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Gingrich: Trump is the bear in Revenant. "When you hit him, he devours you. He can’t help himself"
Trump, Gingrich said, has adopted that approach but brought it to a ferocious, almost uncomfortable new level.
“These debates are totally different," Gingrich said. "You need to understand that Trump is the grizzly bear in ‘The Revenant.’ When you hit him, he devours you. He can’t help himself. And so, he creates an environment unlike anything I’ve ever seen.”
So what would Newt do about the voracious real estate billionaire? He pointed to his right, and replied: “I’d say, beat him up!”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/newt-gingrich-trump_us_56dc649be4b0ffe6f8e9becf?6tysc3di
Dang! And he seemed so genuine. Well, except the "hair" thing.
https://twitter.com/GregJKrieg/status/707059716510208001
ttp://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-claims-he-employs-many-people-at-honolulu-hotel/
more digging:
The real Trump tax scandal: David Cay Johnston
David Cay Johnston 3:16 a.m. EST March 8, 2016
Our system lets wealthy people delay IRS payments, invest the money and make a killing.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/03/08/real-trump-tax-scandal-david-cay-johnston/81436212/
I’ve Kind of Made My Decision - by John Cole
long & thoughtful analysis (mho) HERE:
https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/03/07/ive-kind-of-made-my-decision/
The Best Words
Wow, David Brooks is having a sad.....
the rest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/opinion/its-not-too-late.html?_r=1
Elizabeth Warren: Why Seniors—Not CEOs—Deserve a Raise
Why Seniors—Not CEOs—Deserve a Raise
Social Security is the most powerful tool available to lift people out of poverty.
By Elizabeth Warren
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...... a group of us in Congress have introduced the Seniors and Veterans Emergency Benefits Act (SAVE Benefits Act). This bill would give a onetime payment of $581 to those people who aren’t receiving a COLA this year—a raise equal to the 3.9 percent pay increase the top CEOs received.
Social Security payments average only about $1,340 a month—and millions of seniors who rely on those checks are barely scraping by. A $581 increase could cover almost three months of groceries for seniors or a year’s worth of out-of-pocket costs on critical prescription drugs for the average Medicare beneficiary. That $50 a month is worth a heck of a lot to the 70 million Americans who would have just a little more in their pockets as a result of this bill. In fact, according to an analysis from the Economic Policy Institute, that little boost could lift more than one million Americans out of poverty.
This is about our values—about how we protect one another, our families, and ourselves. For too long in Washington, Social Security has been under assault. We’ve heard over and over that we supposedly need to gut the program in order to “save” it. But for the 21 million Americans whose Social Security benefits are the only thing keeping them out of poverty, Social Security isn’t a luxury—it’s a lifeline. The absolute last thing we should do—at the very moment that Social Security has become so essential to millions of our seniors—is to allow the program to be dismantled inch by inch.
MORE:
http://www.thenation.com/article/why-seniors-not-ceos-deserve-a-raise/
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Donald Trump's 47-Percent Moment
Donald Trump's 47-Percent MomentThe GOP front-runner blasts Mitt Romney's infamous remarks.
But he recently suggested 50 percent of Americans are deadbeats.
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During a June 2015 one-on-one interview on Fox News, host Sean Hannity asked Trump if he, as president, could get 50 million Americans out of poverty. Of course, Trump said, and he added:
This was a routine conservative contention: assistance programs cause people not to work. And Hannity pressed Trump: would he insist that recipients of food stamps, welfare, and other government assistance "have to work for it?" Trump replied that could be necessary, and he remarked that Bill Clinton had pushed such a approach with welfare reform. Then Trump made a broader point:
The problem we have right now—we have a society that sits back and says we don't have to do anything. Eventually, the 50 percent cannot carry—and it's unfair to them—but cannot carry the other 50 percent.
So one half of the nation is carrying the other half, and the attitude of those in the latter half is, "we don't have to do anything." This is darn close to Romney's 47-percent analysis, but three points greater. Trump was depicting 50 percent of Americans as people seeking a free ride.
MORE:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/03/donald-trump-mitt-romney-47-percent
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