just for you blkdlaur
He looks almost as good in the Nazi garb as he'll look in prison garb!
just for you blkdlaur
What else could you expect from someone hired by a Liar but a lie!
But let me ask you this, which is worse, adding MORE socialistic programs or reducing the revenue necessary to pay for the current social programs? There's really no difference if there is no adjustments to the revenue-spending budget, which has been the problem ever since President Reagan sold the Republicans on "trickle down" tax cuts.
We should have had a balanced budget amendment. We came within a whisker of getting it. It was also part of the Contract With America. Republicans passed it with the needed 2/3 majority in the House. It lost by just one damn vote in the Senate. ALL 34 Senators who voted against it were in the DEMOCRAT PARTY OF NO. (with exception of Doles procedural no vote which he made to allow him to bring it back up at a later date if could have gotten just one more democrap to support it)I agree to a balanced budget amendment.
You sure do like to blame Regan and the Republicans for every problem - but what have the Democrats done to correct the issue? (hint the correct answer is a big fat NOTHING) So that only leaves 2 options, 1) the Democrats are just as corrupt as the Republicans or 2) Trickle down isn't as bad as you say it is. Which is it ??? I tend to believe it is Number 1. The Democrats are enjoying the same benefits and that is why nothing has really changed since Regan. Sorry, but I just don't buy your BS that the Republicans have such a strong hold on the economy for the past 30+ years that the Dems have been totally powerless to do anything about it. Same ******* - different election.
We should have had a balanced budget amendment. We came within a whisker of getting it. It was also part of the Contract With America. Republicans passed it with the needed 2/3 majority in the House. It lost by just one damn vote in the Senate. ALL 34 Senators who voted against it were in the DEMOCRAT PARTY OF NO. (with exception of Doles procedural no vote which he made to allow him to bring it back up at a later date if could have gotten just one more democrap to support it)
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/...fm?congress=104&session=1&vote=00098#position
Melania Trump stays out of sight -- but in flight -- during shutdown!
(CNN)It has been more than three weeks since the public last saw first lady Melania Trump, who after returning from a surprise Christmas trip to visit troops in Iraq with President Donald Trump on December 27, has all but disappeared from the radar.
Between midnight on December 22, when the longest government shutdown in American history began, and January 18, the first lady had just four public events: calling children from the White House on Christmas Eve; attending Christmas Eve religious services at Washington's National Cathedral; visiting service members at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq; and a quick troop visit at Ramstein Air Base in Germany on the way back to Washington.
But the partial shutdown hasn't halted the first lady's travel. On Thursday night, just an hour after news broke that her husband nixed the use of military aircraft for a war zone trip led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Melania Trump jetted out of Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, aboard her own government plane, bound for Mar-a-Lago.
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A White House official said the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend trip was long-planned and is being spent with her *******.
That trip marked Melania Trump's fifth solo flight since the shutdown began. Per security protocols set in place by the government and the United States Secret Service, the first lady, along with the President and the vice president, must always fly via military aircraft, leaving the Trump private air fleet, or commercial flights, out of the question. Her Secret Service detail, which is accompanying her on the trip per safety protocol, is part of the 800,000 federal employees working without a paycheck.
Between December 27 and January 4, when Trump returned to Mar-a-Lago from Washington, the first lady spent quality time with her ******* Barron, East Wing spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told CNN.
The President, left alone back at the White House to focus on the shutdown, did not join in on the Florida sunshine.
Shrunken public schedule
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Since the December Iraq trip, Melania Trump's public schedule has not included a single event, in large part due to shutdown restraints on her staff and the Secret Service.
The first lady did host Mar-a-Lago's annual black-tie New Year's Eve bash, without the President and, without his presence, the event at the private club was closed to press, unlike the previous year, when photographs of red carpet arrivals were permitted via the President's press pool.
This time, only a handful of pictures of Trump, smiling in a Stella McCartney black sequin dress, leaked out via guests' personal social media accounts.
Her return to Washington after the holidays saw little in the way of change for the first lady in terms of public schedule -- save for staff meetings.
With the shutdown stretching on, the White House appears like a ghost town -- the typically 80-100 household workers have been whittled down to about 29 who are deemed essential.
The core of the first lady's office has been allowed to continue to work, yet her staff was already tight at 12, less than half of the staff of her two most recent predecessors. The shutdown made that small number even tinier. Grisham and Lindsay Reynolds, the first lady's chief of staff, remain working.
"The first lady is in daily communication with her staff," Grisham said of how Trump has spent the shutdown in her East Wing office. "We've been using the time to plan for upcoming White House and initiative events."
White House social secretary Rickie Niceta, who oversees all events at the White House, remains on the job -- though with a skeleton crew working the kitchen and service positions, there isn't much in the way of events.
White House entertainment
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Last week, the President took it upon himself to buy hundreds of fast food items -- keeping them wrapped in their original containers, save the French fries, which were placed in cups with the Presidential seal -- and serve them to the college championship football team, the Clemson Tigers.
The juxtaposition of the enormous State Dining Room dining table, adorned with candlelit gold candelabras, covered in Big Macs and Whoppers, made the whole event a mashup of posh White House entertaining and a down-home tailgate party.
The portrait of Abraham Lincoln on the wall above the table, where Trump stood, smiling over the greasy bounty, capsulated the surrealism.
When Trump tried to explain why he opted for burgers and pizza for the team, he said he did so because he assumed the football players wouldn't want healthier fare, prepared by his wife -- a joke, as Melania Trump would likely not have prepped a meal for the football team.
"So, I had a choice, do we have no food for you? Because we have a shutdown. Or do we give you some little quick salads that the first lady will make, along with the second lady? They'll make some salads," he said. "And I said, 'You guys aren't into salads.' "
Yet besides that mention, and another one from the President during remarks in New Orleans, the first lady has virtually ghosted.
.....Well, most of us admit it definitely IS NOT "trickle down", TwoBi. If done correctly, "trickle down" could possibly work during certain phases of the economic cycle. Trouble is, the Republicans (when in power) are too afraid of cutting the spending necessary to support their tax cuts ... they surely aren't going to cut spending that specifically impacts the wealthy OR the military, and you can only cut domestic spending so much on the middleclass before they become poor, themselves. The only credible impact to spending left are SS & Medicare. We see the effects of that. Reagan shoved in 11to12 back door taxes on the middle class when he gave his tax cuts to the wealthy & corporations, and the middleclass ended up losing at the rear of that cut. One tax implemented, Reagan promised would shore up SS & Medicare for 30 or more years, yet they spent that money on other things. And the sad thing is, trickle down tax cutting is ALL the Republicans know to do, and they start ramping up their promises of tax cuts right around election time. You notice that Trump never fulfilled his promise to that second round of tax cuts specifically for the middleclass that he promised right before the 2016 elections ... like the health insurance, it was total bullshit ... hell, he is libel to say ANYTHING at ANYTIME to get what he wants.I agree to a balanced budget amendment.
You sure do like to blame Regan and the Republicans for every problem - but what have the Democrats done to correct the issue? (hint the correct answer is a big fat NOTHING) So that only leaves 2 options, 1) the Democrats are just as corrupt as the Republicans or 2) Trickle down isn't as bad as you say it is. Which is it ??? I tend to believe it is Number 1. The Democrats are enjoying the same benefits and that is why nothing has really changed since Regan. Sorry, but I just don't buy your BS that the Republicans have such a strong hold on the economy for the past 30+ years that the Dems have been totally powerless to do anything about it. Same ******* - different election.
.....Well, most of us admit it definitely IS NOT "trickle down", TwoBi. If done correctly, "trickle down" could possibly work during certain phases of the economic cycle. Trouble is, the Republicans (when in power) are too afraid of cutting the spending necessary to support their tax cuts ... they surely aren't going to cut spending that specifically impacts the wealthy OR the military, and you can only cut domestic spending so much on the middleclass before they become poor, themselves. The only credible impact to spending left are SS & Medicare. We see the effects of that. Reagan shoved in 11to12 back door taxes on the middle class when he gave his tax cuts to the wealthy & corporations, and the middleclass ended up losing at the rear of that cut. One tax implemented, Reagan promised would shore up SS & Medicare for 30 or more years, yet they spent that money on other things. And the sad thing is, trickle down tax cutting is ALL the Republicans know to do, and they start ramping up their promises of tax cuts right around election time. You notice that Trump never fulfilled his promise to that second round of tax cuts specifically for the middleclass that he promised right before the 2016 elections ... like the health insurance, it was total bullshit ... hell, he is libel to say ANYTHING at ANYTIME to get what he wants.
.....As far as trying to "balance the budget" that fart-brain mentions, that's total BS. Nothing more than political posturing. Republicans have no intention of EVER balancing the budget. (see attachment). Republicans spend more and run up debt more when they have control of Washington. They only bring up balancing budgets when they're not in control; notorious about that here in NC. And to think, they like people to believe THEY are the party of Fiscal Responsibility. Obama offered Boehner & Cantor the biggest deal ever when he was president ... 4: 1 & 3:1 spending cuts to new taxes to help pay down the deficit. It was called the $4 Trillion Grand Bargain ... yet Boehner & Cantor turned it DOWN because the Tea Party president Grover Norquist & his Koch Bros were threatening to replace ANY Republican agreeing to ANY tax increases, which, by the way, included the earlier Bush tax cuts that were scheduled to EXPIRE that year.
So, its just become a tradition, as a serving President with a dysfunctional congress, to just request a debt ceiling increase and expect to get it.
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/268857-showdown-scars-how-the-4-trillion-grand-bargain-collapsed
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/07/budget.congress/index.html
https://newrepublic.com/article/94371/the-balanced-budget-scam
https://thinkprogress.org/house-rep...after-voting-to-balloon-deficit-be90fae4e603/
They want balanced budgets that doesn't include new revenue or and cuts to spending that impacts their military, etc. Remember Eric Cantor offering the BIGGEST spending cuts since WW2 ... nothing but cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Soc. Security. They even called the expiring Bush tax cuts that THEY agreed to as a TAX INCREASE if Obama let them expire. Republicans and Trump negotiate alike ... my way or the highway.are you trying to hurt HH's feelings?...he consistently says the right is always for the balanced budget...well they might be...right after they add another trillion to the deficit!
They want balanced budgets that doesn't include new revenue or and cuts to spending that impacts their military, etc. Remember Eric Cantor offering the BIGGEST spending cuts since WW2 ... nothing but cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, and Soc. Security. They even called the expiring Bush tax cuts that THEY agreed to as a TAX INCREASE if Obama let them expire. Republicans and Trump negotiate alike ... my way or the highway.
So. he can eat the beans from my View attachment 2373650!
I hope so!I'm so over Trump.