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Misty » 03 May 2017 2:52 pm » wrote:A blast from the past.
More lies.
1. Their pension fund was never 'unfunded.'
2. Congress forced them to overfund their pension fund in order to try to drive them into bankruptcy, so they would have the excuse they needed to privatize them.
Yeah, how's that bankruptcy thingy going Puss?

Fast forward to 2017:

At an annual gathering of the world's most powerful thinkers and trendsetters in Beverly Hills this week, business leaders and major investors said they have gotten used to dismissing most things that President Donald Trump says or tweets.

On panels at the Milken Institute Global Conference, CEOs and billionaires were generally enthusiastic about Trump's mission to reform healthcare, cut taxes, reduce regulations and stimulate the economy.

Panelists including JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) CEO Jamie Dimon and hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin offered positive remarks about the president and urged attendees to give him more time to accomplish such sizeable goals.

But in interviews on the sidelines, the Wall Street set was far more dubious that Trump can get anything done.

"I don't take Trump seriously," said a senior executive at one of the country's six largest banks.

"I'm listening less and less."

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-milke ... SKBN17Y26U

Major averages, led by financial stocks, experienced a sudden drop on Monday after President Donald Trump said during an interview with Bloomberg News that he'd consider breaking up the nation's big banks.

In the immediate aftermath of the comments, Josh Brown pleaded with investors on CNBC's "Halftime Report" to ignore these words, despite the fact that they were coming from the president.

"Stop — please don't make changes to your portfolio based on things that get blurted out," said Brown, CEO of Ritholtz Wealth Management.

"Do not trade on this news."

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/01/josh-bro ... -news.html

Misty » 03 May 2017 10:41 pm » wrote:Bankers and business leaders say ignore Trump.
Sad.

Misty » 03 May 2017 3:31 pm » wrote:You wanna talk about sociopathic liars, take a look at the guy in the WH right now.
No POTUS has ever lied as much and as often as that guy, and if you say they did, then you're a sociopathic liar too.

Termin8tor » 03 May 2017 4:08 pm » wrote:Parania sets in.

No, I don't accept union propaganda, certainly not from a liar like you.

Here's a highly credible source with no dog in the fight.

If the Post Office was so financially sound, why were they seeking a taxpayer bailout, liar?

The Post Office is a great example of public employees unions lining their pockets and trying to stick taxpayers with the bill.

Misty » 03 May 2017 10:41 pm » wrote:Bankers and business leaders say ignore Trump.


Sad.

On panels at the Milken Institute Global Conference, CEOs and billionaires were generally enthusiastic about Trump's mission to reform healthcare, cut taxes, reduce regulations and stimulate the economy.

House Republicans say they have votes to pass controversial health-care bill today
https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpos ... story.html

Misty » 03 May 2017 6:39 pm » wrote:"FireColbert is trending because snowflake conservatives are triggered by an American exercising his Constitutional right to free speech

Misty » 04 May 2017 1:43 pm » wrote:

White nationalist figurehead Richard Spencer is a dorky mama’s boy with no real accomplishments.

White nationalism is real scary, but white nationalism, it turns out, cannot bear too much scrutiny.

So much of its power depends on the rest of us not knowing much about the people advancing it.

Case in point is Richard Spencer.

The Washington Post called him the poster boy of white nationalism.

He coined the term alt-right, celebrated the installment of Steve Bannon in the White House, and founded a so-called think tank to promote white nationalism.

He even gave it a respectable sounding name, National Policy Institute.

He’s also the guy who was famously punched in the side of his shaved head during President Trump’s inauguration.

A video of the assault went viral.

Spencer is an effective spokesman for white nationalism, because he embodies its perceived traits without invoking images of the boogie men of its past. Instead white hoods and robes, he’s clean cut, well dressed, and highly educated. Instead of speaking a twangy local yokel, he’s speaks in a flat authoritative tone akin to CBS News.

His genius is leveraging that appearance to enhance his credibility among the unsuspecting while blasting the moral decay of American civilization.

Most importantly, he leverages his appearance to project strength, because strength is the central tenet of white nationalism.

On Twitter last week, he attacked conservatives:




You get the idea.

But all this changes in light of facts.

Those facts came to us some weeks ago courtesy of the Center for Investigative Reporting in partnership with Mother Jones.

And here are the facts:

Richard Spencer lives on his family’s fortune.

That wealth in part comes from owning, for generations, huge tracts of land used in growing cotton.

That cotton is subsidized, like many farming operations, to maintain prices by the federal government.

Moreover, Spencer dropped out of graduate school and does not appear to have held down a real job before founding his “think tank.”

No one knows where he got the money to found it.

The National Policy Institute has lost its tax-exempt status.

What do we make of these facts?

For one thing, it’s hard to maintain the veneer of strength and purity when you are vulnerable to accusations of being a mama’s boy.

(His parents are evidently mainstream Republican who dislike their son’s embrace of fascism, but not enough, apparently, to cut him off.)

For another, it’s hard to maintain an image of authenticity as the one true voice of an oppressed white people when your money comes from mommy and daddy, instead of a deep pool of contributors who might nominally represent a truly democratic yearning.

White nationalism ends up taking a back seat to his carefully constructed image and in doing so risks revealing Spencer as being a fraud.

He’s vulnerable not only to attacks from the left.

Recall that former presidential candidate Mitt Romney and the Republicans gained a lot of traction some years ago by framing the country’s future as a choice between “takers and makers.”

In Spencer is a man who never had a real job, who failed to complete his education, who lives on his parent’s bank account.

He’s the idle rich to the left.

He’s a parasite to the right’s captains of industry.

White nationalism remains a threat.

I don’t have to explain why.

But democracy can survive it as long as democracy has a free press, free speech and the political courage of an informed citizenry.

Misty » 04 May 2017 1:43 pm » wrote:Flashback: I don't think we should pass bills that we haven't read and don't know what they cost: - Rep Paul Ryan

Termin8tor » 04 May 2017 4:10 pm » wrote:Is that the best you can do, psycho?
Tell everyone again what a failure Trump is.

Misty » 04 May 2017 4:56 pm » wrote: I don't have to.
They already know.

liar.

Misty » 04 May 2017 5:03 pm » wrote:A hauntingly beautiful song covered many times.

Misty » 04 May 2017 4:56 pm » wrote: I don't have to.
They already know.

Termin8tor » 04 May 2017 6:28 pm » wrote: .

Obamacare is collapsing in front of your eyes, but who do you claim is the failure? The president who seems to have repealed it.

Hack.

Obamacare has been collapsing for quite some time. The candidate she voted for said as much in one of the debates.

Instead of discussing that she chose to swoop in legitimate discussions and troll with the intention of diverting with childish talk of pussies and hand size. Then she claims we are uninformed.

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