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    If This Is Making America Great, We're In Trouble

    https://www.commondreams.org/views/2...t-were-trouble

    While the tax bill lowers the top income-tax bracket and allows real estate and other business interests to deduct 20 percent off the top of their income for starters, middle-class taxpayers, who will wind up paying fewer taxes initially, will see that benefit disappear by 2025 when the new rates are phased out. But the biggest cost to the economy is yet another $1.5 trillion added to the national debt during a time when the economy is doing quite well and the country ought to be able to afford to pay down some debt.Republicans have always maintained that Democrats spend and add to the national debt. But the truth is that when the GOP enacted big tax cuts when Ronald Reagan was president, the national debt tripled, forcing his successor, fellow Republican George H.W. Bush, to enact a tax hike. When Democrat Bill Clinton added a surcharge to the top bracket, the budget actually showed a surplus in his second four-year term.

    That prompted George W. Bush, instead of paying down the debt or perhaps shoring up the Social Security Trust Fund that's continually been robbed by the federal Treasury, to along with his Republicans enact yet another tax cut. That, in turn, plunged the country into an enormous budget hole, again adding to the national debt, which got even worse when new president Barack Obama was forced to enact emergency spending during the Great Recession he inherited from Bush.

    Now, after the economy was brought back in Obama's final six years, Trump's "accomplishment" is to go back to the "good, old days."

    But, aside from the tax cuts, the biggest danger facing the country because of Trump's supposed "accomplishments" is his assault on good-government regulation that protects not only our environment, but our financial system and American consumers.
    Doing PUtin's bidding. Trump is destroying our nation and the bought and paid for by Russia republicans are helping.
    If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.


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    A TDS flare-up.
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    Regarding discussion, the article also says.

    The end of 2017 was marked by a nearly comedic chorus of punditry extolling what a great year it was, after all, for Donald Trump.The passage of a tax bill that is certain to exacerbate the already-dangerous divide between the rich and the poor in America was hailed as a major legislative "accomplishment" to go along with Trump's own boasts about what a marvelous year 2017 has been for him.

    "We have more legislative victories than any other president," the liar-in-chief claimed, the most since Harry Truman back in 1949. When it was pointed out that the claim wasn't even close to being true (he's actually signed the fewest bills into law of any first-year president since Dwight Eisenhower), he simply repeated it dozens of times over the holidays and, of course, his base ate it up — proving once again that if you repeat a lie enough times many people will believe it to be true.

    The chortling over passage of the tax cuts (which Trump insisted was the largest ever in U.S. history; another lie, it's the eighth largest) prompted Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to muse how strange it is to "brag" about a new law that cuts corporate taxes by about 40 percent and leaves 13 million more Americans without health insurance.

    But I suppose if your real agenda is further comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted, you can call eliminating the insurance mandate an "accomplishment."
    If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.


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    Nobody in America is bought and paid for by the Russians. The claim is silly and / or a lie.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Nobody in America is bought and paid for by the Russians. The claim is silly and / or a lie.
    https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/c...-gop-campaigns


    Party loyalty is often cited as the reason that GOP leaders have not been more outspoken in their criticism of President Donald Trump and his refusal to condemn Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election. Yet there may be another reason that top Republicans have not been more vocal in their condemnation. Perhaps it's because they have their own links to the Russian oligarchy that they would prefer go unnoticed.
    Donald Trump and the political action committees for Mitch McConnell, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Lindsey Graham, John Kasich and John McCain accepted $7.35 million in contributions from a Ukrainian-born oligarch who is the business partner of two of Russian president Vladimir Putin's favorite oligarchs and a Russian government bank.
    During the 2015-2016 election season, Ukrainian-born billionaire Leonard "Len" Blavatnik contributed $6.35 million to leading Republican candidates and incumbent senators. Mitch McConnell was the top recipient of Blavatnik's donations, collecting $2.5 million for his GOP Senate Leadership Fund under the names of two of Blavatnik's holding companies, Access Industries and AI Altep Holdings, according to Federal Election Commission documents and OpenSecrets.org.

    If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.


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    Actually America is closer to being Great Again today than its been since Reagan.

    Obama' agenda has sent this country in a tailspin and Obama and his DOJ has created the divide and deep hatred in this country.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob the Slob View Post
    The claim is silly or a lie.

    Perhaps both.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob the Slob View Post
    https://www.commondreams.org/views/2...t-were-trouble



    Doing PUtin's bidding. Trump is destroying our nation and the bought and paid for by Russia republicans are helping.
    Uh-huh. Sure he is. Speaking of "bought and paid for" :





    And this:


    Of course, who could blame you, since the only "Russian Collusion" by a US President proven here has been that of former Pres. "I'll Swallow for You Vlad" Obama...and I have plenty more where that came from:

    Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal


    https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/u...m-company.html




    Team Obama’s stunning cover-up of Russian crimes


    https://nypost.com/2017/10/17/team-o...ussian-crimes/



    Obama, not Trump, has built up Russian strongman Putin

    http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2016/...man-putin.html


    Obama Told Ukraine to Stand Down as Putin Invaded

    Moscow was emboldened when it got Crimea, not appeased.



    https://www.bloomberg.com/view/artic...-putin-invaded



    EXCLUSIVE: Obama Never Warned State Election Officials Of Russian Election ‘Hacking’

    http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/07/ex...ction-hacking/


    WaPo: Obama Knew Of Russian Meddling and Did Nothing

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattve...-ball-n2345789


    Yeah...SPEAKING OF "FAVORS" :

    Wow. Former Pres.Mommy Pants SURE MADE GOOD ON THAT "MORE FLEXIBILITY" PROMISE TO PUTIN, DIDN'T HE??







    Meanwhile, the economy is BOOMING, black unemployment at it's LOWEST IN RECORDED HISTORY, ISIS crushed, North and South Korea talking, and Americans seeing MORE OF THEIR OWN MONEY ALREADY...

    Plus this:
    Unlike former Pres."Mommy Pants More Flexible for Vlad" , Pres.Trump continues to counter attempted Russian expansionism with ACTION, instead of the groveling submission Putin became accustomed to from Obama.

    Now, in addition to deploying missile defense systems in Eastern Europe (Poland and Romania) , AGAINST THE EXPRESS WISHES OF PUTIN, Pres.Trump has now approved the sales of lethal weaponry to the Ukraine, to help them fight back against the pro-Russian separatists, something Obama REFUSED TO DO, because, as we ALL KNOW, he never wanted to upset his mancrush, Vladipoo.

    UPDATE: IN addition to the weapons listed below, the US has also just approved the sale of LETHAL, TANK-KILLER TOW MISSILES to the Ukraine, as well.

    Trump Approves US Lethal Weapons Sales to Ukraine, Angering Moscow


    KYIV, UkraineU.S. President Donald Trump has approved the sale of commercial lethal weapons to Ukraine, a pivotal decision that comes amid an escalation of Russia’s ongoing proxy war in the country’s embattled eastern Donbas region.

    Trump has reportedly approved a $41.5 million deal for Tennessee-based Barrett Firearms Manufacturing to sell Model M107A1 sniper rifles, ammunition, and accessories to Ukraine.

    For years, Ukraine has requested U.S. lethal weapons to defend against Russian aggression. News of the U.S. weapons deal was therefore celebrated as a sign of solidarity and, hopefully, a bellwether for more robust American military support in the future.

    “The Ukrainian people congratulate President Trump’s decision to sell sniper systems to our army. We hope this is the first step and will follow other, more weighty ones,” said Timur Kobzar, a Ukrainian volunteer who has ferried supplies out to soldiers on the front lines since the war began.


    This is not just a good solution, this is a beautiful, long-awaited decision for Ukraine,” Kobzar told The Daily Signal.
    “When you have a strong friend behind you, you have more chances to defeat the enemy. And this is exactly the case.”

    The reaction from Moscow to the U.S.-Ukraine rifle deal was swift and pointed. On Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called it a “dead-end technique, which would unleash bloodshed again,” the Russian government-owned news site TASS reported.

    Some say the weapons deal, which is limited to commercial sales of small arms and light weapons, could be the opening salvo of a full-blown diplomatic about-face by the Trump White House, which would ultimately reverse the Obama administration’s longtime refusal to arm Ukraine.

    If the president formally signs off, the plan will be presented to Congress for a 30-day review period where it would need to be approved before the State Department can implement it.

    The sale of anti-tank missiles, which could possibly include the U.S.-made Javelin system, provoked a strong reaction from Russia on Saturday, saying it "crossed the line," and could threaten to derail Trump’s calls for better relations with Moscow.


    http://dailysignal.com/2017/12/21/tr...gering-moscow/

    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sourc...ry?id=51957745




    Pretty obvious who did Putin's bidding, and who has STOPPED him in his tracks...
    De Oppresso Liber



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