I think someone needs to watch the SUPERNATURAL EPISODE, Don't Call Me Shurley.... :D

Yea, tell that to Sam & Dean Winchester!! :D

As I am fully ignorant of Jackson's policies, I have no idea if they qualify as populist, so I hope you start there tomorrow. You're not just comparing campaign rhetoric right?

From the excerpt, I believe it is a safe bet to say that Trump's inaugural will NOT be comparable to Jackson's.
We could blame the Secret Service for that... or we could admit that Trump isn't fond of rabble. He may surprise many in the way he governs (I won't be holding my breath), but rabble will never be welcome in his White House or penthouse.

To clarify, rabble as in average joe's... the rabble who break things and steal will continue to dominate both political parties... and the inaugural parties.

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ANd yet how many millions and billions are lost to fraud each and every year???

So, obviously they ain't doing it right or they need HELP doing it right...

Hence, Trump's proposal......

What?? Are you AGAINST affordable child care and paid maternity leave??

What are you!?? A Republican!!!???? :D

On a case by case basis? As I said, there are already folks out there doing that.

Naw, congress doesn't do pointillism. They paint with broad brushes, and that means cutting the program, which would result in either cuts to everyone's benefits, or narrowing eligibility for the program.

...it would be financed through savings achieved by eliminating the unemployment insurance program.

There fixed it properly this time.

No.. what is being proposed is ensuring that those who are receiving those earned benefits ACTUALLY deserve those benefits..

This isn't about women at all.

Whatever you have to tell yourself to keep believing that Trump is Lucifer incarnate....

... it would be financed through savings achieved by eliminating fraud in the unemployment insurance program.

There fixed it for you.

Let's be perfectly clear: 'eliminating fraud in the unemployment insurance program' actually means 'cutting benefits by tightening eligibility', because actual fraud investigations are already an ongoing function of government. This proposal would 'save money' by throwing thousands of people - working people, mind you, otherwise they wouldn't qualify for the program - into sudden economic crisis. Lurking in the background of that proposal, however, is a corollary: a reduction of business contribution to the Unemployment Insurance Program. This is the goal that the lobbyists who have flooded into the Trump transition team are most likely after. This isn't about women at all.

Unemployment insurance isn't welfare. The money for that program is deducted each month from everyone's paychecks. In other words, what Trump (or rather, Trump's lobbyist advisor) is proposing is to take away EARNED BENEFITS by narrowing the pool of those eligible to receive them. I wonder just how long it will take the writer of this proposal to find a way to make it disproportionately fall on the shoulders of the already dispossessed?

Who could possibly have a problem with that??

Nice thing about "dog whistles"...

They can mean whatever one wants them to mean... NO FACTS required.. :D

"Hmmmm affordable child care, paid maternity leave AND cutting down on unemployment fraud. OMG what a horrible person he is!!!"
-My Daughter

:D

I know you and Paula communicate thru other sources..

Is she doing OK????

Kicking yerself that you didn't register TrumpPollWatch.com??? :D

TrumpPollWatch.us is still available.... :D

the parallels are many. hopefully this presidency won't end for ILLEGAL immigrants the way jackson's time did for the native americans.

There.. Fixed it for you..

Trump *NEVER* had a problem with immigrants, save those from terrorist dominated countries...

Trump's emphasis has ALWAYS been about ILLEGAL immigrants...

It's ALWAYS worth the wait :D

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I'll stay up a bit longer, then, listening to some Leonard Cohen ...

She would recite Cohen lyrics as poetry and had the prettiest face when she cried and smiled at the end. She left me for an older guy - everybody but me saw that one coming, it turned out. It was a bummer and I remember thinking that Cohen had predicted it all for me. I've avoided him ever since, obviously to my detriment.

I was just as much of a fool as a teenager as I am today.

Miss you Jacqui.

I actually didn't include the story in my book, which is why I had to frantically dig through my notes.

Just finished transcription. I think I'm going to post it here without any context, and then use it to build tomorrow's column around (adding in both context and my own thoughts on the parallels with Trump).

Should be up in 15 min. or so...

-CW

I know it will!