April 25, 2011 - Pensito

Most Americans Don’t Expect to Be Able to Retire

April 25, 2011 Buck Banks

53%

Of non-retired Americans do not think they will have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, up 40% from 32% who felt that way in 2002.

An Offensive Defense

April 25, 2011May 22, 2014 Buck Banks

Eric Holder says the Defense of Marriage Act isn’t sensible.
Others say it’s constitutionally reprehensible.
So in order to preserve it,
The House hired lawyers to defend it.
But they quit, saying, defensively, it’s indefensible.

Bloomberg: Obama Needs to ‘Build Friendships’

April 25, 2011 Buck Banks

The president has got to start inviting people over for dinner, he’s got to play golf with them. He’s got to pick up the phone and say, ‘I know we disagree on this, but I just want to say I heard it’s your wife’s birthday or your kid just got into college. He has to go build friendships, that’s what an executive’s job is.

— New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an interview with Fox News.

The Budget: Everybody’s Got It Wrong

April 25, 2011 Buck Banks

It is obvious that the nation’s desperate fiscal condition requires higher taxes on the middle class, not just the richest 2 percent. Likewise, entitlement reform requires means-testing the giant Social Security and Medicare programs, not merely squeezing the far smaller safety net in areas like Medicaid and food stamps. So the Ryan plan worsens our trillion-dollar structural deficit and the Obama plan amounts to small potatoes, at best. Worse, we are about to descend into class war because the Obama plan picks on the rich when it should be pushing tax increases for all, while the Ryan plan attacks the poor when it should be addressing middle-class entitlements and defense.

Day: April 25, 2011

Most Americans Don’t Expect to Be Able to Retire

53%

Of non-retired Americans do not think they will have enough money to live comfortably in retirement, up 40% from 32% who felt that way in 2002.

An Offensive Defense

Bloomberg: Obama Needs to ‘Build Friendships’

— New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in an interview with Fox News.

The Budget: Everybody’s Got It Wrong

— David Stockman, former Reagan administration budget director.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“They’ve invested heavily in AI labs. They’ve invested heavily in data centers. So, the first family has a financial stake in this industry, and as a result, the president of the United States is compromised.”

— “Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Monday said President Trump will likely not heed calls from technology leaders to implement guardrails on the development of artificial intelligence because of his family’s investments in the industry,” NewsNation reports.

— Jane Haman

“We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state. They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards.”

— Jared Kushner, quoted by CBS News, on the lack of progress in Gaza.

Numerati

470

Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.

$184 million

50%

38%

31%