[Wash Times] The Windy City may soon experiment with giving its citizens cash windfalls via a universal basic income pilot program.
Chicago alderman Ameya Pawar appears to be well on his way to convincing colleagues to test his UBI program for 1,000 families. His goal is to transfer $500 each month in stipends ‐ without conditions ‐ to citizens.
"Nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t have $1,000 in the bank for an emergency," Mr. Pawartold The Intercept for an interview published Monday. "UBI could be an incredible benefit for people who are working and are having a tough time making ends meet or putting food on the table at the end of the month. ... It’s time to start thinking about direct cash transfers to people so that they can start making plans about how they’re going to get by."
Mr. Pawar’s bill would also implement a process known as "smoothing" for families taking part in the Earned Income Tax Credit program; they would be paid monthly instead of annually.
"Our hope, that I know will be born out in this pilot, is that it will show that when we smooth out the EITC, and we provide a monthly basic income to 1,000 families, that they will be able to plan for expenses, they can make decisions about savings, they can make decisions about investing, they could make decisions about how they could deal with a financial emergency, just like all families do," Mr. Pawar said. "And once implemented, we’ll be able to hopefully scale it."
Not mentioned by the official was how the debt-ridden city would pay for an expansion of such a program.
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Not mentioned by the official was how the debt-ridden city would pay for an expansion of such a program.
Why, the Magic Money Tree(tm) of course. The principle of fiduciary responsibility need to be extend to government officials that indenture future generations for debt con games like this.
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Single mom, two kids one young that seemed to be in and out of juvenile detention, was holding down various cashier jobs in the university town. Working in a university town means there is a glut of college kids that want a temp job --- so low pay.
Anyway, the State Child Support was about 1500$ per month and every single dollar she earned in wages was deducted from that support. It may keep "some" people from sponging off of the common purse, but the hidden effect is that once you fall down there is every incentive to not try to return to your feet.
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But in terms of buying votes, the promise is as good as actually executing it, and then they can blame President Trump for not letting them have “their” money.
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Chicago and Illinois is broke. Who do they figure is going to pay for this? You will have many non-tax paying people flooding in for the free money while others are fleeing the state.
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This "gimme" is merely the political tactic of the unknown guy running against 2 white billionaires running for gov. Its working for him to get noticed.
[10News] Former FBI Director James Comey is urging "all who believe in this country's values" to vote for Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections. We all knew he was
In a tweet on Tuesday evening, Comey called the Republican-held Congress "incapable of fulfilling the Founders' design."
"This Republican Congress has proven incapable of fulfilling the Founders' design that 'Ambition must ... counteract ambition.' All who believe in this country's values must vote for Democrats this fall. Policy differences don't matter right now. History has its eyes on us," he wrote.
Comey, who was fired by President Donald Trump in May 2017, also spoke out Monday against the President's comments at his joint news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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In a tweet on Tuesday evening, Comey called the Republican-held Congress "incapable of fulfilling the Founders' design."
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I was going to vote Responsible Republican this fall, but now I can do it with the Joy of knowing that I will be spitting into James Comey's face while doing so.
[Townhall] Amid CNN’s blitz of savage anti-Trump coverage following Monday’s Helsinki summit, CNN counterterrorism analyst Philip Mudd, a former top analyst at the CIA and the FBI National Security Branch’s first Deputy Director, called on a "shadow government" to openly oppose the Trump administration.
Mudd, who was appointed to his position at the FBI by the bureau’s then-Director Robert Mueller, made these comments in response to a question from CNN anchor Anderson Cooper about whether Mudd agreed with Senator McCain’s assessment that Trump’s performance in Helsinki was the "most disgraceful display...by an American president on the world stage." Mudd replied at length [transcript from NewsBusters; emphasis mine]:
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Next he'll want the trial conducted deep underground in a secret star-shaped chamber in total secrecy and a jury personally appointed by himself - to make sure it's impartial of course...
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Just chop those GS-13 and above to 'you sit at the convenience of the President'. The GS-4s through GS-12 don't have to get their skivvies in a bunch.
BTW, has anyone seen a permanent GS-1 or GS-2 anywhere?
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President Donald Trump signed three executive orders designed to enforce merit-system principals in the civil service and to improve efficiency, transparency, and accountability in the federal government. According to reports, the executive orders are expected to make civil service more accountable and are supposed to benefit taxpayers and federal workers alike.
I guess fed employees don't want efficiency, accountability and transparency?
[PRESSTV] Former US President Barrack Obama decries ’utter loss of shame in politicians in an apparent jab at his successor Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... He made the comments while delivering the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Tuesday a day after Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... , held a summit in the Finnish capital Helsinki. Then his lips fell off.
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[DAWN] A liberal woman of colour with zero name recognition and little funding takes down a powerful, long serving congressman from her own political party.
When Tahirah Amatul-Wadud heard about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning upset over US Representative Joe Crowley in New York’s Democratic primary last month, the first-time candidate saw parallels with her own long-shot campaign for Congress in western Massachusetts.
The 44-year-old Moslem, African-American civil rights lawyer, who is taking on a 30-year congressman and ranking Democrat on the influential House Boodle Central, says she wasn’t alone, as encouragement, volunteers and donations started pouring in. "We could barely stay on top of the residual love," says Amatul-Wadud, US Representative Richard Neal’s lone challenger in the state’s Sept 4 Democratic primary. "It sent a message to all of our volunteers, voters and supporters that winning is very possible."
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Jeff Flake endorses the unctuous Deeda Aboud. Yeah, that's about right.
[DAWN] Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... returned late on Monday from his European tour to face ire in Washington, where US intelligence officials and senior Republicans were denouncing the president as "shameful" and "disgraceful" after he refused to challenge Russian leader Vladimir Putin ...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances... over interference in American elections.
Republican Senator John Maverick McCain ... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump... said Trump's seeming acceptance of Putin's denial was a historical "low point" for the US presidency and the Helsinki summit between the two leaders a "tragic mistake."
"Today's presser in Helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory. The damage inflicted by President Trump's naivete, egotism, false equivalence, and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate," McCain said in a blistering statement.
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McCain's excuse is brain tumor, what's the rest of them have?
"...A unclassified document printed on FBI letterhead dated January 20, 2016, which contains the subject line “Supplemental Classification Review and Determinationwas addressed to the Bureau of National Security’s..."
Assistant Secretary Gregory B. Starr from Peter Strzok who is listed as “Section Chief” of the “Counterespionage Section” in reference to Strzok’s CIA post. Keep in mind, this is not an FBI post as Strzok’s position at the FBI is “Deputy Assistant Director Counterintelligence Division” not “Section Chief” which is a CIA post...."
CIA undoubtedly has section chiefs but the FBI does too. In the FBI the counterespionage section is one of the orgs reporting to the Counterintelligence Division. Probably both the Division and the section are headed by careerists.
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Peter Strzok - international man of mistery. Ye baby!
[Quartz] Johannesburg - Barack Obama could have been appearing on a pop-star’s stage. Yet the message he delivered in the annual Nelson Mandela lecture was far more somber than the setting.
The elite class whose rise has been fueled by their outsized share of global riches, he said in very direct terms, needs to take care of those left behind.
"For all the magnificence of the global economy, all the shining skyscrapers that have transformed the landscape around the world, entire communities, entire neighborhoods, entire cities, entire regions have been bypassed," Obama declared. "For far too many people, the more things have changed, the more things stay the same."
A crowd of 15,000 had given the former US president a standing ovation as he walked on, and again when he took to the podium. Some even chanted his 2008 campaign slogan, "Yes we can!"
Previous speakers at for the Mandela lecture have included high-profile names like Bill Clinton, Mo Ibrahim and Bill Gates, yet it was the first time that the lecture was held in a stadium. Visitors to the Wanderers cricket stadium in Johannesburg’s northern suburbs dressed up for the occasion. To reward them for braving the South African winter, the Nelson Mandela foundation handed out blankets in the open-air venue.
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You Owe the world a huge debt. Undre you, I saw Iraq, Syria, Libya, Honduras, Venezuela, El Salvador and many others collapse you piece of dog shit.
South Africa is not an Apartheid State as Zimbabwe was which you also backed you cretin.
One good thing I have to say about this evil assHOLE is I will never see him again when he dies.
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[Wash Times] The Windy City may soon experiment with giving its citizens cash windfalls via a universal basic income pilot program.
[10News] Former FBI Director James Comey is urging "all who believe in this country's values" to vote for Democrats in the upcoming midterm elections.
[PRESSTV] Former US President Barrack Obama decries ’utter loss of shame in 
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
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[Quartz] Johannesburg - Barack Obama could have been appearing on a pop-star’s stage. Yet the message he delivered in the annual Nelson Mandela lecture was far more somber than the setting.
