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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Trump is two things: a showman and a salesman. He is a TV Personality before he is a politician, which is why he does everything with conviction. Any time you see him, he's trying to sell you something.
Yes, it is. The Cold War only ended because Russia's economic collapse prevented them from continuing it. That is no longer the case.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Someone photoshopped Damien from
The Omen into the picture of Trump and family meeting the Pope...
One again proving the GOPs' motivation basically boils down to "OBAMA BAD!!!", The House's health care bill would leave nearly twice as many uninsured by 2026 than the current setup.
edited 24th May '17 1:53:29 PM by sgamer82
I look forward to seeing the GOP defend this by saying the new bill will give 1 million people health insurance compared to the previous bill.
McConnell doesn't see it happening
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/24/mitch-mcconnell-obamacare-repeal-senate-votes-238779
Mc Connell: 'I don't know' how we get to 50 votes on health care bill
More on the Budget Proposal
White House denies 'egregious' budget accounting error
Mr Summers, also formerly chief economist of the World Bank, was one of the first to spot the apparent mistake.
The budget forecasts about $2tr in extra federal revenue growth over the next 10 years, which it uses to pay for Mr Trump's "biggest tax cut in history".
But that very same $2tr is then used to reduce the budget deficit.
"My observation is that there appears to be a logical error of the kind that would justify failing a student in an introductory economics course," Mr Summers wrote.
A prominent conservative economist agreed there was a discrepancy.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, president of the American Action Forum and former director of the Congressional Budget Office, told the Los Angeles Times the numbers "don't seem to match".
Mr Mulvaney said during a press briefing on Tuesday that the alleged gimmick was done "on purpose".
"The money can be used to both reduce the budget deficit and offset Mr Trump's proposed tax cuts," he told reporters.
He added: "There's other places where we were probably overly conservative in our accounting."
That is not the only problem with President Trump's $4.1tr federal budget, according to analysts on both sides of the political divide.
It hinges on the country achieving 3% annual growth, but most economists say this is unlikely for the US.
Trump's budget cuts would make UN peacekeeping 'impossible'
The US administration signalled heavy cuts to UN operations, in its budget proposals released on Tuesday.
The US foots more than a quarter of the UN's $7.9bn (£6.1bn) peacekeeping bill.
A spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the organisation was willing to discuss how peacekeeping could be made more cost-effective.
The spokesman said the UN was studying Mr Trump's plan. "The figures presented would simply make it impossible for the UN to continue all of its essential work advancing peace, development, human rights and humanitarian assistance," he said.
The BBC's Nick Bryant at the UN says such a warning from the organisation is unusually blunt.
The US provides 28.5% of the United Nations peacekeeping budget - almost three times as much as the next-highest contributor, China.
While Mr Trump's plan does not include details, the US is known to want to cap its contributions to a maximum of 25%.
Trump budget: Global losers of 'America First' plan
Just a quick summary and selected reactions to changes in military assistance, the state department, and green initiatives... Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
@Budget Accounting Error: ... Is Trump trying to steal 2 Trillion Dollars a year? It's awfully suspicious that it apparently says "We're gonna make 2 Trillion in Taxes! ... And then the 2 Trillion is going into the Defecit...".
Economics and Banking is not my strongest suit, but that sounds awfully shady to me.
Hold on, I need to verify what I'm hearing because it can't be right.
Are you guys telling me that Donald Trump, a man who has been through multiple bankruptcies, whose primary method of saving money is to just not pay employees, a man who doesn't seem to have any idea how much money he actually has besides "probs a billionaire", might be bad at economics?!
My whole worldview is shattered.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It's not Trump who's at issue here. Nobody in his administration who's responsible for the budget plan either realized that there was an error or was willing to stick their neck out to correct it. That's the truly disgusting problem here. We know Trump is grotesquely incompetent, but he didn't write the plan.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Trump thinks that if the economy has gone down the toilet, all you need to do is, "Umm, fibulate the interest rates. Denooberate the money markets. And have the US mint print more dough. Bingo, problem solved."
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.Meanwhile, Ben Carson calls poverty ‘a state of mind’
Trump’s hotels are failing to track payments received from foreign governments.
The Pentagon is in shock that Trump told Duterte about the submarines.
edited 24th May '17 3:31:47 PM by sgamer82
[538] Donald Trump’s Base Is Shrinking
. While Trump's approval rating is holding steady(ly underwater) at ~38% (against ~55% disapproval), many of them are going from "strongly approve" to "somewhat approve".
The UK and US are having a spat over intelligence leaking on the US side regarding the Manchester bombing. Cross-posted from the British politics thread:
Apparently there's been two spats between the UK and the US over this. The first was because the bomber's name was leaked by the US before the UK authorities were ready to publicly announce it (they wanted more time to close in on people who might not have known at that point that the police had identified), and now there are photographs of the crime scene in US papers.
The first, the leak of the bomber's name, seems to have gone all the way to the top of the Home Office as Amber Rudd claimed she had to step in personally — which suggests problems with the US political appointees, rather than the US intelligence agencies themselves, given that she'd be dealing with her political counterparts rather than the rank and file of the US intelligence agencies.
Andy Burnham (the mayor of the Greater Manchester area) has apparently also been in touch with the US ambassador about it.
Manchester attack: Anger at US 'evidence' photos leak
Counter terror police chiefs said the leak undermined their investigation and victims' and witnesses' confidence.
Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said he had raised the leaks with the US ambassador.
Earlier the UK home secretary said she was irritated with the US for releasing information about bomber Salman Abedi.
Amber Rudd said she had told Washington "it should not happen again".
But it added: "When that trust is breached it undermines these relationships, and undermines our investigations and the confidence of victims, witnesses and their families.
"This damage is even greater when it involves unauthorised disclosure of potential evidence in the middle of a major counter terrorism investigation."
Mr Burnham told Newsnight a decision had been taken to adopt a "cautious approach" to making information public, "and yet the first reports were coming seemingly out of the United States".
"But it worries me greatly and in fact I made known my concerns about it to the US ambassador," he said, adding: "The British police and security services need to be in the lead when this is a live investigation here."
Labour's Yvette Cooper, who chaired the influential Commons Home Affairs Committee before the general election campaign started, tweeted: "V troubled by US leaking intelligence UK has given them in middle of live investigation where public safety at risk. What is going on?"
edited 24th May '17 3:48:17 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.

All the shenanigans Russia has been pulling makes me nostalgic for Kievan Rus'.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."