So here we are. Coming back out of Covid and supposedly watching the economy roar back as it should after a year or more of depressed spending. There should be no real need to inject more money into an economy that has this much built up demand for... well, pretty much everything.
Given we already have passed around 4 trillion in new Covid spending already, much of which has been or will be spent in 2021. Given that that one time infusion gave us a one year deficit of over three trillion dollars, there is little "Covid related" reasoning to be either looking for another two trillion in stimulus, much less an actual budget that is approximately a third higher than the 2019 pre-Covid budget (4.4 trillion).
The truth of the matter is that Democrats are struggling right now to come up with a cohesive political strategy now that Trump the boogieman is gone. Short of keeping the Capital riot or New York investigations of Trump in the news for the 18 months or so, Democrats will need "something" to talk about in 2022. At this point the only thing they are doing is complaining about the few things in the country that they are unable to control. Complain, bitch, and moan... not exactly the best election strategy if you want "my" humble opinion.
So apparently providing giant amounts of deficit spending, spurring inflation, and and making the debt unrealistically huge will be their new calling card. I wonder out loud how that will all play out once everything is said and done. Funny thing is that the pre-Covid economy was one of the best economies of our lifetime. We did it with limited increases in our yearly spending and mostly with fiscal policy that was not about new spending. So it shouldn't take 2-3 more trillion in deficit spending over the next years or so to get us back to where we were. That is the lazy man approach to economic stimulus, just as "throwing money" at any problem is the lazy man approach.
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Liberals Relieved at GOP’s Infrastructure Counteroffer
May 27, 2021 at 2:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 15 Comments
Jeff Stein:
“Tentative relief among many progressives today that GOP counter-offer — by relying heavily on repurposing old funding — is likely so inadequate to the White House that they will reject it and go bigger/partisan route.”
When asked whether it was time to focus on setting up a reconciliation pathway for the infrastructure bill, Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) told CNN:
“I think we’re getting to that point… It’s an old expression, fish or cut bait.”
SOUNDS LIKE THE DEMS ARE GOING TO CUT BAIT AND GO PARTISAN.
MEANING THAT IF THEY SUCCEED,
THEY CAN TAKE ALL THE CREDIT.
IF THEY FAIL,
THEY MUST TAKE ALL THE BLAME.
BIDEN IS NOT GOING TO BE FOOLED INTO THE MISTAKE OF GOING TOO SMALL.
Heh:
Gov. Ron DeSantis:
‘Overwhelming’ Number of People Moving to Florida Registering As Republican
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/05/27/gov-desantis-overwhelming-number-of-people-moving-to-florida-registering-as-republican/
Roger, fetch , you economically retard genetic mutt.
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Pending home sales index April
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unExpectedly
Always Partisan Biden has told US Senate, vote.
I hope they do, move boldly.
He is speaking right now about his plans for the future
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the budget request, the first of Mr. Biden’s presidency, calls for total spending to rise to $8.2 trillion by 2031, with deficits running above $1.3 trillion throughout the next decade. The growth is driven by Mr. Biden’s two-part agenda to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure and substantially expand the social safety net, contained in his American Jobs Plan and American Families Plan, along with other planned increases in discretionary spending.
The proposal for the 2022 fiscal year and ensuing decade shows the sweep of Mr. Biden’s ambitions to wield government power to help more Americans attain the comforts of a middle-class life and to lift U.S. industry to better compete globally.
The levels of taxation and spending in Mr. Biden’s plans would expand the federal fiscal footprint to levels rarely seen in the postwar era to fund investments that his administration says are crucial to keeping America competitive. That includes money for roads, water pipes, broadband internet, electric vehicle charging stations and advanced manufacturing research. It also envisions funding for affordable child care, universal prekindergarten and a national paid leave program. Spending on national defense would also grow, though it would decline as a share of the
Mr. Biden plans to fund his agenda by raising taxes on corporations and high earners and the documents show budget deficits shrinking in the 2030s. Administration officials have said the jobs and families plans would be fully offset by tax increases over the course of 15 years, which the budget request backs up.
Perhaps most notably, the documents forecast that Mr. Biden and Congress will allow tax cuts for low- and middle-income Americans, signed into law by President Donald J. Trump in 2017, to expire as scheduled in 2025. Mr. Biden has said he will not raise taxes on people earning less than $400,000 a year. It is possible that he could propose to extend the Trump tax cuts for those earners in a future budget, potentially coupled with additional tax increases on high earners or
While his plan estimates additional tax revenue down the line, the United States would run significant deficits as it borrows money to finance his plans. Under Mr. Biden’s proposal, the federal budget deficit would hit $1.8 trillion in 2022, even as the economy rebounds from the pandemic recession to grow at what the administration predicts would be its fastest annual pace since the early 1980s. The deficit would recede slightly in the following years before growing again to nearly $1.6 trillion by 2031.
Total debt held by the public would more than exceed the annual value of economic output, rising to 117 percent of the size of the economy in 2031. By 2024, debt as a share of the economy would rise to its highest level in American history, eclipsing a World War II-era
The budget is simply a request to Congress, which must approve federal spending. But with Democrats in control of both the House and Senate, Mr. Biden faces some of the best odds of any president in recent history in getting much of his agenda approved, particularly if he can reach agreement with lawmakers on parts of his infrastructure agenda. Those talks appear unlikely to produce bipartisan agreement, with Republicans offering a new proposal on Thursday that still left a wide gap between their ambitions and Mr. Biden’s. But the White House remains convinced it can enact significant parts of its agenda with just Democratic support using certain procedural moves.
Republicans warned on Thursday that Mr. Biden’s spending and tax plans would saddle the economy with dangerous levels of debt. “Biden’s budget has the highest debt/GDP ratio in American history,” Senator Cynthia Lummis, Republican of Wyoming, wrote on Twitter. “Congress needs to wake up. We can’t continue spending future generations into
Mr. Biden’s aides predict that even if his full agenda was enacted, the economy would grow at just under 2 percent per year for most of the decade, after accounting for inflation. That rate is similar to the historically sluggish pace of growth that the nation has averaged over the past 20 years. Unemployment would fall to 4.1 percent by next year — from 6.1 percent today — and remain below 4 percent in the years
Biden is said to be planning to nominate Burns and Garcetti for ambassadorships.A filibuster fight is looming in the Senate.The mother of a Capitol Police officer who died lobbies G.O.P. to drop their opposition to an inquiry.
The forecasts continue to show his administration has little fear of rapid inflation breaking out across the economy, despite recent data showing a quick jump in prices as the economy reopens after a year of suppressed activity amid the pandemic. Consumer prices never rise faster than 2.3 percent per year and the Federal Reserve only gradually raises interest rates from their current rock-bottom levels in the coming years.
Mr. Biden has pitched the idea that now is the time, with interest rates low and the nation still rebuilding from recession, to make large upfront investments that will be paid for over a longer time horizon. His budget shows interest costs for the federal government remaining below historical averages for the course of the decade. Interest rates are controlled by the Federal Reserve, which is independent of the White House.
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Even if interest rates stay low, payments on the national debt would consume an increased share of the federal budget. Net interest payments would double, as a share of the economy, from 2022 to 2031.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, at a signing ceremony in March. President Biden faces good odds in advancing much of his agenda.Credit...Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times
If Mr. Biden’s plans were enacted, the government would spend what amounts to nearly a quarter of the nation’s total economic output every year over the course of the next decade. It would collect tax revenues equal to just under one fifth of the total economy.
In each year of Mr. Biden’s budget, the government would spend more as a share of the economy than all but two years since World War II: 2020 and 2021, which were marked by trillions of dollars in federal spending to help people and businesses endure the pandemic-induced recession. By 2028, when Mr. Biden could be finishing a second term in office, the government would be collecting more tax revenue as a share of the economy than almost any point in the last century; the only other comparable period was the end of President Bill Clinton’s second term, when the economy was roaring and the budget was in surplus.
The documents suggest Mr. Biden will not use his budget to propose major additional policies or flesh out plans that the administration has thus far declined to detail. For example, Mr. Biden pledged to overhaul and upgrade the nation’s unemployment insurance system as part of the American Families Plan, but such efforts are not included in his budget.
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Administration officials have said the budget reflects the policies Mr. Biden has pushed Congress to enact this year and does not rule out future initiatives that are not included in this plan.
Mr. Biden’s spending requests also do not include money for a so-called public option for health care, which would allow Americans to choose to enroll in a public health insurance plan like Medicare instead of a private plan. But Mr. Biden will call on Congress to create such a public option as part of his budget proposal, a document obtained by The Times shows.
Mr. Biden will also express support for Congress allowing Americans as young as 60 years old to enroll in Medicare, and for efforts in Congress to reduce federal spending on prescription drugs, including allowing Medicare to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies, the document shows. It supports an expansion of Medicare to cover dental, vision and hearing services. Those efforts have been a top priority for Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont, who is the chairman of the budget committee. They are presented as goals in the budget but are not included in the proposed spending.
A spokesman for the White House budget office declined to comment on Thursday.
Administration officials are set to detail the full budget, which will span hundreds of pages, on Friday in Washington. On Thursday, Mr. Biden is scheduled to deliver an address on the economy in Cleveland.
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By 2028, when Mr. Biden could be finishing a second term in office, the government would be collecting more tax revenue as a share of the economy than almost any point in the last century; the only other comparable period was the end of President Bill Clinton’s second term, when the economy was roaring and the budget was in surplus.
LMAO:
Your feel good story of the day...
Atlanta councilman running for mayor who voted for 'Defund the Police' measure is dragged down the road and almost killed by kids as young as seven who stole his Mercedes during day
While at a ribbon-cutting in northwest Atlanta on Wednesday morning, four people hopped into councilman Antonio Brown's car and took off
Police said around 11:45am Brown got out of his car and the thieves tried to take it
Brown held on and was dragged for a block before he let go
Brown says the thieves appear to be children from 7 to 11 years old
He claims it took 45 minutes for police to arrive because it was assigned as a low-priority dispatch
Brown filed a police report and his car was found hours later
The councilman is running to replace current Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who is not running for another term
Brown voted for an ordinance that would've withheld $73 million from the city's police budget
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9625885/Atlanta-councilman-voted-Defund-Police-measure-dragged-road-car-thieves.html
LOL...
In a subtitled, minute-long video message with awkward grammar but relatively good pronunciation, he said: "I must say now, for 'F9,' I have done many interviews -- many, many many. So in one interview, I had one mistake... The 'F9' people gave me a lot of information, so a lot of interviews, a lot of information I--made one mistake.
"What I must say now is very, very, very, very, very, very important: I love and respect China and Chinese people. For my mistake, I really, really apologize. Sorry, sorry, I really apologize. You must understand, I really love and really respect China and Chinese people. I'm sorry.
"I will suck your dicks. I'm not kidding here. I will suck all of your dicks. Just line up shoulder to shoulder and pop chubbers. I will suck one billion dicks in a row. Here is the John Cena Blowjob Coupon: Only good for one billion uses."
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/394015.php
We can read the articles ourselves. There is no need to paste all of that.
The truth of the matter is that Democrats are struggling right now to come up with a cohesive political strategy now that Trump the boogieman is gone. The boogieman is still in power in the Republican party now
Just a few minutes ago he destroyed your arguments.
He is proposing a New Great Deal.
It's the most progressive plan in history. Even before FDR during the Great Depression.
When Bill Clinton left office the deficit was almost zero. Over 21 million jobs were created. Not enough to them paid higher wages. But Sleepy Joe said again that he wants to minimum wage increases until it reaches $15.00 per hour.
I was making more than that in 1980!
It's very ambitious. A lot more than I have so.
https://nyti.ms/3urL1B5
It's a complete reversal of the trickle down economic disaster since the Reagan era when the middle class percentage of the GDP dropped astronomicaly.
By 2028, when Mr. Biden could be finishing a second term in office, the government would be collecting more tax revenue as a share of the economy than almost any point in the last century; the only other comparable period was the end of President Bill Clinton’s second term, when the economy was roaring and the budget was in surplus.
It's Bill Clinton on steroids!
That is the lazy man approach to economic stimulus, just as "throwing money" at any problem is the lazy man approach.
Welfare Queen rhetoric 40 years later.
"I will suck your dicks. I'm not kidding here. I will suck all of your dicks. Just line up shoulder to shoulder and pop chubbers. I will suck one billion dicks in a row. Here is the John Cena Blowjob Coupon: Only good for one billion uses."
Roger Amick said...
It's Bill Clinton on steroids!
Hey CHT your blog is getting a bit scrambled
fixed it for you
Lil Schitty's ludicrous threat of BULLSHIT!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
Why don't you tell us that we don't need the infrastructure money as our roads are falling apart!!!!! The GOP under trump broke the budget and suddenly deficits were fine as long as trump was in charge.....Trump created the first trillion dollar deficit that was created by tax cuts for the rich and companies......Now it is time to pay the piper....fix what is broke and get going!!!!!!
So apparently providing giant amounts of deficit spending, spurring inflation, and and making the debt unrealistically huge will be their new calling card. I wonder out loud how that will all play out once everything is said and done. Funny thing is that the pre-Covid economy was one of the best economies of our lifetime. We did it with limited increases in our yearly spending and mostly with fiscal policy that was not about new spending. So it shouldn't take 2-3 more trillion in deficit spending over the next years or so to get us back to where we were. That is the lazy man approach to economic stimulus, just as "throwing money" at any problem is the lazy man approach.
democrats have one mode - Santa Claus, and one economic policy - Keynesian.
Paste eater Joe thinks he's the next FDR and he's right. FDR's imbecilic economic policies took a depression and made it GREAT, and here we fucking go again.
WTF is wrong with the GOP with monumental stupidity like this circulating as reality???????
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73% of Republicans blame 'left-wing protesters' for Jan. 6 riot
Yahoo News
ANDREW ROMANO
May 27, 2021, 2:15 PM
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What's going on with the election audit in Arizona? Yahoo News Explains
As a Senate showdown looms over the creation of an independent, 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll reveals just how partisan and polarized public perceptions of the attack have become — and how those perceptions are shaping the clash in Congress.
The survey of 1,588 U.S. adults, which was conducted from May 24 to May 26, found that less than half of Republicans (41 percent) say supporters of then-President Donald Trump who gathered on Jan. 6 at the Capitol to rally against the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory bear “some” or “a great deal” of the blame for the subsequent riot, which left several people dead and more than 140 injured. Less than a quarter (23 percent) blame Trump himself, and most (52 percent) say he is “not at all” to blame.
Anyone see any BLM hats there let alone black participants????? When will you pull your head out of your asses and wake up????????
Anonymous Myballs said...
We can read the articles ourselves. There is no need to paste all of that.
LOL.
You're trying to deprive the alky of the only thing he has to live for.
Senator Rand Paul
@RandPaul
Cry me a river, Jeff Bezos lost out on a space contract so now Senate inserts a Bezos bailout provision for $10 billion for his space company??
Isn’t there some remnant of decency in Congress to oppose bailouts for billionaires?
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democrats: the party OF the rich, BY the rich, and FOR the rich.
LOL.
#BezosBailout
THWAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Isn’t there some remnant of decency in Congress to oppose bailouts for billion
And isn't it ironic that the GOP in congress support a lying billionaire who may be indicted????????? Don't you people have ballz like Liz??????? Asshole pussification of the GOP continues unabated!!!!!!!
If you want to read something THAT REALLY IS LUDICROUS, read this.
73% of Republicans blame 'left-wing protesters' for Jan. 6 riot
Yahoo News
by Andrew Romano
May 27, 2021, 3:15 PM
As a Senate showdown looms over the creation of an independent, 9/11-style commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll reveals just how partisan and polarized public perceptions of the attack have become — and how those perceptions are shaping the clash in Congress.
The survey of 1,588 U.S. adults, which was conducted from May 24 to May 26, found that less than half of Republicans (41 percent) say supporters of then-President Donald Trump who gathered on Jan. 6 at the Capitol to rally against the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory bear “some” or “a great deal” of the blame for the subsequent riot which left several people dead and more than 140 injured. Less than a quarter (23 percent) blame Trump himself, and most (52 percent) say he is “not at all” to blame.
YET A FULL 73 PERCENT of Republicans pin “some” or “a great deal” of responsibility on “left-wing protesters trying to make Trump look bad,” even though both the FBI and Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy have rejected the falsehood that leftist protesters were involved.
The vast majority of Democrats, meanwhile, say blame for the deadliest attack on the Capitol in two centuries falls on the Trump supporters who assembled in Washington (84 percent), Trump himself (83 percent) and Republicans who claimed the election was stolen (79 percent). Most Americans (63 percent, 55 percent and 56 percent, respectively) agree.
As a result of growing resistance among rank-and-file Republicans — and the electoral backlash it could provoke — GOP lawmakers are poised to filibuster an independent inquiry as early as Thursday. The move would underscore the power of a Senate minority determined to kill even bipartisan legislation and possibly trigger a larger effort by Democrats to alter a procedural tactic they say has outlived its purpose.
“We have a mob overtake the Capitol, and we can’t get the Republicans to join us in making [a] historic record of that event? That is sad,” Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Senate Democrat, told the Associated Press. “That tells you what’s wrong with the Senate and what’s wrong with the filibuster.”
Amid a months-long coordinated effort by “a legion of conservative activists, media personalities and elected officials … to rewrite the story of what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6,” as the Washington Post recently reported, Republican voters have become far less inclined to see that day’s events as unwarranted.
In late January, nearly three-quarters of them (71 percent) told Yahoo News and YouGov that the Capitol attack was “not justified”; today that number has fallen 14 points, to 57 percent. Nearly a quarter (21 percent) now think the attack was justified; another 22 percent aren’t sure. And a majority of Republicans (52 percent) say the people who participated on Jan. 6 were “primarily peaceful and law-abiding,” even as most Americans (51 percent) view the same participants as “primarily violent and lawless.”
Likewise, just 18 percent of Republicans say Biden “won the election fair and square”;
nearly two-thirds (64 percent) believe the election was “rigged and stolen from Trump.” Even more (72 percent) say that enough fraud occurred in 2020 to “influence the outcome.”
Against that backdrop, it isn’t hard to grasp why just 10 percent of Republicans want to “hold Trump and others accountable for their role in the attack”; why 62 percent say “there have been enough [Jan. 6] investigations already”; and why less than a quarter (23 percent) now favor “the creation of an independent commission modeled after the 9/11 Commission.” These numbers help explain why Senate Republicans are prepared to filibuster the effort.
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BOY. HISTORIANS ARE GOING TO HAVE A FIELD DAY WITH THIS.
SIX MILLION JEWS WERE NOT KILLED BY HITLER AND TRUMP WON THE ELECTION FAIR AND SQUARE.
How the Trump Administration Twisted Coronavirus Intelligence
Rather than use intelligence to inform the government's response to the pandemic, the Trump administration tried to bend the facts for political ends.
by OLIVIA TROYE
MAY 27, 2021
(Photos: Getty Images / Shutterstock)
Two stories reported by CNN yesterday seem to conflict. At the same time that President Biden asked the intelligence community to redouble its efforts to uncover the origins of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, he also shut down an investigation by the State Department looking into the virus’s genesis. (A State Department spokesman indicated that the investigation ended, rather than being canceled.) How could the president both ask the intelligence community to look more closely at where COVID-19 came from, and ask the State Department, which includes an intelligence bureau, to stop? The answer lies in the Trump administration’s politicization of intelligence related to SARS-CoV-2, which I saw firsthand in the White House.
President Trump was first briefed about the novel coronavirus emerging in China on January 23 and 28, 2020. Vice President Pence, for whom I served as homeland security and counterterrorism advisor, received briefings on the coronavirus at about the same time. From the beginning, the U.S. government had limited access to Wuhan, including the two sites believed most likely to be the sources of the virus: the wet market and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. From those first briefings in January to the present, the definitive account of where SARS-CoV-2 came from has been uncertain.
But that didn’t stop some from making irresponsible assumptions. A January 26, 2020 Washington Times article linking the Wuhan Institute to “Beijing’s covert bio-weapons program” caught the eye of some in the White House. (The article has since been updated to reflect that its insinuations are insufficiently substantiated.) Over the course of several weeks in late January and February, Pence asked multiple times to be briefed specifically about the allegations in the article. Public reporting indicates that then, as now, the intelligence community could not corroborate nor refute them. At one point, Pence’s request for more information came in the form of a sticky note attached to a copy of the article with “What is this?” written in marker in the vice president’s handwriting.
Throughout the early months of 2020, Peter Navarro, a Trump aide on economics and trade, embraced and espoused an exaggerated version of the “lab leak” theory both within the White House and publicly. He contended that National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci had secretly directed the development and spread of the virus. Navarro and others relied on untrustworthy sources of information, including Breitbart.com, more than the medical and intelligence professionals in the government.
Through the month of February 2020, Pence and his chief of staff issued further questions about the lab leak theory to the intelligence community. It’s not unusual for intelligence consumers, especially at the highest levels of government, to ask the intelligence community to answer their questions, and the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 was accidentally released from the Wuhan lab can’t be discounted.
In his requests for more information, it wasn’t Pence’s behavior that was questionable, but his apparent motives. On February 26, Pence was announced as the new head of the White House’s coronavirus task force. After Dr. Nancy Messonier, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had raised the alarm about the virus spreading in the United States, it was widely understood inside the administration that the vice president’s job was not to control the disease but to control the narrative. Finding evidence for the lab leak theory seemed to become a public relations imperative.
Deaths from Texas Freeze Were Massively Underreported
May 27, 2021 at 4:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 92 Comments
Buzzfeed News:
“The true number of people killed by the disastrous winter storm and power outages that devastated Texas in February is likely four or five times what the state has acknowledged so far.
“The state’s tally currently stands at 151 deaths. But by looking at how many more people died during and immediately after the storm than would have been expected — an established method that has been used to count the full toll of other disasters — we estimate that 700 people were killed by the storm during the week with the worst power outages.”
REPUBLICANS WILL NOW LIE ABOUT EVERYTHING.
The Anticrime Party IS US, NOT YOU
May 27, 2021 at 3:31 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 77 Comments
James Carville, writing in the Wall Street Journal:
“All of this culminated with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, in which Republicans are now on the record defending violent attacks on law enforcement and voting against funds for the Capitol Police. So who really voted to defund the police? And who did it to cover up the investigation of a host of crimes? Not the Democrats.
“So, Democrats, listen up:
When it comes to crime,
don’t pivot,
don’t take it off the table—
hold Mr. Trump and the Republicans accountable.
Make them own the crime wave they created.
Democrats shouldn’t stop at police reform.
We need to get the whole job done.
Reform the police and clean up the Trump crime wave.”
Time to Give Up on Marco Rubio
May 27, 2021 at 3:30 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 68 Comments
The Orlando Sentinel editorial board says Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) opposition to a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission is the last straw and asks readers to “consider these words.”
“We need to learn as much as we can:
A) because it was a shameful day — something that should never happen again — and
B) because I think our enemies of this country, terrorists and others, will look to learn from that day, potentially, one day take lessons learned from it to attack us here.
“That’s not from the Miami Herald’s editorial. That’s what Rubio himself said less than two weeks ago.”
“Sorry to say it, but Marco Rubio is beyond hope.”
11th-Hour Deal Salvages China Bill
May 27, 2021 at 3:29 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 35 Comments
“A bipartisan deal struck on Thursday brought the Senate closer to passage of a behemoth bipartisan bill aimed at confronting China’s economic and geopolitical ambitions,” Politico reports.
“The fate of the legislation, a top priority of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, grew brighter after a key vote stayed open for more than three hours — then ended in a Republican decision to let the bill move forward. But an ultimate accord appeared within reach after Schumer and Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) reached an agreement on a bipartisan trade proposal that GOP senators viewed as a dealbreaker.”
Max Baucus Says It’s ‘Deja Vu’ with Infrastructure
May 27, 2021 at 3:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 71 Comments
Former Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), one of the architects of Obamacare, told Insider that he was getting “somewhat” of a case of déjà vu seeing the infrastructure discussions unfold.
Said Baucus:
“I doubt you’re going to see much bipartisanship in the end. Frankly, a lot of Republicans would rather not see a bipartisan bill. They say they would, but deep down they don’t.”
So the lab leak theory remained popular in the vice president’s office. When I raised the fact that the theory still had not been corroborated by the intelligence community, Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, told me that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “disagreed.” I warned Short of the risks of politicizing intelligence, and ultimately CIA Director Gina Haspel intervened to defend the integrity of the intelligence community and insulate it from political pressure.
Although I was unaware of it at the time, it appears the Trump administration attempted to do through the State Department what the intelligence community would not—hence the recently ended independent investigation by the State Department into the origins of the virus. Pompeo’s investigation reportedly began in “late 2020, months after Pompeo and President Donald Trump first claimed that the virus could have originated from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
In his public comments in March 2020, Trump continued to refer to the virus as the “China virus.” While there’s no doubt the virus originated in China, the president’s aggressive association of the pathogen with its country of origin made it clear to White House intelligence staff that the repeated questions about the Wuhan lab were designed to serve political ends in an election year.
Also in March, Pompeo declared publicly that he had seen “enormous evidence” for the lab leak theory, contradicting the intelligence community without disclosing his sources.
The next month, Trump followed his lead, telling reporters he had a “high degree of confidence”—an intelligence term of art for an assessment backed by significant data unsuited to alternate explanations—that the Wuhan lab was the origin of the virus. When asked where he got his evidence, he dodged, “I can’t tell you that. I’m not allowed to tell you that,” from which any reasonable person would infer classified intelligence sources, not a months-old Washington Timesarticle.
A year later, Pompeo is still implying that intelligence points to the Wuhan lab as the ultimate source of the virus: “I am confident that we will find that the evidence that we have seen to date is consistent with a lab leak and I’m convinced that’s what we’ll see.”
Late Wednesday night, the Senate passed a measure offered by Sens. Mike Braun and Josh Hawley declassifying intelligence linking the virus to the Wuhan Institute. The bill does not require the publication of intelligence substantiating other theories of the virus’s pathogenesis.
Considering the abuse to which the intelligence process was subjected during the last year of the Trump administration, there are ample reasons for Biden to ask for a new, updated report on how SARS-CoV-2 came to be.
The true origins of the virus may never be known. But as long as there are political points to be scored, many alumni of the Trump administration don’t care.
Throughout the course of the pandemic, the Trump administration’s first and strongest instinct was to find a scapegoat rather than formulate a response. Whether or not their pet theory turns out to have been right, they will have supported it for the wrong reasons.
Olivia Troye
Olivia Troye is a former career intelligence professional who served as Vice President Mike Pence’s Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Advisor, as well as his lead staffer on the White House Coronavirus Task Force. She is now director of the Republican Accountability Project.
Bernard B. Kerik
VIDEO of ANTIFA BREAKING WINDOWS ON 1/6
https://twitter.com/BernardKerik/status/1347046917512028162
President @realDonaldTrump supporters pulling Antifa terrorists away from building. There’s plenty of these videos. Why isn’t the #mainstreammedia reporting?
FAKE NEWS
FAKE "INSURRECTION"
FAKE president
This going to go over the heads of the truthers.
Strengthening the economies of the Central American nations will greatly reduce the number of people fleeing gangs and child trafficking gangs. And it's not a handout.
When people are given the opportunity to succeed in a business dumbshit kputz. Not welfare queens.
FACT SHEET: Vice President Harris Launches a Call to Action to the Private Sector to Deepen Investment in the Northern Triangle
MAY 27, 2021 • STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
12 companies and organizations announce commitments to support economic development in the Northern Triangle, as part of the Call to Action launch
In her role overseeing diplomatic efforts within El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras (the “Northern Triangle”), and with Mexico, Vice President Kamala Harris announced today a Call to Action for businesses and social enterprises to make new, significant commitments to help send a signal of hope to the people of the region and sustainably address the root causes of migration by promoting economic opportunity. As part of this Call to Action launch, 12 companies and organizations announced commitments to support inclusive economic development in the Northern Triangle, including: Accion, Bancolombia, Chobani, Davivienda, Duolingo, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Mastercard, Microsoft, Nespresso, Pro Mujer, the Tent Partnership for Refugees, and the World Economic Forum.
Our comprehensive strategy to address the root causes of migration will involve significant commitments of U.S. government resources to support the long-term development of the region—including efforts to foster economic opportunity, strengthen governance, combat corruption, and improve security. This approach will leverage commitments and resources from the governments in the Northern Triangle, as well as partnerships with multilateral development banks and international financial institutions.
Supporting the long-term development of the region, and in the Western Hemisphere more broadly, will require more than just the resources of the U.S. government. For this reason, Vice President Harris is calling on the private sector to draw on its unique resources and expertise to make commitments to support inclusive economic growth in the Northern Triangle. Together, we can work to overcome obstacles to investment, promote economic opportunity, and support long-term development in the region. The Administration looks forward to increased collaboration with private companies—U.S., foreign, and local in the Northern Triangle and Latin America more broadly—to build upon this Call to Action in the months and years to come.
She in charge of the border crisis.
It's better than putting children into cages.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/05/27/fact-sheet-vice-president-harris-launches-a-call-to-action-to-the-private-sector-to-deepen-investment-in-the-northern-triangle/
Lauren Boebert
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1397965730214203396
Joe Biden LIED when he said that he never discussed Hunter Biden’s business dealings with him.
He didn’t only discuss it with Hunter, he discussed it with the business partners too.
It’s starting to sound like a Special Counsel might be in order.
One with Bob Dole leading a pack of pit bull republicans
That would be like the Mueller "investigation"
But this one would start with real evidence
Bongino Report
7 second VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/BonginoReport/status/1398023700948176903
*country melting down, scandals everywhere*
Media: "Mr. President, what did you order?"
The saddest part is all the "journalists" oohing and aahing when he says chocolate chocolate-chip
lap dog press
FAKE NEWS
enemy of the people
Emerald Robinson
https://twitter.com/EmeraldRobinson/status/1398008574551396362
Democrats: Joe Biden won fair and square!
Also Democrats: We will block any and all state audits that might show Joe Biden won fair and square!
Fighting against transparency
and the people notice
despite the MSM and big tech
the country is boiling
RSC
https://mobile.twitter.com/RepublicanStudy/status/1397987348638543876
The Biden budget will increase spending to highest level since WWII and let Trump-era tax cuts for working families expire.
families don't need that tax cut.
Besides Bezos needs to get 10 billion more of taxpayer money.
He's paying 1.7 percent in taxes and the worlds richest man but he's a democrat.
It's called Biden equity.
Buzzfeed reported on fake news in Texas.
the morning of February 16, Gerald Herring, an Army veteran who had just turned 70, was struggling with a power outage, burst pipes, and a cold home in Sugar Land, southwest of Houston.
Over the phone, Herring told his son Jonathan that he was carrying water in from a neighbor’s house. This mention of heavy lifting worried his son. Despite him seeming to be “in good health, all things considered,” Jonathan Herring, 36, told BuzzFeed News that he was worried because his father had undergone surgery a few years ago to repair a torn valve in his heart.
“From what I knew, it was going OK, and/or he hadn’t had any episodes or things like that,” said another son, Chris Herring, 33, who also spoke with his dad by phone that day and remembered that he seemed to be in good spirits. “He was always good about monitoring. If he didn’t feel good, if he didn’t feel well, he would tell my stepmom.”
The percentage of customers without power across the region by county before, during, and after the storm hit
But later that day, Gerald Herring became unresponsive. Though paramedics arrived to rush him to the hospital, the drive there and back took longer than usual on the icy roads, Chris recalled. Gerald was pronounced dead not long after. His death was officially attributed to cardiovascular disease caused by high blood pressure and narrowed arteries.
While he did have heart problems, his sons believe that the cold was likely the ultimate catalyst for his death. “Adding stress for someone who has a heart condition, no power, no water — it's not a good set of circumstances,” Chris said.
If the storm had not hit and the power had not gone out, Jonathan said, “We’re not going to get another 10 years — I’m not an idiot — but it wouldn’t have happened that day.”
Asked why the deaths of Julius Gonzales and Gerald Herring were attributed to natural causes, Stephen Pustilnik, the Fort Bend County chief medical examiner, told BuzzFeed News that “none of the history that you gathered was ever told to our investigators.”
“I don't necessarily deny these were storm-related,” Pustilnik said. “But if we had known — if the family had told us when we asked them what was going on with the deceased family members — we certainly would have included them. If we don’t know about it, we can’t act on it.”
A 70 year old veteran doesn't matter to Scott MD
HEY ALKY do you post entire articles because you are incapable of reading them yourself and want someone to explain them to you?
I would but I just skip over you and the POS "pastor" but do notice you take up a lot of wasted space.
Maybe there isn't enough light in your room ?
that 3rd grade start really put you behind, especially in reading comprehension
Still haunts you in your comments (the "pastor" thinks this is blogging
ROFLMFAO !!!
People like you belive that a secret cabal of elite, Satanic pedophiles secretly runs the world, and that far right-wingers like Trump are engaged in a titanic struggle against them.
Emerald Robinson is a QAnon troll squad like you.
Lisa Boothe
https://twitter.com/LisaMarieBoothe/status/1397761216995639308
One day we will look back on all of this and realize everything we were told was a lie.
Masks Didn't Slow COVID Spread: New Study
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2021/05/26/new-study-refutes-fauci-efficacy-of-mask-mandates-n2589990
See alky, that's called a link and then I don't have to post the whole article !!!
Getting a few studies out on masks and doesn't look good for Biden/Fauci.
Weren't they in the 2 or 3 mask crowd ?
*** FAKE NEWS FLASHBACK FOR ALKY ***
CNN Politics
@CNNPolitics
Anthony Fauci just crushed Donald Trump's theory on the origins of the coronavirus | Analysis by CNN's Chris Cillizza https://cnn.it/3fnegPd
7:34 AM · May 5, 2020
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1257679975966269449
Remember that "bombshell" alky ?
FAKE NEWS
enemy of the people
Biden/Fauci
wonder who ends up going first ???
Roger Amick said...
People like you belive that a secret cabal of elite, Satanic pedophiles secretly runs the world, and that far right-wingers like Trump are engaged in a titanic struggle against them.
Actually not but how about
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
@RobertKennedyJr
DON'T MISS my latest podcast with @_whitneywebb as we dive deep into the murky relationship between now-deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, billionaire Bill Gates and other Silicon Valley elite. #TheDefender
https://twitter.com/RobertKennedyJr/status/1398007600600555525
And don't forget the Clintons.
I wonder if Ghislaine Maxwell stays alive long enough to testify.
She had a great aisle seat at Chelsea's wedding though Bill's portrait was a bit much in that dress.
He sure did get a lot of frequent flyer miles though
Pedo Island right ?
The Biden proposal would apply income taxes to those unrealized gains at death. It would have a $1 million per-person exemption, plus existing exclusions for gains on principal residences. Family-owned farms and businesses would get special rules that would defer their taxes as long as they own and operate the businesses. They won't pay taxes until they sell the farm.
Taxing capital gains at death is different from the estate tax, which is based on net worth and currently has an exemption of $11.7 million per person. The administration hasn’t proposed any changes to that tax.
The Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-budget-said-to-assume-capital-gains-tax-rate-increase-started-in-late-april-11622127432?mod=mhp
Prosecutors Probing Ukrainian Election Meddling
May 27, 2021 at 7:08 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 3 Comments
“Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn have been investigating whether several Ukrainian officials helped orchestrate a wide-ranging plan to meddle in the 2020 presidential campaign, including using Rudolph Giuliani to spread their misleading claims about President Biden and tilt the election in Donald Trump’s favor,”
the New York Times reports,
“The criminal investigation, which began during the final months of the Trump administration and has not been previously reported, underscores the federal government’s increasingly aggressive approach toward rooting out foreign interference in American electoral politics. Much of that effort is focused on Russian intelligence, which has suspected ties to at least one of the Ukrainians now under investigation.”
MY, MY.
Republicans Are United on Power
May 27, 2021 at 7:00 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 12 Comments
Paul Waldman:
“On the surface, the GOP is a party in disarray.
*Party leaders in Congress struggle to deal with elected nutballs such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
*Far-right extremists try to take over state parties.
*A member of the House leadership is ousted for refusing to pander to the lie that President Biden stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump.
“But underneath, there is a striking — and frightening — degree of unity.
For all the disagreement about the 2020 election, Republicans are in lockstep on the question of POWER — namely, that by rights it belongs exclusively to Republicans and steps must be taken to ensure that Democrats not be allowed to wield it, no matter WHAT the voters might want.”
If there ever was a definition of DICTATORSHIP, IT'S IN THAT LAST SENTENCE.
For a long time Repugs have been saying Dems are only interested in POWER. Nope. You slandered the wrong horse.
Fraud Fauci " you don't ever shake anybody's hands."
Except he is 99.99998 % wrong.
American Greatness.
It Isn’t 1980 Anymore
One of the persistent problems here, after all, is that while rank-and-file Republican voters understand how grotesque and destructive the Democratic Party has become, not enough realize their own party’s been playing them for suckers for three decades. I don’t see why anyone should keep that secret. The party doesn’t deserve to be trusted. It deserves to be commandeered by citizen-patriots, who then relentlessly steer it in the right direction (about which more below).
By the way, I got a few notes from party loyalists and establishment types who reminded me of Reagan’s 11th commandment (“thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican”).
But it’s not 1980 anymore. It’s nearly half a century after 1980. The circumstances, the stakes, the players, the dangers, are much different now. The country is more culturally and economically polarized, more volatile, more democratically unstable, more hollowed out industrially, more unsure of itself, more demoralized, and more mentally ill.
As dangerous as the Soviet Union was, China now seems more dangerous in its stealth, effectiveness, amorality, and devout imperialism. Through its American companies and corporate partners, the Chinese Communist Party has already achieved remarkable leverage over the country. Some, um, “conspiracy theorists” have even wondered if China has essentially purchased top politicians and influencers, including the entire Biden Administration. What that would mean, of course, is that China is already significantly steering domestic policy, legislation, and public opinion for its own ends. And what that would mean, in turn, is that America is on its way to Chinese vassalage without the public even knowing.
Be that as it may, it remains true in a way that was never the case throughout the whole of the Cold War—not even throughout a tumultuous Vietnam War era—people now sense some ominous, unnerving, mortal chill in the air. There is something wrong. Everyone of sense can feel it. For decades, political commentators here and there have warned the end is near. Now, for the first time, it actually feels like that could be true.
As a result, the Republican loyalist attempt to shame honesty into silence about the party’s three decades of duplicity, kowtowing, incompetence, perfidy, and corruption, all of which helped lead to this current state of affairs, is insulting and absurd. Silence can only further enable harm to an already ailing America. Why protect a party at the expense of the country?
No—in the end, this isn’t about any party. It’s about America and everyone in it and all their posterity. It’s also about the fate of the entire world. And so, it is with an unbecoming immodesty I hereby declare the 11th commandment obsolete.
Roger, you responded to the durable goods orders -1.3 % post of mine by, saying it went down because of demand.
Very odd of you.
He thinks this is evil
The Democrats have a story. The short version goes like this: “We live in a country forged in evil and oppression. The white men who founded it held African slaves, refused to let women vote, killed natives, ruined the environment, and did nothing about income inequality. But now, we Democrats are fighting to right all the wrongs of the past. We are fighting for social justice now and in the future. The Republicans are trying to stop us. We need you on our team to help overcome them. Together we can make the world a much better place. Join us!”
It's a little harsh but slavery, women couldn't vote, killed hundreds of thousands of native American. Etc.
The Republicans already have a civil war going on.
Trumpism stage four brain cancer has infected a major of Republicans.
Biden said he and other world leaders are "rebooting the Economy".
Yes, Joe , we know it has a name " The Great Reset".
Joe is a special kind of stupid.
Do you want to know why the Republicans wouldn't impeach Trump?
Because they believe in carrying a baby to full term.
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.) said he believes there will be a future Jan. 6-style attack on the Capitol and “the outcome is going to be far worse.”
“We’ve got to get to the bottom of this shit,” Tester said. “Jesus. It’s a nonpartisan investigation of what happened. And if it’s because they’re afraid of Trump then they need to get out of office. It’s bullshit. You make tough decisions in this office or you shouldn’t be here.”
SEATTLE — The Washington state attorney general on Thursday charged two Tacoma police officers with murder and one with manslaughter in the death of Manuel Ellis, a Black man who died after telling them he couldn't breathe as he was being restrained.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed charges of second-degree murder against Christopher Burbank and Matthew Collins, and first-degree manslaughter against Timothy Rankine.
Witnesses reported seeing Burbank and Collins, who are both white, attack Ellis without provocation, according to a probable cause statement filed in Pierce County Superior Court, and Rankine is accused of putting pressure on Ellis' back as the man said he couldn't breathe.
Ellis, 33, was killed on March 3, 2020, just weeks before George Floyd's death under the knee of a white Minneapolis police officer triggered a nationwide reckoning on race and policing. The Pierce County medical examiner called his death a homicide and attributed it to lack of oxygen from being restrained.
The death made Ellis' name synonymous with pleas for justice at protests in the Pacific Northwest. His final words — "I can't breathe, sir!" — were captured by a home security camera.
"Ellis was not fighting back," the probable cause statement said. "All three civilian witnesses at the intersection ... state that they never saw Ellis strike at the officers."
Five Tacoma officers have been on paid home leave pending the charging decision, and Ferguson said the investigation is continuing. Attorneys for the defendants did not immediately return messages seeking comment.
A Pierce County sheriff's deputy who helped restrain Ellis, Sgt. Gary Sanders, was also a focus of the probe.
The encounter began after officers reported seeing Ellis trying to get into occupied cars at a red light. They cast Ellis as the aggressor, saying he charged as an officer exited a police car.
But two witnesses who recorded parts of the fatal interaction came forward with identical stories, saying police attacked without provocation. An officer in the passenger side of a patrol car slammed his door into Ellis, knocking him down, and then jumped on him and started beating him, they said.
Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer, who was at the time a detective and the spokesman for the sheriff's office, said then that none of the officers placed a knee on Ellis' neck or head. But one of the witness videos that later surfaced depicts just that.
The Pierce County Sheriff's Office botched the initial investigation into Ellis' death by failing to disclose for three months that one of its deputies had responded; state law requires independent investigations. The Washington State Patrol took over, and the Attorney General's Office conducted its review based on evidence gathered by the patrol.
Ellis had a history of mental illness and addiction. In September 2019, he was found naked after trying to rob a fast food restaurant. A sheriff's deputy subdued him with a Taser after he refused to remain down on the ground and charged toward law enforcement.
But his landlords at the sober housing where he was staying told The Seattle Times he had been doing well in recent months after embracing mental health care for his schizophrenia.
Ellis' death, Pierce County's botched investigation into it, and the national outcry for racial justice helped inspire Gov. Jay Inslee to convene a task force to suggest ways to guarantee independent reviews of police use of deadly force.
Last week, Inslee signed one of the nation's most ambitious packages of police accountability legislation, including outright bans on police use of chokeholds, neck restraints and no-knock warrants. The legislation also makes it easier to decertify police for bad acts — and creates an independent office to review deadly force cases.
Saw a very interesting coincidence in some polling numbers.....
25% R's believe in QANON BS
25% R's think it is time to move on from 1-6......
Just saying folks.....>
Janet Yellen has complained that Biden is not spending enough.
I agree, get this going pass all 7.5 Trillion in additional spending.
2.5 human infrastructure, that is such pure socialism
Roger receives yet another largess check.
"California sends out $600/$1,200 stimulus checks as part of the Golden State Stimulus "
John Solomon
https://twitter.com/jsolomonReports/status/1396926260656361480
Facebook has taken down the world's biggest pro-Israel Facebook page.
Watch @JoelCRosenberg explain the details with @DavidBrodyCBN on #TheWaterCooler today. @JustTheNews @RealAmVoice
Big tech has taken a side, and it's with the terrorists
Consumer spending rose 0.5% in April, the Commerce Department said Friday. After months of buying goods, many Americans are now shelling out more for services, dining out and traveling.
Economists are projecting gross domestic product to jump at an annual rate of 10% or more this spring. The growth is being fueled by rising vaccination rates, fewer business restrictions and household savings, much of which is from the federal government.
Household income rose sharply in March, as the government sent most households $1,400 checks as part of Covid-19 stimulus efforts. Americans are sitting on a pile of cash. Households have saved about $2 trillion more than they would have absent the pandemic and federal relief efforts in response to it, according to Morgan Stanley.
McKayla J
IMAGE:
https://twitter.com/McKaylaRoseJ/status/1397946973471363073
Saw this on Telegram and had to share it because it's true.
enemies of the people
1984
https://www.wsj.com/articles/consumer-spending-personal-income-april-2021-11622154969?st=0tpctv95o0y2g0m&reflink=share_mobilewebshare
Mollie
VIDEO:
https://twitter.com/MZHemingway/status/1396989433358991362
This is really interesting and the comments from the multiple @Facebook Whistleblowers — Exposing how the tech giant suppresses speech regarding vaccine concerns — are really profound.
Big tech pushing out their narrative.
1984
enemy of the people
MediaResearchCenter
VIDEO:
https://mobile.twitter.com/theMRC/status/1397161833950236672
Fact-checkers pretend to be neutral, but they're just as biased as the left-wing media.
If they were truly unbiased, @PolitiFact would have a fact-check page for Biden's Press Secretary @jrpsaki, just like they had for Trump's Press Secretary @SarahHuckabee
They had a "fact check" page set up for Huckabee before she even started. Don't have one yet for Psaki. She claims she never lies and was always going to tell the truth.
That;s a big something, I won't say what
Fact-checkers pretend to be neutral, but they're just as biased as the left-wing media.
If they were truly unbiased, @PolitiFact would have a fact-check
BWAAAAAAPAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Brent bozel is about as credible as you asshole!!!!!!
Saw this on Telegram and had to share it because it's true
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!
Services might finally be picking up, though, as more people are vaccinated, states lift restrictions and the supply chain works through kinks. Government and private-sector data show growth in recent weeks in restaurant reservations, air travel and tickets to live events. Such spending on services makes up the bulk of the economy.
“For the economy to be sustainably healthy, you need spending on services,” said Joseph LaVorgna of Natixis, a financial-services company. “People have been flush with cash, and their limits to what they can spend on have been compromised,” he added. “This is not a light switch—it’s more like a dimmer. The lights are becoming brighter.”
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