". . . Here’s a description from the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center, an independent group that models the effects of tax legislation. . . A tariff is a tax on imported goods. Despite what the President says, it is almost always paid directly by the importer (usually a domestic firm), and never by the exporting country. Thus, if the US imposes a tariff on Chinese televisions, the duty is paid to the US Customs and Border Protection Service at the border by a US broker representing a US importer, say, Costco. The Chinese government pays nothing, just as the US government pays no tax to Canada for that nation’s tariffs on imported dairy products. Rather, an importer or supplier for a Canadian supermarket pays the duty on Wisconsin cheese that lands in the grocer’s dairy counter.. . . That explanation, written in September 2018, noted that Trump has a "troubling lack of understanding about how the levies work.". . ."
" . . . But asked if she (Nancy Pelosi) thought Trump was "fit" to be president, Pelosi said, "No. I don't think he is. I mean, ethically unfit. Intellectually unfit. Curiosity-wise unfit. No, I don't think he's fit to be president of the United States," she said, before chiding herself for "coming across too negatively.". . . Responding to Pelosi's comments on Monday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said, “impeachment should never be on the table because the president is doing a great job.”. . . As for Pelosi's comments on Trump's fitness to be president, Sanders said, “Most of America disagrees with her comments. That’s why they voted him into office.” Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by almost 2.9 million votes. . . "
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. . . and think the recent healthcare steps taken are actually 'good' or that a wall will solve all of the immigration problems . . .
. . . DO YOUR READING . . .
(from https://sojo.net/articles/american-christianity-has-failed)
“When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God. (Lev. 19: 33-34)
Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him. (Prov. 14:31)
Open your mouth for the mute, for the rights of all who are destitute. Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy. (Prov. 31: 8-9)
But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him? (1 John 3:17)
Thus says the Lord: Do justice and righteousness, and deliver from the hand of the oppressor him who has been robbed. And do no wrong or violence to the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow, nor shed innocent blood in this place. (Jer. 22:3)
(https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/lifelong-learning)
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”
― Henry Ford
“The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.”
― Michel Legrand
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
― Albert Einstein
“You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.”
― Julia Child
“I read my eyes out and can't read half enough...the more one reads the more one sees we have to read.”
― John Adams, Letters of John Adams, Addressed to His Wife
“There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
“There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Living the Good Life
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”
― Samuel Johnson, The Rambler
“The education of a man is never completed until he dies.”
― Robert E. Lee
“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.”
― Thomas Jefferson
. . . They're all true. At least they are for me. I remember as a kid, at times saying "I'm bored." Now I know for a fact that, even if I lived to be 1,000 years old, I can never be bored. There is always something 'educational' (meaning possessing the ability to expose you to something that you do not know- or maybe as you get older - something you have forgotten) to experience whether it be a place to visit, something to see, something to hear or something to read. Yes read. This is a word that upsets a substantial amount of people these days. Also, in my case and hopefully in yours, there is always something to create!
Discovered this article, in various places online, which appears to originate either with the Clinton campaign or from inside the clique in the Democratic Party . . .
(http://bsalert.com/news/2753/8_Reasons_Why_Serious_People_Cant_Support_Bernie_Sanders.html) ". . . I dig Bernie Sanders. I've always loved him and his perspective. I agree with 99% of what he promotes in terms of long-term policy. But I still find myself uneasy with his candidacy. As many of those on the left and the "disenfranchised" are "feeling the Bern" and hopping on the Bernie Sanders bandwagon, theres (sic) a schism developing among those who pine for social change. It seemed hard to fathom that a candidate that has been so succinctly enumerating many of the problems people on the left, center and right have been harping about has now become so contentious? I gotta be honest.. to me it feels like another Deja Vu moment. How I felt when I heard all my friends get so excited about Ralph Nader in 2000, and how his fresh rhetoric was going to change the political landcape (sic)... It doesn't seem to make sense. Even among the editors at BSAlert, there's contention on the value of a Sanders presidency. Allow us to provide you with what we think are some troubling issues with Sanders and why we feel, as much as we love what he says, In my opinion (though not the opinion of everybody here) Sanders is a pied piper more than he is a path to change. . . If all you want is Bernie elected; if all you care about is "sending the message" ok, I can't argue with that. But if you care about actually seeing his policy ideas executed, and moving in a more progressive direction during the next 4-8 years, you have to at least be open to these arguments . . . "
. . . what this article fails to openly state is that, if you like Bernie Sanders and want to begin a real change, and don't vote for Bernie Sanders because of 'arguments' such as those stated in this article, then you will get MORE OF THE SAME.
Some of the fatuous points made in the article include (with my retorts following):
1. What Bernie Sanders promises he cannot deliver
No president accomplishes everything promised. Bernie Sanders stands for removing big business from government. PERIOD!
2. Like those on the right, Sanders is a divider, not a uniter
Nice try, equating Bernie Sanders to the Republican clowns. Doesn't fly though. Of course Bernie Sanders is a divider. But only in that he divides those that want to remove big business from government and those (read: the authors of THIS article) who do not.
3. There's too much at stake in this election
No argument here. But in my mind, not for the same reasons stated in the article.
4. Sanders does not mobilize minority voters
You wait and see, pal!
5. Sanders has yet to face the media hate machine
Another GREAT reason not to vote for Bernie Sanders????????
6. Bernie Sanders is old. The age card will be played by his opponents.
Two words: Ronald Reagan
. . . I'm tired of this now. You certainly have better things to read.
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-ering the pleasure of maturing. Not the normally-spoken-of, physical kind, but the long, developing, rich kind of maturing that I feel that I am experiencing. One of the good things about it is that it never ends. The process, once discovered, practiced and executed is continuous. And the key to it all (and maybe this is the true 'meaning of life') is a desire to learn.
Constantly learn new things. Always question what you now take for fact. Read, or if you don't like to read, get new information from any other source with which you are comfortable.
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Here is freedom to them that would read,
Here is freedom to them that would write!
There is none ever feared that the truth should be heard
But they whom the truth would indict!
--Robert Burns
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