Trump Screws the 99%
Feb 15, 2017 09:55:53 #
PeterS wrote:
If only you knew how much it cost to create a beautiful flower. Only one in one hundred has all the aspects worthy of commercial release and then you have to be able to grow enough to make it commercially viable. No, fortunately I made enough money elsewhere that I can afford this as a hobby. Below is the next one I intend to release though I just hope to make enough from it to pay for the fertilizer...
JUST GORGEOUS!!!
Feb 15, 2017 10:02:01 #
PeterS wrote:
If only you knew how much it cost to create a beautiful flower. Only one in one hundred has all the aspects worthy of commercial release and then you have to be able to grow enough to make it commercially viable. No, fortunately I made enough money elsewhere that I can afford this as a hobby. Below is the next one I intend to release though I just hope to make enough from it to pay for the fertilizer...
Your day lilies are like none I have ever seen and so captivating!! A terrible shame there isn't enough in it as I am sure yours would be first sold out!!
Likely better as a hobby... Gardens clears the mind of everything while the soul revitalizes in the beauty you create!!
The smell of the soil, flowers in bloom or your special herbs used to attract butterflies, bees etc intoxicating...I love sage when in bloom....
Enjoy, your new one another wowwwwww..
Feb 15, 2017 11:00:52 #
eagleye13 wrote:
"The 3 top executives at Fanny May Rains, How... (show quote)
The truth hurts. That's why these Libtards never use it.
Feb 15, 2017 11:05:50 #
straightUp wrote:
If you really understood what is going on, you would question anything to do with Dodd-Frank. Including the CFPB. Its only there to protect the big guys. Not you.
Feb 15, 2017 11:24:57 #
lindajoy wrote:
Your day lilies are like none I have ever seen an... (show quote)
Thanks, one of these days I'll name one for you...
Feb 16, 2017 18:37:26 #
Floyd Brown
Loc: Milwaukee WI
PeterS wrote:
And how are they controlling the world if you don't mind my asking...
In total while control is not total, undue influence is used over may areas of the World.
Control is extensive" including Banking & much influence over Governing bodies. With laws that add favorable regulations & taxation to many Marketing practices, Utiles
Feb 16, 2017 18:47:53 #
America Only wrote:
No actually they did not read it...Pelosi knew that, thus her comment. You are a ignorant fudgepacker.
why are you so obsessed with people bending over and getting fked in the ass? You reference that quite often.........
Feb 18, 2017 15:35:25 #
trucksterbud wrote:
If you really understood what is going on, you would question anything to do with Dodd-Frank. Including the CFPB. Its only there to protect the big guys. Not you.
Well, if you're going to toss out the accusation you should try to at least explain it, right?
Can you tell me how anything involving Dodd-Frank is only there to protect the big guys? What is your reasoning? Where is your evidence?
Feb 18, 2017 15:47:59 #
badbob85037 wrote:
Dobbs, Franks, and Obama are the 3 that ran interference for Fanny Mae and keep any type of investigation from taking place. Dobbs followed by Obama then Franks took large sums of money from Fanny Mae. When they could no longer avoid an investigation that's when all Hell broke loose that we are still paying for today.
Interesting. I'd appreciate any links you can send me on this as I am not having much luck in finding any such confirmation.
badbob85037 wrote:
The 3 top executives at Fanny May Rains, Howard, and Johnson even though the company had lost billions took over $250 million in bonuses. The courts made the three give back half and they say crime doesn't pay.
The 3 top executives at Fanny May Rains, Howard, and Johnson even though the company had lost billions took over $250 million in bonuses. The courts made the three give back half and they say crime doesn't pay.
Are you sure it's a criminal act for corporate executives to award themselves bonuses?
badbob85037 wrote:
The three were then given jobs as economic advisers in the obama administration. So if you are trying to make Trump look like a bad guy you have a long way to go.
The three were then given jobs as economic advisers in the obama administration. So if you are trying to make Trump look like a bad guy you have a long way to go.
I wouldn't say that considering how Trump has already proved himself to be a bad guy. But you're of course entitled to your own delusions.
badbob85037 wrote:
Besides no one with an active brain cell would trust the judgement of a hillary supporter or the lame stream media.
Besides no one with an active brain cell would trust the judgement of a hillary supporter or the lame stream media.
Ah... I see. No bias here right? LOL
Let me know when you have something substantial to say.
Feb 18, 2017 15:55:24 #
RETW wrote:
Go away ass hole. No one wants to read your posts.... (show quote)
LOL... funny picture.
Too bad a pile of insults and demands is so ineffective. Maybe you should try understanding things better so you can actually dispute my statements instead of just getting pissed off and stomping your feet which only confirms that I'm a better American than you are.
Feb 19, 2017 01:36:35 #
Mailbag
The president said what?
PRESIDENT TRUMP boasted of his election victory and attacked journalists at his news conference. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais Associated Press )
Studio City resident Daniel Berez wonders about Trump’s grasp on reality:
So the dirty little secret is working its way out of the box: Trump lives in his own reality. He really does believe he won the popular vote and the electoral college by a greater margin than God. He really does believe journalists are dishonest. He says he inherited a huge mess. He’s not just saying it, he truly believes it.
Trump is in way over his head. The stress of his job will further exacerbate his unfitness for the presidency. He jeopardizes the country.
The whispers have begun in Congress: This is the most dysfunctional administration ever, and there is a reason for it. The reason is the president.
Jim Krause of San Pedro criticizes the people around Trump:
For the president to stand in front of a television camera, surrounded by reporters, and tell one lie after another shows he has become dangerous to the nation and the world. Yet cabinet secretaries continue to support him, and the congressional majority does virtually nothing.
Have these people not realized that their names will one day live in infamy?
Los Alamitos resident Terry Bales finds an antecedent to Trump in cinema:
The rantings and ravings of Trump in his news conference reminded me of a paranoid Captain Queeg as played to diabolical perfection by Humphrey Bogart in “The Caine Mutiny.”
All that bombast and denial made me hungry for strawberries.
Calabasas resident Jim Thompson also refers to film:
Watching Trump at his epic news conference saying the real story is not Russia but Clinton stealing the questions at a debate brings to mind a scene from “Blazing Saddles.”
In it, the character Gabby Johnson talks in “authentic frontier gibberish,” and an observer asks, “Now who can argue with that?”
Kymberleigh Richards of Van Nuys suggests a new way for Trump to get attention:
The president blames the media for every downturn, every roadblock, every negative in his brief administration.
As more people come to see his attacks on the media as background noise, I wonder what he plans to do to get attention next. If he’s looking for suggestions, I offer “resigning his office.”
The president said what?
PRESIDENT TRUMP boasted of his election victory and attacked journalists at his news conference. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais Associated Press )
Studio City resident Daniel Berez wonders about Trump’s grasp on reality:
So the dirty little secret is working its way out of the box: Trump lives in his own reality. He really does believe he won the popular vote and the electoral college by a greater margin than God. He really does believe journalists are dishonest. He says he inherited a huge mess. He’s not just saying it, he truly believes it.
Trump is in way over his head. The stress of his job will further exacerbate his unfitness for the presidency. He jeopardizes the country.
The whispers have begun in Congress: This is the most dysfunctional administration ever, and there is a reason for it. The reason is the president.
Jim Krause of San Pedro criticizes the people around Trump:
For the president to stand in front of a television camera, surrounded by reporters, and tell one lie after another shows he has become dangerous to the nation and the world. Yet cabinet secretaries continue to support him, and the congressional majority does virtually nothing.
Have these people not realized that their names will one day live in infamy?
Los Alamitos resident Terry Bales finds an antecedent to Trump in cinema:
The rantings and ravings of Trump in his news conference reminded me of a paranoid Captain Queeg as played to diabolical perfection by Humphrey Bogart in “The Caine Mutiny.”
All that bombast and denial made me hungry for strawberries.
Calabasas resident Jim Thompson also refers to film:
Watching Trump at his epic news conference saying the real story is not Russia but Clinton stealing the questions at a debate brings to mind a scene from “Blazing Saddles.”
In it, the character Gabby Johnson talks in “authentic frontier gibberish,” and an observer asks, “Now who can argue with that?”
Kymberleigh Richards of Van Nuys suggests a new way for Trump to get attention:
The president blames the media for every downturn, every roadblock, every negative in his brief administration.
As more people come to see his attacks on the media as background noise, I wonder what he plans to do to get attention next. If he’s looking for suggestions, I offer “resigning his office.”
Feb 19, 2017 08:07:51 #
Progressive One wrote:
Mailbag br The president said what? br PRESIDENT T... (show quote)
Man....step out of your bubble and find out what's actually going on!!!
Feb 19, 2017 08:23:50 #
kankune wrote:
Man....step out of your bubble and find out what's actually going on!!!
I don't live in your "alternate facts " world where the only thing that happens is what you want to happen...........
Feb 19, 2017 09:04:10 #
Progressive One wrote:
I don't live in your "alternate facts " world where the only thing that happens is what you want to happen...........
Fair enough....and thank the Lord, we don't live in yours!!!!
Feb 19, 2017 09:06:48 #
Trump Administration Moves To Block Access To Health Insurance
February 18, 2017 10:50 pm / 4 Comments / Headlines, Health, Politics, Top News, US, White House
Trump Administration Moves To Block Access To Health Insurance
The Trump administration is moving to make it harder for you to get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. The net effect of the proposals would be significantly greater regulatory and paperwork burdens for both consumers and health insurance exchanges, the opposite of Trump’s promise during the campaign and since taking office.
The proposed rules also would lower the percentage of expenses that insurers must cover, forcing patients to pay more for their health care.
Andy Slavitt, the former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said the Trump administration has created a “manufactured crisis” in the Affordable Care Act with talk of a repeal and not enforcing rules.
About 650,000 more people would have to submit documents to verify that they can get health insurance. Among those affected are newlyweds, people switching insurance because of a life event such as losing a job and Native Americans.
This is just some of the fine print in the 71-page proposed regulation that the Department of Health and Human Services unveiled Wednesday, just days after Tom Price was sworn in as the new Health secretary. Price, a physician, has promised to gut the Affordable Care Act.
The increased burdens on married couples are outlined at Page 28. For people applying for individual insurance under the Affordable Care Act, “at least one spouse must either demonstrate that they had minimum essential coverage or that they lived outside of the U.S. or in a U.S. territory for one or more days during the 60 days preceding the date of the marriage.”
The proposed new Trump administration rule cites no facts indicating problems with consumer fraud in Affordable Care Act health insurance applications.
The GAO tested whether people willing to commit fraud by making false applications could obtain health insurance. In nine of 12 cases, the ruses worked, but the GAO report cautioned that its findings” are not generalizable to the population of applicants or marketplaces.”
The GAO report was characterized as a waste of time by the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority, which runs the Affordable Care Act market in the nation’s capital. It said “there is no evidence of systematic abuses” among its clientele.
The exchange found such a low risk of fraud that “it is neither an efficient use of resources…nor worth the burden to the consumer” to verify such details in applications
Because of the Affordable Care Act, the national uninsured rate has dropped from 16 percent in 2010 to 8.8 percent in 2016, the lowest rate ever.
Administration officials and lawmakers opposed to the Affordable Care Act have dutifully supported the Trump administration’s initiative.
“This proposal will take steps to stabilize the marketplace,” Patrick Conway, the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said in a press release.
Republican Representative Michael Burgess of Texas and Greg Walden of Oregon said the proposed rule “helps move our country beyond the damage of Obamacare.”
Three Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives said the rule “continues Republican efforts to rip away health security from Americans” and “shift costs onto consumers.” The joint statement came from Rep. Richard Neal, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., and Rep. Bobby Scott.
Some insurers have dropped out of the Marketplace. Humana announced on Tuesday that it won’t offer insurance through the Affordable Care Act in 2018.
IMAGE: Ventzislav Vanguelov (L), an obstetrics and gynecology doctor, gives instructions to physician’s assistant Celena Pollock (C) at Nuestra Clinica de Valle women’s clinic in San Juan, Texas, September 22, 2015. REUTERS/Delcia Lopez
February 18, 2017 10:50 pm / 4 Comments / Headlines, Health, Politics, Top News, US, White House
Trump Administration Moves To Block Access To Health Insurance
The Trump administration is moving to make it harder for you to get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act. The net effect of the proposals would be significantly greater regulatory and paperwork burdens for both consumers and health insurance exchanges, the opposite of Trump’s promise during the campaign and since taking office.
The proposed rules also would lower the percentage of expenses that insurers must cover, forcing patients to pay more for their health care.
Andy Slavitt, the former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said the Trump administration has created a “manufactured crisis” in the Affordable Care Act with talk of a repeal and not enforcing rules.
About 650,000 more people would have to submit documents to verify that they can get health insurance. Among those affected are newlyweds, people switching insurance because of a life event such as losing a job and Native Americans.
This is just some of the fine print in the 71-page proposed regulation that the Department of Health and Human Services unveiled Wednesday, just days after Tom Price was sworn in as the new Health secretary. Price, a physician, has promised to gut the Affordable Care Act.
The increased burdens on married couples are outlined at Page 28. For people applying for individual insurance under the Affordable Care Act, “at least one spouse must either demonstrate that they had minimum essential coverage or that they lived outside of the U.S. or in a U.S. territory for one or more days during the 60 days preceding the date of the marriage.”
The proposed new Trump administration rule cites no facts indicating problems with consumer fraud in Affordable Care Act health insurance applications.
The GAO tested whether people willing to commit fraud by making false applications could obtain health insurance. In nine of 12 cases, the ruses worked, but the GAO report cautioned that its findings” are not generalizable to the population of applicants or marketplaces.”
The GAO report was characterized as a waste of time by the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority, which runs the Affordable Care Act market in the nation’s capital. It said “there is no evidence of systematic abuses” among its clientele.
The exchange found such a low risk of fraud that “it is neither an efficient use of resources…nor worth the burden to the consumer” to verify such details in applications
Because of the Affordable Care Act, the national uninsured rate has dropped from 16 percent in 2010 to 8.8 percent in 2016, the lowest rate ever.
Administration officials and lawmakers opposed to the Affordable Care Act have dutifully supported the Trump administration’s initiative.
“This proposal will take steps to stabilize the marketplace,” Patrick Conway, the acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, said in a press release.
Republican Representative Michael Burgess of Texas and Greg Walden of Oregon said the proposed rule “helps move our country beyond the damage of Obamacare.”
Three Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives said the rule “continues Republican efforts to rip away health security from Americans” and “shift costs onto consumers.” The joint statement came from Rep. Richard Neal, Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr., and Rep. Bobby Scott.
Some insurers have dropped out of the Marketplace. Humana announced on Tuesday that it won’t offer insurance through the Affordable Care Act in 2018.
IMAGE: Ventzislav Vanguelov (L), an obstetrics and gynecology doctor, gives instructions to physician’s assistant Celena Pollock (C) at Nuestra Clinica de Valle women’s clinic in San Juan, Texas, September 22, 2015. REUTERS/Delcia Lopez
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