So now Bitch McConnell is saying cut spending.

Are you serious ?

 

Ha ha your quoting something from 2017 that guesses now go look up how much the Federal Revenue has reduced and get back to us.

 

estimated .02 Trillion raise in 2018 vs 2017, according to the first article that came up in a search. Doesn't sound like enough to validate a $1.5Trill tax cut.

https://www.thebalance.com/current-u-s-federal-government-tax-revenue-3305762

 

Your a fake news imbecile

 

It's Bush's fault! Wah, wah, wah...Laughable at best!

I say any negative comments made about Trump are all Obama's fault!

Any person with common sense fully understands your argument holds not an ounce of truth to them. Bush didn't tell anyone to bail out companies that Obama said were too big to fail.

And simply said, the stupid wars are only stupid to those that don't understand what it is to stand up and defend the United States of America!

 

Why does one need to be on the "left" to not like debt?

 

Except Congressional perks on retirement and medical care..

 

Trump’s tax plan is a win that just keeps giving
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/376244-trumps-tax-plan-is-a-win-that-just-keeps-giving

President Trump and Republicans have delivered on their promise to pass comprehensive tax reform that reduced taxes for Americans at every income level, increased wages, and created more jobs.

Even though the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was only signed into law in December of 2017, the law is already a success.

Businesses across the country have responded to the pro-growth reforms in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act by giving employee bonuses, increasing wages, making new charitable donations, or announcing plans to increase investment and create more jobs. 200,000 jobs were added in January, unemployment is at a 17 year low, and wage growth is up. Business optimism is at an all-time high among small businesses and manufacturers.

Already, nearly four million Americans have received bonuses and other benefits.

Hours after the tax reform bill passed through the House and Senate, AT&T announced plans to provide 200,000 U.S. employees with a $1,000 bonus. Similarly, Comcast has announced a $1,000 bonus for 100,000 employees, while Pfizer has promised $100 million worth of bonuses to non-executive employees.

The benefits of tax reform have not been limited to larger business either. Smaller businesses across the country are also thriving. Anfinson Farm Store, a family owned business in Cushing, Iowa (population 223) has given its employees a $1,000 bonus and raised wages by 5 percent. Kentucky-based Turning Point Brands, Inc. will give 107 employees a $1,000 bonus.

Heating and cooling company AAON — with facilities in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Longview, Texas — gave its 2,000 employees a $1,000 bonus. Tampa-based Spellex Corporation is gave its 26 employees $1,000 bonuses, and Five Senses Spa, Salon and Barbershop based in Peoria, Illinois gave $500 bonuses to its 20 employees.

While the bigger paychecks will be felt immediately, companies are also investing in their workers, which will result in benefits in the years and months to come. Boeing announced $300 million to be spent on charitable donations, workforce development, and infrastructure improvement. Walt Disney announced $50 million in employee educational programs, and Walmart announced expanded maternity and parental leave and a $5,000 allowance for adoption expenses.

Other companies are increasing employee retirement benefits. Visa is doubling its 401(k) employee contribution match to a maximum of 10 percent of employee pay, while Cigna is spending $30 million on 401(k) matches.

Businesses are also investing in the economy, which will mean more jobs created, and higher wages in the future. Merck has already announced it will invest $12 billion in the economy, while Exxon Mobil will invest $35 billion in the next five years.

Utility companies across the country are responding to tax reform by lowering rates for customers, resulting in lower energy bills. Illinois-based ComEd is passing $200 million worth of savings to consumers, while Baltimore Gas & Electric is passing $82 million in annual savings to customers.

The success of tax reform should not be a surprise – the bill contains numerous provisions that will grow the economy and benefit the middle class. The legislation cut taxes for American families at every income level and for businesses large and small, while dramatically simplifying the code and repealing distortionary tax credits.

American families and individuals at every income level are seeing tax reduction under this bill, with 90 percent of wage earners seeing more money in their paychecks. A family of four, earning the median income of $73,000 will receive a tax cut of more than $2,000 this year. Similarly, a single parent with one child earning $41,000 per year will see tax reduction of 73 percent, resulting in a $1,304 tax cut.

Strangely, Democrats continue to claim the bill is a scam. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has compared the bill to the apocalypse and derided the bonuses given to American workers as “crumbs,” while Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) called the bill a “betrayal” of the middle class.

This apoplectic rhetoric should not be surprising given that every Democrat in the House and Senate voted against tax reform. However, their rhetoric is not working — the tax reform bill is as popular as ever, with a New York Times poll showing majority support for the legislation.

This latest news is vindication for President Trump and Republican tax writers. The GOP has kept their promise for tax reform that benefits the middle class. Wages are increasing, take-home pay is up, and companies are investing in their workers and the economy as never before.

 

All you Democrats have left in your bag of hate is lies, mobs violence, and Antifa

 

First, do you get how asinine you look when to try to insult my intelligence, and you spell the insult wrong?

And second, 2017 was the lowest jobs gains in 7 years according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Arguing against a fact is as asinine as misspelling an insult about someone's intelligence.

Do you really feel that you ought to be taken seriously?

 

The socialist Kenyan pig incurred more debts than all other president combined and now leftist losers pretend to know something about cutting spending. LOL. What a joke.

Stick to what youre good at, gay marriage and murdering babies

I don't work with feelings, I work with facts, and the fact is that your posts and this whole thread are lies and BS

 

Trump may be outside our norms. But he is succeeding for all of us.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...8935aa-ca5d-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

As President Trump’s first two years in office come to a close, we’ve seen two originalist justices confirmed to the Supreme Court, 26 originalist appeals court judges confirmed, 10 more nominated , and 41 new district court judges on the bench and dozens more pending. Add to that: the repeal of the sequester on defense spending and a massive military rebuild underway; a massive tax cut of unprecedented depth and structural change; a renegotiated trade deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada; withdrawals from the awful Iran deal and, in effect, the absurdist Paris accord; the rollback of job-killing and bureaucrat-empowering regulations by the hundreds; an economy surging while unemployment drops to 3.7 percent ; and a new entente in the Middle East (one that arose despite U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel) that sees the United States and Israel aligned and cooperating closely with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and now a new government in Iraq against the expansionist Iranian theocrats.

Did I mention the devastation and defeat of ISIS in its physical “caliphate”?

That’s not even the entire list of accomplishments, but it’s enough to have silenced the #NeverTrumpers who used to mock Trump-supporting conservatives by posting a street sign carrying the name “Gorsuch” above rising floodwaters. Those of us who follow the president’s often confusing, loud, extemporaneous and disruptive presidency not by his tweets but by his administration’s deeds and those of congressional Republicans are amused that the #NeverTrump rump has stopped the “but Gorsuch” nonsense.

Many of the successes, especially with regard to the judiciary, are because of the unparalleled skill of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), supported by Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) and the Senate GOP caucus, which has almost always held together as a whole. McConnell is, as I’ve said before, the single most effective congressional leader the GOP has had in my lifetime. And it looks as if his majority will grow in November. The Republican House Majority may be preserved as well. Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and their caucus crafted and passed the tax bill as well as 14 Congressional Review Act resolutions and the robust military spending bills. Republican candidates should point both to the achievements outlined above and the rapidly expanding economy in their closing campaigns.

They should also dwell on the prospect of the enraged left controlling anything in government. Democrat Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), who would take the gavel of the House Judiciary Committee, has already promised a pursuit of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to satisfy his party’s fringe. Democrat Maxine Waters (Calif.), who would gain the gavel of the House Financial Services Committee, has urged the physical pursuit of her Republican colleagues across and out of public places. The radical rump of the Democrats, led again by Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), would set out to destroy the Trump economic momentum and to paralyze the regulatory rollback with a hundred hearings and inquisitions.

Trump is as wearying today as Andrew Jackson must have been in 1829 to the people of both parties who are used to different rules sets. I am one of them. Thus my criticisms of the president are many and detailed. But my fear of the wild-eyed left is far greater than my discomfort with his bull-in-china shop politics.

The left, we saw this week and last, contrasts unfavorably with the president’s hyperbole and occasional cruelty. It is now a snarling, enraged collective scream. To give it power would be to risk fraying even further the common bonds of citizenship. Best for them to spend a long time in the wilderness, as the “San Francisco Democrats” of 1984, so very wrong about the Soviet Union, needed to endure.

After the attempted sliming of Kavanaugh, voters must not reward that outburst of the new McCarthyism in the least or it will be repeated. Review the first few paragraphs above. Vote to repeat those sorts of achievements instead of empowering the enraged mobs. Don’t just return the Republicans. Increase their majorities and increase prosperity and security, judicial restraint and free enterprise even as we collectively figure out a president who may be outside our national norms for the office, but who is succeeding for us all

 

Economic Boom: Media Rewrite History To Credit Obama Instead Of Trump
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/economic-boom-trump-obama-policies/

Growth: The stronger the economy gets under President Trump, the more desperate his critics are to hand credit over to Obama. Even if that entails changing the past.

A recent New York Times story says it all: "An Economic Upturn Begun Under Obama Is Now Trump's To Tout." The article begins by admitting that "by nearly every standard measure, the American economy is doing well," then spends the next 1,400 words arguing that the current good times have nothing to do with Trump's economic agenda.

The economy, reporter Patricia Cohen declares, "is following the upward trajectory begun under President Barack Obama."

Upward trajectory?

We seem to recall that the economy was stagnating in 2016 after the weakest recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. In fact, The New York Times itself described Obama's economy this way in August 2016: "For three quarters in a row, the growth rate of the economy has hovered around a mere 1%. In the last quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016, the economy expanded at feeble annual rates of 0.9% and 0.8%, respectively. The initial reading for the second quarter of this year, released on Friday, was a disappointing 1.2%."

GDP growth decelerated in each of the last three quarters of 2016.

And on January 27, 2017, after the government reported that GDP growth for all 2016 was a mere 1.6% — the weakest in five years — the Times announced that "President Trump's target for economic growth just got a little more distant."

That same month, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office forecast growth this year would be just 1.9%.

There were other signs of stagnation as well. Stocks had flatlined in 2016, with major indexes down slightly. Real median household income dropped that year, according to Sentier Research.

Growth had been so worrisomely slow throughout Obama's two terms in office that journalists started warning about "secular stagnation." They said the country was in a period of long, sustained, slow growth resulting from slow population and productivity growth.

In August 2016, the Times declared that "the underlying reality of low growth will haunt whoever wins the White House."

Predictions of Slow Growth
The next month, CBS News reported that "with U.S. economic growth stuck in low gear for several years, it's leading many economists to worry that the country has entered a prolonged period where any expansion will be weaker than it has been in the past."

In short, there was no upward trajectory to the economy on anyone's radar when Trump took office.

Now that the economy is outperforming everyone's expectations, Trump's critics want to pretend that the current boom was already baked in the cake.

We are the first to admit that the impact of federal policies take time to show up in the economy. But the fact is that optimism surged across the board as soon as pro-growth Trump won the election over stay-the-stagnant-course Hillary Clinton.

Now, after Trump's deregulation and tax cuts are starting to take effect, we're seeing still more signs of stronger growth.

Polls show that the public gives Trump credit for what's going on today. They, not the mainstream press, have it right

 

Poll: Optimism among Small-Business Owners Hits Record High
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/poll-optimism-among-small-business-owners-hits-record-high/

Optimism among small-business owners reached its highest point in the 15-year history of the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index last quarter, according to the latest round of polling.

The poll, conducted from July 11 to July 18, measured small-business owners’ optimism based on their “overall financial situation, revenue, cash flow, capital spending, number of jobs and ease of getting credit” and found an overall index score of 118, twelve points higher than the previous quarter and the highest in the poll’s history.

“Small-business owners continue to feel confident about their businesses’ current and future financial situation as the economy continues to show positive growth,” said Andy Rowe, Wells Fargo’s head of customer segments. “We are hopeful the unprecedented optimism among business owners will translate into an increase in business investments, and more Main Street small-business growth.”

 

So... when the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that we gained less jobs in 2017 than in any of the 6 years previous, is that me having a feeling or is that me telling a lie?

I'm guessing it's more like a fact that you don't want to acknowledge so you throw a misspelled turd instead.

 

And what does that have to do with the thread topic you half-witted moron?

 

Job growth under Obama was fake - you'rd know that if you weren't such an imbecile. It was all part time jobs which are no better than no jobs at all, and government spending fueled healthcare jobs which is not real job creation.

Trump is causing a great booming economy which is creating REAL jobs.

Go learn something Mr.Pelosi

 

I agree that government spent money it collectrd for socisl security on other things and now faces massive debt that it created

But the fact remains that social programs are the biggest items in the federal budget and are driving the deficit

 

Entitlement have always been the drivers of debt. But you can't expect these idiot moron Democrats to understand such facts.

 

Congratulations on spelling 'idiot moron' correctly.

Remember that time the last Republican administration left us in an economic catastrophe of historic proportions? Good Times.

 

But SS isn't one of them, nor is medicare. Those are funded by the american people, and used by them.

I am all for talking about the social safety net programs. I think their is room for improvement on those.

 

you keep ranting about entitlements, and the waste, and blaming democrats for all of it. But you never say a word about defense spending and the massive boondoggle that is.......hmmmm

 

So let's get this right the 1.5 trillion dollar tax CUT resulted in revenue growth in the very 1st year. Glad your understanding now or at least I hope you understand.

 

Hey I respect your opinion and this is a major difference in our philosophy, I'm all for defense spending the world is becoming a dangerous place and one that you can't snap your fingers and fix if you haven't properly funded your military and mostly likely have paid dearly for it. As far as medicare and SS fraud, I think we should fix them and punish the abusers but I understand your fears of fixing means eliminating.

 

We know what the ANTIFA wacko said

Which was indefensible yet

I did not see much liberal condemnation of the ANTIFA thugs on threat

Ostly liberals just trying to change the subject

There is just no common ground between liberals and conservatives anymore