Ah yes quality of life in America should be more important.

citation needed

They seem to resemble numbers from the Netherlands.

defense € 7.602.033.000 in 2014
pension paid by our government: € 32.700.000.000 (and that's only our pension!!)
unemployment benefits: ~10.000.000.000

dollar ~ Euro

fun extra facts during our "refugee crisis" :

Asylum and immigration 800.000.000
Naturalization and integration 200.000.000
(barely nothing)

This post was edited by Knoppie on Feb 3 2017 05:14pm

So tons of media outlets, from CNN to NPR / etc, are reporting on the figure of visas revoked by the immigration EO in a really deceptive way.
From the NPR article:



60000 visas were temporarily revoked. A DoJ attorney mistakenly claimed it was 100000 during testimony, but that number included exempt and expired visas that weren't affected
Then all sorts of news articles started comparing that to the figure in the 100-700 range of people who actually had their travel impacted, as if it was some gigantic bigger number and had been lied to.
For example:

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/03/trump-busted-big-lie-government-admits-court-100000-impacted-muslim-ban.html



Its just insanely deceptive, because its comparing the number of people who were actually traveling on affected visas to the number of people who own affected visas.
Only a small fraction of the visa holders are trying to enter the country at any given time, so comparing 109 people who had their flights disrupted on the first day and then claiming the real number of 600x larger is flat out fake news.

Maybe NPR news should run an article comparing the total amount of tax revenue the feds get in april under Trump to the budget deficit of Obama's last year and claim we're suddenly running a bajillion dollar surplus because they were comparing apples to oranges.

This post was edited by Goomshill on Feb 3 2017 05:19pm

Well, since defense spending is 16% of the budget, that claim is impossible.

I can think of several engineers who deserve to be beaten to a pulp. It is one thing to engineer an engine that fits into the engine compartment of a cab-forward chassis. It is another thing altogether to engineer it to also be friendly to the tools technicians must use to perform repairs on them. Fuck you Chrysler 2.7L engineers everywhere!

https://web.stanford.edu/~gentzkow/research/fakenews.pdf

an interesting study on the 2016 election, social media/fake news and its actual effect (or lackthereof). it's by the noted reich-wing southern, landowning, white-male only accepting Stanford University though, with the other author being a noted fascist from the totalitarian institution known as New York University, so it may be slanted.

I had a Chrysler for a few years and I'll never own one again. I think I'm going to stick with European sedans. Toyota is pretty great too.

Uncle Curtis?

solid prediction lol