Apple's not a computer manufacturer. If you went by just their computers, they'd be tiny (Dell is about 3X the revenue of Apple's computer division). Apple is a phone/tablet-consumer electronics company that happens to sell a few computers. They do that very well; Samsung is one of the few consumer electronics companies that makes more revenue and profit than Apple, but there are few and far between.
No. Putin knows the world "needs" two superpowers to get to the old balance. Russia wants to be - can be - one of them. And the US should be the other - the old, historical superpowers that balanced each other for 40 years. But with Hillary! as President, no one will give the US any attention at all, consider it a reasonable foil. For Russia to become ascendant as a superpower again, it needs someone who also appears a superpower - and that's NOT the US under Hillary!
Those numbers were submitted BY THE GOVERNMENT under court order (in other words - they didn't want to share, but finally had to put up). And again - the Reuters article is only ICE - it does not include the Border Patrol. Look at the Reuters article, you'll see the pre-2013 data is accurate per the numbers I linked to - but are incomplete because it does not include the Border Patrol. It's the same game the Federal Government plays with respect to the budget, where they talk about the budget deficit being "only" $400 billion when $1.3 trillion in new debt is created.
Read my link again. The Obama Administration is talking about ICE enforcements only; the reality is that the majority of deportations are done by the Border Patrol - and the total (BP + ICE) have steadily dropped. It's a statistical head-fake by the Administration and you're falling for it hook, line, and sinker. The data in the lik I provided was hard, Government numbers from a lawsuit filed by field agents. It shows the opposite of the narrative Obama wants you to believe.
But I guess rather than hard numbers you can check as actual evidence entered in a Court case, you want to trust a blog post from Reuters... Oh well!
His administration also deports a lot more Illegal mexican immigrants than the two previous administrations combined.
That's actually a lie that even President Obama admits is just a statistical stunt to try to shade the numbers. Actual deportations are at a long-term minimum.
And hopefully that would mean, with Congress getting blamed for the failure, some turnover on the Capitol. With something like a 96% re-election rate, perhaps Congress needs a good sweeping...
Don't forget the only reason the stock market is up so high is because those trillions of QE dollars had to go somewhere... With banks not lending it out, it sat in big investment firms to use for their bigger clients to invest in each other - stock prices. There's a reason that income inequality has skyrocketed under President Obama - the Federal Government and the Fed have given trillions of dollars to the richest of the rich - and let everyone else swim for it.
Well, don't move to Europe! It seems that there were 55% more casualties per capita from mass public shootings in EU than US from 2009-15. Mass killings are the real "random violence" acts. Most shootings in the US are from suicide (number one cause, actually), and from gang warfare (where both sides - victim and killer, either know each other or know about each other). Actual random shootings in the US? Per capita are a lower than in the EU.
Further, the FBI - Comey - even stated flat-out she broke the law. The ONLY reason they were not recommending indictment is he did not believe a single Federal prosecutor would bring charges. Not that there weren't crimes committed, or actions worthy of charges - but that she was politically shielded.
But the commercials on TV say she solved children's medical problems back when she was First Lady! How can this be? Are you telling me a campaign commercial is WRONG?
Well, when you consider that the safety net (Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, welfare, and the interest on the debt racked up) consumes 100% of all Federal revenues - it looks like the Democrats have won.
Safety is an illusion that we are selling our freedoms for.
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you stated with the exception of the above statement. Safety is a state of being you generate.
One party wants to ensure you do not have the right to generate that state of safety. The Democrats (and anyone opposed to issuing concealed carry permits to those with clean criminal backgrounds) want to ensure you do not have the ability to protect yourself, that you must rely upon the State for that. And because they would be the ONLY resort for safety - they own you that much more.
Working here in SF, I'd say the vast majority of those billionaires (and millionaires aspiring that way) as well as most of their employees are liberal. Fiorina was old-guard; Zuckerberg, the princes at Google, Apple, Pandora, Twitter, uber - they're all Democrat and supporters of the DNC. And whilst they ensure the city doesn't toss people out for defecating on the streets (homeless have to go somewhere! is the refrain), they refuse to yield on allowing older buildings to be torn down and replaced with high rise apartment buildings. So we have too many people chasing too few apartments, and studios going for $3000/month...
Ignore the CBO - they're reporting what they were told to report. Go see how our debt has grown since October 1, 2015. You'll find it's gone up by more than $1.2 trillion in the last 9 months. There's only one way to grow debt - spend more than you take in. The CBO number is about "on-budget" items. Of course, that means a lot of spending (about $700 billion) is "off budget" and ends up growing the national debt. But it makes the number nicer!
The Federal Government also received, per capita and adjusted for inflation, HALF of what it receives now. So those high statutory tax rates really didn't amount to much, because of the deductions that were allowed (enough for most people to cut their tax bills in half of what they would pay today). By all means, let's go back to the time the Federal Government sucked up half the dollars it had. Heck, let's go back to Eisenhower in 1957, which was the last time the Federal Government had an actual surplus and did not add to the national debt.
Socialism would never have allowed the end of building social housing or needing two incomes to raise a family.
Which is really rich because the most expensive places to live are expensive because of highly restrictive zoning and construction laws, and are also considered (and really are) bastions of the US socialist movement (SF, NY, and Seattle). Housing costs are skyrocketing/unobtainable in those places precisely because the highly-liberal-leaning homeowners do not want to allow more construction and housing in the first place.
No no, you don't understand. It's parasited money when it's spent on defense. It's socially responsible sharing of the wealth when it's spent on unions or the chronically unemployed.
So that $1000/year is about 1/4 of the the debt spending (above revenues) that the Federal Government is doing on your behalf so far this year. Yes, so far this fiscal year (since October 1, 2015), the Federal Government has spent $1.22 TRILLION more than it brought in. It'll probably end up around $5000 per man, woman, and child in These United States, by the time September 30th rolls around.
So yeah, 20% of the real deficit (spending in excess of revenues) was wasted on a war, 80% was wasted on other things. And we're not even talking about the $9000 in revenue per person that the Federal Government receives.
The fact is that about 70% of all spending is on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, welfare, and interest on the debt. And that spending RIGHT THERE consumes 100% of all revenues of the Federal Government. Everything else - defense, DHS, EPA, DOT, OSHA, FBI, NASA, DEAs, etc. - are all covered by deficit spending. The biggest chunk BY FAR, the overwhelming supermajority of Federal spending is on social wealth transfers, not the military or other spending items.
That's what happens when inflation is actually running about 8-10%, not the reported 1-2%. That 1-2% you make more per year is eclipsed 4 fold by inflation... But the official number sure looks a lot better!
So, you mean the Government should ensure private opportunities for people, not just ensure equal Governmental opportunities. Basically it should determine who gets what and when, right?
The Federal Government is taking in about $3 trillion this year. It will spend about $3 trillion on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, welfare, and interest on the national debt. Everything else - defense, education, FBI, DOT, etc. - is funded with debt. And that is only going to increase.
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Apple's not a computer manufacturer. If you went by just their computers, they'd be tiny (Dell is about 3X the revenue of Apple's computer division). Apple is a phone/tablet-consumer electronics company that happens to sell a few computers. They do that very well; Samsung is one of the few consumer electronics companies that makes more revenue and profit than Apple, but there are few and far between.
No. Putin knows the world "needs" two superpowers to get to the old balance. Russia wants to be - can be - one of them. And the US should be the other - the old, historical superpowers that balanced each other for 40 years. But with Hillary! as President, no one will give the US any attention at all, consider it a reasonable foil. For Russia to become ascendant as a superpower again, it needs someone who also appears a superpower - and that's NOT the US under Hillary!
Well, you don't want the Government to act racist towards the folks in the car in front of you, do you?
Those numbers were submitted BY THE GOVERNMENT under court order (in other words - they didn't want to share, but finally had to put up). And again - the Reuters article is only ICE - it does not include the Border Patrol. Look at the Reuters article, you'll see the pre-2013 data is accurate per the numbers I linked to - but are incomplete because it does not include the Border Patrol. It's the same game the Federal Government plays with respect to the budget, where they talk about the budget deficit being "only" $400 billion when $1.3 trillion in new debt is created.
Read my link again. The Obama Administration is talking about ICE enforcements only; the reality is that the majority of deportations are done by the Border Patrol - and the total (BP + ICE) have steadily dropped. It's a statistical head-fake by the Administration and you're falling for it hook, line, and sinker. The data in the lik I provided was hard, Government numbers from a lawsuit filed by field agents. It shows the opposite of the narrative Obama wants you to believe.
But I guess rather than hard numbers you can check as actual evidence entered in a Court case, you want to trust a blog post from Reuters... Oh well!
His administration also deports a lot more Illegal mexican immigrants than the two previous administrations combined.
That's actually a lie that even President Obama admits is just a statistical stunt to try to shade the numbers. Actual deportations are at a long-term minimum.
So your fear is that Trump may double or quadruple his net worth. How about Hillary! increasing hers 200 fold?
And hopefully that would mean, with Congress getting blamed for the failure, some turnover on the Capitol. With something like a 96% re-election rate, perhaps Congress needs a good sweeping...
Don't forget the only reason the stock market is up so high is because those trillions of QE dollars had to go somewhere... With banks not lending it out, it sat in big investment firms to use for their bigger clients to invest in each other - stock prices. There's a reason that income inequality has skyrocketed under President Obama - the Federal Government and the Fed have given trillions of dollars to the richest of the rich - and let everyone else swim for it.
Well, don't move to Europe! It seems that there were 55% more casualties per capita from mass public shootings in EU than US from 2009-15. Mass killings are the real "random violence" acts. Most shootings in the US are from suicide (number one cause, actually), and from gang warfare (where both sides - victim and killer, either know each other or know about each other). Actual random shootings in the US? Per capita are a lower than in the EU.
Further, the FBI - Comey - even stated flat-out she broke the law. The ONLY reason they were not recommending indictment is he did not believe a single Federal prosecutor would bring charges. Not that there weren't crimes committed, or actions worthy of charges - but that she was politically shielded.
But the commercials on TV say she solved children's medical problems back when she was First Lady! How can this be? Are you telling me a campaign commercial is WRONG?
Thank goodness Hillary! has such a strong, strong record of being 100% truthful and reliable in her public statements!
Well, when you consider that the safety net (Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, welfare, and the interest on the debt racked up) consumes 100% of all Federal revenues - it looks like the Democrats have won.
Safety is an illusion that we are selling our freedoms for.
I wholeheartedly agree with everything you stated with the exception of the above statement. Safety is a state of being you generate.
One party wants to ensure you do not have the right to generate that state of safety. The Democrats (and anyone opposed to issuing concealed carry permits to those with clean criminal backgrounds) want to ensure you do not have the ability to protect yourself, that you must rely upon the State for that. And because they would be the ONLY resort for safety - they own you that much more.
Working here in SF, I'd say the vast majority of those billionaires (and millionaires aspiring that way) as well as most of their employees are liberal. Fiorina was old-guard; Zuckerberg, the princes at Google, Apple, Pandora, Twitter, uber - they're all Democrat and supporters of the DNC. And whilst they ensure the city doesn't toss people out for defecating on the streets (homeless have to go somewhere! is the refrain), they refuse to yield on allowing older buildings to be torn down and replaced with high rise apartment buildings. So we have too many people chasing too few apartments, and studios going for $3000/month...
Ignore the CBO - they're reporting what they were told to report. Go see how our debt has grown since October 1, 2015. You'll find it's gone up by more than $1.2 trillion in the last 9 months. There's only one way to grow debt - spend more than you take in. The CBO number is about "on-budget" items. Of course, that means a lot of spending (about $700 billion) is "off budget" and ends up growing the national debt. But it makes the number nicer!
The Federal Government also received, per capita and adjusted for inflation, HALF of what it receives now. So those high statutory tax rates really didn't amount to much, because of the deductions that were allowed (enough for most people to cut their tax bills in half of what they would pay today). By all means, let's go back to the time the Federal Government sucked up half the dollars it had. Heck, let's go back to Eisenhower in 1957, which was the last time the Federal Government had an actual surplus and did not add to the national debt.
Socialism would never have allowed the end of building social housing or needing two incomes to raise a family.
Which is really rich because the most expensive places to live are expensive because of highly restrictive zoning and construction laws, and are also considered (and really are) bastions of the US socialist movement (SF, NY, and Seattle). Housing costs are skyrocketing/unobtainable in those places precisely because the highly-liberal-leaning homeowners do not want to allow more construction and housing in the first place.
No no, you don't understand. It's parasited money when it's spent on defense. It's socially responsible sharing of the wealth when it's spent on unions or the chronically unemployed.
So that $1000/year is about 1/4 of the the debt spending (above revenues) that the Federal Government is doing on your behalf so far this year. Yes, so far this fiscal year (since October 1, 2015), the Federal Government has spent $1.22 TRILLION more than it brought in. It'll probably end up around $5000 per man, woman, and child in These United States, by the time September 30th rolls around.
So yeah, 20% of the real deficit (spending in excess of revenues) was wasted on a war, 80% was wasted on other things. And we're not even talking about the $9000 in revenue per person that the Federal Government receives.
The fact is that about 70% of all spending is on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, welfare, and interest on the debt. And that spending RIGHT THERE consumes 100% of all revenues of the Federal Government. Everything else - defense, DHS, EPA, DOT, OSHA, FBI, NASA, DEAs, etc. - are all covered by deficit spending. The biggest chunk BY FAR, the overwhelming supermajority of Federal spending is on social wealth transfers, not the military or other spending items.
Trickle-down, my ass.
If the new commercials are to be believed, the new Charmin can help you with that...
That's what happens when inflation is actually running about 8-10%, not the reported 1-2%. That 1-2% you make more per year is eclipsed 4 fold by inflation... But the official number sure looks a lot better!
So, you mean the Government should ensure private opportunities for people, not just ensure equal Governmental opportunities. Basically it should determine who gets what and when, right?
100% spot on
The Federal Government is taking in about $3 trillion this year. It will spend about $3 trillion on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, welfare, and interest on the national debt. Everything else - defense, education, FBI, DOT, etc. - is funded with debt. And that is only going to increase.