Savage Henry Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 As an aside, the Democratic leadership are completely uninspiring. I'm sure there are decent, capable and inspiring folk within the Democratic ranks but whilst the old guard continue to control the leadership they won't get a chance. To maximise the benefits of Trump's ongoing disasters the Democrats need people who will offer a different vision and can sell that vision; the likes of Pelosi and Schumer don't fit that bill. This Adam Schiff bloke looks every bit presidential material in the ongoing Russian hearings. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 Interesting that despite having a lower life expectancy than most developed Nations, including even artery congealed Scotland, they spend about double what we do on healthcare, about 18% of GDP. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 12 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Interesting that despite having a lower life expectancy than most developed Nations, including even artery congealed Scotland, they spend about double what we do on healthcare, about 18% of GDP. I'm like to see what the breakdown is between the top 10 or 15 percent and the rest. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39394043 Now he's going to concentrate on tax 'reform'. That should be fun for all his blue collar supporters. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 36 minutes ago, Granny Danger said: I'm like to see what the breakdown is between the top 10 or 15 percent and the rest. The top 5% of earners get 50% of health expenditure. https://ourworldindata.org/the-link-between-life-expectancy-and-health-spending-us-focus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnstoun Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Also the insurance side consumes around half the $. There are over half a million employees in health insurance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 A Republican majority in both houses and he still blames the Democrats - calling the man a fucking moron would be an insult to fucking morons. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WILLIEA Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 The French verb " tromper " means to lie, deceive, make a mistake. Je trompe sounds like I trump. Just saying!!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 49 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: A Republican majority in both houses and he still blames the Democrats - calling the man a fucking moron would be an insult to fucking morons. Most of the zoomers who support him will buy that excuse, some others won't. That is how he will lose support from his own voters, incrementally. When he introduces tax 'reform' that benefits the rich there will be yet more who will realise that they have been duped and abandon him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerberus Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Paul Ryan is getting the blame for the bill failing and there's pressure on him to step down. Trump has come out of this untouched. His supporters aren't laying any blame on him and he was back watching golf today, not giving a single f**k. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee Willie Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 In Scotland, Donald plummets in popularityhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/25/name-donald-trump-scotland-boys/99402662/ Only seven boys born in Scotland were named Donald last year, the fewest on record and a likely slap at America's new president despite his Scottish roots, birth records out this month show. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry94 Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 Ivanka's husband and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, has now been revealed to have had a meeting with a head of a sanctioned Russian bank in December. It looks like he's giving evidence. It's really weird how really influential figures seem to keep having secret meetings about issues of such little consequence that they forget about them after they leave the room. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennysmassiveego Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Just back from murica and Trump is still strongly supported by the voters who voted for him , but when the general public surveys come out they say that his approval rating is the lowest of any president who has served less than 100 days. His healthcare bill was doomed to failure from the start , it took Obama 2 terms to negotiate with both houses to get his passed and he talked to Democrats and republicans , Trump rather naively thinks that his " art of the deal" type negotiating will win through . Pelosi revealed he never approached one democrat to discuss the bill. Even Fox News at first wouldn't admit it was a defeat but when Trump allied his failure to Ryan's inability to get his republicans to vote with the president they had their scapegoat. That's Trumps MO , promise the public the sky , fail to deliver , no problem it wasn't his fault deflect blame fake news , the media and move on. 'He has alienated the professional politicians or swamp dwellers and they are seizing the chance at retribution when they can , and the worst are his supposed allies in the Republican Party . If the Trump model is seen to work , i.e. Very rich businessperson with no previous experiience can deliver when politicians can't then those senators and congressman and women will do all they can to stop that happening in their districts. His public want him to succeed and the slogan America First ,Made in America is on everything from bog paper to cars wrapped in the star spangled banner , whether Trump succeeds is open to debate but American protectionism is very much to the fore. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baxter Parp Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 2 hours ago, kennysmassiveego said: ,Made in America is on everything from bog paper to cars wrapped in the star spangled banner , Not a particularly new phenomenon really. Has Deplorable figured it out yet? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA Baracus Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Is he dead yet? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DublinMagyar Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Is he dead yet? Deplorable? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 The Republican Party's Tax Reform proposals would send 99.6% of the benefits to the top 1% of earners after ten years. Sink the swamp! MAGA! http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/analysis-house-gop-tax-plan/full 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkirkthebigclub Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 4 hours ago, DublinMagyar said: Deplorable? Wouldn't surprise me if that was DT himself. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Clean coal.Really clean coal. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resk Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 It's going to be great. We've done so many great things, they're just so.... great. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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