TenuredVulture wrote:

pacino wrote:consumer confidence is up because old people feel great again. people under 35 ain't buying tickets for the #MAGA train. essentially, they're excited a republican is coming back.
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Ironically one potential result of protectionism+increasing deficits is inflation which screws the old people and might make various loan payments more bearable for the young assuming if they have fixed interest rates.

Kentucky—the state with the largest improvement in adult uninsured rates—experienced the greatest improvement of any state in this measure (19% in 2013 vs. 12% in 2015). Arkansas and Oregon, also among the states with the greatest gains in insurance coverage, had the second-greatest improvements (5 percentage points each).

Looking only at states’ low-income adult populations over the two-year period, there was at least a 2-percentage-point decline in the share of people who went without care because of costs in 37 states, including double-digit declines (10 to 14 points) in Kentucky, New Hampshire, Oregon, Washington, and West Virginia. These states all expanded Medicaid by January 2015.

Bucky wrote:/cue Paul saying why renting is better

Youseff wrote:white genocide is the big concern of the Brantt corners of the internet.

Let me say it again: There is absolutely no justification for terrorism, and there never will be. The most recent wave of Palestinian violence has included hundreds of terrorist attacks in the past year, including stabbings, shootings, vehicular attacks and bombings, many by individuals who have been radicalized by social media. Yet the murderers of innocents are still glorified on Fatah web sites, including showing attackers next to Palestinian leaders following attacks. And despite statements by President Abbas and his party’s leaders making clear their opposition to violence, too often they send a different message by failing to condemn specific terrorist attacks and naming public squares, streets and schools after terrorists. President Obama and I have made clear to the Palestinian leadership countless times, publicly and privately, that all incitement to violence must stop. We have consistently condemned violence and terrorism – and even condemned the Palestinian leadership for not condemning it. Far too often, the Palestinians have pursued efforts to delegitimize Israel in international fora. We have strongly opposed these initiatives, including the recent wholly unbalanced and inflammatory UNESCO resolution regarding Jerusalem. And we have made clear our strong opposition to Palestinian efforts against Israel at the ICC, which only set back the prospects for peace. And we all understand that the Palestinian Authority also has more to do to strengthen institutions and improve governance.

Most troubling of all, Hamas continues to pursue an extremist agenda: they refuse to accept Israel’s very right to exist. They have a one state vision of their own: all of the land is Palestine. Hamas and other radical factions are responsible for most explicit forms of incitement to violence, and many of the images they use are truly appalling. And they are willing to kill innocents in Israel and put the people of Gaza at risk in order to advance that agenda. Compounding this, the humanitarian situation in Gaza, exacerbated by the closures of the crossings, is dire. Gaza is home to one of the world’s densest concentrations of people enduring extreme hardships with few opportunities.1.3 million people out of Gaza’s population of 1.8 million are in need of daily assistance, including food and shelter, most have electricity less than half the time, and only 5 percent of the water is safe to drink. And yet despite the urgency of these needs, Hamas and other militant groups continue to re-arm and divert reconstruction materials to build tunnels, threatening more attacks on Israeli civilians that no government can tolerate. At the same time, we must be clear about what is happening in the West Bank.

Brantt wrote:No comments today on the complete betrayal of Israel?

Kerry's pro-Palestinian speech today was just the icing on the cake. And these idiots are worried about the way Trump talks about our allies?

January 20th can't get here soon enough.

Brantt wrote:No comments today on the complete betrayal of Israel?

Kerry's pro-Palestinian speech today was just the icing on the cake. And these idiots are worried about the way Trump talks about our allies?

January 20th can't get here soon enough.

06hawkalum wrote:

Brantt wrote:No comments today on the complete betrayal of Israel?

Kerry's pro-Palestinian speech today was just the icing on the cake. And these idiots are worried about the way Trump talks about our allies?

January 20th can't get here soon enough.

Go back under your bridge snowflake.

The Savior wrote:

Brantt wrote:No comments today on the complete betrayal of Israel?

Kerry's pro-Palestinian speech today was just the icing on the cake. And these idiots are worried about the way Trump talks about our allies?

January 20th can't get here soon enough.

Would you rather Kerry say really nice things to Israel and not provide ~$4 billion/year in aid (extended, in effect, the same 10-year deal Bush II started)?

Actions speak louder than words. Israel gets a significant amount of financial support from the US while its adversaries get next to nothing (the Iran deal aside; I am personally not a fan of how that unfolded).