Tuesday, May 29, 2018

GutWrench...

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Trump wants more manufacturing of cars in USA. Manufacture some place else would cost more for the car manufacturer and reduce their profit.

Sunday, May 27, 2018

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A man who fled the country 25 years ago while facing a prison sentence for attempted murder was arrested when he arrived at a New York City airport.
The Daily News reports Freddy Guerra was taken into custody at Kennedy Airport. He had been living in the Dominican Republic and working as a mechanic.
Authorities said Guerra was 18 when he and two friends shot the owner of Willie's Hardware and Building Supply Store in Queens on Sept. 16, 1992, stealing cash and spray paint cans. The owner, Lieb Zaban, survived being shot in the chin.
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Ireland.

 PHOTO: People from the Yes campaign react as the results of the votes begin to come in the Irish referendum on the 8th Amendment of the Irish Constitution at Dublin Castle, in Dublin, Ireland, May 26, 2018.
Voters in deeply Roman Catholic Ireland by a 2-to-1 margin support to repeal a 1983 constitutional ban on abortions, the official vote tally shows.
Official results of Friday's referendum showed that among 2.1 million votes cast, 1.4 million were in favor of repealing the Eighth Amendment to Ireland’s Constitution that says a mother and unborn child have an “equal right to life.” About 723,000 voters wanted to retain the ban. 
  Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar. "The people have said that we want a modern Constitution for a modern country, that we trust women and we respect them to make the right decision and the right choices about their health care." 

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Thursday, May 24, 2018

Rolled Back...

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The House voted to pass the biggest rollback of financial regulations since the global financial crisis. The margin was 258-159, with 33 Democrats supporting the legislation.  The Senate already passed the legislation with bipartisan support.
The bill makes good on Republican promises to cut red tape they say hurts businesses, but does not go nearly as far as some GOP lawmakers had hoped. It also appeases some Democrats who argue financial rules passed following the financial meltdown unnecessarily hamstrung small and mid-sized lenders.

The measure eases restrictions on all but the largest banks. It raises the threshold to $250 billion from $50 billion under which banks are deemed too important to the financial system to fail. Those institutions also would not have to undergo stress tests or submit so-called living wills, both safety valves designed to plan for financial disaster. 

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The Square Deal was President Theodore Roosevelt's domestic program. In 1910: When I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service.[1]

Roosevelt reflected three basic goals: conservation of natural resources, control of corporations, and consumer protection.[2] These three demands are often referred to as the "three C's" of Roosevelt's Square Deal.
Thus, it aimed at helping middle class citizens and involved attacking plutocracy and bad trusts while at the same time protecting business from the most extreme demands of organized labor. A progressive Republican, Roosevelt believed in government action to mitigate social evils, and as president he in 1908 denounced "the representatives of predatory wealth” as guilty of “all forms of iniquity from the oppression of wage workers to unfair and unwholesome methods of crushing competition, and to defrauding the public by stock-jobbing and the manipulation of securities.
During his second term, Roosevelt tried to extend his Square Deal further, but was blocked by conservative Republicans in Congress.