What Obama actually said was that with the subsidies, your premium costs would go down. Premium costs wouldn't go down on their own, they'd go down for the people enrolling in them because of the subsidies.
And there was a very famous case of a Conservative pig-lady who said that her health care costs went up because of Obamacare, when they actually went down, according to her insurer. Her name was Julie Boonstra. And she was a liar and paid stooge for the Koch brothers who refused to accept what her insurance company was telling her. Why? Because she is a fat, entitled Conservative liar who hated Obama because his election was a repudiation of the Bush policies you all supported and defended, that the people ultimately rejected.
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
I think it was indeed inevitable that they fall (as long as we kept oil artificially low) But whether they would have lasted another 5 years or another 20 is debatable. The Pope, Thatcher, Reagan and finally the Polish people brought down the USSR faster than it otherwise would have happened. Reagan recognizing a new leader in Gorbachev and the opportunity it presented was a huge part of it.
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It runs much like a very large corporation. I am not surprised you don't know this because it is evident you don't know much of anything.
Liberals who supported Obama's ten trillion in deficit spending should not be whining about anyone else spending.
I do; what makes you think I like them. But unlike you, I am intelligent and informed and know that CBO projections are ALWAYS wrong and judging a presidency in its its first year moronic.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
No it didn't.
What started the housing crisis was the lowering of lending standards for subprime loans in 2004.
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When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
It doesn't work fine for them and if you were informed and honest, you would know this. It is costly, creates shortages in care and citizens die as a result of cost controls and policies that limit specializing.
No one in this country dies due to a lack of healthcare; that is a moronic and dishonest lie. Millions die in Socialist countries waiting for operations that are readily available here.
Socialist countries have less liberties, less productivity, massive excessive taxation and their governments are heading for bankruptcy as a result. More Americans own homes here even at the lower income spectrum than any other country on the planet.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
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Since the Russia Tax Cut:
- GDP growth slowed by 0.9% from 2.9% in Q4 2017 to 2.0% in Q1 2018
- The DJIA is flat for the year, and off for Q2
- Workers' wages have declined
- The deficit is back to $1T
- Slowest pace of job creation in 8 years
- 4 million people lost health insurance
- Skyrocketing insurance premiums this Open Enrollment, according to insurance companies
- Companies still outsourcing jobs (BMW, Harley), not bringing jobs "back"
#winning?
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
This is what radicalized right wing nut jobs like yourself love to parrot but it doesn't hold water. If it were true, we would've seen the effect soon after, not eight years later.
Did you bother to read my Bush Jr quotes about his American Dream Downpayment Act? OK, I'll post it again and ask you this: Do you think Bush Jr deserves any amount of blame for the 2008 mortgage crisis and economic collapse?
2003: Bush Jr signs the American Dream Downpayment Act: https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archi...0031216-9.html
2004: The housing bubble starts. Millions of low income people buy homes they can't afford because Bush Jr pressured the banks to give them no-downpayment loans.
2007: Millions of low-income homeowners default (walk away) on their mortgages, putting pressure on banks holding the Lons.
2008: The crisis snowballs and the economy tanks.
Bush Jr: "Last year I set a goal to add 5.5 million new minority homeowners in America by the end of the decade. That is an attainable goal; that is an essential goal. And we're making progress toward that goal. In the past 18 months, more than 1 million minority families have become homeowners. (Applause.) And there's more that we can do to achieve the goal. The law I sign today will help us build on this progress in a very practical way.
Many people are able to afford a monthly mortgage payment, but are unable to make the down payment. So this legislation will authorize $200 million per year in down payment assistance to at least 40,000 low-income families. These funds will help American families achieve their goals, and at the same time, strengthen our communities."
Read it and weep: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/b...anted=all&_r=0
From his earliest days in office, Mr. Bush paired his belief that Americans do best when they own their own home with his conviction that markets do best when let alone.
He pushed hard to expand homeownership, especially among minorities, an initiative that dovetailed with his ambition to expand the Republican tent — and with the business interests of some of his biggest donors. But his housing policies and hands-off approach to regulation encouraged lax lending standards.
As early as 2006, top advisers to Mr. Bush dismissed warnings from people inside and outside the White House that housing prices were inflated and that a foreclosure crisis was looming. And when the economy deteriorated, Mr. Bush and his team misdiagnosed the reasons and scope of the downturn; as recently as February, for example, Mr. Bush was still calling it a “rough patch.”
The result was a series of piecemeal policy prescriptions that lagged behind the escalating crisis.
“There is no question we did not recognize the severity of the problems,” said Al Hubbard, Mr. Bush’s former chief economics adviser, who left the White House in December 2007. “Had we, we would have attacked them.”
Looking back, Keith B. Hennessey, Mr. Bush’s current chief economics adviser, says he and his colleagues did the best they could “with the information we had at the time.” But Mr. Hennessey did say he regretted that the administration did not pay more heed to the dangers of easy lending practices. And both Mr. Paulson and his predecessor, John W. Snow, say the housing push went too far.
“The Bush administration took a lot of pride that homeownership had reached historic highs,” Mr. Snow said in an interview. “But what we forgot in the process was that it has to be done in the context of people being able to afford their house. We now realize there was a high cost.”
Judge Juan M. Merchan wrote that Trump “appears to take the position that his situation and this case are unique and that the pre-trial publicity will never subside. However, this view does not align with reality.”
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
Pure nonsense. The biggest driver of the market this year has been the tariff war talks/fears.
Take a look at what small companies have done this year. They are up over 10% this year. They are the biggest benefactors of the tax cut.
Not sure why you keep referring to it as a Russia tax cut. Is that your moronic way of pretending the Russians are in control?
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"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
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