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   From: klaus.schadenfreude.entfernen.@gmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 13 Jul 2022 17:21:36 -0000 (UTC), Scott    
   wrote:   
      
   >Baxter wrote in   
   >news:tamoii$c22$1@gioia.aioe.org:   
   >   
   >> On Tuesday, the venerable Gallup organization reported that just 27   
   >> percent of Americans expressed confidence in their institutions — the   
   >> lowest level of trust since the questions were first asked half a   
   >> century ago.   
   >>   
   >> On Wednesday, Mitch McConnell showed us why Americans feel this way.   
   >>   
   >> Republican senators announced that, under orders from the Senate   
   >> Republican leader, they were pulling out of House-Senate talks   
   >> finalizing details on bipartisan legislation to help the United States   
   >> compete with China on semiconductor chips.   
   >   
   >Democrats forced semiconductor manufacturing to China because it involves   
   >a lot of nasty elements and chemicals plus pollutes the environment.   
   >   
   >Baxter dumbdumb.   
   >   
   >   
   >> It wasn’t because McConnell objected to the China bill; he was one of   
   >> 19 Republican senators who voted for the Senate’s version. It’s   
   >> because he objects to a second, unrelated bill Democrats are working   
   >> on to lower prescription drug prices.   
   >   
   >Did you read the draft? Until you do, don't bitch at McConnell.   
   >   
   >Baxter dumbdumb.   
   >   
   >> McConnell wants to stop Democrats, including Sen. Joe Manchin III   
   >> (W.Va.), from using a process known as “reconciliation” to pass that   
   >> prescription-drug bill by a simple majority vote, immune from any GOP   
   >> filibuster. And to stop Americans from getting cheaper prescriptions,   
   >> he is willing to sabotage American manufacturers (and therefore assist   
   >> China) by denying them $52 billion in support under the U.S.   
   >> Innovation and Competition Act.   
   >   
   >Reconciliation is inappropriate for the "Innovation and Competition Act."   
   >Democrats never look down the road farther than the end of their noses.   
   >   
   >"The United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021 (USICA) (S.   
   >1260), formerly known as the Endless Frontier Act, is United States   
   >legislation sponsored by Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Todd Young (R-   
   >IN) authorizing $110 billion for basic and advanced technology research   
   >over a five-year period. Investment in basic and advanced research,   
   >commercialization, and education and training programs in artificial   
   >intelligence, semiconductors, quantum computing, advanced communications,   
   >biotechnology and advanced energy, amounts to $100 billion. "   
   >   
   >I don't see any prescription drug price reductions there.   
   >   
   >Baxter dumbdumb.   
   >   
   >   
   >> In both cases, Americans lose — because McConnell thinks it’s to   
   >> Republicans’ advantage in the midterm elections. He is willing to hurt   
   >> the country, and help the Chinese, in order to harm Democrats’   
   >> political standing.   
   >>   
   >> “Let me be perfectly clear: there will be no bipartisan USICA as long   
   >> as Democrats are pursuing a partisan reconciliation bill,” he tweeted.   
   >>   
   >> And let me be perfectly clear: This cynicism has destroyed Americans’   
   >> faith in their government.   
   >   
   >Let's be clear. It's because of apathetic "Americans" that we are in this   
   >mess to begin with. It started with the Clintons and Willy's debt pile   
   >shuffle to make it appear as though he had balanced the budget when he had   
   >not. He stuck Bush with $4 trillion dollars in war debt. Then came that   
   >disaster Obama.   
   >   
   >8 years of Obama and Biden cost the dumb fucks who voted for him 8 years   
   >of 401k / retirement profits. 8 years, people. Now Joe Biden is in the   
   >driver's seat costing the US trillions of dollars in earning because of   
   >his anbd Yellen's fiscal mismanagement.   
   >   
   >Baxter dumbdumb.   
      
   Remember Baxter is so stupid he thinks there is only one guy named   
   Raul Reyes in the entire country.   
      
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