Are President Trump’s Tax Cuts in Jeopardy?

Yesterday, Newt Gingrich said that he doesn’t believe President Trump will be able to get the tax cuts passed. Now, if Trump can’t get this passed I don’t think he’ll be able to get anything else done or win re-election in 2020. We need to get this economy rolling. 

During the 8 years that President Obama was in office the average annual growth rate was 1.48% and it was also the weakest of any expansion since at least 1949. Obama is the only President to have not had even one year of 3% GDP growth. 

Every other president in American history, even the really bad ones, had at least one year when U.S. GDP grew by at least 3 percent.  

Tonight, President Trump is hosting a dinner at the White House for a bipartisan group of senators. On the menu: his plan to overhaul the tax code. 

Republican leaders in the Senate are making plans to advance tax legislation on a simple, party-line vote. But after dissenting Republicans torpedoed the effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act, Trump is eager to line up some Democratic supporters for insurance. 

The guest list for Tuesday's dinner includes Sens. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D.; Joe Donnelly, D-Ind.; and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. All three are up for re-election next year in states that Trump carried by wide margins.

Last week Heitkamp accompanied the president on Air Force One when he delivered a speech on taxes in North Dakota. 

"I'm committed to fixing our broken tax code, and making sure it encourages workers, their families, and our businesses," Heitkamp said afterward in a statement.

Tomorrow we’ll follow up with President Trump and how the press is treating him. 

Americans face growing debt crisis

Personal Finance website WalletHub.com conducted a new study released Monday, U.S. consumers added $33 billion in credit card debt during the second quarter of 2017, making it the second-highest point of debt since the end of 2008. 

The study projects that by the end of 2017, Americans will pile more than $60 billion in new credit card debt, which means overall the U.S. is headed towards well over $1 trillion in credit card debt.

The news comes following the worst year for credit card debt (2016) since the Great Recession, where U.S. consumers ended the year with $87.2 billion in new credit card debt. The first quarter of 2017, however, started out strong as consumers paid down $30.5 billion of that debt but then relapsed during the second quarter from April 1 to June 30. 

According to WalletHub, the average household credit card balance has rose to $7,996 in 2017, up from $7,584 during the same period in 2016. Total credit card debit is up more than 6% reaching $936.10 billion from $884.70 billion last year. 

American’s are putting more and more necessities of lift on credit cards when they’re unable to afford them otherwise. This is why we need the economy to grow, so you can make more money and don’t have to put all of this on your credit card.

Debt Tops $20 Trillion for First Time

The federal debt officially surpassed $20 trillion for the first time on Friday, as the debt subject to the legal limit set by Congress jumped $317,645,000,000 in one day following President Donald Trump's signing of a spending-and-debt-limit deal that will fund the government through Dec. 8. 

$20 trillion? We won’t be able to pay that back, ever. All we can do is pay the interest and people will buy our credit sources so that we can continue to run up massive debt. 

At the close of business on Thursday, Sept. 7, according to the Daily Treasury Statement for Friday, the total debt of the federal government was $19,844,587,000,000 and the portion of it subject to the legal limit set by Congress was $19,808,747,000. After President Trump signed the legislation suspending the debt limit, the total debt immediately jumped to $20,162,177,000,000 and the portion of it subject to the limit jumped to $20,126,392,000,000, according to the Daily Treasury Statement for Sept. 8, 2017. 

That means the total debt jumped $317,590,000,000 on the day it officially topped $20 trillion for the first time and that the part of the debt subject to the legal limit jumped $317,645,000,000 on that day. 

The data presented on the Treasury Department's "Debt to the Penny" page also shows that Friday was the first time that the total debt of the federal government ever topped $20 trillion. According to the "Debt to the Penny" chart, the highest previous level of the federal debt before Friday was on Dec. 30, 2016, when the total debt hit $19,976,826,951,047.80--just $23,173,948,952.20 below the $20 trillion mark. 

From March 16 through Sept. 7, every Daily Treasury Statement showed the total federal debt subject to the legal limit opening and closing each day at $19,808,747,000,000. That was because the previous suspension of the debt limit had expired on March 15 and the debt limit had been reset at the level the debt reached at the close of business that day--which was $19,808,772,381,624.74. The Treasury then started using what it calls "extraordinary measures" to keep the debt subject to the limit about $25 million below the limit. 

ESPN Anchor: ‘Donald Trump Is A White Supremacist’

Under President Obama the African American community did not prosper economically. Neither did any other community, but African Americans really got hammered. So now, there’s a bitterness emerging from many minority precincts, add to that police brutality, Black Lives Matter, etc.

Jemele Hill posted a series of tweets Monday evening taking aim at Trump and his voter base, calling the president a “white supremacist” and saying his movement is a “direct result of white supremacy.” 

She went on to say “Trump is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime,” she wrote. “His rise is the direct result of white supremacy. Period.” 

Hill, co-hosts ESPN’s 6PM Sports Center broadcast, tweeting Monday evening and called President Trump a white supremacist. 

ESPN issued a meek statement on Tuesday in response to Jemele Hill, one of the network’s anchors, calling President Trump and his supporters “white supremacists.” 

“The comments on Twitter from Jemele Hill regarding the President do not represent the position of ESPN,” the network said in a statement. “We have addressed this with Jemele and she recognizes her actions were inappropriate.” 

ESPN has seen its fair share of political controversy lately, including the removal of college football play by play announcer Robert Lee from a game because he shares a name with the Confederate general.

The network has encouraged their personalities to be political in their commentary, and Jemele Hill, who is a co-host of the 6pm Sports Center, appears to have taken this encouragement to heart when she called President Donald Trump “a white supremacist” Monday night during a Twitter rant. 

ESPN recently fired 100 employees due, in part, to sinking ratings some attribute to the creeping politics from their personalities. This latest event likely won’t help that trend.

Imagine if I interviewed Jemele Hill and asked her to back up these looney statements with some historical perspective, some contemporary perspective, some examples to point to, do you think she could do that because I don’t think she would be able to.

BOR.com Poll - 47% of people have lost interest in the NFL

As the season begins, what is your level of interest in the NFL compared to previous years?

About the same: 25%

Higher than ever: 2%

I have lost interest: 47%

Never cared, still don’t: 26%

Examples of Professor Craziness in the last 8 Months

1. Students instructed to write essay on 9/11 from terrorists' perspective. A recent assignment in an international studies course at Iowa State University asked students to write a historical account of the 9/11 terrorist attacks from the perspective of Al-Qaeda.’ 

“Write a paper that gives a historical account of 911 from the perspective of the terrorist network. In other words, how might Al-Qaeda or a non-Western historian describe what happened,” stated the assignment, a copy of which was obtained by The College Fix. 

“Don’t worry about the fact you don’t agree with the terrorists, the point of the exercise is to consider completely different perspectives,” the assignment adds. 

2. Professor penalized student for using word ‘man’ on his essay at the University of Florida, a student was recently penalized for writing “man” instead of “humankind” in a class paper.

History major Martin Poirier wrote “Water is a thing prior to man” on a paper for a history class called “History of Water.” 

“Thoughtful paper, although the writing-mechanics errors are killing you,” Professor Jack Davis wrote at the bottom of the paper. He gave the student a B minus, according to a copy of the essay published in the student news outlet the Daily Nerv.

Davis circled “man” and referenced his Writing Mechanics Exercise #20, which draws a distinction between “mankind” and “humankind.”

Davis defended the penalization in an email to The College Fix. He explained that the “exercise and inclusion of ‘humankind’ are consistent with the Chicago Manual of Style, the style and the usage guide followed in the discipline of history.”

Davis also said the exercise is “not to enforce political correctness” but is “both a grammar refresher and a style and user guide.”

3. Meet the University of Arizona’s visiting trans-hippo visiting scholar A doctoral student that claims to be a scholar at the University of Arizona publicly identifies as a hippopotamus as a “rebellion” against the confines of mainstream transgender culture.

But the university seems eager to distance itself from Florentin Felix Morin, despite its own news release welcoming him to Tucson earlier this year. 

Morin, a PhD student at the Université Paris 8, published his paper in the peer-reviewed “theoretical humanities” journal Angelaki for its recent issue on the link between transgender identities and animal studies. 

The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies gave Morin a warm welcome as a “visiting scholar” in January, according to its news page. 

“He is beyond excited to be in Tucson for the Spring semester, benefit from all the department’s and the Institute’s activities, conduct fieldwork in the US, and meet everyone!” 

Morin is at least the second academic connected in some way to UA’s department to subordinate the hard sciences to gender theory. 

Morin begins “Ego Hippo” by describing how his identification as a water-dwelling ungulate allows him to “escape” classification from traditional binaries, such as gender, sexuality and age.

“I don’t have to be a boy or a girl, a child or adult, normal or strange,” Morin writes. “It brings me freedom, space, and a thrilling sense of possibility.” 

The doctoral student explains that the hippo identity brings him “comfort” and makes him feel “safe.”  The Department of Gender and Women’s Studies gave Morin a warm welcome as a “visiting scholar” in January, according to its news page. 

Jennifer Kabbany talks about college campus craziness

Jennifer Kabbany is the Editor of the College Fix- a publication of the Student Free Press Association. She joins us to discuss the crazy students and professors at some of these schools.

In the interview Jennifer says that she saw a need to train students on how to report the truth about what is going on at their campuses. 

Are colleges and universities in America on the downside or are the examples listed above exceptions? Jennifer says that certainly there are good professors out there who try their best to present both sides, especially in the hard sciences and math. In the humanity majors it has become a train wreck, the secular progressives have taken over completely.

Day after day on The College Fix we’re posting absurd story after absurd story about insane situations on campuses.

MAIL TIME!

Bill, Los Angeles has eliminated Columbus Day and replaced it with indigenous peoples day, why are you shocked by this?

I think the fake news industry is the greatest threat we face these days. They spew propaganda to the masses and people don’t or won’t take the time to see through the nonsense. 

Bill, I’m beside myself about something that is circulating around the internet. With so much fake news circulating out there, I felt I could turn to you and your team to let me know about the tragic story that Eric Bolling’s 19 year old son was found dead.