Saturday, July 27, 2019
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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LOL: CNN calls US House vote supporting 2-state solution and opposing boycott, divestment, sanctions movement "divisive" when it passed 398-17
Roll call vote 497 is here.
The headline is correct in one sense, however: Both hard left and hard right are cracking up.
The former leader of the Rebel Alliance, Justin Amash, ignominiously abandoned the fight to vote "present" with four other courageous Democrats cowardly lions, leaving his wingman Thomas Massie of Kentucky to cast the lone Republican "nay" vote.
Massie strangely thought it a good idea to associate himself with the likes of Democrats AOC, Omar and Tlaib, apparently rushing to fill in for Squad member Ayanna Pressley, who inexplicably abandoned her compatriots and voted "yea", proving once again that the true meaning of libertarianism is the freedom to be anti-Semitic.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
US House votes overwhelmingly to stop robocalls, except for Justin Amash and 2 others
The roll call vote is here.
Black Georgia pot callin' the Cuban kettle black: black female legislator told the white guy to go back where he came from, not the other way around
Governor Stacey Abrams really should do something about this.
In sharp contrast to Donald Trump Boris Johnson fired everybody upon taking office, a sign he actually might succeed
A "brutal cull" not seen in 60 years.
Bush 41 did the same and ultimately failed because he betrayed Ronald Reagan, so we'll see, now won't we?
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