Tuesday, February 20th, the Florida House of Representatives debated and then voted to declare pornography a “public health risk.” These same representatives then refused to take up a bill to ban assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. They did this while students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School were watching from the gallery.
Truly dumb.
The GOP is bragging about giving public school employees $78 a year, meanwhile, according to the Tax Policy Center, the new tax changes will hand the richest 1 percent an extra $51,000 a year.
Elections do matter.
The meme that Republicans are better with government finance is dead. Dead I tell you. Those Republicans voted today to add from $1,500,000,000,000 to $2,000,000,000,000 to the national debt. That's $1.5 to $2 TRILLION. Remember that next fall in the 2018 elections.
Watch out. Next Paul Ryan will be coming for your Social Security. Or your Medicare. Just watch.
The massive tax giveaways for corporations and the wealthy will be paid for by throwing 13 million people off health insurance.
If that isn't enough (it isn't) then cut $400 billion from Medicare.
If that still isn't enough (and it still isn't enough), raise taxes in over 10 years on 92 million middle-class families.
Look at the tax bill just passed. The obsequious Republicans own this disaster.
Congress does something—nation shocked! https://www.newyorker.com/cartoons/daily-cartoon/friday-december-8th-congress-shocks-nation
Another gem from Andy Borowitz at the New Yorker: Broad Majority of Americans Support Moving Trump to Jerusalem.
ER Doctor On Why We Need Universal Health CareThis doctor explains why Americans aren't getting the health care they need – even if they're insured
Posted by NowThis Politics on Monday, October 16, 2017
Thanks to Jeanette Kelly for sharing this. One of the best arguments for universal health care comes from an emergency room doctor. Pay attention.
Another gem from Andy Borowitz published in The New Yorker.
White House Says It Is Unpatriotic to Offer Irrefutable Video Evidence That a General Lied
Betsy DeVos spoke recently at Harvard and asserted that charter schools in her home state of Michigan generally get better test scores than traditional schools.
A 2016 report by Politico, however, said:
Despite two decades of charter-school growth, the state’s overall academic progress has failed to keep pace with other states: Michigan ranks near the bottom for fourth- and eighth-grade math and fourth-grade reading on a nationally representative test, nicknamed the “Nation’s Report Card.” Notably, the state’s charter schools scored worse on that test than their traditional public-school counterparts, according to an analysis of federal data (emphasis added).
