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Post by domeplease on Jan 24, 2019 12:09:37 GMT -5
MY ONLY THOUGHTS ON THE ARTICLES BELOW, ARE: "YOU SAID WHAT? & WHAT THE F..K HAVE WE DONE?"
--***CRITICAL: www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-top-26-billionaires-are-as-wealthy-as-38-billion-people/ar-BBSw75x?li=BBnb7Kz
The world's billionaires are growing $2.5 billion richer every day, while the poorest half of the global population is seeing its net worth dwindle.
Billionaires, who now number a record 2,208, have more wealth than ever before, according to an Oxfam International report published Monday. Since the global financial crisis a decade ago, the number of billionaires has nearly doubled.
The annual study was released ahead of the yearly World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, which brings together some of the wealthiest and most influential people on Earth.
The 106-page report is meant to call attention to the growing gap between rich and poor.
The combined fortunes of the world's 26 richest individuals reached $1.4 trillion last year — the same amount as the total wealth of the 3.8 billion poorest people.
Most of these mega-wealthy are American, according to the Forbes list of billionaires used by Oxfam.
The names include Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Microsoft's Bill Gates, Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, who collectively are worth $357 billion, according to Forbes.
Oxfam recommends that nations tax wealth at fairer levels, raise rates on personal income and corporate taxes and eliminate tax avoidance by companies and the super-rich. It also advocates providing universal free health care, education and other public services — and ensuring that women and girls also benefit.
And it suggests investing in public services — including water, electricity and childcare — to free up women's time and limit the number of unpaid hours they work.
--01-21-19: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-21/davos-the-backlash-against-fat-cat-bosses-is-coming
Ten years ago, the Davos conference asked the question: “What must industry do to prevent a broad social backlash?”
The answer probably wasn’t “Double, triple, or sextuple the wealth of the most prominent conference attendees, while letting median household incomes stagnate back home.”
Yet that’s what happened.
Make no mistake: The backlash is coming.
There has always been a whiff of hypocrisy at Davos, where elites expand their carbon footprint, eat $43 hot dogs and throw lavish parties in the name of making the world a better place.
“Fat cats in the snow,” the regular attendee Bono once called it (and he should know). But given the rapid advances of populist politics, it’s remarkable that in 2019, those felines are looking better-fed than ever.
The past decade and a half has seen U.S. corporate profits outgrow employee compensation at an unprecedented pace, according to the St. Louis Fed.
A Bloomberg News analysis of the fortunes of a dozen Davos attendees found that they soared by a combined $175 billion since 2009. Those feel-good panel debates on topics like “Better Capitalism” are pretty laughable. READ MORE…
--01-22-19: www.huffingtonpost.com.mx/entry/american-dream-world-economic-forum-poll_us_5c4583b7e4b027c3bbc33c48?ec_carp=6746722448289618788
Americans Have Lost Faith In Their Ability To Move From Poverty To Riches
More than two-thirds said it's no longer commonplace for hard work to be a path from poverty to wealth, according to a new World Economic Forum poll.
DAVOS, Switzerland – People in the United States and other developed countries are losing faith in the capitalist system to improve their lives, according to a new global poll commissioned by the World Economic Forum, published on the eve of its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.
Almost two-thirds of U.S. respondents said it was no longer commonplace for hard work to be a sure path from poverty to riches, with only 10 percent saying it was extremely common.
The lack of faith in the current system to deliver upward mobility was even more marked in Western Europe, where only a fifth of respondents said it was common to be able to start poor and become wealthy through hard work.
Developing nations have the most faith in upward mobility, according to the poll, which surveyed more than 10,000 people over 29 countries.
India showed the most optimism, with 69 percent of those polled saying they believe the existing system allows them to have control over improving their economic destiny.
Nearly 40 percent of respondents in India said they believe upward mobility was extremely common; in Japan and Italy, just 2 percent did, while in Spain this figure was just 1 percent.
While economies in the West have largely stagnated, there is a strong belief in India that its time has come and that, rather than a fear of losing what they have, many believe they are just half a step from making it.
Further evidence that residents of developed countries are finding that the current economic structures are no longer supporting their lives comes from the WEF’s flagship annual global risks report, published last week.
The report goes beyond macro issues to also focus on how individual citizens are being negatively affected by trends such as automation, a lack of wage growth and the expansion of the gig economy.
The risk report, compiled with the help of about 1,000 experts, says that the dividing line between work and the rest of people’s lives has been blurred and that many families are forced to juggle several jobs while coping with other stressful issues such as child care, long commutes and caring for elderly relatives.
The WEF points to an analysis in Harvard Business Review that found that almost half of American workers surveyed said they are “often or always exhausted due to work” — up by a third in 20 years. READ MORE…
--01-22-19: finance.yahoo.com/news/san-francisco-apos-train-wreck-110300091.html
•"San Francisco is kind of a train wreck, we have a real inequality problem," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff tells CNBC.
•Benioff was a vocal proponent of Proposition C, a bill aimed at fighting homelessness by raising taxes on big businesses.
•Some tech CEOs fought "tooth and nail" to scuttle Prop C, Benioff says.
Silicon Valley has driven San Francisco into a "train wreck" of inequality, with homelessness being a severe issue in the city, Salesforce CRM CEO Marc Benioff told CNBC on Tuesday.
Benioff added that though the Valley is the home of "an incredible technology industry" that "every city in the world craves," some executives in the sector are ignoring issues such as gentrification and homelessness.
"In some ways, San Francisco is the canary in the coal mine," Benioff said in an interview with CNBC's Sara Eisen at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
"We have to look at San Francisco and say here's the best technology example in the world and yet the worst homelessness."
"San Francisco is kind of a train wreck, we have a real inequality problem," he said. "It's because of the tech sector."
A one-night count of San Francisco's homeless population in 2017 showed that roughly 7,500 people were without homes, according to figures released by the city in June.
In California as a whole, separate figures from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development showed there were 134,000 homeless people statewide on any given night in 2017.
The number of homeless Californians jumped 13.7 percent in 2017 from the previous year.
The Salesforce chief was a vocal proponent of Proposition C, a bill aimed at fighting homelessness by raising taxes on big businesses in San Francisco.
The measure was passed in November and is expected to generate up to $300 million in new tax revenue to tackle the city's homelessness crisis. READ MORE…
--01-23-19: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-23/america-needs-more-young-workers-to-support-aging-population?srnd=premium
Traditionally, Americans could look forward to a comfortable retirement.
After four decades in an office or a factory, sometime in their 60s they would lay down their burdens and enjoy a final couple of decades with time to relax, spend time with family and friends, and reflect on their life.
But since the financial crisis, older Americans have been increasingly staying in the workplace:
Some see this as a positive trend, because it adds to the economy. But others rightfully view it with trepidation, because there’s the distinct possibility that many of these elderly people just can’t afford to retire.
Whether their nest eggs were wiped out in the housing crash, or they just didn’t save enough, or whether their kids don’t make enough money to support them, the decline of retirement seems like an ominous development.
The pressures on older Americans to work will likely only become greater in the coming years.
This is because the young, working population needed to support retirees will see slower growth, and possibly outright shrinkage.
As recently as 10 years ago, the U.S. had unusually high fertility rates for a developed nation.
The total fertility rate — the number of children a woman can be expected to have over her lifetime — was about 2.1 children per woman, which is the level required for long-term population stability.
But since then, the rate has fallen to 1.8 in 2016, implying long-term population shrinkage: READ MORE…
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Post by domeplease on Jan 26, 2019 12:12:06 GMT -5
Do Me’s & Tequila’s Thoughts:
1.The Maya’s Prediction (which we misunderstood) in regards to Dec. 2012:
The Timeline: Was very, very close (given when the prediction was made); they were off by only less than 4-years = Nov. 2016 Elections.
The Translation: Which, WE got wrong; did not state ‘The World/Life Would End.
Instead, it stated that a ‘New Era Would Begin’; or Life as WE Knew It, Would Change’ = Donald’s World/Rein, etc.
2. Well, well, well… with the Most Recent Events regarding Donald, etc.:
ONE has to wander when the REST of Donald’s Inner Circle/Team--Circle of Trust Members, etc. will be Indicted, Arrested and/or will be Fired, Resign, Turn Rat, etc.
It has become a Massive Cluster F…K for Donald’s Corrupt Lying Incompetent, Cartel.
I wonder what the L.V. Odds are on the rest of Donald’s Cartel Members, as to when they will face the Music:
Kushner, Pence, Sanders, Miller, Ross, Conway, PUTIN, etc. etc. etc.???
“Tequila, you are laughing; are you laughing at the Maya’s Prediction?”
T: “Nah…”
“Then what?”
T: “Donald’s Demise…”
“Go ahead; have a GREAT laugh…for I am crying in SHAME; that WE elected such a DANGEROUS CLOWN, etc.” And/or Allowed such to happen.
Now the Danger Factor for all of US & the Rest of the World has Risen to a very scary level:
For Donald is NOW like a Cornered Wounded Animal…wait for it, wait for it, wait for it.
3. Finally Ms. Nancy, made it clear that Donald’s Days of Grabbing P…Y are over!!!
THE LATEST ON THE MAN-CHILD (DONALD), HIS TEAM & RELATED ARTICLES:
--01-25-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-associate-roger-stone-arrested-faces-obstruction-charge/ar-BBSIHLc?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U147DHP
WASHINGTON — Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday morning in the special counsel's Russia investigation and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing the probe.
The seven-count indictment against Stone, a self-proclaimed "dirty trickster," is the first criminal case in months from special counsel Robert Mueller and provides the most detail to date about how Trump campaign associates were aware in the summer of 2016 that emails had been stolen from the Hillary Clinton campaign and wanted them released.
It alleges that unnamed senior Trump campaign officials contacted Stone to ask when the stolen emails might be disclosed.
The indictment does not charge Stone with conspiring with WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy website that published the emails, or with the Russian officers Mueller says hacked them.
Instead, it accuses him of witness tampering, obstruction and false statements about his interactions related to WikiLeaks' release.
Some of those false statements were made to the House intelligence committee, according to the indictment.
The indictment lays out in detail Stone's conversations about stolen Democratic emails posted by WikiLeaks in the weeks before Trump, a Republican, beat Clinton.
Mueller's office has said those emails, belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, were hacked by Russian intelligence officers.
It says the Trump campaign directed a senior campaign official to contact Stone after the July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks release of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee and other groups.
That official, who is not named in court papers, asked Stone about additional releases and "what other damaging information" WikiLeaks had "regarding the Clinton campaign," the indictment says. READ MORE…
--01-24-19 NOT ONLY STUPID-CRAZY, BUT SCARY & POTENTIALLY VERY DANGEROUS, ETC. : www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/officials-rejected-jared-kushner-for-top-secret-security-clearance-but-were-overruled/ar-BBSHVV3?ocid=U147DHP
WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner's application for a top secret clearance was rejected by two career White House security specialists after an FBI background check raised concerns about potential foreign influence on him — but their supervisor overruled the recommendation and approved the clearance, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.
The official, Carl Kline, is a former Pentagon employee who was installed as director of the personnel security office in the Executive Office of the President in May 2017.
Kushner's was one of at least 30 cases in which Kline overruled career security experts and approved a top secret clearance for incoming Trump officials despite unfavorable information, the two sources said.
They said the number of rejections that were overruled was unprecedented — it had happened only once in the three years preceding Kline's arrival.
The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information, said the Trump White House attracted many people with untraditional backgrounds who had complicated financial and personal histories, some of which raised red flags.
Kushner's FBI background check identified questions about his family's business, his foreign contacts, his foreign travel and meetings he had during the campaign, the sources said, declining to be more specific.
The White House office only determines eligibility for secret and top secret clearances.
As a very senior official, Kushner was seeking an even higher designation that would grant him access to what is known as "sensitive compartmented information," or SCI.
That material makes up the government's most sensitive secrets, including transcripts of intercepted foreign communications, CIA source reporting and other intelligence seemingly important for Kushner, whose job portfolio covers the Mideast and Mexico.
The CIA is the agency that decides whether to grant SCI clearance to senior White House officials after conducting a further background check.
After Kline overruled the White House security specialists and recommended Kushner for a top secret clearance, Kushner's file then went to the CIA for a ruling on SCI.
After reviewing the file, CIA officers who make clearance decisions balked, two of the people familiar with the matter said. One called over to the White House security division, wondering how Kushner got even a top secret clearance, the sources said.
Top secret information is defined as material that would cause "exceptionally grave damage" to national security if disclosed to adversaries.
The sources say the CIA has not granted Kushner clearance to review SCI material. That would mean Kushner lacks access to key intelligence unless President Trump decides to override the rules, which is the president's' prerogative.
The Washington Post reported in July 2018 that Kushner was not given an "SCI" clearance. CIA spokesman Timothy Barrett said, "The CIA does not comment on individual security clearances." READ MORE…
--01-26-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/end-of-shutdown-workers-left-with-debts-bad-credit-and-shattered-trust/ar-BBSL9GI?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U147DHP
Even as he announced an end to the longest government shutdown in US history, Donald Trump warned that a new shutdown could begin in just three weeks “if we don’t get a fair deal from Congress”.
That threat meant that clouds of uncertainty still remain in place for hundreds of thousands of government workers and unknown others whose lives were interrupted or derailed by a shutdown precipitated and prolonged by the president’s demand for a border wall, which he redoubled on Friday.
From the National Park Service to Nasa, the Coast Guard to border patrol, the Internal Revenue Service to the Transportation Security Administration – federal agencies are now filled with workers with damaged credit ratings, missed mortgage payments, new debts and, especially, new doubts about their basic job security and the future.
“I have the luxury that friends have loaned me one paycheck,” said Leisyka Parrott, 47, a furloughed employee with the Bureau of Land Management who is paying off a car loan.
“The thing is when you get back pay, all the fees that you incur by missing payments – you don’t get paid back for those. If you are late for a payment and have a $25 fee, the government doesn’t pay for that.”
Trump presented his announcement on Friday as a return to business as usual for federal employees. “I will make sure that all employees receive their back pay very quickly – or as soon as possible,” Trump said. “It’ll happen fast.”
But even if the president makes good on his word, a quick return to normalcy was not likely for many federal employees, and especially for government contractors not entitled to back pay, union representatives warned.
“There’s all kinds of issues with raising families, just buying gasoline,” said Franco DiCroce, a US army corps of engineers employee speaking in his capacity as president of Local 98 of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers.
“Most of these people, their salaries are not skyrocketing. They’re suffering even more, because some of them live check-to-check, so if they don’t have money coming in, they’re going to have difficulty meeting their needs, to even buy groceries.”
The number of federal employees filing for unemployment more than doubled in the second week of January to reach 25,000, up from 10,500 the week before, according to Labor Department figures. Last year the figure was 1,700.
In announcing an end to the shutdown, Trump made only passing reference to the “recent hardship” workers had endured, and Trump claimed that federal employees did not want the shutdown to end.
Then the president mentioned that the shutdown might come back as soon as 15 February, after temporary spending legislation runs out.
“If we don’t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on February 15, again,” Trump said, or he would take unspecified action to divert funding for a wall, which could include declaring a national emergency at the border.
As pressure to end the shutdown grew to a crisis point over the last week, Trump administration figures began to dole out free advice to government employees about how to cover their domestic needs without the benefit of an income.
Trump suggested that employees could arrange with grocers to shop for food on credit. The president’s daughter-in-law said, “It is a little bit of pain but it’s going to be for the future of our country.”
The president’s top economic adviser called the shutdown a “glitch”.
The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, the top Democrat in Washington, detected a trend. “This Marie Antoinette attitude of ‘let them eat cake’ is pervasive in the administration,” Pelosi said.
“The president thinks, I guess, they can call their dads for money.”
The billionaire commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, who collects Magrittes and in 2017 wore a pair of $600 velvet slippers customized with his department’s emblem to a Trump address to Congress, admitted on Thursday he did “not really quite understand why” federal employees have had to turn to food banks, recommending instead that they take out a bank loan against future income.
“It’s obvious that he’s woefully out of touch,” said Randy Erwin, national president of the National Federation of Federal Employees, which has about 110,000 members.
“He clearly does not understand the reality of being a middle-class worker in this country. First, people do not necessarily have access to the credit the way that he describes.
And secondly with the shutdown, there are some very real logistical burdens in being able to access credit even if you would be able to under normal circumstances.”
After calling the shutdown a “glitch”, the White House economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said employees working without pay were “volunteering”.
Challenged on the term, given that employees who do not “volunteer” face losing their jobs, Kudlow said, “I’m not even going to go there. You know what I’m saying. It’s very clear …
“They do it because of their love for the country, the office of the presidency, and, uh, presumably their allegiance to President Trump, but whatever: they’re doing it.”
“I have no idea what this guy is talking about, and you can quote me,” said Erwin, the union president.
“First, federal employees declare an oath to protect the constitution. They work for the American people. They absolutely do not work for any one person, regardless of who it is.
“And about them being volunteers – these are not volunteers. This is compelled servitude. These people do not have a choice. They are absolutely being forced to work without pay indefinitely.” READ MORE…
--01-24-19 AND THAN, WE HAVE MR. HUMANITY/MR. EMPATHY/MR. ELITE (Ross):
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wilbur-ross-government-shutdown-federal-workers_us_5c49c747e4b0e1872d41be0f?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__012519&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__012519+CID_f64ae66067562e28937db19b665c599a&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__012519
Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Thursday downplayed the ongoing partial government shutdown’s impacts on federal workers, claiming they should simply take out loans to cover the costs of necessities.
Ross, a wealthy former banker, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that he can’t figure out why some of the more than 800,000 unpaid federal employees need to rely on food pantries after missing paychecks during the shutdown, which entered its 34th day Thursday.
“There are reports that there are some federal workers who are going to homeless shelters to get food,” host Andrew Ross Sorkin said.
“Well, I know they are but I don’t really quite understand why because ... the obligations that they would undertake say borrowing from the bank or credit union are in effect federally guaranteed,” Ross responded.
“So the 30 days of pay which some people will be out ― there’s no real reason why they shouldn’t be able to get a loan against it.” READ MORE…
--01-26-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biggest-wimp-ever-to-serve-as-president-conservatives-bash-trump-on-ending-shutdown-without-border-money/ar-BBSKdY8?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U147DHP
OUR FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT HAD THIS TO SAY…
WASHINGTON – While many applauded an end to the 35-day government shutdown, some conservatives saw something else: President Donald Trump's defeat.
Trump announced on Friday a deal to reopen the government for three weeks, allowing some 800,000 federal employees to start receiving pay and giving time for lawmakers to negotiate funding for a wall along the southern border.
What was absent in the deal was any additional money for border security or a wall, Trump's signature campaign promise and what led to the shuttering of the federal government for 35 days.
Conservatives took notice. Many weren't pleased and didn't mince their words.
"Good news for George Herbert Walker Bush: As of today, he is no longer the biggest wimp ever to serve as President of the United States," hardline Republican Ann Coulter wrote on Twitter. READ MORE…
--01-26-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump%e2%80%99s-aggressive-moves-on-venezuela-set-up-potential-foreign-policy-victory-%e2%80%94-and-a-political-win-at-home/ar-BBSKoBg?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U147DHP
…But there always seemed a point beyond which the president was unwilling to go.
Even as he periodically warned that the U.S. military could take down Maduro if necessary, the Pentagon made clear that it was uninterested in opening a conflict in this hemisphere.
Maduro’s closest and strongest ally has been Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom Trump has been reluctant to confront.
And the prospect of hitting Venezuela with sanctions where it would really hurt — in the oil industry that has kept the country alive, largely with exports to the United States — also risked economic damage in this country.
Trump said little about Latin America during his election campaign, and as president he canceled three planned visits there before attending the Group of 20 economic meeting in Buenos Aires late last year. The headline of that visit was a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and the U.S.-China trade war. READ MORE…
--01-22-19: edition.cnn.com/2019/01/22/politics/cliff-sims-book-trump-white-house-paul-ryan/index.html
Washington (CNN) — Former White House communications aide Cliff Sims describes scenes of an "absolutely out of control" White House staff, President Donald Trump berating the then-speaker of the House from his own party over loyalty and the President walking out of policy meetings in his upcoming book, according to excerpts published by The Washington Post.
The stories are recounted in Sims' book "Team of Vipers," out next week and obtained in advance by the Post.
Trump took Paul Ryan to task over Ryan's loyalty to him after the former House speaker criticized Trump's handling of the deadly 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia, rally, according to the excerpts.
"Paul, do you know why Democrats have been kicking your a-- for decades? Because they know a little word called 'loyalty,'" Trump told Ryan over the phone. "Why do you think Nancy [Pelosi] has held on this long?
Have you seen her? She's a disaster.
Every time she opens her mouth another Republican gets elected. But they stick with her...Why can't you be loyal to your president, Paul?"
Trump also brought up how Ryan distanced himself from Trump in 2016 after the release of the "Access Hollywood" tape, in which Trump could be heard bragging about being able to grope women.
"I remember being in Wisconsin and your own people were booing you," Trump told the Wisconsin Republican, according to the excerpt.
"You were out there dying like a dog, Paul. Like a dog! And what'd I do? I saved your a--."
The White House did not immediately offer comment to CNN on the released excerpts. CNN has reached out to Sims for comment.
Throughout the book, Sims recounts "scenes of chaos, dysfunction and duplicity among the president, his family members and administration officials," the Post reported.
"It's impossible to deny how absolutely out of control the White House staff — again, myself included — was at times," he wrote.
Sims also writes in his book that Trump was so disinterested during an Oval Office meeting with Ryan about the Republican health care bill that he walked out and turned on his TV in another room, according to the Post.
Vice President Mike Pence had to convince the President to return to the Oval Office and continue the meeting, Sims wrote, according to the Post.
In his book, Sims recounted how White House staff failed to check the facts on former press secretary Sean Spicer's statement to the media about Trump's presidential inauguration crowd size since it was hurried in an effort to appease Trump, the Post reported.
According to Sim's account in "Team of Vipers," Trump also created an "enemies list" made up of members of his own administration, which Axios first reported.
--01-25-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/calif-state-lawmaker-leaves-gop-blasts-trump/ar-BBSHq7M?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U147DHP
A recently reelected state lawmaker in California announced Thursday that he is leaving the Republican Party to become a Democrat, citing President Trump and GOP leadership for his decision.
Assemblyman Brian Maienschein said he has been moving away from the party since he was first elected in 2012 to represent the 77th District in the California Assembly, The San Diego Union-Tribune reported.
Surrounded by Democrats in Sacramento, Maienschein said he differs with the GOP on key issues such as immigration, health care, gun control, abortion and gay rights.
"Donald Trump has led our party to the extreme on issues that divide our country," he said.
The lawmaker defeated his Democratic opponent in November by roughly 600 votes, the newspaper reported.
Assembly Democrats on Thursday embraced Maienschein with open arms.
"His legislation, his actions and his presence in the Assembly has always shown him to be a man committed to idea making California better, not to ideology that divides us," Democratic Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said in a statement. READ MORE…
--01-22-19: us.cnn.com/2019/01/22/politics/mueller-nunberg-trump-campaign-nra/index.html
Washington (CNN) — Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has expressed interest in the Trump campaign's relationship with the National Rifle Association during the 2016 campaign.
"When I was interviewed by the special counsel's office, I was asked about the Trump campaign and our dealings with the NRA," Sam Nunberg, a former Trump campaign aide, told CNN.
The special counsel's team was curious to learn more about how Donald Trump and his operatives first formed a relationship with the NRA and how Trump wound up speaking at the group's annual meeting in 2015, just months before announcing his presidential bid, Nunberg said.
Nunberg's interview with Mueller's team in February 2018 offers the first indication that the special counsel has been probing the Trump campaign's ties to the powerful gun-rights group.
As recently as about a month ago, Mueller's investigators were still raising questions about the relationship between the campaign and the gun group, CNN has learned.
01-23-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-kerry-to-trump-resign/ar-BBSBmNg?ocid=U147DHP
Former Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that if he could speak to President Donald Trump directly, he would tell him to "resign."
Asked by CNBC's Tania Bryer during a World Economic Forum panel in Davos, Switzerland, what he would convey to Trump, Kerry replied, "I can't play that ... because he doesn't take any of this seriously.
He doesn't have an ability to have that kind of conversation."
When pressed on what his message to the President would be, Kerry responded, "Resign."
CNN has reached out to the White House for comment.
Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, also criticized Trump for "his insane decision" to pull out of the Paris climate accord in June 2017, for which "people will die."
"I wish there was a lawsuit capacity that could hold people liable for such an insane decision as he has made, which is going to cost lives," he said. "People will die because of the President's decision, and billions of dollars of damage will be done to property."
Kerry also accused Trump of lying about the consequences of pulling out of the accord. Trump claimed at the time that he was leaving to pursue "fair treatment" and so that foreign leaders would no longer "laugh at us."
"I'm disappointed when a president of the United States lies, and that was a lie -- there's no burden," said Kerry, who was secretary of state during President Barack Obama's second term. "Paris did not place outside burdens levied by any other country on any other country."
--01-23-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump%e2%80%99s-elusive-terms-on-border-deal-cloud-path-to-end-shutdown/ar-BBSCDT4?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U147DHP
Donald Trump’s closest advisers have competing senses of what the president would be willing to accept as part of a deal with Democrats to reopen the government, underscoring the difficulty negotiators face in bridging the impasse over border security funding.
On Tuesday, people close to the president offered two different views of what he might concede in a possible negotiation.
One said Trump wouldn’t accept any deal that didn’t deliver the full $5.7 billion in funding for a border wall that he seeks.
Another said he’d be willing to reduce that amount if Democrats come up with concessions of their own.
The diverging views echo complaints from Democrats, who have said it’s impossible to negotiate with Trump because he and his representatives are at odds and make shifting offers that are subject to change at any time.
And they’re not alone in that frustration.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell stayed silent for the first weeks of the shutdown after Trump suddenly reversed course in December and rejected a spending bill the Republican-led Senate had passed. READ MORE…
--01-24-19: www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/commerce-chief-tells-strapped-federal-workers-to-get-loans/ar-BBSG62p?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=U147DHP SHOWS how Non-Reality Based, STUPID & Incompetent Donald & Members of his Team are…
Workers affected by the government shutdown should seek loans to pay their bills and financial institutions should make credit available, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Thursday as employees were poised to miss their second paycheck.
In an interview on CNBC, Ross said it was "disappointing" that some federal workers were not showing up to work and that "there really is not a good excuse" for affected workers to not have money.
"The banks and the credit unions should be making credit available to them," said Ross, a billionaire investor.
He noted the government had committed to give federal employees back pay, adding "there really is not a good excuse why there really should be a liquidity crisis."
"True, the people might have to pay a little bit of interest. But the idea that it's paycheck or zero is not a really valid idea," Ross said. "They are eventually going to be paid."
--01-23-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/poll-shutdown-russia-drive-trump-to-all-time-high-disapproval/ar-BBSCIep?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U147DHP
President Donald Trump's disapproval rating is at an all-time high amid a historically long partial government shutdown and concerns about the president's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.
Nearly 6-in-10 voters — 57 percent — disapprove of Trump's job performance, compared to the 40 percent that approve.
In addition, 54 percent of voters blame Trump and Republicans on Capitol Hill for the government shutdown.
Only 35 percent blame congressional Democrats.
There has been no progress on negotiations between Republican and Democratic leaders, as well as the president, to end the government shutdown — the longest partial government shutdown in history.
Trump has not backed down from his request of $5.7 billion for his border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, which Democrats have not agreed to. READ MORE…
--01-18-19: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/thousands-more-migrant-children-may-have-been-separated-from-parents-new-watchdog-report-finds_us_5c40b03ee4b041e98ffbb4a3?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__011819&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__011819+CID_c6475e3dbfadc7d5290174bd28dfe976&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__011819
The Trump administration may have taken “thousands” more immigrant children from parents and guardians at the border than was previously known, and does not know how many families were separated in total, according to a report released Thursday by the inspector general of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The government also does not know if these families were reunified.
This group is in addition to the 2,737 children the government separated from their parents starting last April, as part of a “zero tolerance” policy that required all migrants to be criminally prosecuted after crossing the border.
In the summer of 2017, staff and officials from the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), which runs the government shelters for unaccompanied migrant children, saw a “steep increase” in the number of separated children.
According the inspector general’s report, these children were “often very young” and required “placement at specially licensed facilities,” which resulted in a shortage of beds.
The report does not specify the exact number of kids who were separated from their parents and guardians because ORR staff were only informally tracking the issue, nor does it explain why these children were taken from their families.
It’s likely impossible for the government to determine the full scope of how many migrant kids the Trump administration has taken away from their parents. READ MORE…
--01-19-19: www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/forget-the-wall-water-is-the-united-states-pressing-infrastructure-issue/ar-BBSqfce?li=BBnbfcN
As President Donald Trump continues to demand more than $5 billion in taxpayer funding for a border wall, a growing number of voices are calling for such funds to be diverted to a far more pressing issue: water.
The rapidly decaying infrastructure of water systems across the country is bringing dangerous levels of lead and other contaminants into homes, and action needs to be taken to upgrade them.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka highlighted the issue in an open letter to Trump this week in which he urged the president to consider “a true emergency that puts millions of our citizens at risk.”
Besides Newark, more than 20 other New Jersey cities and towns have elevated lead levels in their tap water, as do many other municipalities, said the letter.
And while Flint, Mich., is the poster child for poor water management, it’s not the only place suffering a crisis that demands immediate action.
“I join in solidarity with the 11-year-old girl known as Little Miss Flint who told you that spending $5 billion to make water safe is a much better way to protect Americans than building the wall,” said Baraka.
U.S. infrastructure is reaching the end of its economically useful and serviceable life cycle, according to a new report from NACE International, a group created in 1943 by 11 corrosion engineers from the pipeline industry. The acronym stands for National Association of Corrosion Engineers.
“Today, bridges, pipelines, roads, power generation and transmission, and water treatment facilities [are] all are at risk of corrosion-related failure,” according to the association’s 2019 Spotlight on Corrosion Report.
The cost to repair infrastructure across the world is estimated at $2.5 trillion, the report found, but existing corrosion techniques could save up to $875 billion of that sum, or about 35% of the cost.
The report recommends an action plan that would remove contaminants from public drinking water and address ways to mitigate the external corrosion of buried steel and reinforced concrete pipes associated with water treatment.
“While it is well known that the magnitude of the water crisis in Flint was caused by lack of action to counter the threat of corrosion, the case spotlights how financial avoidance influences the ongoing infrastructure crisis in the U.S. water sector,” said the report.
There are more than 151,000 drinking-water systems in the U.S., delivered through millions of miles of pipes.
These systems experience roughly 240,000 leaks and breaks every year mostly due to third-party damage or corrosion, leading to the waste of more than 2 trillion gallons of drinking water, the report found.
That can be greatly reduced with a corrosion-management program that includes regular maintenance and inspections, but starts with system design.
What most businesses and investors get wrong about risk Tom Lawson, CEO of FM Global, one of the largest commercial property insurers in the world, talks to MarketWatch about the biggest misconceptions around risk assessment and mitigation.
“A successful strategy includes a life-cycle cost analysis, which balances the cost of corrosion management over the life of an asset (from design to decommissioning) with the potential cost of corrosion,” said the report.
Most of all, the issue requires a change of attitude by those who manage water, who need to stop thinking of it as a cost and instead understand it’s an investment.
It’s also a crucial one to avoid devastating, long-term health risks, such as the ones already seen in Flint.
In Newark, Baraka is distributing 40,000 water filters and cartridges to affect homes, and it’s changing its corrosion control system.
Long term, the only real solution is to replace lead service lines, at an estimated cost of $70 million. The estimated cost of replacing all of the lead service lines in the U.S. is $35 billion, said the mayor, and that would require help from the federal government.
“You have been saying that a border wall will save thousands of American lives, but that’s simply not true, instead of wasting billions of dollars to keep an ill-conceived campaign promise, I urge you to use our resources in a way that will truly save American lives — help repair our nation’s deteriorated water infrastructure,” he wrote.
--01-21-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/opinions-five-reasons-trump-may-be-a-one-termer/ar-BBSuILb?li=BBnb7Kz
…Contrary to pessimistic assessments of his durability, Trump’s chances for a second term are shrinking with little hope of an about-face in public opinion.
How did we get to this point?
First, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III does his job methodically, secretly and effectively, wrapping up one witness after another.
Despite the Trump onslaught, he retains the confidence of most Americans. The Pew Research Center reports, “A majority (55%) remains confident that special counsel Robert Mueller is conducting a fair investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 election.
Confidence in Mueller has held steady over the course of the past year, and there remains more confidence in Mueller to conduct a fair investigation than in Trump to handle matters related to the inquiry appropriately.”
By contrast, the same poll shows the public trust in Trump continues to drop. “A majority of the public (58%) says they trust what Trump says less than they trusted what previous presidents said while in office,” Pew Research Center finds.
“Just 26% say they trust Trump more than previous presidents, while 14% say their level of trust in Trump’s rhetoric is about the same as for past presidents.”
The further Mueller digs, the worse the facts get. Trump’s constant lying matters only insofar as it implicates himself in a conspiracy to obstruct the investigation. What Mueller says and does matter most of all. What doesn’t matter? Anything Giuliani says.
While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) still refuses to bring up legislation to protect Mueller, Republicans and Democrats alike — even his acting attorney general and his attorney general nominee — make clear Trump cannot fire Mueller without unleashing a firestorm with, most likely, serious calls for impeachment.
Keeping Mueller in place arguably has been the single biggest factor in eroding Trump’s power.
Second, Trump’s play-to-the-base strategy was a blunder with enormous ramifications. Sure, about 30 percent of the electorate will believe whatever Trump says, no matter how absurd.
The Trump cult however now stands isolated from everyone else.
A base-only strategy with a blundering, offensive president — who did virtually nothing for the “forgotten man and woman” and who alienated college-educated voters (in part with his racism and rejection of reality), women and suburban voters — put the House in Democratic hands.
The election not only transferred the power to investigate and subpoena Trump; it empowered Pelosi, the most formidable political opponent — maybe any opponent — he has ever faced.
She managed to maneuver him into a grossly unpopular shutdown, continues to highlight his irresponsibility and, by denying him a stage for the State of the Union, prompted him to reveal and nix a congressional visit to Afghanistan; his White House then leaked her commercial travel plan.
Never has Trump looked more peevish and less presidential. We see how one set of errors begets another, sending Trump into a political death spiral.
Third, in the midst of a scandal, most presidents can fall back on their role as commander in chief and architect of U.S. foreign policy to sustain their aura of power.
Trump’s foreign policy, aside from the taint from his subservience to Russia, is characterized as chaotic, frightening and entirely ineffective.
From his trade war that harms U.S. farmers, consumers and business, to his irresponsible plan to pull out from Syria, to his constant threats to NATO, to his foolish indulgence of North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un, Trump’s foreign policy further saps his reputation an authority.
If President Richard M. Nixon could rely on foreign policy achievements (e.g. China) to sustain him during the dark days of Watergate, Trump’s foreign policy increases the urgency of getting him out of office. (“Get rid of him before he does any more damage!” is a reasonable reaction to his destructive tendencies.)
Fourth, Trump’s narcissism, incompetence and rotten judgment have led him to force out any adviser with a modicum of common sense, experience and influence. There is no one to head off or help get him out of jams he gets into.
There is no Jim Mattis to reassure allies and clean up Trump’s sloppy rhetoric; no Gary Cohn to fend off tariffs. Surrounded by yes-men, callow relatives and enablers, Trump’s bad days increase and achievements become scare.
Again, Trump is his own worst enemy.
Finally, a primary challenge to Trump was once unthinkable. However strongly Republicans cling to Trump in the face of Democratic attacks and harsh media coverage, Republicans are increasingly open to a primary challenge.
In the latest NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll, 43 percent of Republicans want a primary challenger, while only 46 percent do not. The second inauguration of the popular, anti-Trump Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has intensified interest in him running for president. If Hogan jumps in and starts moving in the polls, others may follow.
This is not a prediction that Trump will be impeached and removed or forced to resign. Republicans remain sheeplike in their devotion.
However, it is more likely than at any time in his presidency that he won’t finish or won’t be nominated.
And if by some miracle he survives a primary challenge, he’ll reach the general election bruised and battered, a much easier target than any president since Gerald Ford.
Indeed, with each passing day, the 2020 election looks like the post-Watergate 1976 election. Now imagine 1976 if Nixon were still the incumbent. READ MORE…
--01-24-19: www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/house-oversight-investigating-trump-security_us_5c489624e4b0b66936761f10?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=__TheMorningEmail__012419&utm_content=__TheMorningEmail__012419+CID_242979bc929e5b212fdbf25776179f6c&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost&ncid=newsltushpmgnews__TheMorningEmail__012419
An investigation into the handling of classified information by the White House and the team that oversaw Donald Trump’s transition to the presidency has been launched by the House Oversight Committee following what it describes as a litany of “grave breaches of national security at the highest levels.”
Committee chairman Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), in a letter sent to the White House on Wednesday, outlined concerns about the handling of sensitive information dating back to Trump’s 2016 election.
“For the past two years, I have sought information with other committee members about a series of extremely troubling incidents regarding the security clearances of some of President Trump’s top aides, but the White House has refused to provide the information we requested, often ignoring our requests completely,” Cummings said. READ MORE…
--01-19-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republican-congressman-trump%e2%80%99s-border-crisis-is-a-%e2%80%98myth%e2%80%99/ar-BBSqYYT?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U147DHP
WASHINGTON — Congressman Will Hurd of Texas is an increasingly lonely voice in the “build the wall” Republican Party of Donald Trump.
A 41-year-old former undercover CIA officer, Hurd represents one of the largest congressional districts in America, Texas’ 23rd, a vast expanse of land roughly the size of Georgia that stretches from San Antonio to El Paso.
Hurd’s district includes 820 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, more than any other member of the House of Representatives.
But if you’re expecting Hurd, who was narrowly re-elected to a third term last year, to support President Trump’s “big, beautiful wall” and stand with the decision to partially shut down the federal government over the fight, you’ve got it all wrong.
Trump’s border crisis is a “myth,” Hurd tells Rolling Stone, and a wall made of cement or steel slats is a “third-century solution to a 21st-century problem.”
“What I always say is building a wall from sea to shining sea is the most expensive and least effective way to do border security,” Hurd says.
He is one of the few Republicans to break ranks and vote with Democrats to approve funding to reopen the government.
On Wednesday, he announced that he’d landed a coveted seat on the powerful Appropriations Committee, bringing the perspective of someone who actually knows the border to Congress’ main government-funding committee. READ MORE…
01-22-19: www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-22/as-trump-s-guardrails-come-down-davos-elite-braces-for-tumult?srnd=premium
…“The number one question in the mind of leaders in Davos now is what on earth is Donald Trump up to?” said Tina Fordham, chief global political analyst at Citigroup Inc. and a WEF regular.
“We’ve very clearly moved in terms of investor sentiment from the Trump bump euphoria surrounding tax cuts and deregulation to fears of a Trump slump.”
World Economy Wobbles on Eve of Davos With Politics to Blame
The president enters the second half of his term accompanied by an end-of-year meltdown in markets and the International Monetary Fund’s warning that “escalating trade tensions” are the biggest risk to global growth.
He does so without restraining influences like Defense Secretary James Mattis, whose departure last month over Trump’s abrupt decision to pull U.S. troops from Syria reinforced the sense that his foreign policy is ever more beholden to the pursuit of “America First.”
Three Camps
Faced with that reality, world leaders are increasingly falling into one of three camps in their approach to the president, according to Stephen Walt, a professor of international affairs at Harvard University: following Trump’s lead, resistance -- however futile -- and trying to make the most of his policy vagaries.
Yet lacking any consensus against Trump, Walt sees many leaders as engaged in a waiting game to try and sit him out.
“There is no longer this idea that he’d be reined in by the establishment and that you’d have a fairly normal administration,” said Walt.
“People are now fully aware that he’s extremely impulsive and erratic and will continue to challenge the status quo. That means something different depending where you are.”
Leaders from all three camps will be present in Davos: those from traditional U.S. allies such as Canada and Germany who are resisting as far as possible in the hope they can wait Trump out; rivals from China and Russia who thought they could exploit the opportunities but have found him too erratic; and those in countries like Israel, Hungary and Brazil who have benefited from the environment around Trump’s rise. READ MORE…
--01-21-19: An IMPORTANT READ: www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-two-years-in-the-dealmaker-who-can%e2%80%99t-seem-to-make-a-deal/ar-BBSvPrc?li=BBnbfcN
--01-19-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/examining-shutdown-claims-from-democrats/ar-BBSrffu?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=U147DHP READ MORE…
--01-21-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senator-bad-email-could-show-gop-obstructed-justice/ar-BBSz4jw?li=BBnbcA1
Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse alleged that Republicans in the House of Representatives could have worked to obstruct justice in the ongoing probe by special counsel Robert Mueller into whether or not President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia.
“Whether it amounts to criminal conduct, clearly the efforts of the House Republicans were designed to impede and throw sticks into the spokes of the Mueller investigation,” Whitehouse, who represents Rhode Island, said Monday on the Skullduggery podcast by Yahoo News.
The senator alleged that Republican representatives tried to “discredit” the investigation while providing “alternative narratives.”
He further suggested that GOP members of Congress “potentially even [tried] to communicate to potential witnesses or jurors their alternative narratives and thereby influence the proceedings.”
“The only thing that stops that being a crime is the contact with Trump’s lawyers and the corrupt intent. The other elements are all there,” Whitehouse argued. “You can show in abundance that they tried to interfere with the Mueller investigation.”
“Whether they did that with the requisite corrupt intent … we’re one bad email away [from finding out]” he said, insisting that “it definitely needs to be investigated.” READ MORE…
--01-20-19: www.cnbc.com/2019/01/18/trump-presidency-at-two-years-heres-where-things-stand.html
Here's where things stand two years into Trump's presidency.
•Sunday marks two years since President Donald Trump took office and promised to put "America first."
•The economy has been growing steadily despite an escalating trade war with China, but experts warn that a slowdown could be on the horizon.
•The balance of power in Congress is divided for the first time in the Trump administration, and Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation is continuing to put pressure on Trump and his inner circle. READ MORE…
--01-21-19: www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-gop-revives-long-shot-fbi-probe/ar-BBSxhM4?li=BBnb7Kz THE GOP JUST CONTINUES ON IN REGARDS TO THE FBI, ETC.
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Post by domeplease on Jan 27, 2019 14:55:29 GMT -5
TEQUILA & I ARE BAFFLED:
WE cannot comprehend or understand the difference in Medical Drug Prices that exists between here in Mexico & America.
In fact, we are baffled. We CANNOT, make Heads or Tails about this and can find no logical reason as to why this exists?
I take around 6-8 Meds a day.
For a Two-Month of supply of one of these individual Meds in Mexico; it runs me between $50.00 USD to maybe $75.00 USD…some are even cheaper.
In America, if ONE does not have Health Insurance coverage; these EXACT SAME DRUGS would cost from $350.00 to $400.00; in some cases even much more. WHY???
MIND YOU; the drugs I have mentioned are the EXACT SAME, both in Mexico & America.
Under Mexico’s National Health Plan, the drugs I mentioned above would BE FREE to me.
However, I must go in & make an appointment to get them. Since this is not a Critical Emergency, I would have to wait a week or more to get a new prescription and get the drugs.
It is easier for me to just walk-in to a Pharmacy with my empty boxes and I can get the drugs immediately.
Interesting, that in Mexico, you only need a prescription for Antibiotics and Anxiety/Depression type drugs, etc.
My National Health Plan cost me around $452.00/Year USD under the current currency exchange OR, just $38.00 USD/Month.
PLEASE do not forget that Mexico is a Third World Country, struggling to become a Second World Country and yet, Mexico has a National Health Plan for all.
Now mind, this Health Plan is not PERFECT nor the Best in the World. However, every year it gets better & better.
In my opinion, France has the best National Health in the World; but others may even be better…(???).
I also have a Mexican Private Premium Health Plan that costs me around $1,687 USD/Yearly; OR just $140.00 USD/Month.
And, this plan is like a Platinum Diamond Plan in America. Keep in mind I am 66-years old.
EXAMPLE: I have had a growth on my right shoulder for over 1.5 years. At first, it was small but recently had grown to almost the size of a Silver Dollar.
So, I went into our local National Health Plan Clinic/Small Hospital and they said, since it wasn’t an emergency nor a threat to my life, that it would be 4-6 weeks until I could get an appointment to have the procedure done to remove the growth.
And, I understood such; since the National Health Plan works under the Triage Concept and rightfully so.
So on Saturday (yesterday), I called my personal Doctor and he said he would be over (to my casa) this morning at 8:30 our time and perform the procedure at my casa--YES, House Calls = Quite Normal Here.
This is what took place:
1.First, he laid out all his equipment, needles, drugs that he would use, bandages etc. on a very clean table.
2. He then examined the growth.
3. He check my lungs, temperature, heart & blood pressure.
4. He then in great detail, explain the procedure in-depth without missing a detail.
5. He proceeded to washed and sanitized his hands & put on his medical gloves/face mask.
6. He cleaned the area around the growth thoroughly.
7. He inject me with pain-killers (I never felt the needle).
8. He started the procedure by cutting into me.
9. He squeezed and drained the growth on my shoulder.
10. He then put in stiches and re-cleaned the area.
11. He then explained in great-detail how & when to remove the bandage and how to re-clean the area, before putting a new bandage on daily.
12. He gave me a supply of Antibiotics to fight off any potential infections.
13. He reviewed all the meds I was taking and recommended that I drop one and add two, giving me new prescriptions for such.
14. He made a new appointment for next Sunday at my casa to remove the stiches.
15. He left me, with two more new meds to treat my sinus infection.
16. He then sat down and listened/answered my questions.
He left my Casa at 11:00 AM = 2.5 hours at my casa for this house call.
COST: For the surgery, meds, his time, etc. the charge came to ONLY $152.00 USD at current exchange rates. AMAZING.
And this was on a Sunday…go figure.
How much would ALL of the above cost in America? Would they even make a House Call?
WE are AMERICA and out of ALL the Industrial Nations, are the ONLY ONES without a National Health Plan.
And our Drug Prices are simply outrageous compared to other countries.
I could say more, but enough for now.
Please, give your thoughts on this situation.
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