"For many months now, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has promised that his department would release a detailed analysis of the Republican tax plan, which would presumably justify his prediction that the legislation would pay for itself through economic growth. This began to seem a bit doubtful as the bill-writing process dragged on and no forecast emerged. Then, last month, things took a turn for the embarrassing when the New York Times reported that Treasury had not actually done any detailed economic modeling on the plan, even though Mnuchin had at one point claimed he had 100 staffers working on it.

I guess Mnuchin decided to try to salvage his dignity, because today, more than a week after the Senate passed its bill, Treasury finally released ... something. It's a single-page document that purports to forecast the Senate bill's impact on federal revenues and U.S. growth. But it doesn't do that, really. Instead it reads like a lame gag - as if someone decided to prank all the wonks demanding hard numbers with one of those springy snakes that jumps out of a Pringles can. You click on a PDF expecting some semblance of analysis and instead get a page of blather barely one step up from a big green dollar sign scrawled in crayon. "


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"The truth is incontrovertible.
malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill

The place is stuffed with amateurs. There has never been an administration to reach this level of incompetence.

Aren't there still some 500 unfilled positions in Trump's government? It's been what, a year?

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I was right.

Trump said he was going to lean down the bloated government.

Why fill positions that don't need filling?

Just because YOU say they do because Obummer invented them...well that's not a 'requirement' to rill them.

What is actually required and what is not.

That's where I would start.

Seems like our government is running just fine WITHOUT all of those positions.





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-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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Bullshit, it's state department, i.e. our contact with the rest of the world.

Trump just picked a NOMINEE for ambassador to South Korea. We are on the brink of war with the country that sits on their order and the idiot has just gotten around to appointing an ambassador?

One year? It took him a solid year to do something we absolutely need.

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It's blatently obvious that it's NOT a requirement!

Moron!

A want maybe...but a need....hardly!

Fool!

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-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Do you want someone you trust that speaks and understands the language and customs or do you just want to wing it?

Fuggin amateurs.

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Again...A 'want' maybe...but a 'need'....hardly!

The world HATED Obamas picks.

Nobody trusted them!


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-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Not amateurs, outsiders. These are people that are not elite. They aren't Washington insiders. The alternative fact that expertise, experience and education in your field are required has been put to the test by president that famously boasts he doesn't read books because he doesn't need to. This is what people who write books call foreshadowing. This is what everyone will soon call a predictable political appointee failure. The swamp has not only risen, but it's gotten dumber.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

To try to turn the republican 'swamp' statement referring to the SCUMBAG deep state democrap ticks in our government into this is a hoot!

Bwahahahahahahah!

Nice try but an extreme FAIL!

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-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Other than a Democratic president, Washington was run by Republicans. How is that the 'Deep State?'

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Are you for real?

Seriously?

Wow!

The SWAMP-Deep State Trump has referred to for his ENTIRE presidency is demoCRAP operatives/employees/lobbiests loyal to OBAMA/democraps that are embedded in our government!

FOOL!

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-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

The incompetence at the State Dept. should have everyone worried, but I don't think the average American has the civic education to even know what the State Dept. does.

The military is in charge of our foreign policy at the moment. And you know what happens when the only tool you have is a hammer.

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

ISIS gets swatted?

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-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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Coleslaw award of the century! Dumbocraps had congress from 06 to 10, PIC from 18 to 16! That is Republican control? Are you out of Meds, or watching CNN?

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Romans 8;18-32 John 3;16-18

Does THAT splain it to ya?



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-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
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Edited: 12/12/2017 at 09:05 AM by Fish Killer

Cranky, you're embarrassing yourself.

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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

Corroded one, what is wrong in that statement?

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Romans 8;18-32 John 3;16-18

Spankit's mad because transgender people can now openly enlist so a complete backfire of Twitler's bullcrap agenda.  Oh and the travel ban, wall, ACA rollback, NFL boycott and everything else has been a failure too so there's that.

NFL Boycott?

REally?

$2 tickets!

Yeah....failed miserably!

Oh..and those fans aren't coming back!

FOOL!

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The REAL truth is....both of the forum idiots are OWNED.
-BOTH of them have no clue who their owner is.
-They are both card carrying narcissists.
^These are PROVED facts.

Try to get tickets to Falcons Panthers oh round and addled one.