Posted on 02/11/2019 9:44:41 PM PST by 11th_VA
He had a R house and senate.
Funds were appropriated for meanings cement poles that you can walk through sideways, not a wall, Pelosi’s promise is still technically intact with this crap “deal”.
Also, all this wall stuff and no one is talking about spending cuts. Lack of any cuts deserves a FULL shutdown just by that measure alone. 10 years SS will be insolvent, the road for kicking the can is close to an end.
Even when they hold no branch at all they seem to always hold the cards.
We use mi not km. Nice try by RNZ to inflate the numbers using the metric system, but fail.
Sen Graham when interviewed before this news came out said if they do not come up with enough money, Trump would take what he can get and there is already over $4B in defense funds that can be reprogrammed at the whim of the President or Sec of Defense.
My guess is this is what the Trump does without resorting to an emergency declaration. The barrier et al will go up because too much is at stake. Unfortunately, the man has to not only battle the rotten lefty dems, he has to battle a holes in the bend over party.
“10 years SS will be insolvent,....”
with illegal immigrants flooding through the boarder, SS will be insolvent way before then. This is part of their plan, to overload and crash the government, and reinvent it into a command-controlled socialist paradise!
We are worse off .
Now ICE beds are capped and the number of beds will be cut every year
Shelby and his open borders traitors made the situation worse intentionally
Call the WH and tell them to kill this Cave !
Call 202-456-1111.
Whatever the number turns out to be ... the point is that Congress has now authorized the construction of a wall. At that point ... if the Dems get cute and try to stop him from finishing the wall with alternate funds, it totally looks like they were playing games with boarder security. How are they going to defend not finishing it when they voted to start it?
Only $1.4 billion for the wall? NO DEAL! VETO! SHUT IT DOWN AGAIN!
REALLY? Go away.
SS will be fine when they raise the cap to 250,000. I see both parties going for that since both parties are liberal anyway.
If the core of the problem is the donor class, then a good place to start is the “too big to fail banks.” I read recently that the group of Community Banks has had some success in letting the big banks have their way to the expense of the small banks. Remember Bush 43 and Goldman Sachs. Between 2007 and 2008 both GS and Lehman Bros. increased their CEO pay from the $40million area to the $70million zone. The British banks sneered at Lehman Bros. when they wanted some financial support and Lehman is gone. On the other hand GS....
We voted Donald Trump in as the President of the United States. The DEAL has already been reached. Build the *&*&% Wall!!!
There is no need for SS to become insolvent. In 1983, both parties agreed that funds should be taken from wages below the 90% level of all wages paid. This is referred to as the 90% Tax Max. Unfortunately, while the donor class’s pay increased from 10% to 20% a year from that time on, the Tax Max figure was only increased according to inflation, something like 2% to 4% annually. Thus the real Tax Max level has drifted down to around 82% where it has remained for some time. Going back to the 90% Tax Max would add many years to the life of SS.
What is even more unfair is that when a complex formula and work sheet was developed to put the Tax Max deduction in place, it allowed a $25,000 deduction for a single person, and a $32,000 deduction for a couple in 1983. Guess what the allowed deduction was in 2018. Still $25,000 and $32,000. Thirty-five years and NO ADJUSTMENT FOR INFLATION. This is as bad or worse than the Alternative Minimum Tax debacle. No wonder the donor class gets richer and the elderly get poorer, less able to pay for medical care, and this past year the life expectancy for us in the US actually went down. Why aren’t we screaming for our President to fix this?????
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