Just now.
They don't call Levin "the great one" for nothing.
Friday, May 5, 2017
On Hannity with Mark Simone, Stephen Moore just said we still have 94 million Americans "of working age" still out of work
The metric measures everyone aged 16 and older who is not in the labor force, the vast majority of which are not in the labor force for very good reasons.
For one example, young people in high school, college and graduate school are included in this number. In 2017 they number about 37 million people.
For another, in March 2017 another 45.7 million were over 65 and getting Social Security. In other words, retired.
Together that's nearly 88% of the current 94.4 million "not working".
That leaves 11.7 million "not working", some of whom are disabled receiving Social Security but some disabled are still working, trying to lead productive lives despite their handicaps.
Typically the rest are homemakers, who are trying to make sure their kids aren't rotten like yours.
George Mason University should take away Steve Moore's MA in economics, if you ask me.
And even if you don't.
Total employment lags 2008 by at least 2.4 million while Drudge plays Trump propagandist
In April 2008 total employed, not seasonally adjusted, hit 145.9 million, which was 48.1% of the US population of 303.38 million.
In April 2017 we're at 153.3 million, 47.4% of the US population of 323.58 million.
If we had employment at the 2008 rate, there would be at least 2.4 million more employed today than there are.
But no, Trump is making America great again, you see.
Thursday, May 4, 2017
American Health Care Act of 2017 passes US House 217-213
The roll call is here.
20 Republicans and 193 Democrats (which is all of them) voted against it.
It's a Rube Goldberg fix to the Rube Goldberg machine known as Obamacare.
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
The vehicle for the obscene $1.1 trillion House omnibus spending bill was the HIRE Vets Act
They can't even tell the truth about the name of the bill.
The roll call vote is here.
131 Republicans united with 178 Democrats to pass the bill, which once again defies regular order for appropriations.
Spineless Michigan Republicans Upton, Trott, Bergman, Walberg, Mike Bishop, Huizenga, Moolenaar and Mitchell all voted for the included Christmas tree of goodies for Democrats in order to get the increased defense spending in the bill.
Only Justin Amash of the Michigan Republican US House caucus voted against the damn thing.
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Mark Levin lies again, says Obamacare was passed under reconciliation when it wasn't
As if it's germane anyway. Levin is just trying to appear to respect the tradition of the Senate.
Well, Harry Reid did away with that by going nuclear on appointments.
And Mitch McConnell went nuclear on Gorsuch.
Two blows to tradition right there.
Like tits, if you've seen one you might as well see the other.
So, Mitch just needs to keep going nuclear.
The Republican Senate should simply jettison the filibuster rule, and pass repeal with the clean Republican majority.
Trump's instincts on this are correct on spending, which means on Obamacare as well, and on every bill which might come the Senate's way.
Then we can focus our attention on Paul Ryan, who hides behind the Senate's filibuster rule like a little boy hides behind his mommy's skirts to restrain what he does in the House.
Talk radio and Republicans are trying to defend this latest indefensible continuing spending resolution
When Democrats took control of the Congress under Obama in 2009, they promptly added about $700 billion to Bush's outlays in the middle of his last fiscal year, and successfully made the new level of spending the baseline for the rest of Obama's two terms. This was done in the name of rescuing the country from the financial/housing crisis.
They sold it as an $800 billion stimulus, but it was in reality the most outrageous expansion of federal spending ever: $5.6 trillion over 8 years. The sum is $1.28 trillion in excess of Obama's entire dollar GDP increase for his presidency. It means we spent $1.30 for every $1 of Obama's GDP.
But you have heard nothing about it because Republicans are co-dependents in government spending.
Spending soared overnight from $2.8 trillion to $3.5 trillion, and stayed at that level right through the final days of the Obama administration, despite Republicans taking the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014.
Now that the tables are turned, Republicans are claiming "the rules" mean they have to compromise with Democrats and continue spending on Democrat items under the Christmas Tree, like Planned Parenthood, sanctuary cities, border security without The Wall, and a variety of non-defense spending items, in order to get what they want in the $1.1 trillion continuing spending resolution, which basically boils down to a big increase in defense spending, but not much for what Trump advocated and promised the people.
Disappointed doesn't begin to describe our displeasure with this disgraceful pack of spendthrift bastards occupying The Swamp.
And they appear to have eaten Donald Trump.
VP Pence in the spin zone on The Rush Limbaugh Show: Trump's number one priority is defense spending
Oh, well, that clarifies things.
Here I thought Trump's campaign for president was all about stopping illegal immigration, restoring law and order, and repealing Obamacare.
Silly me. I must have misunderstood Donald Trump.
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