Conserves like Lisa don’t understand that building and maintaining as infrastructure creates jobs, improves and saves people’s lives, and circulates money. They are still stuck on idea of just giving money to the rich; they really don’t care if ever “trickles down”.
If only they would look at the facts, they would know that the economy is stronger under Democrats than Republicans. Jobs growth and stock market grew under Clinton and Obama, but was worst after both Bushes and Trump.
The Republican Party of Trump, including Trump Disciple Lisa, HATES the concept of anything that will improve America as a whole. They are terrified that the lives of Those People may improve and will do everything they can to prevent that from happening.
Employment in leisure and hospitality increased by 164,000 in October and has risen by 2.4 million thus far in 2021. Over the month, employment rose by 119,000 in food services and drinking places and by 23,000 in accommodation.
The statistics for the entirety of Donald Trump’s time in office are nearly all compiled.
The economy lost 2.9 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.6 percentage points to 6.3%.
The international trade deficit Trump promised to reduce went up. The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services in 2020 was the highest since 2008 and increased 40.5% from 2016.
The number of people lacking health insurance rose by 3 million.
The federal debt held by the public went up, from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion.
Home prices rose 27.5%, and the homeownership rate increased 2.1 percentage points to 65.8%.
Illegal immigration increased. Apprehensions at the Southwest border rose 14.7% last year compared with 2016.
Coal production declined 26.5%, and coal-mining jobs dropped by 16.7%. Carbon emissions from energy consumption dropped 11.5%.
Handgun production rose 12.5% compared with 2016, setting a new record.
The murder rate rose to the highest level since 1997.
Cutting taxes/austerity to keep the economy going is like being stuck in place — continually bailing water — to keep the boat afloat … instead of repairing the leaks and being able to travel at full speed.
Headline in the business section of yesterday’s Cleveland Plain Dealer, largest newspaper in Ohio: Another Day, Another Record as Wall Street Stocks Inch Up.
IfI don’t win you’re going to see a crash like you’ve never seen before. Trump said it (2/20), so Ms. Benson believes it must be true. Facts? Those are for suckers.
What will destroy our democratic republic is lack of compromise in congress. When one party thinks only they have the right ideas leaves out other solutions that would work better. To bad we don’t have a parliamentary style of government where other ideas have a chance to be heard.
I’d like to see, specifically, what the critics deem to be the most terrible aspects of the infrastructure bill. All of the complaints are basically name calling.
Maybe you don’t care for the 65 billion for broadband? Seems like that would spur economic in rural, traditionally red areas. What’s the issue other than it was done during a Democratic administration (with bipartisan support)?
If you republican simpletons need a metaphor…… It’s like a family living on credit cards while then reducing their income Just Like Trump reduced taxes on the mega rich.
Yes, Lisa, often it seems that the Dems are their own worst enemy. But, that comes with truly being a party of the big tent. Repubs say they’re such a party, but now, especially, they are the Dump party and noone else need apply. Still, having a narrow focus of winning at all costs might be appealing to some, but the only ones it benefits is Dump and his oligarch friends. At least, with the seemingly dysfunctional Dem party in charge the ones to benefit will be most of the country, with special interest to the poor and disenfranchised.
GOP Rep. Fred Upton receives death threats after voting for bipartisan infrastructure deal
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) has received multiple death threats in the days since he voted for President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal, with the overwhelming majority of the calls coming from outside the congressman’s district.
In a CNN interview Monday night, Upton played the audio of one of the calls, which he said came from a man in South Carolina.
Upton told CNN his office has received several such calls after a House colleague tweeted the names and office phone numbers of the Republicans who voted in favor of the bill. The measure passed the House Friday on a 228-to-206 vote, two months after it was approved by the Senate on an overwhelming 69-to-30 vote.
“I have a colleague, as you know, that put out the phone numbers of the 13 of us that voted that way,” Upton said. “I’d be glad to defend that vote. We’ve been working really since last spring on a bipartisan bill.”
Upton did not name the colleague during the CNN interview, but in an interview with the Detroit News, he pointed to a tweet by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
Greene said last week that any House Republican who backed the measure would be “a traitor to our party, a traitor to their voters and a traitor to our donors.” After the vote, she tweeted the names and phone numbers of 12 of the 13 Republicans who voted in favor of the bill, which she described as “Joe Biden’s Communist takeover of America.”
Businesses investing money to improve their facilities and hardware and software are seen as good. Government investing in the country to improve facilities and hardware and software is seen by conservative as bad. (until they take credit for a new road or facility paid for with the funds they did not want to spend)
This political fight is not new. Trump tried for 2 years to get an infrastructure bill passed but at that time the Dems would have nothing to do with it. What goes around comes around. It is always a political battle.
Gas is up 60%. Food, autos, clothing, heating oil, natural gas and everything else costs more. Heating a home will cost at least 50% more this winter. I has nothing to do with Republicans. Joe is driving the ship and it is taking on water.
Seeing how GOP policies implemented from 2017-2020 blew up the debt and deficit; add the Fed over the same time injecting money into the market to stave off inflation especially during the global pandemic, it only makes sense that Conservative media blame current economic conditions on Democratic Progressive policies that haven’t even been implemented yet. Shocking…NOT!
The economy is still trying to recover from a pandemic, but Republicans are doing everything they can to deny it and derail it – all in the name of politics, without care of how they affect the citizens…
Thanks, Lisa! Do not listen to the people, who come here day by day to say bad thing about your art. I think you are great, so please keep it up! :)
BTW, it would be so good, if you would make cartoon out of easing the travel restrictions in America. I think it’s not a best idea in the time, when, according to WHO, Europe is the new center of the Covid. Though, according the the media, the people will be tested, but what’s up with their luggage? Will somebody check them out at the airport for Covid? I do not think so. Thanks and have a nice day!
Funny, Republicans love to use the stock market to judge the economy, unless it’s doing even better under a Democrat.
Even with inflation finally catching up, over all the economy is growing. Now that there is money for fixing roads and bridges, and so many other things, the economy will continue to grow as all of this will create and keep jobs.
“This is madness,” he continued, “this bill is the most radical piece of legislation in our lifetimes. It’s basically the Green New Deal, combined with Critical Race Theory, combined with massive amnesty and open borders, combined with the complete destruction of the American economy.”Miller went on to list tax hikes on American energy and U.S. manufactured goods and a death tax, arguing that these are important problems within the bill. – Stephen Miller
“For the first time in the history of ever, President [Joe] Biden and [Treasury] Secretary [Janet] Yellen want to tax unrealized gains on inherited property.”“And I guess the moral of the story is, this is what happens when you have a president and a treasury secretary who are on a mission from God to please pink-haired wokers who carry around ziplock bags of kale. This is what happens when you have a president and a secretary who want to tax, spend and regulate America into neo-socialism.” To illustrate the effect of the new tax law, Kennedy cited a hypothetical “young widow with three children… [who] goes and buys a $150,000 home to raise her kids.” The senator said that the house is the woman’s only asset and by the time of her death the home is worth $1.75 million due to inflation.“She leaves her home to her kids. Under current law, her kids would not have to pay any income tax on that home if they didn’t sell the property. They wouldn’t have to pay any inheritance tax either,” Kennedy said.“But under the Biden/Yellen rule, those kids would automatically be taxed on the full value of the home, whether they sold it or not.” The senator said the children will not have sufficient funds to pay the taxes on the home so they would “be forced to do a fire sale” and essentially lose their primary inheritance.- Sen. John Kennedy
“I read the article about President Biden, Biden’s decision to pay the contractors $2 billion not to build the wall, not to finish the wall, and here’s my conclusion about that,” Kennedy told “Fox & Friends.”“What he’s doing is a crime against nature and intelligence, for two reasons,” Kennedy continued, arguing the decision is “an obscene waste of taxpayer money” and that building a border wall should not be contentious, given that countries as varied as Saudi Arabia, Israel, France and Morocco have all built them.“Border walls work and we’ve had a border wall for 30 years in America,” Kennedy said. “Every president since then has supported it including President [Barack] Obama and President [Bill] Clinton, except President Biden. I think the conclusion is almost inescapable, folks, that President Biden believes in open borders.”The senator said Biden did not “tell the American people the truth” when he ran for the presidency in 2020. “He believes the border is a nuisance, he believes that vetting people at the border is racist, he thinks that anybody ought to be able to come into America.”He said the evidence for his claim was the 1 million people who “have come into America from the southern border and [we] don’t have the slightest idea who they are.”
In the 1990s, Congress prohibited illegal immigrants from receiving taxpayer-funded welfare benefits. The bipartisan Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, ensured that tax dollars would not be used to subsidize people in the country illegally.The Biden administration and Democrats in Congress have now begun to use the IRS and tax code to circumvent this commonsense policy under the guise of a “child tax credit.” If Democrats want to provide tax relief to hardworking families, there is already a framework in place that would allow them to do this without turning relief into a welfare program for illegal immigrants. The earned income tax credit has existed for years with bipartisan support. Unlike the new Biden credit, the EITC only applies to those who actually pay taxes. There is also a monthly advanced payment option under the EITC. So, how much will this subsidy of non-taxpayers and illegal immigrants cost? According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, this benefit will cost taxpayers more than $80 billion in 2021 alone. How will Democrats look to pay for it? By raising taxes on actual working families and small businesses, of course.Taxpaying families have been duped into believing they are actually benefiting from this misguided program, when in fact they have fallen victim to a larger scheme aiming to expand America’s welfare state. This program should not be extended until it can be implemented without giving payments to “taxpayers” who don’t actually pay taxes or to illegal immigrants. Until these changes are made, this thinly veiled benefit scheme will only hurt hardworking families who will be left to pay the bill.
Rep. Greg Steube represents Florida’s 17th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Offering a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants and opening the doors to more legal immigrants will cost the federal government more than $500 billion over the next few decades, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.The total cost of the immigration provisions over the next decade comes to about $140 billion, offset by about $19 billion in new revenue. The two decades after that would be even more expensive for the federal government, costing more than $563 billion in new spending and sapping about $2 billion from revenue.Those who support legalization and expanding future paths for more legal immigration argue that the real benefits come with a larger economy and more taxpayers expanding the government’s revenue base. Previous CBO research has indeed confirmed that more workers means a larger GDP, though CBO analysts also say per capita GDP would be lower, because the larger economy is spread over more people.• Stephen Dinan – washingtontimes.com.
At the same time, economists are bracing for price spikes to continue at the end of this year. Consumer prices are expected to surge by 5.1% during the fourth quarter on a year-over-year basis, according to NABE. That’s up sharply from a forecast for 2.8% inflation as of May and underscores the sticker shock Americans are experiencing in everything from used cars and gasoline to meat.The Fed made similar revisions to its own economist forecasts last week, downgrading its 2021 growth forecast while ramping up its inflation view for this year. – Matt Egan, CNN Business
House Democrats have blocked consideration of bill that would have prevented taxpayers from paying $450,000 to illegal immigrants as part of a settlement with parents who were allegedly separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration.“Instead of solving the Biden border crisis, Democrats want to literally pay people to break our laws,” said a spokesperson for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
The Democrats nearly lost the New Jersey governor’s race last week, a close contest in which high taxes was a central issue. Despite that near-death experience, Democrats in Washington are redoubling their efforts to pass their nearly $2 trillion budget reconciliation bill, which is expected to sharply raise top average tax rates nationally, especially in historically blue states.The Tax Foundation estimates that the social spending bill is going to drive the “average top tax rate on personal income” up to 57.4%, which would be the “highest rate in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).”New York, California and New Jersey would have the highest combined federal-state tax rates after passage of the reconciliation legislation in its current form, according to the organization.“Raising the top marginal tax rate on ordinary income to the highest in the OECD will damage U.S. competitiveness,” the Tax Foundation warned. “It will also reduce incentives to work, save, invest, and innovate, with broad implications for the U.S. economy.”The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has estimated that the existing version of the proposed legislation will lead to about $200 billion of deficit increases over 10 years. While the Biden Administration projects that the legislation will cost $1.75 trillion, the CRFB estimates that it will cost $2.4 trillion. President Biden and congressional leaders continue to claim that the proposed bill is fully paid for with tax increases on wealthy individuals and families.
This is why we need LESS government “help”:This week’s Golden Horseshoe is awarded to the Department of Labor for $175 million in grants through the Obama administration’s American Apprenticeship Initiative — $155 million of which could have been put to better use, according to a recent audit by the department’s Office of Inspector General. The “ETA did not sufficiently plan the program goals, metrics, and the reporting system,” the watchdog found. In addition, the audit determined that ETA violated federal law and neglected to maintain accurate data.https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/sunobama-apprenticeship-program-misspent-155m-175m-labor-dept-watchdog
For those of you who conveniently missed Peetie Bootyhead’s ridiculous quote: The Washington Post’s fact-checking department admitted a half-hearted mea culpa Wednesday after “The Fact Checker” himself Glenn Kessler mistakenly upheld Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s claims that America has an issue with racist infrastructure.Nice try, but the shameless defense of Buttigieg followed by an equally shameless “whoops” is not doing anything to make The Washington Post or the fact-checking cottage industry seem like authorities on anything. Despite Kessler’s admission in his WaPo fact check that his reaction to conservative outcry over Buttigieg’s racist bridges claim was “knee jerked,” he still acts as though he didn’t do anything wrong by jumping to the transportation secretary’s defense without more than one source. Kessler continues his post by admitting that the book he cited as a proven source contained anecdotes that have “been increasingly questioned, along with other details” within its pages.The Washington Post crack fact checkers can go diving into Tim Scott’s 23&Me but when it comes to checking Buttigieg’s weird racist fable to prove the entire country is racist for bridges m, it’s ADDENDUM and call it a day. – Spencer Brown, Townhall
Inflation at the wholesale level rose 8.6% last month from a year earlier, matching September’s record annual gain and offering more evidence that inflationary pressures are not yet easing. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it hits consumers — rose 0.6% last month from September, pushed higher by surging gasoline prices. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, wholesale inflation was up 0.4% in October from September and 6.8% from a year ago…On Wednesday, the Labor Department will release its consumer price index for last month. According to a survey of economists by FactSet, it is expected to show that consumer prices rose 0.5% from September and 5.8% from a year earlier — beating September’s 5.4% year-over-year gain, the fastest since 2008.
Wage gains have been subsumed and overwhelmed by inflationary pressures, causing the cost of many goods and services to rise considerably. The net result is ‘real’ wages falling, as workers experience less buying power. “Holy cow,” was one CNBC analysts reaction to the news today:
Even the Biden administration seems to be shuffling away from its own “transitory” and “temporary” talking point, given the realities facing Americans and the Treasury Secretary admitting that inflation may continue to bite well into 2022:
Team Biden has taken various policy steps in the wrong direction on energy costs, making the United States more susceptible to outside pressures. As the president speaks words about “instructing” his team to look for ways to mitigate the issue, a Republican leadership aide makes the obvious point: “His administration has spent 10 months implementing policies that increase energy prices…He killed the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day. He’s blocked oil & gas leasing on federal lands. His agencies are reviving the War on Coal.” Congressional Democrats look at all of this inflation, and seem to be redoubling their commitment to spending additional, astronomical sums of money:
@BCrowther_TDAThe Labor Force Participation Rate remained unchanged at 61.6%. The number of persons not in the labor force who currently want a job is 6 million. For context this is 968,000 higher than pre-Covid levels. #economy
“Job growth remains disappointing, and the reason is clear: The Democrats’ ‘War on Small Business’ is fueling inflation, causing major supply chain disruptions, and exacerbating a record national labor shortage,” said JCN president and CEO Alfredo Ortiz. “The elections in Virginia and New Jersey showed that Americans are fed up with the Biden agenda. The Democrats, however, remain in a state of denial. Two days after the election, they moved ahead with a vaccine mandate on small businesses that will cause even further economic damage.”
Making matters worse, Democrats in Washington are moving forward on Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
“Instead of using Tuesday’s elections as a reason to pull back, they are moving full steam ahead with a pair of spending bills that will cost around $3 trillion,” he continued. “Those bills will be paid for, in part, by new taxes on small businesses that will send our economy into the worst stagflation in decades: a redux of the Jimmy Carter Era. The Democrats need to hit the ‘reset’ button: stop the mandates, stop the spending, and let America’s small businesses lead our recovery.”
The past few monthly job reports show disturbing trends of Americans dropping out of the workforce, as more than 11 million jobs remain unfilled, an all-time record. Of course, the lack of willing workers is due to many reasons, however, it is having a devastating impact on supply chains and the economy in general.
Amidst all of the economic uncertainty, Americans’ confidence in the economy is tanking.
According to a recent Gallup poll, 35 percent of Americans said current economic conditions are “poor,” 39 percent said “fair,” 23 percent said “good,” and only 2 percent said “excellent.”
For comparison, in February 2020, 24 percent rated economic conditions “excellent,” 39 percent said “good,” 28 percent said “fair,” and only 9 percent said “poor.”
The Totalitarian Democrat Communist Regime Party Cult is ruining America, and insane Marxist Disciple Democrats are enjoying it. Democrat*, is now the Party of Totalitarian Communism
Ah, the economy. The one where way more jobs are being created in 10 months since Biden took office than in Trump’s first 2 years? Or the economy with pre-pandemic unemployment rates. Or, perhaps the economy where workers’ wages are increasing? How about the economy SAVED BY DEMOCRATS!? And guess what? It’s only going to get better throughout 2022.
People returning to jobs that the dem mandates obliterated is not job creation. June, 2019: Employment: PBS News Hour confirmed that this is the best labor market since 1969 with low unemployment, more jobs and rising wages.GDP: Trump is the first president to have GDP consistently higher than 3%, President Barack Obama was only the president to fail to achieve one year of 3% GDP growth.Wages: The Washington Post even surrenders to the fact that Trump is the first president to improve wages in a generation where income is at an all-time high. Stock Market: CNN says the stock market has roared more than 40% since Trump’s election.Gas and Fuel Prices: Gas prices are low in most U.S. states that don’t over-tax fuel with local and state taxes. Many states have $2.15 per gallon gasoline right now. Ethnic Employment Success: The employment success for all ethnicities is at record high. Obama had difficulty creating jobs and many people gave up looking for work.Manufacturing Jobs: Manufacturing jobs are back in the U.S. for the first time in a generation. Trump created 284,000 manufacturing jobs in 2018. Forbes implied that millions of manufacturing jobs were lost during Obama’s first 2 years in office. Some 1 in 6 were lost between January 2008 and March 2010 and Obama never got those jobs back.Taxes and Regulatory: Corporate taxes were cut from 35% to 21%. America moved from worst tax system up to one of the most competitive in the world under Trump’s first 2 years in office. Lower tax rates allow U.S. companies to spend more money, buy more assets, pay more employee benefits, buy stock back to put money on Main Street and into state coffers, and even help pay better dividends to seniors who live paycheck to paycheck.Nasdaq: The Nasdaq stock market value finally exceeded the 1999 prices under Trump. This implies that companies were stagnant for 18 years until Trump took office. – George Mentz
George Mentz continued: Can the economy blow up again? The answer is yes Thus, the only way out of this mess is to continue to create jobs, get people off of public assistance by allowing great jobs to be created, create more government revenue through lower taxes on a larger group of new producers, and lower the costs of running government.
All sane opinions, but, as typical career politicians like to have it, insanity rules so we are well on our way to the explosion.
Lisa would just allow US infrastructure to crumble to dust. Roads, bridges, water systems, electric grids, high speed internet, etc. etc. make our country great. What idiot thinks maintaining assets and replacing worn out assets is a bad idea? I guess she likes pot holes, detours, traffic jams, black outs, lead in the water, and dial-up internet with little circles going round and round.
The White House has published an extensive list of President Donald J. Trump’s accomplishments during his four years a President of the United States.Unprecedented Economic BoomBefore the China Virus invaded our shores, we built the world’s most prosperous economy.America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.So many, they all can’t fit, here is the rest:https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/extensive-list-of-trump-administration-accomplishments/
Sorry RAGs as usual your full of BS. You all control the wheel. For another year. Your group has destroyed so much in one year. You should be proud. Just like you the libs are a joke.
RAGs over 2 years ago
That’s the remote controlled republican wrecking ball (with Manchin in the driver’s seat).
Daeder over 2 years ago
Lisa knows that investing in America would be terrible for the economy.
The only thing that can ever help the economy is a steady diet of tax cuts for the hyper-wealthy!
/s
suv2000 over 2 years ago
Stupid conservatives don’t understand Uncle Joe’s going to buy our way out of poverty
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 2 years ago
Conserves like Lisa don’t understand that building and maintaining as infrastructure creates jobs, improves and saves people’s lives, and circulates money. They are still stuck on idea of just giving money to the rich; they really don’t care if ever “trickles down”.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
Sure. Perfect analogy. For those whose IQ is exceeded by the number of teeth they still have.
ibFrank over 2 years ago
If only they would look at the facts, they would know that the economy is stronger under Democrats than Republicans. Jobs growth and stock market grew under Clinton and Obama, but was worst after both Bushes and Trump.
braindead Premium Member over 2 years ago
The Republican Party of Trump, including Trump Disciple Lisa, HATES the concept of anything that will improve America as a whole. They are terrified that the lives of Those People may improve and will do everything they can to prevent that from happening.
GOGOPOWERANGERS over 2 years ago
That’s the corperate infrastructure bill
Patjade over 2 years ago
Again, Loony Lisa shows the world she has absolutely no idea what she’s talking about.
FJB Premium Member over 2 years ago
Lisa – You are spot on. Well done. Ignore these useful idiots that post negative things daily!
FrankErnesto over 2 years ago
Tell it like it ain’t Lisa.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Right wing fantasy land.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 2 years ago
Nothing torques people like Lisa than someone actually helping average Americans. They see it as taking money away from the 1% and bomb manufacturers.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Employment in leisure and hospitality increased by 164,000 in October and has risen by 2.4 million thus far in 2021. Over the month, employment rose by 119,000 in food services and drinking places and by 23,000 in accommodation.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
The statistics for the entirety of Donald Trump’s time in office are nearly all compiled.
The economy lost 2.9 million jobs. The unemployment rate increased by 1.6 percentage points to 6.3%.
The international trade deficit Trump promised to reduce went up. The U.S. trade deficit in goods and services in 2020 was the highest since 2008 and increased 40.5% from 2016.
The number of people lacking health insurance rose by 3 million.
The federal debt held by the public went up, from $14.4 trillion to $21.6 trillion.
Home prices rose 27.5%, and the homeownership rate increased 2.1 percentage points to 65.8%.
Illegal immigration increased. Apprehensions at the Southwest border rose 14.7% last year compared with 2016.
Coal production declined 26.5%, and coal-mining jobs dropped by 16.7%. Carbon emissions from energy consumption dropped 11.5%.
Handgun production rose 12.5% compared with 2016, setting a new record.
The murder rate rose to the highest level since 1997.
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/10/trumps-final-numbers/
superposition over 2 years ago
Cutting taxes/austerity to keep the economy going is like being stuck in place — continually bailing water — to keep the boat afloat … instead of repairing the leaks and being able to travel at full speed.
Durak Premium Member over 2 years ago
Lisa is stuck on “auto-hate”.
The Nodding Head over 2 years ago
Headline in the business section of yesterday’s Cleveland Plain Dealer, largest newspaper in Ohio: Another Day, Another Record as Wall Street Stocks Inch Up.
IfI don’t win you’re going to see a crash like you’ve never seen before. Trump said it (2/20), so Ms. Benson believes it must be true. Facts? Those are for suckers.
James Deveney Premium Member over 2 years ago
What will destroy our democratic republic is lack of compromise in congress. When one party thinks only they have the right ideas leaves out other solutions that would work better. To bad we don’t have a parliamentary style of government where other ideas have a chance to be heard.
Redd Panda over 2 years ago
That’s right Lisa, the COVID has nothing to do with it.
Just a world-wide plague, throwing a wrench in every gearbox.
davidthoms1 over 2 years ago
Say no to drugs Lisa!
rmfrye Premium Member over 2 years ago
Apparently Lisa hasn’t actually looked at the numbers. Surprise, surprise.
Havel over 2 years ago
I’d like to see, specifically, what the critics deem to be the most terrible aspects of the infrastructure bill. All of the complaints are basically name calling.
Maybe you don’t care for the 65 billion for broadband? Seems like that would spur economic in rural, traditionally red areas. What’s the issue other than it was done during a Democratic administration (with bipartisan support)?Valiant1943 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Tax breaks for the rich are good…anything for the masses…bad. Chapter 1 Republican book of economics
martens over 2 years ago
There’s economic ignorance, and then there’s Lisa in a class by herself.
jhayesd31 over 2 years ago
Trump borrowed 6 TRILLION dollars BEFORE Covid.
If you republican simpletons need a metaphor…… It’s like a family living on credit cards while then reducing their income Just Like Trump reduced taxes on the mega rich.
ChristopherBurns over 2 years ago
How exactly is pumping money into the economy, creating jobs and starting to fix our outdated, crumpling economy going to wreck the economy?
George Trever over 2 years ago
Hugh? DEM have always hated our competitive economy because they are not in full control.
preacherman over 2 years ago
Yes, Lisa, often it seems that the Dems are their own worst enemy. But, that comes with truly being a party of the big tent. Repubs say they’re such a party, but now, especially, they are the Dump party and noone else need apply. Still, having a narrow focus of winning at all costs might be appealing to some, but the only ones it benefits is Dump and his oligarch friends. At least, with the seemingly dysfunctional Dem party in charge the ones to benefit will be most of the country, with special interest to the poor and disenfranchised.
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
The Washington Post
GOP Rep. Fred Upton receives death threats after voting for bipartisan infrastructure deal
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) has received multiple death threats in the days since he voted for President Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure deal, with the overwhelming majority of the calls coming from outside the congressman’s district.
In a CNN interview Monday night, Upton played the audio of one of the calls, which he said came from a man in South Carolina.
Upton told CNN his office has received several such calls after a House colleague tweeted the names and office phone numbers of the Republicans who voted in favor of the bill. The measure passed the House Friday on a 228-to-206 vote, two months after it was approved by the Senate on an overwhelming 69-to-30 vote.
“I have a colleague, as you know, that put out the phone numbers of the 13 of us that voted that way,” Upton said. “I’d be glad to defend that vote. We’ve been working really since last spring on a bipartisan bill.”
Upton did not name the colleague during the CNN interview, but in an interview with the Detroit News, he pointed to a tweet by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.).
Greene said last week that any House Republican who backed the measure would be “a traitor to our party, a traitor to their voters and a traitor to our donors.” After the vote, she tweeted the names and phone numbers of 12 of the 13 Republicans who voted in favor of the bill, which she described as “Joe Biden’s Communist takeover of America.”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-rep-fred-upton-receives-death-threats-after-voting-for-bipartisan-infrastructure-deal/ar-AAQvRKw?ocid=uxbndlbing
Magas threaten everyone who doesn’t do as they demand with death.
Frankfreak over 2 years ago
Businesses investing money to improve their facilities and hardware and software are seen as good. Government investing in the country to improve facilities and hardware and software is seen by conservative as bad. (until they take credit for a new road or facility paid for with the funds they did not want to spend)
Retrac Premium Member over 2 years ago
This political fight is not new. Trump tried for 2 years to get an infrastructure bill passed but at that time the Dems would have nothing to do with it. What goes around comes around. It is always a political battle.
BB71 over 2 years ago
Gas is up 60%. Food, autos, clothing, heating oil, natural gas and everything else costs more. Heating a home will cost at least 50% more this winter. I has nothing to do with Republicans. Joe is driving the ship and it is taking on water.
badgolfer over 2 years ago
This is similar to the Jimmy Carter economics
DrDon1 over 2 years ago
I doubt that Benson actually read this before she submitted it … Really stupid!
jader3rd over 2 years ago
What? How does investing in our economy wreck it?
ncorgbl over 2 years ago
Lisa, the U.S. economy is booming, Biden bringing us out of tRump’s recession. Read some business news.
ndblackirish97 over 2 years ago
Seeing how GOP policies implemented from 2017-2020 blew up the debt and deficit; add the Fed over the same time injecting money into the market to stave off inflation especially during the global pandemic, it only makes sense that Conservative media blame current economic conditions on Democratic Progressive policies that haven’t even been implemented yet. Shocking…NOT!
edstiles over 2 years ago
Build Back Better, brought to you by the people who have never built ANYTHING in their lives.
ferddo over 2 years ago
The economy is still trying to recover from a pandemic, but Republicans are doing everything they can to deny it and derail it – all in the name of politics, without care of how they affect the citizens…
Lana M. over 2 years ago
Thanks, Lisa! Do not listen to the people, who come here day by day to say bad thing about your art. I think you are great, so please keep it up! :)
BTW, it would be so good, if you would make cartoon out of easing the travel restrictions in America. I think it’s not a best idea in the time, when, according to WHO, Europe is the new center of the Covid. Though, according the the media, the people will be tested, but what’s up with their luggage? Will somebody check them out at the airport for Covid? I do not think so. Thanks and have a nice day!
I Play One On TV over 2 years ago
Ms. Benson: you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs.
GiantShetlandPony over 2 years ago
Funny, Republicans love to use the stock market to judge the economy, unless it’s doing even better under a Democrat.
Even with inflation finally catching up, over all the economy is growing. Now that there is money for fixing roads and bridges, and so many other things, the economy will continue to grow as all of this will create and keep jobs.
cdbro over 2 years ago
“This is madness,” he continued, “this bill is the most radical piece of legislation in our lifetimes. It’s basically the Green New Deal, combined with Critical Race Theory, combined with massive amnesty and open borders, combined with the complete destruction of the American economy.”Miller went on to list tax hikes on American energy and U.S. manufactured goods and a death tax, arguing that these are important problems within the bill. – Stephen Miller
cdbro over 2 years ago
“For the first time in the history of ever, President [Joe] Biden and [Treasury] Secretary [Janet] Yellen want to tax unrealized gains on inherited property.”“And I guess the moral of the story is, this is what happens when you have a president and a treasury secretary who are on a mission from God to please pink-haired wokers who carry around ziplock bags of kale. This is what happens when you have a president and a secretary who want to tax, spend and regulate America into neo-socialism.” To illustrate the effect of the new tax law, Kennedy cited a hypothetical “young widow with three children… [who] goes and buys a $150,000 home to raise her kids.” The senator said that the house is the woman’s only asset and by the time of her death the home is worth $1.75 million due to inflation.“She leaves her home to her kids. Under current law, her kids would not have to pay any income tax on that home if they didn’t sell the property. They wouldn’t have to pay any inheritance tax either,” Kennedy said.“But under the Biden/Yellen rule, those kids would automatically be taxed on the full value of the home, whether they sold it or not.” The senator said the children will not have sufficient funds to pay the taxes on the home so they would “be forced to do a fire sale” and essentially lose their primary inheritance.- Sen. John Kennedy
cdbro over 2 years ago
“I read the article about President Biden, Biden’s decision to pay the contractors $2 billion not to build the wall, not to finish the wall, and here’s my conclusion about that,” Kennedy told “Fox & Friends.”“What he’s doing is a crime against nature and intelligence, for two reasons,” Kennedy continued, arguing the decision is “an obscene waste of taxpayer money” and that building a border wall should not be contentious, given that countries as varied as Saudi Arabia, Israel, France and Morocco have all built them.“Border walls work and we’ve had a border wall for 30 years in America,” Kennedy said. “Every president since then has supported it including President [Barack] Obama and President [Bill] Clinton, except President Biden. I think the conclusion is almost inescapable, folks, that President Biden believes in open borders.”The senator said Biden did not “tell the American people the truth” when he ran for the presidency in 2020. “He believes the border is a nuisance, he believes that vetting people at the border is racist, he thinks that anybody ought to be able to come into America.”He said the evidence for his claim was the 1 million people who “have come into America from the southern border and [we] don’t have the slightest idea who they are.”
cdbro over 2 years ago
In the 1990s, Congress prohibited illegal immigrants from receiving taxpayer-funded welfare benefits. The bipartisan Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996, signed into law by President Bill Clinton, ensured that tax dollars would not be used to subsidize people in the country illegally.The Biden administration and Democrats in Congress have now begun to use the IRS and tax code to circumvent this commonsense policy under the guise of a “child tax credit.” If Democrats want to provide tax relief to hardworking families, there is already a framework in place that would allow them to do this without turning relief into a welfare program for illegal immigrants. The earned income tax credit has existed for years with bipartisan support. Unlike the new Biden credit, the EITC only applies to those who actually pay taxes. There is also a monthly advanced payment option under the EITC. So, how much will this subsidy of non-taxpayers and illegal immigrants cost? According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, this benefit will cost taxpayers more than $80 billion in 2021 alone. How will Democrats look to pay for it? By raising taxes on actual working families and small businesses, of course.Taxpaying families have been duped into believing they are actually benefiting from this misguided program, when in fact they have fallen victim to a larger scheme aiming to expand America’s welfare state. This program should not be extended until it can be implemented without giving payments to “taxpayers” who don’t actually pay taxes or to illegal immigrants. Until these changes are made, this thinly veiled benefit scheme will only hurt hardworking families who will be left to pay the bill.
Rep. Greg Steube represents Florida’s 17th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
cdbro over 2 years ago
Offering a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants and opening the doors to more legal immigrants will cost the federal government more than $500 billion over the next few decades, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.The total cost of the immigration provisions over the next decade comes to about $140 billion, offset by about $19 billion in new revenue. The two decades after that would be even more expensive for the federal government, costing more than $563 billion in new spending and sapping about $2 billion from revenue.Those who support legalization and expanding future paths for more legal immigration argue that the real benefits come with a larger economy and more taxpayers expanding the government’s revenue base. Previous CBO research has indeed confirmed that more workers means a larger GDP, though CBO analysts also say per capita GDP would be lower, because the larger economy is spread over more people.• Stephen Dinan – washingtontimes.com.
cdbro over 2 years ago
At the same time, economists are bracing for price spikes to continue at the end of this year. Consumer prices are expected to surge by 5.1% during the fourth quarter on a year-over-year basis, according to NABE. That’s up sharply from a forecast for 2.8% inflation as of May and underscores the sticker shock Americans are experiencing in everything from used cars and gasoline to meat.The Fed made similar revisions to its own economist forecasts last week, downgrading its 2021 growth forecast while ramping up its inflation view for this year. – Matt Egan, CNN Business
DrPawl over 2 years ago
Lisa, you’re behind the times. Time to move on.
Even Mitch McConnell agrees with the Infrastructure Plan:
https://www.businessinsider.com/mitch-mcconnell-calls-biden-infrastructure-law-godsend-kentucky-trump-attacks-2021-11
Thanks, Havel: https://www.gocomics.com/lisabenson/2021/11/10?comments=visible&replies=visible&comment_id=44135023
Ford is building a new electric car plant in Kentucky:
https://www.wymt.com/2021/09/27/ford-build-electric-vehicle-battery-plants-kentucky-creating-5000-new-jobs/
This factory will employ more people than coal mining:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/215765/coal-mining-employment-in-kentucky/
cdbro over 2 years ago
House Democrats have blocked consideration of bill that would have prevented taxpayers from paying $450,000 to illegal immigrants as part of a settlement with parents who were allegedly separated from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border under the Trump administration.“Instead of solving the Biden border crisis, Democrats want to literally pay people to break our laws,” said a spokesperson for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.
cdbro over 2 years ago
The Democrats nearly lost the New Jersey governor’s race last week, a close contest in which high taxes was a central issue. Despite that near-death experience, Democrats in Washington are redoubling their efforts to pass their nearly $2 trillion budget reconciliation bill, which is expected to sharply raise top average tax rates nationally, especially in historically blue states.The Tax Foundation estimates that the social spending bill is going to drive the “average top tax rate on personal income” up to 57.4%, which would be the “highest rate in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).”New York, California and New Jersey would have the highest combined federal-state tax rates after passage of the reconciliation legislation in its current form, according to the organization.“Raising the top marginal tax rate on ordinary income to the highest in the OECD will damage U.S. competitiveness,” the Tax Foundation warned. “It will also reduce incentives to work, save, invest, and innovate, with broad implications for the U.S. economy.”The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has estimated that the existing version of the proposed legislation will lead to about $200 billion of deficit increases over 10 years. While the Biden Administration projects that the legislation will cost $1.75 trillion, the CRFB estimates that it will cost $2.4 trillion. President Biden and congressional leaders continue to claim that the proposed bill is fully paid for with tax increases on wealthy individuals and families.
cdbro over 2 years ago
This is why we need LESS government “help”:This week’s Golden Horseshoe is awarded to the Department of Labor for $175 million in grants through the Obama administration’s American Apprenticeship Initiative — $155 million of which could have been put to better use, according to a recent audit by the department’s Office of Inspector General. The “ETA did not sufficiently plan the program goals, metrics, and the reporting system,” the watchdog found. In addition, the audit determined that ETA violated federal law and neglected to maintain accurate data.https://justthenews.com/accountability/watchdogs/sunobama-apprenticeship-program-misspent-155m-175m-labor-dept-watchdog
cdbro over 2 years ago
For those of you who conveniently missed Peetie Bootyhead’s ridiculous quote: The Washington Post’s fact-checking department admitted a half-hearted mea culpa Wednesday after “The Fact Checker” himself Glenn Kessler mistakenly upheld Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s claims that America has an issue with racist infrastructure.Nice try, but the shameless defense of Buttigieg followed by an equally shameless “whoops” is not doing anything to make The Washington Post or the fact-checking cottage industry seem like authorities on anything. Despite Kessler’s admission in his WaPo fact check that his reaction to conservative outcry over Buttigieg’s racist bridges claim was “knee jerked,” he still acts as though he didn’t do anything wrong by jumping to the transportation secretary’s defense without more than one source. Kessler continues his post by admitting that the book he cited as a proven source contained anecdotes that have “been increasingly questioned, along with other details” within its pages.The Washington Post crack fact checkers can go diving into Tim Scott’s 23&Me but when it comes to checking Buttigieg’s weird racist fable to prove the entire country is racist for bridges m, it’s ADDENDUM and call it a day. – Spencer Brown, Townhall
cdbro over 2 years ago
Inflation at the wholesale level rose 8.6% last month from a year earlier, matching September’s record annual gain and offering more evidence that inflationary pressures are not yet easing. The Labor Department reported Tuesday that its producer price index — which measures inflation before it hits consumers — rose 0.6% last month from September, pushed higher by surging gasoline prices. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, wholesale inflation was up 0.4% in October from September and 6.8% from a year ago…On Wednesday, the Labor Department will release its consumer price index for last month. According to a survey of economists by FactSet, it is expected to show that consumer prices rose 0.5% from September and 5.8% from a year earlier — beating September’s 5.4% year-over-year gain, the fastest since 2008.
cdbro over 2 years ago
Wage gains have been subsumed and overwhelmed by inflationary pressures, causing the cost of many goods and services to rise considerably. The net result is ‘real’ wages falling, as workers experience less buying power. “Holy cow,” was one CNBC analysts reaction to the news today:
cdbro over 2 years ago
Even the Biden administration seems to be shuffling away from its own “transitory” and “temporary” talking point, given the realities facing Americans and the Treasury Secretary admitting that inflation may continue to bite well into 2022:
cdbro over 2 years ago
cdbro over 2 years ago
@BCrowther_TDAThe Labor Force Participation Rate remained unchanged at 61.6%. The number of persons not in the labor force who currently want a job is 6 million. For context this is 968,000 higher than pre-Covid levels. #economy
cdbro over 2 years ago
“Job growth remains disappointing, and the reason is clear: The Democrats’ ‘War on Small Business’ is fueling inflation, causing major supply chain disruptions, and exacerbating a record national labor shortage,” said JCN president and CEO Alfredo Ortiz. “The elections in Virginia and New Jersey showed that Americans are fed up with the Biden agenda. The Democrats, however, remain in a state of denial. Two days after the election, they moved ahead with a vaccine mandate on small businesses that will cause even further economic damage.”
Making matters worse, Democrats in Washington are moving forward on Biden’s Build Back Better agenda.
cdbro over 2 years ago
“Instead of using Tuesday’s elections as a reason to pull back, they are moving full steam ahead with a pair of spending bills that will cost around $3 trillion,” he continued. “Those bills will be paid for, in part, by new taxes on small businesses that will send our economy into the worst stagflation in decades: a redux of the Jimmy Carter Era. The Democrats need to hit the ‘reset’ button: stop the mandates, stop the spending, and let America’s small businesses lead our recovery.”
cdbro over 2 years ago
The past few monthly job reports show disturbing trends of Americans dropping out of the workforce, as more than 11 million jobs remain unfilled, an all-time record. Of course, the lack of willing workers is due to many reasons, however, it is having a devastating impact on supply chains and the economy in general.
Amidst all of the economic uncertainty, Americans’ confidence in the economy is tanking.
According to a recent Gallup poll, 35 percent of Americans said current economic conditions are “poor,” 39 percent said “fair,” 23 percent said “good,” and only 2 percent said “excellent.”
For comparison, in February 2020, 24 percent rated economic conditions “excellent,” 39 percent said “good,” 28 percent said “fair,” and only 9 percent said “poor.”
Sun over 2 years ago
The Totalitarian Democrat Communist Regime Party Cult is ruining America, and insane Marxist Disciple Democrats are enjoying it. Democrat*, is now the Party of Totalitarian Communism
Rich Douglas over 2 years ago
Ah, the economy. The one where way more jobs are being created in 10 months since Biden took office than in Trump’s first 2 years? Or the economy with pre-pandemic unemployment rates. Or, perhaps the economy where workers’ wages are increasing? How about the economy SAVED BY DEMOCRATS!? And guess what? It’s only going to get better throughout 2022.
cdbro over 2 years ago
People returning to jobs that the dem mandates obliterated is not job creation. June, 2019: Employment: PBS News Hour confirmed that this is the best labor market since 1969 with low unemployment, more jobs and rising wages.GDP: Trump is the first president to have GDP consistently higher than 3%, President Barack Obama was only the president to fail to achieve one year of 3% GDP growth.Wages: The Washington Post even surrenders to the fact that Trump is the first president to improve wages in a generation where income is at an all-time high. Stock Market: CNN says the stock market has roared more than 40% since Trump’s election.Gas and Fuel Prices: Gas prices are low in most U.S. states that don’t over-tax fuel with local and state taxes. Many states have $2.15 per gallon gasoline right now. Ethnic Employment Success: The employment success for all ethnicities is at record high. Obama had difficulty creating jobs and many people gave up looking for work.Manufacturing Jobs: Manufacturing jobs are back in the U.S. for the first time in a generation. Trump created 284,000 manufacturing jobs in 2018. Forbes implied that millions of manufacturing jobs were lost during Obama’s first 2 years in office. Some 1 in 6 were lost between January 2008 and March 2010 and Obama never got those jobs back.Taxes and Regulatory: Corporate taxes were cut from 35% to 21%. America moved from worst tax system up to one of the most competitive in the world under Trump’s first 2 years in office. Lower tax rates allow U.S. companies to spend more money, buy more assets, pay more employee benefits, buy stock back to put money on Main Street and into state coffers, and even help pay better dividends to seniors who live paycheck to paycheck.Nasdaq: The Nasdaq stock market value finally exceeded the 1999 prices under Trump. This implies that companies were stagnant for 18 years until Trump took office. – George Mentz
cdbro over 2 years ago
George Mentz continued: Can the economy blow up again? The answer is yes Thus, the only way out of this mess is to continue to create jobs, get people off of public assistance by allowing great jobs to be created, create more government revenue through lower taxes on a larger group of new producers, and lower the costs of running government.
All sane opinions, but, as typical career politicians like to have it, insanity rules so we are well on our way to the explosion.
Boomer Premium Member over 2 years ago
Lisa would just allow US infrastructure to crumble to dust. Roads, bridges, water systems, electric grids, high speed internet, etc. etc. make our country great. What idiot thinks maintaining assets and replacing worn out assets is a bad idea? I guess she likes pot holes, detours, traffic jams, black outs, lead in the water, and dial-up internet with little circles going round and round.
cbgoldeneagle2 over 2 years ago
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/us-consumer-prices-soared-6-2-in-past-year-most-since-1990/
cdbro over 2 years ago
The White House has published an extensive list of President Donald J. Trump’s accomplishments during his four years a President of the United States.Unprecedented Economic BoomBefore the China Virus invaded our shores, we built the world’s most prosperous economy.America gained 7 million new jobs – more than three times government experts’ projections.Middle-Class family income increased nearly $6,000 – more than five times the gains during the entire previous administration.The unemployment rate reached 3.5 percent, the lowest in a half-century.Achieved 40 months in a row with more job openings than job-hirings.More Americans reported being employed than ever before – nearly 160 million.Jobless claims hit a nearly 50-year low.The number of people claiming unemployment insurance as a share of the population hit its lowest on record.Incomes rose in every single metro area in the United States for the first time in nearly 3 decades.So many, they all can’t fit, here is the rest:https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/extensive-list-of-trump-administration-accomplishments/
bob.gaston45 over 2 years ago
How’s that $4.00 gas treating you guys?
EdSanchez over 2 years ago
Yes, Lisa ONCE AGAIN nailed it!
washatkc Premium Member over 2 years ago
Sorry RAGs as usual your full of BS. You all control the wheel. For another year. Your group has destroyed so much in one year. You should be proud. Just like you the libs are a joke.