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Republicans Lay Out Agenda: Repeal ObamaCare, Authorize Keystone, Save The Children
It would appear the blood-red pen of veto will be running dry by the time the President's term is up based on Mitch McConnell and John Boehner's WSJ op-ed explaining "now we can get Congress going." As they begin, "Americans have entrusted Republicans with control of both the House and Senate. We are humbled by this opportunity to help struggling middle-class Americans who are clearly frustrated..."
Americans have entrusted Republicans with control of both the House and Senate. We are humbled by this opportunity to help struggling middle-class Americans who are clearly frustrated by an increasing lack of opportunity, the stagnation of wages, and a government that seems incapable of performing even basic tasks.
Looking ahead to the next Congress, we will honor the voters’ trust by focusing, first, on jobs and the economy. Among other things, that means a renewed effort to debate and vote on the many bills that passed the Republican-led House in recent years with bipartisan support, but were never even brought to a vote by the Democratic Senate majority. It also means renewing our commitment to repeal ObamaCare, which is hurting the job market along with Americans’ health care.
For years, the House did its job and produced a steady stream of bills that would remove barriers to job creation and lower energy costs for families. Many passed with bipartisan support—only to gather dust in a Democratic-controlled Senate that kept them from ever reaching the president’s desk. Senate Republicans also offered legislation that was denied consideration despite bipartisan support and benefits for American families and jobs.
These bills provide an obvious and potentially bipartisan starting point for the new Congress—and, for President Obama , a chance to begin the final years of his presidency by taking some steps toward a stronger economy.
We’ll also consider legislation to help protect and expand America’s emerging energy boom and to support innovative charter schools around the country.These bills include measures authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, which will mean lower energy costs for families and more jobs for American workers; the Hire More Heroes Act, legislation encouraging employers to hire more of our nation’s veterans; and a proposal to restore the traditional 40-hour definition of full-time employment, removing an arbitrary and destructive government barrier to more hours and better pay created by the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Enacting such measures early in the new session will signal that the logjam in Washington has been broken, and help to establish a foundation of certainty and stability that both parties can build upon.
At a time of growing anxiety for the American people, with household incomes stubbornly flat and the nation facing rising threats on multiple fronts, this is vital work.
Will these bills single-handedly turn around the economy? No. But taking up bipartisan bills aimed at helping the economy that have already passed the House is a sensible and obvious first step.
More good ideas aimed at helping the American middle class will follow. And as we work to persuade others of their merit, we won’t repeat the mistakes made when a different majority ran Congress in the first years of Barack Obama’s presidency, attempting to reshape large chunks of the nation’s economy with massive bills that few Americans have read and fewer understand.
Instead, we will restore an era in which committees in both the House and Senate conduct meaningful oversight of federal agencies and develop and debate legislation; and where members of the minority party in both chambers are given the opportunity to participate in the process of governing.
We will oversee a legislature in which “bigger” isn’t automatically equated with “better” when it comes to writing and passing bills.
Our priorities in the 114th Congress will be your priorities. That means addressing head-on many of the most pressing challenges facing the country, including:
The insanely complex tax code that is driving American jobs overseas;
Health costs that continue to rise under a hopelessly flawed law that Americans have never supported;
A savage global terrorist threat that seeks to wage war on every American;
An education system that denies choice to parents and denies a good education to too many children;
Excessive regulations and frivolous lawsuits that are driving up costs for families and preventing the economy from growing;
An antiquated government bureaucracy ill-equipped to serve a citizenry facing 21st-century challenges, from disease control to caring for veterans;
A national debt that has Americans stealing from their children and grandchildren, robbing them of benefits that they will never see and leaving them with burdens that will be nearly impossible to repay.
January will bring the opportunity to begin anew. Republicans will return the focus to the issues at the top of your priority list. Your concerns will be our concerns. That’s our pledge.
The skeptics say nothing will be accomplished in the next two years. As elected servants of the people, we will make it our job to prove the skeptics wrong.
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Good luck with that!
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How about defunding tsa and making airlines hire private security vetted by mossad, yeah whatever bitches they still do profiling better than anybody..
How about "we blew ten trillion but won!"
Sounds bad when you blow the ten trillion and lost to me.
How could you blow 10 trillion? There are only 6 or so billion on the planet and I know I got skipped!
How about we end America's association with Israel and expel anyone remotely associated with Mossad? Then we could perhaps go back to the days where you just stepped through a metal detector to get on a plane and didn't have to take you shoes off or get your groin groped.
Israel has never, ever done anything for the United States. There is nothing at all in Israel worth emulating. Nothing.
The voters who care about all that stuff are the ones who stayed home yesterday because Obama betrayed them.
Yesterday was the election of the great geezer turn-out. They care about protecting what they got and screw the younger guys. They think the Repubs will do this for them but they are sadly mistaken unless they their net worth is well over a million bucks.
I'm sure a dem president and a red congress will get everything done quickly and efficiently. Blind leading the blind.
The slide down the shit heap will likely increase in speed as Rethugs will try to take us back to their version of the good old days, something who's time has passed but they haven't a clue about it. Meanwhile the Dems will play their role as enablers, like a good abused housewife does. It'll make for good theater as this house of cards shakes out more and more people from the middle levels to the ground. But hey, the rich, powerful and famous will still be doing well so there's nothing to worry about. With any luck, the Rethugs will step on the accelerator with their usual clueless righteousness and crash this shit pile much quicker than the lame Dems have done.
Meanwhile the Dems will play their role as enablers, like a good abused housewife does
Spot fucking on, it's unbearable to watch.
Hope, Hope and Change!!!!
Oh Yeah, the dems are just fucking enablers and they never do anything anything toally fucked up and insane on their own if they were in power. They would never cheat to pass the most massive society changing bill in the history of the world and then then proudly announce they never bothered to read a fucking word of it.
You and BK Broiler are neanderthal butt buddies who got lost looking for sheep.
Criticizing Republicans doesn't make one a fan of the Democrats. The Republicans deserve a lot of criticism - particularly McStain and Miss Lindsey.
BK lets hope they get nothing done just undo the shit already done so I can be free, you not so sharp tool...
@calm... that would be the best president/Congress of all time. "Do nothing Congress?" --- EXCELLENT! But go past that and remove layers upon layers of bullshit laws - starting with illegal forfeiture laws.
Dismiss Congress.
Sequester or Quarantine Congress?
- How can we get Referendum to send congress home
- If Presidente Obama has full responsibility to defend country, operate on Flat budget or declare war... maybe he is impeachable or responsible for his office
- If Flat Federal Budget mandated, then war & defense has to be taken out of hide
- Goal is to end Continuing Resolution that are exponential budget increases & end congressional bailouts, and end congressional spending bill that create new military commands or new agencies
- And your agencies have to audit to find money and funding
- Maybe it pits agency against agency
- GAO needs to be cleaned out, fire the old guys to retirement
Maybe the new Republican leadership can show it is non-partisan by reopening the investigation of the pedophile ring operating in the Reagan White House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTitnDgw3Gc&hd=1
After the alleged ringleader committed "suicide," Congress swept everything under the rug, just as what happened in the 80s in the UK, when top Tory party members wer implicated as child rapists. In the UK, the web site Exaro has forced the British governement and Scotland Yard to reopen those cases. In the USA, the child rapist (and probable murder) cases from the 1980s continue to be covered up.
This kind of internecine warfare is no longer permitted... The Clinton Impeachment sealed the deal on this.
It's too damaging to the System itself when the high level players get dragged through the mud.
It won't be happening again. I assure you.
This is why the NSA is now in charge.
They keep the burn files under thumb.
They know who is doing what, when and where.
If someone is going to get burned down, they are the ones who perform the deed.
They don't make the decision mind you, just execute the act.
Their other job(s) are making sure that any attempt to collect data for a burn file against a high level target is neutralized and the "creation" or collection of burn data (real or fabricated) if required.
"If you want to keep your losses, you can keep your losses."
The entire unedited NSA feed goes to Israel. The decision of who/when someone gets "burned" is now made by a Tribesman.
Maybe, but I wouldn't count on it. After all...Benghazi.
I hear "blah, blah, blah.
Watch what they do, not what they say.
What the hell is going on in this thread? Slave is one of the lamest and most obnoxious trolls I've seen on here in years and he's getting upvotes. BKBroiler is getting massive downvotes for saying that red vs. blue is a sham...I'm so confused.
You're mistaken.
I say red vs blue is a sham. BKbroiler is a Democrat. Try reading it all again.
Hi zerohedgers, abit offtopic, but why do we have so little news on donetsk and lugansk lately?
Just this week Lugansk terrorist republic banned women from cafes, clubs and were told that if they are seen in public cafes or clubs, they will be arrested.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/news/article/specter-of-russian-tal...
We are witnessing the rise of radical Russian orthodoxy "ISIS". Won't be long before music,movies, alcohol etc are banned. Not wearing the orthodox cross will be a crime next is my guess. How is that for a police state? Those phone calls that NSA traced dont seem that bad now huh?
>Alcohol
>Banned by Russians
Pick one.
Lugansk "ISIS" meeting on where it was announced:
http://youtu.be/zHxPZlH7Kh0
We are all ISIS. Take a sip and let that sink in...
#WEall.lost.
"Do your stitching and quit your bitching."
Now I hate Russia, along with ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Turkey, Nigeria, Albania, and France. Especially France.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Donetsk >> Don't Tell.
We are waiting for Georgey Porgey to save the day.
We are hoping he storms the gates of the Kremlin soon too!
Hope he doesn't run out of Geritol.
P.S. Putin isn't nearly the problem we have with our own tyrannical Psychos.
Putin >> I'll Nuke 3 American Cities...
Obama >> I'll Nuke 12 American Cities and say you did it!
Putin >> I'll reinstate the russian bio-warfare plan!
Obama >> I'll infect millions of Americans with Russian Ebola and blame you!
You forgot that fat woman with Heidi hair who was in jail and said she wanted to kill millions of ethnic Russians.
I had a dream that pretzel head gave me viagra and made me do her doggie because her back was bad and the "pushing" took the pressure off...
I was under hypnosis or something... I couldn't run off... All I can remember is the ukrainian yelling at me to "poooosh eeeeit" over and over...
I guess that served well as aversion therapy, because I forgot all about that cray-cray beeeotch.
Well, I gotta say that I wasn't expecting to read this post in this thread.
LOL! I hope that guy does not share too many more of his "dreams."
Alexander Zakharchenko was also sworn in as Prime Minister of Donetsk. The guy the real deal who fought against your Kiev Nazis sent by your dual-citizen zoligarchs like Yats and Porky.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Zakharchenko
Zakharchenko was on the front lines defending the citizens of Donetsk against your Soros backed Z-Nazis of the ZWO.
Your point is?We are talking about religous nutjobs imposing Isis style police state.
You mean the israelis running the murderous junta in Kiev? Yes exactly. Russia and the Ukraine are Christian countries.
Exactly.
Here’s the Big Lie coming out of Germany’s neocon press, Handelsblatt, part of the Dieter von Holtzbrinck Media Group. Handelsblatt called the elections “phoney” but conceded that world politicians will need to negotiate with the “new strongmen” in the separatist Ukrainian regions “regardless of how they came to power.” No mention, of course, of how the Kiev junta came to power when Nuland’s February coup d’etat de-coupled western Europe from Russian energy at the same time bringing Ukraine “into the orbit of the global banking system through crippling IMF loans.”
Will the fear of being called “Nazis” forever keep the Germans from standing up to their foreign dictators?
Here’s the biased Handelsblatt story:
“Spiraling Ukrainian Rage: The West will ultimately have to live with the heavily criticized election in the Donets Basin“ by Mathias Bruggmann
“The machinery of international uproar promptly sprang into full gear: The ‘elections’ in the separatist area of the Ukrainian Donets Basin were a ‘farce,’ said Kiev’s President Poroshenko. The new representative of the European Union for foreign affairs, Federica Mogherini, called the process ‘illegal, illicit and obstructive to the peace process.’ Germany’s social democratic foreign minister Frank Walter Steinmeier played the same tune. And his American colleague John Kerry was outraged when he heard the news.
“All of the statesmen are right. The balloting on Sunday in the self-proclaimed ‘people’s republics’ of Donetsk and Luhansk did not constitute genuine elections. There were no up-to-date electoral rolls, no certified voting right, not even an exact figure for the number of eligible voters – not to mention the lack of choice among parties and an election conducted in front of the flashing muzzles of the Kalashnikovs of pro-Russian fighters.
“All this deserves criticism. But politics is not a matter of complaining loudly, but of coming up with productive solutions.
“Above all, this means facing up to realities. One of these is that the ringleaders elected on Sunday in Donetsk and Luhansk are now the strongmen in the Ukrainian coal-mining and industrial region. And they are the ones with whom negotiations must be conducted on the status of the two territories and a ceasefire …”
https://global.handelsblatt.com/edition/47/ressort/opinion/article/spiraling-ukrainian-rage
As Professor Michael Hudson has pointed out: IMF loans are sugar-coated poison pills that even the Ukrainian parliament couldn’t swallow. Hudson says that the “US has pressed Europe to make its own economy much more high-cost and to rely on US gas exports mainly in order to deprive Russia of foreign exchange” so, as Yats said in June, Ukraine “won’t continue subsidizing Gazprom so that Russia can arm itself against us [with this money].”
“The US position today,” Hudson continued, “is what it was in 1991: Without manufacturing, Russia cannot be a serious military power to defend itself. And without purchasing foreign technology and without a large state subsidy—as US and European governments provide their own economies—Russia cannot create a manufacturing economy. So NATO is trying to prevent Russia from earning enough money to modernize its economy, on the principle that nay industrial power is potentially military and any military power may potentially be used to achieve political independence from the US sphere.”
Yeah the "phony" elections. Like who elected Baroso and van Rompouy? Scotland, Catlonia, Northern Italy, Venice and other regions want out of Spain or Great Britain and they go ape shit. They are sending tanks in Spain to Catalonia. Greece? No you cannot leave the EU.
They only like elections they totally control. Like making Ireland vote twoce on the euro because they did not get it right the first time. Fiiing criminals!
They really went wild when regions of the Ukraine wanted out of Yats and Porky's dual citizen oligarch crime family with nazis in the background. Real nazis.
And Russia not able to manufacture? They have the most advanced missiles in the world and are making rapid advances across the board. They have arguably the best computer programmers in the world plus mathematicians and are good in other technical areas like space flight.
The standard of living in Russia keeps going up rapidly while it keeps dropping in the USA and most of Europe and the UK.
Vodka will be banned? These are Russians you're talking about.
Well-chosen avatar, RisingSun. Now piss off to your B'nai Brith meeting.
nothing will change, except american boots in Iraq in next 2 months
Tea Party no longer important to passing shit.
I expect everything the elites want will happen.
WE THE PEOPLE are fucked.
That seems to be the conventional wisdom with NYC & DC suburbanites. However, the Peoples House just got stronger and more governors aren't as "blue" anymore.
We'll see where everyones loyalty lies soon enough ;-)
Tea Party is now part of the stealth fabric that helped bring in guys like Cruz and Paul after the 2010 elections. You don't have to call yourself Tea Party to be tea party any more than democrats call themselves socialist and communists. Need to steadily increase mass in congress to kick out the old guard.
Can't the parents for once save their own FUKING chidren? I don't accept responsibility for your brood (30 seconds of ecstasy or momentary lapse or whatever the FUK it was).
They'd prolly save theys own chilluns if'n dere be an app fo dat onna Owebammyfone.
When I think of what people think of their children, I think of...
The how much effort the parents put into those little "family" stickers.
They can tell me where they got them, how much they cost, when they applied them and who decieded on the color.
But they didn't know that Son #1 has a 25$ a day smack habit and has lately been engaing in risky behavior to finance it, daughter #1 is on abortion #3 or that less than fully clothed pictures of daughter #2 have made it from snap chat to her 3 hr History teacher's laptops photo library...
Ohh, I forgot, Dad can tell me all about last weeks football game (his team won)...
So basically, the Parents know as much about their kids as they do about their government.
How about they just get real lunches again. Not the shit Michelle has been peddling.
Why? What's wrong with fried chicken?
.gov is the biggest scam of padded budgets. Look at VA Medical Scandal... what the GOP forgot? Big problem with Computers in the VA & General Shinseki never looked at IT Technology? Their solution was to Financialize VA Medical Care by letting them use the most expensive health care in the world.
Can't spend on good stuff or more likely stolen by VA Directors. Check the evidence:
Total—Department of Veterans Affairs Outlays 2014 = $154.05 Billion
Total—Department of Veterans Affairs Outlays 2013 = $143.6 Billion
Total—Department of Veterans Affairs Outlays 2000 = $50.1 Billion
Total—Department of Veterans Affairs Outlays 1998 = $45.6 Billion
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2014 VA Information Technology Systems outlays = $3.432 Billion
2013 VA Information Technology Systems outlays = $3.218 Billion
2012 VA Information Technology Systems outlays = $3.266 Billion
2011 VA Information Technology Systems outlays = $3.355 Billion
Total VA Information Technology Systems outlays = $13.27. Billion in 4 Years
2014 VA Medical Care = $46.04 Billion
2013 VA Medical Care = $44.7 Billion
2010 VA Medical Care = $36.9 Billion
2008 VA Medical Care = $30.0 Billion
2004 VA Medical Care = $24.4 Billion
2002 VA Medical Care = $22.6 Billion
1999 VA Medical Care = $17.8 Billion
1998 VA Medical Care = $17.3 Billion
2014 VA Compensation and Pensions = $69.82 Billion
2013 VA Compensation and Pensions = $64.76 Billion
2010 VA Compensation and Pensions = $47.90 Billion
2008 VA Compensation and Pensions = $40.24 Billion
2004 VA Compensation and Pensions = $29.78 Billion
2002 VA Compensation and Pensions = $25.68 Billion
2000 VA Compensation and Pensions = $23.82 Billion
1999 VA Compensation and Pensions = $21.15 Billion
1998 VA Compensation and Pensions = $20.29 Billion
That's not evidence of anything.
How does this happen? Obama is a right wing Democrat fascist, but Iraq War was the big build up which was settled by 2008.
You know some big war some where?
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2014 = $9.84 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2013 = $12.32 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2012 = $14.55 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2011 = $19.92 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2010 = $21.17 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2009 = $17.61 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2008 = $11.56 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2007 = $7.90 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2006 = $6.25 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2005 = $5.33 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2004 = $6.31 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2003 = $5.85 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2002 = $5.06 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2001 = $4.98 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 2000 = $5.11 Billion
Total--Military Construction Outlays 1999 = $5.52 Billion
A Loooong time ago, in a past life...
I worked an IT contract at the Austin, TX VA Facility.
It was in the 90's.
They had the biggest farm of IBM 'frames I had ever seen... And I seen some shee-it!
They had fucking robot tape libraries aka "Pagodas" as big as a garden gazebo full from floor to ceiling with Tapes!
They had a roll of paper for printing payroll checks that was 15' in diameter and sat in a trench on a spindle...
It was fucking JAW DROPPING.
The project I worked was an obvious stinking turd that nobody at the VA gave a shit about.
I left before it was completed... Went off to other gov projects n stuff... It got real bad in 99 and I could just smell the shit cooking...
Mostly got out of that end of the shit.
The whole system is just a giant fucking scam.
Either you accept it for what it is, milk it and try to "influence" what you can or you are in a quixotic ride.
Yes, my sense is that gov does everything big. They buy near state of the art, buy large on large deployment plans, then end up with IT Stuff sitting in boxes for a while, the IT Push is part of a plan that is pushed but the implementation is not possible within time frames due to unique systems, lack of skills, lack of training, and no auditing that corrects big purchases, big contracts, or big plans.
Yeah, you are right on one level...
This has been going on for so long that it is more than obvious to those at the level of budgetary control over things.
Over time, they "got in on it" back-handedly and now you have a positive reinforcement loop that will grow until it oscilates everything into tiny pieces.
It's called the MIC.
Its a real dichotomy for many people in this Country... I know.
Yes, Communication Industry is now MIC.
- IT is MIC
- Social Media is MIC
- TV is MIC
- Press & MSM is MIC
- Communications like ATT, Phone Corps, Cable, all MIC
- But there must be a lot of Computer companies that are MIC
So does this mean they are going to reinstate The Constitution? Oh yeah.
Senate bill 001: We hereby redefine "reinstate" to mean to trample forthwith and set aflame.
Always gotta read: Definitions
Fucking Lawyers.
Oh, it means they're waiting for some corporate lobbyists write it for them... when its ready, they'll reinstate it ... all 750,000 pages of it.
I wanted them to announce a through housecleaning of the IRS and EPA as "firsts".
The only real benefit of QE is that the Federal government really doesnt need our tax dollars. Just print off a few extra trilly, bitches, and cut the IRS budget down to zero. The EPA is useless as well, unless those bastards can stop India/China/Japan from fucking up the global environment via all their coal-burning, nuke polluting, diesel-burning industries. So cut the EPA's budget by 25% for starters, and see where to go from there.
But don't think we would get any tax breaks from thus cuts. They're Rethugs so they will roll the money over into the military, which of course needs no cuts or budgetary constraints. They need more, more, more.
You forgot the DEA.
How about the secret service?
"Sorry Mr P but we fired all those people."
How about sick children with no healthcare?
Can't we for once leave the children out of political slogans ... ? They are like lamb, being led to the slaughter house one way or the other. The problem is the adults. This is child abuse of the worse kind and a total failure of our nations agenda and its future give its "brand" of high universal aspirations of "we the people".
The sick kids with no healthcare must receive ER care, plus there are tons of charities that can help cover expenses. The real problem here is that the parents are usually not responsible. Any kid presenting with significant uninsured healthcare needs should be able to receive care only after the able-bodied parents are working full time jobs doing something, even if it picking up garbage on the roads.
Ayn Rand is smiling up at you from hell.
Funny, your lot generally doesn't believe in Hell. Why the hell should my tax dollars support some epsilon who breeds like a fucking rabbit with nary a thought about health insurance? Is that the kind of gene pool you want to amplify 10x per generation?
Margaret Sanger shit, all that.
"Why the hell should my tax dollars support some epsilon who breeds like a fucking rabbit with nary a thought about health insurance?"
Because Jesus said it would be better to have a millstone tied around your neck and be cast into the sea than what will happen to you in the afterlife if you harm a child.
There will be no change in the important parameters that reduce our personal freedom and financial security. But the rate at which our society deteriorates will accelerate rapidly. This is what happens when elections give only sham choices.
Terminal velocity was reached with Obama. Cna only decelerate.
Repeal Obamacare, authorize Keystone, "save the children".
Well, like Meat Loaf said, two out of three ain't bad.
Where the fuck is TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!
I think that dream died in Crimea.
We didn't?
Pinky: Gee, Brain, what do you want to do tonight? Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world...
in other words they meant nothing is going to get better.
We need a 100 million Mask March.
Listen Stupid Americans.
Elect creeps to steal more money from you and your future.
Good sheeple, good.
Do I really need to name the endless list of "Creepy Indian" politicians?
Many American manufactures are pulling out of India because of the political corruption. India was regarded as a manufacturing powerhouse (10) years ago.
Now India has reverted back to it's old ways. That might be a good thing in the end.
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(Biiiiizzzzzzzz) All of our representatives are assisting other customers right now and will be with you shortly, please hold.
(Loooooooonnnnnggggg musical interlude, interrupted by...All of our representatives are assisting other customers right now and will be with you shortly, please hold, till finally after a half hour)
Hi, dis was Raji, how am I helped you today!
(Click)
hey.... you are discriminating.....
PRESS 1 for ENGLISH... PRESS 2 for SPANISH.... 3 for FRENCH 4 for YIDISH.... PRESS 4 for muslims (we will report you to the FBI, CIA, SEC, and OBOMBA)
lol...political correctness was never my strong suit ;-)
I worked for a brief stint in a call center. We would take escalations from the India call centers. I can tell you that in all honesty Elvis is alive and living in India.
Standard Disclaimer:
Fuck the CWA.
don't you mean Hi, dis was Scott (formerly known as Raji), how am I helped you today!
I lived in India for about a year and a half, back in the early 90's. This was right as India began to open back up to outside markets, and letting foreign competition back in. India has amazing potential. But, until they can get past their caste system and deeply entrenched corruption, they won't be able to really keep any forward momentum going for extended periods of time.
Is Inida past the "gee this place smells like shit" when you get off the plane stage?
Not according to some coworkers who had to go there for a while last year. While visiting the Taj Mahal they watched women and children take a crap by the side of the road despite the fact there were restrooms nearby. Old habits die hard I guess
It would be interesting to get your thoughts on the frequency of rapes or the turmoil that males are feeling which causes some turmoil in how males treat females?
Do I really need to name the endless list of "Creepy Indian" politicians?
er... yes... elizabeth warren.....
-lol
Yup. If you don't pay the requisite bribes you get charged with evading taxes and hit with an enormous tax bill out of nowhere.
You killed Ghandi!!!! You stupid asshole!!!!
The skeptics are right.
Total--Department of Labor Outlays 2014 = $62.98 Billion
Total--Department of Labor Outlays 2013 = $88.5 Billion (What?)
Total--Department of Labor Outlays 2000 = $33.8 Billion
Total--Department of Labor Outlays 1998 = 32.3 Billion
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DOL Unemploy Trust: Federal-State Unemployment: State Benefits, Outlays 2014 = $42.18 Billion
DOL Unemploy Trust: Federal-State Unemployment: State Benefits, Outlays 2013 = $66.9 Billion
DOL Unemploy Trust: Federal-State Unemployment: State Benefits, Outlays 2000 = $20.6 Billion
DOL Unemploy Trust: Federal-State Unemployment: State Benefits, Outlays 1998 = $19.9 Billion
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Job Training & Assistance
Little to show federal budget help in job formation, but this:
2014 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $3.10 Billion (Decreased)
2013 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $3.48 Billion (Decreased)
2012 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $3.74 Billion
2011 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $4.48 Billion
2010 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $5.11 Billion
2009 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $4.45 Billion
2008 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $4.30 Billion
2007 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $5.16 Billion
2006 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $5.26 Billion
2005 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $5.32 Billion
2004 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $5.60 Billion
1999 federal Outlays Training & Employment Services = $4.68 Billion
2014 federal Outlays Office of Job Corps = $1.59 Billion
2013 federal Outlays Office of Job Corps = $1.58 Billion
2012 federal Outlays Office of Job Corps = $1.77 Billion
2011 federal Outlays Office of Job Corps = $1.66 Billion
2010 federal Outlays Office of Job Corps = $1.85 Billion
Welfare to Work may have ended or lost in other fund line
2005 federal Outlays welfare to work = $6 Million
2004 federal Outlays welfare to work = $18 Million
2003 federal Outlays welfare to work = $312 Million
2002 federal Outlays welfare to work = $500 Million
2001 federal Outlays welfare to work = $659 Million
2000 federal Outlays welfare to work = $527 Million
1999 federal Outlays welfare to work = $267 Million
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Well... the answer in USA is spending & Forgetting.
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Prior to 2002 government was like military officer training. Plan, Execute, and monitor.
This means you send in auditors, you hold agencies & businesses to guidelines & regulations, you put out new orders or regulations to correct fraud & poor performance, and you demand reports quarterly, and annually,... this is not brain surgery all the systems were well developed prior to 2002.
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What? You want to tell me that government is not like the military system or like the banking system (which is exactly the same way).
Troll got off work at 22:00 hours I guess.
"I'll hit you with so many lefts you'll beg me to hit you with a right just to give one side of your face a break from the brutal monotony." -Dad
Der incoherence is palpable.
Yep. Either party in charge of this economy, or lack thereof, would've got voted out.
2014 HHS Payments to States for Child Support Enforcement
and Family Support Programs Outlays = $4.112 Billion
That's not evidence of anything either.
cleaning up my response. u R .gov contractor.
Or you eat shit as .gov employee
- funny how US Mercenaries appeared with Dick Cheney's surprise war. Think nine-one-1 was planned 10 years in advance?
- think dyncorp & many engineering firms aren't committed to US wars, future wars since they are profitable, generate revenue,...?
- US is Military Great, but where should we go now, should we taunt nations to war, should we plant evidence for war, should we become "bad nation" that dictates the way it is?
Philosophy, questions, history, politics, all connected.
- I know, sounds cynical, is not Christian, but is direct truth?
Keep the child support enforcement funding component in place. That's actually a department that creates a net reduction in government spending by hunting down dead beat dad's and forcing them to pay child support, reducing the baby mommies dependence on welfare dollars. One of the only government agencies that actually saves tax payers money.
Of course I'd prefer to stop the cash incentives for the hoards of unwed women to pop out babies...but that won't happen until this entire shit show collapses.
Great POV. It reminds me that if you seek to fly out of country whether military or civilian... you will be searched by computer for debts... so you will be stopped in the port for debts like child support, IRS, mortgage? Credit card? Educational benefits? Domestic Abuse? IRS debt? Property Tax Debt? Business Bankruptcy? Suspicious bank withdrawal?
capital controls... first for those trying to escape debt slavery... second phase coming soon for anyone wanting to flee the smiley face fascist state
I was wondering what damaged your brain.
Now that I know my condolances.
"Your concerns our concerns"
That's why the first big fight is all about the precious fucking oil.
2014 HHS Refugee and Entrant Assistance outlays = $1.278 Billion
2013 HHS Refugee and Entrant Assistance outlays = $997 Million
2007 HHS Refugee and Entrant Assistance outlays = $509 Million
2000 HHS Refugee and Entrant Assistance outlays = $383 Million
Neither is that.
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2014 = $46.6 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2013 = $65.8 Billion (what is happening here)
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2011 = $38 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2009 = $32.7 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2007 = $19.4 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2005 = $20.9 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2003 = $13.9 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2001 = $11.3 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 2000 = $8.3 Billion
Total--Tennessee Valley Authority Outlays 1998 = 9 Billion
Total of Listed (years skipped) past 10 Years Federal Funding Tennessee Valley Authority =$265.9 Billion
compare that with:
Total--Department of Energy Outlays 2014 = $29.14 Billion
Total--Department of Energy Outlays 2013 = $31.13 Billion
Total--Department of Energy Outlays 2008 = $26.02 Billion
Total--Department of Energy Outlays 2002 = $21.46 Billion
Total--Department of Energy Outlays 1999 = $19.51 Billion
Total—Department of Transportation Outlays 2014 = $76.85 Billion
Total—Department of Transportation Outlays 2013 = $76.9 Billion
Total—Department of Transportation Outlays 2000 = $46.5 Billion
Total—Department of Transportation Outlays 1998 = $40 Billion
Total--Department of Education Outlays 2014 = $99.31 Billion
Total--Department of Education Outlays 2013 = $89.5 Billion
Total--Department of Education Outlays 2000 = $33.4 Billion
Total--Department of Education Outlays 1998 = $30.6 Billion
You guys are missing something big here.
I say GAO Audit, Congressional Audit, IG Inspection, CBO Audit, Agency Audit, Independent Prosecutor, Massive MSM Investigation, and Financial Ratings Down Grade.
Why Not? The free Wheeling Style has to End.
Mandate. Or Man Date?
I don't think much of Dems, but obamacare is the best thing to come out of DC in a long time. Poorly implemented, but that is because of supreme court decisions that give nonwhites the promotions within the government.
The GOP pretends to help white males, but the GOP appointed the majority of current Supreme Ct judges, the same judges who continue to uphold anti-white male discrimination. The same judges who continue to enable mass immigration.
Dems are better than the GOP. Admit it. Admit it.
"Dems are better than the GOP. Admit it. Admit it."
That's like saying one side of a fresh hot pile of shit, smells better than the other side does.
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Mata hairy con, umm obamacare best thing out of Washington, you obviously do not work in nor know anyone in healthcare it will destroy healthcare as we know but of course to an armpit sniffing leftist that may be a feature not a bug..
eau di armpit...expensive stuff....my wife wants some...but it's too good for her...however, there is a piano teacher in the village...
and the resident idiot as well, apparently.
"it will destroy healthcare as we know" the healthcare system as I know it right now sucks wind, my sister agrees and she has only been a nurse for 30 years.
"We are humbled by this opportunity..."
LMFAO! There's not a humble Republican on this planet.
Looks like I need to move out of this country before my son turns 18 and the Rethugs are in charge and looking to send him to the next war they need to profit from, all the while the Dems will support their agenda behind the curtains. Then in 2016 the Dems will take more control again and we'll get the same shit we've always got from either party. This is like a shitty Groundhogs Day movie without any of the humor. Just righteous assholes.
You should.
Really.
I will before you and your dimwit buddies start hunting down those with IQs over 100 to make this aright. Enjoy your Idiocracy. You fully deserve it.
Considering the block voters the Dems have, I think they have the sub 100 IQs.
Pretty much a trait for the faithful of both parties. The funny thing is, when I trash Rethugs on here they instantly assume I'm a Dem lover. Such is their black or white view of life.
Oh Jorge... you so smart.... STFU... you blathering feckin idiot.
Might want to check on who starts wars their rockstar... Can I pet the rabbits George, can I, can I...
Yep, Iraq and Afghanistan were the Dems... Last I saw, party doesn't really matter. Both bend over for the MIC quite willingly.
Jorge - STFU you idiota. Habla espanol... you feckin illegal ?
Dems did not demand to revote on the IRAQ war? Oh thats right they did so they could be in on the MIC fun.. Dems prolonged and changed roe to get more men killed in the stan..
"Might want to check on who starts wars their (sic) rockstar..."
Grammar isn't your strong suit, right up there (their? they're?) with history, reason, logic, reality...
Repeal Obamacare, ok who's going to start from scratch and write all the code that goes on the servers to replace it, huh? Yeah there's a lot of fixes that are needed but holy moly you can't start some massive project like this all over again, coders are going to crap out.
There's hope on the way as the Too Big To Fail Insurer, United Healthcare is now in their 5th low income housing investment so all you have to do is give up all your data so they can sell it to subsidize the cheap rent too. These are rents in Boston they hope to secure.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/11/united-healthcare-makes-another.html
In addition the family practice doctor we know today is sadly on it's way out. Again look at our same too big to fail insurer and look at the urgent care centers they are opening, more this week. Doctors get paid from United usually somewhere between what Medicaid and Medicare pays. All who buy from the exchanges and select a policy there, should be aware of this.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/11/united-healthcare-optum-opens-three.html
Now how are they going to fix this one. This is a big problem as insurers all over are not able to do better than around 60% accuracy to tell you which doctors are or are not in network and you might not be able to get the same policy coverage that includes the hospital where your doctor is on staff either. Expect to see some dead doctors listed with the big error factors too.
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/10/here-come-dead-doctors-again-located-in.html
One last comment here too with healthcare that they want to fix...lol. We now have the "Battle of the Quants" taking place too with hospitals having to beef up the number of quants they hire to keep up with insurers so they don't get shorted. Who would have ever guessed we would hear "Battle of the Quants" outside of markets?
http://ducknetweb.blogspot.com/2014/10/data-scientistsquants-in-health.html
Ok so there's a few things Congress can mull over to fix Obamacare where they have no control:) There's needs to be changes but it's in the math formulas used and we can't keep adjusting and moving like the algos do on markets and we have same damn thing going on, just no frontrunning that I have found yet.
Without a word spoken about repealing the Patriot Act or reeling in the NSA, or even reopening an investigation of 911 (oops, that happend with a Rethug Prez and Connedgress). Misguided as usual, but I'd expect nothing less from American politicians, especially Republicans.
Leaving aside the obvious bait, more than a few "reds" want a repeal of the Patriot Act and stopping domestic spying along with the militarization of local cops.
None of this was built in a day and do you think Obola wants to rein in his ability to spy on and target his political enemies.
Not on your or my life buddyro, we're in this together whether you like it or not.
Right because I have so much faith in "Obola" because I find the current crop of lunatic Rethugs rather vile. Maybe your own perceptions aren't as keen as you think. Although you are correct in that it is us against them. Voting won't change it either.
Who are you kidding, nmewn? In my 52 years of life, no Republican has ever lifted a finger for the cause of liberty, so there goes your "more than a few 'reds.'" Of course, no Democrat has ever bestirred him or herself in defense of civil liberties, either.
"In my 52 years of life, no Republican has ever lifted a finger for the cause of liberty..."
Well, I must have missed something in the final vote tally on ObamaCare where not one of them voted to fine you if you didn't buy health insurance from a private corporation.
That was all deep blue "democrats" who injected THE STATE into the liberty to conduct (or not to conduct) a private financial transaction...fucking fascists is really what they are.
Obama and your Obamabagger congress were the ones who weaponized the NSA machine and all other agencies against the people but you were OK with that when it wasn't aimed at you and your fellow commie neocons. Never once in 6 years did Obama ever say he wanted to increase freedom.
ICD-10 was abruptly halted in its implementation and the students were pulled out of those classes and ICD-9 was reinstated (health information support staff) about 9 months ago. ICD-9 is still in hospital system computers for billing purposes.
You stoopid fuck. Repeal ObolaCare, and we are where we were 2 feckin years ago. Are you certifiably insane you dumb mofo?
Repeal it. Let people figure out how they can best fuck the Insurance companies when said Insurance companies shave to compete across State lines.
So in closing...STFU you dumb m'fker
Yes, widening the income gap will be great for the middle class.
More tax cuts for the rich coming - got to help those "job creators."
yep absolutely... need more jobs created in SE asia
More evidence of the dysfunctional democratic system in America. Lame duck president system. You need a revolution. Perhaps you need a prime minister - more power to the congress. More political choice.
Yep, the Dems can blame the Rethugs for stopping them from doing good and the Rethugs will blame lame-assed Obama for stopping them from doing good. Watch, however, as shitty laws that crush the middle class and take more rights from us pass with flying colors. The show goes on...
Right, George. The 2012 NDAA that repealed the 4th, 5th and 6th Amendments was approved in the Senate by a unanimous voice vote.
Bla,Bla Bla fricken Blaaaaaaaaaaa.... Who gives ones rats ass who owns the congress and Senate it doesn't fricken matter. The same two headed beast run by the Global Zionist Banksters that call all the shots. Why have elections anymore? It doesn't mean shit! The puppet masters will pull red strings now and you will just have to deal with it bitchez. Stop being a dumb ass and realize who really is calling the shots? Hint... Seems like everytime the FED, IMF or The ECB or The BOJ give a little lip service with another trillion in stimulus the economy is just fine? Fuck you . When the shtf this time there will be no bailouts. I hope you are prepared because the whole world can't be Japan...There's just not enough ways to lie
I would also worry about the unstated actions:
1) Gutting any of the MINIMAL Financial regulation accomplished to date.
2) Printing a blank check for the MIC
3) Shifting Congressional corruption into warp drive on both sides of the divide.
I heard that it is 400,000 years of 100% tax on labor to pay debt and liabilities.
I havent confirmed it exactly but roughly, if total payrolls are about 1T, and the debt grows 1T a year
plus interest, its already infinite years just to pay the interest.
One reason may be that real gdp is maybe, 4-5T, because it is all nested double counting the same
thing over and over moving through transaction steps, and just reselling imported product.
The only way to save humanity is default on interest on debt, produce produce produce which drives down
costs. Lo and behold, that is the opposite what Ted Turner proclaimed, the nwo hates humans and said the
whole problem is they are using too much stuff.
If the dims are so keen redistribution of wealth, why not allocate all the stock owned by the DTCC corporation
to taxpayer. ( Hint 100% of all stock is owned by DTCC, what you trade is 2nd derivative )
Zero taxes on labor ( taxation of labor is slavery and physical violence, satanism )
Just a few points, there is much more. I doubt the new congress is dealing with any of that, any.
The Republicans would be making a BIG mistake trying to repeal Obamacare - what's the point besides getting a veto from Obama. The way to attack Obamacare is to peel off sections that are unpopular, and to put those to separate votes. You can then try to override and get Democrat senators to vote against the repeal of specific unpopular items.
Same thing with de-funding sections of Obamacare.
They can do the same thing by attacking several of the Executive Orders.
but they don't call the republican party the stoopid party for nuthin