China is going with increased debt and spending on infrastructure. The US is going with increased debt and tax cuts. It will be an interesting test to see what the results are.

#3 | POSTED BY BORED AT 2019-06-17 11:03 PM | FLAG:

China has a 50 year plan.

So does the GOP. It is screw this generation out of social security taxes they paid in.

The GOP has sold out the US to Corporate America.

Well we now know what our oil rig retiree is doing with his free time.

A brain eating Amoeba in TX? I am surprised they all haven't starved to death.

I'll give you money if you vote for me!!!
-pretty much every Democratic candidate for office

#2 | POSTED BY RIGHTOCENTER AT 2019-06-17 08:23 PM | REPLY | FLAG:

That was the entire campaign platform of the Orange Lard Barge in 2016.

"I'll give you great healthcare that is cheap"

"I'll make Mexico pay for the wall you want"

"I'll make Companies give you jobs by imposing an exit tax on them"

"I'll give you a great big tax cut"

Him demanding Iran obey an agreement that he won't obey describes Fat Nixon's entire life perfectly.

Much less be a guard.

I have a friend that is a guard at the Sheriff's detention center. They stories he has a legendary.

One of his jobs was to open the mail and make sure the inmates are not getting nudes mailed to them so he would have to look to see if the photo was altered with a dry erase marker.

One of his last duties before heading to a new supervisor position was to supervise the visitor intake. One visitor had a cane and you had to check to see if was hollow. This man's was. It could be used to smuggle contraband or a weapon in, so he opened it. About 100 cockroaches poured out of the inside. They had to shut down the visiting area and call in fumigation.

There's only one party that's trying to limit government power, and it's not the Democrats.

#2 | POSTED BY BOAZ AT 2019-06-18 08:21 AM | FLAG:

Hardy har har.

Was there ever a budget under the o'bummer admin? 8 years of CR.
#27 | POSTED BY SNIPER

Do you know who passes the budget?

The economy must be doing well. Congress wants a raise.

#48 | POSTED BY PETROUS AT 2019-06-17 09:48 PM | REPLY | FLAG

Congress gets automatic raises every year unless they vote to not take them.

"Under the terms of Public Law 101-194, the Government Ethics Reform Act of 1989, lawmakers receive an annual adjustment in pay [a cost of living adjustment or COLA] equal to the change in the government's Employment Cost Index for the fourth quarter of the prior calendar year versus the year before that (this constitutes a one-year time lag between when the pay raise is measured and when it actually takes effect). An automatic provision is made for this pay hike each year, and is self-implementing without any specific vote by Congress (i.e., passage of the overall Treasury appropriations bill enables the raise to occur). However, Members of Congress can, by majority vote, block the pay increase from taking place. This occurred for salary hikes slated for 1994-1997 and for 1999."

This is why it's best to get these deals ratified by the Senate.

#16 | POSTED BY JEFFJ AT 2019-06-17 04:20 PM | FLAG:

Moscow Mitch do his job with a Democratic President?

Hardy har har.

St Raygun wanted the Mexicans to come here en masse to destroy the unions that protected the middle class workers. Now that they have outlived their usefullness to the GOP, they can go back to Mexico.

Way to go Cocaine Mitch, but it is going to the graveyard in the house. Turnabout is fair.

#10 Or, to put it more simply, open the borders?

#11 | POSTED BY SHEEPLESCHISM AT 2019-06-17 05:45 PM | FLAG:

Well that is what St Raygun wanted.

You conveniently left out the part that they are only counting FEDERAL fossil fuel subsidies spending (not state)
Why do regressives always need to lie?

Most states allow the exact same subsidies on fossil fuels.

Some will limit some like PA will not allow all IDC costs to be deducted in the first year and NYS does not allow the magical percentage depletion that has basis in economic reality.

"The US trade deficit narrowed to USD 50.8 billion in April 2019 from a revised USD 51.9 billion in the previous month and compared to market expectations of USD 50.7 billion. The politically sensitive goods trade deficit with China increased 29.7 percent to USD 26.9 billion. Balance of Trade in the United States averaged -14786.60 USD Million from 1950 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 1946 USD Million in June of 1975 and a record low of -67823 USD Million in August of 2006."

Corporate America has sold out the United States.

"China's trade surplus soared to USD 41.66 billion in May 2019 from USD 23.42 billion in the same month a year earlier and easily beating market consensus of a surplus of USD 20.5 billion. This was the largest trade surplus since December last year, as exports rose unexpectedly while imports dropped the most in nearly three years. "

BTW...

"China's trade surplus soared to USD 41.66 billion in May 2019 from USD 23.42 billion in the same month a year earlier and easily beating market consensus of a surplus of USD 20.5 billion. "

Tell me again just how the tariffs are hurting China.

Gotta throw some red meat to the racists.

80% of the Chinese own their own homes, most own them outright with no mortgage.

You're wrong. It's 90%.

I predict the usual suspects of GOP supply side kool aid guzzlers will avoid this thread like it was Ebola.

This is what they wanted.
Just ask them, they'll tell you.

#3 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2019-06-17 09:03 PM | REPLY

Not only did they want it, but they said before the tax cut was passed publicly.

I remember one of Fat Nixon's minions asking a crowd of CEO's how many were going to invest in their companies, hire or raise wages because of the tax cuts and less than 5% of the crowd raised their hands.

Tax cuts never 1) cut prices, 2) raise wages (other than the c-suite) or 3) increase employment.

Cutting taxes gives the CEO's an incentive to raid the coffers for themselves and or shareholders.

This is the fruition of that. Stock buybacks, CEO pay and dividends were the way the tax cuts were spent. Period.

It just staggers the mind that anyone outside of the C-suite believes the line of -------- that tax cuts increase wages and or hiring.

But underemployment is at a high and laborforce participation rate is at the lowest its been since women were added to the labor force.
I guess the success of the trumpconomy is just fake news.

#34 | POSTED BY INDIANAJONES AT 2019-06-17 02:07 PM | FLAG:

Remember when righties used to care about the participation rate from 2009-2016?

I just had a wing dinger trying to tell me that the participation rate is soaring now that Humpty is in office.

People aren't stupid.

Great news means ---- if you ain't feeling it.

Now we have nothing.

We have the same thing that Humpty got from his pen pal in NK.

Bupkis.

"Callahan was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death and sentenced to six months in jail and two years of probation, Holly Kramer, a spokesperson for the Michigan Department of Corrections, tells PEOPLE. Kramer notes that Callahan and Moore were fired "for their actions.""

2017 deemed deadliest year for mass shootings in modern US history

How many school/concert/mall/office shootings since the Orange Lard Barge took office?

Glass houses Fat Nixon.