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House Passes $1.15 Trillion Spending Bill: Here Is What's In It
Moments ago, the House of Representatives just passed the $1.15 trillion spending bill that includes a $680 billion package of tax-break extensions, in a 316 to 113 vote, and will now move to the Senate, where its passage is likewise assured and will be signed by the president over the next few days.
While there was clearly no risk of the Omnibus not passing, this particular portion of pork is relevant, because as Richard Breslow notes, "fiscal policy may begin to emerge from hibernation. The spending and tax bills Congress is in the process of passing today is something that probably couldn’t have happened last year. Ryan and Pelosi working together to pass a bill that has White House support gives rise to holiday optimism. The Federal government is actually expected to boost GDP growth next year."
How the market reacts to Congress becoming the driver of the market economy, instead of the Fed's monetary policy, is still unclear although it will likely not be an enthusiastic handoff.
For those wondering what are the main components of the spending bill, here is a quick summary.
From Goldman Sachs.
KEY POINTS:
1. A broad year-end spending and tax deal has been reached. Congressional negotiators finalized their year-end agreement on spending for FY2016 and a long-term extension of tax provisions early this morning. The bill -- particularly the tax components -- includes several changes of interest to the market, as described in more detail below. Details of those changes can be found here and here. We provided background on many of these issues in a US Daily last week.
2. We expect this legislation to become law. While each party opposes certain aspects of the deal, overall we expect there to be sufficient support to get majorities in both chambers. Although the White House has stated opposition to certain changes in the bill, such as the repeal of the oil export ban, they appear to have been careful not to have threatened a veto, and we do not view a presidential veto as a major risk to enactment at this point.
3. The bill would provide a small fiscal boost in 2016. As the bill is over 2000 pages long and formal budget estimates of the spending totals and tax provisions have not yet been released, we will wait to assess the fiscal impact. However, in general we expect the legislation to provide a boost to spending in 2016 that is in line with the increase in the spending caps enacted last month. On the tax side, we expect the legislation to be slightly stimulative in 2016, but will wait until formal estimates are released before making a more detailed assessment.
4. The repeal of oil export ban and extension of renewable incentives made it into the final version. The ban on US crude oil exports would be repealed, and the administration would be prohibited from restricting exports except in national emergencies and similar circumstances. Also, as part of the agreement on oil exports, the production tax credit (PTC) for wind power installations would be extended through 2019, with a phase-down from 2017 through 2019. The investment tax credit (ITC) for solar installations would be extended for three years, through 2019, at the current rate and would then be phased down through 2021, expiring in 2023 (note that the deadline has also been changed, so that it now applies to projects where construction has started by the expiration date, rather than being put into service by expiration). This represents a significant win for the renewable sector, as discussed in our recent report. Refiners, which are negatively affected by the oil export ban, would get limited consolation from a tax benefit for independent refiners. The bill would also extend the existing biodiesel credit for two years, through 2016, but it does not appear to shift it to a “producer” credit as the Senate had proposed.
5. Delay in ACA-related taxes slightly more generous than expected. Implementation of the “Cadillac tax” (40% excise tax on high-cost employer-sponsored health premiums) would be delayed from 2018 to 2020. The tax would also be made deductible as a business expense, easing the burden on employers who might eventually pay the tax. However, in light of widespread opposition to this tax (its delay had just as much Democratic support as Republican) we would expect further changes in years ahead. The existing 2.3% tax on medical device sales would be suspended for two years, so that it would not apply to sales in 2016 and 2017. The existing tax on health insurance premiums would be suspended for one year, in 2017. To generate a small amount of budget savings, the bill would limit the Medicaid payment for durable medical equipment to the Medicare rate starting 2019 and would make changes to payments for imaging. To provide relief for Puerto Rico, hospitals there would receive payments at 100% of the US rate, rather than a blend of 75% US and 25% PR. As expected, the bill also extends last year's requirement that CMS implement the "risk corridor" for plans in ACA exchanges on a budget-neutral basis, which will limit CMS's ability to make the full payments.
6. Real estate provisions largely as expected, but with relief for pending transactions. The restrictions on REIT conversions proposed last week by Ways and Means Chairman Brady were largely maintained in the final version. However, REIT transactions that were pending as of December 7, 2015 are allowed to proceed, provided there was already a formal ruling request with the IRS by that date. The final bill includes the relaxation of restrictions on foreign investment in US real estate under FIRPTA, which would allow foreign pension funds to more freely invest in US real estate assets, including but not limited to REITs.
7. Permanent R&D credit and small business expensing, bonus depreciation extended four years. The bill would permanently extend the R&D tax credit and “Section 179” expensing for small businesses, with thresholds in the latter indexed to inflation starting in 2016. 50% bonus depreciation would be extended four years, through 2019.
8. Stimulus-related personal tax incentives were made permanent. Enhanced refundable tax credits for low-income earners originally enacted in the 2009 stimulus legislation have been scheduled to expire in 2017, reverting back to less generous levels. The bill would make the enhanced versions of the child tax credit (CTC), earned income tax credit (EITC), and American opportunity tax credit (AOTC) permanent.
9. Miscellaneous items of potential interest. Income from gains on timber sales for C corporations (i.e., not REITs) would be taxed at 23.8% in 2016. Heating and air-conditioning would become eligible for small business expensing (Section 179), increasing the tax incentive to install new systems.
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Everything for "them" and nothing for "us" does that about describe it?
Moar FREE SHIT!
Traitors
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The Republican party is dead to me.
Why don't they just castrate themselves and offer their balls as the main course for a democrat banquet?
Sorry christie christie, but republicans are a whole class higher when it comes to feckless cowardice. And no amount of raving mad lunacy on the world political stage will change that fact.
Next stop, gun confiscation. The dickless RINOs will support that as well. Can you feel it coming?
Republicans trying to salvage itself. Had to lean liberal or face extinction. No chance of a trifecta: house, senate, president, with a hard line austerity budget. It is election time. Sad but true.
A$$holes. Every one of them.
Pretty simple, if debt doesn't rise, it all collapses.
So, if private debt does not increase as much as needed, .gov has to pick up the tab.
That is why you won't see a balanced budget unless debt creation on the private side keeps the function going.
Nothing to do with cowardice. Just how the system works.
pods
why would anyone down vote that comment? One only needs to look at a graph of debt creation and note the dip in 06-07 to see the world will crash when the Debt Ponzy stops growing
“if private debt does not increase as much as needed, .gov has to pick up the tab.”
They can go in debt all they want to keep the scam alive, I gave up caring about that years ago..
It's the fact that they are spending the mountains of credit on so many things that are destructive to the nation and culture that makes me furious.
I'm pissed because if they are going to go into debt to give the FSA more free shit, why can't they cut income taxes in half and cover that with some more debt?
Tax System Overhaul (Laugh Track Deafening)
This is just a tiny little glimpse of the magnitude of the Welfare State both personal and corporate
Deficits will continue indefinitely (on hold until the monetary re-set)
#5 kills me. We needed the "Cadillac Tax" ASAP to show obamacare for the disaster it is.
After that is implemented NOT ONE union member would vote lib.
The irony is, is that I still see Romney/Ryan 2012 bumper stickers on trucks to this day!
Remember righties, this was your boy who you wanted as Vice President. The reason why "millenials" "voted for Obummer" and Biden was because this was his phony competition.
You think you have a choice. You don't!
Not to mention Obama/Biden stickers,
And while Rome burns,
We will again today be graced with Obama, live, reassuring The People
All is Well! Go Consume Something!
Try and keep it all in perspective. JEW bankers are happy about this.
Yet the slaves will protest only in silence...or on ZH.
Ron Paul was running in the primaries. Where were all the millenials?
Nice picture...
I think Pelosi is leaning in and saying "Thanks, we couldn't have done it without you! I'll suck your little dick later when I have 20 seconds to spare."
Tax System Overhaul (Laugh Track Deafening)
Yeah and what is really pissing me off is I am liquidating a 401k to pay down loathsome debt and I dont make that much money, i am not a dollar bill nurning millionaire or anything and i have just figured out I am going to be absolutely gobsmacked by the fucking AMT this year. The AMT was never meant to apply to situations like mine where I am really actually scraping to live but I am going to have to lay out like an extra 10 grand or more extra over and above the 10% penalty because the fucking asshat traitorous fucks in DC will not fix the fucking system, but are only too happy to hand out billions to their buddies and hundreds of billions more to the 50% who pay no net tax to buy their votes. the revolution cannot come fast enough. unfortunatley the revolution will not come fast enough.
Cut taxes in half? But that would cut the size of the IRS' cudgel in half. How can the IRS be used as a political weapon if you aren't giving them the tools to do their job??
Why all the debate about debt? Every damned dollar in the system is created with debt. The entire American (and most of the worlds) economic system is based on debt creation. Every dollar in my pocket represents debt. It's so simple - eliminate debt and you eliminate the economy. That simple fact should scare the crap out of any reasonable person. It tells me that the whole thing is a house of cards waiting for a stiff breeze.
Thanks Ryan, So glad to see "normal order" restored...
48 hours to digest 1000s of pages of pork, kickbacks, and corporate welfare, written in secret by the beneficiaries.
Only God can save us from this bunch, and no salvation will come to a nation who's turned it's back on the People and sided with thieves. We're the whore who while claiming to be a light to the world, more and more are the worlds source of darkness. We are that evil nation who's fall will astonish the world like a thief in the night.
And NOBODY notices CISA was slipped in this after being defeated amid public outcry earlier this year.
Say goodbye to your 4th Amendment rights. Your privacy doesn't mean JACK to the corrupt officials who answer to special interests in Washington.
http://www.wired.com/2015/12/congress-slips-cisa-into-omnibus-bill-thats...
Big Brother IS WATCHING.
Some summary. Fails to mention CISA, funding for planned parenthood, no holdback for sanctuary cities, and a host of other Lib priorities. Total fail of a summary, and a spending bill. Thanks Boehner 2.0
funny how the person who slipped CISA into the bill is not named in the story.
Who sponsored the amendment?
They could tell you, but then they'd have to kill you.
This says it was first introduced in the Senate by Dianne Feinstein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybersecurity_Information_Sharing_Act
Figures
Thanks for pointing this out, JT. Tying together unrelated bills in this way is just wrong, and shouldn't be allowed.
At the very least, a piece-of-crap bill like CISA should be debated and voted on separately, so that the public can see exactly which scumbags voted for this unconstitutional mess (rather than for a big package which happens to include it).
And a president with balls would veto any such grab-bag of unrelated bills and throw it back to the legislators, with a message to send each piece back individually, if and only if it can be passed on its own merits.
Do you think Paul Ryan doesn't get it in that he is now considered a traitor and will be high on the hit list once the economy comes crashing down?
for 41 years I have voted for those asswipes.....
Never ever again...I am hoping that Trump destroys the GOP....
Blow them to pieces
demo or repub, the price is the same. mix it up every once and a while to content the plebs
It's somewhat embarassing to admit but I was once a red teamer. Most of the blue team works for gov paychecks, so it's easier to understand why they love it.
Go over to freerepublic and you'll see they support wars on drugs, wars on everything. They support cops that shoot anything (except dogs). They support whopping increases in MIC spending. They support the Shrkeli hedge fund guy as just a good capitalist. They support "no-fly" zones pretty much everywhere. They support TARP as a huge success. They support one percenters as job creators.
Every single thing under the sun that's bad stems from a liberal, everything good comes from a conservative. They still do cold war drills of hiding under their desks. They also spend a ton of time praying for Israel. Anybody that doesn't buy 9/11 story is an ignorant "truther". I could go on and on.
They link a lot to ZH over there, yesterday there was one that boiled down to a debate over the proper use of an apostrophe. A third party would be a good start, for me anyway, because I seldom agree with any red team/blue team supporters. Any third party with them in it would also be bad.
Liberals have taken over both political parties, the media, academia, Hollywood and the judicial system. Until you get them out of ALL those areas, this country is completely fucked.
Liberal or conservative, they're all the same in one way,
They march into Washington as greenhorns bent on their mandate,
Then the Truth of our situation slaps them in the face, we're in to deep, there's no turning back, WE'RE FUCKED!
The Fed Owns The Whole Damn Thing, The Press, The Media, The Courts, The Schools, in every case, they've leverdged there henchmen into key positions and enslaved us covertly with Fiat. By the way, Never Say a Cross Word about the Fed, Cooperate or we kill you!
So they join the club, dive into the duplicity and point the fingure at the guy across the aisle...
Very few are conservative. Most of them go to DC talking about how we have to spend MOAR, that we have to start a new program for this or we need to expand a program for that. It is ALL about bigger government. If someone goes there with the with an idea of restraint in spending or smaller government they are treated with disdain. They will use the media to try to label you as crazy if they think necessary a la Ron Paul 2008.
because they did that last time and haven't enough left for another course
The Neo-Whigs are soon to be dead to everyone.
Patriot + 1/2.
One more nail in the coffin of what used to be The United States of America. May she soon rest in peace.
https://theintercept.com/2015/12/18/last-minute-budget-bill-allows-new-p...
The text of the bill — now knowns as the Cybersecurity Act of 2015, formerly known as CISA — wasn’t released until shortly after midnight Wednesday morning, giving members of Congress essentially no time to do anything about it.
The bill removes a restriction on direct information sharing with the National Security Agency and the Pentagon; eliminates a restriction on the government’s use of that information for surveillance activities; allows law enforcement to use the information to prosecute any and all crimes; and leaves it up to the individual agencies to scrub personally identifying information when they feel like it.
"increasing the tax incentive to install new systems."
DON'T DO IT!
My 30 year old HVAC system, always properly maintained, works perfect and NEVER fails me...neighbor "upgraded"..can't go a single year without an EXPENSIVE repair.
My garage door opener is 35 years old...1 repair; new capacitor (~$5)...I almost replaced it because of a Black Friday deal...the "New" unit, a "top end" model, looked like junk...motor was tiny, mechanics looked like they'd break in a heartbeat...my 1980's unit is solid steal; the ONLY plastic being the light cover...big motor, heavy chain and cables..absolute fucking tank..I will repair it for as long as possible. Oh, and the springs on my door, original from the early 90's...one of those springs would make 3 of the what they're selling today...can't believe how thin the coils are on today's replacements...no wonder they break constantly.
lowest bidder, race to the bottom. business folks more brilliant than you or I figured out along time ago that capital is best spent on marketing strategy. planned obsolescence is also a nice replacement for brand loyalty.
a good product with no advertising
a shit product with fantastic brand
Our world has shifted ENTIRELY towards shit products with fantastic brands. There is no downside for the companies because literally all the competition are doing the same thing, so there is no good product they will have to compare themselves to.
East Germany had the longest lasting light bulbs in the world. But they're not as advanced, civilized, sensible as us 'capitalists'! We replace light bulbs 3 times a year!
funny you mention light bulbs
"The Phoebus cartel was a cartel of, among others, Osram, Philips, and General Electric[1] from December 23, 1924 until 1939 that existed to control the manufacture and sale of light bulbs.
The cartel is an important step in the history of the global economy because it engaged in large-scale planned obsolescence. It reduced competition in the light bulb industry for almost twenty years, and has been accused of preventing technological advances that would have produced longer-lasting light bulbs. Phoebus was a Swiss corporation named "Phoebus S.A. Compagnie Industrielle pour le Développement de l'Éclairage"."
The Walmartizaton of 'Merica
There are two Republican parties, the one inside the beltway and the one outside the beltway. Make a guess on which one is running things......
Just as "Crony Capitalist" is a complete misnomer, because once you go "crony" you abandon the principles of Capitalism and join the ranks of the Fascists (in the purely economic sense of the word), so "cuckservative" is also a misnomer.
There is nothing "conservative" (which today is most closely related to Classical Liberalism) about these treasonous backstabbers.
Call them what they are: Progressives. Statists. Socialists. NWO.
But please don't sully the ideology of Classical Liberalism by associating any part of the term with a pony-boy fucktwat like Paul Ryan.
$1.2 BILLION to resettle ILLEGAL aliens. Why is it not to enforce our immigration and work laws instead?
Yes, I know... the more ILLEGAL aliens ILLEGALLY taking jobs from LEGAL residents the more ILLEGAL pro-Central Planning, Big Government, voters.
We gotta have those illegals to do the jobs that americans won't do. In the mean time we have cities full of "free-range" urban yutes who just can't seem to find work anywhere.
and those illegal invaders will be allowed to vote for more free shit (from the Dems and the Repubs) as both sides battle for those votes to stay in power.
They will vote away all our rights and freedom to get that free shit too, and America will surely become a worse hell-hole than that which they all originally came from.
The trap has been set and we've been used as the bait.
It's clear as day to those who open their eyes to it.
Another ZH'er (sorry, I can't recall who) posted this link yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX3EZCVj2XA
It's well worth the 13 minutes to watch it.
"KGB DEFECTOR YURI BEZMENOV'S WARNING TO AMERICA:
29 YEARS AGO, Soviet defector and KGB operative Yuri Bezmenov, specializing in the fields of Marxist-Leninist propaganda and ideological subversion; warned us about the silent war being waged against America as part of a long term plan to take over and destroy the American system and way of life."
The adoption of the Federal Reserve act and going full fiat in 71 sealed that fate.
The American system is a debt system, and it will destroy itself. No help needed by anyone.
Must be this KGB guy can understand exponential functions. Big whoop.
pods
Pods --
He understands much more than that. If you watch the full interview, you'll see exactly how the subversive tactics of the leftists have been hard at work since the 1960s. It really helps to explain a lot.
We are in the "demoralization" phase of the subversives' plan.
Back in Russia, late 19th century, they were plugging away at undermining traditional society for close to 30, 40 years, before the people were 'ready' for the Bolshevik/Jewish Revolution.
What I am saying is that you do not need any of that and our system will collapse.
Our system is collapsing due to our money system. That is causality.
Whether or not there is any addition from all the "leftists" idk. Doesn't really matter.
Basically, if you reverse all the things the "leftists" have done, the system will still collapse.
And I am not demoralized. I am excited that we finally have a chance to break the chains the bankers placed upon us many many years ago.
I am as excited as a 6 year old on Christmas.
pods
Uh, they're working overtime dude. Screwing, pumping out fatherless children, pimpin', druggin', dealin' and definitely shooting. Hell, chicago has been Mad Max Beyond Wrigley Dome for a decade now. If it wasn't for their prodigious illegitimate chillin' production, they'd have extincted themselves.
I down voted you, but I really wanted to "neutral" vote ya....
>>>Yes, I know... the more ILLEGAL aliens ILLEGALLY taking jobs from LEGAL residents the more MONEY into the POCKETS of the CORPORATE EXECUTIVES which allows them to spend even MORE MONEY to LOBBY CONGRESS to keep those profits rolling in.
You'll never win the war if you can't even properly identify the enemy!
The "poor" are just proxies in the Corporate War on American Workers.
PS> Crony Corporate Capitalism is HIGHLY DEPENDENT upon welfare spending...if you cut/freeze "welfare spending" it fucks up the whole system/plan.
Look at it like Russia getting involved in Syria...fucked up everthing...no more ISIS funding...no more using ISIS as a proxy to "drive out ASSAD"...."ISIS" and the "American Poor" are both proxies in wars...different wars, but wars just the same...
If you want to "create jobs" and "cut welfare spending", end Corporate Lobbying in DC and send "average citizens" to represent you...
Dems and gop working together for America..one party rule is obvious to everyone but the rabid (paid to be rabid) progressive and elite GOP groupies-"One big club and You and I ain't in it."
Today I resemble Mr Mencken:
"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."
Its the classic double envelopment. Pincer strategy.
Instead of having the lower class and middle class unite against the 0.1%, they are pitted against each other.
Divide and conquer (and once conquered, keep them divided, to rule them)
"send "average citizens" to represent you..."
Funny, I looked for that name on the ballot & didn't find it...
Firebrander, you sound as though you believe the propaganda that the Ruling Elite have spread about this alleged breed of people known collectively as "The Poor."
There are some "poor" people who are just simple, down-to-earth folk who either don't care to make more money or don't have the opportunity to.
There are also "poor" folk who are as greedy as the little Bio-bitch who just got arrested yesterday, who support Socialists not because they believe in the ideology and all that crap but simply because they are a part of the FSA.
There are millions of this type of "poor" streaming across our borders.
I understand the "enemy." The enemy is the dark side of human nature that is present in every human being. The enemy is also any agent that appeals to the dark side of humanity to promote their own worldly advancement.
You down-voted someone for not understanding who the enemy is.
And then you explain that the "enemy" is just another team.
I didn't down-vote you, though, because this is a very common misunderstanding.
I didn't "down vote"; I neutral voted.
"Poor" has a big/varied difinition; I'm just talking about the welfare checks...ya, know, like SNAP, Social Security and Medicare...the poor like that...
"I/We have met the enemy and he is us.""It ain't "Welfare" or "Socialism" or "Leftist vote Buying" if I'M the one getting the benefit; Medicare, Social Security...no sir, i paid in A FRACTION OF WHAT I WILL TAKE OUT and I am OWED!"
1.2 billion to resettle illegal aliens. 1.2 billion to enforce immigration and work laws.
Money in one pocket or the other but definitely not to be utilized for its purported objective.
The "Circle of money and greed and Capitalism"...when it breaks, we start the circle of "Despotism"...
"I believe farther that this (The Government of the United States) is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other." Benjamin Franklin
Uber liberal CNBC says it would cost Trump Wall " $15 billion to $25 billion"
http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/09/this-is-what-trumps-border-wall-could-cos...
National Journal says "$6.4 billion when all is said and done"
http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/70020/this-is-how-much-donald-trumps-im...
$1.2 Billion to resettle illegal aliens. Hmmmm, use that as the down payment to build the wall.
Moar NEW WORLD ORDER shit you mean
1.15 Trillion in more debt for the Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC.
Help me understand the answer to this question that on the surface seems basic, yet is quite complex...
???
Who are the specific people that personally make financial gains from control of the Fed?
The Ciry of London, The Vatican & the Criminal Fraud UNITED STATES, CORP. INC.
Rothchilds, Warburgs, the Tri-Fecta... not a bad gig- 6% right off the top of every dollar dollar bill ya'll
Hollywood gorilla,
If your question is sincere, the best answer anyone on this board can give you is to read G. Edward Griffin's, "The Creature from Jekyl. Island."
There is no better analysis of the history and motivation of central banking in general and in particular America's central bank known by the Newspeak name of the Federal Reserve.
Did they Repeal ObamaCare, or at least cut the funding for ObamaCare?
Did they ramp up spending to secure the border?
Did they make e-Verify mandatory with stiff jail sentences for the executives of companies found employing illegals?
Is it "fiscally responsible"?
Did they drive a knife into the heart of Socialized Medicine by REPEALING the VA Medical System; which is PURE SOCIALIZED MEDICINE?
>Don’t our Vets deserve better than Socialized Medicine?
Did they make ANY effort to block/modify/stop the TPP?
Any progress on repealing NAFTA?
Did they cut/rollback/STOP the H1B program?
No, but the ban on US crude oil exports would be repealed,
So American tankers can wallow in the mid-atlantic with the rest of the overcapacity and we can pretend we are exporting something other than death and lies.
Oilfields collapsing due to a glut of supply, but now we can 'export' it.
They don't even try to hide their laughter and derision towards the American people.
Not only did they not kill obamacare but they "postponed" the pain parts which would attempt to pay for obamacare. Everything financial piece that was thrown in just so the CBO could say it was cost neutral without hysterical screaming has been postponed until everyone that voted for that piece of shit has retired.
you had me at they made it harder to repeal Obamacare. I am sure it is all down hill from here...
congress sucks, bunch of whores, same a obama
"The median net worth of a member of Congress was $1,029,505 in 2013 — a 2.5 percent increase from 2012 — compared with an average American household’s median net worth of $56,355. Once again, the majority of members of Congress are millionaires — 271 of the 533 members currently in office, or 50.8 percent."
WHORES-R-US ! ! !
Gee, I wonder why GS failed to mention the part of the bill that shoves more surveillance and spying on American citizens using the Cybersecurity Act of 2015 (Division N of the omnibus budget bill)
Read the gory details here: http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/12/17/paul-ryan-sneaks-massive-surveil...
Have a barf bag nearby. An (R) after a congressional name means nothing. We're screwed coming and going.
Wait, it will trickle down. Just get on your knees and wait for it.
merry christmas
*cartoon, safe for work
"them" - you mean the free shit army?
It doesn't matter what's in it...now go watch Star Wars goyim.
My 9yo son is watching The Empire Strikes Back...seems fitting.
consolation prize.
3d? 21 serf dollars please. Enjoy the show.
I think the market for that crap has peaked; I am putting all of my old Star Wars crap on Ebay before the bottom drops out.
The trailer made me want to puke -blatantly pushing the PC agenda whilst trying to ring a little more juice from the franchise cash register.
Star Wars for women and minorities and if we point it out, we are all racist, sexist, bigots...
Paul Ryan is both a treasonous prick and a pathetic excuse of a man.
And those are his good points.
Who is Spending Bill?
Bill Clinton? Bill Murray? Mr. Bill? Oh no!
Ryan was "goin south" on Pelosi and some of that worn out carpet got stuck to his face.
earned income tax credit
earned, lulz. yeah they earned it by having a babies they couldn't afford.
idiocracy right on track.
"As the 21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point. Natural selection, the process by which the strongest, the smartest, the fastest, reproduced in greater numbers than the rest, a process which had once favored the noblest traits of man, now began to favor different traits. Most science fiction of the day predicted a future that was more civilized and more intelligent. But as time went on, things seemed to be heading in the opposite direction. A dumbing down. How did this happen? Evolution does not necessarily reward intelligence. With no natural predators to thin the herd, it began to simply reward those who reproduced the most, and left the intelligent to become an endangered species."
Because Brawndo's got electrolytes.
So only the rich should reproduce? That would just make things worse, wouldn't it?
Not only the rich, but at least put a damper on fucktards pumping out offspring they can't afford nor educate.
Fair enough.
Like Bill Burr says, "Stop making that guy!"
If they don't get credits, how will they support the MI6-run poppy business in Afghanistan?
I'm glad to see that the spirit of giving, in this Christmas season, has not diminished one iota for the rich, privleged, big business and the FSA.
I was in a very bad mood yesterday because of this. There's nowhere left to go. Republicans were given more seats in the House than they've had since the civil war, Democrats were decimated across the board in the last election, and now it turns out we really only have one political party. Screw them.
-Argenta
FML, I voted Pepsi! I voted Pepsi!
Well, PepsiCo pays a +3% dividend. That's a better return than I ever got from an elected orificial.
Welcome to the party...
Never has been a blue and red. It has always been purple and they just play the sheeple into thinking there is a difference. Its for the lobbiests and special interests only. Sheeple get fleeced every time. The establishment anger has never been more warranted.
We've got 12 more months of this and they're saving the best for last. The more they fuck the American people over the next several months, the more Trump gains in the poles.
Can't wait to see the list of pardons.
Argenta,
Remember how just a few years ago all the non-conformists were talking about breaking apart the two-party system?
Remember how popular that was?
But I bet you didn't hear people like me replying, "What do you think is the next phase of this governing system, a multi-party system?"
"Of course," they said proudly.
They looked at me like I was a fool when I tried to explain to them that the next phase was a one-party system, and that the one party, once they did not need to fear being voted out of office, would finally remove the mask they've been wearing all these years.
And then we'd see the true face of tyranny.
Apparently, the face of that one party is now sporting a weak, scrotum-like beard.
John Bohnier protege strike fast and hard and deflates any posibility of a goverment by and for the people. This is a goverment by and for the people in congress and their friends.
Recall, this is the guy that Mitt Romeny wanted to be his VP? Hahaha, Romney is also one of the inside the beltway gang! Cannot trust any of them.
Wasn't Ryan the fiscally conservative one? Well, once he lied about his marathon time by an hour, I guess we shouldn't be surprised that he's full of shit.
He's a fucking politician. He lies for a fucking living. He's also a whore who'll sell his soul to the highest bidder in order to stay in power.
I used to be a republican. Now, I just call myself a conservative. I'll vote for anyone who isn't a DEM/REP. And, if I don't have a choice, I'll vote for the one who isn't currently holding a seat. Even if it means a Demoncrat. Fuck the republican party. There is truly no difference between the two parties, except that the Dems don't hide the ambitions, while the Republicans pretend to have morals. May the GOP go the way of the Whigs. Fucking traitors.
If you can't in good conscience vote _for_ any of the candidates, then why vote simply in order to oppose the incumbent?
Unless a candidate supports a philosophy and a set of policies that I consider right and moral, it's better to not vote at all. Choosing the lesser of evils is still an act of violence against my neighbours.
Good thing we have a hole in the roof of the debt ceiling.
Goodbye Republican Party, followed by the Democratic Party.. Just like the 1860s the partys spilt into 4. Removing confederate monuments tells me we have new ones to build In our future
Ah, you're an optimist.
The way I see it the Dims win on the amnesty push (helped fully by the GOPe). The Dims never have to fear losing national elections for the next 30 years.
The Dims shove their neo-Soviet style socialist state down the throat of every American and laugh as we gag.
No multi-party system.
No civil war.
One party rule still using the mask of a democratically elected constitutional republic to deceive the people into thinking that "they" represent "us."
Fucking traitors! You better build that fence around your compound pretty high Paul. When the collapse happens all you will held responsible.
Fu*k You Ryan, sellout douchebag.
and Pelosi, and Obola, et al...
It's not just Ryan. It's nearly the entirety of the effing Republican party that was given a CLEAR mandate in the last election to stop this shit.
-Argenta
And like fools, when they pretended to shift to the right and said they'd fight back against the fascist rush in this country, we believed them and voted them back in.
Fool me once...
Indeed.
-Argenta
Higher interest rates and higher debt, not a good combination...
I'll again point out the brilliance the Founders had regarding the second amendment.
-Argenta
Because you have gun lust...and probably drive a truck and love sports. That's cute.
That may be the dumbest response I've seen today.
-Argenta
Glad I could help. Out of curiosity, why do you sign each ridiculous comment with your name? You know your name is at the top of each, right?
Just for you, in case you needed help remembering me.
The second amendment is the one that protects all the other amendments genius.
No biggie, he's just pissed that Dale Jr. didn't win the Sprint Cup.
You do realize that without those truck drivers you demean,,, you would be starving within a week, and without those guns you would be unable to protect you and yours from the rape and pillaging that will follow.
Oh! That's right. Those nice police that have been murdering citizens across the country will come and protect you. Let us know how that works out for you.
And no, I didn't down vote you.
I gave him a red for being a douche bag. Nothing wrong with guns, truckers and sports.
People like him appear to need a good bitch slapping to wake up.
You. You're a moron. Yes, you. A total moron.
Just because you have a shackle lust and look forward to being ruled with an iron fist by the smiling-faced fascists doesn't mean the rest of the country is as willing to be enslaved.
And, no, we aren't going to save you this time.
This time, we throw you to the dogs, let them do the dirty work, and rebuild after all of you Master/Slave fetishists are eliminated.
I just pray that I am alive to get to see it used to re-establish government by consent of the governed.
“The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”
James Madison
Those "rights" were necessary to get many States to move from the Articles to the constitution, rightly believing that too much power was being given to the new national government. They were not in the first draft so obviously the founders could give a rats ass about citizen and states rights. Even with their addition it only slowed down the tyranny. They (the founders) had to know that at some time their baby was going to be strong enough to put aside those "rights" and even the constitution itself. This we painfully watch take place every day now.
The last half of the 2nd and a couple pieces of the 1st are all that survives at this point. Soon they will be gone, along with any pretense of of a constitution and our children will learn there is a hell and they won't have to die to experience it... Lucky them. I'm sure they'll love us for it.
Don't understand why folks who work, strive to keep their jobs,, have a sense of fiscal and self responsibility are constantly punished and excluded from benefits and tax breaks. While irresponsibility and laziness are rewarded.
sounds like you do understand it. Responsible people have to work double time to support the irresponsible, lazy ones.
The irresponsible, lazy ones are the government. The FSA didn't give it to themselves, goob did, but not to the ones who really need it.
But slavery ended in 1865! Right? /s
paul ryan ... hope u liked ur post ... its gonna be the shortest lived honeymoon in speaker history. i for one was a supporter of him when romney picked him; im guilty as charged of "believing" his "budget wonkiness". when he did that BS deal with patty murray, that was the first brick to fall out of his wall. this "deal" completely pulls back the curtain on what he really is; nothing more than eric cantor V2.0.
and they wonder why donald trump is flying in the polls. here's a piece of advice to the GOP: THIS IS NOT WHAT WE VOTED YOU IN FOR. first it was we needed the house. then it was we needed the sentate. now its we need the presidency. BULL FUCKING SHIT. STOP PASSING LEGISLATION TO CONTINUE FUNDING HIS OUT OF CONTROL GOVERNMENT SPENDING PROGRAMS. YOU CONTROL THE PURSE SO BURN IT THE FUCK DOWN OR LOSE YOUR JOB. its that fucking simple.
these clowns are so "focused" on the presidential election, they don't realize the debt spiraling out of control is what is choking this economy. oh wait, they do. its so they can continue to funnel $$$ to their special interests.
deals like this make the electorate enflamed.
"deals like this make the electorate enflamed."
Really. Evidence? Look pretty placid to me.
Glad you finally got 'intelligence' on Ryan. So, you wouldn't support Romney again, I hope, or your 'intelligence' would again fail you...
10. CISA
Yep, good catch.
Y'all goyim weren't supposed to know about that.