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[Scscsc89]

 

[Bruin 70]

2 hours ago, Scscsc89 said:

 

Unreal!!!!!!!! Useless crap from this JA>

[PAC MAN]

The Dems and their left wing buddies are just so desperate to get rid of a sitting president that they would be willing to do fake news to cause a recession.  Those people do not have the best interests of the US in mind.  Looking at articles, the recession following a bad recession tend to be a pretty mild one.  The last recession that lasted more than a year was in 1981-82 and then the two recessions that followed lasted just eight months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States

We just don't know how it will all shake out since the recession would be related to a slowdown in the Chinese economy which has been growing every year since 1980 so this would be uncharted waters.

[glduck]

6 minutes ago, Jalapeno said:

The Dems and their left wing buddies are just so desperate to get rid of a sitting president that they would be willing to do fake news to cause a recession.  Those people do not have the best interests of the US in mind.  Looking at articles, the recession following a bad recession tend to be a pretty mild one.  The last recession that lasted more than a year was in 1981-82 and then the two recessions that followed lasted just eight months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States

We just don't know how it will all shake out since the recession would be related to a slowdown in the Chinese economy which has been growing every year since 1980 so this would be uncharted waters.

 

You got a source there, my chili pepper friend?

[Orange]

10 minutes ago, Jalapeno said:

The Dems and their left wing buddies are just so desperate to get rid of a sitting president that they would be willing to do fake news to cause a recession.  Those people do not have the best interests of the US in mind.  Looking at articles, the recession following a bad recession tend to be a pretty mild one.  The last recession that lasted more than a year was in 1981-82 and then the two recessions that followed lasted just eight months.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States

We just don't know how it will all shake out since the recession would be related to a slowdown in the Chinese economy which has been growing every year since 1980 so this would be uncharted waters.

So the White House is lying about the coming Recession?

Also, how does one "do fake news"?  Do you do English?

[PAC MAN]

2 minutes ago, glduck said:

 

You got a source there, my chili pepper friend?

That's my opinion.  The media is powerful enough to cause stock markets to decline and affect the economy.  They did point to those curves but never mentioned to caution that this was uncharted waters due to the trade war with China and China's first slowdown of their economy in like 30 or more years.

[Orange]

Just now, Jalapeno said:

That's my opinion.  The media is powerful enough to cause stock markets to decline and affect the economy.  They did point to those curves but never mentioned to caution that this was uncharted waters due to the trade war with China and China's first slowdown of their economy in like 30 or more years.

Even with the "slowdown", China's rate of economic growth is double ours.  Just a little FYI

[PAC MAN]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/10/politics/usmca-nancy-pelosi-donald-trump-trade-deal/index.html

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"There is no question of course that this trade agreement is much better than NAFTA," Pelosi said at a news conference.

Announced right after the Articles of Impeachment has been announced...any reason for that?

[azgreg]

19 minutes ago, Jalapeno said:

Announced right after the Articles of Impeachment has been announced...any reason for that?

Yes. Most people can do more than one thing at a time and impeachment has nothing to do with the trade agreement.

 

[Scscsc89]

Yesterday:   "The Dems in Congress aren't doing anything except focusing on impeachment!"

Today:   "The Dems in Congress are focused on too many things at once!"

[Orange]

A House committee passed a pro-legalization bill for marijuana.  The Farm Bill legalized hemp.  Congress (at last the House) is very much alive and working toward other issues.  And it's critical, considering the president does absolutely nothing except issue tweet threats and tantrums, all day every day.

[azgreg]

1 minute ago, Orange said:

A House committee passed a pro-legalization bill for marijuana.  The Farm Bill legalized hemp.  Congress (at last the House) is very much alive and working toward other issues.  And it's critical, considering the president does absolutely nothing except issue tweet threats and tantrums, all day every day.

If this gets to the senate McConnell will put it right here with the rest of them.

[Orange]

I wish, above all, McConnell would die of a staph infection. Like, today.

That dude would be evil personified if I believed in evil.

[Quack 12]

2 hours ago, Jalapeno said:

Announced right after the Articles of Impeachment has been announced...any reason for that?

Here's what you don't seem to grasp, you and PapaG and almost everyone else on the right: There are 435 members of the House of Representatives, only 41 of them are on the House Judiciary Committee, and there are only 22 seats on the Intelligence Committee.

That means that the other 90 to 95 percent of representatives are working on something else at any given moment.

[CRBuff]

Lol, and if they were not the complaint would be that they are focused only on impeachment and ignoring the needs of the American people.

[PAC MAN]

37 minutes ago, Quack 12 said:

That means that the other 90 to 95 percent of representatives are working on something else at any given moment.

I think PapaG knows this and I actually know this as well.  You don't earn about $175K as a member in Congress for nothing.

[Scscsc89]

I'm starting to believe that things you know & things you post are not always the same thing.  It's very fluid.

[Orange]

2 hours ago, Jalapeno said:

I think PapaG knows this and I actually know this as well.  You don't earn about $175K as a member in Congress for nothing.

They earn a good salary -- if that's what you're driving at here -- not just because of the quite exhausting work involved with being a congressional rep (say what you will about anyone in congress, you usually aren't a lazy person if you got there), but because we don't need people in congress to be more vulnerable to bribery than they already are.  Matter of fact, we should probably prohibit all campaign contributions, make elections a publicly funded affair, and double their salary, if we want to get serious about having a Congress that actually represents us. 

[Mano]

1 minute ago, Orange said:

They earn a good salary -- if that's what you're driving at here -- not just because of the quite exhausting work involved with being a congressional rep (say what you will about anyone in congress, you usually aren't a lazy person if you got there), but because we don't need people in congress to be more vulnerable to bribery than they already are.  Matter of fact, we should probably prohibit all campaign contributions, make elections a publicly funded affair, and double their salary, if we want to get serious about having a Congress that actually represents us. 

I would wager the vast majority could pull down more than $175k in the private sector. 

If someone is in congress for the money, it isn't the money they draw from their salary.

[PAC MAN]

1 hour ago, Orange said:

They earn a good salary -- if that's what you're driving at here -- not just because of the quite exhausting work involved with being a congressional rep (say what you will about anyone in congress, you usually aren't a lazy person if you got there), but because we don't need people in congress to be more vulnerable to bribery than they already are.  Matter of fact, we should probably prohibit all campaign contributions, make elections a publicly funded affair, and double their salary, if we want to get serious about having a Congress that actually represents us. 

Very good points there.  Washington DC is an expensive city to live in.  Remember AOC's issues when she started on the job?

The funny thing is that those people can vote on their pay raises but they do the popular thing by declining those raises and making themselves more susceptible to bribery.