A return to the 1950s would be a hell of an improvement over what life has become today. People were happy, healthy, productive and peaceful in the '50s.
Trump's Cabinet Nominees
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A return to the 1950s would be a hell of an improvement over what life has become today. People were happy, healthy, productive and peaceful in the '50s.
Is something wrong with being white middle / upper class and straight ? You say that as if the majority of Canadians have a curse or something .
Western society was still in that era of properity following our victory in WW2. That time is long since gone.
It was easy to be properous when we North Americsns had no competitors in tbe World. Now we have dozens.
Yes and no............we were definitely happier with much less in the 50s. People didn't complain as much & there was a lot more gratitude. On the flip side things like leukemia and spinal meningitis were death sentences, rheumatic fever was life threatening, a lot of us managed to cope without central heating, air conditioning, refrigeration, & black and white T.V. with a choice of one or two channels, or my family's case a radio. What made the biggest difference was we treated people better then, and the greed wasn't quite as rampant.
According to a REPORT on politicususa.com the 16 ranking Democratic members of the Senate committees that will hold hearings on his nominees have presented Trump with a signed list of principles that they want used to vet Trump’s nominees before they appear before the committees.
“The United States Senate has a rich, bipartisan tradition of vetting nominees to the President’s Cabinet. We hope to continue that tradition with our colleagues in the Republican Majority because the American people are entitled to a fair and open consideration process for all executive nominations. Therefore, a Cabinet nomination should only proceed to a mark-up in Committee if:
The nominee has cleared an FBI background check
The nominee provides a completed financial disclosure statement and ethics agreement signed by the Office of Government Ethics
The nominee has satisfied reasonable requests for additional information and Members have time to review that material.”
Apparently the vetting process for Trump nominees is slow going, due to the fact that so many of them are involved with financial entanglements all over the place. The New York Times is REPORTING that the going is even slower because some of the Trump nominees are submitting incomplete forms, especially AG nominee Jeff Sessions who is just not bothering to fill in stuff he doesn’t want to disclose. And this is the guy Trump wants running the Justice department.
You can't blame these guys for thinking they can get away with this juvenile stuff, after all, their boss is less transparent than a sheet of dry wall. But the threat is clear, if the Trump team doesn’t want to properly vet these nominees, the Democrats on the committees will, and Trump and his nominees might not like very much what they find. Trump is learning that members of Congress, especially opposition members, are not as subservient as people he pays.
“The United States Senate has a rich, bipartisan tradition of vetting nominees to the President’s Cabinet. We hope to continue that tradition with our colleagues in the Republican Majority because the American people are entitled to a fair and open consideration process for all executive nominations. Therefore, a Cabinet nomination should only proceed to a mark-up in Committee if:
The nominee has cleared an FBI background check
The nominee provides a completed financial disclosure statement and ethics agreement signed by the Office of Government Ethics
The nominee has satisfied reasonable requests for additional information and Members have time to review that material.”
Apparently the vetting process for Trump nominees is slow going, due to the fact that so many of them are involved with financial entanglements all over the place. The New York Times is REPORTING that the going is even slower because some of the Trump nominees are submitting incomplete forms, especially AG nominee Jeff Sessions who is just not bothering to fill in stuff he doesn’t want to disclose. And this is the guy Trump wants running the Justice department.
You can't blame these guys for thinking they can get away with this juvenile stuff, after all, their boss is less transparent than a sheet of dry wall. But the threat is clear, if the Trump team doesn’t want to properly vet these nominees, the Democrats on the committees will, and Trump and his nominees might not like very much what they find. Trump is learning that members of Congress, especially opposition members, are not as subservient as people he pays.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name Robert Lighthizer, a veteran trade attorney and supporter of Trump's defensive view of trade, as his pick for the next U.S. trade representative, according to two transition officials.
The longtime trade lawyer, who served as deputy U.S. trade representative under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, was an early supporter of Trump and had been advising the incoming administration on its transition efforts at the trade-negotiating agency.
Before his stint in the Reagan administration, he served as chief of staff on the Senate Finance Committee, where he developed an understanding of congressional dynamics. He moved into private practice in the late 1980s and now works as a partner at the Skadden law firm, where he represents U.S. Steel Corp. and other domestic giants in their efforts to keep foreign steel imports at bay.
Lighthizer has been a supporter of Trump's tough approach to trade with China since at least 2011, when he penned an op-ed for the Washington Times
Lighthizer met with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 19.
Trump expected to pick Lighthizer for trade post - POLITICO
The longtime trade lawyer, who served as deputy U.S. trade representative under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, was an early supporter of Trump and had been advising the incoming administration on its transition efforts at the trade-negotiating agency.
Before his stint in the Reagan administration, he served as chief of staff on the Senate Finance Committee, where he developed an understanding of congressional dynamics. He moved into private practice in the late 1980s and now works as a partner at the Skadden law firm, where he represents U.S. Steel Corp. and other domestic giants in their efforts to keep foreign steel imports at bay.
Lighthizer has been a supporter of Trump's tough approach to trade with China since at least 2011, when he penned an op-ed for the Washington Times
Lighthizer met with the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Dec. 19.
Trump expected to pick Lighthizer for trade post - POLITICO
Betsy DeVos, if you had not given $200 million to the Republican Party do you think you would be nominated to lead the Education Department?
https://twitter.com/sensanders/status/821497678416715777
Betsy DeVos Wants to Use America's Schools to Build "God's Kingdom"
Dutch immigrants from a conservative Protestant sect chose this "little Holland" in western Michigan more than 150 years ago in part for its isolation. They wanted to keep "American" influences away from their people and their orthodox ways of running their community. Many of their traditions have lasted generations. Until recently, Holland restaurants couldn't sell alcohol on Sundays. Residents are not allowed to yell or whistle between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. If city officials decide that a fence or a shed signals decay, they might tear it down, and mail the owner a bill. Grass clippings longer than eight inches have to be removed and composted, and snow must be shoveled as soon as it lands on the streets. Most people say rules like these help keep Holland prosperous, with low unemployment, low crime rates, good city services, excellent schools, and Republicans at almost every government post. It's also where President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary, billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos, grew up.
Sitting in his spacious downtown office suite, Arlyn Lanting is eager to talk about his longtime friend, who will begin confirmation hearings Tuesday to become the nation's top-ranking education official. DeVos is married to Amway scion Dick DeVos (whose father, Richard DeVos, is worth more than $5 billion, according to Forbes) and is seen as a controversial choice because of her track record of supporting vouchers for private, religious schools; right-wing Christiangroups like the Foundation for Traditional Values, which has pushed to soften the separation of church and state; and organizations like Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which has championed the privatization of the education system.
Betsy DeVos Wants to Use America's Schools to Build "God's Kingdom" | Mother Jones
https://twitter.com/sensanders/status/821497678416715777
Betsy DeVos Wants to Use America's Schools to Build "God's Kingdom"
Dutch immigrants from a conservative Protestant sect chose this "little Holland" in western Michigan more than 150 years ago in part for its isolation. They wanted to keep "American" influences away from their people and their orthodox ways of running their community. Many of their traditions have lasted generations. Until recently, Holland restaurants couldn't sell alcohol on Sundays. Residents are not allowed to yell or whistle between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. If city officials decide that a fence or a shed signals decay, they might tear it down, and mail the owner a bill. Grass clippings longer than eight inches have to be removed and composted, and snow must be shoveled as soon as it lands on the streets. Most people say rules like these help keep Holland prosperous, with low unemployment, low crime rates, good city services, excellent schools, and Republicans at almost every government post. It's also where President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary, billionaire philanthropist Betsy DeVos, grew up.
Sitting in his spacious downtown office suite, Arlyn Lanting is eager to talk about his longtime friend, who will begin confirmation hearings Tuesday to become the nation's top-ranking education official. DeVos is married to Amway scion Dick DeVos (whose father, Richard DeVos, is worth more than $5 billion, according to Forbes) and is seen as a controversial choice because of her track record of supporting vouchers for private, religious schools; right-wing Christiangroups like the Foundation for Traditional Values, which has pushed to soften the separation of church and state; and organizations like Michigan's Mackinac Center for Public Policy, which has championed the privatization of the education system.
Betsy DeVos Wants to Use America's Schools to Build "God's Kingdom" | Mother Jones
Trump's Education Appointee was unable to answer a question that anyone within the education field must be abreast of given that policy depends on it.
Being the daughter of a billionaire does not inherently means one has the intellect for an important job like Education Secretary
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Being the daughter of a billionaire does not inherently means one has the intellect for an important job like Education Secretary
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Al Franken: "Mrs. DeVos, do you still believe in conversion therapy?"
She said student debt has gone up 980% in 8 years. Franken says it's acually 118%.
President Barack Obama has said that a college degree “has never been more valuable.” But if you borrow to finance your degree, the immediate returns are the lowest they’ve been in at least a generation, new data show.
Wages for the typical recent college graduate working full time have risen just 1.6 percent over the last 25 years, after adjusting for inflation, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Meanwhile, student debt burdens for the typical bachelor’s degree recipient who borrowed for college have increased about 163.8 percent, according to Education Department data analyzed by Mark Kantrowitz, a financial aid expert; Brad Hershbein, an economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; and The Huffington Post.
Total student debt has doubled during the Obama administration.
3 Charts That Show Just How Dire The Student Debt Crisis Has Become | The Huffington Post
guess they are both wrong
...so whats your point?
under Obama, Student Loans Hit A Record High
OCTOBER 28, 2015 By Bre Payton
Graduates from the class of 2014 can thank President Obama that they’re exiting college with the highest student loan burden ever. They graduated with an average of $28,950 in student loans, according to a new study by the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS).
When TICAS began recording student loan burdens among students at the time of graduation in 2004, the average was $18,550. Since then, it’s increased by 56 percent, more than double the inflation rate of 25 percent.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/28/under-obama-student-loans-hit-a-record-high/
and BERNIE didn't know what amount this woman and her family
(...and what have they got to do with this woman's appointment?) had contributed..he was guessing
...and the woman was right - about Bernie's Idea of FREE education
(free liberal arts degrees, REALLY?, then what? welfare for ever?)
bernie wants this woman to agree to being COMMUNIST - FREE education?
WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO PAY FOR IT?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk4imizwSlA
bernie wants to raise minimum wage...does he wanna pay 10 bucks a burger at mickey D's?
who could afford to eat there then?
lol
with the record debts the US is in, it seems to me bernie is the nut on this one
Just wait till the interest rises at the fed while all these students are unemployed, because the obamanots are doing their best to offshore all the decent paying jobs in the US, and then talk about student debt - the kind you cannot erase
...and of course the education system sucks
just look at all the so called educated people who don't seem to realise COMMUNISM SUCKS
She said student debt has gone up 980% in 8 years. Franken says it's acually 118%.
President Barack Obama has said that a college degree “has never been more valuable.” But if you borrow to finance your degree, the immediate returns are the lowest they’ve been in at least a generation, new data show.
Wages for the typical recent college graduate working full time have risen just 1.6 percent over the last 25 years, after adjusting for inflation, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Meanwhile, student debt burdens for the typical bachelor’s degree recipient who borrowed for college have increased about 163.8 percent, according to Education Department data analyzed by Mark Kantrowitz, a financial aid expert; Brad Hershbein, an economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; and The Huffington Post.
Total student debt has doubled during the Obama administration.
3 Charts That Show Just How Dire The Student Debt Crisis Has Become | The Huffington Post
guess they are both wrong
...so whats your point?
under Obama, Student Loans Hit A Record High
OCTOBER 28, 2015 By Bre Payton
Graduates from the class of 2014 can thank President Obama that they’re exiting college with the highest student loan burden ever. They graduated with an average of $28,950 in student loans, according to a new study by the Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS).
When TICAS began recording student loan burdens among students at the time of graduation in 2004, the average was $18,550. Since then, it’s increased by 56 percent, more than double the inflation rate of 25 percent.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/28/under-obama-student-loans-hit-a-record-high/
and BERNIE didn't know what amount this woman and her family
(...and what have they got to do with this woman's appointment?) had contributed..he was guessing
...and the woman was right - about Bernie's Idea of FREE education
(free liberal arts degrees, REALLY?, then what? welfare for ever?)
bernie wants this woman to agree to being COMMUNIST - FREE education?
WHO THE HELL IS GOING TO PAY FOR IT?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk4imizwSlA
bernie wants to raise minimum wage...does he wanna pay 10 bucks a burger at mickey D's?
who could afford to eat there then?
lol
with the record debts the US is in, it seems to me bernie is the nut on this one
Just wait till the interest rises at the fed while all these students are unemployed, because the obamanots are doing their best to offshore all the decent paying jobs in the US, and then talk about student debt - the kind you cannot erase
...and of course the education system sucks
just look at all the so called educated people who don't seem to realise COMMUNISM SUCKS
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