bostonangler

You're gonna shoot your eye out. B/A

Wow.... Thanks B/A

I apologize, I wouldn't want to make stuff up and mislead like you know who... B/A

You keep aligning me with Clinton. Unlike you and the rest of the people here, I didn't vote for either Clinton or Trump. Unlike you and the rest of the people here who voted for one of the two corrupt parties, I didn't vote Democrat or Republican. Unlike you and the rest of the people here, I won't saying my vote was used to elect more of the same old swamp people. So bash me as you will, but don't align me with the complete failure of our government as it comes apart in front of your face, because I wasn't one of the sheeple who was hoodwinked by huge advertising budgets and cheesy clichés. I honestly can't believe that Americans can still be so easily fooled. B/A

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Republicans' health care bill adds up to big tax cuts for the rich. The bill would cut more than 20 taxes enacted under President Barack Obama's heath law, saving taxpayers nearly $600 billion over the next decade. The bulk of the money would go to the wealthiest Americans. Low- and moderate-income families would lose their subsidies to buy health insurance in state and federal marketplaces. The subsidies would be replaced by tax credits to help them buy insurance. Official estimates for how these people would fare under the bill have not been made public, even as House committees move ahead with the legislation. The new health bill was released this week as congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump try to make good on campaign promises to repeal and replace Obama's health law. House GOP leaders say they want to give consumers more access to affordable health care with less government interference. The effort, however, has been criticized by both the left and the right. Democrats argue that fewer people will have health insurance, while some conservatives are calling the plan "Obamacare Lite." The biggest tax cut would eliminate a 3.8 percent tax on investment income for high-income individuals and families. Eliminating the tax would save these taxpayers $158 billion over the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Committee on Taxation, the official scorekeeper for Congress. About 90 percent of the benefit from repealing the tax would go to the top 1 percent of earners, who make $700,000 or more, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Another big tax cut would repeal an extra 0.9 percent Medicare tax on wages above $200,000 for individuals and $250,000 for married couples. Repealing the tax would save higher income families $117 billion over the next decade. Repealing the Medicare tax would also speed up the depletion of the Medicare trust fund. It would run out of money in 2025 instead of 2028, as is currently projected, said Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon, the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee. Wyden said that "breaks a clear Trump promise not to damage Medicare." "This bill sends a loud and clear message: Tax cuts for special interests and the wealthy matter more than your health care," Wyden said. Rep. Kevin Brady, chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, said the health care taxes hurt consumers, businesses and economic growth. "They hurt the economy. They hurt health care. They achieve nothing," the Texas Republican said at a news conference. "I don't want Americans to continue to struggle under the Obamacare taxes." Despite the lost tax revenue, Brady said the overall bill would not add to long-term budget deficits. However, no official estimates have been released. The bill would not repeal the health care program's "Cadillac" tax on high-cost health insurance plans. Instead, it would delay the tax until 2025. The tax has already been delayed once, until 2020. This tax would hit many middle-income families, according to the Tax Policy Center. Delaying it by five years would save taxpayers $49 billion. Among the health care taxes repealed in the bill: —Health providers pay an annual fee based on market share. Repealing the tax would save health insurers $145 billion over the next decade. —Prescription drugmakers and importers pay an annual fee. Repealing it would save pharmaceutical companies $25 billion over the next decade. —Taxpayers can deduct out-of-pocket health expenses if they exceed 10 percent of their income. The bill would return the threshold to 7.5 percent of income, which it was before the Affordable Care Act. Taxpayers would save $35 billion over the next decade. —Medical device makers and importers pay a 2.3 percent excise tax. Repealing it would save them $20 billion over the next decade. http://finance.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-health-bill-adds-big-tax-cut-192341206--politics.html OUCH... Sorry minions. B/A

There’s a vigorous debate underway in America about whether facts matter. Here’s why they do and always will. You might be able to win a Twitter battle with alternative facts, as President Trump has arguably demonstrated. Trump’s latest dubious assertion is that President Obama ordered the phones tapped at the Trump campaign’s headquarters last year. People who ought to know say that didn’t happen, but Trump seems to have used the self-generated controversy to deflect attention from criticism of his attorney general and other controversies. Don’t expect him to back down. The use of alternative facts helped Trump win the presidential election last year, and as president he has continued to lie about nonexistent voter fraud, an escalating murder rate that’s actually declining, terrorist attacks that didn’t happen, the “biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan” (except for five others), and of course a record inauguration crowd that wasn’t. These aren’t accidents or mistakes. Trump plainly believes he can say whatever he wants and his supporters won’t care. Trump defenders back that up, to some extent, saying it’s a mistake to interpret Trump literally. Instead, they praise Trump’s vow to dismantle the broken establishment and say his methods don’t really matter. Trump, for his part, seems to realize that every public lie he utters intensifies his conflict with the know-it-all fact-checkers in the media, which boosts his standing among core supporters who view the media as part of the problem. Fact-defenders are tearing their hair out in the Trump era, but they will prevail, because there’s one part of our socioeconomic life where fake facts don’t cut it: the market. You can’t lie your way to prosperity, at least not legally, and you’ll actually harm your well-being if you make important decisions about your economic life based on bogus propaganda. This is happening now. Experienced investors know that asset prices can, in fact, rise on hype, deception and wishful thinking. But the market always corrects for this, often in profound and disastrous ways. It even overcorrects sometimes. The housing bubble of the early 2000s ended in the devastating financial crash of 2008. Oil prices soared above $100 per barrel in 2014, before the market noticed all the new supply coming online from US shale, sending prices down by 75% and causing widespread hardship in the energy industry. The stock market may even now be overestimating the eventual impact of tax cuts, deregulation and other business-friendly moves Trump has promised. Trump has clearly talked up stocks, highlighting investors’ susceptibility to a good story. But sugar highs are always temporary, and the story can change quickly once the storyteller loses credibility. A lot of ordinary Americans will be on the losing side of Trump’s propaganda if they base important decisions based on what he’s promising. He says he’s going to “bring back our jobs,” as if steelworker and textile jobs from the 1980s or 1990s have just gone on vacation and will soon rematerialize in their original form. Many economists say this will never happen, because the jobs of yore barely exist in a world of robots, algorithms and thinking machines. But if you’re hurting for a job and believe Trump, you might wait for his magic to work instead of going back to school, learning new skills or moving someplace where there’s more opportunity. The same goes for Trump’s pledge to rid the nation of undocumented immigrants so Americans can once again claim the jobs foreigners have supposedly stolen. Trump isn’t telling anybody fighting for a lower-paying job to find ways to add value to the labor they’re able to perform, which is what the market rewards. Instead, he’s promising an easy solution that requires nobody to do anything but wait for the deportation force to show up. Trump’s entire mantra to “make America great again” requires nothing but voters giving him carte blanche to do what he thinks needs to be done. Let him rewrite trade deals and immigration laws. Build a border wall. Slash government. Cut taxes. Let his developer pals and new Wall Street brain trust spread prosperity far and wide, same as they’ve enriched themselves. The market won’t buy any of this if the results aren’t real. There will be no new jobs for the “forgotten men and women” Trump vows to help unless they help themselves first. No company is going to hire workers with outdated skills unless there’s nobody else—including robots—available for must-fill jobs. Workers will never earn more unless they justify higher pay by accomplishing more. Trump can’t jawbone the market into doing what he wants any more than he can persuade water to flow uphill. For the time being, Trump supporters are delighting at the torment the Prevaricator-in-Chief is causing the mainstream media and the usual defenders of small-t truth. But they’re unlikely to get more from Trump than a bit of passing satisfaction—and some of them are undoubtedly waiting for tangible help improving their living standards or access to opportunity. If you misdiagnose the problem, your “solution” probably won’t work. Trump seems to be aware that he may be setting up his fans for disappointment in the event his fantastical promises don’t produce real results. One suspects this is why the world’s most powerful elected official regularly characterizes himself as a victim—of his predecessor, of the media, of the intelligence community, of bureaucratic leakers. This is a pre-emptive effort to blame somebody else if, or when, market discipline trumps Trump propaganda. If that happens, facts may still not matter to Trump, but they’ll matter to the rest of us, perhaps even more than usual https://finance.yahoo.com/news/this-is-where-alternative-facts-fail-183829889.html He is one smart cookie. B/A

I was wondering that too B/A

Reality Check: Who released the Guantanamo re-offenders? 3 hours ago From the section US & Canada The claim: One hundred and twenty-two prisoners freed by President Obama from Guantanamo Bay engaged in "terrorist or insurgent activities" after their release. Reality Check verdict: All but nine of the 122 released prisoners the US says were involved in "terrorist or insurgent activities" after leaving Guantanamo were not freed by Obama but by his predecessor, George W Bush. President Donald Trump tweeted on 7 March to criticise former President Obama's administration for releasing 122 prisoners from "Gitmo", a shorthand for the US-run Guantanamo Bay detention centre, who "returned to the battlefield". The detention facility, opened in 2002 to detain terror suspects after the 9/11 attacks and the invasion of Afghanistan, is part of a US naval base in south-eastern Cuba. At least every six months, the office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), who oversees the US intelligence community, publishes details of how many former Guantanamo Bay prisoners are "confirmed or suspected of returning to terrorist activities after release or transfer". The DNI defines those activities as planning or financing terrorist operations, conducting an attack and recruiting others for terrorist activities. According to the most recent published statistics, dated 15 July 2016, 122 former detainees are confirmed to have directly been involved in terrorist or insurgent activities after they have been transferred out of Guantanamo. However, only nine out of the 122 were transferred after 22 January 2009, when Barack Obama took office. The rest - 113 - were released by his Republican predecessor, President George W Bush. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39197465 When will he stop making crap up? Just shut up and do your job before...... You're Fired!!!! B/A

My Bad... I missed quite a few actually... Let me fix that..

Actually here is where the hate is coming from. Too bad most Americans are too stupid to realize they are simply pawns in a sick game.

More hate.... Right? B/A

I apologize if this has already been posted. http://economy-news.net/content.php?id=6825 Economic vision beyond recovered Iraqi dinar Added by editor News/economy. Samir Al Nassiri The CBI has issued a press release that the slight decline in the dollar against the Iraqi dinar was from alriisih causes new regulatory actions used to regulate currency and sell window sizing intermediaries and speculators adding to the commitment and cooperation of private banks with the Central Bank and the supporting role played by the Iraqi private banks Association urging banks departments need to support Central Bank orientations in the national economy and harnessing the potential of private banks in the central goal is to work on the Iraqi dinar recovered and lifted Walshraier monetary value against the US dollar and is not run Popular street and economic running now and what's going on now is the discussion and varying political, security and humanitarian in the Cabinet and the House of representatives and stakeholders is the subject edit connector what visions and directions after the decisive victory and Liberation of all occupied lands wetathirat that the reality experienced by Iraq at the moment is how to bypass security, economic and financial crisis afflicting more than two years because of low oil prices on the world market and the costs of the war on terror. Moreover, this is important, the lack of an economic approach and clear objectives and features of economic strategy and not to involve the private sector in the management of the economy and the weakness of support and assistance for his contribution to the diversification of non-oil budget resources and transition the economy from rent to alantaagi. That which is important in all this is what (the vision of economic reform after liberation and expel terror nhaiia) in terms of coordination between monetary and fiscal policy walstarh money market balance and to achieve the goal of recovered Iraqi dinar and the reflection that the economic reform and thus diversify budget resources and making use of loans and grants and international assistance in the reconstruction of the liberated towns, activate and stimulate private pain Morphological and productive and encouraged to contribute with the Government in implementing its plans as well as human resources to remove the effects of the war on terror and low world oil prices and the Government and the people's suffering and displaced persons crises and optimization of variables and openness in international relations and Arabic toward Concordes after ascertaining that Iraq needs to come from complex economic and security crisis and examine the reality of the Iraqi economy during the years (2014-2016) as well as draw new economic vision and strategy for the next five-year economic reform after the liberation of all occupied lands specifically for years (2017-2021) with Taking into account the expectations of higher oil prices during the second half of the year 2017 and therefore believe that the overall vision of the reform agenda of next phase as follows:- 1. allocate 50 percent of customizations that were appropriate to the costs of the war on terror for the reconstruction of the liberated areas add to the reconstruction fund allocations and international grants allocated to this objective. 2. establishing a competent body or a large institution to finance small and medium-sized enterprises and banking system for cooperation and coordination with them under the supervision of the Central Bank and the Association of banks in collaboration with the ministries of planning and development cooperation, agriculture, industry and finance to lay the foundations and operational mechanisms for the application in the liberated provinces to achieve the goal of rehabilitation of young people and particularly graduates of these provinces to establish small and medium-sized businesses to convert from unemployed to producers and converted from desparate to researchers hope their contribution in building the national economy. 3. allocation of IMF loans, banks and financial institutions will get Iraq for the next three years to establish industrial zones and large agricultural projects support the contribution of the private sector and young graduates with the aim of diversifying its oil resources. 4. review the legislative environment laws which regulate economic operation and especially investment laws, banks and the Central Bank and stock market and record companies to tax accounting and lending guarantees required of entrepreneurs and the mechanism of payment entitlements. 5. develop and operationalize and implement the Government's plans in e-government applications and proactive control and limiting administrative and financial corruption. 6. activate the Cabinet decision to establish a deposit insurance corporation, which was the purpose of founding restore public confidence in the Iraqi banking sector confidence and increase the proportion of savings in banks instead of compactness in the houses and the effects on citizens in the funds' contribution to sustainable development and urged the Government and private banks are obliged to contribute to this company. 7. structural and institutional reconstruction of economics development platform and infrastructure to manage the economy and is the Supreme Council for economic reform and the adoption of the draft law submitted three years ago and didn't approve of the House of representatives and the National Provident Fund or the sovereign Fund of saving for non-oil resources and oil collection the surplus planned sale rates in the annual budgets as well as establishing the national investment and commercial contracts and withdraw all contractual terms granted to ministries. 8. the establishment of the National Council for ages instead of the current housing fund and a Fund for the reconstruction of cities liberated from ISIS and is studying the economic feasibility of all large investment projects and infrastructure projects from the provinces and monitor audit and holds her customizations monitoring and evaluation. 9. the establishment of the National Centre for rehabilitation and human resources distribution and specializes on rehabilitation and training graduates and allocated to rehabilitation centres and public and private training by centrally appointed State ministries and private sector projects and the requirements of the economic development plan and budget 10. establish national centre for consultancy and strategic studies to attract all the Iraqi competencies and experience at home and abroad for the purpose of assisting government institutions and the private sector in technical and administrative leadership (techno carats) to manage all State institutions without allocating and harmonious.

Exactly B/A

You really need to stop calling for war, death and maiming your neighbors. B/A

This is a complete disgrace. They should lose every benefit available to them as veterans. This sounds like a job for Stickman. Anyone who is supporting these sick individuals needs to send out naked pictures of their wives, seeing as it's no big deal. Come on let's see what you've got... B/A

I do see a lot of hate... Right? B/A

Tomato Tamatoe B/A

Just another idiot... I see there is a balance. B/A

Yup too bad the Illuminati will never let that happen... They own the Federal Reserve and thus own most of the nations. B/A

I have to agree 100%

Very well said Jim. The sad fact is most on both sides think they are supporting patriots. They are blinded by their beliefs and think their particular leader Left or Right is working for them, when in truth they are only working for their own agenda and personal wealth. I feel sorry for all who have been hoodwinked. I read some of the most intelligent comments on this board and wonder how people who are so well read and informed can be so easily misled into believing the gibberish that is spoon fed to them by main stream media or even worse totally slanted blogs etc... Thanks for your level head and open mind. I only wish more would step back to see what they are about to step in. B/A

LOL... I guess I better leave the details to the FAKE news people!!! B/A

Sure *** is short for Gail... See it won't show.

Here's a good story I heard was coming out. Trump and Tiger Woods both attended Roman orgies together... I heard it would hit the news stands next week. B/A