I thought that Marco Rubio was the crown prince?

Democrats have said they are willing to talk about an immigration policy like canada's.

In canada we don't get many illegal immigrants. Well not until Trump. And when we did get some from mexico we just put visa requirements on them for a few years. We are surrounded by 3 oceans. We take if refugees. We take in lots of people. We need immigrants desperately but they are not so much illegal or as low skilled. In my experience the people who nursed my mom and currently do my dad are way over qualified. They just didn't have money for school back home. And once they arrive they get streamed into schooling in the areas that need workers. One of my friends should be a social worker at the police station. The latest guy who is looking after my dad should be a hotel manager. It is not funny. Some upgrade to a full nursing degree. One man from Rawanda who was a nurse is now Director of care for the nursing home. Good on him. Their children do well. A point system is pretty unfair to the world outside. But many nations have it. I know one woman who is going to get her full nursing degree in canada and then go back home to Angola and open a clinic. I don't think the us can survive without lots of immigrants. Just like canada their future depends on them. It would be full on dystopian nightmare without large numbers of immigrants. I don't like the idea of temporary workers either. That is too aparthidy to me but canada does it.

Quite frankly i am more worried about management practices in business in canada. That is something someone like Elizabeth Warren could tackle. The 18th century management model has got to go. I've worked for many bosses and nastyness and not valueing the whole person and clipping employees wings has got to stop. And i hear things from others. I've worked for government and non profits and some businesses who are the most lovely people. But that thing where you grind your employees into the ground to squeeze every cent of productivity out of them so management gets big bonuses is a crime.

To hook you a cult will give you a vital role to play, to make you feel like

you are as important as you were way back 20,000 years ago when we all lived in villages and everyone had many roles, and you will feel like you are taking on the roles yourself. Suddenly you feel alive. WAKE UP! YOU ARE BEING PAID $14 AN OUR AT YOUR JOB AND YOU WILL SOON LOSE HEALTHCARE WHEN A MACHINE IS COMES FOR YOUR JOB!!!

https://twitter.com/MotherJones/status/1142266263978336256

I think Hamilton is considered part of Toronto by now. Some Raptors landed

in Drake's 767 at the Hamilton Airport and took limos back to Toronto after winning the championship. Toronto winters are not bad. And it is getting warmer every year. They have never lived down the time 25 years ago when they had a two foot snow storm and the frazzled mayor called in the army. They are not used to snow storms. The rest of the country thinks they are wimps. I'm in Ottawa and it definitely gets winter. If you go south of Hamilton to the Niagara Peninsula it is really mild and they actually grow fruit and grapes there. I actually just had a strawberry milkshake made with berries from there. Delicious. If you move to British Columbia they have very mild rainy winters there in the south. But they also have rainy summers. All in all i like the change in seasons. Plus i overheat at the least exertion. I used to power through it and excercise when i was younger but now find it really uncomfy. I take a rag with me to wipe my brow these days in ottawa. Sunny and warm finally. My heat and sweating is so extreme it has to be some scottish-german gene mutation that never caught on. My mom had it too. I definitely belong in the north.

Looking for a narrative of Trump being a victim and by interviewing the CIA in private

they can cherry pick. You are right. Barr's Justice Department will knit any CIA behaviour into a story with a timeline that suits them and leak it. Or lean on the facts when the release the information.. We've already seen Barr do that with the release of his summation of the Mueller Report.

Is Trudeau a 'tax-and-spend' Liberal? The numbers say no

Is Trudeau a 'tax-and-spend' Liberal? The numbers say no

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5164976?__twitter_impression=true

Aaron Wherry - CBC News

"SNIP.....

For 2014-2015 — the last full fiscal year of Stephen Harper's government — tax revenue as a share of GDP was 11.5 per cent.

For 2018-2019 — after nearly four full years of Justin Trudeau's government — tax revenue as a share of GDP is projected to be 12.7 per cent. In subsequent years, according to the government's own numbers, it's forecast to settle around 12.4 per cent.

That 0.9 -point increase is not nothing. But it's still below what the federal government was taking in when Harper's Conservatives came to office in 2006. It's even further below what the federal government was raising at the respective peaks of the Mulroney and Chrétien years.

For 1999-2000, for instance, total tax revenue reached 14.5 per cent of GDP — the highest point of the last 35 years.

.....SNIP"

He. We had our own professional level comedian. He worked so hard

to post about 5 hillarious memes a day.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1018551379

Government legislating means regulating to make something better or spending

to make something better. I used to think republicans just hated regulating and spending. Now I'm pretty sure they are against things being made better too.

What is lost in all the Pelosi Trump hoopla today is that republicans

don't want to raise any taxes to fund infrastructure and Trump gave into them. US is at full employment and doing infrastructure now would result in increased wages. GOP can't have that. Better to wait for a time when everything is automated and unemployment is high. After all if workers don't fight inflation by never taking more of a slice of the pie in wages than they had in 1980, then everyone will have to fight inflation, including the rich.The boom might slow down if wages go up. So no taxes for infrastructure for you Trump. Make it look like it is democrats busting the agreed discussions last month.

There are many roads to get to where we want to go. I am

dyslexic and have aha moments. Mostly they are hypothesis I can't test out immediately as I am online and in Canada. Do I put up the hypothesis or not? My role as a dyslexic is to take a wide scope in life and slowly, over minutes-hours-weeks-months and years get to a big picture in real life. That is my job. In the meantime I had a hypothesis. So I post my idea knowing it will be taken with a grain of salt and that the DU needs those of us to perceive things differently. I'm not always right. Sometimes i reinvent the wheel. But so are the real pundits on the tv. But sometimes I am right and novel.