Immigration and crime the Republicans wins hands down.
What people think as compared to what they actually get is the reality of the economy and the survey.
Republicans’ business-friendly approach leads most people to believe that they are better for the economy. A closer look reveals that Democrats are, in many respects, actually better.
The Party That’s Actually Best for the Economy
Many analyses look at which party is best for the economy. A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that Democratic presidents since World War II have performed much better than Republicans. On average, Democratic presidents grew the economy by 4.4% each year versus 2.5% for Republicans.
A study by Princeton University economists Alan Blinder and Mark Watson found that the economy performs better when the president is a Democrat. They report that “by many measures, the performance gap is startlingly large.” Between Truman and Obama, growth was 1.8% higher under Democrats than Republicans.
A Hudson Institute study found that the six years with the best growth were evenly split between Republican and Democrat presidents.
Most of these evaluations measure growth during the president’s term in office. But no president has control over the growth added during his first year. The budget for that fiscal year was already set by the previous president, so it’s helpful to compare the gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of the president’s last budget to the end of their predecessor’s last budget.
For Obama, that would be the fiscal year from October 1, 2009, to September 30, 2018. That’s FY 2010 through FY 2017. During that time, annual GDP increased from $15.6 trillion to $17.7 trillion, or 14%.7
‘Crisis for Biden’:… Democrats hatch a secret plan to prop up the President of the United States… Operation… Don’t let the US President fall…
Joe’s ‘blunders and stumbles’ again called out… He doesn’t know whether he is coming or going…
I shutter to imagine if this were Trump behaving this way. Could you imagine the 24 hour coverage? Seriously, this would NEVER be ignored the way it is by the lame-stream US media…
Glad Biden Reinstated this rule, something Trump did away with.
Biden strengthens rules to keep schools from saddling students with unaffordable debt
All schools of higher education will face stricter requirements proving certain certificate programs lead to better employment opportunities for graduates under a finalized federal rule.
If they can’t prove their worth, the schools lose access to federal student aid.
The Biden administration this week reinstated a stricter gainful employment rule, toughening one accountability metric and adding a new one to better gauge a school’s ability to improve their students’ earnings potential after graduation. The rule applies to certificate programs at all institutions, including public and private nonprofit colleges — a change from the previous rule that only applied to for-profit schools.
Additionally, all schools will have to provide prospective students with a new financial value transparency framework that outlines the actual costs to get a degree from that institution and the financial outcomes students can expect.
The moves are part of the Biden administration’s latest efforts to rein in costs in higher education and aims to protect hundreds of thousands of young Americans from going into unaffordable debt. The finalized rules build on proposals Biden announced previously.
“We are fixing a broken system and making sure that students know, before they take out loans, when college programs have a history of leaving graduates with high debts, low earnings, and poor career prospects,” Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a press release. “The Biden-Harris administration believes that when students invest in higher education, they should get a solid return on their investment and a greater shot at the American dream.”
The Libertarian Party is preparing to petition the courts to place President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell under conservatorship, and the Party is soliciting interested D.C. attorneys to assist in bringing these cases before the court.
Here are some excerpts from the announcement on the Libertarian Party website:
Washington, DC, September 12, 2023 — The Libertarian National Committee is taking urgent action to protect the interests of the American population, with imminent plans to file for conservatorships for President Joe Biden and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. The clear incapacitation, mental lapses, and deficiencies in decision-making that are clearly observable in numerous, recent, and well-publicized instances necessitate these actions.
These men are not well enough to make financial decisions with their own money or with taxpayer money, so we’ve compassionately decided to step in and make those important decisions for them. We are seeking legal representation in these matters in Washington DC so that we can move forward with the proceedings as quickly as possible. If you are a DC probate attorney and you are interested in assisting us with this action, please reach out. We also encourage other aggrieved parties to file for conservatorship of as many incompetent geriatric members of the federal government as possible.”
Age is only one of the components of the Leadership formula… Mental Agility is the largest piece of the pie for a Leader in effective control. Biden was already on the Dementia spectrum during his Presidential Campaign…
The main reason the Democrats hid him in the basement was so he wouldn’t concern the American voters prior to the 2020 election… Once in office, it wasn’t as critical to camouflage his decline from the Public and the Media at large…
I mean… In this day and age… ALL Politicians should have to pass a Mental Health assessment before even contesting a seat in the United States Government…
@SmallPaul and the rest of the lunatic left are only now weaponizing Age as a deterrent against Trump… They have no hope challenging Trump’s energetic and mental prowess against a similar aged, yet cognitively and physically declining President Joe Biden…
We have the same political issues here in Australia… Politicians too engrossed in running their own frivolous agendas like Net Zero energy production, Mass Immigration, Indigenous Treaties etc… etc…
No one is at the wheel…Really paying attention to what’s down the road…
Age should be taken into consideration when electing a president in today’s America. The cost of taking office is high, so let’s elect someone younger to lead the country
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) had promised “a mountain of evidence” against Biden, whom Republicans accuse of corruption related to his vice presidency, Cavuto said. But “none of the expert witnesses today presented, yet, any proof for impeachment.”
“In other words … the way this was built up [was] where there’s smoke there would be fire,” Cavuto continued in a break from regular Fox messaging on the hearing. “I’m not a lawyer, and I’ll be talking to smart ones in a moment. But where there’s smoke, today we just got a lot more smoke.”
Cavuto acknowledged the inquiry may at some point lead to more information emerging that could be damaging to Biden, and said there was “no doubt” of the “curious” nature of the financial connections of the president’s son, Hunter Biden.
“But when you begin to trumpet what you have as the beginning of an explosive inquiry into the president of the United States to potentially remove him from office, you would think you would bring your A-game,” he said.
There is a greater likelihood of a government shutdown, Just read that
The GOP-only proposal to avert a government shutdown failed with 21 Republican lawmakers joining all Democrats to defeat the proposal. The final vote was 232-198.
GOP members are blaming themselves, If you aren’t participating in your own party, you should stop blaming others and start looking within yourself.
GOP blames looming shutdown on 21 Republican holdouts
GOP blames looming shutdown on 21 Republican holdouts
House Republicans are letting loose with criticism of their GOP colleagues who voted against the conference’s short-term funding bill with just a day and a half until a government shutdown.
“There are 21 Republicans who just voted to defund the United States military and keep the border open,” said Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-Wis.). “They need to be called out by name. I mean, this is not a Republican shutdown. This is a shutdown — if we don’t get this done soon — that is caused by 21 individual members of the Republican conference.”
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), a moderate, placed the blame for the looming shutdown directly on Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), one of the most prominent opponents to the stopgap who has also been threatening to vote to remove McCarthy.
“Unfortunately, a handful of people, and in particular a party of one — Matt Gaetz — have chosen to put his own agenda, his own personal agenda, above all else,” Lawler said.
“There’s only one person to blame for any potential government shutdown, and that’s Matt Gaetz,” Lawler continued. “He’s not a conservative Republican. He’s a charlatan. And as far as I’m concerned, when you’re working with Democrats to try to vacate the speaker, you’re a joke. This needs to come to an end.”
Gaetz earlier Friday denied a report he was talking to Democrats about an effort to oust McCarthy.
On the brink of a government shutdown, McCarthy pivots to a 45-day plan relying on Democratic help
On the brink of a federal government shutdown Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced a dramatic pivot Saturday, trying to push a 45-day funding bill through the House with Democratic help — a move that could keep government open but most certainly risks his job.
Republican lawmakers met behind closed doors early in the morning with hours to go before the midnight deadline needed to fund government operations or face a disruptive federal closure. The new approach would leave behind aid to Ukraine that a growing number of Republicans oppose.
The House was preparing for a quick vote Saturday on the plan.
Government shutdown held at bay after House passes 45-day funding bill
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was “forced to rely on Democrats for passage because the speaker’s hard-right flank said it would oppose any short-term measure. The speaker set up a process for voting requiring a two-thirds supermajority, about 290 votes in the 435-member House for passage. Republicans hold a 221-212 majority, with two vacancies.”
House Republicans rolled out the new bill on Saturday morning, after an earlier and more partisan plan that included steep spending cuts and border security measures failed to garner sufficient support in the conference on Friday.
The new plan, which Republicans argued was the “clean” bill Democrats wanted, would keep the government funded at current levels, while including billions of dollars for disaster relief — in line with a previous request by the Biden administration.
When a “government shutdown” occurs, most of the government continues to function precisely as usual. Notably, members of Congress continue to draw their full paychecks, right on time every pay-period, no matter how long the “shutdown” persists. And guess who made the rules that provide these members of Congress with this cushy arrangement. That’s right: Congress made those rules.
And they made the rules allowing themselves to engage in insider trading of stocks (or anything else) — while at the same time threatening the rest of us with fines or jail for engaging in exactly the same activity. In Washington, D.C., a tremendous amount of inside information is generated within Congress itself, and is then parlayed into personal profit by the same congressmen and senators who generated it.
Can you say cor·rup·tion?
Consider two reforms to the way Congress rewards itself with outrageous perks:
(1) In the future, members of Congress shall receive no pay for days during which the government is “shut down” due to budget squabbles. I’m sure that this simple reform would permanently end these stupid shutdowns.
(2) In the future, members of Congress shall be bound by the same restrictions on insider trading as the rest of the population, and shall be subject to the same penalties as the rest of us for violating those restrictions. In addition to being a matter of simple fairness, this reform would encourage some of the lifers in Congress to move on, and get real jobs in the real economy, making way for fresh talent.
The obvious problem with these proposed reforms is that Congress will never enact them voluntarily, and there is no practical way for the voters in this country to force Congress to derail its own gravy-train.
So for now, and maybe forever, corruption is firmly entrenched in the swamp that is the federal government.
Recently, Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced a new bill based on the Stock Act, the Ban Stock Trading for Government Officials Act.
new law has been proposed that would ban members of Congress and the federal executive branch — including the president — from trading stocks.
The new bill would bar Washington officials from owning or trading stocks, even in blind trusts.
It would also impose penalties of varying degrees against those found to break the rules.
They could also be subject to additional civil penalties in “extraordinary” cases or those that involve “substantial monetary value,” according to a joint press release from Gillibrand and Hawley.
Is there anything missing in the penalties?
When it comes to Congress, Clint, The Distinguished Gentleman is the realist movie you can ever watch.
20 members of Congress personally invest in top weapons contractors that’ll profit from the just-passed $40 billion Ukraine aid package
Some lawmakers sit on congressional committees that regulate defense policy.
Some members of Congress stand to personally profit off Russia’s war on Ukraine.
At least 20 federal lawmakers or their spouses hold stock in Raytheon Technologies and Lockheed Martin, which manufacture the weapons Western allies are sending Ukraine to fight Russian invaders, according to an Insider analysis of federal financial records.
The stock holdings by members of Congress come as Congress, on Thursday, approved $40 billion in defense and other aid to Ukraine. Both companies’ stock — especially that of Lockheed Martin — haverisen since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
