Dinner at Brown Derby Sunday??
Dude, where is your country??
Everyone hates each other now, everyone blames each other now.
You of all people should know we had a better life than we do now.
Why?
Republicans and democrats worked together to steal everything. We were usually left out of the robbery.
Today, we are the Robbery.
I can’t figure out why sane human beings
Keep giving their country away to people who don’t care about this country.
As Robert Reich said in last article the fight is not between Dems and reps
It is against oligarchy.

I preferred wings at the Winking Lizard when I visited Cleveland.
Our country is divided.
There is an oligarchy, we agree. How do they come into being. By getting chummier and chummier with the politicians who write the laws. Both sides are guilty of that.


The Supreme Court allowed Citizens United to be accepted as law. The Republican Supreme Court. Stating it would be ok if millionaires were allowed to buy their own senators and congress people.
Democrats totally against it.
Also there still is ALEC . Who is still writing Republican bills that are sent out to the states to be voted on. Not democrats.
Get your facts straight stop covering up for disgusting Republican unAmericanism.

Was never in a union parasite.
“Was never in a union parasite?”
So you were that much happier to work for less?
You never believed workers should have rights and protections?
I suppose you think Eisenhower was an abomination?
Why do you need Billionaires in your country Living here for free while you pay for everything?
This I will never understand.
Here’s a bit of free advice
When you get your stimulus check
Walk don’t run to give to Your billionaire pals.
Spend it on yourself.

Oh crikey!
After 8 years of bush the country was circling the drain. Bush took the helm with a surplus economy from Clinton. He left with a Dow that was around 6,000.
Obama lead us through the crash of 2008.
And continued to lead us back to a healthy economy, the Dow was up around 26,000
When he turned it over to trump.
Trump stupidly claimed himself a victory. TaaDaa!
Trump continues to pat himself on the back for many of Obama’s accomplishments.
He is a liar, a cheat, a grifter, a huckster, and a Traitor.
He was rightly impeached by the House. He should’ve been removed from Office.

Tucker, you can't really think that Strightup is a professor, a professor of what?

Just think for a moment, he professes to know the definition of "socialism."
We can all look it up in the dictionary - government takeover of planning the economy and ownership of property. Altruism Schmaltruism.

Definition of Socialism
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/socialism
1 : any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

2a : a system of society or group living in which there is no private property

b : a system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state

3 : a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done

History has proven socialism to be a failure, unless the capitalists prop it up through"detente." Socialism creates a bottleneck of goods and services, Marx's calculated bottleneck in evolution, Social Darwinism structured to destroy people through their fighting over the last scraps. "Road Warrior" comes to mind.

Thank God President Ronald Reagan put an end to Detente.

Eisenhower was a great president. The most inept president in my life time was Carter, but a good man. The most anti-American was Obama by far. Did not say workers shouldn't have rights and protections. Even non-union workers have them. I've made way more money than many union workers. Billionaires don't live for free. it's just much easier for them. You are one of the dummer posters on OPP. If I get a check (somehow self-employed always seem to get screwed) already told my wife we will put that money aside so when restaurants open back up we can tip the staff 50% since they will be hit extra hard in this time of trouble.

bwaahaahaa!
Oh crikey!
Tug, your on the right track but you’re on the wrong train.
Since Reagan demonized government you of many have been losing your azzez.
They have you believing that a nations economy operates in the same manner as your household economy.
It does not.
The purpose of this government is to set up and maintain an environment that allows all citizens to work ,play, and prosper.
This of course costs money, by educating its citizens through public schools and colleges, increasing their life potential to pay taxes that would in turn allow them to pay higher taxes than uneducated workers, giving them trades to work in, subsidizing the employment that struggles to make money, giving everyone a stake in this nation creates an environment for prosperity for all.
This not what we have.
What have is you believing saving money is the only thing. And sacrifice is the only answer.
To government it’s just money. Investing in its citizens so they are able to work play and prosper along with fulfilling their dream.
When we owe other countries money we have been known to give them the printing plates to print our money for them.
It’s just money.
For its also our livelihood.
The power elite doesn’t care about you and your problems. This is why they all have houses full of cash., hide it offshore, pay bills with offshore untaxed money.
Dude you are so screwed.
Yet you are always right there to rale on the commie Dems who are in essence also fighting for you.
You have nothing in your pocket because the 1% don’t want you to have anything in your pocket. Say what you want, call me whatever, but try to remember everything you do for them,you do against yourself.

“ if you take a pound of butter and cut it into small enough pieces,
You will essentially have 2 pounds of butter!”
- Ronald Reagan-

Oh crikey!
After 8 years of bush the country was circling the drain. Bush took the helm with a surplus economy from Clinton. He left with a Dow that was around 6,000.
Obama lead us through the crash of 2008.
And continued to lead us back to a healthy economy, the Dow was up around 26,000
When he turned it over to trump.
Trump stupidly claimed himself a victory. TaaDaa!
Trump continues to pat himself on the back for many of Obama’s accomplishments.
He is a liar, a cheat, a grifter, a huckster, and a Traitor.
He was rightly impeached by the House. He should’ve been removed from Office.

Milo, surely you must be joking.
A fascist government is run by a military or police force, after disarming the populace, sometimes it takes a couple of generations for the entire population to go bankrupt and overthrow their masters. That pending collapse would include all of socialist governments and communist governments today.

You retorted to Tug484, "Yet you are always right there to rale on the commie Dems who are in essence also fighting for you. You have nothing in your pocket because the 1% don’t want you to have anything in your pocket."

Just who do you suppose the "1%" is with 100 billionaires contributing to the DNC?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/11/18/here-are-the-billionaires-funding-the-democratic-presidential-candidates/
Daily Cover|67,587 views|Nov 18, 2019, 06:00am
Here Are The Billionaires Funding The Democratic Presidential Candidates

Go ahead, just pull u the list of Bilderberg galloping globalist billionaires subsidizing the Democrat candidates.

Your progressive socialist Democrat president, Woodrow Wilson, backed by the KKK, created the Federal Reserve System, its 12 "private" banks eventually nationalized by FDR during the Great Depression's 1933 Emergency Banking Act (Glass-Steagall) and the 1935 Banking Act creating the FDIC and Comptroller of the Currency. These 2 bills you really aught to read to comprehend the government's huge takeover of our monetary system.

The Federal Reserve bank has bailed out countless "fascist" despots, socialist sand communist dictators since funding the Bolshevik Revolution and the rise of Hitler's NAZI National Socialist Worker's Party, never having been audited since its inception in 1913. The Fed prints counterfeit money way beyond our GDP, devaluing the dollar's purchasing power to 3 Cents since its inception. You would think with the advent of the Industrial Revolution and mass production, the cost of living would come down, not go up!

So, where the hell is the money going? Oh, let's check the records of the Export-Import Bank, the Federal Housing Authority Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Overseas Pacific Investment Corporation, and the Fed itself, draining every brick of gold out of Fort Knox by 1930.

the testimony of whistleblower, House Banking Chair, Louis McFadden in 1934.
https://archive.org/stream/CongressmanMcfaddenOnTheFederalReserveCorporation/CongressmanMcfaddenOnTheFederalReserveCorp_djvu.txt

And then there is another gem, Woodrow Wilson's Marxist progressive income tax, the more you make, the more the government takes, making it impossible for the poor to work their way out of poverty and small business to rise and compete with the entrenched monopolies. Every step on the ladder to success is further and further apart as one tries to work their way up. "Tax the rich, tax the rich." you commies call. You commies are picking your won pockets, like mad dogs chasing your own tales.

"Each according to his ability, each according to his needs" What the hell does that mean?

You don't have to have a PhD to figure out Marx's bait and switch scheme of socialism, promising something for nothing, and nothing is what you get. It is the biggest hoax in all human history.

You know I have told you enough times that breaking up the paragraphs as you do make it impossible to line item a response so I don’t bother..

Once a person I felt posted with objectivity to indifference and stuck to the facts something changed. Intelligent with a great ability to Articulate you have joined the crowd of “follow the leader” instead of being a leader.
I am sorry for it as well..

We will agree to disagree to all the excuses thrown up between us and go about our day enjoying the pleasures of life in spite of all the BS everyone is so “overtly incensed about..”

I recently read this in another thread posted by Emily D !! I know its long but since your such an expert here, lets have your rebuttal to what is here~~ Should be very easy for you... And by the way have you contracted the virus?? I surely hope not. What did you do to keep from getting it?? Did you just self Quarantine you and your family right from the minute you heard China had a virus or were your actions gradual like the rest of the world as it became obvious in countries to follow?

So here is a list for you to ponder while Trump continues to help Americans, as he promised:

• President Trump declared a national emergency, inviting States, territories, and tribes to access over $42 billion in existing funding.
• Trump signed legislation securing $8.3 billion for coronavirus response.
• Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, ensuring that American families and businesses impacted by the virus receive the strong support they need.
• To leverage the resources of the entire government, the president created a White House Coronavirus Task Force to coordinate response.
• Vice President Pence named Dr. Deborah Birx to serve as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator.
• The president has held multiple teleconferences with our nation’s governors to coordinate response efforts and offer his full support.
• The president has approved major disaster declarations for impacted states like New York, Washington, and California.

TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS
• In January, Trump reacted quickly to implement travel restrictions on travel from China, buying us valuable time to respond to the virus.under much protest ad you may recall...
• The president has announced further travel restrictions on global hotspots, including Europe, the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Iran.
• American citizens returning from travel-restricted countries are being routed to specific airports, where they can be screened and isolated as needed.
• The United States reached mutual agreements with Mexico and Canada to restrict non-essential travel across our northern and southern borders.
• The administration announced it will expeditiously return aliens who cross between ports of entry or are otherwise not allowed to enter the country, as the facilities in which these aliens would be held cannot support quarantine for the time needed to assess potential cases.
• The administration raised travel warnings to their highest level for other hot spot locations, like Japan and South Korea.
• The president has expanded airport screenings to identify travelers showing symptoms and instituted mandatory quarantines.
• The State Department issued a global level 4 travel advisory, urging Americans to avoid all international travel due to the coronavirus outbreak worldwide.

EXPANDING TESTING ACCESSIBILITY
• The FDA issued emergency approval for new commercial coronavirus tests to significantly expand testing across the country.
• The president secured legislation that will ensure Americans are able to be tested for free.
• The administration is working with state and local partners and the private sector to open up drive-through testing sites.
• The administration is working with the private sector to develop a website that Americans can utilize to determine whether they need a test and, if so, where to get it.
• HHS is providing funding to help accelerate the development of rapid diagnostic tests for the coronavirus.
• The FDA cut red tape to expand testing availability.
• Admiral Brett Giroir – the Assistant Secretary for Health and head of the Public Health Service – has been appointed to coordinate coronavirus testing efforts.
• The FDA is empowering states to authorize tests developed and used by laboratories in their states.
• The Department of Defense has set up 15 coronavirus testing sites worldwide.
• The president signed legislation requiring more reporting from state and private labs to ensure our public health officials have the data they need to respond to this outbreak.
• DoD and HHS worked to airlift hundreds of thousands of swabs and sample test kits from Italy to the United States.
President Trump places a notecard in his suit pocket.

SUPPORTING IMPACTED BUSINESSES
• The Small Business Administration has announced disaster loans which provide impacted businesses with up to $2 million.
• SBA relaxed criteria for disaster assistance loans – expanding small businesses’ access to economic assistance.
• The president directed the Energy Department to purchase large quantities of crude oil for the strategic reserve.
• Trump has held calls and meetings with business leaders from the pharmaceutical industry, airlines, health insurers, grocery stores, retail stores, banks, and more.
• The Treasury Department approved the establishment of the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility to provide liquidity to the financial system.

HELPING FAMILIES AND WORKING AMERICANS
• The administration negotiated legislation which will provide tax credits for eligible businesses that give paid leave to Americans affected by the virus.
• The administration took action to provide more flexibility in unemployment insurance programs for workers impacted by the coronavirus.
• The Treasury Department moved tax day from April 15 to July 15.
• Trump signed legislation providing funding and flexibility for emergency nutritional aid for senior citizens, women, children, and low-income families.
• USDA announced new flexibilities to allow meal service during school closures.
• USDA announced a new collaboration with the private sector to deliver nearly 1,000,000 meals a week to students in rural schools closed due to the coronavirus.
• The administration is halting foreclosures and evictions for families with FHA-insured mortgages.
• The Department of Labor announced up to $100 million in dislocated worker grants in response to the coronavirus national health emergency.
• The White House worked with the private sector to launch a central website where families, students, and educators can access online education technologies.
• Trump signed legislation to provide continuity in educational benefits for veterans and their families who attend schools that have had to switch from in-person to online learning due to the coronavirus.
• The Department of Education has given broad approval to colleges and universities to allow them to more easily move their classes online.
• The Department of Education set interest rates on all federally-held student loans to 0% for at least 60 days.
• The Department of Education announced borrowers will have the option to suspend their payments on federally-held student loans for at least two months.
• The Department of Education is providing waivers for federal testing requirements to states that have had to close schools.

INFORMING THE PUBLIC
• The administration launched a website – coronavirus.gov – to keep the public informed about the outbreak.
• The president launched a partnership with the Ad Council, media networks, and digital platforms to communicate public services announcements about the coronavirus.
• The president announced guidelines for Americans to follow and do their part to stem the spread of the virus.
• The Task Force is holding nearly daily press conferences to provide the American people with the latest information.
• The Task Force has recommended mitigation strategies to heavily impacted communities, like those in New York, Washington, and California.
• CMS announced guidance to protect vulnerable elderly Americans and limit medically unnecessary visits to nursing homes.

SUPPORTING PATIENTS AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS
• In January, the administration declared the coronavirus to be a public health emergency.
• The president donated his fourth-quarter 2019 salary to the Department of Health and Human Services for coronavirus response efforts.
• The president took action to give HHS authority to waive rules and regulations so that healthcare providers have maximum flexibility to respond to this outbreak.
• CMS is giving flexibility to Medicare Advantage and Part D plans to waive cost-sharing for coronavirus tests and treatment.
• CMS created new billing codes for coronavirus tests to promote better tracking of the public health response.
• The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy coordinated with the NIH, the tech industry, and nonprofits to release a machine readable collection of 29,000 coronavirus-related research articles, which will help scientists discover insights to virus’ genetics, incubation, treatment, symptoms, and prevention.
• The administration announced that health plans with health savings accounts will be able to cover coronavirus testing and treatment without co-payments.
• CMS dramatically expanded telehealth for Medicare beneficiaries, ensuring more patients can access their doctors remotely while avoiding exposure.
• HHS lifted HIPAA penalties to enable healthcare providers to expand telehealth access for patients.
• The VA established 19 emergency operations centers across the country and put in place visitation restrictions to limit patients’ exposure.
• CMS and the VA are working to limit nonessential, elective medical procedures to free up healthcare resources.
• The Navy will be deploying two medical ships to help support impacted areas.
• The president announced Carnival Cruise Lines will be making ships available for hospitals to use for non-coronavirus patients.

STRENGTHENING ESSENTIAL MEDICAL SUPPLIES
• The president announced he is invoking the Defense Production Act.
• The president signed a memorandum directing his Administration to make general-use face masks available to healthcare workers.
• HHS announced it will be purchasing 500 million N95 respirators for the Strategic National Stockpile.
• The Department of Defense announced it will be providing 5 million respirator masks and 2,000 specialized ventilators to assist.
• The president signed legislation removing restrictions that prevented manufacturers from selling industrial masks – which can readily protect healthcare workers – directly to hospitals.

DEVELOPING VACCINES AND THERAPEUTICS
• The administration is working to help accelerate the development of therapeutics and a vaccine to combat the coronavirus.
• The FDA is evaluating existing drugs that could serve as potential therapeutics for coronavirus patients.
• The administration is actively working with drug manufacturers to monitor any potential drug supply chain issues.
• The administration is expanding research and consulting with experts to better understand the transmission of coronavirus.
• The National Institutes of Health has announced the beginning of a clinical trial for a coronavirus vaccine candidate.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/list-74-actions-taken-by-trump-to-fight-virus-bolster-economy
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