“The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
— Attributed to Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum, 1905-1982, Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++Awesome. A must listen: https://www.facebook.com/Regne
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I have been watching the news very closely lately and I have made several observations:
1. Politico- a left sided web site quoted President Trump's press conference speech as :" they came at us with bats and clubs" talking about the left wingers attacking the right wingers. The people at politico tried to paint Trump as one of the right wingers by using the work "us".
Trump actually said " they came at them with clubs and bats".. So again you can se there is fake news and no matter what Trump says , the left press will hit him hard and even distort what he said.
2. I was watching Squawk Box 2 days ago and Andrew Sorkin one of the hosts who is almost a Communist ( he is also Jewish) was interviewing the CEO of Southern Company. He tried to tell the CEO and even asked if the CEO's of many companies felt threatened by Trump and were afraid of him. The CEO of Southern company.told Sorkin he was dead wrong and that there was no threat from Trump.
3. Again today I was watching Squawk Box (CNBC) and Sorkin again was at it attacking a Mr. Freiss some millionaire businessman who was at a meeting in Jackson Hole asking him if he felt Trump had lost it and was not good for business anymore. Freiss told him that he Sorkin was dividing the country and that Trump was fine. Freiss also said that people inWashington D.C. may think trump is all washed up but he shouted back that those of us who live out in the colonies still support him fully.
4. Again today Sorkin was interviewing McNeeley the former CEO of Sun Microsystems again attacking Trump and asking if the business men will no longer work with Trump. McNeeley hammered back saying that Sorkin was all wrong and that the businessmen may on the outside not be supportive of Trump but behind closed doors they absolutely would. He really nailed Sorkin.
5. President Trump got nailed by the press when he said that there were also good people on both sides in Charlottersville. The press said how could he feel there were any good people on the side with the white supremacist and Nazi. Well, what do you know.Yesterday, the New York Times posted a picture and a story of a young man in his 20's who is a history buff and not a white supremacist or Nazi who went to Charlottesville to protest against taking down the statue. He has received death threats. Again Trump was correct. Z---
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Bannon banned from White House. Not sure it will improve matters . Mass media and Trump haters will now have to pick on someone else.
Will Trump eventually be forced into a plain vanilla cabinet?
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You seldom hear about Steve Forbes unless you read his articles in Forbes Magazine.
I met him in Atlanta when he was running for the presidency. I knew he would not get nominated but he had all the right ideas just not the looks, voice and personality to go with what is needed. (See 1 below.)
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Trump is hated because he has tried to reverse the damage Obama has done and has not done it in a way that is "presidential" whatever the hell that means
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WHY ARE CONGRESSIONAL Republicans flailing about on repealing and replacing Obamacare? Why has public opinion gone against them on an issue that was critical to the GOP's winning control of both the Senate and the House, not to mention the presidency? The law, passed more than seven years ago, had been immensely unpopular from the get-go.
The GOP's prattling on about how many hundreds of billions of dollars it would rip out of the hide of Medicaid--money, moreover, that would be used to "pay" for tax cuts for the well-to-do--simply reinforced the public's perception that, bad as Obamacare was, it would be preferable to whatever the Republicans proposed. That's why every GOP health care bill polled worse than the Affordable Care Act. The mood became: Let's try to fix Obama's abomination as best we can rather than cruelly immiserate millions of our fellow citizens. The GOP became the party of Scrooge
The Democrats' assaults were mostly nonsense, but they stuck. Adding to the misconception was the "scoring" by the Congressional Budget Office, which hasn't made an accurate forecast in memory and which was stuffed with far-left liberals when the Democrats controlled Congress (all too typically, the GOP left them in place when it took over). Both the bill passed by the House and the legislation proposed by Senate leaders heaped on billions to make sure that those with chronic conditions weren't left out. Obama's vast expansion of Medicaid and the federal budgetary bribes to get states to go along with it (100% coverage until 2016, phasing down to 90% by 2020) were treated gingerly by Senate bill writers.
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Bannon banned from White House. Not sure it will improve matters . Mass media and Trump haters will now have to pick on someone else.
Will Trump eventually be forced into a plain vanilla cabinet?
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You seldom hear about Steve Forbes unless you read his articles in Forbes Magazine.
I met him in Atlanta when he was running for the presidency. I knew he would not get nominated but he had all the right ideas just not the looks, voice and personality to go with what is needed. (See 1 below.)
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Trump is hated because he has tried to reverse the damage Obama has done and has not done it in a way that is "presidential" whatever the hell that means
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Dick
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The Medical Insurance Battle: Why GOP-Care Lost The Public
By Steve Forbes
WHY ARE CONGRESSIONAL Republicans flailing about on repealing and replacing Obamacare? Why has public opinion gone against them on an issue that was critical to the GOP's winning control of both the Senate and the House, not to mention the presidency? The law, passed more than seven years ago, had been immensely unpopular from the get-go.
Answer: The GOP, in an incredible blunder, let its opponents define the terms of debate. Suddenly, the issue became how many millions of people would be stripped of medical insurance. The public became convinced that the only real question for Republicans was how much misery they were going to inflict. The sick and the chronically ill would quickly find themselves without coverage and be forced to camp out in overcrowded emergency rooms, hoping for some help.
The GOP's prattling on about how many hundreds of billions of dollars it would rip out of the hide of Medicaid--money, moreover, that would be used to "pay" for tax cuts for the well-to-do--simply reinforced the public's perception that, bad as Obamacare was, it would be preferable to whatever the Republicans proposed. That's why every GOP health care bill polled worse than the Affordable Care Act. The mood became: Let's try to fix Obama's abomination as best we can rather than cruelly immiserate millions of our fellow citizens. The GOP became the party of Scrooge
The Democrats' assaults were mostly nonsense, but they stuck. Adding to the misconception was the "scoring" by the Congressional Budget Office, which hasn't made an accurate forecast in memory and which was stuffed with far-left liberals when the Democrats controlled Congress (all too typically, the GOP left them in place when it took over). Both the bill passed by the House and the legislation proposed by Senate leaders heaped on billions to make sure that those with chronic conditions weren't left out. Obama's vast expansion of Medicaid and the federal budgetary bribes to get states to go along with it (100% coverage until 2016, phasing down to 90% by 2020) were treated gingerly by Senate bill writers.
Even on this issue Democrats succeeded in getting some RINO (Republican in name only) governors to shill for them by mouthing their demagogic attacks.
Medicaid is the worst-designed health-insurance scheme ever devised by a free country: Spending is open-ended, yet outcomes for beneficiaries are awful. The only way to turn things around is to give governors the flexibility to design reforms that would improve coverage--30% of doctors now refuse to take on new Medicaid patients because reimbursements are low and paid out months later. Rhode Island, Indiana and other states have made some positive changes but had to battle Beltway bureaucrats to get the necessary "waivers" to do so.
Only days before a Senate vote did the White House hold an event at which some of the people who have been harmed by Obamacare appeared--and there are millions of them. Yet there was no major advertising or social media campaign to point out Obamacare's real-life horrors or to extol what the GOP was doing.
The P.R. battle was over before it began.
And don't count on the Republicans to do any better in the future.
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