss the reports of all of your intelligence agencies just because the Russian influence fits your personal preferences this time.
Correct. And since not a single intelligence agency has actually laid the charge or presented ANY information to corroborate the "It's the Russians!" meme, there is no crazy and unpatriotic action taken.
The laws about Presidential exemption have not changed, however. And Trump's family will always come under fire even if they were exact clones of the Clinton or Obama clans - simply because of the name Trump.
Because you at least have to wait until enough people drop off the UI rolls to update. While it's a shell game and a lie, they still like to use "real numbers" so they can push the narrative. Do you seriously think that we're at 100% employment, which historically has been any time the unemployment rate is under 5%, meaning everyone who WANTS a job has one, and just those 1 in 20 who are taking a little break between jobs is all that are unemployed? And note that now we count part-time workers as fully employed. So if you were working 40 hours a week last month, but now are working 20 hours - you're still considered fully employed.
Slick little game, eh?
LOL - now that there is funny, I don't care who you are! :)
Hillary flew on private jets of companies that also donated to the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State. Getting donations, flying on their jets, all while being Secretary of State. I'd say that is profiting from contributions while she was Secretary of State. Not to mention her husband earning tens of millions of dollars giving speeches and consulting with the very countries that Secretary Clinton was dealing with at the same time.