Spend, spend, spend. Right, conservatives?
The middle class can pay for it, including higher taxes, higher health premiums, perpetual war, infrastructure spending in foreign countries, and donât forget those loan repayments to Russia.
Wait, did I read that right?!?! Puerto Rico gets $$ to help their already poor economy, but NO mention of them in the disaster relief portion???
Big middle finger to the island territory.
Heh, and I thought their kids going to college was hardâŚ
Ah school days on the steps of the frat houseâŚ
.
Drumpf: Free money. $81Billion is nothing compare to $3Trillion hole due to tax cuts. Its the dialy interest. Enjoy. Market will go up.
Whyy does McConnell feel the need to buy off Florida and Texas? So he can say he did something on California and Puerto Rico?
Itâs an amazing thing how much MONEY there is when the Dems are not in charge. âMORE than he asked forâŚâ and yet the self same aholes had to shame the Sandy victims before giving to them. You canât make this crap up.
Gee, too bad they couldnât pass a $2.1T relief bill to that atrocious pile of shit they are trying to pass off as âtax reform legislationâ.
And Cathy McMorris-Rogers really needs to get her smarmy ass kicked in the next election.
And it is really a crying shame that throwing rotten vegetables at despicable people has gone out of style. Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and the rest of the GOP really need to be pelted with malodorous, decaying trash that would otherwise be used for garden compost.
And what do we hear from the deficit hawks that plagued the Obama Administration? Zero. Because they are making political points hauling boatloads of free money back to their parasitic red states. Most of that money goes to support local MIC projects rather than health or education so people will know they are big on national defense. Their deficit hawking comes to life again the moment the Democratic leaders get elected. Then they get political points for being oh so conservative. .
How much goes to the on-going disaster at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
$81B wonât begin to cover the damage caused so farâŚ
They will need Democratic support to pass any of these spending bills, no way to ram them through the Senate using reconciliation rules. Now they will play nice, but my question is, how does this prevent the deficit from ballooning even further? Oh, right, thatâs only a problem when a Democrat is in office. Fucking hypocrites. I almost hope the Krazy Kaucus in the House throws a monkey wrench into the works and causes another government shutdown. Remember, itâs the âRepubliCANTâ party from now on.
Cornyn has already decreed that âI do believe this tax bill will help stimulate economic recovery that will more than offset any deficitâ so they have no problem shipping a paltry $81 billion to Texas and Florida. As GOP fiscal ideology dictates, âWhat, Me Worry?â
âcome together and help pass a funding agreement that fulfills our responsibilities to the nation.â
Somehow, in your lexicon, âfucking overâ and âresponsibilitiesâ got switched.
Itâs good to believe things. I believe in the Easter Bunny.
Donât worry, theyâll start being concerned about deficits again as soon as medicare and medicaid and social security bills come up.
You would have to have followed it in the Puerto Rico press, which I have not been religiously diligent about, but the Tax Scam Bill apparently screws Puerto Rico pretty badly. One of the provisions will apparently encourage or give negative incentives to the manufacturing corporations which did not leave after the 1990 repeal of Internal Revenue Code Sec. 936. There are other provisions that various groups in Puerto Rico have made public pronouncements against. But, you know, when you only have one non-voting representative in the House, and she is a Pro-Trumper, you have no recourse. The Governor had been in communication with Marco Rubio, who had promised to bring PR concerns to the Conference Committee, but he has gone along with the Bill, to the surprise of no one who has followed Marco Rubio. I will try and update edit this comment with some links from El Nuevo Dia or El Vocero from when the draft Bill first became public. But this Bill is bad news for Puerto Ricoâs economic recovery hopes.
Really?! Couldâve had me fooled with this post, you seem to have a keen perspective. So the $4B figure was all bark no bite? Placing it in the bill, and parading it around the media circuit sure looks good for the GOP. In reality, it makes life harder for Puerto Ricans!?!? These are American citizens.
The bulk of the republican party is comprised of tea party refugees, now it seems they are being hijacked by the âalt-rightâ (re-branding of white supremacy). They are really good at obstruction and being angry, but they canât govern.
A combination of gerrymandering and a lazy American electorate handed over control of all three branches of federal governance, and they have yet to pass any major legislation. Set aside the fact that the policy they hope to unleash on their own constituency is unpopular at best, and toxic to an already shrinking middle class.
I realize greed and politics were friendly long before tRUMP, but I am certain this group of rethuglicans saw the blatant grift of the American people by Cheetolini and the family syndicate, and deftly followed suit. It really is the antithesis of public service.
November of next year cannot come fast enough.
Thanks. I experienced a thrown out back yesterday while performing a routine garbage disposal task. I am sort of mobility impaired right now, but when I find a comfortable position/chair/ situation where I can search on the PR newspaper websites or Google News, I will find the articles.
Part of wearing down on this PR gets screwed story is the fatigue and the realization that the Trump Administration has basically told Puerto Rico to fuck off. Two months out, the US Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA are still putting plastic tarps on roofs so that peopleâs homes are not open to the rain. The thievery of Whitefish and Mammoth Energy of Oklahoma, in the hundreds of millions of dollars, have still not resulted in electrical power being restored to a majority of the Island.
But when the bill was first released, a professional CPA group denounced it as dangerous to Puerto Ricoâs economic present and future. I believe a Bar association group made a similar public declaration, and the Mayors Association sent representatives to Wash DC with Governor Rosello to lobby congresspeople against the provisions screwing Puerto Rico. In the end, Gov Rosello was left to depend on Marco Rubio. That is the summary. When I am able I will find links probably in Spanish to the articles about tje CPA groupâs criticisms and provide a rough translation.
I believe a slight majority of people in Puerto Rico have voted for Statehood in some of the recent Plebiscites. I wonder how they feel about the third class back of the hand treatment they are getting on Hurricane Relief and the Tax Scam Bill.