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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 14:24:29 GMT
Kyle Griffin....
“Mick Mulvaney has complained the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau engages in “wasteful spending”.
But Mulvaney appointed 2 senior staffers who are paid more than $230,000, amounts far above their previous gov't jobs, according to docs obtained byNYT.”
What does he care, it’s not his money.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 14:39:15 GMT
linkSo now these folks, who have day jobs, are going to cool their heels at the Southern Border doing just exactly what? Make little donnie feel like a real man because he has the power to deploy troops? I have MSNBC on, and while the article says they will be there until 9/30 I just saw on one of those tape things that go across the bottom of the screen “trump says the National Guard will be there until the wall is built.” Besides disrupting these folks lives for nothing he is also, once again, wasting tax payer money. “Mattis OKs up to 4,000 National Guard troops for border “From the article.... WASHINGTON — The National Guard will deploy nearly 500 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, the government announced Friday, in the first step in President Donald Trump’s plan to station a few thousand troops at the border to curb illegal immigration. The first troops will arrive in the next 24 to 48 hours, according to a senior defense official. A Pentagon memo about the deployment calls for up to 4,000 troops from border states to be assigned through Sept. 30. It says that the troops will not be used for law enforcement or interaction with immigrants unless Defense Secretary James Mattis approves it, and that the troops will be armed only if required for self-defense. Mattis signed the memo late Friday.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 7, 2018 15:07:10 GMT
And deplorable was not a good word for the band of thieves with dt and crew! the troops will be armed only if required for self-defense How will they know they need to take out guns today for self defense when they didn't take them out yesterday. They are in US Military uniforms and should be ARMED at all times not waiting on someone else to decide. Keep in mind I do not agree with them being there at all, but if they are they should be armed!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 15:12:42 GMT
And deplorable was not a good word for the band of thieves with dt and crew! the troops will be armed only if required for self-defense How will they know they need to take out guns today for self defense when they didn't take them out yesterday. They are in US Military uniforms and should be ARMED at all times not waiting on someone else to decide. Keep in mind I do not agree with them being there at all, but if they are they should be armed! Good question.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Apr 7, 2018 15:14:13 GMT
And deplorable was not a good word for the band of thieves with dt and crew! the troops will be armed only if required for self-defense How will they know they need to take out guns today for self defense when they didn't take them out yesterday. They are in US Military uniforms and should be ARMED at all times not waiting on someone else to decide. Keep in mind I do not agree with them being there at all, but if they are they should be armed! according to what I heard on AM Joy this morning, they can't be armed- the US federal government is very limited in their powers to use military personnel to enforce domestic policy. Posse Comitatus Act. "it shall not be lawful to employ any part of the Army of the United States, as a posse comitatus, or otherwise, for the purpose of executing the laws, except in such cases and under such circumstances as such employment of said force may be expressly authorized by the Constitution or by act of Congress; and no money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any of the expenses incurred in the employment of any troops in violation of this section and any person willfully violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding two years or by both such fine and imprisonment[5]"
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 15:25:42 GMT
linkPeople who do things like this when there is a real need, do it to make themselves feel important. It’s that ego thing again. AP sources: EPA chief spent millions on security and travelFrom the article... Shortly after arriving in Washington, Pruitt demoted the career staff member heading his security detail and replaced him with EPA Senior Special Agent Pasquale "Nino" Perrotta, a former Secret Service agent who operates a private security company. An EPA official with direct knowledge of Pruitt's security spending says Perrotta oversaw a rapid expansion of the EPA chief's security detail to accommodate guarding him day and night, even on family vacations and when Pruitt was home in Oklahoma. The EPA official spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. Those schedules show multiple EPA security agents accompanied Pruitt on a family vacation to California that featured a day at Disneyland and a New Year's Day football game where his home state Oklahoma Sooners were playing in the Rose Bowl. Multiple agents also accompanied Pruitt to a baseball game at the University of Kentucky and at his house outside Tulsa, during which no official EPA events were scheduled.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 7, 2018 15:45:26 GMT
according to what I heard on AM Joy this morning, they can't be armed- the US federal government is very limited in their powers to use military personnel to enforce domestic policy. Posse Comitatus Act. This is from the same link: ""The Act only specifically applies to the United States Army and, as amended in 1956, the United States Air Force. While the Act does not explicitly mention the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps, the Department of the Navy has prescribed regulations that are generally construed to give the Act force with respect to those services as well. The Act does not apply to the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor. The United States Coast Guard, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, is not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act either, primarily because although the Coast Guard is an armed service, it also has both a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency mission."" That is why he is sending the National Guard, he was told the Army could not do much. So he is screwing the people who have day jobs and will lose income and possibly their homes and jobs. The question is, is this an emergency?!?!?!?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 7, 2018 15:58:44 GMT
Trump is on a tear about immigration. What's really behind itBy Michael D'Antonio Updated 4:06 AM ET, Thu April 5, 2018 Editor's Note: Michael D'Antonio is author of the book, "Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success" (St. Martin's Press). The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. (CNN) President Donald Trump is on a tear about immigration again. Often mercurial and dark, Trump is using the power of the presidency to share his fear and anxiety with the country, and to stir the same feelings in its citizens.He does this instead of directly addressing the nation's domestic problems -- in this case, a long-broken immigration system -- pushing the buttons of his base and re-energizing them on this divisive issue. In this scenario, governance and leadership lose, and fear-driven policy can result. Thus, over the holiday weekend, he issued a series of tweets stoking a familiar (and unfounded) fear of border-crossing bogeyman who are hell-bent on committing violent crimes. And Tuesday, he announced several proposals to address this alleged issue, including stationing military troops along the border with Mexico. Trump's ignorance about immigration is stunning Trump's immigration tirade began with a Twitter rant about pardons issued by California Gov. Jerry Brown to five people facing deportation. The topic had just been featured on Fox News, which often functions as an outrage factory for the President and his followers. The President's tweet came as he spent the weekend at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, with current and former Fox bigwigs, including Sean Hannity and former executive Bill Shine. Away from the moderating influence of chief of staff John Kelly, Trump was free to marinate in the fact-challenged political stew that comes from the likes of Hannity, Shine and other visitors including Jeanine Pirro. Notably, these Trump influencers have apparently been devouring "The Camp of the Saints," a right-wing immigrant fear fantasy novel, which has surfaced on Fox News in recent days -- including on Tucker Carlson's show. The Southern Poverty Law Center has referred to the novel as "a favorite racist fantasy of the anti-immigrant movement." All of which is to say, Trump is getting his immigration talking points from commentators reaching dangerously far outside the mainstream. ** Unfortunately, Trump's propaganda comes at great cost -- and not just to immigrants, but to the entire country, which seems to grow more and more divided. Rather than doing the hard work of creating responsible and well thought out policies, he has placed that burden on the American people, who must question and challenge his tweets almost daily.More at link: Worth the read! www.cnn.com/2018/04/03/opinions/trump-immigration-propaganda-machine-opinion-dantonio/index.htmlHe is making things so much worse and we will pay dearly for a very very long time, maybe generations!
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Apr 7, 2018 16:01:54 GMT
The Act does not apply to the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor. yeah, but that's only if the governors actually GIVE the authority. Given that this whole thing is just 'window dressing' to play to Trump's base, to up his poll numbers, I can't see any of the governors actually GIVING that authority. Especially since it's a waste of (our taxpayer) money for them to just stand around and observe-- I don't think they've even said where the money is supposed to come from to pay for it, yet, or given a CONCRETE reason as to WHY they're needed to assist. The President's tweet came as he spent the weekend at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, with current and former Fox bigwigs, including Sean Hannity and former executive Bill Shine. Away from the moderating influence of chief of staff John Kelly, Trump was free to marinate in the fact-challenged political stew that comes from the likes of Hannity, Shine and other visitors including Jeanine Pirro. THIS is what scares me- we know Trump's cockamamie statements in the past have come from things he's seen on Fox television- it's no longer him making statements about things, it's THEM telling him what to think and how to act, via what they show on their network. How can this type of influence over the President be legal?!? (basically, Bob Mueller can't act fast enough for the good of the country, in my opinion.)
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 7, 2018 16:07:16 GMT
The Act does not apply to the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor. yeah, but that's only if the governors give the authority. Given that this whole thing is just 'window dressing' to play to Trump's base, to up his poll numbers, I can't see any of the governors actually GIVING that authority. Especially since it's a waste of (our taxpayer) money for them to just stand around and observe-- I don't think they've even said where the money is supposed to come from to pay for it, yet, or given a CONCRETE reason as to WHY they're needed to assist. Texas and I think, Arizona, have committed 150 each.. I know big numbers... Texas sure has a huge border for 150 troops. And neither has a adjacent state (yet).
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Apr 7, 2018 16:11:13 GMT
seriously?!? I'm disappointed that AZ actually contributed troops to his harebrained unnecessary fear-mongering.
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Post by pyccku on Apr 7, 2018 16:38:41 GMT
seriously?!? I'm disappointed that AZ actually contributed troops to his harebrained unnecessary fear-mongering. Ducey is governor. Did you expect anything else?
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Post by pierkiss on Apr 7, 2018 16:41:20 GMT
So...will any of the republicans mount a presidential bid against trump in the next election? Or is that some kind of serious no-no? Has that ever happened before?
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 7, 2018 16:54:02 GMT
Texas begins operation to send National Guard troops to the borderBy Steve Almasy, Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne, CNN Updated 10:24 PM ET, Fri April 6, 2018 Texas is preparing to deploy National Guard troops and vehicles to the border with Mexico, the state's top military commander said Friday. About 250 troops will be sent by Monday to the state's 1,254-mile long border with Mexico, Army National Guard Brig. Gen. Tracy Norris said. "This mobilization supports the priorities of the governor and the President in securing our borders," she told reporters. More troops will be sent once mission requirements and locations are determined, she added. Notifications for troops will go in the mail Saturday telling troops they need to report as early as next week, Norris said. Texas already has 100 National Guard soldiers on the border from another operation that began in 2014.** Arizona is sending 150 troops to the border next week, the state's department of military affairs said. Troops there will lend air support, help with reconnaissance and construction of border infrastructure and give logistics support. ** Norris noted troops will need time to tell relatives and employers about their deployments.Troops typically head to an armory first, pick up their gear and get briefed before heading out on deployment. More at link: www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/national-guard-troops-border/index.htmlThey need time to tell family and work... A WHOLE week!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 17:07:18 GMT
linkBusiness Insider... “ Trump claimed the tax bill would lead to a huge boost in business spending — but there's no sign of it yet”
From the article.... “*New tax cuts are unlikely to spur business investment to any large extent, according to a new survey conducted by the Atlanta Fed in conjuction with academics. *The survey shows some three-quarters of executives had made no spending plans at all in response to the passage of the tax cuts. *"We're sticking with our initial assessment that the potential for a sharp acceleration in near-term output growth is limited," Atlanta Fed economists write.” Oops that’s not what the Republicans want to hear before the mid-terms.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 7, 2018 17:23:02 GMT
Lieu: Trump shouldn't fire Pruitt because he's a 'great symbol' of corruptionBY JOHN BOWDEN - 04/07/18 12:27 PM EDT In a tweet, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) called on Trump to not only keep Pruitt on staff at the EPA, but to start bringing the embattled administrator to the president's "toxic" campaign rallies. "Dear @realdonaldtrump: Dem wave continues to get stronger. So now I'm thinking, please don't fire @epascottpruitt. He's such a great symbol of the corruption and fraud, waste & abuse in your Administration," Lieu tweeted. "Can you please do more toxic rallies & bring Pruitt with you? Thanks," he added. thehill.com/homenews/house/382089-trump-shouldnt-fire-pruitt-because-hes-a-great-symbol-of-corruptionENOUGH said!
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Post by hop2 on Apr 7, 2018 18:05:53 GMT
does that man *we* are in trouble? Lol
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Post by AmandaA on Apr 7, 2018 18:34:52 GMT
linkBusiness Insider... “ Trump claimed the tax bill would lead to a huge boost in business spending — but there's no sign of it yet”
From the article.... “*New tax cuts are unlikely to spur business investment to any large extent, according to a new survey conducted by the Atlanta Fed in conjuction with academics. *The survey shows some three-quarters of executives had made no spending plans at all in response to the passage of the tax cuts. *"We're sticking with our initial assessment that the potential for a sharp acceleration in near-term output growth is limited," Atlanta Fed economists write.” Oops that’s not what the Republicans want to hear before the mid-terms. Well it wouldn't surprise me if Trump's definition of "businesses" excludes the entire Ag sector, but I can assure you zero of his predictions are panning out from where I stand. Our taxes went up 20% last year despite a decrease in net income and we won't be boosting business spending with that non-existent cash in light of the fact that is his single handedly destroying the Ag markets with his trade war. The trickle down economics of this whole fiasco will be YUGE. We are just one (family) farm and we put over $3 million in cash into our local economy every single year. Start multiplying that by our entire county and then our state. Real estate values are going to tank (because around here they are driven by the Ag sector), large equipment purchases won't be made (so good luck keeping those factories running when people stop buying $250,000-$400,000 pieces of equipment), employees won't be getting raises either. The effects around here will be devestating to the entire community and not just the producers. But hey, who needs the Ag sector anyways right!? Let's keep getting everyone riled up about saving the coal instustry, that is where the future is for sure!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 18:35:49 GMT
Matthew Dowd...
“Facts:
Stock market gains in the first 444 days of a Presidency:
Obama - 32.5% Clinton - 32.2% GW Bush - 21.4% Trump - 20.7%
@realdonaldtrump please explain Mr. President.”
And what gains he made he’s pissing away in a trade war with China.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 7, 2018 18:52:35 GMT
Let's keep getting everyone riled up about saving the coal instustry, that is where the future is for sure! Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the $8 billion bill to bail out a failing energy companyBY DICK MUNSON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 04/07/18 01:00 PM EDT THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
Ohio-based FirstEnergy recently made an audacious plea to the federal government: Bail out more than 80 uneconomic coal and nuclear plants across 13 Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states at a cost of $8 billion a year. If accepted, this would be an unprecedented, illegal government handout that would be paid for by the American people through higher electricity bills. Let’s be clear: FirstEnergy is asking the Department of Energy (DOE) for a bailout because of business decisions it made over the past decade — not because these dirty coal plants are needed to keep the lights on.** It’s obvious $8 billion is a hefty price to pay to protect outdated, uneconomic coal plants from fair and open competition. These plants are underwater because they’re more expensive than natural gas, wind and solar. And demand growth for electricity is also at a record low, which makes it even harder for uneconomic coal plants to make up the difference in volume. The list of FirstEnergy’s critics is long and includes manufacturers, electricity generators, natural gas companies, conservative free-marketers, and consumers. ** FirstEnergy’s plea would also undermine competitive markets and stifle innovation in the energy sector. A government bailout would reward years of FirstEnergy’s backward thinking and punish other companies that have invested in cleaner, newer and smarter infrastructure, technology and services.** So, why would the Trump administration even consider such an already-dismissed proposal?Two words: “the swamp.” FirstEnergy’s profit guarantee request would be laughable on its face, were it not for well-placed and well-paid lobbyists. Over the last week, as the utility presented its plea, the president dined with two FirstEnergy lobbyists. One used to be Perry’s chief of staff, and the other spent time running Trump’s presidential campaign.Here’s hoping the president and Energy secretary listen to Americans rather than lobbyists. Here’s hoping they adhere to the GOP’s free-market principles and not the swamp culture that President Trump promised to eliminate. Here’s hoping that families and businesses aren’t forced to pay billions for outdated, dirty, and expensive power plants. Corporate cronyism has no place America, especially when it flies so completely in the face of what everyone but coal executives know to be true: better, cleaner and smarter energy choices are available for less, no government bailout required. ** More at link: thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/382087-taxpayers-shouldnt-foot-the-8-billion-bill-to-bailout-a-failingLet's have dinner with the lobbyists and give them $8 Billion a YEAR, because they don't know how to run their business.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 19:15:08 GMT
linkPolitifact... “Fake news says CNN "pulled the plug" during YouTube shooting coverage”
This claim received a “Pants on 🔥”
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 19:17:55 GMT
Kyle Griffin....
“John Kelly threatened to quit on March 28, sources familiar with the event tell Axios.
Kelly blew up at Trump in an Oval Office meeting that day, and while walking back to his office muttered he was going to quit.”
Don’t threatened, do it.
Apparently I’m not the only who thinks it’s dumb to threatened to quit and then don’t.
Walter Shaub’s response to the above news...
“You’re so mean. I’m going to run away from home. I really will. Stop laughing. I really mean it. I will. I’ll show you. I’m definitely running away. Just as soon as my cartoons are over. Um, can I have a snack while I’m watching?”
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 19:28:46 GMT
Kyle Griffin continues....
“Kelly has verbally threatened to quit more than once over the past eight months.”
And Walter Shaub continues...
“Definitely a totally normal workplace in any well-run organization with all of the best people who leak like Niagara Falls and, from time to time, get dragged out by security. Nothing abnormal about any of this. Nope. Nothing at all. 🤔”
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I shouldn't find this funny but I do.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 19:59:20 GMT
link
Two more new names. The Atlantic... “A Suspected Russian Spy, With Curious Ties to Washington“
From the article. “A longtime Republican operative has been in contact with a suspected Russian intelligence agent for nearly two decades. What does it mean for Robert Mueller's investigation? A longtime Republican operative with ties to the controversial data firm hired by President Donald Trump’s campaign team also has a nearly two-decade-long friendship and business relationship with a suspected Russian intelligence agent, Konstantin Kilimnik, who has landed in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s crosshairs. The Washington-based operative, Sam Patten, would not tell me whether he has been interviewed by Mueller’s team as part of their investigation into Russia’s election interference and potential collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow. But Patten said that his relationship with Kilimnik—a former officer in Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) who worked closely with Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, for over a decade—has “been thoroughly explored by relevant government entities.” Patten’s long friendship with Kilimnik—which stems from their time working together at the International Republican Institute in Moscow between 2001 and 2003—would likely be enough to draw scrutiny from Mueller, who appears to have homed in on Kilimnik as a potentially significant link between the Trump campaign and Russia. The special counsel’s office alleged in a court filing late last month that Kilimnik still had ties to Russian intelligence services in 2016, and that his conversations with Gates in September of that year are relevant to the investigation. Manafort and Gates’s arrival to the campaign team coincided with the most pivotal Russia-related episode of the election: the release of emails that had been stolen from the Democratic National Committee by hackers working for the GRU, Russia’s premier military-intelligence unit.“ “We’ve known each other for more than 15 years, and we periodically look for places we can work together,” Patten told me of Kilimnik. Their relationship is also proof that Kilimnik’s ability to ingratiate himself with American political consultants went beyond Manafort and Gates—a fact that could serve as a new data point in examining Russia’s ties to Republican operatives in the U.S. By the spring of 2015—when, as my colleague Frank Foer wrote, Manafort’s “life had tipped into a deep trough”—Kilimnik was already working on a new venture with Patten that appeared to be focused on targeted messaging in foreign elections. That venture, first reported by The Daily Beast this week, was a private LLC incorporated in February 2015 called Begemot Ventures International (BVI) with a mission to “build the right arguments before domestic and international audiences.” Kilimnik is listed as the firm’s principal and Patten is listed as an executive, according to company records, and the company is registered to Patten’s office address in Washington. A website for Begemot—which was built almost two years after the company was incorporated—links to Patten’s email for inquiries, but does not list the company’s clients. It is not clear why Patten, who already had a consulting firm registered in D.C., decided to open a brand-new company with Kilimnik. Asked whether any of the firm’s clients were in Russia or Ukraine, Patten replied, “It would be poor business to talk about our clients, but I can tell you declaratively that none of the clients have involvement in the particular circus in the U.S. that seems to have become a news industry in and of itself,” an apparent reference to the Russia investigation. He confirmed that the company, which he described as providing “strategic communications advice for clients outside the U.S.,” is still active, but said it has no projects ongoing at this time.“
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 7, 2018 20:32:40 GMT
How do all these fools keep their lives straight.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 7, 2018 21:29:18 GMT
Gets better!! Those schedules show multiple EPA security agents accompanied Pruitt on a family vacation to California that featured a day at Disneyland and a New Year's Day football game where his home state Oklahoma Sooners were playing in the Rose Bowl. Multiple agents also accompanied Pruitt to a baseball game at the University of Kentucky and at his house outside Tulsa, during which no official EPA events were scheduled. Washington (CNN)EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is facing renewed questions about the size and cost of his 24-hour security detail, adding to a string of ethically questionable arrangements or actions on his part that have surfaced over the past year. Pruitt's security team currently consists of 19 agents and includes a fleet of at least 19 vehicles, a source with direct knowledge of Pruitt's security detail said. With the cost of maintenance, gas, and training for agents, that leaves the dollar amount for his round-the-clock security in the millions.The size of Pruitt's security is unprecedented. No previous EPA chief has ever received a 24/7 security detail, the agency's inspector general has said . Former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, who served under George W. Bush, has told CNN she walked to work alone even after the September 11 terrorist attacks, and although she traveled with security, it was never this large.
www.cnn.com/2018/04/07/politics/epa-pruitt-security-detail/index.html
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2018 22:28:30 GMT
trump..
“What does the Department of Justice and FBI have to hide? Why aren’t they giving the strongly requested documents (unredacted) to the HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE? Stalling, but for what reason? Not looking good!”
What is he hiding I think is the bigger question.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Apr 7, 2018 22:35:47 GMT
Let's keep getting everyone riled up about saving the coal instustry, that is where the future is for sure! Taxpayers shouldn’t foot the $8 billion bill to bail out a failing energy companyBY DICK MUNSON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 04/07/18 01:00 PM EDT THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL
Ohio-based FirstEnergy recently made an audacious plea to the federal government: Bail out more than 80 uneconomic coal and nuclear plants across 13 Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states at a cost of $8 billion a year. If accepted, this would be an unprecedented, illegal government handout that would be paid for by the American people through higher electricity bills. Let’s be clear: FirstEnergy is asking the Department of Energy (DOE) for a bailout because of business decisions it made over the past decade — not because these dirty coal plants are needed to keep the lights on.** It’s obvious $8 billion is a hefty price to pay to protect outdated, uneconomic coal plants from fair and open competition. These plants are underwater because they’re more expensive than natural gas, wind and solar. And demand growth for electricity is also at a record low, which makes it even harder for uneconomic coal plants to make up the difference in volume. The list of FirstEnergy’s critics is long and includes manufacturers, electricity generators, natural gas companies, conservative free-marketers, and consumers. ** FirstEnergy’s plea would also undermine competitive markets and stifle innovation in the energy sector. A government bailout would reward years of FirstEnergy’s backward thinking and punish other companies that have invested in cleaner, newer and smarter infrastructure, technology and services.** So, why would the Trump administration even consider such an already-dismissed proposal?Two words: “the swamp.” FirstEnergy’s profit guarantee request would be laughable on its face, were it not for well-placed and well-paid lobbyists. Over the last week, as the utility presented its plea, the president dined with two FirstEnergy lobbyists. One used to be Perry’s chief of staff, and the other spent time running Trump’s presidential campaign.Here’s hoping the president and Energy secretary listen to Americans rather than lobbyists. Here’s hoping they adhere to the GOP’s free-market principles and not the swamp culture that President Trump promised to eliminate. Here’s hoping that families and businesses aren’t forced to pay billions for outdated, dirty, and expensive power plants. Corporate cronyism has no place America, especially when it flies so completely in the face of what everyone but coal executives know to be true: better, cleaner and smarter energy choices are available for less, no government bailout required. ** More at link: thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/382087-taxpayers-shouldnt-foot-the-8-billion-bill-to-bailout-a-failingLet's have dinner with the lobbyists and give them $8 Billion a YEAR, because they don't know how to run their business. My hubby is working in the crux of this circus right now and he says it’s nuts—so much bull crap, politics and waste.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 7, 2018 22:39:58 GMT
trump.. “What does the Department of Justice and FBI have to hide? Why aren’t they giving the strongly requested documents (unredacted) to the HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE? Stalling, but for what reason? Not looking good!” What is he hiding I think is the bigger question. Somewhere I read that Sessions is setting up for some of the Intel committees, thinking House and Senate(could be wrong on Senate) will be able to go to DOJ/FBI to review 4 FISA documents .... will still have some redactions/National Security issues. Not the whole committees, but Nunes will, because he didn't see the other ones, long ago! ETA: I cannot find the article, I may be wrong about it all.... I think I am right though....
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 7, 2018 23:48:06 GMT
Taxpayer-funded security costs for Trump sons' trip to Dubai topped $70,000: reportBY AVERY ANAPOL - 04/07/18 07:24 PM EDT Eric and Donald Trump Jr. traveled to Dubai this week on business related to the family’s company, costing taxpayers more than $70,000. Government purchase orders outlining the security costs for the Trump sons on their trip, including hotel stays for Secret Service agents and car services, reveal that the total cost to taxpayers was at least $73,000, CBS News reported. Eric and Donald Trump Jr. visited Hussain Sajwani, a Trump Organization Middle East business partner. Sajwani tweeted a photo of himself with the Trump sons, noting that they were “celebrating [his] daughter Amira’s wedding.” A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization told CBS News that the Trumps also went to Dubai to visit with "the team at Trump International Golf Club, Dubai.” "The Secret Service is conducting a protective operation in the UAE,” a Secret Service spokesperson told CBS News. “As a matter of practice we do not comment on the specifics of protectees’ trips.” President Trump turned over management of the Trump Organization to his two sons before taking office, but has still come under scrutiny over his family profiting from the business while he is in the White House. The family faced criticism last year after the adult Trump children cost taxpayers at least $330,000 in security costs on a ski trip to Aspen, Colo.thehill.com/homenews/administration/382126-taxpayer-funded-security-costs-for-trump-sons-trip-to-dubai-toppedOh My!
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