Congressman Dusty Johnson is sending out this pro-Trump propaganda at taxpayer expense:
South Dakota is “thriving” under Trump? He’s killing farmers, he’s depressing GDP with his unnecessary and fruitless trade war, our stagnating rural economy and our flagging state revenues are propped up by socialist farm bribes, and the Trump tax cuts for the rich haven’t generated any of the promised deficit-reducing economic expansion your party promised us. If this is “thriving,” I’d like to go back to the Obama days when we were rocket-fuel-booming.
This blog post was prepared and published at my own expense, not yours, not any taxpayer’s. Dusty, you’re as free to campaign for Trump as I am to campaign against him and his lies, but please, lick your own stamps.
Considering the hundreds of millions of $$ that have poured into this state via Trump’s mitigation payments to farmers, basically saving our economy, Dusty should have titled this taxpayer-funded self-promotion, “Ah, the wonders of socialism.”
Yup, John, $665 million to be exact. https://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=46000&progcode=total_mfp&yr=mtotal
Dusty is what you get when wingnuts are allowed to redefine terms with alternate definitions to fit their alternate facts in alternate reality.
Also, re: the unemployment rate. Dusty touts 3.2% now, but in January 2016 it was 2.9%. So is Dusty bragging or complaining? https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LASST460000000000006?amp%253bdata_tool=XGtable&output_view=data&include_graphs=true
Dusty looks like Opie Taylor at a corporate board meeting, completely out of place. The only responses I have gotten from him are, “We will have to agree to disagree.” You can lead a horse to facts, but you can’t make him use them. Just another SD rubber stamp for the Repugnicans.
As I replied to dusty: No, I will not “agree to disagree with anyone so ignorant and unwilling to face facts.”
I’m not sure any republican any longer can distinguish between truth and fiction; reality from fantasy or right from wrong.
Good economic news, Dusty. The Dow is down another 800 points on coronavirus fears. What have drumpf and wingnuts done to head off the coming epidemic besides lie about it?
Maybe someone should ask South Dakota’s useless congressional delegation how they stand aside while people that swore to uphold the constitution are being removed from the kremlin annex and replaced by tools who swear an oath to uphold the rule of drumpf?
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Those fears should be taken seriously. Now we will find what a tragedy our healthcare system actually is. Here’s Dirty Johnson in action, you have to wait until the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdf5EXo6I68
I’m sure Dirty Johnson will support this clear and present danger.
“A Trump nominee to serve on a court that hears claims against the government once argued that several federal agencies should be eliminated and that Social Security should be abolished because economic disparity “is a natural aspect of the human condition.”
Stephen Schwartz, nominated to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, spelled those ideas out 15 years ago in a student newspaper as an undergraduate at Yale. Schwartz wrote that the departments of Transportation, Agriculture and Education lack a “constitutional basis,” and that Social Security benefits were intended to prevent “outright starvation” but had become a “standard component of most retirement programs.” Washington Post 2.25.20
You just know when you read “economic disparity” it fits right into Dirty and the rest of the Chubby supporters wheel house.
Didn’t Medical Moron fire the HHS expert in charge of dealing with epidemics? Or maybe that expert worked out of the fed agency in Atlanta? I don’t think anyone has filled the spot, not even one of his Acting Idiots.
The bonehead currently there is getting his info on Covid 19 from Johns Hopkins, rather than being in the lead. He was crying yesterday because he couldn’t get on the JH site. We’ll get no federal help with this from the completely Incompetent Criminal deministration.
States, you’re on your own. Here in Minnesota we’ll probably manage better than many because we’re a Blue state and used to caring about our citizens. South Dakota, I’m very sorry to say you’re in big, big trouble.
Part of Harry Truman’s Sept 10, 1952 new York speech, (see if any of this sounds famikliar)
We have almost forgotten that there can be such things as mass unemployment, bank failures, dollar-a-day wages, and 30-cent wheat. Those things have long been banished, along with the Republicans who brought them upon us.
Now, what is the reason for this confidence and this prosperity? It is very, very simple. The programs of the Federal Government in the past 20 years have made America a land of individual security, and at the same time a land of tremendous opportunity.
In these 20 years the Democratic Party has shown that individual security and opportunity go together. They must be worked for together, and the Democrats know how to do it.
The Republican Party in Congress has opposed almost all our programs to help the economic life of the country. The Republican Party has blindly turned its back on the tradition of public action for the public good.
I wonder why they have done that? Well, it is because the Republican Party has become a collection of special interest groups. A special interest group, by definition, can never see beyond the limits of its own greed for the almighty dollar.
The insurance companies, back in 1935 and 1936, couldn’t see anything in social security beyond the fact they would not be writing the insurance policies. So they were against it–and they got the Republican Party against it.
The utility companies couldn’t see anything in our great public power projects beyond the fact that private companies would not make a profit on the power. So they were against these projects, and automatically the Republican Party came out against them, too. Al Smith and Franklin Roosevelt taught you people all about that, many years ago.
The real estate lobby couldn’t see anything in low-cost public housing beyond the fact that houses were going to be built and their members would not make any money out of them. So they were against public housing, and automatically the Republican Party came out against public housing.
And so it goes, down through the whole list. The policies of the Republican Party are the total of all the negative attitudes of all the special groups that put money into and pull the strings for the Republican Party.
We’re not doing any better either under Trump’s healthcare. He & his fools cut the post of senior director for global health security and biothreats on the national security council (NSC) last May. Two weeks ago the fools cut the funding the Centers for Disease Control by 10%. Meanwhile all the fools can do is parade happy news stoolies to CNBC & press briefings to calm the panic. When the nation is short 270 million medical face masks, only 5 states have the capability to test for COVID-19, when South Korea tested over 30,000 folks & the US tested fewer than 500 — it’s time to panic.
https://www.militarytimes.com/pay-benefits/2020/02/25/schools-closed-events-cancelled-at-overseas-us-military-bases-as-covid-19-spreads/
For further COVID-19 news read the 2 reddit links, making sure you put more assurance in the scientific link cited in this layman’s link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/
It takes a crisis to make the country realize that it’s not enough to elect a moron during the Obama expansion who implements voodoo economics and tries to claim credit for the sun rising. We need an actual administrator in the White House, someone who knows what he is doing and who knows how to engage experts to help get it done.
Check out history 100 years ago. The Spanish Flu. Started with the military in the US and then killed millions worldwide. Now, today, we are dealing with that in the military in South Korea and who knows where else.
““In the military, soldiers are living as a group. So even if just one person contracts the virus at his base, its aftermath would be really tremendous,” said Kim Dae-young, an analyst at the Korea Research Institute for National Strategy. “This year, no military training can be the best option.” https://apnews.com/be5e247f9c23e22ddebd9c278e7c7ca5
History does seem to repeat itself. Let’s all hope we can rid ourselves of the dumb arse republican mantra so we don’t go back to dollar a day wages and 30 cent wheat. How would we BRIBE then?
Dirty Johnson will have to support a tax hike for his wealthy sugar daddy friends to finance this epidemic so that Medicaid can be expanded along with protecting all of us. That means those poor folks trapped and caged on the border too, you know, Catholics.
Remember folks, we have national guardsmen serving in those areas of the world that come back home here to South Dakota. So if you think that bug can’t touch you, ya got another thing coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cecLXpiKtYQ
Jerry, why would the GOP increase taxes to finance needed emergency relief? Just spend, baby, spend — and run up that deficit. Let the Democrats clean up the mess when they get in power again.
Spend, cut taxes, drive up deficits; lose power; rinse; repeat.
True that o, but either the falling down wall on the border or cutting Social Security is the only way to bring about the funding. Can’t cut the wall spending…but what the hell, old guys are probably gonna die and not need their Social Security anyway, so Dirty will support that. Anyone ever ask him or EB5 Rounds about that? You know Chubby has now a fellow that is gung ho on eliminating Social Security, so there’s that.
Democrats should be running on that. They sure can’t run on race issues as that cake has been baked. The only thing left is running on money and how Dirty and EB5 Rounds are gonna take it away. They need to get on the band wagon to point out the BRIBES and how the BRIBES are gonna be paid for…by stealing Social Security.
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-surprise-medical-bills-miami-1b808778-2450-4746-864c-d5fc9459eefb.html
drumpf’s insurance plans are cheap and do not cover pre-existing conditions and if there is one thing insurance companies are good at is turning nothing into a pre-existing condition so they do not have to pay.
Axios describes how states like SD are not thriving.
“Small businesses in the South and rural middle America have been battered by growing consolidation in the agriculture industry, leading to communities being dominated by a single company.”
The brief piece is here, is.gd/yEVyTk
“Rural America’s meager business growth”
Dusty is assured by Trumpy that any losses by Republican voter/farmers will be met with more taxpayer (us, not the wealthy) $$.
https://www.agriculture.com/news/farmers-expect-more-trump-tariff-payments-in-2020
See graph of 50 state bailouts. Dusty is assured by Trumpy that any losses by Republican voter/farmers will be met with more taxpayer (us, not the wealthy) $$.
https://www.agriculture.com/news/farmers-expect-more-trump-tariff-payments-in-2020
See graph of 50 state bailouts.
“Bailout checks have been sent to farmers in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Iowa and Illinois (read: the biggest soybean-growing states) have each received more than $1 billion in total payments to producers, according to USDA data. Other top recipients include Kansas, Minnesota and Texas. Pro DataPoint’s Taylor Miller Thomas mapped it out:….” https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-agriculture/2020/02/10/trumps-new-budget-ag-on-the-chopping-block-785231
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Getting tired of the winning, yet? Headed for worst week since great depression of 2007-08. drumpf still making history.
Mike, per Liar-in-Chief, the latest downturn is due to Tuesday night’s Democratic debate. If it pops into his head, it drools out of his mouth.
He will be the identified patient in psychiatric case studies for decades to come.
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You are so right, Debbo.
Debbo, what? It’s not Obama’s fault?
Fake Business News knows the score….. https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/us-stocks-feb27-2020
Worst single day point drop ever. I have yet to hear drumpf take credit for his stock market downturn. Thanks, Dusty.
Thriving?, my arse. Guardian has this up regarding Target. Target raised wages and then cut hours, cut workers and then doubled the workload on those that are still there.
“Workers say Target is making drastic cuts to their schedules and doubling their workload as it increases minimum wage under its ‘modernization plan’ to increase efficiency
‘The last time they raised it [hourly rate], they cut our hours, so I’m basically making less than I was before they raised it to $13 an hour.’
‘The last time they raised it [hourly rate], they cut our hours, so I’m basically making less than I was before they raised it to $13 an hour.’ Photograph: Bill Sikes/AP
Adam Ryan, 31, has worked at Target in Christiansburg, Virginia, for three years. He works additional jobs whenever he’s able to, but is regularly scheduled only 20 hours per week at Target, despite having open availability.
“I have to live with my family because I can’t afford rent on my own. I don’t have health insurance. I’ve had a rotting tooth in my mouth for years that I haven’t been able to receive treatment. I’ve applied for Medicaid in Virginia and every time I’m told I make too much money, and Target has told me I don’t qualify for their benefits because I don’t get enough hours,” said Ryan, who is also an organizer with Target Workers Unite, an independent initiative of Target workers.” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/27/target-cuts-hours-leaves-workers-struggling
Make America America Again, dump these crooks and liars. Elect Democrats like Warren and Independents like Sanders. Time to go back to the basics of FDR, which might be sooner than we think.
Now that Trump has presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow history, will that “haves” need to join us “have-nots” in the economic criticism of this President?
At Thursday’s close the Dow was down 3226 points for the week. It is currently down 526 points after being a thousand points down earlier. Saw nothing like this under Obama.
Looks like we’re gonna have another huge bailout. Nothing about the virus, just the money…always the money. Gots to keep those billionaires fanny’s wiped. You get the virus, sucks to be you.