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- Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin, Jr.
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"A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person's ancestors were indigenous to North or South America. Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation. Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, who ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is prove. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."
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Interest rates rising meant we'd never be paying it down. This was the argument during the Obama administration and continues to be the argument. Funny how you weren't worried then. I was and still am, but at least Trump is trying to bring businesses and their tax money back to the US. We'll have to wait to see how it plays out in the long run.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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The dems playing the role of deficit hawks is more than mildly amusing!Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...c3&oe=5C5D7F35Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Let it be shouted from every mountaintop in the United States: Todays Republican Party is a federal budget deficit and national debt fraud.
Yes, I used the f word.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines committing fraud as the intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value, and a fraud as a person who is not what he or she pretends to be.
When it comes to the federal budget, both of these definitions fit the GOP perfectly.
Contrary to what it still wants you to believe, the GOP the political party that once supported pay-as-you go rules and balanced budget amendments to the U.S. Constitution and still routinely excoriates Democrats for what it says is their profligate ways today is not the political party of fiscal responsibility and reduced deficits.
Actually, its not at all clear this is anything new.
More than three decades ago, former Representative Jack Kemp (NY), who at the time was one of the GOPs budget gurus, was widely quoted saying the Republican Party no longer worship(s) at the shrine the balanced budget.
About 20 years later, when he tried to warn the George W. Bush White House about the governments rising red ink, Republican Vice President Dick Cheney infamously told Treasury Secretary Paul ONeill that GOP icon Ronald Reagan had proved deficits dont matter so there was no need to worry about them.
And the budget surpluses during the last 4 years of the Clinton administration were turned into 7 consecutive years of deficits ($2.1 trillion in total) by George W. Bush when he passed up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pay-off most of the national debt and instead used an imaginary projected surplus for a huge and very real tax cut.
But its hard not to look at the past as the warm-up to the the enormous budget deficit and national debt increasing efforts Republicans are willfully and obviously joyously doing now.
Consider the following.
GOP President Donald Trump and his House and Senate Republican allies have proposed a multi-trillion dollar tax cut that isnt needed to stimulate the U.S. economy and will increase the deficit by an average of at least $200 billion a year.
Mick Mulvaney, Trumps director of the Office of Management and Budget, who claimed to be an uber fiscal conservative when he helped found the House Freedom Caucus to force deficit reductions at every opportunity, is now demanding trillions of dollars in additional deficits and unbelievable increases in government borrowing.
Trump has proposed significant increases for military spending that, if he gets his way, will not be offset by other spending reductions. Instead, the existing caps will either be raised, ignored or gotten around with gimmicks and the result will be higher deficits and more debt.
The budget resolution passed last week by the GOP-controlled Senate Budget Committee provides for a $1.5 trillion increase in the deficit and debt. That will very likely become more than $2 trillion when the final version of the fiscal 2018 budget is developed jointly with the Republican majority in the House.
The demands by the House Freedom Caucus and its counterparts in the Senate that emergency spending for past hurricane relief be offset with spending cuts so the deficit isnt increased havent been repeated now that the hurricanes have happened while a Republican is in the White House. Even some of the GOPs most virulent critics of the past aid have worked hard to get the additional spending now while at the same time denying they are being two-faced about the deficit increases that will result.
Theres also billions for the wall between the United States and Mexico and a still-unspecified $1 trillion infrastructure program.
Whatever spending cuts have been proposed are too small to offset much of the deficit increases being considered, and most wont be enacted by the Republican-controlled Congress anyway.
On top of everything else, Trump and congressional Republicans are relying on a level of economic growth to seemingly pay for their tax cuts and spending increases that few reputable economists think is really possible. The much-more probable lower growth rate means the federal deficit will be higher later than any Republican is now admitting publically.
Two things immediately come to mind when you consider all this.
First, no matter what Mulvaneys official projections and forecasts show, Republican-proposed-and-supported budget policies could easily result in a permanent $1 trillion annual budget deficit for the U.S. and dramatically increased federal government borrowing.
Second, when it come to the federal deficit, the Republican party should now be considered a synonym for the word fraud.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancol...deficit-fraud/
...could easily result in a permanent $1 trillion annual budget deficit for the U.S.
Were seeing this come to pass. Good job Cons.Comment
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Bullies
A more moderate Republican, Collins was targeted by liberal activists and those opposed to Kavanaugh particularly after allegations of sexual assault came to light who thought she could abandon her party and vote against confirming the judge. But ahead of the vote, Collins said she didn't believe the charges could "fairly prevent Judge Kavanaugh from serving on the Court.
Kavanaugh, who vehemently denied the decades-old sexual misconduct claims against him, was confirmed in a narrow 50-48 vote despite testimony from accuser Christine Blasey Ford.
More than 1,300 alumni of St. Lawrence University in New York signed onto a letter saying Collins lack[s] the integrity and commitment to justice that we expect from the St. Lawrence body.
We ask that the University revoke this honorary degree as we find that she is not deserving of it in the face of her recent actions. We ask the university to do this in support of truth and for all of the victims of sexual assault and violence, of which many of her fellow alumni and students have suffered, the letter read, in part.Comment
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If we don't take back our money and if we don't, you know, balance up our budget at least get it damn close and soon we're not going to have a nation anymore. to Infowars on Dec. 2, 2015Comment
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Deficit under a black guy - badOriginally posted by Unregistered View Post
Deficit (double the size) under a white guy - good
- Alec "I know nothing about economics" JonesComment
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Its not a race thing Con.
Permanent Trillion plus dollar deficits under any guy... very bad.Comment
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I read the previous post too quickly. Yeah, for Cons it is a race thing.Comment
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