All-purpose news and politics thread: Two Steps Beyond!

[Jack Dracula]

So while poor children are being deprived of badly needed health care, here's a couple of fun facts:

In operating costs it's roughly $700.000 for each round trip in Air Force One to Mar-a-lago and back.
The estimated total expense for each vist including Sercret Service, Coast Guard, etc is approximately $3,000,000.
By Thanksgiving he'd visited there 8 times.
He's also visited his club in Bedminster, NJ twice at a cost of approximately $2,000,000 each trip.

But at least we're no longer wasting our money on those worthless sick kids.

[Jack Dracula]

Definitely gonna be a serious look at entitlement reform, tackling entitlement deficits. And Obama and many talked about the need for it.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/obama...lement-reform/

I'll point out that all of the quotes from that article were taken between 2008 and 2010 immediately after the Republicans had managed to nearly destroy the world economy and loaded the U.S down with trillions of dollars in debt.
Effectively handing Obama and the rest of us a big **** sandwich on their way out the door.

[PaulBullion]

Glenn Greenwald claims Putin was hosting a dinner with "human rights activists" and that is why Jill Stein sat at a table with ... General Mike Flynn.

[TheInvisibleMan]

Definitely gonna be a serious look at entitlement reform, tackling entitlement deficits. And Obama and many talked about the need for it.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/obama...lement-reform/

then let me just cash out my SS and Medicare now, its not going to be around in 30 years

[Iron Maiden]

Another insidious thing they've done is to change the terminology on Social Security and Medicare to "entitlements". Wrong..... they are our benefits that we've paid into.

[PaulBullion]

All House Democrats voted against the GOP tax plan to rob America - surprisingly, they were joined by 12 Republicans.
Still passed, of course.

[Joker]

But her emails!

[Kevinroc]

I'll point out that all of the quotes from that article were taken between 2008 and 2010 immediately after the Republicans had managed to nearly destroy the world economy and loaded the U.S down with trillions of dollars in debt.
Effectively handing Obama and the rest of us a big **** sandwich on their way out the door.

Which is exactly what they're doing right now.

[aja_christopher]

Which is exactly what they're doing right now.

"We're going to try this again -- even though last time it led to cataclysmic failure.

And even if it does the same this time around -- or worse -- that doesn't matter because we'll be rich."

[Dalak]

"The sleazy last-minute tax loophole for real-estate investors will cost—each year—three times as much as the entire Children’s Health Insurance Program, which Congress is refusing to fund. Corker & Trump & a few rich investors, or 9 million poor children."

As always, when it comes to the rich vs anyone else the GOP picks the Rich. If you support the GOP and disagree with the vast majority of Americans here, put your money where your mouth is and actually pick some needy people and give them a few thousand dollars - It'll help those living paycheck to paycheck FAR more than you could hope to imagine.

All House Democrats voted against the GOP tax plan to rob America - surprisingly, they were joined by 12 Republicans.
Still passed, of course.

Well, gotta try and save those seats!

[Kevinroc]

Well, gotta try and save those seats!

It won't save those seats.

[Dalak]

It won't save those seats.

No, but between conservative voter gullibility (aka "They'll get my Coal job back!"), voter suppression, and gerrymandering it might turn the trick.

[Kevinroc]

The GOP have refused to pay the CSRs. By the way, this tax scam included repeal of the Individual Mandate.

Every single problem that happens with Health Care is on the GOP's shoulders.

Once again, it's Trumpcare.

[williamtheday]

Marley's chains just show that you CAN "take it with you". Scrooge would've been a wealthy ghost when he died(snark!)

[Dalak]

In the Viginia House race, one vote literally made the difference!

So don't think your vote doesn't matter or assume your protest vote won't affect the outcome, it could be the one everything hinges upon.