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B-Man

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    I hate to sound callous, but of course the number of cases is going up...........that's how flu works.......

     

    On 3/22/2020 at 1:01 PM, B-Man said:

     

     
     
     
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    As the "article which must not be quoted" said.............The # of cases is the wrong metric.

     

    What is important is how we smother it.

     

     

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    LEGISLATION: Republicans want a lifeline; Democrats want to remake the country.

     

    The cynical partisan opportunism of Democrats exhibited during the coronavirus economic crisis has been breathtaking.

     

    Rather than move forward with quick, no-frills, massive $1.8 trillion dollar rescue plan, Democrats decided to hold the country hostage by trying to cram through a slew of lefty goodies that have absolutely nothing to do with the pending economic crisis.

     

    As corporate boards struggle to figure out ways to keep their companies afloat, Nancy Pelosi is demanding that they spend time filling gender and racial quotas, down to “subcommittee assignments.”

     

    As the transportation sector wrestles with a once-in-a-century economic disaster, Democrats are trying to compel airlines — who have seen a 90 percent drop in customers — to cut greenhouse gas emissions every year until they hit a 50 percent reduction.

     

    If Pelosi keeps this up, airlines are going to see a 100 percent reduction soon enough.

     

    As small business lay off workers, Democrats held up a federal loan program so they can pass more wind and solar tax credits, fund NASA’s environmental restoration group and study climate mitigation efforts. How any of that going to save jobs? What does this have to do with coronavirus shutdowns?

     

    As millions of Americans are filing for unemployment benefits, crushing state government budgets, Democrats held up a rescue bill so that they can give government employee unions extraordinary collective bargaining power.

     

    As millions of Americans wonder how they’re going to make their next mortgage payments, Pelosi demands that the Senate offer free internet, fund community newspapers and set up minority-run banks.

     

    As hospitals wait for funding, Pelosi is worried about national minority and gender pay equity — an age-old liberal hobbyhorse. By prioritizing affirmative action over rescue funds, she is ensuring that more Americans of all races, genders and creeds will be unemployed.

     

    Rather than move quickly, Pelosi is demanding that the Senate federalize elections, setting up same-day voter registrations and provisions for conducting audits of elections.

     

    The GOP Senate bill was 500 pages. The Pelosi bill I read was 1,120 pages. Reportedly, there is another version of the rescue bill circulating that is 1,400 pages. Who knows how many more political pet projects will be stuffed into this iteration of the bill.

     

    “This is a tremendous opportunity to restructure things to fit our vision,” Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) reportedly told his colleagues this week, echoing Barack Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s famous 2008 assertion that Democrats should never let a serious crisis go to waste.

     

    The Senate bill that Democrats stopped would have given nearly every American $1,200, with $500 for every child. It would have allocated $250 billion for unemployment insurance, $350 for a small business loan program, more than $100 billion to hospitals, $11 billion towards vaccines, $4.5 more to the CDC, $20 billion to veterans healthcare, $12 billion for public education, another $10 billion to airports, and $5 billion to FEMA.

     

    This debate isn’t over a bailout package, it’s over a rescue mission.

     

    The coronavirus pandemic was unexpected existential event, not a normal economic downturn. And yet, Democrats have calculated that it was worth using this emergency to try and shove through agenda that would never normally pass. It is ugly, partisan and opportunistic.

     

     

     

     

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  3. 16 minutes ago, jrober38 said:

    CHOOSING to let more people die than is necessary so that you're not economically inconvenienced is the same damn reason most people get an abortion. 


    Except that is NOT what is happening,

     

    except in your fevered head. 
     

    It way too complicated a situation than your 

     

    “both sides are bad BS” can cover. 
     

    Possibly having the virus infect more is 

    NOT the same as actually killing an infant. 
     

     

     

     

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  4. 1 minute ago, TH3 said:

    So the Title of the thread and the first several thousand posts by people like you are......wrong?


     

    No. 
     

    You (again) assume way more than you know 

     

    The vast majority of posts acknowledge that the climate is changing, BUT they point out the folly of those who treat it as a religion and the greed of those on the left for funding and the power to change society using scare tactics 

     

     

    read more, project less. 
     

     

     

     

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  5. 16 minutes ago, jrober38 said:

     

    There you have it. 

     

    15 days of shutdown and then Trump and the GOP will begin opening things back up. 

     

    Who cares how many people die. Saving the stock market is more important. 

     

    The hypocrisy here is mind boggling. 


     

    There you have it. 
     

    The false comparison of the Trump administration stating that they will revaluate how things are going in two weeks and wether or not some changes can be made to help out with the economics of ALL Americans big and small,

     

    with the ripping of a baby out of its womb. 
     

     

    Hypocrite is not a strong enough word for you jrober38. 
     

    Stick to the liberal excuse threads !

     

     

     

     

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  6. ROGER KIMBALL: The Democrats just made a huge mistake — They are exploiting a national emergency for the grubbiest of partisan motives. 

     

     

    Or as America’s Paper of Record notes: Democrats Worried Stimulus Bill Would Stimulate Economy.......?

     

     

    Democrats are counting on their party operatives with bylines to spin this for them and/or for the past two days to be forgotten by November — and in both cases, they could be right.

     

     

     

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    I suppose that it would be a waste of time to try to explain to Tibsy that "ballot harvesting" (which the left is pushing) 

     

    is pretty much the opposite of "one person - one vote.

     

     

     

    DEMOCRATS GOTTA DEMOCRAT

     

    One might hope that this stunt will have the same effect as the Democrats’ freak show over Brett Kavanaugh before the 2018 mid-term election (at least two defeated Democratic senators blame the backlash against their Kavanaugh antics for their defeats).

     

    Meanwhile, amidst the chorus of liberal and media voices who are now telling us how President Pantsuit would have handled the crisis better, let’s roll some tape just what liberals and the media were saying about some of Trump’s earliest moves, like the China travel ban:

     

     

     

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