Heard on the news that the interest rate will probably be raised three times in the upcoming year.
Economy is doing better than it ever did while the affirmative action president was in office.

 

I must have missed that one..

 

The Trump Library will have few books in it. The man who ghost wrote The Art of the Deal said that the only book he saw in any of Trump's homes was an anthology of speeches by Adolf Hitler.

 

Is Ryan leaving before the Sheriff arives?

 

Paul Ryan is an Ayn Rand Objectivist, who wants to restore the age of the robber barons. Back then there was no Social Security, no Medicare, no unemployment compensation, no minimum wage laws, and no environmental and job safety regulations. Food was often infected by bacteria. Patent "medicines" often had dangerous chemicals in them and were medicinally worthless. The government restricted its intervention in the economy to business subsidies, tariffs, and the violent suppression of trade unions.

When Trump says, "Make America great again," his white blue collar workers think of the 1950's, when the top tax rate was 91%, and one third of the work force belonged to labor unions. Paul Ryan and his minions think of the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

 

Confusion strikes again...
Ryan is NOT a Senator, Ryan is the Speaker of the House, stark difference.

If you're going to insult someone, dont look like a damn fool doing it.

 

Allowing 2 million illegal immigrant “Dreamers” to remain in the U.S. would cost taxpayers $25.9 billion over the next decade, the Congresssional Budget Office says in a report released Friday.

Dreamers are the prospective beneficiaries of the DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors), legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate earlier this year to provide a pathway to citizenship for some illegal immigrants.

They would include those who've participated in DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), received temporary protected status, or have fulfilled certain educational requirements.

Under the bill, immigrants who benefited from DACA would be eligible for Medicaid, food stamps, education funding, and various other programs, provided that the applicants meet certain requirements.

Of the 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the U.S., some 3.25 million would be eligible for the DREAM Act. However, the report estimates that only 2 million would apply, 1.6 million of whom would earn legal status over the next 10 years. A remaining 1 million would become citizens with that same time period, which would allow them to sponsor relatives, the report states.

The CBO estimates that the bill would increase budget deficits by $25.9 billion over the 2018-2027 period while increasing net revenues by $0.9 billion.

 

President Trump’s national security strategy, set to be unveiled in a major address Monday afternoon, restores references to the “jihadist” terror threat – in a tacit rebuke to the Obama-era decision to avoid such language.

The president is expected to detail his administration’s strategy at 2 p.m. ET in Washington, D.C.

Trump is expected to discuss threats he'll deem as "rogue regimes," like North Korea, and "revisionist powers," like Russia and China, who aim to change the status quo.

But notably, the document repeatedly refers to “jihadist” terror groups, in a break from the Obama administration.


“The primary transnational threats Americans face are from jihadist terrorists and transnational criminal organizations,” the document states, according to excerpts released ahead of the speech.

Another section calls for strengthened missile defense and homeland security, vowing to “pursue threats to their source, so that jihadist terrorists are stopped before they ever reach our borders.”

Sebastian Gorka, a former Trump White House adviser, drew attention to the term in an interview Monday morning with “Fox & Friends.”

“The political correctness of the last eight years is gone,” he said. “You haven’t seen anything like this for 20-25 years.”


President Trump's National Security Strategy is restoring references to 'jihadist' terrorists. (Reuters)

Then-President Barack Obama stirred controversy when he first removed terms like “Islamic extremism” in the 2010 security document, effectively scrubbing language used by the George W. Bush administration. The shift came on the heels of Obama’s visit to Egypt, where he vowed a “new beginning” in the relationship between the U.S. and the Muslim world.

The administration's 2015 strategy also did not contain the word "jihadist."

Shortly before leaving office last year, Obama explained at a CNN town hall that he avoided using those terms because he did not want to “lump” murderers like Al Qaeda and ISIS members “into the billion Muslims that exist around the world, including in this country, who are peaceful, who are responsible, who, in this country, are fellow troops and police officers and firefighters and teachers and neighbors and friends."

Broadly speaking, according to a senior administration official, Trump’s doctrine has four main principles: protecting the homeland and way of life; promoting American prosperity; demonstrating peace through strength; and advancing American influence in an ever-competitive world.

The official said the “principled realism … takes a clear-eyed view of the threats we face.”

In another shift for the president who ran on an “America First” platform, Trump’s strategy will remove an Obama declaration that climate change is an "urgent and growing threat to our national security."