En met deze klassieker van Mulvaney mogen we weer door.quote:He added, "In fact, I found out for the first time last night that the person who technically shuts the government down is me, which is kind of cool."
bronquote:The American Health-Care System Increases Income Inequality
Even with the Affordable Care Act, the premium and payment structure of insurance increases the relative income gap between rich and poor.
For most people, a single doctor’s visit can be a financial obstacle course.
Many patients throughout the year pay hundreds or thousands of dollars in premiums, most often through workplace contributions. Then, at the doctor’s office, they are faced with a deductible, and they may need to pay coinsurance or make a copayment. If they have prescriptions, they’ll likely fork over cash for those, too.
And that’s just for basic primary care for one person. Repeat that process for an entire family; add in any labs, referrals, specialists, emergency-room visits, and surgeries; and the result for even healthy families is dozens and dozens of payments, and often thousands of dollars. This series of expenditures before, during, and after care is euphemistically called having “skin in the game.” But the reality is, the American insurance system is designed to make health care financially unpleasant, often to the point where patients forego necessary care.
A new study in the forthcoming March issue of the American Journal of Public Health sheds light on just how all that “skin in the game” affects the material conditions of patients. The research—by Andrea Christopher at the Boise Veterans Affairs Medical Center, David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler at the City University of New York at Hunter College, and Danny McCormick at Harvard Medical School—indicates that household spending on health care is a significant contributor to income inequality in the United States. It also indicates that medical expenses push millions of Americans below the federal poverty line, including 7 million people who make more than 150 percent of the poverty level. Four million of those Americans are pushed into the ranks of extreme poverty.
That health-care costs in the country are expensive—often, prohibitively so—is well known. As Vox’s Sarah Kliff notes, the first reason why is the exorbitantly high cost of care, which doesn’t always correspond with measurable increases in quality or demand. Even for routine procedures or precautionary visits, hospital bills can run over $400, an expense that almost half of American households can’t meet without dipping into credit. Additionally, billing is famously opaque, incoherent, and fragmented, creating major barriers to informed care decisions and often resulting in bills going into collections.
Health insurance is supposed to mitigate those cost and information barriers. A 2016 Kaiser Family Foundation analysis found that while significant numbers of Americans have trouble paying medical bills, only 20 percent of insured people had difficulty versus half of all uninsured people. Most of that difficulty for both groups comes from sudden medical events or accidents, or sudden life events like the loss of a job. Medical debt is also a major contributor to bankruptcy in the United States. One of the major arguments for the Affordable Care Act was in its name: a promise to help shield people from the worst financial effects of medical catastrophe or chronic illness.
New avenues of subsidized or free health insurance that sprang from Obamacare—including private insurance offered on the exchanges and expanded Medicaid rolls in many states—have been able to do some shielding. The ACA helped reduce total bankruptcies by as many as 1.5 million between 2010 and 2017. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that, between 2011 and 2016, the percentage of Americans with trouble paying medical bills dropped precipitously. And a 2017 study by the Urban Institute’s Kyle Caswell and Timothy Waidmann found “improved credit scores, reduced balances past due as a percent of total debt, reduced probability of a medical collection balance of $1,000 or more, … and a reduction in the probability of a new bankruptcy filing” for people in Medicaid-expansion states.
But the new AJPH study complicates some of that rosy analysis. The researchers didn’t split the survey population up based on insurance status; they instead measured income inequality across the population, both before medical expenses were taken into account and after. They found that income inequality in 2014 actually increased by 1.5 points after medical expenses were subtracted from income. Put another way, poor people spent much more of their income on health care than the richest people did, and as a result around 1.5 percent of all relative income shifted toward the higher earners.
The researchers also found that medical spending sent millions of people effectively into poverty or into deeper rungs of poverty. Seven million Americans making more than 150 percent of the federal poverty line—$31,000 for a family of three—dropped below that line if medical expenses were subtracted from their income. That meant that these families spent something like a third or more of all their income on health care. Of the 7 million, 4 million found their post-health-care income reduced below 50 percent of the poverty line, meaning they spent about two-thirds of their total income on health care. The study also found that the ACA decreased the amount of inequality caused by health-care expenses, but only slightly.
There are some limitations to how far these results can be interpreted. It’s possible that, since 2014, continued gains in insurance coverage—at least until the uninsured rate rose in 2017—combined with additional states expanding Medicaid, decreased coverage costs; a more recent study would be needed to say for sure. Also, without insurance-enrollment breakdowns, it’s impossible to see where and why the biggest gaps in income inequality emerge, and the exact role the ACA may have played in fixing them.
Still, the study adds to the body of evidence on the dramatic impact of health-care costs. Even with Medicaid as a safety net, health care is a major burden for low-income people—so much so that it deeply exacerbates differences in income and wealth.
One major reason for this burden, perhaps even especially under the ACA, is deductibles. While almost the whole of the national health-care debate has centered on how to lower premiums, the ACA and other health policies have in many cases purposefully driven deductibles upward. More Americans say they have trouble affording their deductibles than they do affording their premiums. Between 2006 and 2017, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that deductibles for people with employer-sponsored insurance increased fourfold. The out-of-pocket maximums on many of these plans also increased sharply. Many of these hikes came from an across-the-board embrace of so-called high-deductible plans, which have been theorized to limit both utilization of health care and the burden of premiums. The tradeoff for those lower premiums is that those who use their insurance have to pay a lot more to do so.
As a 2017 Atlantic investigation showed, this theory can often create two kinds of adverse outcomes when put into practice. Many people simply spend what they need to to cover health-care costs, draining their savings and income as they go. And many who don’t turn to crowdfunding to pay their bills, or go without care in the first place. Technically, these outcomes reduce the number of medical bankruptcies—a victory for policymakers—because even high-deductible plans place a hard cap on medical expenditures.
Yet even as Americans are better protected from the worst consequences of catastrophic illness, routine care continues to hurt low-income people’s finances.
The ACA isn’t really designed to combat that particular paradox. In fact, the law at times embraces it. It juiced up the comprehensiveness of most plans, and it shields people from the true cost of premiums through a number of mechanisms. But in exchange, the structure of the high-deductible plan was accepted as a basic mechanism for both rationing and budgeting. While cost-sharing reductions were introduced to put a cap on the burden that deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance place on low-income Americans, 90 percent of all people on the exchanges still pay deductibles in excess of $1,300 individually or $2,600 per family, amounts that are often difficult to afford even for middle-class families.
Republican plans to create a new health-care regime would, for the most part, only increase that difficulty, because both the Senate and House bills to repeal Obamacare increased deductibles even further. President Trump, meanwhile, has stopped paying cost-sharing reduction payments and signed a tax law that repealed the individual mandate to purchase insurance. Both of these actions could increase premiums, thus giving some patients yet another financial burden to worry about.
The new study functions as a reminder that policymakers seeking to address income and wealth inequality cannot do so without continuing to address health care, still one of the most constant sources of financial woe in American life. That includes both the absolute cost of health care and the myriad ways the cost is passed onto people with insurance. Until those problems are mitigated, having “skin in the game” for the poorest Americans translates to losing financial ground.
Dit is waar de Democraten het over moeten hebben, daadwerkelijke effecten van wat Trump & Co. allemaal aan het doen zijn.quote:The number of uninsured Americans in 2017 saw its largest single-year increase since the implementation of the Affordable Care Act's coverage expansion, according to Gallup data released Tuesday.
According to the Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index, the number of Americans without health insurance rose by 1.3 percentage points in 2017, representing about 3.2 million people.
Among those who saw the biggest declines in coverage were people between the ages of 18 and 25, as well as black and Hispanic people and individuals with an annual household income of less than $36,000.
The number of uninsured people fell to a record low in the final quarter of 2016, dropping to just 10.9 percent. Despite the increase in 2017, the percentage of people without insurance is still low compared to its peak of 18 percent in the third quarter of 2013 – just before the ACA's coverage expansion took effect.
According to the new Gallup-Sharecare data, the number of Americans who purchased their own health insurance coverage through the ACA's health-care exchanges also dropped by 1 percentage point to 20.3 percent.
That decline marks a reversal of a trend seen since the ACA's individual mandate, which required people to purchase health insurance or pay a penalty, took effect in the fourth quarter of 2013.
Between then and 2016, the number of adults who purchased their own coverage increased 3.7 percent, according to Gallup. A sweeping tax plan passed by Republicans and signed by President Trump last month repealed the ACA's individual mandate.
The Gallup-Sharecare data is based on phone interviews with 25,072 U.S. adults, and was conducted from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31, 2017. Its margin of error is 1 percentage point.
Even nog een keer posten, doe je dat zodat jouw trol misschien wat reacties teweegbrengt?quote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 12:28 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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En met deze klassieker van Mulvaney mogen we weer door.
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 21-01-2018 om 13:35:28 Great to see how hard Republicans are fighting for our Military and Safety at the Border. The Dems just want illegal immigrants to pour into our nation unchecked. If stalemate continues, Republicans should go to 51% (Nuclear Option) and vote on real, long term budget, no C.R.’s! reageer retweet
"I have a message for Cadet Bone Spurs: if you cared about our military, you'd stop baiting [Kim] into a war that could put 85,000 American troops and millions of innocent civilians in danger," Duckworth said. She added that if Trump "truly cared" about servicemen and women, he'd "stop hiding behind his Twitter account, stop blaming everyone else, and tell his party to do their job."twitter:SenDuckworth twitterde op zondag 21-01-2018 om 01:24:00 I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger. reageer retweet
Zou hij in de smiezen hebben dat dat ook tegen hem kan werken?quote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 16:07 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
White House targets filibuster, calls for 'nuclear option' as shutdown enters day 2twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 21-01-2018 om 13:35:28 Great to see how hard Republicans are fighting for our Military and Safety at the Border. The Dems just want illegal immigrants to pour into our nation unchecked. If stalemate continues, Republicans should go to 51% (Nuclear Option) and vote on real, long term budget, no C.R.’s! reageer retweet
Vind je het niet meer chill? Je woonde toch in Michigan?quote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 16:52 schreef popolon het volgende:
Make America dumb again is hard onderweg. En die meneer is hier 'legaal'.
http://woodtv.com/2018/01(...)fter-40-years-in-us/
zo ondertussen ga ook ik mijn opties overwegen.
De Republikeinen wel, maar hemzelf een stuk minder.quote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 17:23 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Zou hij in de smiezen hebben dat dat ook tegen hem kan werken?
Totdat de senaat anders besluit, in principe. Echter, als ze ertoe besluiten dan is het niet bepaald waarschijnlijk dat het ooit weer ingetrokken wordt... immers, stel dat republikeinen eenzijdig ervoor stemmen om de filibuster op dit terrein op te heffen, waarom zouden democraten dat dan weer in ere herstellen als zij de meerderheid hebben? Praktisch gezien dus voor altijd.quote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 17:57 schreef Re het volgende:
is zo'n nuclear option voor eeuwig/of alleen voor toekomstige budgettering of alleen voor een bepaalde periode?
ja dat laatste bedoel ik, maar is het bijvoorbeeld wet specifiek, de vorig nucleair doet me denken van wel... maar weet het dus nietquote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 18:01 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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Totdat de senaat anders besluit, in principe. Echter, als ze ertoe besluiten dan is het niet bepaald waarschijnlijk dat het ooit weer ingetrokken wordt... immers, stel dat republikeinen eenzijdig ervoor stemmen om de filibuster op dit terrein op te heffen, waarom zouden democraten dat dan weer in ere herstellen als zij de meerderheid hebben? Praktisch gezien dus voor altijd.
Mja, het is volgens mij maar net wat voor regels ze hiervoor zouden bedenken/opstellen.quote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 18:03 schreef Re het volgende:
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ja dat laatste bedoel ik, maar is het bijvoorbeeld wet specifiek, de vorig nucleair doet me denken van wel... maar weet het dus niet
ja beetje verwarrend maar voor aanstellingen gingen de republikeinen voor de nucleaire optie met het SC, dus ik neem aan dat alle toekomstige aanstellingen nu 51 zijnquote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 18:10 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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Mja, het is volgens mij maar net wat voor regels ze hiervoor zouden bedenken/opstellen.
Zo was een paar jaar geleden bv. de filibuster op benoemingen opgeheven, behalve voor de supreme court (om later alsnog afgeschat te worden, maar dat terzijde)... voor zover ik weet was de situatie daarvoor niet zo dat er een aparte regel was die specifiek ging over de supreme court rechters.
Helemaal zeker weten doe ik het niet echter.
Ja, dat was idd het laatste restje filibusterbaar voor wat betreft benoemingen voor zover ook ik weet.quote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 18:13 schreef Re het volgende:
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ja beetje verwarrend maar voor aanstellingen gingen de republikeinen voor de nucleaire optie met het SC, dus ik neem aan dat alle toekomstige aanstellingen nu 51 zijn
quote:Usually, when the FBI arrests a terrorist and the Justice Department charges them, it’s a big deal. Combatting terrorism is one of the Justice Department’s top priorities, and terror cases are a great way for federal prosecutors and agents to make names and build careers. The press and the public are very interested. Officials will typically blast out a press release, and, if it’s a big takedown, might even hold a press conference.
The Justice Department didn’t do any of that when federal prosecutors unsealed terrorism charges last week against Taylor Michael Wilson. The 26-year-old white supremacist from St. Charles, Missouri, allegedly breached a secure area of an Amtrak train on Oct. 22 while armed with a gun and plenty of backup ammunition. He set off the emergency brake, sending passengers lunging as the train cars went “completely black.”
bronquote:GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) warned on Sunday that the White House staff is undercutting President Trump and Congress's ability to get a deal on immigration.
"Every time we have a proposal it is only yanked back by staff members. As long as Stephen Miller is in charge of negotiating immigration we're going nowhere," Graham told reporters as he headed into a closed-door negotiation with a bipartisan group of senators.
Ook als McConnell voor is hebben ze daar nu steeds wel minimaal 50 stemmen voor nodig.quote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 20:22 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
McConnell is vooralsnog tegen de nuclear option, voor zover dat wat waard is.
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De onderhandelingen liggen in de handen van een 32-jarige communicatie-adviseur met dode ogen. Wat een wereld.
Nog steeds. Ja als je president steeds meer op een half debiele Mussolini gaat lijken dan moet je je wel dingen gaan afvragenquote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 17:26 schreef Falco het volgende:
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Vind je het niet meer chill? Je woonde toch in Michigan?
Och, je hebt ook Pete Hoekstra naar Nederland gestuurd, da's toch wel winst voor Michigan, lijkt me. Wel een verlies voor Nederlandquote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 22:20 schreef popolon het volgende:
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Nog steeds. Ja als je president steeds meer op een half debiele Mussolini gaat lijken dan moet je je wel dingen gaan afvragen
Mooi land, mooie staat, prima mensen. En een absolute drol als president.
'This is a bill that democrats support'quote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 21:06 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Best goed interview van Wallace met Mulvaney, die er o.a. ook fijntjes op gewezen wordt dat ze hun eigen huis niet eens op orde hebben ook zonder Dem. stemmen (op ± 3 min.)
Jaja, het gaat die vuige Democraten allemaal om de vernedering van Trump hoor! Want als het voor maandagochtend niet opgelost is kan het nog langer duren omdat ze Trump zijn State of the Union speech het liefst laten houden tijdens de shutdown, aldus Mulvaney.quote:Op zondag 21 januari 2018 23:50 schreef Zelva het volgende:
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'This is a bill that democrats support'
En dat laatste ook nog, dat de democraten dit alleen gedaan hebben om zijn jaarfeestje te verpesten
Het zal bij de achterban wel weer landen. Net als Pence's zijn uitspraak over het leger terwijl Mcconnell degene was die dat amendement afschoot.quote:Op maandag 22 januari 2018 00:16 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Jaja, het gaat die vuige Democraten allemaal om de vernedering van Trump hoor! Want als het voor maandagochtend niet opgelost is kan het nog langer duren omdat ze Trump zijn State of the Union speech het liefst laten houden tijdens de shutdown, aldus Mulvaney.
Nota bene, Tammy Duckworth was een militaire helicopter piloot die zwaar gewond raakte in Iraq en heeft een echte Purple Heartquote:Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL): “I will not be lectured about what our military needs by a five-deferment draft dodger.” She labels the president “Cadet Bone Spurs.”
quote:Stephen Miller, one of the few remaining original advisers to President Trump, invited a small group of writers and editors from Breitbart News to the White House last fall for a conversation on immigration. The conservative news website — headed at the time by another former White House adviser, Stephen K. Bannon — has been a steadfast cheerleader for Trump and his nationalist anti-immigration agenda.
But Miller’s goal on this occasion was to sell the group on a compromise: a possible deal offering protections to the young undocumented immigrants known as “dreamers” in exchange for tougher immigration provisions, such as an end to family-sponsored migration.
The discussion quickly turned into a shouting match — an expletive-laden “blowup,” according to one person familiar with the gathering. Another person described it as “just a fundamental disagreement within the movement.”SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
quote:Party leaders and rank-and-file senators spent all day Sunday haggling over a deal to reopen the government. But Washington's painful shutdown will nonetheless drag into Day Three.
Shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced that the chamber would vote on a plan at noon Monday to fund the government through Feb. 8. In an attempted concession to Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, McConnell said he would take up legislation to protect some young immigrants from deportation if a deal to address their status is not reached by the time funding expires in early February.
But Democrats were not ready to call it a deal, even as McConnell implored the Senate to vote Sunday night to reopen the government. "The shutdown should stop today," he said.
Schumer said further negotiations were needed and spurned McConnell's request, pushing a vote until Monday, when hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be furloughed.
"Talks will continue, but we have yet to reach an agreement on a path forward that would be acceptable for both sides," Schumer said.
Aides expect the Monday vote to fail absent further progress between the two party leaders before then.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
quote:FBI: Devin Nunes Won’t Show Us Memo Alleging Surveillance Abuses
The FBI has yet to see a controversial memo alleging the intelligence community engaged in grave abuses. And that could make friction between the Hill and the bureau even worse.
The FBI has not been permitted to see the memo Rep. Devin Nunes and his staff wrote about alleged abuses by the intelligence community, The Daily Beast has learned.
"The FBI has requested to receive a copy of the memo in order to evaluate the information and take appropriate steps if necessary. To date, the request has been declined,” said Andrew Ames, a spokesperson for the FBI.
Reached for comment, Nunes’ spokesperson Jack Langer said, "The Daily Beast has become America's foremost publication for regurgitating the Democrats' talking points."
Nunes, who heads the powerful House intelligence community, put together the four-page memo based on intelligence the FBI showed him and a few of his staff, as well as Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the committee. More than 150 members of the House have seen Nunes’ memo. Scores are calling for its release, while Democrats say it is “a misleading set of talking points attacking the FBI.”
The fact that Republicans refuse to show the memo to FBI, which characterizes the intelligence they shared with Nunes, has Democrats concerned. One aide told The Daily Beast it means Nunes’ efforts are just politics.
“If this is about FBI abuses, why wouldn’t they share it with the Trump-appointed director who wasn't at the bureau when the abuses supposedly occurred?” the aide said. “If this is about cleaning up the FBI like they claim, wouldn't they want Wray as an ally?”
That aide added that making the memo public without letting the FBI see it first could exacerbate tensions between the Hill and the bureau, and that it could make it even less cooperative with Congressional requests and subpoenas.
Republicans, meanwhile, say the bureau shouldn’t expect any surprises.
“Sessions, Wray, and Rosenstein testified before the Judiciary Committee,” said Rep. Matt Gaetz, one of the most vocal advocates for releasing the memo. “I’ve read the memo. Nothing contained in it will surprise them. But it has surprised and horrified many of us.”
As the government shutdown rolls on, many Hill Republicans are pushing for the memo’s release. A leadership source told The Daily Beast yesterday that its release was “only a matter of time.” And there’s a significant––though not unanimous––appetite in the House Republican conference for its release.
The House intelligence committee decided against letting Democrats release a minority report characterizing the intelligence underlying the memo.
The memo’s release would provide fuel to Republicans’ criticism of Bob Mueller’s investigation into connections between Trump’s allies and the Kremlin. Ret. Gen. Michael Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr., has been one of the most vocal advocates for its publication. Gen. Flynn is cooperating with the Mueller probe, and has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.
Bron: The Daily Beast
No deal. "yet" Ze HADDEN een week geleden een deal kunnen hebben. De democraten zaten in de oval office om een bipartisan deal mogelijk te maken. Tot ze er achter kwamen dat Trump er een stelletje ultraconservatieve haviken bij had gehaald, die hij ook nog opjutte met uitspraken die zelfs veel Republikeinen in het verkeerde keelgat schoten. Het is alsof Mark Rutte een Abortusdeal met de coalitie moet ondertekenen en er de fractie van de SGP er bij haalt om de onderhandelingen "soepeler" te laten verlopen.quote:Op maandag 22 januari 2018 05:03 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Senate to vote Monday on plan to reopen government
But Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says there's no deal yet.
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Ik dacht dat het over een interne FBI-memo ging, maar het is gewoon een stukje wat Nunes heeft geschreven.quote:Op maandag 22 januari 2018 08:01 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
Met het risico dat ik Refragmental weer wakker maak:
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Daarom, wie neemt Nunes nou nog serieus, die heeft zich nota bene vanwege zijn partijdigheid moeten terugtrekken uit het Rusland onderzoek.quote:Op maandag 22 januari 2018 08:59 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
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Ik dacht dat het over een interne FBI-memo ging, maar het is gewoon een stukje wat Nunes heeft geschreven.
Nou, dan zijn mijn verwachtingen hiervoor helemaal naar 0 gedaald.
Schumer's voorstel vrijdag was volledige funding voor de wall en voldoen aan het volledige budgetverzoek voor defensie, in ruil voor CHIP en DACA. Dat was een gebalanceerd voorstel, het verzet tegen DACA is hoe dan ook voorbehouden aan een groep extremisten en helemaal niet breed gedragen onder Trump's base. Trump en de Republikeinen misbruiken CHIP en DACA (zieke kinderen & jonge immigranten) om de Dems af te kunnen schilderen als obstructionistisch, de boodschap is: geef ze controle terug over Huis of Senaat en jullie gaan nog twee jaar langer veel meer van dit soort ellende krijgen.quote:Op maandag 22 januari 2018 08:40 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
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No deal. "yet" Ze HADDEN een week geleden een deal kunnen hebben. De democraten zaten in de oval office om een bipartisan deal mogelijk te maken. Tot ze er achter kwamen dat Trump er een stelletje ultraconservatieve haviken bij had gehaald, die hij ook nog opjutte met uitspraken die zelfs veel Republikeinen in het verkeerde keelgat schoten. Het is alsof Mark Rutte een Abortusdeal met de coalitie moet ondertekenen en er de fractie van de SGP er bij haalt om de onderhandelingen "soepeler" te laten verlopen.
Amerika kan vooral prima zonder FPTP functioneren.quote:Op maandag 22 januari 2018 09:08 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Heb steeds meer het idee dat het het presidentsschap in zijn algemeen het land steeds meer kapot maakt. Men is alleen maar bezig elkaar de schuld te geven en zodoende ook mensen tegen elkaar op te zetten. Zijn er geen stemmen om het helemaal af te schaffen? Volgens mij kan Amerika prima zonder president functioneren.
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Nope. Dit was ik niet, het was een newsweek.quote:
De schuldvraag is duidelijk: Ik heb een vermoeden dat Mitch McConnell er eigenlijk ook weinig aan kon doen. De overwicht van een in principe klein deel van de GOP heeft hem in een spagaat geduwd. Hij WIST namelijk dat de democraten met deze eisen op de proppen zouden komen. Schumer deed gewoon wat hij van plan was, meer niet. De Republikeinen daartegen werden gestuurd door een hardline fractie, opgejut door Trump. Dit is overduidelijk een Trump/teaparty shutdown en je kunt eigenlijk niet de hele republikeinse partij of de Democraten hiervan de schuld in de schoenen duwen.quote:Op maandag 22 januari 2018 09:08 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Heb steeds meer het idee dat het het presidentsschap in zijn algemeen het land steeds meer kapot maakt. Men is alleen maar bezig elkaar de schuld te geven en zodoende ook mensen tegen elkaar op te zetten. Zijn er geen stemmen om het helemaal af te schaffen? Volgens mij kan Amerika prima zonder president functioneren.
Trump is door de Russen via Deutsche weer liquide gemaakt. Zal hetzelfde voor boy-wonder gelden? Ik denk niet dat hij veel krediet heeft (pun intended) kunnen opbouwen als je ziet waarom z’n vader het gevang in moest.quote:Op maandag 22 januari 2018 10:48 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
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En on topic, had Bannon dus toch gelijk. Kushner zit als New Yorkse vastgoedman natuurlijk vuistdiep in de schimmige transacties -- ik durf niet zo stellig te zeggen dat dit iets met Rusland te maken heeft, maar eerder iets uit zijn pre-politieke tijdperk.
quote:Wow! dat is meer dan ik had verwacht. een echte swamp
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