You right wing retards just cannot let Obama go can you. I think the former President has too many other things going on than to lead people protesting. Get your minds out of the bubble. In @M4MPetCock's case, off Milo's cock. President Dipshit can blame all the different people he wants. At the end of the day it all falls on President Dipshit's feet.

 

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump boasted Tuesday night about military cost-savings and corporate job expansion that actually took root under his predecessor and gave a one-sided account of the costs and benefits to the economy from immigration — ignoring the upside.

A look at some of his claims in his prime-time speech to Congress:

TRUMP: "According to the National Academy of Sciences, our current immigration system costs America's taxpayers many billions of dollars a year."

THE FACTS: That's not exactly what that report says. It says immigrants "contribute to government finances by paying taxes and add expenditures by consuming public services."

The report found that while first-generation immigrants are more expensive to governments than their native-born counterparts, primarily at the state and local level, immigrants' children "are among the strongest economic and fiscal contributors in the population."

The report found that the "long-run fiscal impact" of immigrants and their children would probably be seen as more positive "if their role in sustaining labor force growth and contributing to innovation and entrepreneurial activity were taken into account."
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TRUMP: "We've saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by bringing down the price" of the F-35 jet fighter.

THE FACTS: The cost savings he persists in bragging about were secured in full or large part before he became president.

The head of the Air Force program announced significant price reductions in the contract for the Lockheed F-35 fighter jet Dec. 19 — after Trump had tweeted about the cost but weeks before he met the company's CEO about it.

Pentagon managers took action even before the election to save money on the contract. Richard Aboulafia, an analyst with the aerospace consulting firm Teal Group, said there is no evidence of any additional cost savings as a result of Trump's actions.
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TRUMP: "Since my election, Ford, Fiat-Chrysler, General Motors, Sprint, Softbank, Lockheed, Intel, Walmart and many others have announced that they will invest billions of dollars in the United States and will create tens of thousands of new American jobs."

THE FACTS: It's unlikely Trump is the sole or even primary reason for the expected hiring he cites. Many of the announcements reflect corporate decisions that predate his election.

In the case of Intel, construction of the Chandler, Arizona, factory referred to by Trump actually began during Barack Obama's presidency. The project was delayed by insufficient demand for Intel's high-powered computer chips, but the company now expects to finish the factory within four years because it anticipates business growth.

More important, even as some companies create jobs, others are laying off workers. The best measure of whether more jobs are actually being created is the monthly employment report issued by the Labor Department, which nets out those gains and losses. The department will issue its report for February, the first full month of Trump's term, on March 10.
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TRUMP: His budget plan will offer "one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history."

THE FACTS: Three times in recent years, Congress raised defense budgets by larger percentages than the $54 billion, or 10 percent, increase that Trump proposes. The base defense budget grew by $41 billion, or 14.3 percent, in 2002; by $37 billion, or 11.3 percent, in 2003, and by $47 billion, or 10.9 percent, in 2008, according to Defense Department figures.
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TRUMP: "We will provide massive tax relief for the middle class."

THE FACTS: Trump has provided little detail on how this would happen. Independent analyses of his campaign's tax proposals found that most of the benefits would flow to the wealthiest families. The richest 1 percent would see an average tax cut of nearly $215,000 a year, while the middle one-fifth of the population would get a cut of just $1,010, according to the Tax Policy Center, a joint project by the Brookings Institution and Urban Institute.

TRUMP: "Ninety-four million Americans are out of the labor force."

THE FACTS: That's true, but for the vast majority of them, it's because they choose to be.

That 94 million figure includes everyone aged 16 and older who doesn't have a job and isn't looking for one. So it includes retirees, parents who are staying home to raise children, and high school and college students who are studying rather than working.

They are unlikely to work regardless of the state of the economy. With the huge baby-boomer generation reaching retirement age and many of them retiring, the population of those out of the labor force is increasing and will continue to do so, most economists forecast.

It's true that some of those out of the workforce are of working age and have given up looking for work. But that number is probably a small fraction of the 94 million Trump cited.
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TRUMP: "Obamacare is collapsing ... imploding Obamacare disaster."

THE FACTS: There are problems with the 2010 health care law, but whether it's collapsing is hotly disputed.

One of the two major components of the Affordable Care Act has seen a spike in premiums and a drop in participation from insurers. But the other component, equally important, seems to be working fairly well, even if its costs are a concern.
Trump and congressional Republicans want to repeal the whole thing, which risks leaving millions of people uninsured if the replacement plan has shortcomings. Some critics say GOP rhetoric itself is making things worse by creating uncertainty about the future.

The health law offers subsidized private health insurance along with a state option to expand Medicaid for low-income people. Together, the two arms of the program cover more than 20 million people.

Republican governors whose states have expanded Medicaid are trying to find a way to persuade Congress and the administration to keep the expansion, and maybe even build on it, while imposing limits on the long-term costs of Medicaid.

While the Medicaid expansion seems to be working, the markets for subsidized private health insurance are stressed in many states. Also affected are millions of people who buy individual policies outside the government markets, and face the same high premiums with no financial help from the health law.

Larry Levitt of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation says "implosion" is too strong a term. An AP count found that 12.2 million people signed up for this year, despite the Trump administration's threats to repeal the law.

But a health care blogger and industry consultant, Robert Laszewski, agrees with Trump, saying too few young, healthy people have signed up to guarantee the stability of the insurance markets.

 

Why is this needed? My guess is they will inflate the stats. Americans kill Americans at a higher rate. Where is President Dipshit's rage over that?

http://thehill.com/homenews/adminis...s-trump-promotes-new-immigration-crime-office

 

Didn't Republicans block this for 8 years under Obama? Now they act as if this is their idea...

Trump Calls For Paid Family Leave And Affordable Child Care

It’s a big break from GOP orthodoxy, but the details aren’t that encouraging.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58b630dee4b0a8a9b7871b12?

 

I guess President Dipshit had no clue there are female governors...

Trump Greeted The Nation’s Governors By Welcoming Them ‘And Their Wives’

There are female governors in this country.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58b58c4ae4b0a8a9b7863ce6?

 

Got to love the Education Secretary who knows nothing about education or history...

Betsy DeVos Accused Of ‘Whitewashing’ The History Of Black Colleges

Her statement on the issue is offensive and inaccurate, scholars say.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58b59757e4b060480e0c00d2

 

I love reading huffpo. It gives me the most fucked up view imaginable.

 

I posted the same AP Fact Check on the Trump speech thread. And I am sure there will be more fact checks coming out later today that also will not be kind.

This is also being fact checked. Families earning more than $100,000 per year would receive 95% of the benefits. So this screws the middle class and rewards Trump's rich friends.

 

Yeah, this will work real well with Republicans...

Donald Trump Asks Congress To Pass $1 Trillion In Infrastructure Investment

“This effort will be guided by two core principles: Buy American, and hire American.”

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58b6348fe4b0a8a9b7871d92

 

What we can be sure of under Trump is that the national debt will grow faster than it did under Obama, the environment will get dirtier, and that the rich will get richer.

Whether or not there will be an increase in well paying jobs for wage earners will depend mainly on factors beyond Trump's control, such as fluctuations in the world price of petroleum and technological advances. Up to now the main effect of advances in technology has been to replace employees with computers and robots.

I acknowledge that declines in immigration could improve wages.

 

We cannot be sure that the debt will grow faster under Trump than it did under Obama.
We cannot be sure the environment will get dirtier because of Trump.
We cannot be sure the rich will get richer because of Trump.

Trump can impact the availability of well paying jobs, how much remains to be seen. And replacing boring, repetitive jobs with robots is called innovation. The boring jobs go away, but new jobs appear, cause, you know, those robots and computers need to be built, and programmed, and maintained.

Same thing happened with the automobile. Horse shoeing jobs went away, but mechanic jobs appeared.

 

YEAH, YEAH,YEAH.

BLAH...BLAH...BLAH.

The only concept with a Trump Presidency that can actually be assured of......The leftists will remain selfish, immature, provacative, divisive, assuming and always chasing the boogey man on a witch hunt.

 

Updated March 1, 2017, at 10:32 a.m.

President Donald Trump promised to revive the economy and strengthen the military in his first address to a joint session of Congress.

Beyond his soaring rhetoric were some exaggerations and misleading statements about the health of the Affordable Care Act, the cost of illegal immigration and the state of the economy.

Here’s our rundown of the president’s remarks, along with notes on their overall accuracy and additional points of context.

Obamacare premium increases

Trump zeroed in on repealing the Affordable Care Act, saying the federal health care law has been a "disaster" that has caused premiums to skyrocket.

"Obamacare premiums nationwide have increased by double and triple digits," Trump said, citing a 116 percent increase in Arizona as an example.

We rate his statement Half True. Many people purchasing health care through federal and state insurance marketplaces did see double-digit premium increases, but Trump’s talking point doesn’t accurately reflect the situation overall.

Several states did not see such dramatic premium changes, and experts say that health care costs broadly are increasing at a lower rate than before the health care law took effect. Most people get their health care through the employer, which hasn’t seen the same premium spikes. And for people on the health care exchanges, federal subsidies are offsetting premium increases for many.

Big bump for defense?

Trump said his budget "calls for one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history." That's a bit of a stretch.

Looking at money for the Pentagon’s base budget, Trump is calling for about a 10 percent hike in spending. But in the past 30 years, there have been 10 years when the base defense budget has gone up by more than what Trump has requested. In some years, the increase was more than double Trump’s.

The term "one of the largest" has some leeway, but the defense analysts we reached confirmed that while the proposal is a significant increase, it is not remarkable. Calling it "one of the largest increases" is an exaggeration, and it rates Mostly False.

A murder spike

Trump said that the murder rate in 2015 "experienced its largest single-year increase in nearly half a century." That’s basically correct, though it leaves out some important context.

FBI data shows a clear spike in homicides between 2014 and 2015 -- a 10.8 percent increase. This does rank as the biggest year-to-year jump in murders since 1970-71, when the number rose by 11.1 percent. In addition, the preliminary statistics for 2016, which are not an apples-to-apples comparison to the full-year numbers, suggest that homicides rose once again from 2015.

Criminologists consider this a worrisome trend, but they caution that it comes after a quarter century of declines in the murder rate. The number of murders declined by 42 percent between 1993 and 2014, even as the U.S. population rose by 25 percent over the same period. So despite the recent increase, homicide levels remain far below their high levels of the early 1990s.

Deporting the ‘bad ones’

Trump alluded to his promise to remove criminal undocumented immigrants.

"As we speak, we are removing gang members, drug dealers and criminals that threaten our communities and prey on our citizens. Bad ones are going out as I speak tonight and as I have promised."

Trump signed an executive order Jan. 25 directing the Department of Homeland Security to prioritize the removal of immigrants in the country illegally.

The order set wide parameters on the categories of people who would become a priority, ranging from individuals engaged in terrorist activities to people charged with crimes but not yet convicted.

On Feb. 13, Homeland Security announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement had arrested 680 people in raids across the U.S. in the previous week approximately three-quarter of whom had prior criminal convictions.

A DHS press released stated that they were "convicted of crimes including, but not limited to, homicide, aggravated sexual abuse, sexual assault of a minor, lewd and lascivious acts with a child, indecent liberties with a minor, drug trafficking, battery, assault, DUI and weapons charges."

The agency didn’t provide details about the 25 percent who had no prior convictions.

Losing labor

Trump said that 94 million Americans are out of the labor force. That number is gleaned from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but it's misleading.

The 94 million figure includes any American age 16 and over who isn’t institutionalized and who isn’t either working or actively looking for work. In other words, the figure includes a lot of people who wouldn’t be expected to be working, or who are engaged in other worthy pursuits.

For instance, the figure includes retirees, high school students over 16, undergraduate and graduate students, stay-at-home parents, disabled people, adults who are engaged in full-time education or training, and even trust-fund kids and those wealthy enough to be living off investments. Put it all together and this is not a trivial group of people.

We have previously estimated that only about a quarter of the approximately 90 million people officially listed as being out of the labor force are either out of work, looking for a job, or eager to get back in the job hunt if labor-market conditions were to improve. The other three-quarters have a good reason for being out of the labor force, which means that Trump’s figure is misleadingly high.

Spinning (again) on planes

Trump again touted savings for the F-35 airplanes.

"We've saved taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars by bringing down the price of the fantastic and it is a fantastic new F-35 jet fighter, and will be saving billions more dollars on contracts all across our government," he said.

The Department of Defense announced a $728 million reduction on Feb. 3 for the aircraft. But Trump ignores that the government and Lockheed Martin were working toward reducing the costs for years — long before Trump’s tweets in December criticizing the price tag.

Trade deficit point doesn't factor in services

Trump pointed to the U.S. trade deficit as an example of the "mess" he inherited from Obama.

"Our trade deficit in goods with the world last year was nearly $800 billion dollars," he said.

Trump’s figure is slightly high, and it needs some additional context.

The country’s overall trade deficit in 2016 was about $502 billion, just a hair higher than it was in 2015. But this number is calculated from two separate figures: the trade balance in goods, which includes all manufactured products, oil and agriculture products, and the trade balance in services, which is more intangible economic activity.

For years, the U.S. has run a big deficit in the trade of goods, but a smaller surplus in the trade of services. On balance, that makes the overall trade deficit -- the $502 billion figure cited above -- smaller than it would be if it counted goods alone.

Trump did specifically mention goods, and for 2016, that figure was a deficit of $750 billion. It’s worth noting the deficit in goods was higher from 2005 to 2008.

Illegal immigration costs vary

By enforcing immigration laws, Trump said the country "will raise wages, help the unemployed, save billions of dollars, and make our communities safer for everyone."

Estimating the costs of illegal immigration is extremely difficult and produces dramatically different figures depending on the source.

A 2013 report from Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that generally favors tighter controls on immigration, estimated the total cost at the federal, state and local levels for undocumented immigrants to be $113 billion. But FAIR’s data is largely based on broad estimates and assumptions. Another report by a conservative think tank pegged the amount at about $85 billion a year. Reports by pro-immigration or neutral groups have come in significantly lower, and other reports have been inconclusive.

$6 trillion spent in the Middle East?

Trump again decried the country’s spending on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"America has spent approximately $6 trillion dollars in the Middle East, all this while our infrastructure at home is crumbling," he said, returning to a familiar talking point.

Trump is citing the high-end estimate of credible analyses of spending associated with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet he is confusing money that’s been spent with money that researchers say will be spent.

Through this fiscal year, the United States has spent about $3.8 trillion, with another estimated $1 trillion in expected care for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan into the middle of the century. If you add in the accumulated interest on the money borrowed to pay for those wars, the total reaches $7.9 trillion by 2053.

Corporate tax rates

Trump vowed in his speech to deliver on tax reform for companies and for the middle class, echoing some of this campaign tax promises.

"Right now," he said, "American companies are taxed at one of the highest rates anywhere in the world."

The United States has a higher corporate tax rate than most of its industrial peers. Of the most advanced and industrialized nations in the world, America ranks third highest for general top marginal corporate income tax rates with a 39.1 percent tax on corporate profits, exceeded by Chad and the United Arab Emirates.

That said, it’s worth remembering that the official tax rates are one thing, while the tax rates corporations actually pay can be substantially less. In practice, U.S. companies pay less because they can claim deductions and exclusions.

Is Obamacare "collapsing"?

Trump said, "Obamacare is collapsing – and we must act decisively to protect all Americans."

There are ominous signs for the Affordable Care Act, but health care policy experts have said that "collapsing" is too strong a word for what has been happening.

On the one hand, there’s no question that the number of health insurers participating in the law’s online exchanges has been declining. Data released by the Department of Health and Human Services showed that at least 29 states have fewer plan issuers in 2017 than they did in 2016. Nationally, the number of insurers exiting a state outpaced the number of insurers newly entering a state by a factor of more than 5-to-1.

There’s also no question that average Obamacare premiums rose significantly when the 2017 rates were announced last fall — 25 percent in 2017, after more modest increases for the previous three years.

At the same time, overall premium increases were actually faster under President George W. Bush than under President Barack Obama. Family premiums for employer-sponsored insurance increased by a cumulative 99 percent under the eight years of Bush, while under eight years of Obama, they rose by a more modest 59 percent.

Some health policy experts say the biggest risk for causing an actual collapse of Obamacare would be to repeal the Affordable Care Act without also enacting a workable replacement, or repealing it without any replacement at all.

The worst recovery?

In one of his bigger shots against his predecessor, Trump said, "We have the worst financial recovery in 65 years."

This is something of an odd phrasing, since the term that’s typically used is "economic" recovery. ("Financial" recovery suggests a focus purely on how the financial-services sector bounced back, meaning Wall Street and banks.) In a strict sense, the recovery from the 2001 recession was weaker than the one after the Great Recession. In the earlier recession, employment didn’t crawl out of negative territory for about 28 months. By comparison, in the recovery following the 2007 recession, it took only 21 months.

But GDP growth after the Great Recession has been slower than in other recent recoveries. For a few quarters, the recovery from the Great Recession did better than the one that followed the 1980 recession, but after that, the 1980 recovery consistently outpaced it.

More broadly, the economy Trump inherited from Obama was generally strong, though not without its shortcomings. Obama handed Trump the reins of an economy with a 4.7 percent unemployment rate; 75 consecutive months of job growth; rising stock prices, home values, corporate profits and consumer confidence; low inflation; and a record spike in middle-class incomes.

However, income inequality remains persistently high. Food stamp use and poverty rates have not returned to their pre-recession levels. Gross domestic product growth — the engine of long-term economic prosperity — remains sluggish, and job gains have been relatively modest in scale compared to some previous recoveries. And even those who credit Obama’s actions worry about a declining labor-force participation rate, which hasn’t been this low since the 1970s.

Calling out NATO partners

During the campaign, Trump voiced ambivalence about the alliance’s future if other countries wouldn’t pitch in more. He's correct that most members aren't meeting benchmarks for support.

In his Tuesday speech, he said NATO partners "must meet their financial obligations." We have found that only a handful of NATO’s 28 members have fulfilled the pledge to spend at least 2 percent of their economy on defense — Great Britain, the United States, Greece and Estonia.

Chicago's shootings

Trump has assailed hot spots for homicide and shootings, and none more often than Chicago. His numbers here were correct.

"In Chicago, more than 4,000 people were shot last year alone –- and the murder rate so far this year has been even higher," he said.

According to data released by the Chicago Police Department shortly after the close of 2016, the city had 762 murders, 3,550 shooting incidents, and 4,331 shooting victims in 2016.

Promises, promises

Trump portrayed the earliest days of his administration as a productive sprint that shouldn’t come as a surprise — he’s just doing what he said he’d do as a candidate.

PolitiFact is tracking his progress on 102 campaign promises on the Trump-O-Meter.

Among the promises Trump mentioned in his speech: issuing a lifetime ban on the executive branch lobbying for a foreign government (Promise Kept); enacting a five-year ban on White House and congressional officials from lobbying (Compromise); nominating someone from his list of judges to replace Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court (Promise Kept); and asking the defense secretary within 30 days of taking office to deliver a plan to demolish ISIS (In the Works).

Trump held up the central promise of his campaign to build a wall on the Mexican border as integral to restoring "the rule of law to our borders."

This pledge is In the Works. Homeland Security secretary John Kelly issued a memo Feb. 20 directing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to move forward on Trump's executive order to build a wall along the 2,000-mile southern border.

It's hard to determine how much it would cost, with estimates ranging from $5 billion to $25 billion. Trump has said that Mexico can afford to pay for the wall because of the trade deficit but experts have said that the trade deficit has nothing to do with whether the Mexican government could afford to write the United States a check.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...fact-checking-donald-trumps-address-congress/

 

Ah the same old bullshit going on eh.... I am certainly not going to read this entire thread especially since jackass created it but hopefully Americans will take note of how much Trump is using the tax payers funds for security for his family's trips. His 2 sons have traveled 3 times in 1 month costing over a hundred thousand in hotels and security while they have the right to use that money they can also opt out of it and use their own money since it was for their personal business use only. People should protest this.

Trump brothers’ Vancouver visit will cost you
Derrick Penner / Vancouver Sun

February 27, 2017 05:55 AM

- See more at: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/b...will-cost-you-1.10488524#sthash.oIERjXDz.dpuf





When Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump arrive Tuesday to open Vancouver’s Trump International Hotel and Tower, their entourage will be bigger than just their assistants and business associates.


As presidential progeny, they travel in a cocoon of protection courtesy of a U.S. Secret Service detail, which will be backed up by a perimeter of security provided by the RCMP and Vancouver police, the cost of which will fall on the public — both American and Canadian.

“We don’t pay for the Secret Service, that would be the Americans,” said Andre Gerolymatos, co-director of the Terrorism, Risk & Security Studies Program at Simon Fraser University.

However, when it comes to added costs, such as overtime for the RCMP — which is responsible for the security of so-called internationally protected persons — or Vancouver police, “we do,” Gerolymatos said.

How much likely can’t be answered until after the Trump brothers have left the city, but it will be on a scale that slides based on perceived levels of risk and depends on the number of officers involved.

On the American side, the Trump family has come under criticism over the cost of providing security for their high-profile, jet-setting lifestyle — including a business trips to Uruguay, where Eric Trump ran up an $88,000 hotel bill with his Secret Service detail, according to a report in the Washington Post.

For the Trump’s Vancouver visit, authorities involved declined to answer questions about protocols for arranging security and how responsibilities are delegated.

“Anybody with the name Trump, or related to Trump, is high risk right now because of what Trump is doing,” Gerolymatos said.

Calls to a U.S. Secret Service field office in Vancouver went unanswered.

RCMP spokeswoman, Cpl. Janelle Shoihet, in an emailed statement said the national police force is responsible for ensuring the safety of “internationally protected persons,” in conjunction with local police. It will be the Vancouver Police Department’s responsibility for “public order issues” and municipal bylaw infractions.

“In an event of unlawful acts, including public order issues, police will respond collectively in an appropriate and professional manner,” Shoihet said in the statement.

Vancouver police declined to answer any questions citing that “it would be counterproductive to share our plans in advance of events we may be preparing for,” according to an emailed statement from VPD spokesman Const. Jason Doucette.

There are at least two planned protests for the day of the Trump International Hotel & Tower’s grand opening, one by Occupy Vancouver and a Resist 4 Peace march, according to events posted to Facebook, with just over 600 people saying they will attend and another 4,000 clicking on their “interested” button.

And those will likely factor into the risk assessment for the Trumps’ visit, which was probably completed some time ago already, said Leo Knight, a former police officer and security expert.

“The police and the Secret Service will liaise with each other, they’ll have the latest intelligence analysis and all that stuff,” Knight said. “Then they’ll decide a security level for (the visit). It’s a movable scale, depending the situation.”

- See more at: http://www.timescolonist.com/news/b...will-cost-you-1.10488524#sthash.oIERjXDz.dpuf

 

Yes by God!
They've got the bucks; make them pay for their own security!
The unsupporters can only hope one of them gets kidnapped or killed.
Then they can point back to Trump and shout that he's making all sorts of decisions based on emotion!

 

I find it hilarious that the Republicans are actually having the gall, to post lists about Obama's supposed issues covering eight years, when Trumps list of only a few weeks will shortly surpass Obama's eight year suggested list already! OMG!
LOL, So Funny!

Well, it would be funny if it wasn't so sad!



And the Republican's response?

 

If they were on presidents business sure use the tax payers money but they are on their own personal business promoting their own hotels/apartments using tax payers money and not being all that thrifty about it either. Yes security is needed but other things are not essential. The law states that they can use tax payer money for any extended family trips but this is a little excessive already and only 2 months has past, and you have yet the expense of building the wall and such left, can't image what his expenses will be after a year let alone after 4 years, just how will you be saving money? Oh ya get rid of immigrants so that trump can spend every dime.

 

Like the Trident commercial says, "Chew on this!"

 

It's Bush's fault.

My guess, is that, your guess is....just a guess, mostly irrelevant, I would guess.

I would say, Trump is way ahead of you.

Yeah, maybe.

Most working families that have both parents working, could easily have an annual income of $100,000, so what.

 

Now its a given that PR hacks will lie every time. But what I get a kick out is their stupid lies.

The U.S. Census Bureau reported in September 2014 that: U.S. real (inflation adjusted) median household income was $51,939 in 2013 versus $51,759 in 2012, statistically unchanged. In 2013, real median household income was 8.0 percent lower than in 2007, the year before the latest recession.