I had always thought that universal suffrage was a good thing. But reading your posts causes me to doubt that.
I had always thought that universal suffrage was a good thing. But reading your posts causes me to doubt that.
Just because it is on Youtube does not mean it is right.
"In an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” on March 1, Bloomberg said, “I find it incomprehensible that the president would do something as inane as calling it a hoax, which he did [Friday] night in South Carolina.”
Correspondent Scott Pelley responded, “He said that the Democrats making so much of it is a Democratic hoax, not that the virus was a hoax.”"
I’ve got New York winning this by about 400 years, baby!!!
Because
“When it’s the Prez vs. the Knicks, there’s only one way it can end...”
NEW
TRUMP
CITY
If you remember the film...
"Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, says that Trump administration officials declined an offer of early congressional funding assistance that he and other senators made on Feb. 5 during a meeting to discuss the coronavirus. "
3 weeks later, Trump was telling us that the 15 cases that then existed would be down close to zero in a couple of days.
This whole thread has been about finding fault and finger pointing, but it's really indisputable that Trump really dropped the ball here.
Many crises are governmental crises. But look at Hurricane Harvey. It devastated Houston. But what did Houstonians do? .... they got in their boats and rescued their fellow citizens. People like JJ Watt raised like $37 Million for the victims. Fellow Houstonians worked relentlessly to raised funds for the victims. Local merchants were fantastic in helping out the victims. We Houstonians got some help from the government but we didn't whine and bellyache like Andrew Cuomo and others are doing. We are DOERS. We have a problem, we fix it. We don't moan about hot terrible it is ... no instead, like my tae kwon do instructor did, loaded his Hummer with gas and his dogs and went out and rescued stranded Houstonians for like 3 days straight. NYC might have a better reputation than Houston but we are a bunch of doers. NOt crybabies.
johnny99 wrote:
"Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat, says that Trump administration officials declined an offer of early congressional funding assistance that he and other senators made on Feb. 5 during a meeting to discuss the coronavirus. "
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/senator-says-white-house-turned-down-emergency-coronavirus-funding-in-early-february/ar-BB11OvE1?li=BBnbfcL3 weeks later, Trump was telling us that the 15 cases that then existed would be down close to zero in a couple of days.
This whole thread has been about finding fault and finger pointing, but it's really indisputable that Trump really dropped the ball here.
That’s it exactly there, Trump was very slow to react to the impending crisis. Vital time was squandered and we’re paying the price, unfortunately.
Of course you dont get it. Hurricane Harvey was a crisis for Houston; the COVID-19 crisis is a national (and global) crisis. It necessarily involves the Federal government in a way Hurricane Harvey didn't. If Trump is a "war time president" then it is because even he perceives the whole nation is involved - which means what happens in New York is very much a Federal concern. But in the same breath Trump says he's "not responsible" - like FDR said after Pearl Harbour. Oh, wait...
Your comments suggesting New Yorkers aren't doing anything to help themselves is a disgraceful attack on the efforts of their medical teams and thousands of volunteers, many who have come out of retirement, risking their lives in this crisis.
You embarrass yourself every time you open your mouth.
What happened in NY is the failure of a NY governor and a NYC mayor, pure and simple. Their failure will result in a spread of the Wuhan Virus throughout this country unless we quarantine all of NY. We also need to quarantine all residents of LA because of the mayors allowance of Mardi Gras more than a month after CDC warning of the Wuhan Virus and prohibition of China travel to the US.
Governors and mayors are responsible for the public health of their jurisdictions. Only when they fail their duty and cause a national epidemic must the Fed step in and save people from the failures of their local politicians.
WuhanVirus wrote:
What happened in NY is the failure of a NY governor and a NYC mayor, pure and simple. Their failure will result in a spread of the Wuhan Virus throughout this country unless we quarantine all of NY. We also need to quarantine all residents of LA because of the mayors allowance of Mardi Gras more than a month after CDC warning of the Wuhan Virus and prohibition of China travel to the US.
Governors and mayors are responsible for the public health of their jurisdictions. Only when they fail their duty and cause a national epidemic must the Fed step in and save people from the failures of their local politicians.
It appears some institutions have released their inmates.
You didn't happen to get hit in the head with a branch in the aforementioned hurricane, by any chance. Just trying to make sense of some things you've said.
Sally Vix wrote:
Many crises are governmental crises. But look at Hurricane Harvey. It devastated Houston. But what did Houstonians do? .... they got in their boats and rescued their fellow citizens. People like JJ Watt raised like $37 Million for the victims. Fellow Houstonians worked relentlessly to raised funds for the victims. Local merchants were fantastic in helping out the victims. We Houstonians got some help from the government but we didn't whine and bellyache like Andrew Cuomo and others are doing. We are DOERS. We have a problem, we fix it. We don't moan about hot terrible it is ... no instead, like my tae kwon do instructor did, loaded his Hummer with gas and his dogs and went out and rescued stranded Houstonians for like 3 days straight. NYC might have a better reputation than Houston but we are a bunch of doers. NOt crybabies.
Here's a Houston paper, the voice of their people, crying about not enough federal help after Harvey.
https://www.tribtalk.org/2019/08/27/the-federal-governments-hurricane-relief-response-needs-an-overhaul/Sadly this looks like every city in America. One by one, they will face their own disaster with the virus & the greed and corruption at the top will force us to make a change right in the middle of a crisis.
your mom and me wrote:
Please explain US taxes to me...
There are marginal tax rates for feral and state for different income levels.
Lets say you live in New York City and earn $1 million/year and own an apartment worth $1 million.
Your federal taxes without any deductions would be about $308 K (31% effective rate-before deductions)
State taxes would be $66K (7% effective rate)
Property taxes are about 1.5% of the home value ($15,000 to local government).
They may spend $100K on items subject to sales tax of 8%. Let's say 1% of their income goes to sales tax.
So, when you see where most of the tax money goes, it makes perfect sense for New York to receive money from the federal government, considering how much the state contributes to the federal government.
Back in 2015 New York was informed by a Task Force about the need for more ventilators. The decision was made to ignore that advice - I guess because they figured they could blame the federal government when the time came?
If you're going to publish a depiction of a patient on a ventilator, you really ought to know the difference between a nasogastric tube and an endotracheal tube. Is the article as inaccurate as the diagram?
Sally is really as dumb as the questions he asks and the statements he makes. He is the biggest idiot I have ever encountered. It is remarkable how dumb Sally is.
You are a f*cking idiot.
This virus is not akin to a flood after a hurricane in any way, you idiot simpleton.
johnny99 wrote:
If you're going to publish a depiction of a patient on a ventilator, you really ought to know the difference between a nasogastric tube and an endotracheal tube. Is the article as inaccurate as the diagram?
That article wasn't ONLY about ventilators - but included information about ventilators and New York's reckless indifference to human life. But we all know about Cuomo's stance on human life.
If you want a ventilator article - here's one:
https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/30/its-not-the-federal-governments-fault-new-york-doesnt-have-more-ventilators-its-andrew-cuomos/Is this article any better than the last one you cited, which was apparently authored by a 2nd grader?