What's sad is that the Democratic Party has a chance to exploit this, but they'd have to be sane first. They could attack the GOP for the horrifically irresponsible fiscal policies of the last three years. However, they'd have to present a sensible alternative. We're running a ridiculous deficit for peacetime, but in the face of that, what's their agenda? They want to repeal the Trump tax cuts. Ok. That's at least defensible. However, they want to guarantee healthcare to everyone physically present in the United States regardless of legal status while opening the border, dump more money into education, make college free, and forgive a bunch of student loan debt. It's like seeing that you're overweight and deciding to "fix it" by exercising less and eating chicken fried steak and fries for dinner every night and downing a bunch of ice cream for lunch.
Definitely with Trump on this. I've never understood why we stopped building nice-looking, classical federal buildings and instead started building ugly, utilitarian-looking federal buildings. Glad we're going back to what we used to do.
Absolutely agree with this, and not just in Washington. Compare pretty much any older building's architecture with what we do today and it's not even close. Buildings used to be made to convey a sense of grandeur and style. Now they are, for the most part, too utilitarian for my taste.
More on wage growth .... there was one poster in here I used to friendly argue with over whether this was even possible in this age. Who was that? I cant rmbr “There was more good news for workers: Average hourly earnings rose 3.1% over a year ago to $28.44, ahead of estimates for 3% growth. That marked 18 consecutive months of wage gains above 3%, as the initially reported 2.9% for December was revised up to 3%.”
Yesterday impeachment, today the emoluments nonsense "Trump Beats Congressional Democrats’ Emoluments Lawsuit" "President Donald Trump beat back a lawsuit by 215 congressional Democrats who say he has been violating the Constitution’s emoluments clauses by profiting from foreign government spending at his Washington hotel and other properties. A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday dismissed the case, saying members of the House and Senate lacked the legal standing to sue the president. “The Members can, and likely will, continue to use their weighty voices to make their case to the American people, their colleagues in the Congress and the President himself, all of whom are free to engage that argument as they see fit,” a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in Washington said on Friday. “But we will not—indeed we cannot—participate in this debate, overturning an April trial court ruling.” They heard arguments on Dec. 9 in Washington....." I would have told them this for free had they just asked Trump Beats Congressional Democrats’ Emoluments Lawsuit (1)
They are still going in France. This was last night (for them). People are saying the BBC did not even cover it. Looks pretty large not to cover
My nephew works for Drymalla Construction in Columbus, Texas. They have grown their business many times over by building public school buildings that are more aesthetically pleasing that those they replace for the same price. They are backed up years on their contracts with school districts, their buildings are so nice looking. They replaced my middle school (Lake Jackson Intermediate School) with something MUCH more beautiful and I hope they get the contract to replace my high school (Brazoswood HS) in the near future.
I don't have sympathy for people protesting about government hand outs. They got in bed with the government and now they must lie in it. This would be like if college students protested for months about not getting their student loan debt forgiven if Bernie becomes President.
A statistically significant number of folks off the sidelines back into the workforce You have to be named Schiff, Schumer or Pelosi to not love this kind of report
Vindman testified under oath that he advised Ukraine to ignore President Trump's requests (this came out during the cross-examination by Ratcliffe if you were watching) Also fired his brother Yevgeny Vindman
More on the job market under Trump - "the labor market of a lifetime" Tomas Philipson is on the Council of Economic Advisers and is the former chair. He is Econ Phd via Penn. From Sweden originally
In a day -- Vindman gone. the other Vindman gone. Sonland gone. Walsh out. Emoluments dismissal. I wonder if Trump gets tired of it?
I'm sure they will impeach again for firing these people, even though he has full authority to do so. They will question the timing probably. RUSSIA!!! made him do it.
I don't sympathize with them either. I'm not an Emanuel Macron fan, but this is one of the things he's doing right. They need to reform their pension system just like we need to reform Social Security. He at least has the balls to try while we let our system run into the ground.
My perspective is the lack of media coverage. With a protest that large, if they dont cover it, they have a reason. What was the reason here?
There is a lack of coverage in the USA. I'd suggest to Joe Fan the prime reason is because it is hard to turn that story into a gossipy, personality driven, superficial puff piece that makes Trump look bad.
If there was a crowd anywhere in the world that large protesting over something Trump, anything Trump, there would be coverage on all the networks.
The outrage of this is so moronic. Nobody's going to tear down modern federal buildings and rebuild classical ones just to comply. The point is that going forward, we're going to prefer the classical style - not because we're genocidal fascists but because it looks nice and passes the test of time. The modern crap we built in the '60s looked like **** by about 1985. The classical buildings we built in the 1800s still look good. The Pantheon in Rome was built in the second century and still looks good. Do the friggin math. Fuckin idiots. And when we hear crap like this from the New York Times, it's so obviously partisan. If Obama had proposed this (which he easily could have because it's not an ideological issue), they'd think it was great. But orange man bad!
Oil production from federally-managed lands and waters topped a record 1 billion barrels. Royalties increased to $7.5 Billion. Half of that money is returned to states where the oil is produced. The rest goes into the US Treasury. Oil from US government leases tops 1 billion barrels in 2019
re: Carter's approval ratings..You got it right. I was a few months from entering the workforce in Austin and I was scared as hell for the future. Unemployment was high, under employment was rampant. About then was the first I'd heard the term. Long gas lines, crappy economy, the hostage crisis was in full swing by then (started the previous November). It's hard to believe that poll was accurate. The polls in the GE were badly off as well until the last few days I was fortunate to be hired that summer into a large corp in Dallas. Many friends weren't so lucky. Those were really hard times. Worst of all was seeing WWII vets being laid off by the hordes. Big life lesson there for a young dude. Politics matters
about a third or fourth of the French electorate used to vote communist; Mitterand was a socialist and was considered right of center, sort of. They are kind of what I think warren or sanders would create here if given a chance----a nice comfortable net with four day weeks for many, lots of time off, long vacations when you have a kid, etc. They do seem to work their tails off when they are at work is my recollection from living there a few months a couple of decades ago. We have a similar problem to what Macron is addressing-----paying out more on Medicare and SS than we are taking in and looking the other way rather than raising premiums or cutting benefits. Houston and Dallas both have wildly underfunded pension obligations that will drag them down in a decade or so even if they are addressed. So too with France and the US. The founding fathers were right to distrust democracy. Let's vote to give ourselves a raise and pass the cost on to somebody else.
You forget that the EU is continually erecting new trade barriers many in the name of climate change. They have a Green Deal they are discussing right now. It has a good chance of passing. Sanders and Warren would push similar policy. It would end comfortable living for anyone other than anyone with close ties to government and able to get an exception to regulations.
