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Republican budget cuts

jeudi 23 mars 2017 à 01:00

Millions of old or disabled Americans can remain in their homes because of the government's meal delivery service, Meals on Wheels. The troll would like to eliminate this because the military-industrial complex needs more profits.

Simply eliminating the requirement for insurance to cover IUDs will put some women's lives in danger, while driving many more women and children into poverty. It is foolish for any state to fail to subsidize birth control for the poor.

Put together, Republicans budget cuts would kill thousands of Americans. They would be be almost a hundred times as deadly to Americans as Islamist terrorist attacks.

In the longer term, the troll's most deadly act will probably be the continuation of global heating, which is likely to kill billions of people starting a few decades from now.

Delay of retirement savings fiduciary rule

jeudi 23 mars 2017 à 01:00

Each week that the troll delays the retirement savings fiduciary rule enables banksters to take roughly half a billion dollars from American savers.

This is an estimate, not an exact figure. Perhaps the real amount is only a quarter of a billion. Or perhaps it is three quarters.

Troll's corruption agents

jeudi 23 mars 2017 à 01:00

The troll continues packing federal agencies with corruption agents. He's turning all Washington into a swamp.

Tobacco industry

jeudi 23 mars 2017 à 01:00

The tobacco industry developed a strategy to overcome damning facts: a system for provoking doubt about firmly established conclusions. It worked so well that many other businesses adopted it, and last year it enabled brash liars to take over the US government.

Minnesota's progressive governor

jeudi 23 mars 2017 à 01:00

A rather unfriendly article is forced to admit that Minnesota's progressive governor has made things a lot better there.