Showing posts with label Spending 2018. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spending 2018. Show all posts
Monday, September 24, 2018

Kooky "Macro Tourist" tells us to put aside our political views, uses crabbed Talking Points Memo graph to warn us about Republican federal spending increases

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THINGS HAVE CHANGED... : Although the Republicans are supposedly the party of fiscal conservatism, we all know that sort of talk is on...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Noah Smith embraces the Trump narrative: "There’s no doubt that the U.S. economy is in a boom"

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Here for Bloomberg. After examining several indicators, which, however, are not unequivocal for their interpretation despite saying ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Bernie's Medicare For All to add 72% to current outlays

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From the story here : The Mercatus analysis estimated the 10-year cost of "Medicare for all" from 2022 to 2031 [at $32.6 t...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

By surviving past May 30 and not resigning, John McCain has insured there will be no election for his seat until 2020

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When he dies, as he surely will, the governor of Arizona is obligated to appoint a Republican to fill out the remainder of his term. A...
Sunday, May 27, 2018

Trump has cut federal employment by a miniscule 0.3% November 2016 through April 2018

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9000 jobs, a fart in a windstorm. Federal employment peaked in 1990 at 3.2 million and hasn't averaged below 2.7 million since the...
Monday, March 26, 2018

While Rush Limbaugh keeps trying to find a way to rationalize Trump's signature on the omnibus, Laura Ingraham minced no words

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On her radio show this morning she called this a betrayal. And that's what it was.
Saturday, March 24, 2018

There were 167 votes against the omnibus in the US House: 90 Republican, 77 Democrat

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The House Roll Call is here , the Senate here . There were 32 votes against in the Senate: 23 Republican, 8 Democrat, and Bernie Sanders. ...

The line of the week was Rush Limbaugh's: "Whenever you see the word omnibus, think trash can"

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Here : So on this, for example, this omnibus, whenever you see that word, folks, just think of a trash can. No! In fact, think of a Ch...
Friday, March 23, 2018

Nancy Pelosi is quite content for Trump to think he's getting his wall, and urges him to sign the spending bill

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Quoted here : ". . . if you want to think you're getting a wall, you just think it and sign the bill."

House Freedom Caucus urges Trump to veto spending bill

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Reported here .

Spending bill is a giant FU to Trump, prevents him from using any of the new border wall prototypes

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Reported here : But, crucially, the bill specifically prevents the Trump administration from using any of the new wall designs it comm...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

Limbaugh predicts the omnibus spending bill will make Trumpists go wobbly

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Well, they should since it's a total betrayal.
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Brian Wesbury is back in the excuse-making business for future GDP

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Here , complaining that the upcoming two-year Republican $300 billion discretionary spending extravaganza will crowd out the private secto...