maximus Loc: Chattanooga, Tennessee

It may shock you...it may devastate you...it may surprise you,

but here it is.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUwgKnyzFgI&feature=em-uploademail

Carol Kelly

Didn’t surprise me. It would be truly boring but for the fact that the entire 3 years have been an effort to get rid of Trump and in the process, overturn our government.
None of this “stuff” is Constitutional. Ratcliffe has really come into his own . I’m very proud of the way Republicans have come to the front.

Seth

Excellent video!

You can tell Jordan knows it's a done deal, Schitt the Weasel's actually already lost (😮 -- "curses, foiled again!" ), by the amused smile he has on his face as he questions Volker.

The rest of Schitt's "investigation," for want of a better term, will be nothing more than a carnival of nothing.

Carol Kelly

PREcisely!

peg w

Jorden and Nunez are a disgrace.

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The Republicsns do not seem to have a patriotic bone in their delegation its scary.

Carol Kelly

Quite the opposite, Madam (I assume) you are the disgrace! Look at all this misinformation with an open mind. Rep. Schiff (SD) paraphrases everyone’s testimony in such a way as to twist all information. He is a Jew to embarrass all Jews.
Wonder how he’d handle the German SS during WWII. By the way, there is no “ log jam”. The Bidens should be investigated due to the $16.5m they got from the dirty
Ukrainian government. Schiff is an embarrassment to not only American Jews but to American Democrats. He has not been appointed GOD!

Kazudy

Just went up on my Facebook page.

Auntie Lulu

Bravo!

maximus Loc: Chattanooga, Tennessee

Really?
I can't think of a single republican that wants to change our f**g to a rainbow, or do away with our national anthem, or do away with our southern border.
No republican that I know of has ever taken a knee during our anthem to protest anything.
No republican has ever said that our country was never great.
No republican has ever promoted socialism.

Think about this...Obama told the candidates to stay within reality, that they are going too far left. you NEVER have to worry about that with a republican.

So, what's your idea of a patriot?

Seth

Well said!

Seth

Peg, you should try reading news instead of these bumper stickers you copy as posts, then stick around to defend your "points of view" instead of simply dropping out of sight.

Your visits here are not much different than a quick trip to the rest room.

straightUp Loc: California

zzzz - lies are boring.

straightUp Loc: California

If you mean the Republicans in Congress, no they really don't. I think their antics regarding the impeachment process makes that pretty clear. I'm not surprised because I've been noticing the writing on the walls since Trump took office and it seems pretty clear to me that Republicans are currently controlled by people who are involved in a process of l**ting the Republic using methods very similar to what Russian oligarchs did with the old Soviet system.

When the Soviet system collapsed the oligarchs took private ownership of Soviet resources, leaving the Russian people with sh*t. This has become a model for doing the same thing to the American system, a much bigger safe to crack.

The 2017 Tax bill, written by Republicans and signed by Trump is a perfect example. The tax cuts basically took billions of dollars that would have gone to the Republic where it would have been allocated to products and services for the American people and basically gave it away. The Republicans said the cuts will encourage businesses to reinvest in jobs, but that didn't happen (and they knew it wouldn't). What DID happen is that the money was diverted from taxes to the stock market through a rush of corporate buybacks.

So in the end, billions of dollars that WAS locked up in the Republic for the benefit of the American people under the supervision of our representative government has been t***sferred to the open stock market where it's now available to anyone in the world including Russian oligarchs.

When a party implements a plan to shift money from a national government to an international market, that party has no business calling themselves patriotic.

I DO think there are a lot of good people and real patriots in the Republican party but they are not the ones controlling the party and unfortunately they don't seem to realize they're being used by the people who are.

maximus Loc: Chattanooga, Tennessee

This article was published originally in the Washington Times, and republished in the Heritage Foundation.
It reads as follows;

Most of the gifts exchanged at this time of year are opened on Christmas Day. But this time around, a big one arrived a few days early: the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

You’d never know that if you listen to the grinches in the so-called mainstream media, of course. They poured the usual amount of derision on it, insisting that it’s nothing more than a robber-baron’s roundup — a grab bag of goodies for the rich and no one else.

“A Win for the Wealthy, the Entitled and the Irresponsible,” read the headline of The Washington Post’s editorial. The New York Times, meanwhile, went with “Tax Bill Lets Trump and Republicans Feather Their Own Nests.” Other media outlets followed suit, venting outrage at what they insist is nothing more than a sell-out and a s**m.

It isn’t. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act isn’t perfect, but it offers real tax relief to Americans up and down the income scale. President Trump’s opponents are so fixed in their class-warfare ways that they seem oblivious to how beneficial it will really be, to ordinary workers and to the economy as a whole.

Several high-profile businesses — ones with no ideological ax to grind, unlike many in the media — seemed to realize this. They immediately followed the announcement of the Act’s passage with a few welcome announcements of their own: bonuses for their employees, and plans to create more jobs.

AT&T said it plans to give a $1,000 bonus to more than 200,000 employees, and to invest $1 billion in the economy. Boeing announced a $300 million investment. FedEx said it’ll hire more workers, as did CVS — 3,000, to be specific. Comcast reacted to the tax bill and to the repeal of net neutrality by saying that 100,000 of its employees will get a $1,000 bonus.

My step daughter got $1000 from Walmart.



There were others — and more to come, you can be sure. “This is just the first wave of many such stories,” tax expert Adam Michel told The Daily Signal. “These announcements show that businesses across America will put their tax cut to good use.”

This flatly contradicts the conventional, ahem, wisdom at many media outlets. Trickle-down economics doesn’t work, they insist. But actions speak louder than words, and the actions of many businesses shows how tax relief can help all Americans, directly or indirectly. As the saying goes, a rising tide lifts all boats.

Will the rich benefit more than lower-income Americans? It depends on how you look at the numbers. The rich pay the lion’s share of the tax burden, so they will see the largest dollar value in benefits.

However, the middle class sees the largest reduction in taxes paid: up to a 56 percent tax cut for some people.

Our tax cut was 100 %. We got back everything we paid in.

Is this what the media means by Trump’s “tax cut for the rich?” News flash: Under this legislation, the wealthiest people in America will actually pay a larger share of total taxes. Liberals should be celebrating; our tax code is now more progressive than it was under President Obama (not that that’s a good thing.)

Still, this is a win-win across the income spectrum. When you increase the standard deduction and the child tax credit, to cite two of the tax bill’s most notable features, you can’t help but lower the federal burden on many hard-working Americans — not just the wealthy.

Mind you, there’s still work to be done. There’s much we can do to simplify our Byzantine tax code, and make it flatter and fairer to all Americans.

But the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is an excellent place to start. Something to think about next year, when your gift budget is a bit bigger than it was this year.