Posted by Tina
In a show of pure arrogance (and tyranny) California legislators threatened any California company with retaliation should they enter bids to build the wall on the border:
Three California Democrats have a warning for contractors who sign up for President Donald Trump’s border-wall construction project between the U.S. and Mexico: Build it, and we will divest from your company. …
… Assembly Bill 946 would require the California Public Employee Retirement System and the California State Teachers Retirement System — the two largest public pension funds in the nation, with investments of $312 billion and $202 billion, respectively — to liquidate investments in any company involved with the wall’s construction within a year. It would also require the pension-fund management to report a list of those companies to the Legislature.
Hmmm…not good to burn bridges. What happens when they want to fix our failing infrastructure?
I’m sure these companies will still find good homes in state pensions in Texas and other fly over country states. The middle of the country is UUUUge!
Besides, how dumb is it to divest just when a company is bound to start making money!
Tyranny is the tax payers paying for a useless wall. That wall is wasted spending of tax dollars and a scam for profit.
Tina you are a Californian certainly you hvae seen the problems at the border which are tunnels that come deep into San Diego gated communities like Otay Lakes. The Border patrol puts cement n them but they just dig around back to the tunnels. They are elaborate. Funny I have my old Border patrol shirt still so do not try to school me on the Border. I lived down south for half my life.
You seem to want to rail taxpayers at every corner for ideology and the inability to say you are not always right.
So we must cut funding to all public services so a contractor can build the Berlin Wall in the USA. You care none about the people just someone making profits off of tax dollars it seems.
How about conservatives pay an extra wall tax and leave the rest of us out of the fascism.
BTW You are in Mexico if we were really being Proper.
“Tyranny is the tax payers paying for a useless wall.”The voters
You don’t have to like this spending or agree with those who want it.
In this case specifically, voters across the nation elected the candidate that said he would build the wall for security and for purposes of deterring illegal entry and trafficking into our nation. Voters decided the wall would be built! That is not tyranny; it is the democratic process.
I am aware of the tunnels. The tunnels are a different issue. I would hope that part of the design of this wall would be technology to detect underground tunneling.
“So we must cut funding to all public services so a contractor can build the Berlin Wall…”
The Berlin Wall was built to keep citizen in…to prevent citizens from leaving! That is tyranny!!!
“How about conservatives pay an extra wall tax and leave the rest of us out of the fascism.”
Sure, I’d go along with that….IF…you pay taxes for ALL of the socialist programs and leave the rest of us out of it! I assure you we will come out on top in that deal. Not only will the wall be built on time and under budget but your program budget will be bloated and rife with fraud and waste forever.
Dewey if you are going to yell fascism, you should at least know what it is…obviously, you do not!
Taxifornia: The land of Fruits and Nuts where illegal criminals have more rights than the voters who have to pay for them.
Immigrants are here LEGALLY. The rest are criminals as they have chosen to break the law.
And those citizens who refuse to get the difference are complicit. Perhaps we should take Dewey’s suggestion…they should be required to foot the bill personally.
Latest company to depart Taxifornia for lessregulation, less taxes and less interference: Carl’s Jr Corporate HQ heading to Tennessee!
… and our President threatens lawmakers. Busy, busy, busy, we are.
But I just get tickled to death when I and august news organizations are on the same page, politically speaking:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/politics/donald-trump-wsj-trust/index.html
Choice Bit:
“The editorial also slammed Trump for refusing to back off his administration’s unsubstantiated allegations that President Barack Obama ordered the wiretapping of Trump Tower. Multiple lawmakers, including Republicans, have called on Trump to apologize to Obama for making the claim without providing any evidence.
“He has offered no evidence for his claim, and a parade of intelligence officials, senior Republicans and Democrats have since said they have seen no such evidence,” the editorial board wrote. “Yet the President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims.”
Whoa, mommy … there’s some strong language.
There’s more going on than we know about.
Independent Sentinel:
Politico:
12 days ago, Raw Story:
You have no interest in facts, discovering the truth, or the law.
“Carter Page—a former foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump—wrote to Congress claiming, without evidence, ….”
Tina … this is your “evidence”? And Nunes is running second only to Spicy in the Prevaricator Stakes.
Well, well, well, another whistle blower. This guy is attempting to do it the legal way…and he’s run into a lot of brick walls in both parties:
Drain the swamp down to the last slimy crawler.
This is huge! I just posted a similar article from The Federalist to your new article.
“The middle of the country is UUUUge!”
Yes, Tina, but nobody lives there, so there is little opportunity to make big money. On top of which, the Texan embrace of reckless right-wing fiscal policy has rendered Dallas bankrupt with other cities on the brink. So they are not going to be spending big on infrastructure, are they?
This whole wall thing is just tooooooooo Gulag, and we are not having it.
The mayor of Dallas is a Democrat. Dallas is no different than other large cities run by Democrats…they are broke and still stubbornly clinging to the same failed fiscal policies that caused their problems.
In terms of fiscal health, Texas is average (coming in at 16th) among the states for 2016. California is well below average, coming in at 44th among the states.
I’d say the significant thing about the middle of the country is that nobody progressive, wasteful, and tyrannical lives there.
That you would use a word like “Gulag” to describe the building of a security wall is ridiculous:
But then, you are often ridiculous.