caucus99percent

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After reading BigAl's healthcare related essay yesterday did a little digging as this is a big issue for me. We have had to pay out around $15,000-20,000 out of savings in the last 5 years as opposed to over $120,000 had we had no coverage. Jakkalbessie and I both had big hospital events and extended treatment since we retired 12 years ago, and would have been bankrupt by now without our shitty teacher retirement healthcare that now has it's funding in question at the state level.

Gloria Steinem descends from on high to inform us that Hillary was too noble, too principled, too committed to the downtrodden to be elected President:

Some of my facebook crowd were chiding me for causing Hillary to lose 10,000,000 votes between Barack 2008 and Hillary 2016. I wish.

In response, they forced me to really, logically, explicitly explain age 62, coming in 2022.

How many times in the last 8 years did real progressives get told by Democrats to "shut the f@ck up" about Obama's failure to rein in the surveillance state, the global assassination program, torturers, the MIC, and the abusive of civil rights in general?
How many times in the last few years were warnings of "What if President Trump has these powers?" brushed off?

Tax Schedule "giveaways" to be precise.

Top Earners Would See Bigger Tax Cuts Under Trump Plan

Don't underestimate the power of the think tanks, institutions and lobbies in Washington to influence government policies and programs. Remember that Obamacare was partly a takeoff from a right wing Heritage Foundation plan.

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is a conservative, right wing think tank established in Washington in 1938 located on Think Tank Row. This is a scumbag organization made up of greedy, power hungry bastards.

Turns out Hillary's Campaign was pushing the DNC (and it seems, in coordination with them, Media) to get the Republican Party to select the most extreme candidate possible.

Yes, they wished to see a right-wing extremist as the other choice for President of the United States. Presumably, because that would scare the electorate into running to Clinton. She called it the "Pied Piper Strategy."

Let's take a look at what's likely to happen.

Hello, friends.

First, a reminder that November is Native American Heritage Month. Here's how the United States "honors" its first peoples.

This is from a friend of mine and I'm curious as to what the community thinks:

The Republicans now get their golden opportunity to institute their austerity programs (read “breaking the backs of the middle class to pay for more tax cuts for the wealthy under the guise of fiscal responsibility”).