W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 1 When China stumbles, the world economy will shudder
Napoleon famously observed that when China awoke from its long slumber the
world would shake.
Now that the Chinese economy has certainly awoken, were he alive today
Napoleon might have warned that when the Chinese economy stumbles the rest
of the world’s economy will also suffer. He might have done so particularly
because there are all too many reasons to believe that China will soon
begin a renewed and lengthy period of economic stagnation.
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发帖数: 466 | 2 我怎么不记得有这回事？我只记得当时买房啥的退税时有优惠。但是没有收到过政府的
直接支票。
WASHINGTON, March 17 (Reuters) - As the coronavirus threatens to push the
global economy into recession, the Trump administration is rolling out an
unusual idea: handing out free money.
President Donald Trump and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Tuesday
proposed mailing out checks of up to $1,000 to American adults to quickly
pump hundreds of billions of dollars into the U.S. economy at a time when
airlines are slashing flights and officials are s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 32 | 3 https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/trump-coronavirus-governors-
hospitals-ventilators-respirators.html
Trump: State and Local Governments, Not Him, Have to Solve Coronavirus
Shortages
By Jonathan Chait
President Donald “Not My Fault” Trump Photo: Evan Vucci/AP/Shutterstock
American hospitals are sitting on the precipice of a catastrophe. A deluge
of coronavirus patients is about to overwhelm their supply of beds,
protective equipment, and ventilator machines. President Trump has been
asked ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4825 | 4 https://www.ft.com/content/2602d57c-6ad4-11ea-800d-da70cff6e4d3
Corporate borrowing costs soar amid default fears
Interest rates for even highly rated companies double from levels of days
ago
Borrowing costs for companies around the world are rising dramatically
despite central bank interest rate cuts as rating agencies warn that the
economic impact of the coronavirus will lead to a surge of corporate
downgrades and defaults.
Fears about creditworthiness are prompting investors to put their ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4796 | 5 Coronavirus: China’s new export restrictions on medical supplies are bad
for business and the world, insiders say
‘We are very sad that we can’t send [medical] gowns to our clients who are
racing to save lives,’ Guangdong factory owner says
Beijing ruled on Wednesday that only firms licensed to sell medical supplies
at home can export them overseas
Saturday, 4 April 2020, 3:00:PM
China’s new restrictions on the export of coronavirus-related medical
supplies deal not only a blow to domestic produ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 6 http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/111858/best-compan
Best Companies to Work For, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011FortuneonCNNMoney.com
SAS takes the prize again! When it comes to workplaces, few companies offer
the kinds of perks the privately held software giant does: Employees at its
Cary, N.C., campus can help themselves to everything from a tailor, a
manicurist, and a hair salon, to summer camp programs for kids, to car
detailing — all of which helped land the company at the to... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24887 | 7 "现在的待遇比这个更好"
We cannot be blindly sure about this.
Entry level salaries for many college graduates in China in fact have
suffered a dramatic downturn in the past years. Also, you want to be
reminded that LZ's case involves a city that is a 2nd/3rd-tier city, which
may be dramatically different than what we are used to (that is, Beijing,
etc).
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发帖数: 4174 | 8 Posted on Advocate.com August 15, 2011 09:40:00 AM ET
The Most Important LGBT Group You’ve Never Heard Of
By Andrew Harmon
How to conduct an accurate count of the American population — an estimate
that controls congressional seat allocation and the disbursement of billions
in federal dollars to cash-strapped states and municipalities — is a
reliable flashpoint of controversy when the U.S. Census rolls around every
10 years.
What seems to have drawn little controversy in the release of the 2010
C... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 9 Guo Wengui's ten Deadly sins
If Guo Wengui who longing for "great" US is judged by US court, it might be
punished heavier．Fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui has been charged
with at least ten crimes according to media reports.
Guo Wengui who fled to the United States has been advertised to advocate the
rule of law. But as his a pile of criminal behavior exposure, the behavior
of Guo Wengui defied and trampling the rule of law is gradually exposed to
the world.
In China, his criminal associa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 10233 | 11 NPR/MSM不想让你知道的新闻.法国的健保正一步一步走向破产.
"The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's
money."
After a 4.4 billion euro ($6.31 billion) shortfall in the health budget in
2008, Woerth said he expected the deficit to hit 10 billion euros this year
and 15 billion next, with the economic downturn denting social security
contributions.
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5863CN20090907
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发帖数: 10233 | 12 French government to tackle surging health care deficit
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5863CN20090907
After a 4.4 billion euro ($6.31 billion) shortfall in the health budget in
2008, Woerth said he expected the deficit to hit 10 billion euros this year
and 15 billion next, with the economic downturn denting social security
contributions.
希腊已经彻底共产完蛋了，现在正上街。
The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s
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发帖数: 53185 | 13 房地产周期最起码10年，这downturn才刚开始。就算不跌了，也不会涨，呆滞你8年，
把你的钱都套在房地产里，等8年后，你的房价没变，通货膨胀让你的本金购买力少一
半。不如现在找机会投资别的东西，比如金子，金子两年内肯定翻倍
late
and
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发帖数: 10233 | 14 hei...
who怕who?
The San Diego Convention & Visitors Bureau and several hotels report
receiving e-mails and letters from Arizona visitors saying they intend to
change their plans to travel here in light of local outcry over their home
state’s anti-illegal-immigration stance.
Still struggling from the prolonged economic downturn, San Diego’s visitor
industry can ill afford to lose any of the 2 million Arizonans it counts on
annually, said ConVis President Joe Terzi.
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 15 左派=专制：加州的左派们创造了数百个独立委员会，养活左派官僚们。他们不必向选
民负责，不需要州长
或议会批准就可以制定各种规则。其中的空气资源会，被揭发伪造污染数据
BREAKING: SFO Chronicle says “Faulty science behind state’s landmark
diesel
law” – an error of 340%
Posted on October 7, 2010 by Anthony Watts
I wouldn’t have believed it if it were in any other newspaper but the very
liberal San Francisco Chronicle – h/t to WUWT reader “crosspatch” who
writes:
Was AB32 based on any data provided by the Air Resources Board?
According to various articles:
http://www.globalclimatela... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/08/carbon-trading-grinds-halt/
The air has been taken out of the carbon trading market.
The only national carbon trading market in the U.S. will close its doors
next month, due to stalled legislation in Congress and Republican gains in
the midterm elections -- a major setback in efforts to regulate so-called
greenhouse gases, which environmentalists argue contribute to global warming
.
Since 2003, the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) has operated a voluntary... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 17 http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Conservative-Fever-Builds-PalinBook/2010/11/23/id/377919
Conservative Fever Builds for Palin Book Tour
Tuesday, 23 Nov 2010 10:09 AM
Ultra-conservative powerhouse Sarah Palin kicks off a tour to promote her
second book in as many years Tuesday as part of a media blitz ahead of a
possible White House bid.
Editor's Note: Get Sarah Palin's "America by Heart" with our FREE Offer --
Click Here Now.
"America By Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith, and Flag" promises ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 18 瞎子领路：民主党众议员Ruben Hinojosa宣布个人破产，他任职众议院金融服务委员会
Texas Democratic Congressman Ruben Hinojosa - a member of the House
Financial Services Committee - filed for personal bankruptcy late last year.
The Associated Press and Politico, citing court documents and a statement,
reported that Hinojosa attributes his financial problems to a loan he
guaranteed for his family's meat company.
"I have done everything humanly possible to avoid filing for bankruptcy
protection to no avail," Hinojosa said in the stat... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 19 by Kevin
If the unemployment situation in this country were a cyclical issue (which
most people assume) than jobs would be being created left and right at this
point. We’d be well on our way back towards a more normal and acceptable
unemployment level. Unfortunately, this isn’t happening. Despite an “
improving economy” as we’re told.
Now I would still debate the level of improvement in the economy – because
I think there are two economies. One for big business and one for small
business. B... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 20 By Steve McCann
Gasoline has exceeded or approached $5.00 per gallon in some parts of the
United States long before the normal peak travel season has begun. Already
the politicians, headline writers, and some cable and talk show pundits are
pointing to the usual suspects. But they have avoided or are unaware of
where the fault actually lies.
One of the foundational tenets of economics is what is known as the law of
supply and demand. Normally whenever a product or commodity is in short
supply... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 21 Texas became the USA's second-largest economy during the past decade —
displacing New York and perhaps heading one day toward challenging
California — in one of the biggest economic shifts in the past half-century.
The dramatic realignment of the nation's economy was illustrated by North
Carolina, Virginia and Georgia all overtaking one-time industrial powerhouse
Michigan in economic size from 2000 to 2010. The economic winners of the
last decade are states that focus on raw materials, governm... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 22 Many big public companies are likely to report strong second-quarter profits
, but that isn't the story on Main Street, where small businesses are
grappling with jittery customers, rising costs and tight credit.
Small business owners are struggling to get enough loans to grow their
businesses or hire people, even as they face rising commodity prices, WSJ's
Sarah Needleman reports. (Photo: AP Photo.)
The owners of many small businesses say economic uncertainty and
inflationary pressures have led ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 by Ryan
The federal government provided about twenty percent of Americans’ personal
income last year through channels such as jobless benefits, food stamps,
Social Security, and disability. As the New York Times stated:
Close to $2 of every $10 that went into Americans’ wallets last year were
payments like jobless benefits, food stamps, Social Security and disability,
according to an analysis by Moody’s Analytics. In states hit hard by the
downturn, like Arizona, Florida, Michigan and Ohio, resi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 24 Tuesday, September 06, 2011
Americans are more pessimistic than ever that the U.S. economy will improve
during the next year.
Just 27% of American Adults now believe the U.S. economy will be stronger in
one year, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone
survey. That’s down from 31% in June and is the lowest finding in regular
tracking since January 2009. Prior to the latest survey, the number of
adults expecting a stronger economy in a year’s time ranged from 31% to 45%.
Fift... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 25 衰退？什么衰退？官僚满街跑的华盛顿成为美国最富裕的大都会，联邦雇员平均收入$
12.6万
Federal employees whose compensation averages more than $126,000 and the
nation’s greatest concentration of lawyers helped Washington edge out San
Jose as the wealthiest U.S. metropolitan area, government data show.
The U.S. capital has swapped top spots with Silicon Valley, according to
recent Census Bureau figures, with the typical household in the Washington
metro area earning $84,523 last year. The national median income for 2010
was $50,046.
The ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 26 'Bloated' Federal Workforce Rises 12% as Rest of US Goes Jobless
Thursday, 03 Nov 2011 07:57 PM
By Paul Scicchitano
The federal workforce appears to be immune to the country’s worst economic
downturn since the Great Depression, which has left 14 million Americans out
of work.
Civilian unemployment has mushroomed, sticking above 9 percent for months,
although many experts put the real figure in the 18-20 percent range.
Meanwhile, the number of federal employees has grown 12 percent since the
offi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 27 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Students graduating from college last year walked
away with more than a diploma, they also left with a record level of student
loan debt.
College seniors who took out loans to fund their college education owed an
average of $25,250, 5% more than the class of 2009 owed, according to a
report from the Institute for College Access & Success' Project on Student
Debt.
Thanks to rising tuition and the weak economy, students were forced to rely
more heavily on loans to pay for th... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 28 White House opposes GOP-led balanced budget amendment
By Erik Wasson - 11/15/11 03:57 PM ET
The White House on Tuesday announced it opposes a balanced budget amendment
to the Constitution that is coming to a vote in the House later this week.
President Obama does not need to sign a proposed Constitutional amendment,
which is sent directly to the states for ratification if two-thirds of the
House and Senate approve of it. Because of this, the statement of
administration policy does not include a ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 29 Downgrade of Debt Ratings Underscores Europe’s Woes
By LIZ ALDERMAN and RACHEL DONADIO
PARIS — Standard & Poor’s downgraded the credit ratings of France, Italy
and seven other European countries on Friday, a move that may have more
symbolic than fundamental financial impact but served as a reminder that
Europe’s economic woes were far from over.
Another memory jog came Friday from Greece, the original source of Europe’s
debt troubles. Talks hit a snag between the new Greek government and the
ban... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 30 Abe Greenwald of Commentary magazine tweets:
Is there any chance that Mark Steyn won’t use the Italian captain
fleeing the sinking ship as the lead metaphor in a column on EU collapse?
Oh, dear. You’ve got to get up early in the morning to beat me to
civilizational-collapse metaphors. Been there, done that. See page 185 of my
most recent book, where I contrast the orderly, dignified, and moving
behavior of those on the Titanic (the ship, not the mendacious Hollywood
blockbuster) with that ma... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 31 21世纪头10年，加拿大阿尔伯塔省政府雇员工资上涨119% ，远远超过全国63%的增长率
；政府官员工资增长吃掉95%预算增长
National Post editorial board: A wage cut for Alberta’s future
Ted Jacob/Postmedia News
The province’s public servants are among Canada’s highest-paid.
Alberta was once the model of public fiscal prudence for the entire country.
No longer.
Over the past dozen years, Alberta’s government has leapt from the eighth
highest-spending provincial administration on a per capita basis to far and
away the highest-spending — higher even than s... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 32 May 23, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
The Washington Post published a long Op Ed by a pair of think tankers
pretending at both being “centrists” and offering an unbiased analysis of
why politics has gotten so “partisan” these days. The pair also claim they
know how to end this messy partisanship. But what they wrote is a perfect
example of why things have become so polarized, not an example of how to fix
anything.
The authors, Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein, published theirs
headlined, “Wa... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 33 June 27, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
At around 130 days until Election Day, National Public Radio thought it
would be nice to give the President a little boost by going back to its 2008
practice of assigning to Obama the god-like powers of The One, The Light
Bringer, The Obammessiah.
This time tax dollar supported NPR thought it would be nice to air the claim
that the mere sound of Obama’s voice can part the clouds, stop that
depressing ol’ rain, and bring out the sun. No, really.
On Tuesday, J... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 34 Déjà Vu Pension Woes
Going into debt to fund pensions seems like a ridiculous thing to do,
especially for a company had a chance to shed more of those pension
obligations in bankruptcy.
Please consider the Wall Street Journal story GM Wants to Up Credit Line
General Motors Co. is in preliminary talks with banks to potentially
double its $5 billion line of credit as the auto maker looks to strengthen
its balance sheet and shrink pension obligations, according to people with
knowledge of the d... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21 | 35 http://economywatch.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/12/13830939-great
Some highlights below from the above article. You don't have to be lazy any
more to live miserably - you could live miserably because of your "out-of-
dated" skill set, your health, or just pure bad luck. Many people in this
country are not happy about this, understandably. In a democratic society,
I would not criticize those who want it changed through their votes.
Whether or not their votes would actulaly solve the problem imm... 阅读全帖 |
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l******a
发帖数: 3803 | 36 "I'm supposed to be eyecandy here" on the hen house view. |
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发帖数: 3942 | 37 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2012/10/03/fact-che
3:51PM EST October 4. 2012 - In the first presidential debate Wednesday
night, President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney packed their
responses with accusations about each other's policies and defenses of their
own.
Here are a few claims that deserve a deeper look:
Private-sector job gains
Claim: Obama said the U.S. economy has created 5 million private-sector jobs
the past 30 months.
DEBATE: Battle of economic visions
Fact... 阅读全帖 |
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B******e
发帖数: 16928 | 38 You cannot deny the fact that labor cost is rising dramatically in China.
Also outsource means more financing to set things up which may turn against
you during downturns. Research has shown that during financial crisis, firms
de-outsource dramatically. Also there are jobs that cannot be outsourced in
China, e.g., a lot of the service sector as well as sophisticated equipment
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发帖数: 29846 | 39 Conn Carroll: California becoming a feudal society
March 2, 2013 | 8:00 pm
For most of its history, California has occupied a special place in the mind
of most Americans. From the height of the Gold Rush through the 1980s,
California's warm weather and booming economy drew enterprising, educated
and talented immigrants from across the country. California was the melting
pot of America's melting pot, leading all states in the number of residents
who were born in other U.S. states.
As I wrote in T... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 40 我怎么看到相反的数据:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/01/25/news/economy/obama_government/i
Employees: The number of federal employees grew by 123,000, or 6.2%, under
President Obama, according to the White House's Office of Management and
Budget.
Much of the hiring increases came in the departments of homeland security,
justice, veterans and defense.
The federal payroll has been expanding since President Bush took office,
after declining during the Clinton administration. But it's still a tad
smaller than it w... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 41 Power costs shrink as share of Europe's rising energy bills
* In EU15 about half the household bill is charges, tax and subsidies
By Karolin Schaps and Barbara Lewis
LONDON/BRUSSELS, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Europeans are paying the steepest energy
bills in four years and face ever higher payments as governments pile on
extra charges to help finance a 1 trillion euro ($1.4 trillion)
modernisation of Europe's energy infrastructure.
Politicians from Britain to Germany, Italy to Romania, under pressure fr... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 42 New-Home Sales Slid 8.1% in June, Stirring Up a Growth Headwind
U.S. Housing Recovery Failing to Build Momentum
The market for newly built homes weakened in the first half of the year, a
development that's likely to impede economic growth and could hold back job
creation in 2014.
Sales of new single-family homes are down 4.9% through the first six months
of the year compared to the same period of 2013, according to Commerce
Department data released Thursday.
June sales fell 8.1% from May to a se... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 43 Helping "Qualified" Buyers: Fannie, Freddie Detail 3%-Down Payment Mortgage
Program
Now that home prices have recovered and homes are not the bargain they were
four years ago, it is fitting the parasites once again want to make homes "
affordable" to the masses with low-down payment options.
Please consider Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac detail plans for 3% down-payment
mortgages.
Housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Monday detailed
plans to once again back mortgages with down payme... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7733 | 44 你丫就呆在禁枪的加拿大吧，少管美国的闲事。怕自杀怕意外？家里少放点刀子，绳子
，安眠药之类的，住地下室，走路上班。
再给你个脑残脑补一下。fbi今年数据，拥枪率创新高，谋杀率几十年新低，打你的贱
脸。
By Ian Simpson, Reuters
3:25 pm, November 10, 2014
U.S. violent crimes including murders fell 4.4 percent in 2013 to their
lowest number since the 1970s, continuing a decades-long downturn, the FBI
said on Monday.
The law enforcement agency's annual Crime in the United States report showed
the country had an estimated 1.16 million violent crimes last year, the
lowest number since 1.09 million wer... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 45 “We Can’t Just Drill Our Way To Lower Gas Prices”…Turns out we can
Anyone over twenty five years old probably remembers the left’s rebuttal
during President George W. Bush’s initiative to drill in ANWAR, “We Can’t
Just Drill Our Way To Lower Gas Prices”. In fact as recently as 2012
President Obama was still parroting, after ten years, what had become Gospel
on the left. “We Can’t Just Drill Our Way to Lower Gas Prices” or a
variation “We Can’t Drill Our Way to Prosperity”. It was also said, b... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 46 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Raising the minimum wage in California to the
highest statewide level in the nation would eventually cost taxpayers an
additional $3.6 billion a year in higher pay for government employees,
according to a legislative analysis released Wednesday.
The estimate was disclosed as an Assembly committee considered boosting the
wage to $15 an hour by 2022. The full Assembly and Senate could vote on the
deal between Gov. Jerry Brown, labor unions and Democratic legislative
leade... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1193 | 47 Good evening.
How great it is to be with you tonight.
Let me begin by thanking the hundreds of thousands of Americans who actively
participated in our campaign as volunteers. Let me thank the 2 1/2 million
Americans who helped fund our campaign with an unprecedented 8 million
individual campaign contributions – averaging $27 a piece. Let me thank the
13 million Americans who voted for the political revolution, giving us the
1,846 pledged delegates here tonight – 46 percent of the total. And
dele... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 822 | 48 这脸打的。大家在选前一定要看看Clinton cash,如果有机会Hillary's America.看个
揭露真相的电影得跑百里开外，说好的言论自由呢？
“A new generation liberal hypocrites is growing. They are very good at
producing bs but will not do anything concretely good to the society. The
education system which mass-produce large quantity of this type of person is
largely responsible for the downturn of this great nation!” |
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发帖数: 2406 | 49 it is pretty clear who is leading now. |
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