applegrove
applegrove's JournalI think Hamilton is considered part of Toronto by now. Some Raptors landed
in Drake's 767 at the Hamilton Airport and took limos back to Toronto after winning the championship. Toronto winters are not bad. And it is getting warmer every year. They have never lived down the time 25 years ago when they had a two foot snow storm and the frazzled mayor called in the army. They are not used to snow storms. The rest of the country thinks they are wimps. I'm in Ottawa and it definitely gets winter. If you go south of Hamilton to the Niagara Peninsula it is really mild and they actually grow fruit and grapes there. I actually just had a strawberry milkshake made with berries from there. Delicious. If you move to British Columbia they have very mild rainy winters there in the south. But they also have rainy summers. All in all i like the change in seasons. Plus i overheat at the least exertion. I used to power through it and excercise when i was younger but now find it really uncomfy. I take a rag with me to wipe my brow these days in ottawa. Sunny and warm finally. My heat and sweating is so extreme it has to be some scottish-german gene mutation that never caught on. My mom had it too. I definitely belong in the north.
Looking for a narrative of Trump being a victim and by interviewing the CIA in private
they can cherry pick. You are right. Barr's Justice Department will knit any CIA behaviour into a story with a timeline that suits them and leak it. Or lean on the facts when the release the information.. We've already seen Barr do that with the release of his summation of the Mueller Report.
Is Trudeau a 'tax-and-spend' Liberal? The numbers say no
Is Trudeau a 'tax-and-spend' Liberal? The numbers say no
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5164976?__twitter_impression=true
Aaron Wherry - CBC News
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For 2014-2015 — the last full fiscal year of Stephen Harper's government — tax revenue as a share of GDP was 11.5 per cent.
For 2018-2019 — after nearly four full years of Justin Trudeau's government — tax revenue as a share of GDP is projected to be 12.7 per cent. In subsequent years, according to the government's own numbers, it's forecast to settle around 12.4 per cent.
That 0.9 -point increase is not nothing. But it's still below what the federal government was taking in when Harper's Conservatives came to office in 2006. It's even further below what the federal government was raising at the respective peaks of the Mulroney and Chrétien years.
For 1999-2000, for instance, total tax revenue reached 14.5 per cent of GDP — the highest point of the last 35 years.
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He. We had our own professional level comedian. He worked so hard
to post about 5 hillarious memes a day.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1018551379
Government legislating means regulating to make something better or spending
to make something better. I used to think republicans just hated regulating and spending. Now I'm pretty sure they are against things being made better too.
What is lost in all the Pelosi Trump hoopla today is that republicans
don't want to raise any taxes to fund infrastructure and Trump gave into them. US is at full employment and doing infrastructure now would result in increased wages. GOP can't have that. Better to wait for a time when everything is automated and unemployment is high. After all if workers don't fight inflation by never taking more of a slice of the pie in wages than they had in 1980, then everyone will have to fight inflation, including the rich.The boom might slow down if wages go up. So no taxes for infrastructure for you Trump. Make it look like it is democrats busting the agreed discussions last month.
There are many roads to get to where we want to go. I am
dyslexic and have aha moments. Mostly they are hypothesis I can't test out immediately as I am online and in Canada. Do I put up the hypothesis or not? My role as a dyslexic is to take a wide scope in life and slowly, over minutes-hours-weeks-months and years get to a big picture in real life. That is my job. In the meantime I had a hypothesis. So I post my idea knowing it will be taken with a grain of salt and that the DU needs those of us to perceive things differently. I'm not always right. Sometimes i reinvent the wheel. But so are the real pundits on the tv. But sometimes I am right and novel.
Deutsche Bank employees reported suspicious activity from Trump and Kushner, New York Times reports
(applegrove:
The bank executives get bonuses that Trump pulling his money out of the bank would destroy. He is that big. This is bribery at the top of banks these bonuses. See 60 Minutes story tonight on executives ignoring dirty money in europe too. Maybe they should lose their bonuses in the years they covered up corruption? Or maybe the financial penalties for bank corruption should go to whistleblowers even if they are the owners of the dirty money? That would make the execs not trust corruption.
CNN story
Deutsche Bank employees reported suspicious activity from Trump and Kushner, New York Times reports
By Jill Disis, CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/19/business/deutsche-bank-trump-kushner/index.html
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New York (CNN Business)Deutsche Bank's anti-money laundering specialists once recommended that transactions involving entities controlled by President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, be reported to a US agency that investigates financial crimes, according to a new report in the New York Times.
The Times reports that Deutsche Bankemployees flagged the transactions in 2016 and 2017, and that at least one of the reports involved the Donald J. Trump Foundation, which is now defunct.
Executives at Deutsche Bank rejected the advice of their specialists, according to the Times, which reported that the recommendations were never filed with the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.
The Times, which spoke with five current and former Deutsche Bank employees, also said the nature of the transactions "was not clear," though the newspaper added that at least some of them involved "money flowing back and forth with overseas entities or individuals, which bank employees considered suspicious."
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And the 60 Minutes story:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-the-danske-bank-money-laundering-scheme-involving-230-billion-unraveled-60-minutes-2019-05-19/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7d&linkId=67601961
GOP have Trump paranoid on infrastructure.
https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/17/trump-says-democrats-are-playing-a-game-on-roads/As if the democrats would be the ones to put anyone down for raising taxes to do an infrastructure plan. As if Democrats ever complain about taxes for spending on job creation. The GOP don't want to see infrastructure built because wages will go up, we are allready at full employment, and that they hate the middle class getting more more than anything. Wages have not moved since the 1980s but the pie of wealth has gotten very much bigger. Automation, outsourcing and unionbusting have done a great deal to keep wages from rising and middle class and workers getting some of the growing part of the wealth pie. For sure the GOP do not want to see rising wages due to 2 trillion on infrastructure spending.
Baby boomers are retiring. 74 years since the boom started. Plus wages
are stagnant (globalism, GOP fighting unions, automation) so the inflation rate stays low and the economy can go on and on. Workers fight inflation that way (for the rich). That is why growth was 3.2%. Has nothing to do with tax cuts. Don't let the GOP close the circuit on taking credit for it. It is demographics and workers not getting raises.
