Ocasio-Cortez told Hill.TV in an interview Thursday that she's "
Looking at"
serving on the House Financial Services Committee,
which leads congressional regulation and supervision of U.S. banks,
lenders,
insurers and housing industry.
Because just about the only person who can manage to do that is Ocasio-Cortez,
whose economic illiteracy,
despite an economics degree from Boston University,
has been shown again and again.
Graduates of Boston University's economics program are supposed to be able to "
Understand economic theory and be able to apply these models to evaluate policies and real-world events,"
according to the school's website.
Waters made herself a very rich woman chairing the House Financial Services Committee and it's obvious Ocasio-Cortez wants money,
too.
Hasn't she shown some evidence of commercial skills by dropping her opposition to Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker for ... something?
Odds are,
she will get the prestigious House seat despite her economic illiteracy,
because she has already sold her soul out to Pelosi.
Economics major,
socialist,
and 29-year-old congressional newbie Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants a seat on the House Financial Services Committee.
Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Thursday said she is interested in a seat on the powerful House committee overseeing the financial sector.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/12/alexandria_ocasiocortez_to_join_maxine_waters_on_the_house_financial_services_committee.html
- And by that standard, the preponderance of the evidence shows
that a growing share of the less-educated population is worse off than
40 years ago, that a major way they are worse off is that the labor
market offers them fewer opportunities for work that will support their
families and communities, and that this particular failure has great
explanatory power for many of their broader social problems.
- So
while the standard Bureau of Labor Statistics data look alarming (e.g.,
median earnings of a high-school graduate down 15 percent between 1979
and 2017), Scott introduces a long series of adjustments: a different
price deflator, 20th and 50th percentile instead of high-school
graduate, add in benefits, disaggregate by race to account for
immigration, and so on.
- If I understand Scott, he sees this as
evidence that the labor market is not the problem, because if people
aren’t even looking for work then it doesn’t matter what work is
available.
- But while Scott highlights the imperfect correlation
between economic shifts and social consequences, the cultural
explanation’s flaw is much deeper: It doesn’t hold for the “winners.” We
all swim in the same cultural pond, generally speaking, but we swim in
very different labor markets.
- Lastly, while this isn’t evidence
per se, I do think it relevant that the theoretical framework under
which we have pursued economic growth for the past 50 years holds
straightforwardly that we should expect to see the creation of “winners”
and “losers.” We built an education system geared entirely toward
college completers.
- My view, as I describe in The Once and
Future Worker, is that American workers — specifically, those without a
college degree — are facing a deepening crisis, for which primary
responsibility lies with a couple generations worth of public
policy that disregarded labor-market health.
- I would say exactly the opposite — that men giving up on work entirely is prima facie evidence of a deeply broken labor market.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/re-the-roots-of-american-working-class-discontent/
Former EPA official Samantha Dravis spoke out against now disproven accusations leveled by Democrats.
Democratic Delaware Sen. Tom Carper was silent on news federal investigators could not substantiate allegations he brought against former Environmental Protection Agency political appointee Samantha Dravis.
Dravis called the allegations against her "
Unfounded from the start."
EPA investigators found no support for accusations she skipped work for a three-month period.
Carper did not respond to multiple requests for comment,
despite being the reason EPA officials investigated Dravis's attendance while she worked for former Administrator Scott Pruitt.
Carper asked the EPA's Office of Inspector General in March to investigate whether Dravis missed three months of work while still collecting a paycheck.
Chmielewski gave Democrats a laundry list of accusations against Pruitt and his close aides,
including Dravis.
The former EPA official told Democrats "
For a period of weeks,
he did not personally see Samantha Dravis"
at EPA headquarters in Washington,
D.C. Pruitt resigned in July as allegations of ethical misconduct and mismanagement piled up.
https://dailycaller.com/2018/12/01/epa-scott-pruitt-samantha-dravis/
Well before November 6,
more than 50 members of Congress voluntarily chose not to seek re-election and cleared the way for newcomers to compete for a lot of open seats.
Interviews with more than half a dozen departing members and some recently retired members revealed three major drivers behind the surge of retirements:
a legislative process dominated by party leaders,
the constant pressure to raise money,
and political dysfunction plaguing Congress from top to bottom.
One retiring member,
Rep. Rick Nolan,
said that debating a multitude of amendments helps members build alliances and find common ground.
Both parties set fundraising quotas for their members and assess higher quotas for members in powerful positions.
Many outgoing members stress the importance of bipartisanship in being an effective member of Congress.
She encouraged all incoming members of Congress to "
Arrive with that commitment."
As members organize for the 116th Congress,
they have an opportunity and the public backing to address some of the systemic problems driving members of Congress away from public service in droves.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2018/11/30/why_are_members_leaving_congress_110935.html
NPR falsely claimed that Donald Trump Jr.'s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017 conflicted with an account given by a former attorney for President Donald Trump.
Trump Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee in September 2017 that although there had been negotiations surrounding a prospective Trump Tower in Moscow,
they concluded without result '
at the end'
of 2014.
Senate investigators were asking Trump Jr. about a series of efforts to develop property in Russia,
going back several years.
Q. It's been reported that in late 2015 or 2016 when now President Trump was running for office the Trump Organization was pursuing a plan to develop a massive Trump Tower in Moscow.
A hundred pages later,
the investigator asks if there was an effort by Felix Sater to "
Bring together a development in Moscow."
Trump Jr. says he believes there was an effort to work on that with Cohen in 2015.
Then the investigator asks, "
In this same time frame,
2015 or 2016,
when Mr. Sater and Mr. Cohen were exploring a possible deal,
do you know if anyone else was also exploring a deal simultaneously with the Trump Organization to build in Moscow?".
Do you know if they were also exploring building a Trump Tower in Moscow?A. We had looked at it earlier than that,
but it sort of faded away I believe at the end of '
14.Q. But not in 2015 or 2016?A. Certainly not '
16.
http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/30/npr-blatantly-lies-about-donald-trump-jr-s-2017-senate-testimony/
Early in my reporting that unraveled the origins of the Trump-Russia collusion probe,
tying it to Hillary Clinton's campaign and possible Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses,
I started to see patterns just as in the old mob meetings:
FBI or intelligence-connected figures kept showing up in Trump Town USA during the 2016 campaign with a common calling card.
At least six people with long-established ties to the FBI or to U.S. and Western intelligence made entrees to key figures in the Trump business organization or his presidential campaign between March and October 2016;.Campaign figures were contacted by at least two Russian figures whose justification for being in the United States were rare law enforcement parole visas controlled by the U.S. Justice Department;.
Intelligence or diplomatic figures connected to two of America's closest allies,
Britain and Australia,
gathered intelligence or instigated contacts with Trump campaign figures during that same period;.
Several of the contacts occurred before the FBI formally launched a legally authorized probe into the Trump campaign and possible collusion on July 31,
2016.
The rest are likely to have come from the FBI itself,
which clearly dispatched informers,
agents and other operatives to gather evidence to bulk up the uncorroborated Steele dossier,
so agents could get a FISA warrant in October 2016 to spy on Page,
the Trump campaign adviser.
For a long time,
most members of Congress have defended the FBI's use of informants in the Trump probe.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman went further than anyone else just last week,
suggesting the effort to gather evidence beyond the Steele dossier might be the most problematic of all because it was designed to be a political "
Insurance policy"
against Trump winning the presidency.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/419193-trump-russia-and-lessons-from-the-mob-did-godfathers-steer-collusion
One year after Maine's groundbreaking food sovereignty law took effect,
the capital city of Augusta has become the latest municipality to set food freedom in stone.
Maine's first-in-the-nation food sovereignty law,
An Act To Recognize Local Control Regarding Food Systems,
allows local governments in the state to pass ordinances that exempt many direct-to-consumer food sales within city limits from burdensome state licensing and inspection requirements.
Two years ago,
at least 15 municipalities in Maine adopted a food sovereignty ordinance.
Maine's statewide food sovereignty law changed the game.
According to the website Local Food Rules,
which tracks food sovereignty in Maine,
forty-five cities and towns have now passed FSOs,
including more than twenty just this year.
Walt Whitcomb,
who heads Maine's agriculture department,
warned earlier this year that food sovereignty "
Will just increase the possibility that folks will purchase food that will make them sick."
As good as it is,
Maine's food sovereignty law could be better still.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/12/01/maines-food-sovereignty-law-is-a-hit
