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jg10003's JournalHow powerful is the Budget Committee?
We know that Bernie will chair the Budget Committee, so I was wondering how much power that role actually has. So I looked up the Budget Committee on Wikipedia and found this
...responsible for drafting Congress's annual budget plan and monitoring action on the budget.... has jurisdiction over the Congressional Budget Office.
The Finance Committee.... has legislative jurisdiction in the areas of taxes, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and some other entitlements. The Appropriations Committee has legislative jurisdiction over appropriations bills, which provide funding for government programs.
While the budget resolution prepared by the Budget Committee sets out a broad blueprint for the Congress.... these other Committees prepare the legislation that actually enacts specific tax and spending policies
This sounds like the Budget Committee makes recommendations and maintains records, but lacks the power to actually make decisions. Is the Budget Committee merely a bookkeeper, or is there more to it?
Trump meets Ralph Kramden
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats/videos/1065444820215238/The one thing Hillary can do to earn my full support
STOP PLAYING THAT AWFUL, ANNOYING SONG !!!
McConnell on Trump's NATO remark: "a rookie mistake"
I guess there is nothing wrong with having a rookie in the oval office. 
WASHINGTON — Alarm and condemnation erupted Thursday from European capitals, the White House and leaders of Donald Trump's own party after the Republican presidential nominee suggested the United States might abandon its NATO military commitments if he were elected president.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who backed Trump at the party's national convention only two days earlier, said he totally disagreed with the statement but was willing to "chalk it up to a rookie mistake."
McConnell called NATO "the most successful military alliance in the history of the world," in a Facebook interview with The New York Times.
Jeff Merkley for VP
Huff Post: Progressive Democratic Senator Emerges As The Man Sanders Supporters Want To Be VP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/jeff-merkley-vp_us_577d6b2ae4b0344d514dcc56?section=
Why isn't Merkley on the short list?
It's just not true. HRC is qualified, but is not the most qualified ever.
Richard Nixon; the only president to have served as a congressman, senator, and vice-president before being elected. Al Gore should have been the second (LBJ doesn't count since he wasn't elected).
Buchanan; 10 years a congressman, 10 years a senator, 4 years ambassador to Russia, 4 years as ambassador to England, 4 years secretary of state.
Martin Van Buren; senator, governor of New York, ambassador to England, Secretary of State, Vice-President.
Unions made the difference in the 50's
OP is right that the manufacturing jobs are not coming back. Walmart has replaced GM and U.S Steel as the major employers. But the difference is not the type of business of the employer, but rather how profitable the employer is. GM in the 1950's was very profitable, as is Walmart today. But GM paid its' employees enough to support a middle class lifestyle. Walmart employees are not paid enough to feed their families without food stamps. GM employees had a union, Walmart employees do not. The important factor is the relationship between employer and employee. It doesn't matter if the employee is building cars or stacking shelves.
Neil deGrasse Tyson interviews Al Gore
http://www.techinsider.io/neil-degrasse-tyson-interviews-al-gore-innovators-2016-4Song of the day (or an ode to the end of the American dream)
"for we live so well, so long
Still, when I think of the road we're traveling on
I wonder what's gone wrong, I can't help it I wonder what's gone wrong"
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