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#1 Farm loan delinquencies just hit the highest level that we have seen in 9 years.

#2 We just learned that U.S. exports declined by 4 billion dollars during the month of December.

#3 J.C. Penney just announced that they will be closing another 24 stores.

#4 Victoria’s Secret has just announced plans to close 53 stores.

#5 On Thursday, Gap announced that it will be closing 230 stores over the next two years.

#6 Payless ShoeSource has declared bankruptcy and is closing all 2,100 stores.

#7 Tesla is also closing all of their physical sales locations and will now only sell vehicles online.

#8 PepsiCo has started laying off workers and has committed to “millions of dollars in severance pay”.

#9 The Baltic Dry Index has dropped to the lowest level in more than two years.

#10 This is the worst slump for core U.S. factory orders in three years.

#11 We just witnessed the largest decline in the Philly Fed Business Index in more than 7 years.

#12 In January, sales of existing homes fell 8.9 percent from a year earlier.  That was the third month in a row that we have seen a decline of at least 8 percent.  This is an absolutely catastrophic trend for the real estate industry.

#13 U.S. housing starts were down 11.2 percent in December compared to the previous month.

#14 Compared to a year earlier, home sales in southern California were down 17 percent in January.

#15 In December, home sales in Sacramento County fell a whopping 22.5 percentcompared to a year earlier.

#16 Pending home sales in the United States have now fallen on a year over year basis for 13 months in a row.

#17 More than 166 billion dollars in student loan debt is now “seriously delinquent”.  That is an all-time record.

#18 More than 7 million Americans are behind on their auto loan payments.  That is also a new all-time record, and it is far higher than anything that we witnessed during the last recession.

Trump Recession is Coming

Trump's 2020 budget reveals that the deficit is up 77 percent compared to last year because of the tax cuts according to the Treasury Department — and Republicans DON’T CARE

“Science is supposed to be the basis for nearly everything the EPA does. For example, the Clean Air Act requires the agency to propose and enforce air, water, and climate regulations that adhere to the best available science. Under that law, the EPA found that climate change endangers human health and enacted the Obama administration’s signature regulations on carbon emissions—regulations that the Trump administration is working to undo.

So what if science initiatives are severely underfunded? For the EPA, carrying out even its basic functions will become much more difficult.“

Trump, Pruitt and Republicans euthanizing the EPA and America because their God will provide! 

Mother Jones has the Environmental Protection Network report. Here’s the PDF.

Former EPA Employees Are So Worried About Trump’s Plans, They Formed Their Own Alt-EPA, HuffPost

This needs to be added to the Constitution

President Donald Trump’s first budget request to Congress would make deep cuts to government programs, including Medicaid, the health insurance program for low-income adults and children. Recent polls have found little public support for cuts to Medicaid, but that may not be a surprise: Americans tend not to favor budget cuts when asked about specific areas being affected.

“Rich” Taxpayers First

Trump and GOP Newspeak

(cartoon by John Auchter)

Republicans are so predictable

Darrin Bell Cartoon from 2017-05-27

Trump Budget + GOP Policies = American Plague

Prediction: Trump’s presidency will have the lowest approval of any president

Trump’s crew is increasingly looking like a gang that can’t shoot straight. Most recent a $2 trillion math error where they count the savings of the miracle tax plan twice:

If there was any doubt that Trump & Co don’t know what the fuck they are doing, this settles it.

Hilariously, when asked about this glitch, Treasury Secretary Mnuchin responded like this:

Republicans get frazzled when there are too many zeroes. They were just so excited about their trickle down economics for the rich.

Mick Mulvaney and Mnuchin, it’s the 21st century, there are these things called spreadsheets. I hear they’re pretty accurate.

(cartoon by Dave Granlund)

Happy Easter Kids!

Trump and Poor People ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

“How smart can they be? They're morons.”, Donald Trump

Mick Mulvaney

President Donald J Trump

Melania is hiding from Trump, so we have to kill the culture of our country.

AND “American taxpayers spend more than $3 million each time Trump heads to the “Winter White House”. Trump has made 5 trips to Mar-a-Lago in his first 2 months as potus. So far that’s $15 million wasted! The total cost for 2017 will be between $90 to $108 million. How hungry people could Meals on Wheels feed???

Trump, the ultimate “Compassionate Conservative”. Republicans, “Let them eat cake”

Republicans enjoy waste.

Fiscally responsible Republicans care to comment?

Cut Trump properties from the budget!  #GrabYourWallet #NotPaying