Social Issues

With the Graham-Cassidy Obamacare replacement now officially dead, it appears Senate Republicans will be unable to pass a repeal-and-replace bill before the Sept. 30 deadline announced by the Senate Parliamentarian arrives – though it’s impossible to rule out another long-shot plan gaining momentum in the coming days.

After the deadline, Senate Republicans would need 60 votes for their repeal-and-replace bill, effectively killing the repeal-and-replace effort, at least for now.

We've frequently argued that public pensions in the U.S. are nothing more than elaborate ponzi schemes being propped up by unrealistic accounting assumptions that make them seem more healthy than they actually are.  As it turns out, the State Budget Director of Kentucky, John Chilton, is coming around to our way of thinking. 

Authored by Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev via MarketWatch.com,

The stagnation of real incomes from 1999 through today is structural, not cyclical...

Off the top, the figures published by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday are encouraging:

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Whatever Happened to America?

Paul Craig Roberts

Over the course of my lifetime America has become an infantile country.

Authored by Jack Montgomery via Breitbart.com,

Hungary has slashed illegal immigration by over 99 per cent after rolling out a series of powerful border fences in response to the European migrant crisis, possibly providing a lesson as to the potential impact of constructing President Trump’s much-discussed southern wall in the U.S.