Posted on 07/02/2017 4:56:54 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
July 2nd, 2017
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.; Marc Short, White House director of legislative affairs.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price; Sens. Tom Carper, D-Del., and Bill Cassidy, R-La.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio; White House homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Ben Sasse, R-Neb.
Also, he is good friends with good ‘ole pedo-boy Dennis Hastert.
Really?
Not saying you’re wrong. Today was the first time I’ve paid any attention to him, frankly.
I listened to every word he said. He has an excellent vocabulary and if he wasn’t reading some kind of teleprompter, well he spoke briskly and accurately like he was.
He didn’t say an unkind word about Trump though he kind of skipped around the subject of tweets.
He impressed me today. Going to watch with close eye because Tapper already asked Sasse if he would run against Trump next election.
People are noticing this guy, a kid almost, and asking him if he plans to run for Prez.
Ain’t nobody ever asked me that.
Really?
Oooh, you guys are loaded with gossip.
Because that Denny Hastert thing really surprised the hell out of me. By me I always thought Denny was a straight shooter. Only to find out he like young boys more than reasonable.
And what is the definition of “good friends” I must wonder.
DO NOT TRUST RAND PAUL!™
Happy Independence Day!
Rand Paul wants separate REPEAL.
McConnell does NOT want separate repeal.
Rand Paul is the one to trust.
Sasse has been anti Donald since the primaries, as was his right. However, as a Republican Senator, he owed WHOM THE PARTY CHOSE AS THE NOMINEE his loyalty once that nomination was voted on and approved.
Yet Ben has never stopped.
He needs to either SHADDAP or leave the party. This applies to all Anti-Trump Republicans, frankly.
They don’t get choose: WE do.
We, the Republicans voters, elected Trump out of a very broad 16 person candidate range.
Sasse on Trump:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=ben+sasse+against+trump&FORM=R5FD
Never heard that phrase before. LOL!
Social Security works for all Americans, and it has never been more important to our economic security. Fifty-four million depend on Social Security – 1 out of every 6 people. About 2 out of 3 seniors depend on Social Security for most of their income, and one-third of seniors rely on it for at least 90% of their income. Social Security’s benefits are modest, but vital. The average benefit is about $13,000 a year—less than full-time, minimum-wage work.
Yet, it is the single most important way the nation protects working Americans and their families against lost wages, when a working person is severely disabled or retires; and when a parent or spouse dies or is severely disabled. Social Security lifts 20 million people out of poverty. Without it, the poverty rate of our seniors would be 45%; instead it is 10%. Social Security does all of this with administrative costs of less than a penny on the dollar.
About one in three of all Social Security beneficiaries are receiving disability or survivor benefits. Social Security is the nation’s largest and most generous program for disabled workers, providing 8.3 million with benefits. It is also the nation’s largest and most generous children’s program serving 4.4 million children.
No one wants to starve Grandma. Some of us do want her to have more say in how her lifetime of forced contributions could be invested. Shame that so many could have done so much better if this was allowed.
Americans are not saving for their futures. The numbers for retirement savings already looked discouraging with the average American couple only having put away $5,000, but the situation may be worse: only a third of working Americans are saving money in an employer-sponsored or tax-deferred retirement account, according to U.S. Census Bureau researchers, as reported in Bloomberg. And that’s only if their employers even offer such plans, which, according to this research, only 14% do (and they’re likely large companies).
Of course, living within one’s means is an important part of saving: About two-thirds of American adults don’t write out a budget at all and the same percentage of consumers say they would have trouble coming up with an emergency $2,000, according to the New York Federal Reserve in a new survey released Monday.
I do bet we can agree that the government is not the wisest entity to manage finances.
Agree, but the majority of our population is not capable either. We can discuss the reasons why, but the reality is that we have a permanent underclass that is growing and the ability to move out of it is problematic for most. How do we deal with a beleaguered middle class that has seen wage stagnation since 1969 fueled by mass immigration, outsourcing of our jobs abroad, and automation?
I am reading now Charles Murray's book, Coming Apart. It is an eye-opener, especially for those of us who graduated high school in the early 1960s.
"In Coming Apart, Charles Murray explores the formation of American classes that are different in kind from anything we have ever known, focusing on whites as a way of driving home the fact that the trends he describes do not break along lines of race or ethnicity.
Drawing on five decades of statistics and research, Coming Apart demonstrates that a new upper class and a new lower class have diverged so far in core behaviors and values that they barely recognize their underlying American kinship—divergence that has nothing to do with income inequality and that has grown during good economic times and bad.
The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. That divergence puts the success of the American project at risk.
The evidence in Coming Apart is about white America. Its message is about all of America."
I agree. We already have means testing for Medicare.
just too good!!
None of them.
The top and bottom of white America increasingly live in different cultures, Murray argues, with the powerful upper class living in enclaves surrounded by their own kind, ignorant about life in mainstream America, and the lower class suffering from erosions of family and community life that strike at the heart of the pursuit of happiness. That divergence puts the success of the American project at risk.
Yes, In America this may be a new Phenomena
We did have some of this in the 1890-1920 era. Oil, Railroads
In the rest of the world outside of Europe this class bifurcation is pretty normal. Venezuela is just a more recent example where the bifurcation is causing revolution
Lenin took advantage of this same dynamic, Land owning royalty vs. the kulaks.
Most oh history is this 90% serfs,9% merchants,Laity, other professionals and 0.5 - 1% rulers.
First of all, it is happening now in Europe. The point that Murray is making, normal or not for the Third World, is that this is a mortal threat to our Republic and the vision of our Founders. As Murray points out, this is not a matter of class and income inequality, it is growing chasm in terms of culture and moral values.
Now he tortures us.
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