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GOP tax plan is apparently not evil incarnate

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Though it’s clear CBS News attempted to make it so.

Backfire. Ahem. Watch:

Evil GOP. Such an evil GOP.

Just ask Nancy Pelosi.

Why is it “armageddon”? Because it’s already working and the Demorats cannot afford to have Trump be effective in any capacity whatsoever. But wait. What has already happened because of the passage of the GOP tax plan?

Oh yeah.

Most recently: companies are coming back to the United States from other nations. From the NYPost.com:

Fiat Chrysler to move plant from Mexico to Michigan, pay out bonuses

by Associated Press

DETROIT — Fiat Chrysler is moving production of heavy-duty trucks from Mexico to Michigan and paying bonuses to US workers in response to the passage of US tax reform late last year.

Armageddon!

The automaker will invest $1 billion in its Warren Truck Assembly Plant to make the Ram Heavy Duty Truck starting in 2020. That truck is currently made in Saltillo, Mexico, where workers will continue to make commercial vehicles.

Armageddon!

FCA says the Warren plant will add 2,500 new jobs.

Armageddon!

The company also plans to pay $2,000 bonuses this spring to about 60,000 hourly and salaried US employees. Senior executives won’t get the bonus.

FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne says the company should adjust its manufacturing footprint to reflect “improvement in the US business environment.” He says employees should also share in the tax savings.

Terrible armageddon! Just ask Nancy.

But wait; weren’t we told that Donald Trump was lying when he even began to intimate that jobs will come back from foreign countries? Of course we were. Obama said so. He’s god, so he’d know. Just ask him.

PBS called bullshit:

Trump says he’ll bring jobs back to America. Economists are skeptical

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has promised to shred America’s trade deals and impose fines on imports from Mexico and China. He’s gone so far as to swear off Oreos to protest Nabisco’s transfer of cookie production from Chicago to Mexico.

Blazing Leftist EconoWizard Paul Krugman wrote in 2016:

KRUGMAN: No matter what Trump does, manufacturing jobs are not coming back to the US

Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize winning economist and New York Times columnist, took to Twitter on Friday to address the state of the US labor market and promises by President-elect Donald Trump to being back manufacturing jobs.

“Nothing policy can do will bring back those lost jobs. The service sector is the future of work; but nobody wants to hear it,” said a tweet from the economist.

Uh-huh. The glazingly-accurate CBS News (see above) said in 2017:

Manufacturing jobs in America: They’re not coming back

GE is building things and it’s creating jobs. The problem is, almost none of those jobs are in the U.S. It used to make trains in Erie, PA, a major source of employment in the area, and recently landed a $2.6billion contract to supply trains to India. Unfortunately for those laid off from its transportation plant in Erie, the Indian contract will see GE pour $200 million of investment in India, where they’ll be building the trains. The jobs aren’t coming back.

True for GE. Hell, both major locomotive manufacturers in the US have kicked American workers to the curb. GE and EMD.

Let’s see. Who also announced bonuses because of the tax plan?

  • Walmart
  • Waste Management Corporation
  • Nationwide
  • Bank of America
  • American Airlines
  • Jet Blue
  • Comcast
  • AT&T

Piddly little nothing businesses. They mean nothing. Just like the bonuses mean nothing. Just ask Nancy Pelosi. Secure and confident because her husband Paul Pelosi owns and operates Financial Leasing Services LLC, Collectively they are worth at least $500 million dollars. Yes. Half a billion dollars. She’s set. They’re set. Are you?

And where do the Pelosis live? That’s right, in Pacific Heights, San Francisco. Some of the most expensive real estate in that city and, hence, the state itself. On the northeast corner of Broadway and Normandie Terrace. Look for the black SUVs.

Of course, she’s fighting for the “little people,” the proles, the serfs, the groundlings, the rabble, the unwashed because — after all — she so identifies with them and feels their daily pain. She’s just the fourth richest Californian in Congress. How sad for her. What a struggle. What oppression. The pain she must endure to be a female.

The NationalReview.com says:

Nancy Pelosi’s Life in the 0.1 Percent

by Brooke Rogers

Nancy Pelosi may be one of the most liberal members of the U.S. House, where she runs the Democratic caucus, railing against income inequality and the avarice of the 1 percent. But she also happens to be one of the body’s wealthiest members: In Washington, she lives in a multimillion-dollar Georgetown condo; she owns a 16-acre vineyard in Napa Valley and a 3,700 square-foot house in San Francisco’s tony Pacific Heights, according to her May 2015 financial disclosure statements. Her May 2015 financial-disclosure statements,showing income that places her in the top one-tenth of the 1 percent of Americans, may surprise some in light of the concern she’s expressed about income equality and the distribution of wealth.

From GatewayPundit.com:

TRUMP Records His 23rd New Stock Market High – Market Up 17% Since Election

Guest post by Joe Hoft

Since the election on November 8th the DOW has closed at record highs an amazing 40 times.  Nearly one-fourth or 24% of the 168 days the markets have closed have been record highs since the November 8th election.  The market is up 17% since the election.

Then there was this from the WashingtonExaminer.com:

Year One List: 81 major Trump achievements, 11 Obama legacy items repealed

by Paul Bedard

With the passage of the GOP tax bill this week, the Trump administration has scored 81 major achievements in its first year, making good on campaign promises to provide significant tax cuts, boost U.S. energy production, and restore respect to the United States, according to the White House.

And along the way, President Trump even outdid his own expectations and slashed at least 11 major legacy items of former President Barack Obama, including cracking down on the open border, slowing recognition of communist Cuba and effectively killing Obamacare by ending the mandate that everyone have health insurance or face a tax.

According to the White House, the 81 accomplishments are in 12 major categories and include well over 100 other minor achievements.

Armageddon!

You can thank me later.

BZ

 

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YOU are paying off DC sexual harassment suits

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Just when you thought there might be some justice in terms of genuine sexual harassment, rape and assault incidents in DC — well, have I got a story for you.

Your American Taxpayer dollars are hard at work.

Against you, not for you.

From TheHill.com:

Congress owes taxpayers answers about its harassment ‘shush’ fund

by Jenny Beth Martin

Since when are members of Congress and their staffs accused of sexual harassment allowed to hush up and pay off their accusers from a secret “shush” fund full of taxpayer dollars? Since 1995, it turns out.

Congress, we all know, chooses to exempt itself from many of the same laws it foists on the rest of us. It’s a grievance I hear regularly during my travels around the country, as grassroots activists complain about this law or that regulation. “If only Congress had to live under the same laws we do, they’d get it, and they’d change it” is a common refrain.

For years, for instance, I’ve been speaking out about the illegal special exemption of Congress from ObamaCare, which allows members and staff to avoid the financial burdens they imposed on us when they passed that terrible law. If only they had to live under the law the same way the rest of us do, without benefit of taxpayer dollars to subsidize their premiums purchased fraudulently on the D.C. small business exchange, they might be more incentivized to repeal that law.

But until recently, I did not know about the “shush fund” of Congress, a fund managed by the “Office of Compliance,” which itself was created following the 1995 enactment of the Congressional Accountability Act (CAA), the first law enacted by the first Republican House in four decades.

Haven’t you ever asked yourself: just why do people spend thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars for a House or Senate seat?

Are they so devoted that they would place themselves into what normally would be considered as absolutely inextricable debt potentially in perpetuity?

The lowliest of Congressmen make $174,000 per year. Leaders make $200,000 per year or more, due to figures not up to date.

Did you ever think quid pro quo? Or ROI? You should have.

“It’s not the money, it’s the power.”
— Frank Underwood

What happened to transparency?

We, the taxpayers who have been paying for more than two decades to quietly settle literally hundreds of sexual harassment claims against members of Congress and their staffs, have a right to know which members and staffers have made use of the hush money over the years. Going forward, taxpayers should have knowledge about how that fund is used.

If Congress wants to get serious about its apparent culture of abuse, it will need to address its cover-up culture. Shush funds may serve the immediate purpose of getting alleged victims to go away, but they do little to stem the tide of sexual harassment. What Congress needs — and American taxpayers deserve — is more transparency.

And also at GatewayPundit.com:

SHOCK: $15 Million in TAXPAYER MONEY Has Been Paid Out to Settle Congressional Sexual Harassment Lawsuits

by Cristina Laila

As previously reported, Congress has a rampant sexual harassment problem. In fact the problem is so bad that female lawmakers and aides keep a ‘creep list’ of men who are notorious for lewd behavior.

As if this couldn’t get any worse, Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd Tuesday that taxpayers have paid over $15 million to settle sexual harassment lawsuits against members of Congress!

Further, from ConservativeReview.com:

Levin: GOP leaders must resign over sexual harassment in Congress

by Chris Pandolfo

Tuesday on the radio, LevinTV host Mark Levin discussed the day’s reports and testimonies concerning the subject of sexual harassment in Congress.

He played a clip of Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., who testified there are at least two sitting members of Congress — one Republican, one Democrat —who have engaged in sexual harassment of their own staff members.

Levin wants these sitting Congress members to be identified. He wants names named.

He also wants Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to resign for their failure in leadership — keeping silent on known creeps and a known widespread problem in the institutions they lead.  

Can you imagine, folks, a job where you are treated like a king or a queen, provided with armed protection, chauffeured in cars and SUVs, provided an expense account, shown deference wherever you go and can decide which laws to obey or not because, after all, you make the law? Wouldn’t you like a job like that? One where internal review and investigations into your conduct are mostly toothless?

Wouldn’t you enjoy a job like that?

And finally: just how long must we slit our own wrists for the power mongers in DC before we rise up in righteous umbrage?

BZ 

 

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To all US and State Government officials: you need to read this article

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American TaxpayerFrom an article in ZeroHedge.com:

Go here.

Alas, I fear you are not paying attention, governments and officials of all shapes and sizes.

The threshold of taxation, regulation, monitoring, micro-managing and outright ruling the lives of taxpayers is drawing to a close.

So here, ladies and gentlemen, is the real April’s Fool: The American Taxpayer.

For it is he and she that are funding, literally, the entire planet.

And their patience is coming to an end.

BZ

 

 

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I told you so, Part XIV: “A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue”

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Big government wants, via technology and Leftists, to invade every portion of your world and your personal space which — they believe — is not yours to personalize.

I said it so here with regard to so-called “Progressive Insurance” and their “Snapshot” space invader whose sole goal was to part you from your cash whilst simultaneously crawling up your arshole.  Please read that piece.

I also wrote about vehicle EDRs in 2012 with regard to their installation in your vehicle and their Big Brother-like intrusion into your life, here.  Please read that article as well.

Which brings us to today, from the Los Angeles Times via Drudge:

A black box in your car? Some see a source of tax revenue

The devices would track every mile you drive —possibly including your location — and the government would use the data to draw up a tax bill.

WASHINGTON — As America’s road planners struggle to find the cash to mend a crumbling highway system, many are beginning to see a solution in a little black box that fits neatly by the dashboard of your car.

The devices, which track every mile a motorist drives and transmit that information to bureaucrats, are at the center of a controversial attempt in Washington and state planning offices to overhaul the outdated system for funding America’s major roads.

The usually dull arena of highway planning has suddenly spawned intense debate and colorful alliances. Libertarians have joined environmental groups in lobbying to allow government to use the little boxes to keep track of the miles you drive, and possibly where you drive them — then use the information to draw up a tax bill.

Libertarians are agreeing with this, according to the article’s author?  If so, then I may be just about DONE with Libertarians.  I was already done with so-called “environmental groups” who want to place you into a pine box and keep you from their sacred nature areas where the rattlesnakes and antelope play.

And, just like red light cameras it’s not about safety or ensuring your unimpeded progress over the road — it’s about the CASH.

“This really is a must for our nation. It is not a matter of something we might choose to do,” said Hasan Ikhrata, executive director of the Southern California Assn. of Governments, which is planning for the state to start tracking miles driven by every California motorist by 2025. “There is going to be a change in how we pay these taxes. The technology is there to do it.”

Here is what the government is really saying: we’ve provided so much money to the parasites in the states and the nation that we’ve discovered we must now slit the wrists of the American Taxpayer even deeper, so that their blood will flow in ever greater a gpm allegedly rebuild the infrastructure we’ve ignored for decades.

One further question: do you think that’s really where those dollars will go?  Into a specific account for roads and highways?  Or do you think those dollars will go into a general fund where the parasites will be able to demand more Free Cheese, ably delivered by their Leftist Rulers and spineless Republicans?

After all: “the technology is there to do it.”

BZ

 

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July 4th

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Obama Imperial FaceI’m at work today, but in celebration of this day, I recommend reading the information at these links:

The Declaration of Independence.

The US Constitution.

The Bill of Rights.

The Federalist Papers.

When in doubt, always, always go back to the basics.

God bless America, the last and best supporter of freedom on the planet and, as always, an experiment in progress.

Today’s government, unfortunately, confiscates your rights and then sells them back to you via taxes and blood.  The greatest threat to this country and its American Taxpayer is not Islam or Right Wing radicals and soldiers — as the federal government would have you believe.  It is that government itself.

BZ

 

 

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