In the 2016 presidential election, 63% of eligible voters in Michigan cast their ballots. The total number of voters that year was 4,874,619. And, as we know, Donald Trump won the state with the slimmest of margins. Just 10,704 votes — a mere 0.23% of the votes cast — decided which candidate we’d give our […]
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Trump promises to permanently eliminate the funding mechanism for Social Security and Medicare if reelected
The past few days have been absolutely fucking nuts. Donald Trump promised to defund Social Security and Medicare if reelected, accelerated his work to destroy the U.S. Postal Service in advance of the 2020 election, and once again claimed wrongly that it was him, and not Barack Obama, who signed “Vetrans Choice” into law. Oh […]
Posted in Health, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Affordable Care Act, bathtub, Ben Sasse, Bernie Sanders, Delivering Government Solutions in the 21st Century, Donald Trump, eviction, executive actions, executive orders, Grover Norquist, Joe Biden, masks, Medicare, Nancy Pelosi, New Deal, Obamacare, Paul Krugman, payroll tax, preexisting conditions, small government, social security, taking credit for things you didn't do, tax cuts, tax policy, taxes, The Lord, unconstitutional, United States Postal Service, Vetrans Choice, vote by mail 184 Comments
When markets thrive on stability, what did you think was going to happen when you elected Donald Trump?
As I know very little about how the economy works, or the extent to which the stock market effects the economy, or, really, anything else about money related matters, I try to steer clear of such subjects here on the site. For those of you who might be interested in discussing the Dow Industrial Average’s […]
Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Ali Velshi, Amazon, China, Donald Trump, Dow Industrial, Great Depression, Jeff Bezos, Medicaid, Medicare, Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, Richard N. Haass, securities fraud, social security, stability, stock market, tariff, trade war, uncertainty, Velshi and Ruhle, Washington Post 23 Comments