Name the three branches ..........
skibum609
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of Government: Um, President, Congress and the House -- as stated by Democrat Congresswoman Elect Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez. democratic socialist, new power figure among progressives; future Presidential candidate and leading light of a future generation. Of course she answered incorrectly, because the answer, as any normal american 9 year old should know is Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Stupid is as stupid says.
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I just did a Google search under "idiot" and Cortez didn't come up
SJG
But I think you just don't like Puerto Ricans, @SkiBirther.
We don't live in this country, we struggle to survive because of idiots voting for politicians whose policies are against the people's self interest.
The issue is how people denigrate the poor. The Right depends on this. Libertarianism is simply social darwinism, the idea that poor people have something wrong with them. So people need to start standing up for themselves.
And if things continue to worsen, then maybe this will come to deadly force.
If it were not for the Republicans being able to use Racism and Christian Fundamentalism to drive elections, we would already be a Social Democracy along the lines of Scandinavia.
Nixon, Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump never could have gotten elected. If the Republican Party had wanted to remain relevant at all, it would have had to really mellow out.
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That BS Pichai was shoveling the other day to Congress was so weak on so many levels it's laughable but why not? This is the same government that believed Lois Lerner and Hillary couldn't be proven guilty by Computer forensics.
On another note I've yet to meet a person who doesn't believe in global warming....I mean climate change....the question isn't if as much as it is why. And what we as a single nation can do to stop it if other nations will not participate. Are we going to keep our air and water from circulating around the rest of the globe? Force all the dirty air to stay over China and not drift? Force all the water to not run into the oceans from India?
And I'm confused RA didn't you just say the other day Sanders was not that liberal?
"AOC" has uttered enough blunders to fill up a full week of Stephen Colbert....what you should be asking yourselves is why you never hear any of them on his show.....or any other MSM show......
You really believe Pichai was pitching a load of horseshit? Really? Did you take any math on the way to getting your law degree? Search engine algorithms are as politically neutral as you get get -- eigenvalues and eigenvectors and all that stuff.
I've consistently stated that Sanders is too liberal for me. For example I prefer the ACA model for healthcare that preserves the kind of great PPO coverage I've had all along. Don't want rationing like the UK. Not interested in government control of healthcare costs and I want medical doctors to make a very good salary. I don't think we can pay for free college-tuition; it's a pie-in-the-sky dream that can't be paid for.
Might help if Trump had not pulled out of Paris climate agreement. Might help if Trump could think rationally.
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You’d think we’d have definitive proof of one theory, or other, by now. Still, Ocasio-Cortez belief that we can pay for a $32 trillion Medicare-for-all program by trimming defense spending stretches credulity.
Medicare-for-all is way too radical and raising taxes to pay for it would be horribly unpopular. But improving on the ACA is within reach and benefits everyone (because it protects pre-existing conditions).
I don't denigrate the poor, nor do I make excuses for them. Poor people, for the most part, make life choices that make them poor and make them time and time again. Progressives idolize failures because it gives them a sense of superiority and an excuse to make money off their misery.
DC - When a man makes a drunken mistake and sleeps with someone awful he blames alcohol and himself. When a woman does it she cries rape. My roommate used to tell me that she and all of her friends had been raped at one time or another. This was back in 1991. I used to look at her and remind her that we met in 1969 and that one of the men she claimed to her friends had raped her, was someone she chased for almost 2 years after the "rape". Her response? As she "grew" as a woman she realized her reaction to the rape was because of the white male dominated way she was raised. We're on a friendship hiatus over Christine Ford's perjury.
I don't denigrate the poor, nor do I make excuses for them. Poor people, for the most part, make life choices that make them poor and make them time and time again. Progressives idolize failures because it gives them a sense of superiority and an excuse to make money off their misery.
DC - When a man makes a drunken mistake and sleeps with someone awful he blames alcohol and himself. When a woman does it she cries rape. My roommate used to tell me that she and all of her friends had been raped at one time or another. This was back in 1991. I used to look at her and remind her that we met in 1969 and that one of the men she claimed to her friends had raped her, was someone she chased for almost 2 years after the "rape". Her response? As she "grew" as a woman she realized her reaction to the rape was because of the white male dominated way she was raised. We're on a friendship hiatus over Christine Ford's perjury.
Cortez isn't qualified to be president and I very much doubt that she'll be nominated. However, you could say the same thing about Trump.
@WarrenBoy, if you believe that a little man behind the curtain at Google deliberately associated "Trump" with "Idiot" then you're completely off-the-wall nuts.
We just had an election. ACO hasn’t even been sworn in. She won’t even be old enough to run for president until 2024. Maybe a moratorium on comments about her until she is actually a congresswoman is warranted.
Unless she flashes her tits ( . )( . )
That would be some brilliant TUSCL conversation right there! But without any titty flashing it is probably better to let her move into her office before freaking out. ;)
I won't define a person's effectiveness based on a single fumble during an impromptu video. I'll take note of it, but it's a single data point. Treating it as more than that is either obtuse and/or pot stirring.
I feel like Blowjobs are an emergency service but I don't want the government involved with that.
Its funny how people have no problem with their tax dollars going to fund imperialist wars, corporate welfare and funding right wing dictatorships and rogue states like Israel. Yet become outraged at the thought of Americans having universal healthcare or going to school without years of debt. Americans think perpetual war is a legit use of public funds but heaven forbid we use it to help poor Americans.
Stop funding wars, stop propping up rogue states like Israel, stop paying for right wing dictatorships abroad, and there's plenty of money.
Its not that the gov can't its that it doesn't want to and most people are too stupid to remember what things used to be like and how it worked just fine then.
DC I appreciate the comments. What pisses me off is the idea that somehow protesting and demanding laws that make others pay more in taxes is somehow "doing" something, while my paying the tab; giving to charity; volunteering and actually working with and for poor people, is somehow all bullshit because I am a conservative. Progressives are all about words and in the real world "actions speak louder than words". Kind of humorous to think that the guy who represents minorities, with an office in a tough neighborhood, who works in a profession with 80% females is somehow a danger to the people who i see face to face daily, while those who give them nothing but pity and words are somehow "good" people.
University sports aren't amateur competitions anymore, they're a corporate affair. Sports are way over funded. Instead of wasting tax payer money, let sponsors pay or go back to amateur competitions.
Listening to her talk, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez never graduated from high school.
As for AOC, she is just clueless. Her $21T complaint about the department of defense not being able to detail where money was spent and that it could have been used instead to finance health care was even mocked by the DEMOCRATS. The $21T was money that was moved around between programs and fund sites internally to the DOD, so it was essentially double counted when it was moved from 1 fund site and counted again when it was added to the new fund site. Also, the time period for that amount was over a decade, yet she thought that all $21T was available to pay for health care right now. She is in SO far over her head, she is essentially wasting a seat in the House that could be held by a competent person from either party that has at least some grasp of reality.
With that degree, how the hell is she that clueless about politics and economics.
I don't need stats on inflated prices based on what the private sector overcharges the gov for porkbelly projects that rob tax payers.
No, not the accent or dialect. I'm referring to her idiocy. Her views on things make no rational sense.
And guess what, a huge chunk of the other $47B we spend on foreign aid goes to Latin America and Africa to try and bolster their economies, so we hopefully don't end up with a huge influx of migrants wanting to enter the country. But we all know how well those dollars are working, so should we stop making those payments as well and if so, how do we deal with the increased migration then when all the folks that are subsisting now are forced to move because they can no longer survive in their country since the US aid has dried up?
As for pork-belly projects robbing the tax payer. Guess what numb-nuts, your politicians are responsible for them. Look at the interstate to nowhere we have in West Virginia all because Richard Byrd kept slapping more funding on other bills to pay for it. If you really wanted to save money and spend it efficiently, you would need a government that cared about the spending and how it was spent. We have billions of dollars spent annually on subsidies here in the US that are so ingrained in Washington, that I doubt even an act of congress couldn't get them cancelled. We currently subsidize Alpaca wool production in the US and have since WW2.
The private sector has a right to make a profit on what business they do with the federal government and there are often cost overruns on projects, but you have to realize that a lot of the projects generating the overcharges are due to the federal government making changes to the original project. Also, unlike with commercial projects, when a company does work for the government, they often have a very limited product run for the money invested in R&D. The government is only going to buy X number of F35 aircraft, so the R&D costs are concentrated over that small production run, thus driving up costs. It probably costs more for Boeing to design a new jumbo jet, but they can expect to sell hundreds or thousands more aircraft commercially than they can a fighter jet, so the R&D costs become minimal. And guess what, the majority of federal contractors/supplies are small businesses that are owned by females, vets, minorities, disabled, and located in economically depressed areas. These people are not gouging the federal tax payer, they are trying to make a living. When I worked for the federal government, we used to joke the ultimate vendors was a disabled, female, Latino/Asian, veteran that had their company in the middle of nowhere Alabama or Mississippi because it hit all the required checkmarks. This is a popular misconception people have because the news tells them about the huge cost overruns on defense projects and people assume they apply to everything. So before you make accusations, you might want to do a little research.
It goes to right wing regimes in Latin America. Not to Latin America.
The private sector controls the government and is keeping the American people hostage to capitalist interests.
The private sector does gouge the tax payer. Welfare exists in order to subsidize the low wages that the private sector pays.
You're a right wing nutjob.
Just wondering, IceyLoco, are you actually a communist or socialist? You are complaining about the capitalist interests robbing the welfare state. Unfortunately, the world doesn't work under those political orientations. The Soviet Union proved that communism doesn't work and only retards progress. China is more capitalist today than they want to acknowledge. North Korea, the only true communist holdout, is a joke and as 3rd world as they come. Venezuela is socialist and their economy is destroyed. The French have tried socialism a couple of times since WW2 and keep switching away from it. Progress requires a capitalistic orientation and I certainly hope the US never wavers.
Finally, I am tired of people spouting the low wage crap and the need to raise everyone's wages. Guess what, all that does in raise the cost of living for EVERYONE. This is a viscous cycle no one ever wants to talk about. If you get paid more, that means your employer has to charge more to pay your wages. Look at Seattle. They raised the minimum wage, so now it costs more for everything because the shopkeepers have a higher salary responsibility. It is actually turning out that businesses are reducing their workforce because of the higher wages, so what do you say to those people loosing their jobs because of the higher minimum wages that now have to pay more for their groceries even though they no longer have a job because of the layoffs.
How is that corporate America forcing pork-belly projects? This happens ALL the time with these projects. It isn't the companies pushing it, it is the citizens wanting to keep their jobs or the representatives/senators want to keep their people happy so they keep their jobs in DC.
Pork belly projects are politicians' gifts to the capitalists who fund their campaigns.
Higher wages don't mean higher prices. Raising minimum wages proves that. Thats just a scare tactic . As is capitalists use the gov to provide welfare to offset their refusal to give people a living wage coz of profits.
Taxing them and spending it is what keeps the middle sector of the economy going, it's what protects middle tier of wages.
The US has always propped up right wing dictatorships, all around the globe. Our own Right gets real mad when they find a leftist government which they cannot co-opt. The US also protected and paid $1 billion per year of bribe money to Iran's Islamic Fundamentalists, in order to prop up the Shaw.
Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega are but two of those the US helped to install and prop up.
The US was behind Ngo Dinh Diem in Vietnam too.
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Lookswise, Cortez is a plain girl....not that it matters. Looks have nothing to do with her job. I support her.