TRUMP - Just because.....................Naw, I just can't say it!
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You're right about that. Obama lied about it, and it looks like its the Republican's turn to lie about it. Medical insurance is nothing but a huge ponzie scheme.
At the end of the day, you have to ask yourself if we really need it.
7 Billion people on the planet and growing.
Baby Boomers that are going to retire and live till their 90 or 100 on social security checks paid for by the kids who have already been told that they won't get social security when they retire. (another unsustainable ponzie scheme), as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars of healthcare to keep them living old enough to look like the Crypt Keeper before they croak.
Nope... I don't think we need it.
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Quote:Actually it was Senator Joe Lieberman (Independent, not a Democrat) who is the liar, not Obama. During debate on the Affordable Care Act, Lieberman opposed the public option. As the crucial 60th vote needed to pass the legislation, his opposition to the public option was critical for its removal from the resulting bill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman#Political_positions
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You're right about that. Obama lied about it, and it looks like its the Republican's turn to lie about it. Medical insurance is nothing but a huge ponzie scheme.
Baby Boomers that are going to retire and live till their 90 or 100 on social security checks paid for by the kids who have already been told that they won't get social security when they retire. (another unsustainable ponzie scheme), as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars of healthcare to keep them living old enough to look like the Crypt Keeper before they croak.
Another reason that Obamacare is too stingy was because Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wanted the Affordable Care Act to reduce the Federal deficit over the next 20 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi#Health_care
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_A
ct#Federal_deficit
The top 1% don't need Social Security and Medicare and Obamacare because they can pay. The top 1% are being listened to very carefully by Congressional Republicans, who also, just like the 1%, don't personally need Social Security or Medicare or Obamacare. Congress has a program just for themselves.
The Republican controlled Congress is very willing to kill both Social Security and Medicare and Obamacare if that will make 6ixStringJack happy. But you won't be better off. You might want to think about that very slowly and clearly before electing a Congress that will kill all programs for people like you, who are not the top 1% in wealth.
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Quote:6ixStringJack, you don't have to wait very long before not having Social Security because
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Baby Boomers that are going to retire and live till their 90 or 100 on social security checks paid for by the kids who have already been told that they won't get social security when they retire. (another unsustainable ponzie scheme), as well as hundreds of thousands of dollars of healthcare to keep them living old enough to look like the Crypt Keeper before they croak.
Trump Team Wants to Slash Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and Everything Else Except Defense
Donald Trump is ready to take an ax to government spending. Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday’s presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned....Overall, the blueprint being used by Trump’s team would reduce federal spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years.
That's a trillion dollars a year. If you eliminated the domestic discretionary budget entirely, you'd only save half a trillion bucks. So how do they do it?
Well, we're told that the proposed budget cuts "hew closely" to a recent Heritage Foundation report, so I went and took a look. The answer, of course, is that the only way to cut that kind of money is to take a meat axe to everything, including Social Security and Medicare.
The details are at www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/01/report-trump-team-wants-slash-s
ocial-security-medicare-medicaid-and-pretty-much-e
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Obama lied about the ACA too. I can bring up plenty of videos of him telling us that we were going to save on average $2,500 a year on health insurance. When it went into effect, my brother and his wife had an immediate 40% increase in their premiums and their deductible was doubled. Just this year, their premiums went up another 30%.
I say good, slash the SSI payments right now. I'm a long way from retirement age and the government has already told me that there won't be any left when I retire. Better to rip the band aid off right away.
My grandpa used to tell me that there wouldn't be any social security for me when I retire back in the mid 80's when I didn't know what the hell he was talking about.
That's why I save when I can. That's why when the housing market crashed and I lost my job at around the same time, I was able to buy a $150,000 house for $67,000 in cash. That's why I've been able to keep out of debt after making less than $50k during the 8 years Obama was president.
Sooner or later one of these administrations is going to be caught in a position where the "free money" dries up completely. That's going to be a very hard pill for most of us to swallow when that day comes. We've breeded several generations who have come to rely on hand outs.
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Quote:6ixStringJack, you are completely Malcolm Reynolds, with your house being your spaceship, except without the crew, without the smuggling, without the killing. Live free, live small, keep your head down, and never stop voting for Trump. Except maybe Trump is not Mal’s idea of the Alliance’s best Prime Minister ever, but whatever.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I was able to buy a $150,000 house for $67,000 in cash. That's why I've been able to keep out of debt after making less than $50k during the 8 years Obama was president.
Tomorrow morning you will wake-up with Trump. Sleep well and pleasant dreams. As for me, I'll dream of all that extra money Trump will be giving me for no other reason than that Republicans believe money for Social Security and Obamacare payments are a waste of tax payer money when needy wealthy people should have that money in the form of a tax cut.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Donald Trump is going to bring us trade wars, big time
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/20/14323686/trummp-trade-war
Many in the American business community chose to initially react to Donald Trump’s election victory by taking him seriously — but not literally — about his plan to use ad hoc tariffs to initiate and “win” trade wars with foreign countries. And while Trump is likely to have significant problems getting many of his plans through Congress, that’s not going to be the case on trade.
January has been the month people began to realize that Trump probably means what he says. If Trump wants confrontational trade policies, then confrontational trade policies are what he’s going to get. And all signs are that’s exactly what he wants.
For starters, existing statutes actually give the executive branch considerable discretion to employ various kinds of punitive or protective tariffs without congressional assent. Past presidents have generally used that power sparingly largely because they haven’t wanted to use it. But Trump does want to use it, and Congress wants to let him. Indeed, many congressional Democrats are positively eager see him do it. And while Republicans are less gung-ho, they don’t seem even remotely inclined to stand in his way.
In his confirmation hearing, Wilbur Ross, Trump’s commerce secretary, said that Trump would use the threat of tariffs to force foreign countries to open their markets more to American exporters.
Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar made the case that Minnesota iron ore miners have been hurt by imports of Chinese steel, and Wilbur Ross was sympathetic. Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth made the same case for Illinois steelworkers, with Ross, again, sympathetic. Democratic Senator Gary Peters of Michigan wanted to make a similar case for Michigan auto parts companies, and Ross was, again, sympathetic.
On the other hand, Congressional Republicans as recently as 18 months ago were enthusiastic about the Trans-Pacific Partnership and frustrated with President Obama’s inability to bring more Democratic Senators along for the ride. But this week, none of the Republican Senators were interested in making the case to Ross that Trump’s protectionist approach might be the wrong way to go.
The Republican party has decided, it seems, that protectionism is smart politics and they don’t want to fight with Trump about it.
Trump wants war
Trump is more of an improvisational thinker than a systematic one. He doesn’t want to shift tax policy in a way that aids American companies that compete with foreign imports — he wants to negotiate new, better trade deals.
This sort of thing has been tried in small ways by previous administrations, usually only to be met with retaliation and an eventual mutual climbdown. That’s good reason to doubt that going big on coercive trade strategies will create the results Trump is hoping for. But the only way to really know is to try. And Trump seems dead set on trying.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The Netherlands welcomes Trump. Because we realize it's better for us to get along, we decided to introduce our tiny country to him in a way that will probably appeal to him the most.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
The Netherlands welcomes Trump. Because we realize it's better for us to get along, we decided to introduce our tiny country to him in a way that will probably appeal to him the most.
The irony that the definition of Nether is "Lower in Position" is not lost on me...
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Quote:The Corruption Experiment is a tabletop psychology experiment showing why things go so horribly wrong in the real world. Suddenly, Trump makes perfect sense if you hang on until the end of the 3 minute video.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
The irony that ...
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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