Friday, March 10, 2017
Thursday, March 9, 2017
Trump and health insurance
“An analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 6.3 million of the 11.5 million Americans who used the A.C.A. marketplace to buy their insurance last year live in Republican congressional districts. Policy analysts say that a rollback of the A.C.A. would hurt older and rural Americans — two populations that favored Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.”
As he has done his whole life, Trump has sold those who follow him as some sort of money-drenched messiah a bill of goods, but this time the lie is likely to manifest in loss of life, as sick people lose coverage.
Donald Trump has sold his supporters — and by extension, this country — a ticket to hell.
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Who wins and who loses under Trumpcare
Who Wins and Who Loses Under Republicans’ Health Care Plan
The biggest losers under the change would be older Americans with low incomes who live in high-cost areas. Those are the people who benefited most from Obamacare.(and many of them actually voted for Trump)
For some people, the new tax credit system will be more generous. The winners are likely to be younger, earn higher incomes and live in areas where the cost of health insurance is low.(and these people won't use the insurance anyways, as they are young and healthy, so hoorah for insurance company lobbyists.
Obamacare's subsidies were structured to limit how much low- and middle-income Americans could be asked to pay for health insurance. Under the G.O.P. proposal, many of the people whose tax credits would fall sharply would be likely to end up uninsured. For people with few resources, a gap of several thousands of dollars between their tax credit and the cost of coverage would be impossible to make up.
((But if you put Obamacare out of your mind, this program still represents a very large outlay of federal money to help Americans buy health insurance. Before Obamacare passed, those buying their own insurance did not receive government subsidies. And the tax credits in the Republican bill would go to people regardless of whether they even paid taxes -- another reason conservatives oppose it.)) SO OBAMA WON AT LAST AND REPUBLICANS HAD TO CAVE IN
The biggest losers under the change would be older Americans with low incomes who live in high-cost areas. Those are the people who benefited most from Obamacare.(and many of them actually voted for Trump)
For some people, the new tax credit system will be more generous. The winners are likely to be younger, earn higher incomes and live in areas where the cost of health insurance is low.(and these people won't use the insurance anyways, as they are young and healthy, so hoorah for insurance company lobbyists.
Obamacare's subsidies were structured to limit how much low- and middle-income Americans could be asked to pay for health insurance. Under the G.O.P. proposal, many of the people whose tax credits would fall sharply would be likely to end up uninsured. For people with few resources, a gap of several thousands of dollars between their tax credit and the cost of coverage would be impossible to make up.
((But if you put Obamacare out of your mind, this program still represents a very large outlay of federal money to help Americans buy health insurance. Before Obamacare passed, those buying their own insurance did not receive government subsidies. And the tax credits in the Republican bill would go to people regardless of whether they even paid taxes -- another reason conservatives oppose it.)) SO OBAMA WON AT LAST AND REPUBLICANS HAD TO CAVE IN
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
This is how you slowly slowly turn into a third world country, without even noticing it.
It is like a dystopian movie:
Omaha’s Answer to Costly Potholes? Go Back to Gravel Roads
Don't pay taxes, vote for republicans, and welcome living in third world country.
Omaha’s Answer to Costly Potholes? Go Back to Gravel Roads
Don't pay taxes, vote for republicans, and welcome living in third world country.
Monday, March 6, 2017
This is horrible and disgusting, Trump is removing all the government regulations on business and we all know what will happen later
Whenever Republicans remove regulations, there is a short recovery and then there is a crash because you can't trust the invisible hand and the market to take care of itself without regulations, we saw it with Reagan era, we saw it with Bush and the huge 2008 crash which took Obama two turns to reverse and now we are seeing a massive and crazy deregulation with Trump.
Leashes Come Off Wall Street, Gun Sellers, Polluters and More
Leashes Come Off Wall Street, Gun Sellers, Polluters and More
What Trump is doing to climate and environment is nothing short of disgusting
this is just disgusting. Deregulation in everything, even allowing automakers to pollute the environment again .
Automakers Near a Victory on Rollback of Fuel Standards
Sunday, March 5, 2017
Missing Obama
From some comments in Washington Post
Missing "No Drama Obama" and eight years of stability handed to us by exceedingly competent people. Trump and his people are a horror show.
Does anyone, even Trump's supporters, honestly think that there won't come a time when he will finally have a complete breakdown? It is just matter of time. This self-styled king (Louis XVI, no less) has always had his way because he was rich and he was a private citizen. Now he is a servant of the people, and he finds he can't buy admiration or command loyalty from the hundreds of millions of people whom he was elected to serve, and this fact is driving him toward an aneurism.
Someone extremely prominent, such as Obama, needs to file a multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit against Trump asap. Given that Trump now has all the vast information-gathering resources of the U.S. government available to him, he has absolutely no excuse for his delusional falsehoods and bizarre conspiracy theories. Calumny is not allowed.
Many of Trump's actions and policies are so wrongheaded, bizarre and probably unconstitutional that it's impossible to defend them without relying primarily on lies, distortions, bizarre fantasies and wild conspiracy theories. This is why so many of Trump's White House aides are equally delusional and routinely spout falsehoods.
I am becoming increasingly concerned that this unstable psychopathic Putin-wannabe will seek to divert attention from a future scandal by declaring war on some hapless county or, worse yet, launching a nuclear missile.
Missing "No Drama Obama" and eight years of stability handed to us by exceedingly competent people. Trump and his people are a horror show.
Does anyone, even Trump's supporters, honestly think that there won't come a time when he will finally have a complete breakdown? It is just matter of time. This self-styled king (Louis XVI, no less) has always had his way because he was rich and he was a private citizen. Now he is a servant of the people, and he finds he can't buy admiration or command loyalty from the hundreds of millions of people whom he was elected to serve, and this fact is driving him toward an aneurism.
Someone extremely prominent, such as Obama, needs to file a multi-million dollar defamation lawsuit against Trump asap. Given that Trump now has all the vast information-gathering resources of the U.S. government available to him, he has absolutely no excuse for his delusional falsehoods and bizarre conspiracy theories. Calumny is not allowed.
Many of Trump's actions and policies are so wrongheaded, bizarre and probably unconstitutional that it's impossible to defend them without relying primarily on lies, distortions, bizarre fantasies and wild conspiracy theories. This is why so many of Trump's White House aides are equally delusional and routinely spout falsehoods.
I am becoming increasingly concerned that this unstable psychopathic Putin-wannabe will seek to divert attention from a future scandal by declaring war on some hapless county or, worse yet, launching a nuclear missile.
Saturday, March 4, 2017
What are Republicans doing to America??
In case anyone is getting too sidetracked by the Russian spy drama, the following bills have been introduced:
1. HR 861 Terminate the Environmental Protection Agency
2. HR 610 Vouchers for Public Education
3. HR 899 Terminate the Department of Education
4. HJR 69 Repeal Rule Protecting Wildlife
5. HR 370 Repeal Affordable Care Act
6. HR 354 Defund Planned Parenthood
7. HR 785 National Right to Work (this one ends unions)
8. HR 83 Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Bill
9. HR 147 Criminalizing Abortion (“Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act”)
10. HR 808 Sanctions against Iran
1. HR 861 Terminate the Environmental Protection Agency
2. HR 610 Vouchers for Public Education
3. HR 899 Terminate the Department of Education
4. HJR 69 Repeal Rule Protecting Wildlife
5. HR 370 Repeal Affordable Care Act
6. HR 354 Defund Planned Parenthood
7. HR 785 National Right to Work (this one ends unions)
8. HR 83 Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Bill
9. HR 147 Criminalizing Abortion (“Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act”)
10. HR 808 Sanctions against Iran
Thursday, March 2, 2017
New Yorker in Russian? :-)
In the nearly 100 year history of this magazine, this is the first time the cover is published with another langauge
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
It is not OK
it is not O.K. for newspapers to publish he-said-she-said pieces that paper over administration lies, let alone beat-sweetening puff pieces about Trump allies. It’s not O.K. for businesses to supply Mr. Trump with photo ops claiming undeserved credit for job creation — or for business leaders to serve on “advisory” panels that are really just another kind of photo op.
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