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Are German voters, unlike ‘Muricans, finally balking at giving the banksters a blank check to cover their bad loans?
http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-merkel-battles-worries-about-imf-involvement-in-greek-bailout-2015-8
It is almost 10am east coast time, and not a single one of the “progressives” who get paid to post on HBB have showed up yet
Co-worker on vacation back to India tells me over there people get paid to write online reviews, like 10 cents a review I think he said.
We’ve got one of these guys on our local housing blog - every time I call him on it, he of course denies it, and then scurries back into his corner for a few days. What a sad life.
You mean that realtor funded data-less junk website?
If you mean the non-realtor-funded, data-driven blog run by an engineer, then yes, that’s the one.
Unless there is a redefinition of the word engineer, that flunkie isn’t one and he’s getting paid by seattle realtards.
You show your ignorance every time you post, HA. You apparently can’t handle the truth. If you are referring to when he was employed by Redfin for a short time, that was two jobs ago. Try to keep up!
Not an engineer. Paid by realtards.
Data my friend H.A., data:
http://seattlebubble.com/blog/about/
And how exactly is having an engineering degree from an ABET-accredited school “Not an engineer”? Refute the data, my friend.
Not an engineer. Paid by realturds.
Wait, ya mean I could get paid? How? From who? Do the black helicopters drop off the cash at night?
the people i’d most suspect of being paid posters are 2brony and nostraDANus, in other words knuckledraggers, not shitlibs.
Don’t forget Lola and Liberace!
I don’t doubt that there are paid posters on the interwebs, but I think they’d be more likely to frequent places like CNN, Mother Jones, Fix, etc.
If someone is paying 2brony, they should be asking for a refund!
2brony is paid for sure.
Liberace!
Merkel wants the IMF (i.e. American money) to go toward paying back the German banks that recklessly loaned the money in the first place. Good luck with that.
What’s to stop more trillions in US taxpayer money from going to the banksters? 95% of our electorate voted for just that in 2008 and 2012 by supporting Obama, McCain and Romney.
I can’t think of any main stream politician who wouldn’t bail out the banks again. But American banks, not German banks.
The implosion of China’s Ponzi market has resumed.
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-stock-market-crash-just-started-up-again-2015-8
Junk-bond oil dominoes starting to fall.
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/08/17/junk-rated-offshore-drillers-after-hercules-headed-into-bankruptcy-fitch/
Trump blasts open-borders oligarch Mark Zuckerberg and his puppet Marco Rubio on H1B visas.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/17/donald-trump-rips-facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-on-immigration/
+1
F* Zuck!
Amen! How many here are one of Zuck’s unpaid assets? (Faceschnook Poster). Trump is, but for how long?
I’d like to see Zuck toss him off Facebook and see how many cancel their account.
You have to be on Facebook to have a Tinder profile yo
^^ Goon nailed it.
It’s the only reason for a cis male to have a fb page.
(maybe 2brony can confirm if you need FB to do grindr?)
damn funny!
If illegal immigrants voted 8 to 2 conservative, progressives would have built the biggest wall the world has ever seen.
Word
If unions voted 8 to 2 conservative in closed shop states, progressives would be all about “right to work”
If a “gay gene” is ever discovered, progressives would be all about “sensible abortion control”
etc.
20 years ago, all beef-processors were mid-western union white guys making $19.00 per hour and sending their kids to college. Now, they are all non-union mid-south Mexicans making $8.00 per hour and living off food-stamps.
Thank you Republicans and thank you Mr. Reagan.
Funny how unions support democrats 99-1 and cut their own throats with massive dem sponsored legal and illegal immigration.
Nancy Pelosi will have her super minority - no matter how many dead bodies it takes.
Your buttboy achieved some partial redemption, the real journalists at MSNBC wrote a hit piece titled “In the race to the bottom on immigration, Walker makes his move”
That is who real journalists are
That is who progressives are
Ever spend any time in downtown Lake Worth, Florida?
Walker is done here, just like Rubio, Rand, and Senor Yeb. I love that Trump, Carson, and Fiorina are dumping all over those empty suit losers.
Romney would instantly outpoll any other establishment GOP candidate if he decides to run. All he needs to do is clean up the basic outline of what Trump has been saying and keep pointing out that Walker, Rubio, et al are empty suits who bend over for their corporate masters in order to get campaign funds.
“Thank you Republicans and thank you Mr. Reagan.”
Yep, and we can thank Republicans for most of the immigration misery that exists at this time. Especially shrub.
The group that stopped the latest amnesty push was the tea party.
Would you like a “ruin porn” tour guide of postindustrial Cleveland and Akron? I can provide a half-day, a full-day, or a full-week tour. All brought to you from the Republican Congress that wrote NAFTA and Bill Clinton who signed it
Both parties are dirty on this issue. No one can say no.
Why on Earth would trade unions support more immigration as it only waters down their bargaining power. It is stupid.
Yep both sides. What do they have in common?
Trade unions are part of the D coalition. Another part are those who vote based on skin color. Part of the group that votes based on skin color is in favor of open borders because they feel sorry for those with the same skin color. The Ds also know that letting them in solidifies their power as they all vote D. So a small minority of that party and the entrenched leaders in that party cause it to be in favor of open borders. The other fools go along.
“The group that stopped the latest amnesty push was the tea party.”
Really? Then they must’ve done it without Marco Rubio, who ran as a tea party candidate in Florida and once elected, became one of the Gangbanger 8.
Reagan didn’t sign NAFTA into law 20 years ago. Bubba did. December 8, 1993. Hillary standing by his side.
Yes, it was one of the biggest. bipartisan screwings. ever.
Pushed by a Republican congress, signed by a Democrat president.
The donkey elephant paradigm is a delusion.
Yes, but RonBo did sign the big amnesty.
And plenty of downsizing/outsourcing happened to US manufacturing under Ronnie’s watch.
Fool me once …
But Ronnie never claimed to support unions.
NAFTA truth:
Following diplomatic negotiations dating back to 1990 among the three nations, U.S. President George H. W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas, each responsible for spearheading and promoting the agreement, ceremonially signed the agreement in their respective capitals on December 17, 1992.[5] The signed agreement then needed to be ratified by each nation’s legislative or parliamentary branch.
Amazing how misinformed people are.
Misinformed? I see you can google. Why not put the full quote? Sorry Lola. Bush ceremonially signed it. Clinton signed it into LAW:
In three separate ceremonies in the three capitals on Dec. 17, 1992, President Bush, Mexican President Salinas, and Canadian Prime Minister Mulroney signed the historic North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The framework agreement proposed to eliminate restrictions on the flow of goods, services, and investment in North America. The House of Representatives approved NAFTA, by a vote of 234 to 200 on November 17, 1993, and the Senate voted 60 to 38 for approval on November 20. It was signed into law by President Clinton on December 8, 1993, and took effect on January 1, 1994.
Bush 1 spent 2 years negotiating it. It was a done deal when Clinton signed it. Clinton did not negotiate it, it was all done by a Bush.
Jeb 2016!
Mexican President Salinas and President Bush began negotiations for a liberalized trade between the two countries. Prior to NAFTA, Mexican tariffs on U.S. imports were 250% higher than U.S. tariffs on Mexican imports. In 1991, Canada requested a trilateral agreement, which then led to NAFTA. In 1993, concerns about liberalization of labor and environmental regulations led to the adoption of two addendums.
NAFTA was signed by President George H.W. Bush, Mexican President Salinas, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1992.
It was ratified by the legislatures of the three countries in 1993. The U.S. House of Representatives approved it by 234 to 200 on November 17, 1993. The U.S. Senate approved it by 60 to 38 on November 20, three days later.
It was finally signed into law by President Bill Clinton on December 8, 1993 and entered force January 1, 1994.
Even without NAFTA, it was Reagan who signed the original 1986 amnesty. You know, the three-prong stool with the amnesty, the border control, and punishing employers. But border control cost tax money, and punishing employers stifled the economy. Can’t be having any of that. So only the amnesty part stuck.
Why didn’t Clinton veto it. Look there are plenty here who, like me, say it was both sides screwing the public. But for some reason the left wing D’s can’t seem to blame the Ds also.
I loathe those country club Richie poo 1 percenter Rs who are trying to sell out the country to the open borders crowd.
But if you want to blame Reagan, who deserves it, you should blame anyone wanting to do it now EVEN MORE because they have Reagan’s negative example of what will happen.
Just educating you.
Still can’t bring yourself to criticize Bubba, huh.
Must have been “one of those jobs that Americans won’t do.”
Another whopper is the one where the illegals “contribute to economy.” ISTM that those $19/hour beef-processors contributed a lot more. If nothing else, they didn’t send money out of the country.
+1
+3. Fee times …
should uncle fed just forgive all the cash it printed and loaned to uncle sam?
In the USA in the year 2015, this is considered “news”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/08/17/office-dentist-who-killed-cecil-lion-reopens
And speaking of “news” here top Drudge link reports The Donald sez Zuck you!
http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/17/news/companies/donald-trump-mark-zuckerberg-immigration/index.html
Got MS-13? LOLZ
Drudge doesn’t have any alarmist trash about ISIS today, but the Weakly Standard dumps on Iran, advocates borrowing another trillion to launch a ground invasion (paid for with money borrowed from communist China)
American voters and taxpayers, you are being manipulated and lied to
And if this doesn’t rally your base to invade Iran yesterday, nothing will:
http://mobile.wnd.com/2015/08/image-of-jesus-appears-in-aerial-smoke-trail/?cat_orig=diversions
Lurkers and new readers should ask themselves:
Who is Sheldon Adelson?
Where did he get $30,000,000,000?
And why is he buying American elections?
I didn’t know where he made his money so I looked it up. He seems to be a hotel and gambling baron. So he made his billions exploiting people who are stupid because they gamble away billions.
For informational purposes only:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_times
It’s like the Huffington Post for neocons, LOLZ
Is it safe to conclude at this point that China’s stock market intervention was an unbridled success?
Wah…huh!?
China’s Stocks Sink Most in Three Weeks on State Support Concern
August 17, 2015 — 6:24 PM PDT
Updated on August 18, 2015 — 3:05 AM PDT
China’s Stocks Sink Again
Chinese stocks tumbled the most in three weeks as traders reduced stimulus bets and speculated the government will pare back efforts to prop up equities.
The Shanghai Composite Index sank 6.2 percent to 3,748.16 at the close, the biggest loss since an 8.5 percent rout on July 27. About 35 stocks fell for each that rose, while more than 600 companies plunged by the daily 10 percent limit. The Hang Seng China Enterprises Index slid 1.75 percent to its lowest level in nine months in Hong Kong.
Chinese investors lowered expectations for further monetary stimulus after data Tuesday showed home-price gains are spreading. Odds of an imminent cut to lenders’ reserve requirements dropped after the central bank injected cash into the financial system through its weekly open-market operations. The securities regulator said Friday that China Securities Finance Corp., the state agency tasked with supporting share prices, will reduce buying as volatility falls.
“Investors ran for the exit when the government failed to step in to support the market,” said Steve Wang, the chief China economist at Reorient Financial Markets Ltd. in Hong Kong. “The CSF has become a main player in this market so everyone is watching it. People panic when it stops buying.”
Volatility in Chinese markets has reverberated around the world over the past two months as slowing growth complicates efforts by the ruling Communist Party to loosen its grip on the financial system and shift to a more consumer-driven economy.
The Shanghai Composite had rebounded 14 percent from its July 8 low through Monday after the government intervened to end a $4 trillion rout. The index rallied 5.9 percent last week even as the yuan’s biggest plunge in 21 years roiled global markets.
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Excuse you, pbear… it’s ALL PART OF THE PLAN. Chicoms have it all figured out!
Does that have something to do with their exceptionally high IQs?
Asia Markets
China shares tumble 6.2% despite PBOC’s big cash injection
Published: Aug 18, 2015 7:33 a.m. ET
Central bank’s largest single-day injection in almost 19 months
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“At 2 p.m. it started to turn south again at a very fast rate,” said Steve Wang, a research director at Reorient Group. “People questioned why the government hadn’t yet stepped in” at a time of the day that it usually would, he added.’
Maybe China’s brilliant leaders forgot to turn on the alarm clock.
Metals Stocks
Copper slumps to six-year low on China demand woes
Published: Aug 18, 2015 3:58 a.m. ET
Gold futures pull back after Monday’s climb
Bloomberg
By Sara Sjolin
Markets reporter
Metals prices dropped across the board on Tuesday, with copper sliding to a more-than-six-year low on concerns over future demand from China.
High-grade copper for September delivery HGU5, -1.83% lost 3 cents, or 1.2%, to $2.29 a pound, setting it on track for its lowest settlement price since July 2009. On Monday, the industrial metal shaved off 1.3% against a backdrop of worries that China’s recent devaluation of the yuan will slow down the country’s import of copper. Like many other commodities, copper is traded in dollars, so a stronger greenback against the yuan means the metal gets more expensive for Chinese buyers.
“While speculation continues regarding the timing, rationale, and prognosis for further depreciation, macroeconomic data out of China are weak and will continue the pressure towards yuan devaluation,” analysts from Barclays said in a note on Monday.
But they reiterated their call that China’s copper consumption will increase year-over-year in 2015, based on a belief that the world’s second largest economy will stabilize in the second half of the year via stimulus measures.
“However, the deterioration in the Chinese economy may continue, and the risk of a Chinese hard landing appears to be growing, not declining, which would undermine our assumption [for copper],” they added.
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Did the US hit China with The Rod of God? I never heard of a “kinetic energy” weapon, but I sure loves me a good conspiracy theory.
http://www.naturalnews.com/050816_Tianjin_explosion_space-based_weapons_military_retaliation.html
This says it is in retaliation for the yuan devaluation. Why would the U.S. have a problem with that? China makes its goods cheaper, showing that it’s economy is tanking, and making the dollar look better is something we don’t want?
Yeah, I dunno, none of this makes sense, really. Although I do note that Chinese stawks are proceeding down another leg, or they were.
Not to mention Obama sent a strongly worded message to China regarding its covert operations in the US, to locate the people they’d like to have back on the mainland.
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-06/rods-god
“I never heard of a “kinetic energy” weapon…”
The M1 Abrams tank primary weapon propels a depleted uranium (very heavy) sabot that is encased in a plastic shell that peels away once the projectile exits the barrel. The sabot is traveling at great velocities, and it concentrates huge force to a small area upon impact. It is able to penetrate several layers of reactive armor prior to entering the primary cavity with such energy that the interior and it occupants become incinerated despite the lack of an explosive shape charge.
‘ but I sure loves me a good conspiracy theory’
Asteroid mining —-> metals—-> rods of God? Hmmmmm?
Futures Movers
Oil drops again as oversupply fears persist
Published: Aug 18, 2015 4:01 a.m. ET
WTI crude trades around 6-and-a-half year low
Pump jacks pump petroleum from the ground in Germany in this file photo.
By Victor Reklaitis
Markets writer
Oil futures fell early Tuesday, building on their sizable drop for the month as worries about a global crude glut showed no signs of abating.
September West Texas Intermediate crude CLU5, -0.62% slid by 38 cents, or 0.9%, to $41.49 a barrel, while October Brent crude LCOV5, -0.64% lost 47 cents, or 0.9%, to $48.27 a barrel.
Tim Evans, energy futures specialist at Citi, said in a note late Monday that his team is “projecting an ongoing global supply/demand surplus through the end of 2016, with rising inventories that would continue to pressure prices as part of a ‘lower for longer’ scenario.”
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What happens when you run out of other people’s money.
It is truly amazing how socialism destroys a country and its people.
Venezuela should be a paradise. Massive oil reserves. A bread basket and a garden where literately anything you throw on the ground will grow. Beautiful beaches. Amazing women…
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Venezuela’s currency is now so worthless that people are using it as napkins
Business Insider | August 18, 2015 | Mike Bird
There’s an image going round that sums up just how ridiculous Venezuela’s economy has become.
A Reddit user uploaded a picture on Monday of a man using a 2 bolivar note to hold an empanada.
According to Venezuela’s official bolivar-dollar exchange rate, the man using his money as a napkin is wasting about $US0.31 (£0.20).
But on the black market, the reality is completely different. You can get 676.88 bolivars to the dollar, according to dolartoday.com. That means holding food with a 2 bolivar note costs the holder less than a third of one US cent.
Where does all the money go? Into the pockets of the corrupt leaders. Capitalist or communist this is always the answer. Mexico is the same deal. Resource rich.
And Trump is right, we can totally make them pay.
Ahem. Tropical environments aren’t paradises. Only tourists believe that. The sad reality is that in such environments, food storage is a huge problem due to rot and bugs. Without food storage, people are forced to deal with fresh food a lot, which eats up their time in food preparation.
That’s why the world’s most productive races emerged from the temperate north. Food production could be stored for long periods (like months), which greatly freed up laborers for other work, generally creating industries thereby, then technology.
“Tropical environments aren’t paradises.”
Jared Diamond arrived at this conclusion too, IIRC.
“China Shadow Banks Appeal For Government Bailout”
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/06cc9b9c-44c4-11e5-b3b2-1672f710807b.html
Ordinary citizens invested in these shadow banks so the banks could make high interest loans to companies who have no ability to pay them back, and have been borrowing for years just to make payments on interest. The stock market is just the fuse, the shadow banks are where the dynamite is hiding.
“Emerging Markets Extend Slide as Commodities Fall; Pound Jumps”
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-17/most-asian-equity-futures-signal-gains-as-baht-slides-on-bombing
Difference #5473 between Conservatives and Liberals.
Conservatives want you to fight back and have the means to fight back.
But then again - 2banana’s rule:
Conservatives and more than happy to live under the same laws and taxes they want for everyone else.
Liberals expect to exempted from the same laws and taxes they want for everyone else.
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NC: Reporter Says “Never Fight Back”!
Gun Watch | 14 August, 2015 | Dean Weingarten
A resident in North Carolina successfully used a handgun to defend his home against two intruders. One of the intruders was found in a vehicle with life threatening injuries: the other fled on foot and was captured. The reporter at WCNC comes to an exactly opposite conclusion of what most people would, and felt compelled to give the following advice. From wcnc.com:
Police say the answer is clear — you should never fight back. Their biggest piece of advice — DO NOT RESIST!
Here are other ways to protect yourself:
— Try to stay calm: Don’t make any sudden movements to upset the robber.
— Tell the robber about anything that might surprise him for example, someone is on their way home.
— If you have to move or reach, tell the robber what you’re doing.
— And of course, try to get a good look at the robber so you can describe them later.
The reporter would have us believe that robbers never want to rape anyone, beat anyone, or kill anyone. I expect reporters to be exposed to reasonably frequent reports of assaults, rapes, and murders. To give such advice, a reporter must believe that those people only were hurt… because they resisted!
CNN piece reports “Rand Paul fares best among voters under age 50″
If you want conservatives to win more elections, stop catering to the reverse mortgage, walk-in bathtub, adult diaper demographic
Libertarianism is the future, the culture wars are over
I don’t know. While I personally like a lot of liberty I don’t think it is compatible with the welfare state we have. Kind of similar to open borders not being compatible with the welfare state.
I think responsibility is necessary for liberty. Two sides of the same coin. The welfare stare doesn’t teach responsibility.
“If you want conservatives to win more elections, stop catering to the reverse mortgage, walk-in bathtub, adult diaper demographic.”
It’s not gonna happen, because when push comes to shove, it’s the resentful old white guy who will vote to cut taxes for the wealthy because some black guy collects welfare.
some black guy collects welfare
Jesse Jackson, for example?
SJWs are really scraping the bottom of the barrel, playing the race card with every hand
70% of black children in America are born out of wedlock
And if you want to pin that one on whitey, pin it on Lyndon Johnson
Point proven.
70% of black children in America are born out of wedlock
This is old, boring information. What’s new is the significant number of pale white babies born to unmarried women.
Just like the “11 million” illegals figure seems to have not increased in 15 years, this 70 percent figure seems trapped in amber also.
What’s new is the significant number of pale white babies born to unmarried women.
This will soon be the norm. They’ll get knocked up by hot bad boys while the rest of men will play xbox in their parent’s basement.
“This is old, boring information.”
True… so how many of ‘em were tricks?
CNN piece reports “Rand Paul fares best among voters under age 50″
RealClearPolitics says that CNN has Paul in sixth place with 6%.
Exactly. Rand Paul is hot garbage.
Ron, on the other hand, was solid and head real support from younger voters.
The US Presidency is also a bit about branding and Rand Paul is done here because he’s like 5′8″. The visual of him standing next to a Trump or Romney is just LOL for days. The US is a lot different and less forgiving than other countries like UK, France, Japan, etc in this regard.
Fixt for you Lib….
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RandRu Paul is hotgarbage.”Shorter than his father, then. I was surprised to see that Ron Paul is at least 5′ 10 - 11″. He shook everyone’s hand after a speech at UNLV in 2007 (?). Very sweet to my daughter when she told him she was sorry that she couldn’t vote for him because she was too young to vote.
“Shorter than his father, then.”
Always enjoy a woman’s perspective.
Sure you do. In any case, my comment was not meant to be disparaging.
“Libertarianism is the future, the culture wars are over”
I’m a 56 year old libertarian. Guess I’m a hipster. Campaigned door-to-door for Libertarian Party presidential candidate Ed Clark in 1980 at age 21 when most people wanted Reagan to win. Handed out thousands of brochures door to door.
Won an election in 1982 for some minor municipal office in California. That same year I was the campaign manager for a Libertarian Party candidate for a California Assembly district election.
Even published a libertarian newsletter in the early 80s.
After all the politicking I decided to get serious about my college and finish my degree in Mathematics and get my career. I never let go of libertarianism over the years. I’ve been called a communist many times by conservatives and a fascist many times by “progressives.” So I think I’ve done right.
No challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than?
The cancellation of “Dancing with the Stars?”
……….communists, socialists and their Free $hit Fable.
Uh huh. Like the lower taxes “trickle down” idea worked any better.
Trickle Down = total Fail for the 99%
Trickle Down = success for the 1% because the whole thing was designed to not trickle
People who can be trained to complain about estate and capital gains taxes for millionaires have no problem sitting at the feet of the massuh catching those crumbs.
Don’t be a Lola.
All we need is Lola to show up wookin puh nub and we’ll have once, twice, fee times a maidy all in a row.
My carbon footprint kicks your carbon footprint’s @ss
My carbon footprint beat up your honor student.
Virtual reality porn contact lenses. You think people are distracted now?
‘No challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than?’
Oil going down in price.
over population of humans
Hush my darling, don’t fear my darling
The Dentist sleeps tonight
How does a dentist have the money to go gallivanting all over the world shooting rare animals? That’s a lot of fancy crowns to push.
If he’s an implant specialist he probably makes some serious coin.
I’ve had this thought as well. The only thing I took away from the Cecil the lion thing is that dental work as gotten stupidly expensive along with regular healthcare.
Only bigger and bigger government can give us:
Affordable housing
Affordable health care
Affordable college
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Hillary Clinton Would Make College Even More Expense
Townhall.com - Steven Moore - 8/18/2015
In the days ahead, millions of kids will pack their bags and leave home (hopefully for good) to go to college. For parents experiencing this for the first time: welcome to the biggest financial scam in America. Richard Vedder, an economist at Ohio University and an expert on college costs, puts it very plainly: “Colleges and universities may be the least cost-efficient institutions in the United States. No industry, perhaps other than prostitution, has seen less productivity improvements than higher education.”
Which brings me to Hillary Clinton’s newly announced ten-year plan to make colleges more affordable by offering up $350 billion in taxpayer subsidies. She’s right that colleges are unaccountable, lack transparency and are overpriced. “College is supposed to help people achieve their dreams, but more and more, paying for college actually pushes those dreams further and further out of reach,” Clinton declared. “That is a betrayal of everything college is supposed to represent.”
The latest statistics are jaw-dropping. There are dozens of colleges this year that charge students and their families more than $50,000 a year for room, board and tuition. That is a betrayal. College tuition costs have gone up faster than the costs of health care and even housing over the past decade. In the digital age, education costs should be falling. You can now take online courses for a tiny fraction of what it costs to sit in the classroom.
Clinton’s plan would only make the crisis worse by having taxpayers foot an even larger share of the cost of tuition. She wouldn’t make it free — that’s the Bernie Sanders idea — but only a small fraction of college cost would be borne by the students. This third-party payer system is what has caused the spiral of inflation in tuitions in the first place. The only other industry that has a similar government payer system is health care, and look at the runaway costs there.
It’s a good bet that if the Clinton plan were implemented, colleges would respond to the rush of money by raising tuition even further. The days of the $100,000-a-year universities would be right around the corner.
College is a basic human right. Just like Facebook.
In the crater, the mighty crater,
the donkeys trapped for life…..
Jeebus, that’s awesome. Made my day.
Me also!
Me three!
When any 20-something I know signs their name on a mortgage loan, they age twenty years overnight
A shell of their former selves, just a hollowed out carcass going through the motions of pretending to be alive
All possible with 360 easy monthly payments
For some.
For others it is different.
Now please give generously to the Clinton Charities. They are doing God’s work.
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Chelsea Clinton to buy $10.5 million apartment on Madison Square Park
Philip Caulfield - NEW YORK DAILY NEWS - March 14th, 2013
Chelsea Clinton and her husband, Marc Mezvinsky, are buying a sleek, $10.5 million apartment overlooking Madison Square Park, sources said.
Last Sunday, Clinton, 33, and her husband, 35, planned to take a hush-hush tour of the New Georgian-style pre-war with her parents, former President Bill Clinton and ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
The four-bedroom, five-and-a-half bath spread is on the second floor and features oak floors, Italian marble bathrooms and elevator access.
LOL! Thx!
The cheap, counterfeit price anchors are coming loose. They’re failing.
“The rule is expected to have virtually no impact on global warming, but the EPA argues thousands of lives will be saved every year as coal plants are shut down and levels of air pollutants decrease.”
Report: EPA’s Global Warming Rule Could KILL Thousands Of People
by Daily Caller | Michael Bastasch | August 18, 2015
The EPA claims its Clean Power Plan will end up saving lives from reducing air pollution, but a new report by a free market energy group warns the agency’s global warming rule will end up killing more than it saves.
“The EPA’s climate rule has no discernible impact on climate change and may cause thousands of premature deaths in the United States,” according to a recent report by the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER). “The EPA relies on faulty data to make exaggerated claims about the benefits of a rule that will cost Americans hundreds of billions of dollars and plunge millions of families into poverty.”
“The loss of disposable income due to higher energy bills will leave families with less money to spend on health care, prescriptions, and other essentials. Therefore, EPA should withdraw its expensive and harmful carbon regulation,” according to IER’s report.
As part of President Barack Obama’s global warming agenda, the EPA finalized the Clean Power Plan earlier this month. The rule aims to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 and limit emissions from newly built electricity generating units. The rule is expected to have virtually no impact on global warming, but the EPA argues thousands of lives will be saved every year as coal plants are shut down and levels of air pollutants decrease.
Infinite growth is not possible in a finite ecosystem
Use birth control
And stop breeding, adopt a shelter pet instead!
UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development is the action plan implemented worldwide to inventory and control all land, all water, all minerals, all plants, all animals, all construction, all means of production, all energy, all education, all information, and all human beings in the world. INVENTORY AND CONTROL.—-Rosa Koire
- See more at: http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/#sthash.my9×6gYv.dpuf
They just need to release the male birth control pill to the public. Overpopulation will take care of itself.
Only if you can convince all those third worlders to take it. I suspect that it will be an especially hard sell in the Islamic world.
It isn’t needed in the first world. The birth rate is already below replacement levels and will continue to fall.
Isn’t it such a buzzkill when all the glaciers you rely on as a fresh water source melt and disappear?
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0817/How-Asia-s-melting-Tian-Shan-glaciers-could-fuel-conflict
Bigger government, more regulations, higher taxes, et cetera
And now back to your regularly scheduled Drudge Report links
“By 2050, half of the remaining ice in Asia’s Tian Shan mountains could be gone, depriving large parts of Central Asia of much-needed water.”
Glacier scientist: I knew data hadn’t been verified
By David Rose for The Mail on Sunday
Created: 19:54 EST, 23 January 2010
The scientist behind the bogus claim in a Nobel Prize-winning UN report that Himalayan glaciers will have melted by 2035 last night admitted it was included purely to put political pressure on world leaders.
Dr Murari Lal also said he was well aware the statement, in the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), did not rest on peer-reviewed scientific research.
In an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Dr Lal, the co-ordinating lead author of the report’s chapter on Asia, said: ‘It related to several countries in this region and their water sources. We thought that if we can highlight it, it will impact policy-makers and politicians and encourage them to take some concrete action.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245636/Glacier-scientists-says-knew-data-verified.html#ixzz3jAyUsn28
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But the consensus is that it is occuring. Consensus! Consensus!
“Consensus! Consensus!”
Consensus? Consensus?
Hmm, wonder how many other un-verified and possibly false claims were published for the same reason?
We all need to freeze in the dark.
Except, of course, for our socialist masters.
““The EPA’s climate rule has no discernible impact on climate change and may cause thousands of premature deaths in the United States,” according to a recent report by the free market Institute for Energy Research (IER).”
Gee, cutting back on pollution may cause thousands of premature deaths in the United States. I wonder how an unbiased organization like the free market Institute for Energy Research that undoubtedly takes no money from the coal industry came to that conclusion?
free market
LOL when a lobbying group says “Free Market.” That’s a code phrase for loopholes, subsidies and regulatory carve-outs for industrial donors, once the fees have been paid on K Street.
Conservatives have no problem with welfare as long as it’s going to a white guy in a suit.
Conservatives have no problem with welfare as long as it’s going to a white guy in a suit.
Dman scores another zinger. True dat.
a white guy in a suit
Scott Walker buys his at Kohls, LOLZ
Nixon campaigned on his wife’s cloth coattails too, remember that?
Oh dear. Chinists gonna chine and warmists gonna warm but A-dan’s not gonna dan?
Should I be worried?
Chinese police arrest 15,000 for Internet crimes
Tue Aug 18, 2015 8:51am EDT
Police in China said on Tuesday they had arrested about 15,000 people for crimes that “jeopardized Internet security”, as the government moves to tighten controls on the Internet.
(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)
http://www.reuters.com/news - 110k -
We have a prison population in the US of about 2.5 million. Less than 1 percent.
A government of the 1%, by the 1% and for the 1%…
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Chelsea takes the plunge: Clinton enjoys a snorkeling trip in Sardinia
Daily Mail | August 18, 2015 | Kelly Mclaughlin
Chelsea Clinton and husband Marc Mezvinsky embraced their Italian holiday as they snorkeled off the shore of Sardinia on Monday.
The couple joined a few friends, including billionaire Barry Diller and his wife, fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg, for a fun day out on the boat. They jumped into the water in an alcove, surrounded by scenic rocks and cliffs.
They were seen chatting with friends and laying out on the boat before putting on their snorkeling gear and checking out the stunning blue sea.
I got pretty angry when I read that too
But then I went and voted for the candidate that Sheldon Adelson purchased
that Sheldon Adelson purchased
that Sheldon Adelson purchased
that Sheldon Adelson purchased
Chelsea chats with billionaire Barry Diller and his wife, fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg, lays out on the boat and snorkels harder than anybody else to erase whatever expectations people have of her not having a good work ethic, or not being smart, or not being motivated.
Chelsea Clinton: I tried to care about money but couldn’t
BY Leslie Larson
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Monday, June 23, 2014, 9:36 AM
“I was curious if I could care about (money) on some fundamental level, and I couldn’t,” she told Fast Company in an interview that ran in the magazine’s May edition, explaining why she gave up lucrative gigs to join her family’s philanthropic foundation.
Comparing her experience to the average millennial, the 34-year-old former first daughter defended jumping around to different careers — from consulting to a hedge fund to academia to journalism — before finding her true calling working with her parents.
The Clinton name likely opened doors for the political heiress, including an eye-popping $600,000 annual salary for an irregular stint as an NBC special correspondent, but Chelsea insists her work speaks for itself.
“I will just always work harder (than anybody else) and hopefully perform better,” said Clinton, who along with former banker husband Marc Mezvinsky, purchased a $10.5-million Gramercy Park apartment in 2013. “And hopefully, over time, I preempt and erase whatever expectations people have of me not having a good work ethic, or not being smart, or not being motivated.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/chelsea-clinton-care-money-article-1.1840138 -
I like a hard snorkler!
“I like a hard snorkler!”
Then forget Chelsea; go visit a laundromat in a trailer park.
“They jumped into the water in an alcove, surrounded by scenic rocks and cliffs.”
Stop the presses! Notify Drudge and Fox! A Clinton is swimming near scenic rocks and cliffs! Was she under water meeting with public union goons? News at 11.
that Sheldon Adelson purchased
that Sheldon Adelson purchased
that Sheldon Adelson purchased
Stop the presses! Notify Drudge and Fox! A Clinton is swimming near scenic rocks and cliffs! Was she under water meeting with public union goons? News at 11
With billionaires…
And Chelsea has done what with her life to earn this?
And please give generously to the Clinton Charity. They are doing God’s work.
What have the Koch Brothers done with their lives except inherit daddy’s money, but now they’ve bought themselves a political party. Why don’t you ever post any articles about that?
Rallying the base
Salon dot com has an article titled “George Zimmerman partners with Florida “anti-Muslim zone” gun shop owner to sell customized Confederate battle flag paintings”
Whoa, Nelly
When all the progressives wake up at noon today they’re gonna have a field day with that one
Got promethazine with codeine, LOLZ
Yesterday’s SJW two minute hate was reserved for this recruiting video by a University of Alabama sorority.
http://www.inquisitr.com/2345593/alpha-phi-alabama/
Beautiful young Southern white ladies. It was like waving a red cape in front of a herd of ugly mooing cows.
The average adult female in America today weighs 166 pounds
Which is probably why there was so much hate for the video.
Alpha Phi = all for free, in frat boy parlance.
Heh, I may have told this story before, but during my college days I knew one of those snob guys from the Northeast got into the whole Boston area upper crust college scene. He got a little restless and decided to transfer to Duke, where he thought he’d be welcomed with open arms. Off he went, with visions of being courted by every frat on campus and cutting a wide swath through acres of Southern belles. He was gonna show all those Southerners how it was done.
Lol, he was ever so politely frozen out of the frats. As far as the southern belles were concerned, he was Ok for a clandestine quickie, but no way were they going to invite him to any social events, and certainly not past the front door of the sorority and definitely not home to meet the family.
He came back to Boston with his tail between his legs. Just couldn’t understand why Southern college society wasn’t interested in a Nawthen boy from a good family.
Are you talking about Downlow Joe going to law school at U Virginia?
When and where did Downlow Joe make his debut? Was it white tie?
Uncle Goon was Princeton class of ‘42, back when Downlow Joe’s granddaddy was selling vegetables out of a pushcart on Mulberry Street
Liberace’s grandaddy Loannes was a late arrival to the greek ghetto in Queens. Records show he was selling gyros from an illegal basement apartment.
Records show he was selling gyros from an illegal basement apartment.
Aren’t those the best ones?
Having fun while being white is racist.
Just remember folks, there can be all black sororities, all black political organizations, funded by the government even, but there can’t be all white anything.
It’s racist ya know…
“but there can’t be all white anything. ”
Yes there can. It’s called the Republican Party.
Insanely hot.
Let’s hear from some real journalists:
“Too young to understand what Mr. Trump meant when he called immigrants from Mexico “rapists,” Hugo boiled The Donald’s message down to three words: “Mexicans are ugly.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/19/opinion/why-latino-children-are-scared-of-donald-trump.html
Illegal invadesr who become parasites of the welfare state.
But they all vote democrat - so it is for the best.
The Washington Post (real journalists) has an op-ed today against Trump’s proposed mass deportation, but the top rated reader comments wet all over that bed
’nuff said.
https://www.google.com/search?q=carlos+slim&biw=1440&bih=799&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAmoVChMI-NnRq–yxwIVhdQeCh0ZBQKL
He’s no Chelsea Clinton that’s for sure.
This article is completely disrespectful to the memory of Cecil the Lion.
Planned Parenthood Has Politicians Completely Paid Off, Media In Its Pocket
All but one senator who voted to block defunding have accepted cash from abortion group; Deep ties to media organisations revealed
by Steve Watson | Infowars.com | August 18, 2015
Forty-five of the 46 Senators who voted against defunding Planned Parenthood recently have accepted cash donations from the abortion group, an investigation has found. In addition, several media organisations and owners also have deep ties to Planned Parenthood.
Kristi Burton Brown of Live Action, a pro-life news organisation, did some digging, and discovered that all but one of the Senators who voted to block legislation that would have diverted funds to non-abortion health clinics have received cash from Planned Parenthood in the past.
According to Live Action, Sen. Angus King was the only Senator to vote no who has never accepted Planned Parenthood cash.
“In order to fund nearly every Democrat in the U.S. Senate who voted against defunding Planned Parenthood, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund (PPA) and Planned Parenthood Votes (PPV), have spent $1,609,498. Roughly 2/3 of this money was spent in 2012 alone.” Brown notes.
Brown also notes that the abortion giant spent many more millions on ad campaigns in 2012, over 80 percent of which were directly supportive of Obama’s Presidential reelection campaign against Mitt Romney.
Planned Parenthood is mostly a women’s health organization, abortions are only a tiny percent of what they do. Why would they donate to a party that cares more about courting the evangelical vote than the lives of millions of women?
Where do they get their money?
GOP War On Retirees (except The Donald)
I actually have to give Donald Trump some credit. As Paul Krugman points out, he is the only GOP candidate against cutting Soc Sec and Medicare — in agreement with a majority of the Republican voters. Only the 1% elite megadonors want to cut Soc Sec.
“Wealthy individuals have long played a disproportionate role in politics, but we’ve never seen anything like what’s happening now: domination of campaign finance, especially on the Republican side, by a tiny group of immensely wealthy donors. Indeed, more than half the funds raised by Republican candidates through June came from just 130 families.
And while most Americans love Social Security, the wealthy don’t. Two years ago a pioneering study of the policy preferences of the very wealthy found many contrasts with the views of the general public; as you might expect, the rich are politically different from you and me. But nowhere are they as different as they are on the matter of Social Security. By a very wide margin, ordinary Americans want to see Social Security expanded. But by an even wider margin, Americans in the top 1 percent want to see it cut. And guess whose preferences are prevailing among Republican candidates.”
http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2015/08/republicans_against_retirement.html
“And while most Americans love Social Security, the wealthy don’t.”
Wealthy republican donors have no respect for people who don’t have the initiative to go out and inherit everything they have from their rich mommy and daddy.
Worthless Lola….. worthless worthless Lola…… She gets more worthless with each passing day.
“And while most Americans love Social Security, the wealthy don’t.”
So why not make it voluntary? Or have choices on how they money will be invested in someone’s name?
“Most Americans love Social Security” - at the point of a gun.
Scratch a democrat - get a tyrant.
And Stalin, Pol Pot and Kim Jong-un won elections with 99% of the vote (almost as good as Philadelphia voting).
“Most Americans love Social Security” - at the point of a gun.
Polls run about 70% of the public in full support of Soc Sec. It’s America’s most popular government program. Oddly, there are some on the right (part of that 30% minority) who hate the government so much they are willing to shoot themselves in the foot in order to satisfy their spoon-fed AM radio ideology.
OK - we have now gone from “most Americans” to 70%…
So I ask AGAIN
So why not make it voluntary? Or have choices on how they money will be invested in someone’s name?
Because just like closes shop public goon states where you have to join a union as a condition of employment…
Really no one wants to join - they are forced to to keep democrats in power.
So why not make it voluntary? Or have choices on how they money will be invested in someone’s name?
If you want a choice, open a 401k or a Roth. Since you hate Soc Sec so much, you’re welcome to return your benefit checks uncashed to the Treasury.
I’ll take a check for my “contributions” instead Lola. Down to the last penny.
Since you hate Soc Sec so much, you’re welcome to return your benefit checks uncashed to the Treasury.
Ayn Rand cashed her SS checks. You can be certain that BananaBoy will do the same.
Because 70% are getting a free ride while the other 30% foot the bill Lola.
Because 70% are getting a free ride while the other 30% foot the bill Lola.
Congratulations, you just insulted millions of people who worked 40+ years and paid into the system the whole time, and who are now collecting the benefits they have earned and deserved.
Benefits they have earned? Earned? Lola, lola, lola.
What is wrong with picture?
So many things…
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Troubled Interfaith Housing could join New York nonprofit
James McGinnis - Bucks County Courier Times - 8/18/2015
Bucks County’s troubled Interfaith Housing Development Corp. could soon be absorbed into a much larger nonprofit, which would take over management of more than 70 local properties purchased with government loans.
Excited at that potential partnership, Rob Loughery, chairman of the county commissioners, on Monday said the government could loan Housing Visions $350,000 next year in a show of good faith.
Since 1987, Bucks has committed more than $3.5 million in loans and investments to Interfaith affordable housing projects. Today, much of that money is tied up in mortgages and property liens. Some of those sites are subject to delinquent taxes going back two years.
“The county has a major investment in these properties to the tune of several million dollars,” said Loughery. “This is another investment, but it’s also required to protect our investment.
Deed and mortgage records show Interfaith had a history of buying and mortgaging properties, including vacant land before the 2008 housing market crash. The organization also went through several directors and eventually eliminated all staff last year. Today, a part-time bookkeeper, chosen by its 10-member board, works on an “as needed” basis, officials said.
Since 2014, Interfaith has been forced to sell off about two vacant properties, said vice president Bud Johnson, of Northampton. Two others could be sold this year. No tenants were evicted, though, he stressed.
The organization first contacted Interfaith after reading about its financial problems in newspaper articles, said Ben Lockwood, Housing Visions’ vice president of business development.
“The goal of any partnership we would have would be to protect the people that are in those housing units,” said Lockwood. “There’s a lot of work that has been done and there’s a lot of work to be done but we’re in the final stages.”
“We’d still be struggling, and, yes, we’d probably have to start selling off more properties,” he added. “I don’t know that our housing organization would still be here.”
Does this mean anything?
About 10 years ago circa 2005/2006 I opened more than a few new credit card accounts. At that time there were a lot of promotions for freebies and such. I got A LOT of credit. I had then, and still have today, unblemished credit, pay off my balances every month, opened my first credit card nearly 30 years ago. I put a freeze on my credit, I check my report every 4 months.
Around 2008/2009 the banks started canceling some of the cards I wasn’t using. Then nothing since.
Just in the last month they started canceling some more unused accounts. Different banks. I still have a ton of credit.
2008/2009 is when banks were getting a little nervous about their finances, then Mama Yellen stepped in and made things all better. Maybe the banks are getting nervous again.
A few thoughts:
Nothing here is going to China or Mexico. Self inflicted liberalism run amok in environmental and union law.
AND THEY VOTED AND SUPPORTED IT ALL THEY WAY.
But they protest NOT outside obama and democrat headquarters…
Maybe they will figure it out one day when obama tells them that illegals have more of right to a college education than their own kids.
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Union rallies outside Patriot Coal over pension benefits
Yahoo Finance | 08/18/2015 | Jonathan Mattise, AP
Busloads of United Mine Workers of America miners and retirees roared in protest outside Patriot Coal headquarters Monday, as the bankrupt company looks to nix a union contract that includes pension contributions and health benefits.
From a makeshift stage on the bed of a tow truck, UMWA President Cecil Roberts bellowed out to a camouflage-clad crowd of 1,500 to 1,800 miners and led them in a march to nearby Patriot headquarters. UMWA packed twenty-two buses of miners from Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and elsewhere, according to union spokesman Phil Smith.
Wow, a company is trying to completely screw over it’s workers, and you blame Obama. Why don’t you go and tell those miners that they’re too stupid to know who is trying to take away their pensions and health benefits. Let us know how that works out for you.
crater
crater to you
Subprime is something you give to people with no money. Is that anyway to run an economy??
Depends on how the people receiving sub-prime vote.
Yup.
The free shet Army’s worst: Exxon, Monsanto, Israel and the billionaire moocher-scammers!
Not the single mom getting $155 a mo in food stamps to spend at her local store.
I agree - get rid of them.
60% of the Federal Budget goes toward entitlements to individuals.
17% of the Federal Budget goes toward defense.
obama has racked up more debt than ALL the previous administration combined and accounting for inflation.
Where did all THAT MONEY GO???
obama has racked up more debt than ALL the previous administration combined and accounting for inflation. Where did all THAT MONEY GO???
A lot of went to the big banks because they were “too big to fail.” Obama’s early budgets look bad because he had to clean up Booshie’s mess.
Try again.
98.9% of TARP funds have been repaid. Yes, the bailouts made the first budgets look bad, but on a net basis, TARP didn’t contributed much of anything to the total debt.
http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/reports/Pages/TARP-Tracker.aspx
The debt increased for the usual reasons. We spend more than we collect.
Clinton had a surplus, bush returned it to the people with his tax cuts.
that did not work out so well.
more info: http://www.businessinsider.com/how-clinton-surplus-became-a-6t-deficit-2013-1
“An extremely large tax cut that failed to pay for itself, two wars on the nation’s credit card, an unfunded expansion of an entitlement program, and general overspending turned what could’ve been a cushy surplus into a huge deficit.”
It’s fair to attribute part of the increased deficit to the dual wars and recession. And there are two parts to a deficit calculation…revenues and spending. Yes. Bush cut taxes…but Obama unwound those cuts–so tax revenues are now at an all time high.
So, how are we doing on spending?
The US Federal Budget as a percent of GDP was approximately 22.5% in 1990-1991 (recession level spending and GDP), and then steadily fell to about 18% in 2000…a bubble GDP peak. Under Bush II, it rose again to about 20%…then spiked after the crash to about 25%–understandable…but we have NOT yet fallen back to 20%…we are still spending at about 22.5% of GDP.
In other words, even after dealing with the bulk spending of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and the spending in the aftermath of the housing crash and great recession, well into the “recovery” we are still spending the same percentage of GDP as the early 90’s peak spending.
Why are we still spending an amount of GDP consistent with a recession (where spending is higher and GDP lower)?
The answer is simple…demographics.
We are spending more and more and more (as a percent of GDP) on social security and Medicare. And we continue to ignore this problem. The longer we wait, the harder it will be to fix, and as Bill Clinton said…there aren’t enough rich people to tax in order to solve the problem–so reforming these programs is critical, and the only way forward.
I criticize Obama the most for making exactly zero progress on entitlement reform–and this is despite having complete control of the government for 2 full years. And before you talk about the “obstructionist right”, a big part of why he has no relationship with the right is because of how he treated this power from quite literally, his first days in office.
When he had the ability, he put more of an emphasis on adding a gigantic program (Obamacare), and codifying TBTF (through Dodd-Frank), thereby harming small financial institutions (and the pace of recovery), INSTEAD of fixing the problems that, with any reasonable math, are going to cause massive problems in the medium-term future.
A poor choice. And a chickensh*t way out. Giving people more free cheese and heaping complex regulations upon the largest financial institutions are politically quite easy. Try to tell people that Medicare isn’t financially viable as currently structured–that’s hard…and vitally necessary for the long-term health of this country.
Obama set his policy based on polling numbers…not the needs of the country. A follower, not a leader.
feh feh feh frrrrr frrrr
what do you want to do with the poor folks? let them get hungry and commit crimes, then lock em up at $50k a yr?
you dont have a plan, neither does anyone else. These toothless, lazy zombies have no skills!
+1
I cant believe some people still dont get it. They can Google it, see the charts. BUSH Wars, tax cuts and the great recession.
ISIS rides around in $1 billion worth of USA tanks.
We haven’t paid for WW2 yet, Bush Oil wars…. Bush Tax cuts, Bush Recession Bail out….
Jail is $50k a yr. Food stamps are $155 mo.
As a fiscal conservative, I am pro - stamps.
Heck, Reagan tripled the deficit, (got interest?)
Benefits are about 25k a year. And the 50k a year keeps the predators out of circulation. CA is learning now about the costs of letting them go. Crime is skyrocketing.
FSO — the Free Sh-t Oligarchy.
I can agree with this Lola. Can you also agree to get rid of the FSA?
Kathleen Kane is a clone of Eric Holder — defend and uphold only the laws you agree with and ignore the rest.
A corrupt to the bone democrat - but then I repeat myself.
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In Pennsylvania, Justice Miscarried
Townhall.com | August 18, 2015 | Peter Roff
Her career is now in ruins. How she fell so far and so fast is an object lesson for ambitious prosecutors in both parties who feel tempted to use the power of their office to play politics.
Kane was elected largely because of her pledge to review the investigation that destroyed the reputations of the vaunted Pennsylvania State University football program and its longtime coach, the late Joe Paterno. The case, with which everyone in the state was familiar, included charges and counter-charges that favoritism had been shown and political cover granted to some even while former Assistant Coach Jerry Sandusky was being led to the figurative gallows.
Her review yielded no new information; in fact, it found no evidence to suggest, as she had charged while campaigning, that former GOP Attorney General Tom Corbett had dragged out Sandusky’s prosecution because he was running for governor. At one point she asserted delays in the case allowed Sandusky the opportunity to assault two additional children – a claim her office later retracted.
Kane also shut down a high-profile corruption probe while alleging racism played a role in the decision to launch an investigative sting. The case, which started under Corbett and continued under appointed A.G. Linda Kelly involved eight people including four members of the state legislature (all Democrats) and a state traffic court judge.
The racism charge raised the hackles of many, including Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams who suggested it was a preposterous idea. It should be noted that working for Williams as he pursued the investigation Kane stopped was Frank Fina, a one-time chief deputy to the attorney general who quit the AG’s office after Kane shut the corruption inquiry down to join Williams’ staff.
Her primary defense, as she explained in a Friday press conference, is that she is a threat to the establishment and is innocent. As she told reporters, “My defense will not be that I am the victim of some good old boys network; it will be that I broke no laws of the Commonwealth.”
Ferman’s indictment, however, tells another tale. Kane seems to have allowed her ambition to go to her head, exhibiting judgment that was prejudicial to the proper administration of the law in Pennsylvania. Her indictment shows she lacks the moral center necessary to be the state’s top legal officer.
These visible signs of Kane’s troubled tenure imply that more rot may lie below the surface. It is now imperative to investigate the way her office conducted its business during the brief time she has been in charge. Allegations have been made that plaintiffs’ attorneys – who as a class are very generous contributors to the Democratic Party — have been deputized to act as de facto agents of her office. Meanwhile she’s facilitated no-bid contracts for legal work, which in turn are being used as an opportunity to push legal and social agendas that are better left to the handling and wisdom of the legislature.
To quote ZZ Top “a pretty face, don’t mean a pretty heart …”
+1. I am living this on the front line.
El Diabla!
They all vote democrat - all is good.
Life is about being a friend of obama - not hard work.
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A family in public housing makes $498,000 a year. And HUD wants tenants like this to stay.
The Washington Post | August 17, 2015 | Lisa Rein
A family of four in New York City makes $497,911 a year but pays $1,574 a month to live in public housing in a three-bedroom apartment subsidized by taxpayers.
In Los Angeles, a family of five that’s lived in public housing since 1974 made $204,784 last year but paid $1,091 for a four-bedroom apartment. And a tenant with assets worth $1.6 million — including stocks, real
In a new report, the watchdog for the Department of Housing and Urban Development describes these and more than 25,000 other “over income” families earning more than the maximum income for government-subsidized housing as an “egregious” abuse of the system. While the family in New York with an annual income of almost $500,000 raked in $790,500 in rental income on its real estate holdings in recent years, more than 300,000 families that really qualify for public housing lingered on waiting lists, auditors found.
“People are the worst.” Jerry S.
“Remember Jerry, It’s not a lie, if you believe it” George C.
Heh, check The Don’s twitter feed. He must have just got his marching orders from Silicon Valley, lmao.
https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump
Scroll down a little.
“When foreigners attend our great colleges & want to stay in the U.S., they should not be thrown out of our country.
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 39m39 minutes ago
I want talented people to come into this country—to work hard and to become citizens. Silicon Valley needs engineers, etc.”
Well, that didn’t take long.
Mexicans who clean toilets, bus tables and pick strawberries - bad
Indians who depress IT salaries - good
You read my mind.
I had some hope when I first read the position paper, but this is some furious backpedaling, that’s for sure.
And much as I am against amnesty and illegal immigration, there’s potentially a lot more to fear from these “students” in terms of wage depression and other problems, like fraud, sabotage and even mass murder. In the medical field as well as the tech area, sciences, etc.
Mexicans who clean toilets, bus tables and pick strawberries - bad
Hey, wait a minute… don’t they buy $700k homes?
Good one.
OK, so now he has those tweets BIG & BOLD. From the tone, he has gone into full on neocuck “Father knows best” “lecture the base” mode. That didn’t take long, either. Must be feeling his oats now.
Pull it!
Not to mention I’m old enough to remember when peeps who couldn’t get into medical school in the US, would go south of the border to Guadalajara. I knew two guys who did that.
the South don’t need no uppity book learnin, LOLZ
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/americas-most-and-least-educated-cities-2015-08-18
Another non-hate crime to disappear down the MSM memory hole. In a church against an old lady, no less.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a86_1439925377
lol@Lola
‘Murica is cultivating real-life zombies like never before.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/the-zombie-apocalypse/
World Net Daily?
When your daughter is also your niece you’ll vote for any candidate that Sheldon Adelson purchases
The only reason dinosaurs don’t exist today is because Noah couldn’t build the Ark big enough to fit all of them
And the people who believe this elect a Congress that controls a $600,000,000,000+ a year war machine, LOLZ
“Here’s an old but relevant saying: We are nine meals from anarchy. What this means is when folks haven’t eaten for three days, all hell breaks loose. The veneer of civilization breaks down, and people will do anything to secure food or other vital resources. ”
Gee, wonder why we offer food stamps? the least expensive way to keep control!
Prob lee.
Back from Asia. The feeling was that the Chinese were buying everything they could outside of China - especially real estate - in order to get their funds out before TSHTF. If they had to sell stocks to liquidate, fine. Those who can are getting their money out.
On to other news: Greece has agreed to sell to a German company the rights to operate 14 regional airports. The deal is the first in a wave of privatizations the government had until recently opposed but needs to make to qualify for bailout loans.
Interesting. Looks like Germany’s takin’ over!
“Greece has agreed to sell to a German company the rights to operate 14 regional airports. The deal is the first in a wave of privatizations the government had until recently opposed but needs to make to qualify for bailout loans.”
Is that the way it will go here?
The United States has agreed to sell (fill in the blank) Yellowstone National Park. The deal is the first in a wave of privatizations the government had until recently opposed but needs to make to qualify for bailout loans.
We haven’t seen the full flex of China’s muscles yet.
I think you mean the full on China collapse.
Thoughts
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4 hours ago …
Published on Aug 18, 2015
Surveillance cameras catch a violent scene Sunday inside St. Cecilia Cathedral. In the video shared by Father James Netusil, Associate Pastor, two men can be seen entering the church before approaching a woman reading a church newsletter. One grabs her purse and takes off through the door while the other punches the woman in the side of the head.
Grateful Dead Europe ‘72 live album is the purest form of music ever performed or recorded
“We can share the women, we can share the wine”
I’m not sure about that. Perhaps you’ve yet to hear Bishop Bullwinkle?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AOmaX-VuoY
Also, allow yourself the joy of 8-bit Metallica before deciding:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uERdsMKeLyw
Woodstock was going on 46 years ago this month
By Andrea Waguespack Published 4:52 pm, Friday, August 14, 2015
Woodstock, billed as “An Aquarian Explosion: 3 Days of Music & Peace,” was held 46 years ago on Aug. 15-18, 1969 in Bethel, New York.
32 musical acts performed for nearly half a million people, rain or shine. Among the legendary lineup was Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin and The Kozmic Blues Band, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, and Joe Cocker and The Grease Band.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so we’ll let them do the talking. Take a look at the gallery above for scenes from Woodstock 1969.
http://www.chron.com/…/article/Woodstock-was-going-on-right-now-46-years-ago-6445253.php - 787k -
Spent some time in the Kawangware slum on the outskirts of Nairobi, and also visited the Maasai Mara and saw the great wildebeest migration. Best time of my life. Even hugged a bunch of HIV Positive kids. The heart of some of these people was amazing, but I’m sure I ran into at least 20 people who would have throttled me for 10 bucks if the mood was right.
Jambo.
He gets 1K per a month from this apartment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/comments/3hgh3u/i_have_a_12_mil_dollar_apt_generating_1k_a_month/
late left coast post. Just noticed 52 week T-bill rates for the August 20 issue date are now at 0.418%.
Hasn’t been that high in years.
0.418% is not much to sneeze at considering I was getting 5 1/4 % interest in my passbook savings in 1977, my first bank account.
The slow easing off of easing is going to raise rates alright, but the student loans still are going to have to be paid and suffering will happen at the expense of real estate prices. I’ll take the 0.418%.
Are there any zombies around your ‘hood?
Ever Since The Great Recession, Zombie Houses Have Haunted New Jersey
August 18, 2015 5:33 PM ET
Joel Rose
All Things Considered
The house next door to Maureen and Michael McCabe has been sitting empty for seven years. “It freaks me out,” Maureen McCabe says. “I don’t know if there’s animals running around there, mice and rodents.”
The house next door to Maureen and Michael McCabe has been sitting empty for seven years. “It freaks me out,” Maureen McCabe says. “I don’t know if there’s animals running around there, mice and rodents.”
Joel Rose/NPR
Michael McCabe knows what it’s like to be surrounded by zombies.
Zombie houses, that is.
McCabe still lives in the neighborhood where he grew up, Woodbury Heights, N.J., a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. He knows which houses are in foreclosure and which have been abandoned. The latest seems to be right behind his own.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen,” he says. “We’re kind of prepping, because a gentleman who was there, who rented, came and told us, ‘I’m just letting you know: I’m moving. That means the grass isn’t going to get cut by me.’ And the house is in foreclosure.”
The U.S. housing market has improved since the end of the Great Recession, but some parts of the country are still haunted by these zombie houses — homes that have been abandoned by their former owners but are still mired in the foreclosure process.
No state has more zombie houses per capita than New Jersey. The state has roughly 17,000 zombie foreclosures, according to a report released in June by the company RealtyTrac.
The same report says the number of zombie homes nationwide is actually decreasing. But not in New Jersey. The Garden State has the highest zombie rate of any state; New York is nearly as bad.
Michael and Maureen McCabe’s neighborhood is full of zombie houses, including the one next door. “We don’t know what’s going to happen,” Michael McCabe says.
“Those are the states with the two absolute longest foreclosure processes in the country,” says Daren Blomquist, vice president of RealtyTrac.
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