America Winning Under Trump

[chillywilly2]

In whose world is $11/hr a competitive wage?

Its competitive with the companies paying $11.50

Our minimum just got raised From $11.40 to 14 and in 12 months it goes to 15...people are freaking
Some companies had benefits for minimum wage workers and have cancelled them to offset the $2.60 increase.

The price of a coffee and a burger is about to go UP

 

[jaF0]

In whose world is $11/hr a competitive wage?

The World of the Walton Klan who has systematically wiped out most other retailers in many small towns. There are places where WM is the only employer. Remember the bit about 'I owe my soul to the Company Store'?

 

[jaF0]

You have to be ...

But I'm not a w(R)ong.

 

[chillywilly2]

The World of the Walton Klan who has systematically wiped out most other retailers in many small towns. There are places where WM is the only employer. Remember the bit about 'I owe my soul to the Company Store'?

So you're saying they are competitive?

 

[Luk]

Poor vetteman. His thread turned on him.

 

[Luk]

BS, there are more trees in the US now than there were at the turn of the 20th Century.

We have some of the best managed forestry in the world and presently producing 30 billion board feet of lumber a year. You won't even come close to that number.

I like that you just accidentally gave credit to Obama for 8 years of fine forest management.

 

[chillywilly2]

I like that you just accidentally gave credit to Obama for 8 years of fine forest management.

No way...Trump grew them the first 100 days

 

[FakeNews]

Major shift as Trump opens way for Medicaid work requirement

In a major policy shift that could affect millions of low-income people, the Trump administration said Thursday it is offering a path for states that want to seek work requirements on Medicaid recipients.

"Medicaid needs to be more flexible so that states can best address the needs of this population," Verma said in a statement. "Our fundamental goal is to make a positive and lasting difference in the health and wellness of our beneficiaries." For close to a year, the administration has signaled an interest in helping states that want to institute work requirements.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-medicaid-work-requirement-20180111-story.html

 

[FakeNews]

Food stamp recipients down 2M under Trump

Since Donald Trump became president, the Dow Jones industrial average has climbed to 25,000 and fewer Americans are unemployed.

Another interesting fact: The number of people collecting food stamps has declined by more than two million.

Data released by the Department of Agriculture show that the number of participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, dropped to 42,182,443 for fiscal 2017 – a decline of 2,036,920 from the fiscal 2016 total of 44,219,363.

USDA figures since show that the program has gone from costing taxpayers about $250 million for about 2.8 million recipients in 1969, under President Richard Nixon, to a peak of costing nearly $80 billion for nearly 48 million recipients in 2013, under President Barack Obama.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ts-down-2m-under-trump-usda-figures-show.html

 

[FakeNews]

Working-class families are winning big under Trump

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its newest jobs report on Friday, and the data clearly show, under the pro-business policies implemented by the Trump administration, low-income and working-class families are enjoying significant economic gains not experienced in nearly 20 years.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/working-class-families-are-winning-big-under-trump/article/2645348

 

[FakeNews]

Your paycheck may be going up soon because of tax cuts

WASHINGTON — Millions of working Americans should start seeing fatter paychecks as early as next month, the IRS says, as a result of the recently passed tax law.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/01/05/your-paycheck-may-be-going-up-soon-because-of-tax-cuts/

 

[FakeNews]

Major electric utility plans to lower customer bills because of tax reform bill

The Potomac Electric Power Company, also known as Pepco, which supplies electric power to almost a million customers in Washington, D.C., and Maryland, has announced that it plans to cut rates due to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

http://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/0...wer-customer-bills-because-of-tax-reform-bill

 

[Emerson40]

WHY TRUMP’S GOLF HABIT IS THE ULTIMATE METAPHOR FOR HIS BIZARRE PRESIDENCY
And a sign that the train wreck will continue in 2018.

By Monday evening, all the presents under the hulking tree at Mar-a-Lago had presumably been unwrapped, and hours had gone by since First Lady Melania Trump posted a Santa-themed selfie wishing America a merry Christmas. As the day’s festivities wound down, Donald Trump already had a mind toward the future: “I hope everyone is having a great Christmas, then tomorrow it’s back to work in order to Make America Great Again (which is happening faster than anyone anticipated)!” he tweeted from his private club in Palm Beach, Florida. But when Tuesday morning rolled around the president’s public schedule appeared devoid of events, and a little after 9 o’clock his motorcade pulled into the Trump International Golf Club, where the White House confirmed the president golfed with Georgia Senator David Perdue and professional golfers Bryson DeChambau and Dana Quigley, returning to Mar-a-Lago after 2 p.m.

A round of golf is not “back to work in order to Make America Great Again” in the traditional sense. But the 45th president is nothing if not his own man, reconfiguring the role to suit his tastes rather than the other way around, as many of his predecessors have. Of the 340 days President Trump has been in office, he has spent 85 of them at the golf course, according to NBC News, which has made it a point to track Trump’s movements. And while it’s not unusual for a president to take time off during the holidays, or to take periodic breaks from the White House—George W. Bush spent a great deal of time going back and forth to his ranch in Texas; Barack Obama vacationed in Hawaii for Christmases and golfed throughout his presidency; Bill Clinton golfed too, and spent the dog days of summer biking in Martha’s Vineyard—Trump’s repeated visits to courses bearing his name have sparked renewed debate about the myriad conflicts of interest dredged up by his presidency, highlighting the sheer improbability of his political ascendence in the first place.

As The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, President Trump has visited one of his company’s properties approximately one out of every three days he has been in office; by NBC’s count, Tuesday marked the 111th day he has done so. Because Trump did not divest from his businesses when he took office, he profits from the endless free publicity they receive as a result of his trips there. More importantly, those visits put Trump into close contact with those who may try to court his favor, a fact that has concerned ethics experts, who’ve pointed out that it may violate the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. As Jordan Libowitz, a spokesman for the transparency advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, put it to the Journal, “George W. Bush went to his ranch in Crawford, Texas, a lot, but it’s not like you could rent the bedroom next to his.” (And of course, as a private citizen, Trump repeatedly criticized Barack Obama for taking time to golf while in office.)

For any other president, this level of hypocrisy and self-dealing would be politically devastating. And though Trump’s approval ratings have languished in the mid-30’s for most of his presidency, it’s difficult to say whether it’s scurrying off to self-owned golf courses that’s dinging him, or whether voters take more issue with his failure to repeal Obamacare, his Twitter fights with lawmakers, and his support for an egregiously unpopular tax bill. But such petty scandals seem to have no effect on Trump. And as the White House’s smaller missteps are increasingly overshadowed by Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, it seems even less likely that the mogul president will move to curb his behavior. Meanwhile, the paradigm shift Trump has instigated could very well be permanent, down to even the smallest of details. As journalist Amy Sullivan pointed out on Tuesday, the once-popular “‘what books did POTUS take with him on vacation’ feature” has all but disappeared, “because everyone just accepts that this president doesn’t read.”
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[LJ_Reloaded]

The demand for crow is big this morning on the left:


Wal-Mart Raises U.S. Hourly Wage to $11 in Wake of Tax Overhaul
By Matthew Boyle
January 11, 2018, 5:01 AM PST

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is boosting its starting hourly wage to $11 and delivering bonuses to employees, capitalizing on the U.S. tax overhaul to stay competitive in a tightening labor market.

The increase takes effect next month and will cost $300 million on top of wage hikes that were already planned, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer said Thursday. The one-time bonus of up to $1,000 is based on seniority and will amount to an additional $400 million. The company is also expanding its maternity and parental leave policy and adding an adoption benefit.

“Tax reform gives us the opportunity to be more competitive globally and to accelerate plans for the U.S.,” Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon said in the statement.

Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private employer, has fought in recent years to improve its image in the U.S., as it weathered criticism over its treatment of employees. With the wage increase and bonus payment, the world’s biggest retailer seeks to even its pay gap with resurgent rival Target Corp., while simultaneously sending a high-profile thank you to the U.S. government for slashing the corporate tax rate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...u-s-hourly-wage-to-11-in-wake-of-tax-overhaul

http://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-suddenly-closes-sams-club-stores-2018-1

Walmart is abruptly closing 63 Sam's Club stores and laying off thousands of workers

Walmart is closing 63 Sam's Club stores across the US, the company told Business Insider.

Several stores were abrupty closed Thursday. In some cases, employees were not informed of the closures prior to showing up to work on Thursday.

Instead, they learned that their store would be closing when they found the store's doors locked and a notice announcing the closure, according to reports.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

As of Jan 10, 2018:

http://fox59.com/2018/01/10/new-layoffs-at-carrier-factory-year-after-trump-deal/

INDIANAPOLIS — A new round of layoffs is taking effect at the Carrier Corp. factory in Indianapolis a little more than a year after President Donald Trump touted a deal that save some of the plant’s jobs.

The company says about 215 people are being let go starting Thursday, leaving about 1,100 workers at the plant. That’s down from some 1,600 factory and office jobs when Carrier announced plans in early 2016 to move production to Mexico.

The new layoffs follow about 340 job cuts from the factory in July.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...promising-more-investment-because-of-tax-cut/

AT&T sued over layoffs—after promising more investment because of tax cut

AT&T was sued last week by a workers' union that is trying to stop the telco from instituting what it calls a "massive layoff." Thousands of employees are reportedly being laid off by the company, which reported $39.7 billion in revenue and $6.4 billion in operating income last quarter.

AT&T is "instituting an unprecedented massive layoff of employees represented by the union while at the same time massively subcontracting work that the employees are trained and qualified to perform," the Communications Workers of America (CWA) said in a lawsuit filed Saturday in US District Court in Austin, Texas. The union also filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board.

When contacted by Ars today, AT&T didn't deny the layoffs but said the union allegations that AT&T violated collective bargaining agreements are "baseless."

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

https://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2018/01/09/tenet-healthcarenow-expects-to-layoff-2-000.html

Jan 9, 2018, 4:15am

As it looks to balance its financials, Tenet Healthcare Corp. (NYSE: THC) is planning to lay off 2,000 workers, up from the 1,300 positions it said it originally planned to cut.

During a presentation on Monday at the JP Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, the hospital owner and operator said it planed to increase the number of job cuts to roughly 2 percent of its workforce, the Wall Street Journal reported. The layoffs are part of efforts to eliminate $250 million in annual costs.

“I am not a caretaker,” Ronald Rittenmeyer, the company’s interim CEO, said in an interview, per the WSJ. “My objective is to clearly reshape the company so that we are more effective, more efficient, more focused on patient care and doing what we’re supposed to do to return to our shareholders the right kind of value.”

In October, the Dallas-based health care system said it planned to reduce its workforce by 1 percent, or by 1,300 employees, in a cost-cutting measure. It is also reducing costs by getting rid of its regional management and re-negotiating contracts with suppliers and vendors, Reuters reported.

So much for new jobs due to that tax cut!

All that money is going right into CEO and investor pocketbooks!

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

http://news10.com/2018/01/05/more-layoffs-announced-at-ge-in-schenectady/

Published: January 5, 2018, 11:09 am Updated: January 5, 2018, 10:50 pm

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (NEWS10) – General Electric announced layoffs will take place at its Schenectady plant.

Last month, General Electric announced it would be cutting 12,000 jobs worldwide. While the company said most of the layoffs would be outside the United States, on Friday, GE announced it would be laying off 130 hourly workers in Schenectady.

“It’s just an awful thing,” Carl Goertz, of Rensselaer, said. “Like I said, GE is a mainstay. It’s like the biggest thing that Schenectady has ever seen or ever going to see again.”

Those tax cuts at work, folks!

 

[someoneyouknow]

200 more jobs from Carrier in Indiana, the place where millions of taxpayer dollars went, are being moved to Mexico.

Winning!

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/carrier-plant-in-indiana-that-played-role-in-trump-election-sheds-another-200-workers-2018-01-11

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

200 more jobs from Carrier in Indiana, the place where millions of taxpayer dollars went, are being moved to Mexico.

Winning!

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/carrier-plant-in-indiana-that-played-role-in-trump-election-sheds-another-200-workers-2018-01-11

This is where Reichguide shuts the fuck up

 

[Rightguide]

But I'm not a w(R)ong.

Right against left is right against wrong. Own it. Admit you're genetically predisposed to being wrong.

 

[BeeZeBody]

Pelosi: Higher wages, better benefits are “pathetic” & “insignificant”
Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi says the pay increases, bonuses, and better benefits companies are giving to workers after Republicans passed the tax cuts bill are "pathetic" and "insignificant" "crumbs"

 

[Rightguide]

This is where Reichguide shuts the fuck up

I don't give a fuck. The overall picture is better under Trump than under the infamous worm, Obama.

 

[RoryN]

I don't give a fuck. The overall picture is better under Trump than under the infamous worm, Obama.

https://i.imgur.com/7jUyity.gif

 

[PollDancer]

The us of a is doing well, this is cause for change you can believe in!