It’s Time to Get Billionaires Off of Welfare

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via commondreams.org: Year after year, decade after decade, Republicans in Washington have lectured the American people about the need for “welfare reform.” In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan railed against a fictitious “welfare queen” driving a Cadillac. Just a few years ago, Republicans turned their attention to a young surfer who used the food stamp program to purchase lobster. … Read more

120 Utilities Have Lowered Rates Thanks to Tax Cuts

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Thanks to the tax cuts passed by the Republican House and Senate and signed by President Donald Trump, at least 120 utilities across the country are lowering rates for customers, according to a report from Americans for Tax Reform. This means lower electric bills, lower gas bills, and lower water bills for Americans. The Tax … Read more

US govt blocks info release on thousands of kittens experimented & killed at Maryland lab – lawsuit

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An animal rights group has sued the US Department of Agriculture, claiming it blocked the release of information on a Maryland medical lab that experimented on and euthanized thousands of kittens in past decades. The lawsuit says the government-funded Animal Parasitic Disease Lab in Beltsville, Maryland, has euthanized thousands of healthy kittens after putting them … Read more

Governments Default On Debt More Than You Think

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Authored by Daniel Lacalle via The Mises Institute, In this era of monetary fiction, one tends to read all types of undocumented and misguided views on monetary policy. However, if there is one that really is infuriating: MMT science fiction. One of its main principles is based on a fallacy: “A country with monetary sovereignty can issue … Read more

Tesla Tumbles After Chief Accounting Officer Quits After Just One Month

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Via ZeroHedge Update: it’s just getting ugly in Freemont. TESLA’S CHIEF PEOPLE OFFICER GABY TOLEDANO TO LEAVE CO – CNBC, CITING REPORT * * * Easy come, easy go. Just hours after Elon Musk appeared on a comedy podcast, where he smoked pot, demonstrated his flamethrower and mused philosophically, Tesla’s chief accounting officer unexpectedly gave notice … Read more

August Job Creation Rebounds — “Fueled By Tax Cuts,” Notes AP, Bloomberg…. Record Low African-American Unemployment

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WINNING: August Job Creation Rebounds — “Fueled By Tax Cuts,” Notes AP, Bloomberg. Do Democrats really want to run on reversing December’s tax cut? The August job report beat expectations, as the US economy added 201,000 jobs last month and the U-3 unemployment rate held steady at 3.9%. Labor force measurements fell back, however, as the Household survey demonstrated even more … Read more

CA GOV Race is close. (R) Cox is only 5% behind (D) Newsom in latest poll!

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SACRAMENTO — A newly released research poll from Opinion Research on Elections and Public Policy shows Republican John Cox is closing the gap between himself and Democrat Gavin Newsom in the race for California’s next Governor. Nine-hundred voters participated in the survey between August 29 and September 2. The results show Newsom at 44 percent, … Read more

Bayer beware: US lawyers claim to have ‘explosive’ documents about Monsanto’s activity in Europe

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Bayer-owned agrochemical giant Monsanto, which has recently been ordered to pay a groundskeeper $289 million in damages over Roundup’s alleged cancer link, may be facing many more legal fights soon. Lawyers involved in the California lawsuit against the firm claim they have revealing documents about Monsanto and its affairs in Europe. “What we have is … Read more

Nancy Pelosi EXPLODES When Reporter Asks About Her Slumping Support from Democrats

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdFA8TPVn0k Randy DeSoto for the Western Journal reports, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi expressed little patience with a reporter who questioned whether the former speaker of the house would have the support needed to take up her old post should the Democrats prevail in November. Read More/Source/Credit/FairUse: https://www.westernjournal.com/nancy-…