Trump, the man with a dream of a Wall

[Tero]

[JimC]

You Americans are so fucking corny...

[L'Emmerdeur]

Believe me, nobody knew that the best people would turn out to be a boogle of weasels. SAD!

'Trump's pick to head Indian Health Service drops out amid controversy over resume and finances'

Robert Weaver, the man picked by President Donald Trump to head the troubled Indian Health Service only to run into questions about the accuracy of his resume, is no longer the nominee for that post, a federal official confirmed to CNBC.

Weaver's withdrawal from consideration was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, which had broken multiple stories questioning Weaver's work experience claims and job performance.

...

HHS previously had called questions about Weaver's qualifications "pure character assassination."

A week ago, the Journal had published a story detailing Weaver's track record of financial problems, which included filing for bankruptcy and failing to pay federal taxes on a business he ran.

That story also had quoted a former boss of Weaver's, who said he would not recommend him for another job unless he was closely supervised. He said Weaver had fallen far behind his responsibilities of billing insurers and collecting payments when he worked for that boss in the mid-2000s.

An earlier Journal story suggested Weaver had "misrepresented his work experience at a Missouri hospital to a Senate committee."

Several former executives at St. John's Regional Medical Center in Joplin, Missouri, told the newspaper they had never heard of Weaver, despite his having told the Senate Indian Affairs Committee he had worked there in "supervisory and management positions" at a time when those executives also worked there.

[Gord]

You Americans are so fucking corny...

[Gord]

Nafta evil! How’s that working, Trump?

NAFTA was staunchly opposed by most Democrats when it was proposed and after. They voiced the exact same concerns about it that Trump expresses. NAFTA was a Republican, free trade, neoliberal policy designed to drop trade barriers so large corporations could build plants in Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and very minimal safety and other regulations.

It still is. The problem now is, it's in place and working -- destroying it will once again cause distress to the people currently in well-placed jobs.

When did the left start sucking NAFTA's dick?

What left? The Democratic Party is centralist, not left, despite most of the claims made about it these days.

[Brian Peacock]

Anything to the left of FOXNEWS is 'The Left' these days, with the centre thus shuffled over to the hard-left or the far-left. So declared, anything from 'The Left' can be discounted or ignored because, well, it's only from, you know, 'The Left' - and we all know that they're just a bunch of extremists, don't we?

[pErvinalia]

The Democrats are fucking SOCIALISTS, man!

[Scot Dutchy]

Maybe in America. Here they would be the far right.

[Brian Peacock]

Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats are pretty much what used to be called “moderate Republicans.” The “political revolution” that Bernie Sanders called for, rightly, would not have greatly surprised Dwight Eisenhower.

The fate of the minimum wage illustrates what has been happening. Through the periods of high and egalitarian growth in the ‘50s and ‘60s, the minimum wage—which sets a floor for other wages—tracked productivity. That ended with the onset of neoliberal doctrine. Since then, the minimum wage has stagnated (in real value). Had it continued as before, it would probably be close to $20 per hour. Today, it is considered a political revolution to raise it to $15.

[pErvinalia]

Yep.

[Tero]

Must resist Trump war on science
http://thehill.com/opinion/energy-envir ... ate-public

[Gord]

The Democrats are fucking SOCIALISTS, man!

Well, socialists are eminently fuckable.



I mean, if you're into that sort of thing. I guess.

[Brian Peacock]

Is that lady gaga?

[Tero]

Guns are about love in Trump’s mind. If you love your children, get guns!

Trump says armed school officer in Parkland didn't 'love the children'

[Brian Peacock]

He also said that people would choose guns over tax cuts, then he made the people say it too.