Something really weird could be happening

Publius · 2018-10-10T20:40:43.365Z

altair1013:

dantes:

I’m not sure that’s possible. Taxes aren’t a simple issue so you can’t encapsulate it easily in question.

Try this. Should taxes revenue be sufficient to pay for spending?

So the tax increase plan should be kept secret until after the election?

So what spending would you cut? See any waste? Or do you think the government always spends your money wisely? (And yes, I agree, the defense department wastes a lot of money) Think about it this way. Not every congressman is rich when they take office. But nearly everyone is filthy stinkin rich when they leave. Typically worth millions. These are the people you want to give even more money too?

I presume you have a link for that, and didn’t just pull it out of your ass?

Grimalken · 2018-10-10T21:01:19.313Z

Because the dems have proven to the better choice, how?

What domestic or international Trump policies, and / or what specific about the direction of the country has been so bad, that you want the dems to put the brakes on it, and turn back in the other direction?

altair1013 · 2018-10-10T21:05:57.996Z

Vigilante:

Mitch McConnell. Richest man in Senate from the poorest State. I know right?

Can you name any others?

Konssurvative1 · 2018-10-10T21:07:07.018Z

It’s always been clear that everyone always blamed BUSH for the rising unemployment even to the 9.7 percent in January of 2010. And then it’s been OBAMA who started the trend back to low unemployment with a steady decline in unemployment numbers from January 2011 on an annual basis right down to 4.8 percent in January 2017. That is a 50 % reduction…well 50.51 Percent reduction from January 2010 to January 2017.

Am I to believe that OBAMA was the cause of the unemployment numbers going from 7.6 percent at the end of BUSH’s presidency in January 2009, all the way up to 9.7 by 2010. And then there was a decline steadily over the rest of OBAMA’s presidency. Who is to blame for the 2010 number Bush or Obama. And then who is to take credit for the 50% reduction in unemployment from 2010 to 2017 when OBAMA left office…OBAMA right…his policies were the cause of the reduction right. So it’s always been widely agreed upon here that Bush caused the unemployment…and that carried over into the first two years of OBAMA’s admin.

So now we are saying that the drop from 4.8 to 3.7 is Trumps doing? That is a 22% decrease from January 2017 to September of 2018. How is this not the carry over of OBAMA into the first two years of Trump’s presidency. If Bush takes the Blame…Trump can’t take the credit can he? When OBAMA is the guy responsible for a 50 % reduction in unemployment from 2010 to 2017. I just don’t get how we are supposed to buy that this is Trump when the trend was heavy decreases in unemployment for the past 8 and a half years. There has been a 62% drop in unemployment since 2010. Trump I don’t think can claim responsibility for this. I think like the blame was on Bush, the credit still has to go to OBAMA on this.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/national-employment-monthly-update.aspx

dantes · 2018-10-10T21:10:25.546Z

It would seem that the vast majority of people who “get rich” while in Congress do so by marrying into money.

Nothing nefarious.

altair1013 · 2018-10-10T21:11:40.480Z

dantes:

It would seem that the vast majority of people who “get rich” while in Congress do so by marrying into money.

Nothing nefarious.

It would seem that most people elected to congress are already married.

Vigilante · 2018-10-10T21:36:00.705Z

altair1013:

Vigilante:

Mitch McConnell. Richest man in Senate from the poorest State. I know right?

Can you name any others?

Why.?

10 char.?

altair1013 · 2018-10-10T21:37:35.555Z

Vigilante:

Why.?

10 char.?

Why stop at McConnell?

SpacemanSpiff · 2018-10-10T21:40:12.602Z

gwhit:

Repealing a healthcare plan that was thought up by a conservative think tank but since it was not a GOP who signed it they hated it. Identity politics and Obama being black set off a lot of trigger in them. Many are still living in their bunkers holding out for when Obama comes with FEMA to cart them off to the Hobbit Holes to live in After he takes away their guns.

Lol! Ten letters

Vigilante · 2018-10-10T21:48:19.313Z

altair1013:

Vigilante:

Why.?

10 char.?

Why stop at McConnell?

Why stop what?

armycowboy · 2018-10-10T21:54:25.530Z

altair1013:

Why.?

10 char.?

Why stop at McConnell?

You could have done this yourself.

en.m.wikipedia.org

List of current members of the United States Congress by wealth

This list of members of the United States Congress by wealth includes the fifty richest members of Congress as of 2018. It displays the net worth (the difference between assets and liabilities) for the member and their immediate family, such as a spouse or dependent children. These figures offer only an estimation of wealth, as the Congressional financial disclosure rules use value ranges instead of exact amounts. As an upper range is not specified for values over $50 million (or over $1 mill

SentientBeing · 2018-10-10T21:56:15.102Z

I’ll shatter this myth piece by piece. The President’s “policies” of deficit spending aren’t the reason for the 5 year trend of the unemployment going down and the 5 year trend of black unemployment going down. ISIS goons were getting killed and driven out of their strongholds in Iraq long before Trump took office and his selection of Turkey foreign lobbyist Mike Flynn for NSA nearly sunk the plan to topple ISIS in Raqqa since Turkey was firmly against it and Flynn tried to deep six the plan of arming the Syrian Kurds (a plan the Obama administration put together and passed to Trump) Report: Flynn blocked US military plan that Turkey opposed | Fox News. After Flynn was ousted with that fake cover story that he “lied to Pence” (lol) Trump finally put the plan into action which worked. And that airstrike on Syrian/Russia airbase was probably the most expensive fireworks show in history because we basically hit nothing of importance and that airbase was operational again like a day later. I don’t like tax cuts fueled by deficit spending that we aren’t going to pay for (especially when the economy was already doing great and near full employment) while spending money like crazy. We’ve been down this road with Reagan and Bush already and people still haven’t learned yet. I’m also not for deregulation for the sake of deregulation. Since I don’t have your memory span of a gnat I remember where deregulation got us 10 years ago and it looks like we’re headed back that direction once again. Crazy times is when people actually fall for the Trump University sales pitch.

altair1013 · 2018-10-10T22:00:16.173Z

armycowboy:

You could have done this yourself.

en.m.wikipedia.org

List of current members of the United States Congress by wealth

This list of members of the United States Congress by wealth includes only the fifty richest current members of Congress and displays the difference between assets and liabilities for the member and his or her immediate family, such as a spouse or dependent children. These figures can never be entirely accurate, because the financial disclosure requirements for the United States Congress are approximate by design. The original documents for each member’s disclosure are publicly available on a

I could have. But why would I? I simply asked if someone was checking into McConnell why not check everyone? I’m not the one who started looking up net worth. My point still stands. They are not all filthy rich when they arrive, but they are all filthy rich when they leave. I really could not care less which one is the filthy richest.

DMK · 2018-10-10T22:08:02.733Z

Raise taxes. Grow government and regulations.

Raise taxes some more. Open the borders, provide welfare and medical for non-US Citizens.

Raise taxes some more. Free college and Universal Health Care.

Raise taxes some more. Watch business go back overseas and unemployment rise.

Raise taxes some more and extend unemployment benefits.

Sounds like a pretty good plan for some (as long as nothing affects them).

dantes · 2018-10-10T22:08:14.107Z

Who cares if they leave filthy rich? That’s none of your business.

altair1013 · 2018-10-10T22:09:31.874Z

dantes:

Who cares if they leave filthy rich? That’s none of your business.

Sorry dude. They are public servants. If they use there position to enrich themselves, it’s my business.

dantes · 2018-10-10T22:10:12.844Z

They aren’t using their positions to enrich themselves. They’re just marrying rich people. Look it up.

Vigilante · 2018-10-11T04:10:32.465Z

Hows it working out for Fat Donald?

Blackwolf · 2018-10-11T04:22:17.830Z

Anyone worried/hopeful about the Democrats actually taking advantage of the blunders of Donald and his merry band of GOPers next month should remember the wise words of Jeff Goldblum when he was asked if the party was capable of screwing this up:

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bullseyelqcs · 2018-10-11T04:39:00.752Z

Sing it loud, sing it proud…

I would love to say we will never forget the last mistake, but chances are, we will.