Halliburton loophole. What you posted is actions by the DC Swamp. DC is plus 90% democrat voters. Let’s look at other professions like doctors and traveling amusement carnivals. A common factor is that they have profession insurance. You know if you try and sue a traveling carnival it would be a waste of time trying to get them to pay if you did win without them having insurance. Most states will not let doctors or carnivals operate with insurance. That way deep pockets becomes liable. And insurance companies know the trades and will not insure a high-risk operation. That helps weed out the nonprofessionals. When people say we need to outlaw fracking. It just shows they are talking politically and don’t know anything about how the how oil is recovered. Just like the bs coming out of DC right now about oil companies not wanting to drill on the leases they already have. Having a lease is no good unless you have a drilling permit. Who is holding up the drilling permits? People are being played for stupid. Just require fracking to be insured.
You don’t read anything that other posters post, do you?
If you had read the article of how the Halliburton Loophole was born your observation of Democratic participation is bogus!
Read before you make a fool of yourself with incorrect assumptions and interpretations. It was Halliburton stockholder and vice-president Dick Chaney during the Bush administration who orchestrated this exemption from EPA regulation.
Once Halliburton had invested billions of dollars based on that exemption, you cannot just put a halt on it. It should NEVER have been installed to begin with.
The Dems had nothing to do with it.
It was an objective observation on my part and it was not in defense of big business running the show, was it? Big Business is the Republican world.
But it is the Republicans who like “unrestricted Capitalism”, i.e. “dog eat dog” , leading to authoritarianism and oligarchy.
Hyperbole. Had to look that word up. It means exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.
Where that came from was in the fourth quarter of 2019 I drove from California to New York. Took the interstate and got gas at stations next to the interstate. Gas in California was above $3. In Colorado I gassed up for $1.02. And saw gas stations at $0.99. The price of gasoline itself does not magically increase. Example. When you go from California to Arizona on Interstate 10. All the gas stations are in Arizona. We are talking the price of regulations. In California the price of oil on the stock market is the same as in New York. Let’s assume on my trip the price of gasoline in Colorado is $0.60 and the rest is taxes, business expenses, and regulations. That means in Colorado $0.40 in overhead has been add to the cost. California is $2.40 of overhead. Its not the gasoline price that is causing the trouble. It is the overhead costs that are the problem. Supply and demand are a Biden policy. Watch the stock market price on oil. If it prices goes up. Then the price of gasoline goes up. But the overhead should not go up. But that is what is happening. The price of oil in Canada which should be Keystone to the US and our prices should be more in line with the Canadian gas prices. Which is $1.16 USD today.
What doesn’t seem to carry the overhead price is oil for asphalt. California is an oil producing state and has the cheapest asphalt prices in the country. Therefore, the higher prices in California on gasoline is mostly caused by California regulations.
Today’s State Gas Price Averages ; California, $6.050, $6.230, $6.369, $6.573 ; Colorado, $4.133, $4.463, $4.762, $5.365.
Regulatory laws are controlled by the minority party (Republicans) via the filibuster.
Unless the Dems (51% majority) can gather 60 % votes in favor, no law passes and the Republican minority in the Senate (McConnell) have vowed to not pass a single law that is not part of their agenda.
Biden has done a tremendous job under extremely difficult circumstances. Wage increases, emergency COVID assistance , lowest unemployment in history, abd a reduction in national deficits in spite of US assistance in Ukraine’s war against Russia.
And you are trying to lay blame on his doorstep. In my book that is sedition my friend. ?
Your making my point. The Swamp is both Dem and Republicans.
Halliburton is one of the biggest defense contractors. Haliburton made so much money during the Afghanistan war that they had to move the headquarters out of the US so they could keep from reporting how much they costed the taxpayers.
What is going on in DC is the Swamp is both republicans and democrats. But DC being mostly democrats has given more of the Swamps power to democrat ideologic goals. And if we don’t get a handle on the swamp none of this will mean anything. If you need proof. Just follow the trial taking place today about the Democrat Party, Hillary, DC law firms, FBI, CIA, and DOJ attempted coup on the presidency. When the swamp went after Trump. No restrictions. Today, same issues. But, restrictions. This is a big issue to people who believe in the constitution.
Nice theory. But who said what Biden is doing is lawful?
I don’t need to present proof, you do. Prove to me where the Biden administration is doing illegal things.
And your mention of Hillary Clinton’s investigation of her handling of classified documents that is bogus and has been thoroughly debunked during years of investigation, but cost her the presidency, to the delight of the Repugs.
Now if you want to talk about Trump’s theft of classified documents that were actually found in his home? That I should like to know about. Can you help me out on that one?
Wow. Well, first, thanks for acknowledging that the “swamp”, as you call it, includes Republicans. You rarely say that.
But this trail (not trial) that you lay out, it’s not wonder you are so angry. You believe the controlling powers, some of those powers vested in the Constitution, are out to destroy your way of life. No matter how bad business gets, they will never forget that they need people doing their work for them. They know they have to give people a sense of freedom, a boat, or a tiny plot of land, a week of vacation. So despite all my awareness of how history has gone, I know it will either get better, or it can only get so bad before the “first become last”. There is no reason to be irrational.
I have always considered the swamp greedy. That includes members from all parties.
I’m not worried about my way of life. I worry about my grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Civilization
Top common factors
- High protein
- Happiness/entertainment
- Rules of Laws
- High knowledge level
- Capitalist system
- Control of greed
- Minimal caste
- Good monetary system
- Belief in certain deity
- Medical
- Security
- Entertainment
- Good trade accessibilities
The items can be in any order. But High protein has always been at the top of the list. This list is just top common factors of past successful civilizations. Not all items have to be covered. For example, “belief in certain deities” is not always needed. And some civilizations never had what we would call good security and were controlled by foreign rulers. But still managed to have a good and long-lasting civilization.
What I believe is right now we are having trouble with; Good trade accessibilities, good monetary system, control of greed, Happiness levels, belief that medical system is lying to us, and a growing caste system. And oh, yea a president that has trouble following the constitution and providing security at the borders.
What worries me the most is the High knowledge level is not so high if people think the constitution is dead. The Rules of Laws are controlled by the peoples’ morals. Fix the morals and everything else will fix itself with a good capitalist system
Bill Clinton left with a surplus that he wanted to apply to the national debt, which held by every tax payer, and wanted to use the interst savings to build schools and hodpitals and infrastructure. He did not leave a swamp. He left a healthy economy.
Barack Obama inherited a bus in an economic ditch left by Bush and put the nation back on track and left office with a lowest unemployment in history
Then came Trump and the first words he uttered was "I can kill somebody in public and they can’t touch me, and broke the Nation in morals by his shameless pride of “groping women” and his financial and political graft beginning with stealing millions from his election fund…
Just look at all his close “advisors” who ended up in jail at his behalf and which he granted undeserved pardons, because they had helped him cheat the nation out of millions of dollars and used his office to make personal financial deals with foreign dictators. I blame Trump for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
His White Nationalist (NAZI) leaning has reopened the dark days of Jim Crow and we are seeing the results on the daily news
Trump took a Nation and created a swamp and now Biden is being falsely accused of bad practices.
I am outraged at the moral depth Trump left this Nation. His legacy is creating a truly a shameful time in history .
Exactly what current Republicans don’t worry about
Yes those bad, bad Sioux, grabbing everything they can get a hold of. They’re just ripping of the innocent and unsuspecting white man. Shame on the Sioux?
I wrote a proposal for a tribal casino that was accepted and is providing that small tribe a pretty good income. Especially nice is their yearly million dollar donation to the county for the hospital and schools that the county itself is unable to fully support.
Hillary’s emails. Did she have a server? Yes. Did she have classified documents on that server? Yes. Did she destroy government emails on that server? Yes. If you did that, would you be sent to jail? Yes.
Biden - Inflation, Open Borders, High Crime, High Fuel Prices, Afghanistan Withdraw, Fentanyl Deaths, Supply Shortages, Ukraine War.
What a mess.
Biden illegal moves can be seen in executive overreach. His vax mandates were unconstitutional. His eviction moratorium trashed the rules of law. His “whole-of-government” move was totally unconstitutional.
Making spurious allegations is not proof.
I’LL ask you again.
Prove to me where the Biden administration is doing illegal things.
Because if you cannot it is you who is the fool, believing in and soreading false allegations about a president who was handed a Demon legacy of falsehoods and criminal activities.
I’ll remind you of a recorded fact;
Trump Lied More Than 30,000 Times During His Presidency. No Wonder We’re Exhausted.
Washington Post fact checkers have released their final tally of presidential BS.
Now the Washington Post ‘s Fact Checker team has finished its final catalog of the extent of the former president’s efforts to mislead and misinform us. According to its tally, Trump made more than 30,000 “false or misleading” claims during his presidency. Half of those lies were told during his last year in office, according to the Post ‘s database:
This astonishing jump in falsehoods is the story of Trump’s tumultuous reign. By the end of his term, Trump had accumulated 30,573 untruths during his presidency—averaging about 21 erroneous claims a day.
What is especially striking is how the tsunami of untruths kept rising the longer he served as president and became increasingly unmoored from the truth.
Trump averaged about six claims a day in his first year as president, 16 claims day in his second year, 22 claims day in this third year—and 39 claims a day in his final year. Put another way, it took him 27 months to reach 10,000 claims and an additional 14 months to reach 20,000. He then exceeded the 30,000 mark less than five months later.
Here’s a chart of the exponential growth of Trump’s cumulative “untruths”:
These are recorded and verified lies by one of the greatest con-men in the world.
Now what “news” rag can you come up with that is spreading false and unverifiable claims
Seconded. @mikeyohe please prove to us that the Biden administration is doing illegal things. The dotard has committed more crimes than any other president (oddly enough, probably even Nixon). The dotard needs to go to prison like yesterday.
BTW, Biden has no control over fuel prices. That’s all on the oil companies. So he withdrew from Afghanistan, big deal. The plans to withdraw could have been better, but withdrawing was good. He also has nothing to do with the fentanyl deaths. Again, that is not something he has control of, just like he has not control of supply shortages. He also didn’t start the Ukraine War, so there is no blame there. None of this is illegal either. Open borders, which they are not, are not illegal either and that’s a meh too. Inflation isn’t his fault either. That is on the large greedy corporations. He has no control over that.
That said, if he were to do anything about any of this, including inflation, he needs congress’ approval. He doesn’t do anything on his own. He is not a king or a dictator.
Again, he didn’t do any of the stuff you blame him for. He cannot do anything to stop these things either- at least not without congress. That said, the senate is filled with Repugs who just love to block anything a Dem president tries to do. So if you want to blame anyone, blame the Repugs.
Secondly, the economy is set by the previous president, not the current president. Anything the president does previously isn’t seen until the next president, making it look like that president did something great or horrible. This is Econ 101.
The economy is in a mess just like Europes. Massive massive housing bubble about to burst. The pumping out of trillions of dollars by the world’s central banks has fueled the inflation fire, while creating a mass speculative bubble that threatens to implode at any time.
Right and wrong
Basically, inflation is an economically useless increase of the quantity of money. The money injected by the central banks needed to be invested and it was in stock options, speculative funds and real estate.
Consumer goods prices increase comes from the disorganization of the circuits of production by the COVID and the Ukrainian war.
Now this is one thing you got right.
IMHO, we need to throw out all current systems and start over with a different more modern system, which would consist of 1s and 0s, just like our debit/credit cards. No more hard cold cash. It would all be electronic, for starters.
I don’t think a “technology only” currency would be a good thing.
It’s too vulnerable in many ways, and not everybody will have access.
A “cashless currency” would only widen the gulf of the haves and have-nots.