[NYPOST] CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... ’s fact checker Daniel Dale pushed back on President Biden’s recent claim that his policies had helped to reduce the federal deficit — revealing that one expert told him that the Democrat’s assertion was "almost bizarro world" in its misrepresentation of the situation.
"Let me remind you again: I reduced the federal deficit," Biden said a speech last Wednesday. "All the talk about the deficit from my Republican friends, I love it. I’ve reduced $350 billion in my first year in office."
Biden made the claim while touting his administration’s economic track record — despite fierce criticism from Republican politicians who argue his policies have contributed to rampant inflation and led the US economy to the brink of a recession.
During a Monday appearance on CNN’s "New Day" and in a separate article, Dale noted that the federal deficit had indeed declined during fiscal 2021. However, you can observe a lot just by watching... the deficit decline was originally expected to be even larger than the figure Biden referenced.
Dale added that economic experts "still scoffed at the idea that President Biden is personally responsible for having reduced the deficit."
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Such a remarkable post it’s worth posting twice...
The current generation’s version of bread and circuses — or circuses, anyway.
[FoxNews] Biden touted his bipartisan infrastructure law that provided $65B for access to broadband
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday announced a deal with more than a dozen U.S. internet service providers to give high-speed internet to Americans living in low-income areas, stressing that access is "not a luxury" but a "necessity."
Internet service providers like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and others agreed to provide "high-speed" internet access for $30 per month. The Biden administration also announced Monday a federal subsidy for low-income households that will pay up to $30 for internet access, effectively making the plan free for qualifying households.
Americans can apply for access to the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) at a new government website that launched Monday.
The president, during a White House Rose Garden event Monday afternoon, said internet is "pretty consequential."
"High-speed internet is not a luxury any longer, it is a necessity," Biden said. "That’s why the bipartisan infrastructure law included $65 billion to make sure we expand access to broadband internet in every region of the country – urban, suburban, rural, everywhere."
Biden, on Monday, thanked the internet service providers, calling the agreement a "big deal," and saying it is a "great example of what we can achieve when the federal government and the private sector work together to solve serious problems."
Americans qualify for the program if their income is at or below 200% of the federal poverty level. They can also qualify if a member of their household uses any of a number of other federal programs, such as Medicaid, SNAP food stamps, or a veterans pension, according to the White House.
The ACP plan allows for download speeds of 100 Megabits per second, but qualifies that those speeds will only be available where "the provider’s infrastructure is capable of it."
"The Biden-Harris administration is grateful for the efforts of these companies, and encourages additional internet service providers to join this effort to close the digital divide by offering high-speed, low-cost plans," the White House said in a statement.
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The Joe Bidet regime - bringing their high speed train expertise to the internet.
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In other words we get to pay for their internet access also.
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Because brown people never invented electricity, racial equity demands that we pay for their internet service. Plus it channels huge piles of money to the telecom companies.
A future Supreme Court will discover a right to broadband internet service previously hidden under a penumbra.
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Sure wish I had access to broadband; fiber 200’ away but “more than $20,000 build-out fee” to connect. Satellite is data limited and hasn’t worked at all for two months, with no fix in sight. Cell service is ok (if not on ATT) but slow and erratic. But when the apocalypse comes it will take a while to find me...
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Could have happened under Obama/Biden, but Obama must have been too busy beachfront property shopping and trying to hook up with Interesting Italians who speak that dirty, dirty Austrian.
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Posturing. It would not have passed in the majority-Democrat House anyway, nor with enough votes in the Senate to override a presidential veto — which would assuredly have followed. Besides, the country is divided enough on the issue that establishing a national law on the subject would have caused as much dissent and disputation as Obamacare did.
[NYPOST] CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... ’s fact checker Daniel Dale pushed back on President Biden’s recent claim that his policies had helped to reduce the federal deficit — revealing that one expert told him that the Democrat’s assertion was "almost bizarro world" in its misrepresentation of the situation.
"Let me remind you again: I reduced the federal deficit," Biden said a speech last Wednesday. "All the talk about the deficit from my Republican friends, I love it. I’ve reduced $350 billion in my first year in office."
Biden made the claim while touting his administration’s economic track record — despite fierce criticism from Republican politicians who argue his policies have contributed to rampant inflation and led the US economy to the brink of a recession.
During a Monday appearance on CNN’s "New Day" and in a separate article, Dale noted that the federal deficit had indeed declined during fiscal 2021. However, a clean conscience makes a soft pillow... the deficit decline was originally expected to be even larger than the figure Biden referenced.
Dale added that economic experts "still scoffed at the idea that President Biden is personally responsible for having reduced the deficit."
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Seriously does anyone still think Biden is running the White House?
I quit blaming Biden after it was abundantly clear he had advanced mental clarity issues brought on by his age.
SO LET US PLACE BLAME, WHERE BLAME IS DUE.
The handlers, congressional controllers, and King Whispers lurking in the shadows.
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I blame every damn one of them in Washington DC.
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/\ THIS.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike ||
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Run every one of them out and let a two year contract with five year renewable to the Musk team. Musk hires people from each state and levies achievable performance objectives in key areas.
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1) Fed gummint budget should be limited to stuff the Constitution says fed gummint is actually responsible for.
2) Fed gummint budget should be constitutionally capped at some percentage of what they actually took in 2 years previous with a safety margin.
No borrow and spend except (maybe) in a true national emergency.
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Before you fawn over Musk I had a friend who worked on building the Tesla plant in Austin and the Tesla culture was not big on lessons learned. They'd rather repeat known errors and incrementally improve them over time.
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My info is strictly about Tesla Austin. The lessons ignored that I remember was about how many bathrooms per worker are required. how they had too few in the Oakland plant and people urinated in dark corners because they couldn't be away from the assembly line for long. Then when building the Austin plant they seemed to fight to maintain the original numbers instead of adding the new numbers that were determined as necessary.
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Shouldn't have happened the first time, definitely not repeated.
Traffic analysis has been a science since I'd guess Sim City, before then a refined art, and before that a pretty damn good guess.
The factory designers are boobs, and the approval committee is full of boobs who didn't have the info independently double-checked.
The defects were known, but the boobs involved are connected, so it was all overlooked.
Boobs involved in the selection of the factory approval committee did not/could not rotate out the boobs in the approval and/or design process.
Traffic analysis is full of boobs who didn't update their software to include employees using the shitter as PED screen time.
The employee pool is full of boobs who spend 30-45 minutes on the shitter past allotted/planned for bathroom usage using their phones.
Employee pool is full of boobs who'd take a piss in the corner to get the extra 10 minutes screen time.
The employee pool is full of boobs who found the best way to black cat the factory is to take obnoxious unquestionable breaks and contaminate the facility with feces until it has to be shut down and sandblasted clean.
The head of that branch has decided it is easier to be a boob and go along as these sorts of things are built into and expected of government projects and to do otherwise would gain unwanted attention.
Then there is, yes, Musk at the top there giving the go/no go on ROI vs. goals.
If they use a simplified formula, furthest worker in the furthest shift break from restroom at reasonable travel pace, there and back again, with 10 minutes in restroom, 25% taking a dump determines number of toilets/urinals. Of course women's restroom is all toilets, so that considered at say 50/50 work population. Fine and well if that formula was gathered after smoking was made illegal and before screentime; may be legitimate OSHA/Union formula. Now, with the screen time and vaping, the older formula of transit time including 2 cigarettes and a beer would be more accurate.
Of course more data is needed, and that data exists especially clock in/clock out and internet data usage especially during said breaks.
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In any design for commercial/industrial buildings there are national standards for how many bathrooms and how many urinals, toilets, sinks there are depending on the number of people who will be working there. If those don't meet standards it's the designer's and/or the building inspector that is letting them slide.
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Ha, Kansas doing me stream of consciousness there... which inexplicably lapsed, halfway through, into Bobby and the priest Downfall-style.
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