caucus99percent

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(by anthony freda)

‘House approves Trump’s flagship US-Mexico-Сanada trade deal, day after impeachment vote’, 19 Dec, 2019, RT.com

“The US House of Representatives has given the green light to a trade deal between the US, Canada and Mexico that would replace NAFTA, known as the USMCA, passing the bill on to the Senate for another vote.

The sweeping trade deal was passed in the House on Thursday 385-41 and is set for a Senate vote sometime after the new year. If signed into law, the deal would establish new rules for commerce between the three countries, supplanting the longstanding North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA.

To combat global warming, Amy Klobuchar wants to build a 'fridge to the next century', presumably to cryogenically freeze the Dem establishment and preserve its uselessness well past the 2100 primaries.

Today diary is a little depressing. It was not the intention when I started writing, As computer technology continues its expansion into our healthcare system and personal care choices our privacy continues to decrease.

The CVS is closing. January 2; last day. It didn’t burn. But first it had to wait for the town to reopen. Then there was the water problem. Too, it was yellowtagged; though the building itself didn’t burn, the fire burnt trees out back black, and these had to be cleared, before the doors could open. The CVS people did that. Put in all new landscaping.

But corporate, it had set quotas. And the town, reduced from 25,000 people, to something like 2000, these quotas: the Paradise CVS, could not meet. And so, now. It is over.

This is the story of how Heather opened the town. Because it's kind of like a Christmas story.

The Trump Administration's War On The Poor has been extremely successful.
His full-court press against poor children getting health care was a resounding victory (818,000 fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid or CHIP).

Something to keep in mind…

Bernie’s Climate plan:

• is the most comprehensive in scale & mechanisms
• costs $16 trillion over 15 years
• pays for itself
• promises to take on the fossil fuel billionaires
 to whom we have been paying $642B/yr in subsidies
• costs $16T over 15 years (a bit over $1T/yr) minus $642B/yr fossil fuel subsidy yields a cost of $450B/yr

At this time (19:50 MST 12/18/2019) BBC World News is reporting that the US House of (Non) Representatives has voted to impeach President Donald Trump on two counts, "Abuse of Power" and "Impeding Congress".

(Never mind that the US Congress itself is the source of almost all the impeding Congress faces!)

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Last week a bill that was supposed to include provisions to stop surprise medical billing died an ignoble death partly by Democrats in the House voting it down. Lotta support, Dem leaders, Republican leaders, White House, but someone put the kabosh on it, didn't end up in the spending bill.