Sunday, August 4, 2019
Saturday, August 3, 2019
Friday, August 2, 2019
Wall Street Journal admits economic conditions have shrunk as millions go into deep debt to stay in the middle class
Families Go Deep in Debt to Stay in the Middle Class :
Cars, college, houses and medical care have become steadily more costly, but incomes have been largely stagnant for two decades, despite a recent uptick.
Rush Limbaugh gets more out of touch with every passing day: "People like their health care from their employer"
Talk about delusional.
In my household we haven't had employer provided health insurance since 2008, but recently a new employer offered us some. My jaw hit the floor when I saw the price: $2,033 per month for family coverage.
Currently I pay $532 a month for family coverage, because I have a plan grandfathered in from pre-2010, which I get to keep as long as I don't make any changes to it. The new employer's plan is almost FOUR TIMES more expensive than what I'm paying now.
Compared to what I'm being offered by an employer right now my current plan looks mahvelous, right?
Well guess what it cost just eight years ago?
$227 a month.
That's right. Despite the fact I'm not hostage to Obamacare or employer provided insurance, my premiums have still risen 134% in eight years. And it would be even worse had I not raised the deductible. Needless to say, my coverage is nearly useless for office visits and routine tests; that's all 100% out of pocket, too.
But look at the scale of what's happened. The coverage I had in 2011 now costs me about two and half times as much as it did then, but this new employer plan costs NINE TIMES as much as privately purchased coverage cost me eight years ago.
That is insane.
But look at the scale of what's happened. The coverage I had in 2011 now costs me about two and half times as much as it did then, but this new employer plan costs NINE TIMES as much as privately purchased coverage cost me eight years ago.
That is insane.
OBAMACARE IS A CURSE AND A BLIGHT ON THE NATION, WHETHER YOU HAVE IT OR NOT, and Rush Limbaugh is as out of his mind as the Democrat hucksters trying to sell us Medicare for All or some other bottle of government elixir when he says people like their health care from their employer. They do not. The LA Times in May:
Health insurance deductibles soar, leaving Americans with unaffordable bills:
The 2010 healthcare law — often called Obamacare — provided landmark protections to Americans once shut out of health coverage. But as Democrats and Republicans fought over the law, Altman said, neither focused on the rapid run-up in costs for people covered through work. ... Over the same time, insurance premiums also increased, rising at more than double the rate of inflation and outpacing wage gains.
Meh: Total nonfarm payrolls increased 164,000 in July 2019
Average to date from November 2016 inclusive is 183,000 per month. Not a boom.
Clinton era average: 243,000 per month for eight straight years.
Reagan boom average: 248,000 per month for six years Nov 1982-Nov 1988.
Richard Spencer falls for silly all the time, including Andrew Yang, fangs come out even for allies with the temerity to point it out
Touchy much? Belies the inherent insecurity and missing center of Richard Spencer.
Spencer: 0
Greer: 1
"Sphere of influence", what rot: The Republic of Ireland knows all about "sphere of influence"
The West used to be the friend of freedom everywhere, sphere of influence be damned. Now we're full of servile bootlickers like this guy, who might as well be a paid apologist for the Chicoms or Vladimir Putin:
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Rush Limbaugh can't even get the differences between the Declaration and the Constitution right
He reveres them, just never reads them.
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness aren't in the preamble to the Constitution, not now, and not in 2009 when he first made the mistake:
We love and revere our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
CROWD: (louder applause)
RUSH: We believe that the preamble to the Constitution contains an
inarguable truth that we are all endowed by our creator with certain
inalienable rights, among them life.
CROWD: (cheers and applause)
RUSH: Liberty, Freedom.
CROWD: (wild cheering and applause)
RUSH: And the pursuit of happiness.
Hey Rush, you miserable grifting idiot, tell the British enemy in 1775 that the Continental Colors flag wasn't political
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And, see, we don’t think the flag is political. We don’t think the
flag deserves equal time to people that don’t like it. We don’t think
that Betsy Ross is political. We don’t think people need or deserve
equal time to respond to Betsy Ross. These are symbols of our founding
and our freedom and our liberty. They’re symbols. The left has
politicized them, and they’re not political. They shouldn’t be by any
stretch of the imagination. So we came up with the Stand Up for Betsy
Ross T-shirt for people to push back — and in under three weeks, we sold
enough $27 T-shirts to be able to donate $3 million and counting.
Trump today, bright and early: There is always plenty of time to cut
There's always plenty of time to cut spending, by definition, just not right now.
NEVER right now, always later. And when later comes, NEVER right now.
What a fool, and what fools we.
This is about 5x the price the coverage would cost him now had Obamacare never passed
Too bad Americans didn't give Republicans control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2016 to fix this and gave all that to Democrats instead.
Biden should absolutely run on deportation of illegal crossers because it will be easy to show how Trump is all talk about it and no action
[T]he only reason this particular part of the law is being abused is because of Donald Trump.
Making money from China is more important to Trump than freedom for autonomous Hong Kong
“It was made clear down the chain that we need to be measured on Hong Kong,” one administration official said, noting that the guidance came from “the top” over concern that fragile talks with China might be jeopardized by any outward show of support for the protests.
Hey Rod Dreher: In the summer of 1967 159 race riots swept the country, but somehow America is still here
You were just a little baby then.
For wasted space, try between Damon Linker's ears
America is nothing if it is not about seeing how a presumptive candidate handles all the hyenas and how he fleshes out his positions and promises in response. America is entitled to form its opinion and express it in the form of actual votes taken at actual primary elections in actual places, like Iowa. What matters is representative democracy selecting the candidate, not the punditocracy.It's always revealing to see progressives dismissive of the democratic process.
It wasn't a scandal that Obama and Biden failed to withdraw from Afghanistan in 2014 as promised, and it still isn't
That elephant in the room which no one wants to talk about is that Donald Trump is going to be re-elected in 2020.
Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Thank God CNN's Brian Stelter warned us that The Babylon Bee is a fake news site
Still can't figure out why he deleted that tweet about it, though. Rumor has it it had something to do with someone explaining to Brian that The Babylon Bee was in reality the intelligent man's The Onion. Oh, as Rush might say.
Marianne Williamson was last night's clear winner, and the left immediately goes to DEFCON 1: NBC attacks saying her real name is Marianne Individualism
Marianne Williamson's Democratic debate performance raised eyebrows. But she's no friend of the left. :
The self-help guru’s supposedly empowering rhetoric masks a mean-spirited individualism that would lead to harmful policies if she were somehow elected. ... Williamson is a good illustration of how a creeping hippie Reaganism can actually hurt progressive ideals. ... Williamson's approach is not an accident or an aberration. It's the natural outgrowth of an individualistic, reactionary ideology which calls first for internal spiritual renewal rather than for systemic cultural and political change. There's a direct line from such thinking to blaming poor people for their poverty or insisting that welfare payments corrupt recipients. Neoliberalism, whether of the left or the right, ends up blaming marginalized people for their own oppression. And once you've blamed them for their own suffering, you shuffle off any obligation to change things to help them, or to make the world more just.
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Rahm Emanuel tries in vain to help Democrats unscrew themselves after Miami debates
Before our party promises health care coverage to undocumented immigrants . . ..
Before we start worrying about whether the Boston Marathon bomber can vote . . ..
And before we promise a guaranteed minimum income to healthy adults who prefer to stay home and play video games . . ..
AP hopes Trump's in trouble for 2020 based on random interviews with 36+ suburban women, admits they are Democrat voters twenty paragraphs in
Gee, what a shock, right? Democrat base voters recoil at Trump because he's icky.
Suburban women recoil as Trump dives into racial politics:
Suburban women recoil as Trump dives into racial politics:
Such women are an electoral threat to the president in large part because women outnumber and outvote men, noted Kelly Dittmar, a political science professor and a scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
“They are especially vital because they are base voters for Democrats. They vote for Democrats in larger numbers than men, but for Republicans, they are also important because they have tended to be a larger proportion of swing voters,” Dittmar said.
Monday, July 29, 2019
Great, State of Michigan flying the fag flag is the same as flying POW flags and university flags
[Governor Whitmer] also announced the flag order on Twitter,
accompanied by a video and photo of the flags. But that tweet prompted
more than 100 responses from people angry with the move, with many
saying that a small segment of the population shouldn't be singled out
for such an honor.
That was the point [Lynn] Afendoulis tried to make with her
bill, but the Twitter response was just as quick. By noon on Friday,
more than 6,200 people liked Whitmer's veto threat and several hundred
people noted that flags honoring such groups as POWs (prisoners of war)
and universities often flew on state buildings and would be banned under
Afendoulis' legislation.
Obama stole neo-liberal healthcare mandate from Hillary, who stole it from "conservative" Heritage Foundation
There is no difference between forcing you to buy health insurance and taking your money to pay for Medicaid and Medicare.
Everyone is for tyranny.
LOL: Rat-infested cities tend to be Democrat cities
Trump’s Attack on Baltimore Doesn’t Go Far Enough:
Take a look at the eight other cities that beat Baltimore on Orkin’s
rattiest cities list. What do they all have in common? We’ll, let’s see:
Chicago hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1931. Philadelphia last
saw a Republican mayor in 1952, Detroit in 1962. San Francisco has been
Democrat-controlled since 1964. Washington, D.C., has never had a
Republican mayor.
In Los Angeles, Democrats have run the city in all but eight of the
past 58 years, in New York, it’s eight in the past 74 (not counting John
Lindsay, who switched parties while in office). Cleveland’s been run by
Democrats in all but 16 of the past 78 years.
Indeed, if you want to see what liberal Democratic policies tend to
produce, go to any one of those cities, or other Democratic strongholds.
Democrats promise to help the poor and downtrodden, grow the middle
class, make life more fair. But their policies consistently produce the opposite.
These cities are rife with crime. Baltimore ranks No. 1 for robberies
and No. 2 for murders. Many of the other rat-infested cities also rank
high for violent crimes. Their infrastructure is crumbling. The middle
class has largely abandoned them.
And far from tackling inequality, Democrats have made it worse.
Washington, San Francisco and New York are all in the top 10 for biggest
income inequality levels, according to the Brookings Institution. Other Democrat cities — Providence, Miami, Boston, New Orleans — are also on the list.
Washington, San Francisco, New York, Detroit, and Cleveland are also among the 10 worst-run cities, according to WalletHub. Three other Democratic strongholds — Oakland, Flint, Hartford — make WalletHub’s worst-run list.
LOL October 2018: "Baltimore On Most Rat-Infested Cities List Again: Orkin"
While Baltimore showed progress from last year, it still made the top 10 on Orkin's list of "Rattiest Cities.":
- Chicago
- Los Angeles
- New York
- Washington, DC
- San Francisco
- Detroit
- Philadelphia
- Cleveland
- Baltimore
- Denver
LOL only WE can say it: In Dec 2015 these two men both called Baltimore's conditions "third world" level
Bernie Sanders' Baltimore visit: hold the Isis, let's focus on 'third world' US cities:
Bernie Sanders: [A]nyone who took the walk we took today around this neighbourhood would not think you were in a wealthy nation, you would think you were in a third world country.
Jamal Bryant: We are 45 miles from the White House and it doesn’t even look like we are in America. It looks like we are in a third world country.
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Saturday, July 27, 2019
First hit: "Top ten rat infested places"
10 Most Rat-Infested Cities in the Western World:
10. Detroit (all mayors Democrats since 1962)
09. Boston (all mayors Democrats since 1930)
08. Paris (come on, without the French America wouldn't be rat infested America, man!)
07. Chicago (all mayors Democrats since 1931)
06. BALTIMORE (all mayors Democrats since 1967)
05. London (come on, without the British America wouldn't be rat infested America, man!)
04. Atlanta (all mayors Democrats since 1879)
03. New Orleans (all mayors Democrats since 1872)
02. Houston (all mayors Democrats since 1982)
01. New York (approximately 76 years of Democrat mayors since 1898 vs. 36 Republican, 9 "other")
Economic shrinkage illustrated: Average consumption post-Great Recession has collapsed by 42%
Average 4.3% PCE up to year 2000, 2.5% post-Great Recession:
Incompetent Trump's tax cut for corporations at end of 2017 resulted in a surge of stock buybacks, not jobs
Way to go, Brownie!
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Friday, July 26, 2019
US House advances Bipartisan Budget Act to the Senate 284-149, sets discretionary spending at about $1.37 trillion for both of the next two fiscal years and suspends debt ceiling
65 Republicans voted for the damn thing, not that it mattered substantively. The thing otherwise would have passed 219-214 even if the 16 Democrats who voted "nay" still had done so. It's a 235-197-1 Democrat-controlled US House.
Roll call vote 511 is here.
The real crime is a Republican president is going to sign it, not using his greatest weapon, the veto, to get any number of things he claims he wants.
Obviously he doesn't really want what he says he wants.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Over 80% of females in Somalia undergo genital mutilation, so Ilhan Omar understandably doesn't want to go there, because it may have happened to her
She was ten when her family had to flee, the average age when the procedure is performed.
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