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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #390 on: May 23, 2017, 07:31:44 pm »
 

Trump Budget Slashes Vital Programs to Enrich the Wealthy


Published on May 23, 2017

Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research says President Donald Trump's new budget makes unprecedented cuts to already subpar levels of social assistance and "redistributes upward" to wealthy Americans.





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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #391 on: May 24, 2017, 04:53:50 pm »
Economist Joseph Stiglitz: Trump's Budget Takes a Sledgehammer to What Remains of the "American Dream"

Wednesday, May 24, 2017

By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! | Video Interview

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AMY GOODMAN: Let's go to Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.

MICK MULVANEY 
: I think, for years and years, we've simply looked at a budget in terms of the folks who are on the back end of the programs, the recipients of the taxpayer money. And we haven't spent nearly enough time focusing our attention on the people who pay the taxes.
AMY GOODMAN: Mick Mulvaney. Your response, Joe Stiglitz?

JOSEPH STIGLITZ: Oh, totally wrong. I mean, I was in the White House for four years. And we did a very, very careful analysis of the benefits and costs, how it would affect taxpayers and ordinary consumers, the rich, the poor, the middle class, when we evaluated the program. We were very, very aware that this was money that people had worked for, earned, and that, on the other hand, they need help in a whole variety of areas, help in sending their kids to college, in buying a home. You know, the --

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« Reply #392 on: May 24, 2017, 06:12:27 pm »
Robert Reich : The Resistance Report May 23, 2017
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« Reply #393 on: May 24, 2017, 06:48:49 pm »
Al Franken Breaks Down Trump's Health Care Scam

Published on May 23, 2017

Senator Al Franken details the health care scam Donald Trump and Republicans are running on the American people.
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« Reply #394 on: May 24, 2017, 07:28:22 pm »
Published on May 23, 2017

Chomsky “Bernie Would’ve Won"   

   

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« Reply #395 on: May 24, 2017, 07:35:05 pm »
Dr. Richard Wolff - The Problem with “Reactionary Keynesianism"


Published on May 23, 2017

Economist Dr. Richard Wolff, Capitalism's Crisis Deepens Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown/Democracy At Work. Earlier today - the White House officially sent its 2018 budget plan to Congress. It has a patriotic-sounding name - but the so-called "New Foundation for American Greatness" is really just an all-out assault on poor and working Americans. If the President gets his way - billions will be cut from vital programs - including Medicaid - which candidate Trump promised never to cut. "Cruel" doesn't even begin to describe this budget plan. 
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« Reply #396 on: May 28, 2017, 01:17:48 pm »

Off the keyboard of RE at the Doomstead Diner

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Well, we are about halfway through the first year of the Presidency of His Trumpness over the ever decaying corpse of Amerika.  Global citizens can count themselves lucky that at least so far he hasn't pushed the button to glaze over Beijing or Pyongyang, or whoever else is pissing him off over breakfast while he fires off the tweets.



This week as I begin this recap, he took a break from the weekly Golf rounds at Mar de Lago flying in on Air Force 1 surrounded by an Army of Secret Service Agents to go Jet Setting around the world to meet with a variety of Foreign Leaders.  This of course costs the Taxpayer just slightly more than your average First Class Ticket on United for a Hawaiian Vacation.  In fact I could  LIVE in Hawaii for the rest of my life for the cost of one of these trips!  It's in the $MILLIONS$ for every weekend round of Golf he needs to play down in Florida to relieve the high stress during the week of getting out his Morning Tweet.

However, Deal-maker extraordinaire that he is, the money should be recouped by all the financial deals he will make for the FSoA during the trip!  According to Newz Reports in the MSM, in just the first day he sold $110B worth of military hardware to the Wahabist Killers running Saudi Arabia!  By itself, this easily pays for the trip!  Although of course, they could have done the same deal over the internet and saved a lot of money on what is basically just a Photo Op.  All the deals are already worked out long before El Trumpsky walks down the stairs from Air Force 1.

BTW, don't you find it a bit curious that all shots of the POTUS coming off one of these airplanes <em>(there are actually a fleet of them, not just one) have a portable stairway on open tarmac, no terminal in sight?  On my first flights in the 1960s down to Brazil, this was very common.  Even international airports of the time did not sport the big hydraulically powered jetway ramps that today attach themselves to just about every aircraft, unless you either are flying in an incredibly small and uncomfortable Regional Jet, or are flying to some complete Buttfuck location in the middle of 3rd World Nowhere.

Today however, you can't fly from Milwaulkee to Cleveland and disembark the plane without walking through a hydraulically powered Jetway tube.  When Air Force 1 lands in Riyahd though, there are apparently no available Gates at the terminal for the plane to dock at, so the POTUS is forced to walk down stairs to a waiting Limousine on the Tarmac.  You would think by now they would have at least devised a Mobile Escalator for the purpose of shipping the High & Mighty Meat Package of the POTUS off the fu cking 747!




So anyhow, what the expensive trip amounts to is an opportunity for numerous Photo Ops with Trumpovsky looking "Presidential" as he shakes hands with various Foreign Leaders. Also in theory for him a Welcome Relief from the last couple of weeks of Domestic Attacks on his credibilty and the way he is running the Executive Branch of Goobermint here on Home Soil.  Whether he can resist the temptation to Tweet while he is Jet Setting though remains an open question as of today when I begin writing this essay.

Back here in the FSoA though, the non-stop chatter about parallels with Watergate and the possibilities for the Big "I" of Impeachment continue, and not strictly from the so-called "left" of the Demodopes or Wing Nut bloggers.  It's being bandied about by WaPo on a daily basis, with heavyweight Law Professors from Harvard like Alan Dershowitz weighing in.  Regardless of who is interviewed though, they all pretty much say the same thing, that even if Donaldovitch is guilty of Impeachable crimes, it's unlikely the Repugnant controlled CONgress will pull the plug on him.  This takes a 2/3rds majority in the Senate,  so even if all the Demodopes vote to Impeach, you still need around 17 Repugnants to join them.  This does appear highly unlikely, except for a couple of things.

First is that currently the entire Goobermint is in complete dissarray and nothing on the Repugnant agenda is getting accomplished.  Well, at least none of the major stuff, some small stuff like eviscerating the EPA is happening.  Still haven't got rid of that pesky Obamacare yet though.  Also women can still get birth control and abortions, evolution is still being taught in the schools, teachers are still Unionized and there aren't any **** Oil Drilling Platforms off Malibu or Virginia Beach yet!  Also they have not yet raided all the public pension funds or privatized Social Security.  So things are not going as smoothly as the Repugnants would like here under the Trumpoyetsty Regime, mainly because the constant turmoil he creates with the Daily Lie on Twitter keeps them too bizzy doing Spin Control and trying to save their own sorry asses.





The second major issue is that the CONgressional elections are coming up in 2018, and Repugnant candidates are currently getting pelted with Rotten Eggs & Rotten Tomatoes at Town Hall meetings all across the FSoA.  It's gotten so bad that they need to arrest reporters for the serious crime of asking questions and give their speeches from inside a Shark Cage protected by Secret Service carrying Bazookas.  Gerrymandering and voiding voter ballots may not be enough to get these clowns re-elected, and they know it.  At a certain point you gotta cut your losses and throw somebody under the bus, and with every Tweet Donaldovitch looks more and more like good Bus Meat.

Lopping off Donaldefsky's head isn't likely to make things better, it may in fact make them worse since we will get Pensky as replacement POTUS.  Pensky is likely to be worse since he is an experienced career beltway politician who knows where the money goes and how to buy favors and not just try to bully everybody in town.  He's already got a Super-PAC formed to collect money from Billionaires to help fellow Retardican pols get re-elected, and then himself too once he takes over the Oval Office from Trumpovitch and becomes the unelected POTUS, Gerald Ford style.  He can then grant a Pardon to Trumpov for Money Laundering for the Ruskie Mafia, after of course he deposits a nice chunk of change to Pensky's account in the Cayman Islands.





The whole Ruskie connection deal with the Donaldov is so blatantly obvious it's not even funny.  First is the fact he refuses to disclose his Tax Returns, which no doubt are loaded with Fake Numbers.  Next is the fact it's <strong>KNOWN</strong> information already that he sold numerous properties in his buildings to Ruskie Oligarchs, who all also are trying to find some mattress to stuff the money they rip off from the Ruskie people into, somewhere outside Mother Russia.  Then there are all the meetings by various members of his staff and family with high level Ruskies and/or high bank account Ruskies.  Then of course is the Praise being dished out at him by Vlad the Impaler, who definitely would not be doing that if there was not something in it for him.  One has to suspect that Trumpovitch is PWNed by the Ruskies and Vlad is counting on him to deliver some good pipeline deals through Rex Tillerson.  If it looks like Donaldov cannot deliver, Vlad the Impaler will cut him loose and leave him twisting in the wind.  Instead of sleeping next to Melania, he will find the head of Cloud Computing in his King Size bed.  Then after that he will be Sleeping with the Fishes.  Compared to a takedown by the KGB, Impeachment is a very positive outcome for Trumpotsky.




Despite all of this ongoing bullshit, a significant number of Deplorables still support Trumpsky, he amazingly has still a 36% approval rating!  The lowest in all of Recorded History at this point in a POTUS administration, but still at least 36% above where it should be.  In reality, it should be measured in the Negative Imaginary Numbers!  It's still unclear though whether a POTUS Popularity Index matters at all, sort of like it doesn't matter what the latest bullshit number is coming out of the BLS or the CBO.  Unemployment is down to 5%, but 50% of the population has dropped out fo the workforce!  The Economy is Growing at 2%/year, but the debt is growing at $2T/year!  Probably more, but you get the picture, none of these stats matter worth a damn anymore, even if they're correct.  Nobody actually in charge of Da Goobermint gives a flying ****, and no matter who you vote for the debt will keep going up and the number of employed people will keep going down.  Whether your POTUS is LOVED or HATED doesn't matter either, in both cases said POTUS won't be able to do a damn thing to change the downhill trajectory here.  Of course, a complete JERK like Donaldov can speed things up a bit, and is doing a good job with that in his first year shitting in the White House toilet.




After his jaunt through Saudi Arabia picking up Beheading techniques from the Saudi Princes, Trumpovitch is due to hit Israel to talk to NetanYAHOO, then over to the Vatican where he will have an audience with His Popeness Francis, Vicar of Christ on Earth.  In one 10 day vacation, Donolovov is covering the Muslims, the Jews and the Christians!  Very broad minded of him.  Buddhists and Hindus may feel slighted here.

After making the Religious pilgrimmage, his next stop is in Brussels and then back to Italy for the G-7 meeting where the Economistas will further **** up the Global Economy while dining on Canapes, Oysters Rockefeller and $23,000 bottles of Chateau Mouton-Rothschild 1945.  Followed for desert by the <strong>BEST </strong>Chocolate Cake ever to go through the pie hole of his Putin Puppet head, even better than that last chocolate cake he ate in Syria.  Following his Impeachment, you can count on Donalditry Trumpovetsky to sign up as chief Spokesmodel for Betty Crocker.




K-Dog the Trumper jumps in to attempt a distraction:  ;)

I still want to know what the beef is about Russia.  They are a country with about the same history as France only with their revolution being much more recent.  Are we at war with them?  Are they trying to control our bowel movements?  You are next to that big Air Force base and Russia is only a few hundred miles away from you right?  Perhaps you can explain.

The Russians I have met have all been intelligent refined and friendly.  Dimitry does not count, he is only Russian when he wants to be.  Real Russians would have nothing to do with him.


I respond to the K-Dog innocent sounding attempt to avoid the real issues with Trump.

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Despite all of this ongoing bullshit, a significant number of Deplorables still support Trumpsky, he amazingly has still a 36% approval rating!  The lowest in all of Recorded History at this point in a POTUS administration, but still at least 36% above where it should be.

Yep. And many of those die-hard racist supporters that applaud whatever Trump does, including taking a dump in their faces, (just as long as General Sessions is continuing to make the South and the rest of the USA Racist again  ) will innocently ask what the big deal about Russia is..... 

And, that "cat" might be a bad doggie in disguise.  




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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #397 on: May 29, 2017, 02:14:37 pm »


A 91-Year-Old to the Illinois Governor: Pass a Budget, Help People  

Monday, May 29, 2017

By Paul Nyhan, Equal Voice News | Interview

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Dr. Alfred Klinger, 91, has joined other Illinois residents in walking from Chicago to the state Capitol in Springfield to call for a full budget that helps all residents. (Photo: Jane Adams Senior Caucus) at article link

As Illinois neared its second year without a complete state budget, Dr. Alfred Klinger decided to start walking. He joined advocates and families on a 200-mile march to the state Capitol this month to demand an end to the mind-boggling impasse and a budget that puts people first.

A World War II veteran, Dr. Klinger had marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Mississippi in 1965. At 90 years old, it was time to march again, this time from Chicago to Springfield, because the government couldn't even agree on a fiscal plan that invests in its most vulnerable families.

On the road, he joined other marchers led by ONE Northside and the Peoples' Lobby Education Institute' Lobby Education Institute and supported by the Grassroots Collaborative and Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR).

Along the way, they are asking people how the Illinois budget stalemate is changing their lives and discussing their own "people and planet first" budget. On May 30, after marching into the state Capitol, they'll hold a People's Assembly on their plan.

Their budget plan for greater investments in pre-kindergarten-through-high-school education, universal health care, moves to green energy, improvements to infrastructure and Illinois's pension commitments.

To pay for these investments, their plan would close corporate tax loopholes, create a graduated income tax and develop a financial transaction tax, raising $23 billion, according to a statement from Fair Economy Illinois, which is organizing the 200-mile march.

After a long day of walking, Dr. Klinger, who turned 91 on the road, talked with Equal Voice News about why he is marching, the need for voices of poor families and what's gone wrong in the Illinois state capitol.



http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/40750-a-91-year-old-to-the-illinois-governor-pass-a-budget-help-people

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He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
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« Reply #398 on: May 29, 2017, 02:29:34 pm »
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K_dog: I still want to know what the beef is about Russia.

Simple: Russia is the biggest country in the world, and has over 7,000 ICBMs aimed at the US, which has absolutely NO DEFENCE against them, other than to fire first and hope Putin instantly surrenders. This gives Putin the confidence to stand up to the Empire in Syria and Iran and Ukraine, and thereby giving confidence to Cuba, Venezuela, Philippines and North Korea, to do likewise.  This won't do at all, undermining US ability to coerce little countries into making economic deals favourable to the US, and supporting economic sanctions against its enemies even though it harms them economically.

Unfortunately, Trumpoversky has managed in a few short months to upset the Pacific countries by scrapping the TPP, to upset the Europeans by scrapping the TTIP, refusing to go along with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and demanding they pay more into NATO, and dumping the Ukrainian mess into their laps. HE has also managed to alienate Turkey with the failed coup and his choice of proxy forces in Syria, and Muslims everywhere with his rants about them all being terrorists, and Mexicans with his rants about them all being criminals and rapists, and insisting Mexico pay for The Wall. Let's not forget the Philippines, who he has driven into the arms of the Chinese and Russians.

On the Grand Chessboard method of scoring the great game, he has been a complete disaster, which probably led to Brzezinski's death from apoplexy.


Of course. Everything you said is common knowledge to those who have unbiased eyes to see. But that excludes a statistically significant portion of the voting public (though not the majority IMHO). The propaganda pushers consistently refrain from voicing the facts you just mentioned because it might make people think logically.
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Re: Corruption in Government
« Reply #399 on: May 29, 2017, 04:42:43 pm »
40 Shady Things We Now Know About Trump and Russia



Published on May 24, 2017

After a deluge of revelations, here’s what we’ve learned so far.  :(

This is How Low the Trump Apologists Will Stoop


Published on May 22, 2017

The shameful conspiracy theory that won’t distract from Russia.
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« Reply #400 on: May 29, 2017, 05:32:41 pm »
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K_dog: I still want to know what the beef is about Russia.

Simple: Russia is the biggest country in the world, and has over 7,000 ICBMs aimed at the US, which has absolutely NO DEFENCE against them, other than to fire first and hope Putin instantly surrenders. This gives Putin the confidence to stand up to the Empire in Syria and Iran and Ukraine, and thereby giving confidence to Cuba, Venezuela, Philippines and North Korea, to do likewise.  This won't do at all, undermining US ability to coerce little countries into making economic deals favourable to the US, and supporting economic sanctions against its enemies even though it harms them economically.

Unfortunately, Trumpoversky has managed in a few short months to upset the Pacific countries by scrapping the TPP, to upset the Europeans by scrapping the TTIP, refusing to go along with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and demanding they pay more into NATO, and dumping the Ukrainian mess into their laps. HE has also managed to alienate Turkey with the failed coup and his choice of proxy forces in Syria, and Muslims everywhere with his rants about them all being terrorists, and Mexicans with his rants about them all being criminals and rapists, and insisting Mexico pay for The Wall. Let's not forget the Philippines, who he has driven into the arms of the Chinese and Russians.

On the Grand Chessboard method of scoring the great game, he has been a complete disaster, which probably led to Brzezinski's death from apoplexy.

In other words, no good reason!  Preserving the empire of affluence is no good reason, not enough people are members and new members are not being accepted.  The bit about defense from ICBMs is a bit exaggerated.  There is more up in the sky than most people have a clue about.  Yet the biggest deterrent is that Russians suffer from sanity.  Nowhere in your explanation do I see evidence of Russian aggression which would be a good reason.

Cashing in on a cold war cultivated hatred of Russia for short term gain seems to me to be grasping at straws.  But I forget which side of the bell curve I live on.  Remembering that the strategy becomes effective.  Yet effective or not it is a move which reeks of desperation. 


Nothing Palloy said had BEANS to do with "Russian aggression" (retaliatory nuclear weapon capability IS NOT aggression when dealing with the empire, it is SANITY), "grasping at straws" or "cold war cultivated hatred".

Palloy stated REALITIES the empire is uncomfortable with because the empire does not like to share power with anybody.

What Palloy left out, and you certainly always wish to ignore or downplay, is the  fact that Russia is not averse to gaming useful idiots like Trump for their survival against a neocon mad max machine run by BOTH the Democrats AND the Republicans. That is treason. Yeah, the empire does exactly the same hither and yon, including inside Russia itself. AND? Do you really think that all the nefarious skullduggery we have been involved with has endeared us to Russia? Anyone that thinks that is nuts or a Trumper (but I repeat myself  ;D).

The COLD WAR stopped on the Russian side with Gorbachev. But BUSH double crossed Gorbachev and KEPT IT GOING  by OWNING corrupt Yeltsin the same way Russia now owns corrupt Trump (Clinton did NOTHING to stop or slow down that destruction of the Russian economy BY the U.S.). THAT caused Russia to go through a WORSE DEPRESSION than the one the U.S. went through in the 1930's.

So, Putin is clearly out to castrate the empire on the behalf of Russian Oligarchs. That makes Russia a THREAT to our Oligarchs for a VERY GOOD REASON.

The only one grasping at straws here is YOU. The claim that a foreign government OWNING the POTUS is "no big deal" is a STRAW, and evidences a rather desperate straw grasping attempt to defend Trump's Treason.

The rational that "the Democrats are worse because they would start WWIII" is what remains to be proven by any actual acts by the empire. The total destruction of the social contract of this country and rampant resurrection of racism is a price you seem all too will to pay based on your hysterical claim that Trump is "averting WWIII, so we should all be happy campers". I don't think so.


Trump  Treason is NOT TRIVIAL (see below):

40 Shady Things We Now Know About Trump and Russia


Published on May 24, 2017

After a deluge of revelations, here’s what we’ve learned so far.  :(

This is How Low the Trump Apologists Will Stoop

Published on May 22, 2017

The shameful conspiracy theory that won’t distract from Russia.
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« Reply #402 on: May 30, 2017, 05:42:34 pm »

Robert Reich : Trump's Infrastructure Scam
Published on May 26, 2017
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« Reply #403 on: May 30, 2017, 08:36:22 pm »
 

Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here's how we fix it

Larry Lessig | TEDxMidAtlantic


Published on Oct 20, 2015 (BUT CLEARLY EXPOSES HOW TRUMP CAME TO POWER)

Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig makes the case that our democracy has become corrupt with money, leading to inequality that means only 0.02% of the United States population actually determines who's in power. Lessig says that this fundamental breakdown of the democratic system must be fixed before we will ever be able to address major challenges like climate change, social security, and student debt. This is not the most important problem, it's just the first problem.

Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and founder of Rootstrikers, a network of activists leading the fight against government corruption. He has authored numerous books, including Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Our Congress—and a Plan to Stop It, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, Free Culture, and Remix.
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« Reply #404 on: May 30, 2017, 10:34:52 pm »
Jimmy Carter Brilliantly Explains How The Establishment Gave Us Trump


Published on May 11, 2017
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