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ace's n 8's · Oct 7, 2018

Construction hiring booming and many available jobs

One of the brightest spots in recent employment reports has been construction hiring.

Employers added a net new 23,000 construction jobs in September, the Labor Department said Friday, and the number of people working in the industry was 315,000 higher compared to a year earlier.

But there are still construction jobs open – and the pay and perks aren’t bad. At the end of July, there were 273,000 open construction jobs, according to a separate Labor Department report.

ace's n 8's · Oct 7, 2018

Manufacturing confidence all time high

Optimism among U.S. manufacturers is soaring as the Republican-led tax cuts help fuel a white-hot economy with the lowest unemployment numbers in over a decade, but a significant labor shortage is undermining the gains, a new report shows.

Nearly 93 percent of manufacturers are projecting further expansion for their businesses, and positive sentiment among smaller companies is up to 91.3 percent, according to a quarterly survey from the National Association of Manufacturers. It's one of the best outlooks the group has seen in the 20 years it has conducted the survey among its 14,000 members.

ace's n 8's · Oct 7, 2018

Justice Kavanaugh SWORN IN to Supreme Court

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and former Justice Anthony Kennedy swore Brett Kavanaugh in as an associate justice to the Supreme Court in a private ceremony Saturday evening only hours after the Senate confirmed him in a 50-48 vote.

The ceremony is the culmination of an acrimonious process that heightened partisanship on the Hill to new levels ever since Kennedy, the court’s swing vote, announced his retirement in June.

It also delivers a significant win for President Trump.

Ford found Trump mocking her testimony 'very hurtful'

McConnell: Kavanaugh fight a 'wake up call' ahead of November election

Kagan warns that Supreme Court may not have a swing vote anymore MORE exactly one month before the midterm elections.

ace's n 8's · Oct 7, 2018

President Trump Approval Rating at 51 Percent

President Donald Trump's approval rating reached 51 percent on Friday, one of his highest ratings this year, according to Rasmussen Reports.

Likely voters were asked to rate Trump's job performance for Rasmussen's daily Presidential Tracking Poll released Friday.

ace's n 8's · Oct 7, 2018

Govt Cuts 1000 Jobs in Month Down 16000 Under Trump

(CNSNews.com) - The number of people employed by the federal government declined by 1,000 in September, according to data released today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Since President Donalf Trump took office, federal employment has declined by 16,000.

In December 2016, the month before Trump’s inauguration, there were 2,810,000 people employed by the federal government, according to the BLS data. By August 2018, that had declined by 15,000 to 2,795,000. In September, it declined another 1,000 to 2,794,000.

shootersa · Oct 7, 2018

The good times, they just keep rolling....

ace's n 8's · Oct 7, 2018

shootersa said: ↑

The good times, they just keep rolling....
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And if the ''despicables'' would stop fighting the Trump train, they could be rolling right along with us...

...LIFE IS JUST TOO SHORT for this nonsense..

But hey...if it makes 'em happy, who are we to stop and trample on their happiness.

shootersa · Oct 8, 2018

Some financial information for everyone;
First, revenue from income tax;

Note that until 2015 the portion of taxes from individuals was increasing while corporate tax was stagnate or slightly decreasing. After 2017 corporate tax revenues decreased while individual taxes increased and made up the difference.

And here is the budget for 2017

Pensions refers to Social Security and Government pensions. Veterans benefits are included in Defense. A key thing to remember is that while Social Security expenses are included in this budget, revenue from the employer/employee contributions is not included in the revenue chart above.

Now; Shooter is sure that at least one poster will take exception to something here, so he is also including the link where one can make up their own charts;
https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_budget_actual

Enjoy

imported__2355 · Oct 8, 2018

Interesting that your information shows individual tax payers having to make up the difference for revenues lost to corporate tax cuts. I'm sure most people are happy to help fill those corporate coffers with tax savings. I wonder if the corporations will make up the difference to their employees with bonuses... nah.

And likewise interesting that you pointed out the cost of social security without noting that it is paid for by a deduction that is a seperate and supposedly dedicated funding means but that people like Rand Paul, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell want to pillage to make up for the trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy they signed into law without bothering to fund any other way.

shootersa · Oct 8, 2018

imported__2355 said: ↑

Interesting that your information shows individual tax payers having to make up the difference for revenues lost to corporate tax cuts. I'm sure most people are happy to help fill those corporate coffers with tax savings. I wonder if the corporations will make up the difference to their employees with bonuses... nah.

And likewise interesting that you pointed out the cost of social security without noting that it is paid for by a deduction that is a seperate and supposedly dedicated funding means but that people like Rand Paul, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell want to pillage to make up for the trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy they signed into law without bothering to fund any other way.
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So, first of all, Shooter did not post these charts to make a particular point, other than GROSS individual tax revenues have increased while GROSS corporate tax revenues have decreased. The why behind these changes is up to individuals to find, according to their beliefs.
Second, Shooter did point out that while Social Security costs are included in the expense chart, the revenues that employers/employees pay are not reflected in the revenue chart. Try to pay attention.

And finally, you need to provide facts to support your position that Rand Paul, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell want to pillage Social Security revenue.

The facts Shooter has uncovered are that;
1) President Trump said, on the campaign trail, that Social Security benefits were not going to be cut if he was elected, and in fact he has maintained that position since he was elected. His belief is that any financial problems with Social Security can be fixed with a healthy economy and perhaps removing the cap on Social Security taxes. The Republicans have echoed his statements.
2) Trump has backed up his statements with action; In April he signed the Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018, or H.R. 4547. This bill was unanimously passed by Congress after the Government Accounting Office reported that Social Security representatives were taking advantage of some recipients to benefit themselves.
https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2018/04/17/trump-protections-social-security/24983/
3) No Republican sponsored legislation has passed that would "pillage" Social Security.
4) Following is a link so you can track, yourself, legislation relating to Social Security (or any other subject) from submission to final status.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bi...ty&terms=6328&congress=__ALL__&terms2=__ALL__

You need to do your own research and stop repeating the despicable (and deplorable) talking points.

ace's n 8's · Oct 9, 2018

imported__2355 said: ↑

Interesting that your information shows individual tax payers having to make up the difference for revenues lost to corporate tax cuts. I'm sure most people are happy to help fill those corporate coffers with tax savings. I wonder if the corporations will make up the difference to their employees with bonuses... nah.

And likewise interesting that you pointed out the cost of social security without noting that it is paid for by a deduction that is a seperate and supposedly dedicated funding means but that people like Rand Paul, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell want to pillage to make up for the trillions in tax cuts for the wealthy they signed into law without bothering to fund any other way.
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Did you ever think...more folks are working today than there just a measily 2 years ago?, so yes there will be more individual tax payers/higher taxes paid in shootersa graph.

imported__2355 · Oct 9, 2018

ace's n 8's said: ↑

Did you ever think...more folks are working today than there just a measily 2 years ago?, so yes there will be more individual tax payers/higher taxes paid in shootersa graph.
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Which does nothing to change the fact that corporate taxes and therefore revenue from those taxes is down by @shootersa's graph, and so must be made up elsewhere. Unless, of course, you were to cut spending on military as well as everyone else.. nah. You won't go there.

And if you are going to count costs of Social Security in the budget you damn well ought to count the income from the taxes paid on it, or you are just another liar figuring.

ace's n 8's · Oct 9, 2018

imported__2355 said: ↑

Which does nothing to change the fact that corporate taxes and therefore revenue from those taxes is down by @shootersa's graph, and so must be made up elsewhere. Unless, of course, you were to cut spending on military as well as everyone else.. nah. You won't go there.
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Listen up, business DOES NOT pay tax, that cost gets passed on to the consumer, that means you and I pay that tax for them when we use the service or goods that they supply as a business....something that not many are capable of understanding...so what's your problem with lowering corporate business tax?

imported__2355 said: ↑

And if you are going to count costs of Social Security in the budget you damn well ought to count the income from the taxes paid on it, or you are just another liar figuring.
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Many dont pay taxes on SS received, so, I have no idea what your wanting to squabble about on that.

stumbler · Oct 10, 2018

So how's Trump's stock market doing today guys?

stumbler · Oct 10, 2018

The trouble with the Trump never ending campaign is he still thinks the majority of Americans are as stupid as he is. And even the ones who voted for him aren't that stupid. And this time he put it in writing.

Fact-checking President Trump’s USA Today op-ed on ‘Medicare-for-All’

President Trump wrote an opinion article for USA Today on Oct. 10 regarding proposals to expand Medicare to all Americans — known as Medicare-for-All — in which almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood.

Many of these are claims we have already debunked. Presumably, the president is aware of our fact checks — he even links to two — but chose to ignore the facts in service of a campaign-style op-ed. Medicare-for-All is a complex subject, and serious questions could be raised about the cost and how a transition from today’s health-care system would be financed. Trump correctly notes that studies have estimated that the program — under the version promoted by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) — would add $36 trillion in costs to the federal government over 10 years.

But this is not a serious effort to debate the issue. So as a reader service, we offer a guide through Trump’s rhetoric.

“Throughout the year, we have seen Democrats across the country uniting around a new legislative proposal that would end Medicare as we know it and take away benefits that seniors have paid for their entire lives.”

Sanders has unveiled a plan he calls “Medicare-for-all.” Essentially, it is a single-payer plan. That means all of the bills would be paid by one entity — the federal government — in contrast to the hodgepodge health-care system now in place. Medicare, the health care system for the elderly and disabled, is a federal single-payer plan, but people under 65 get insurance from employers, through the individual market (Obamacare) or through Medicaid, the federal-state health system for the poor. Private health insurance plans, such as those offered through employers, would be eliminated, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Sanders says he would first improve Medicare for seniors and the disabled by eliminating deductibles and covering dental, vision and hearing aids, which are not covered under current law. Then, over the course of four years, the eligibility age would be lowered in stages until every American was covered.

On paper at least, the Sanders plan would improve benefits for seniors, not take them away.

There are several other versions, including proposals more limited in scope (such as “Medicare-X”) that would simply offer a Medicare option as a buy-in. The Kaiser Family Foundation has a useful guide to the differences.

“As a candidate, I promised that we would protect coverage for patients with pre-existing conditions and create new health care insurance options that would lower premiums. I have kept that promise, and we are now seeing health insurance premiums coming down.”

Trump made this promise, but broke it. He supported Republican plans that would have weakened protections for individuals with preexisting conditions. His administration also has refused to defend the Affordable Care Act against a lawsuit that would undermine those protections. In effect, the Trump administration no longer supports a provision of the ACA, a.k.a. Obamacare, that makes it possible for people to buy insurance if they have preexisting health conditions. (We labeled this as a flip-flop.)

As for premiums, they have continued to increase on average, just at a lower rate than in the past. But experts say that without Trump’s moves to weaken the Affordable Care Act, premiums would be even lower in many states.

“I also made a solemn promise to our great seniors to protect Medicare. That is why I am fighting so hard against the Democrats' plan that would eviscerate Medicare.”

Under Trump, the date for when the Medicare Hospital Insurance (Part A) trust fund will be depleted keeps advancing. The current projection is 2026, three years earlier than the projection a year earlier.

Part A is financed mainly through payroll taxes of 1.45 percent on earnings paid both by workers and employers; self-employed people pay 2.9 percent. The money raised is then credited to a pay-as-you-go trust fund, which uses the revenue raised to pay the benefits of Medicare beneficiaries.

With the baby-boom generation retiring at a rate of 10,000 people per day, that puts pressure on the long-term financing of the program because fewer workers will be supporting more retirees. If the trust fund is depleted, that means the government would not be able to cover 100 percent of estimated expenses. Yet because of Trump’s tax cut, the budget deficit is soaring even as the economy is booming, in contrast to previous periods of under-4-percent unemployment. That leaves the government less prepared to deal with the consequences of baby-boom retirements.

“Democrats have already harmed seniors by slashing Medicare by more than $800 billion over 10 years to pay for Obamacare.”

Trump resurrects a misleading Republican talking point from the 2012 election.

The Affordable Care Act actually strengthened the near-term outlook of the Part A trust fund. The law includes a 0.9 percent payroll tax that hits the wages and self-employment income of wealthier Americans — above $250,000 per couple or $200,000 for a single taxpayer. That was estimated to raise an additional $63 billion for the Part A trust fund between 2010 and 2019. The law also was estimated to cut expenses, including $162 billion in productivity adjustments to provider payments and $86 billion in reduced payments to Medicare Advantage plans. The net result was that the “insolvency” date was extended by 12 years.

In other words, the savings that Trump complains about mostly were wrung from health-care providers, not Medicare beneficiaries — who, as a result of the health care law, ended up with new benefits for preventive care and prescription drugs.

Moreover, the $800 billion in Medicare reductions in the ACA that Trump complains about are the law of the land. In fact, Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration in their budget plans have pocketed virtually all those savings — and sought even more reductions in Medicare spending on top of that. Trump proposed $350 billion in net Medicare cuts in his budget — and there were about $540 billion in Medicare cuts assumed in the House GOP budget plan.

“The Democrats' plan means that after a life of hard work and sacrifice, seniors would no longer be able to depend on the benefits they were promised.”

As noted, the Sanders plan in theory would expand benefits for seniors.

“The Democratic plan would inevitably lead to the massive rationing of health care. Doctors and hospitals would be put out of business. Seniors would lose access to their favorite doctors. There would be long wait lines for appointments and procedures. Previously covered care would effectively be denied.”

This is a scare scenario. Obviously, a transition to single-payer health care would lead to upheaval and uncertainty since it would encompass the entire health care system, not just the small piece covered by Obamacare. But other countries appear to manage with single-payer systems, at lower costs than the United States. Trump’s vision of what would happen under single-payer echoes the fears evoked by opponents of Medicare in the 1960s and Obamacare in 2010. So there’s a Chicken-Little feel to this language.

Here, for instance, is Ronald Reagan in 1961, warning against the creation of Medicare.

“The Democrats' plan also would mean the end of choice for seniors over their own health-care decisions. Instead, Democrats would give total power and control over seniors’ health care decisions to the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.”

Medicare is currently a government-run program, with hospital and doctor fees paid by the government, so this appears to be an absurd point.

“The new Democrats are radical socialists who want to model America’s economy after Venezuela.”

Venezuela is collapsing after years of near-dictatorship and squandering of oil wealth, but we are unaware of any Democratic leader who has pointed to Venezuela as an economic model.

“Some Democrats' absolute commitment to end enforcement of our immigration laws by abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That means millions more would cross our borders illegally and take advantage of health care paid for by American taxpayers.”

Some Democrats have been calling to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but it’s not a widely held position. Other Democrats say the agency should be reformed, not abolished. In any case, ICE is only one of several agencies tasked with immigration enforcement.

“Democrats will seek to slash budgets for seniors’ Medicare, Social Security and defense.”

Trump may have a point about defense spending, never a favorite among the left, but the president’s $1 trillion deficits will put pressure on all aspects of government, no matter who is in power. Democrats generally have pushed to expand Social Security benefits, not cut them.

“Republicans believe that a Medicare program that was created for seniors and paid for by seniors their entire lives should always be protected and preserved.”

As a technical matter, current retirees receive far more in benefits than they have paid into the system, according to the Urban Institute; younger workers are going to have subsidize the baby-boomers moving into retirement.

Meanwhile, for years, House Republicans led by Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) have pushed for a significant overhaul of Medicare. Retirees would get from the government what Ryan called “premium support” — a set payment adjusted to inflation; they would have used that money to pick from a range of plans offered by insurance companies through what is termed a Medicare exchange. But the Congressional Budget Office raised significant questions about whether the premium payment would be adequate over time.

The CBO analysis estimated that by 2030, the government would pay just 32 percent of the health care costs, less than half of what the federal plan currently pays. The other 68 percent of the plan would have to be shouldered by the retiree.

Ironically, Democrats successfully attacked the plan as ending “Medicare as we know it.”
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...for-all/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f5bb8f48674b

Sanity_is_Relative · Oct 11, 2018

Melania Trump to Survivors of Sexual Assault: Don't Report Unless You Have Evidence

Melania Trump sat down with ABC World News Tonight for an interview that will air on Friday, during which she discussed the #MeToo movement and sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh, who was confirmed to the Supreme Court on Saturday.

Trump was away on a trip to Kenya last week as Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing took place. In the clip of Trump’s interview with ABC News anchor Tom Llamas, the first lady made her position on reporting sexual assault loud and clear to survivors.

“You need to have really hard evidence, that, you know, if you accuse of something, show the evidence,” Trump said. She added that she supports women, and also men. “I do stand with women, but we need to show the evidence. You cannot just say to somebody, you know, ‘I was sexually assaulted’ or ‘You did that to me,’ because sometimes the media goes too far and the way they portray some stories, it’s not correct, it’s not right.”

tenguy · Oct 11, 2018

BTW it's now 628 days and still counting.

submissively speaking · Oct 11, 2018

It’s perfectly telling that women are now telling their stories and the first thing your president does is call this a dangerous time for men.

Girls are being assaulted, but we must protect the boys.

tenguy · Oct 11, 2018

629 days and counting

stumbler · Oct 11, 2018

If President Obama had ever started making public statements trying to manipulate Federal Reserve policies the so called "conservatives" would be freaking out. Which is how we know there is no such thing as a "conservative" because they never really believe what they say in the first place and change what they say depending on who is president.

But anyway how is Trump's stock market going today?

This is the second day in a row I have asked that question and for some reason can't seem to get an answer.

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