No, you are the one not responding. Please post links of Trump protesters violently assaulting Trump supporters.
Won't hold my breath.
Won't hold my breath.
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What a terrific defense of Jindal's destruction... they live in poverty, but if they're happy, so what?Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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Still not answering my question. Have you watched the videos?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Don't know why you think I should post more videos than the ones I have already posted.Comment
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Jindal is no longer governor and if someone is content with their life, who are you to tell them they are not?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Let me answer that question for you. A liberal. Unhappy themselves and desiring the same of others.
Misery loves company.Comment
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Sick Of Bobby Jindal, Tired of David Vitter, Louisiana Elects Democratic Governor
By Keith Brekhus, Nov 22nd, 2015
After two terms of Bobby Jindal’s mismanagement of the state, Lousiana voters took out their frustrations on the GOP, by electing Democrat John Bel Edwards to serve as their next governor. Edwards squared off against Republican Senator David Vitter in the fight to replace Jindal, and voters showed absolutely no interest in putting another Republican in the governor’s mansion.
Governor Jindal, who recently dropped out of the Republican presidential race, will leave office as something of an embarrassment. His net approval rating ranked 2nd worst among the nations’ governors in a recent Morning Consult poll. Kansas’ Sam Brownback (R) was the only governor in the country who was more loathed by his constituents than Jindal.
John Bel Edwards consistently led Vitter in the polls leading up to Saturday, but Democrats were concerned that Vitter might still pull off a victory. Matt Bevin’s upset win in Kentucky earlier in the month gave Democrats reason to distrust the polls. In addition, many analysts felt that the Paris terrorist attacks and the ensuing controversy over settling Syrian refugees in Louisiana, might play in Vitter’s favor.
However, on Saturday reason triumphed over fear as voters decisively chose to back Edwards over Vitter. The Associated Press called the race for Edwards at 9:09 p.m. Central Time, with the Democrat holding a double digit 55-45 lead with over half the state’s precincts reporting.
Edwards’ decisive victory was a big win for Democrats in a Deep South state, and also a sign that Republican appeals to voter fears aren’t always successful even in red states. Vitter was a deeply flawed candidate who was unable to overcome both his own personal baggage and Bobby Jindal’s disastrous management of the state to carve out a path to victory. The “R” by his name was not enough to save him, especially since the GOP brand had been tarnished by Jindal.
Edwards’ victory will give Louisiana a chance to reverse eight years of damage done by Bobby Jindal. The voters have decisively voted to change course in Louisiana.Comment
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just committing the rapes americans don't want to do
Federal immigration officials are requesting detainers on four illegal aliens accused of a heinous attack on a Framingham couple in which the woman was raped and her boyfriend was beaten and threatened with death, the Herald has learned.
Two of the illegals had previously been deported to Guatemala, said Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Shawn Neudauer.
Elmer Diaz, 19, is charged with rape, assault with a dangerous weapon, kidnapping and threatening to commit a crime. His brother, Ariel Diaz, 24, was charged with unarmed robbery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, indecent assault and battery, kidnapping and witness intimidation.
He was deported to Guatemala in May 2014 after convictions for drunken driving and disorderly conduct, said Neudauer.
Another brother, Adan Diaz, 32, and Marlon Josue Jarquin-Felipe, 27, are both charged with indecent assault and battery and kidnapping. All four suspects are from Guatemala. Jarquin-Felipe was deported back to his homeland in April 2014, according to Neudauer.
Neudauer told the Herald yesterday the agency is “closely monitoring the cases and has placed detainers on all four” illegal immigrants. He added that Ariel Diaz was also arrested this winter on a drunken driving charge. ICE was not notified of that case, he added.
In the Framingham case, the victim’s boyfriend was beaten while his girlfriend was held down on a bed and raped Sunday evening, authorities say.
The still-shaken boyfriend told the Herald yesterday that he and his girlfriend have not yet come to terms with the horrific assault.
“I thought we were going to die. I really did. And I didn’t care if I died as long as I could save her and get her out of there, that’s all I cared about,” said the boyfriend, whose name the Herald is withholding.
“I’ve lived (in Framingham) my whole life and I never imagined anything like this could happen just walking down the street,” he said. “The worst part was I felt like I couldn’t do anything.”
According to authorities, he and his girlfriend were out walking and enjoying an unseasonably warm evening when they were approached by a man carrying beer, police said. The man appeared friendly and offered them a drink, then three more men emerged, police said.
One produced a condom and indicated he wanted the man’s girlfriend. One grabbed his girlfriend by the hood of her sweatshirt, dragging her away, while the biggest of the group kept her boyfriend back, police said.
“They brought her into the building on the corner into the apartment,” police said. “They pulled a dresser or table across the door of the room so she could not leave … (They) were trying to climb on her while the others were groping her.”
Her boyfriend managed to force his way into the apartment and was calling 911 when two of the men broke away to handle him, police said.
Police said Ariel Diaz head-butted the man several times and then grabbed a large chef’s knife and tried slashing him, but Jarquin-Felipe pushed the knife-wielder back, stopping him from stabbing the man.
Trump Now!!!Comment
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After decades of mismanagement by Democrats, states are electing Republican governors and legislators.Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...es-in-1-chart/
"In 2009, Republicans controlled both chambers in just 14 state legislatures. Six years later, they had total control in more than double that number. And that's not even the full, bad story for Democrats. *Look at*their*numbers. In 2009, Democrats had full control in 27 state legislatures; by 2015 that number was down to 11, the lowest ebb for total Democratic control since, at least, 1978."Comment
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Jindal left Louisiana with Evonomic Disaster
By Chico Harlan , March 4
Already, the state of Louisiana had gutted university spending and depleted its rainy-day funds. It had cut 30,000 employees and furloughed others. It had slashed the number of child services staffers, including those devoted to foster family recruitment, and young abuse victims for the first time were spending nights at government offices.
And then, the state’s new governor, John Bel Edwards (D), came on TV and said the worst was yet to come. Edwards, in a prime-time address on Feb. 11, said he’d learned of “devastating facts” about the extent of the state’s budget shortfall and said that Louisiana was plunging into a “historic fiscal crisis.” Despite all the cuts of the previous years, the nation’s second-poorest state still needed nearly $3 billion — almost $650 per person — just to maintain its regular services over the next 16 months. Edwards gave the state’s lawmakers three weeks to figure out a solution, a period that expires March 9 with no clear answer in reach.
Louisiana stands at the brink of economic disaster. Without sharp and painful tax increases in the coming weeks, the government will cease to offer many of its vital services, including education opportunities and certain programs for the needy. A few universities will shut down and declare bankruptcy. Graduations will be canceled. Students will lose scholarships. Select hospitals will close. Patients will lose funding for treatment of disabilities. Some reports of child abuse will go uninvestigated.
“Doomsday,” said Marketa Garner Walters, the head of Louisiana’s Department of Children and Family Services. If the state can’t raise any new revenue, her agency’s budget, like several others, will be slashed 60 percent. On Feb. 11, 2016, Governor John Bel Edwards made a special address to the citizens of Louisiana to discuss the historic budget shortfall facing the state ahead of a special session of the Louisiana Legislature. "At that level,” she said in an interview, “the agency is unsustainable.”
But even if Louisiana’s Republican-dominated legislature approves certain tax increases, as most expect, the state still would grapple with problems. The taxes — which could include hikes on everything from groceries to salaries — would dig into the pockets of citizens in a state where 18 percent live in poverty and where the median income is 20 percent below the national average. And the taxes alone won’t close the gap. Nasty cuts will still be necessary, meaning Louisiana will be taking more from its 4.6 million people while offering them less.
"I’m feeling kind of disrespected,” said Christian Washington, 18, a sophomore at Southern University who could lose a state-funded scholarship. “This was an incentive for me. I worked extremely hard. And now they’re trying to strip me of my work.”
Many of the state’s economic analysts say a structural budget deficit emerged and then grew under former governor Bobby Jindal, who, during his eight years in office, reduced the state’s revenue by offering tax breaks to the middle class and wealthy. He also created new subsidies aimed at luring and keeping businesses. Those policies, state data show, didn’t deliver the desired economic growth. This year, Louisiana has doled out $210 million more to corporations in the form of credits and subsidies than it has collected from them in taxes.
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Facts are meaningless when directed at the left.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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The Party of Red Ink
http://www.usnews.com/news/the-repor...rty-of-red-ink
For most of modern U.S. political history, Republicans in general have cast themselves as the party of fiscally responsible governance, adhering to a simple equation: low government spending plus tax cuts – the bigger, and broader, the better – equals all-but-guaranteed economic growth and full government coffers.
Look at states governed by Republicans, however, and it seems that the GOP might need a collective refresher course in economics, if not general math.
Five years after the economic recession wreaked havoc on their budgets, at least a dozen red states are awash in red ink, facing nine- and ten-figure deficits heading into the new fiscal year. That's led GOP governors who won office by pledging fiscal responsibility, and bans on new taxes, to slash spending on everything from education to the environment while simultaneously increasing the financial burdens for the poor, along with the use of accounting sleight-of-hand to make the books look better.
Though it's clearly a bipartisan issue – Maryland's new Republican governor, Larry Hogan, inherited a $1.2 billion budget deficit from former governor (and future Democratic presidential candidate) Martin O'Malley – the rising red tide could wash away the so-called "Laffer Curve," a key element of Republicans' long-held fiscal orthodoxy that asserts tax cuts pay for themselves by stimulating economic growth.
In Kansas, two-term Republican Gov. Sam Brownback famously declared his state was a real-world "experiment" for the GOP's fiscal ideas devised by Arthur Laffer, an influential conservative economist and one of Brownback's key advisers. Despite Laffer's presence on his policy team, Brownback's state's budget is nearly $1 billion in the red, forcing the governor to make deep cuts in education, social programs and some services.
The deficits could also sweep into the dustbin the presidential ambitions of at least three Republican governors who are struggling to balance the books in their home states even as they try to make names for themselves on the national political stage.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey faces a $7.35 billion structural budget deficit, including $2 billion in overdue payments to the state pension fund. In Louisiana, Gov. Bobby Jindal, is scrambling to plug a $1.6 billion budget hole that could wreck the state's public university system.
Both Christie and Jindal have openly explored the possibility of running for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, though both would be considered second-tier candidates. Nevertheless, if either achieved A-list status, their state's budget problems would make a handy political cudgel for their Republican primary rivals, if not the Democrats' presidential nominee.
But Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin – a two-termer who, after star turns at recent GOP 2016 confabs in Washington, Iowa and elsewhere, is consistently ranked among the Republican front-runners – arguably has the most at risk, economically as well as politically. As Laffer himself declared Walker a "perfectly tuned" presidential candidate, the governor found himself staring down the barrel of a $2.2 billion state budget deficit, forced to make tough spending decisions that could undermine his White House ambitions.
Like Jindal, Brownback and Christie, Walker is loathe to hike taxes, so he's proposed making painful budget cuts to balance the budget, most notably to the University of Wisconsin system, long considered one of the best public colleges in the nation. That decision, however, would mean faculty upheaval and higher tuition and student fees. The news that triggered protests, got national attention and threatens to undermine Walker's yet-to-be-declared presidential campaign.
Overall, budget deficits in conservative states aren't a good look for a party whose brand is fiscal discipline. And with the White House on the line, the hard times in red states almost certainly will end up in Democratic issue ads as the 2016 election gets closer.
While in Jindal's case, a plunge in oil prices was like a wrecking ball for oil-rich Louisiana, most of the GOP governors who are in fiscal hot water like Walker, Christie and Brownback are disciples of Laffer, and have largely followed his doctrine of pairing spending cuts and tax cuts, assuming economic growth will quickly follow.
"It's classic Laffer Curve," says Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic Policy Research, describing the economic theory that tax cuts will pay for themselves by stimulating increased economic activity. Laffer purportedly sketched out the idea on a napkin over lunch with Nixon administration aides Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney in 1974.
State budget crises aside, however, Laffer's theory is so widely held that Walker, Jindal, Christie, former Florida governor Jeb Bush and nearly all of the 2016 presidential aspirants are expected to endorse tax cuts on the campaign trail.
"In the general election, the Republican nominee will talk more about taxes than will the Democrats, because it is an issue that the GOP 'owns,'" Richard M. Skinner, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, writes in a recent blog post. Even though tax policy generally doesn't inspire voters to storm the ballot boxes, Skinner continues, where a candidate stands on the issue will "determine what becomes law."
"There's about a 50-50 chance that the next president will be a Republican" he writes. "Almost certainly a Republican president would be accompanied by a Republican Congress, which will be highly motivated to pass the new GOP president's agenda. Tax cuts can be enacted by reconciliation, as George W. Bush did in 2001, so they cannot be blocked by a Democratic filibuster."
But Baker and other analysts say Kansas' five-year experiment with Laffer's theories has been a disaster by most measures. The Sunflower State lags behind its peers in job creation, tax revenue is far short of expectations and its bond and credit ratings have been downgraded, mostly because rating agencies say the tax breaks are unsustainable and the promised economic growth almost never happens.
"I think it's curious. [GOP leaders] just refuse to look at the evidence," he says, citing the work of former Congressional Budget Office chief Douglas Elmendorf, whom congressional-majority Republicans fired late last year, purportedly for questioning Laffer-curve economics. GOP lawmakers wanted him to score federal spending cuts as stimulating the economy instead of negatively affecting future budgets.
"Doug when he was head of CBO was trying to be an honest economist," Baker says. "But I don't think any economist can criticize [Laffer] from the right."
Meg Wiehe, state tax policy director at the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, says Kansas' tax cuts are "definitely the number-one reason the state faces a big budget gap." And in Wisconsin, she adds, it is that, as the national recession ended and state revenues ticked up, Walker "enacted some permanent tax cuts" instead of paying off debt, investing in education or infrastructure or setting the money aside in a rainy-day fund.
"We saw this in a lot of states: this sort of run to 'Oh, my God, we have a [revenue] surplus coming in! Let's blow it all on tax cuts!'" Wiehe says. "There are multiple problems with that," including budget forecasts built on economic expectations that, in general, don't pay off.
"I think that forecasting is not a science, it's an art," says Wiehe, "and it's one that can be manipulated" so that the numbers match rosy estimates, and the proverbial rainy day never happens. "I think there's been a lot of blue-sky thinking."
By contrast, Wiehe and others say, Minnesota has generally refuted Laffer's theory.
Even though Walker and Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, took office at the same time, they took their states down different paths. Rather than cut taxes and slash spending to balance out-of-whack budgets, Dayton and the state legislature hiked taxes, albeit modestly, on upper-income earners, closed corporate tax loopholes and made badly-needed investments in education and infrastructure.
The moves are paying off: in addition to having a budget surplus, Minnesota so far has outperformed Wisconsin on job creation, has a lower unemployment rate and is ranked higher on national lists of best places to live.
All of which should make for a cautionary tale for national voters who may have to choose between Walker, Christie or even Jindal when the 2016 race begins in earnest. And, as Skinner writes, voters ignore their state's fiscal records – and the records of other Republican governors who have followed the same philosophy – at their peril.
"Few issues unite the GOP like tax cuts," he writes. "Tax policy is an important part of any candidate's platform, and if a Republican is elected, whatever tax plan he or she endorses in the campaign has a decent chance of becoming law in 2017."Comment
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Is our violence loving liberal friend sending letters to Eric Trump?
"A source close to the investigation said the letter had a Massachusetts postmark and warned that if Donald Trump doesn't withdraw from*the race for the Republican presidential nomination*-- paraphrasing -- harm will come to the kids."
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/threaten...on-eric-trump/Comment
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How old is this article?Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
P.S. Louisiana enjoyed an oil boom and now a bust. Several other areas in the country are experiencing the same.Comment
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
Trump yard sign inspires armed standoff that ends in arrest of 3 ‘Hispanic males
Two men —*Hector Ayala, 20, and*Mauricio Rodriguez, 18 — and a 17-year-old male were arrested and charged,*as WTVC reportedly. Ayala was charged with disorderly conduct; Rodriguez was charged with making terroristic threats, criminal trespass and possession of less than an ounce of marijuana; and the juvenile was charged with aggravated assault, possession of a firearm without a license, possession of a handgun under the age of 18 and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ump-supporter/Comment
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If you click the link, the date is right there at the start. May 29, 2015Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
The article is about Republican tax policies and their consequences.
The oil bust in and of itself has been bad enough for Louisiana. Jindal piled on with his catastrophic "leadership".Comment
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So 10 months old. Meh. Seems like reach when they ar talking about the 2016 race as being in the distant future.Originally posted by Unregistered View PostComment
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