Cheatin' Trump

David Frenkel

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Sunday October 02, 2016 · 4:59 PM PDT

2016/10/02 · 16:59

In the sprit of Trump’s labels, it seems to me that the one that fits Trump best is Cheatin’ Trump.

He cheats his creditors.

He cheats his clients.

He cheats his contractors.

He cheats his foundation donors.

He cheats the IRS.

He cheats on his spouses.

Those of you that want to attend his rallies and protest, should consider taking signs, Cheatin’ Trump and start chants: CHEATIN’ TRUMP, CHEATIN’ TRUMP.

If you invite the media you can get your chant amplified to a much larger audience.

They both lie to some degree so this is too much of a gray zone.

However, only Trump cheats just about everyone he encounters.

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Is cheatin' Trump an effective label for Trump?

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Is cheatin' Trump an effective label for Trump?

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Yes

23 votes

AMA Chairman identifies over a trillion dollars in possible savings

David Frenkel

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Wednesday August 15, 2012 · 9:10 AM PDT

2012/08/15 · 09:10

Dr Wah identified 1.2 trillion dollars in savings that could be made through changing patient behaviors, which is half of Americas out of control healthcare expenses.
Prevention, patient education and early diagnosis and intervention are key to driving down American healthcare costs.

See his talk and others on the costs and outcomes at
http://www.vimeo.com/...

America at 17% plus of GDP is spending at almost twice the rate of Australia and other major countries. Unless there is true universal health insurance combined with a collective effort to change behaviors, this cost will drive America to bankruputcy.
The problem is not so much Medicare but rather the consequence of peope arriving on these programs after not being treated early and also arriving in ER before age 65 and the cost of all of that unpaid for emergency care being shifted into the rates.

The problem is cost and its root costs, not the insurance policy trying to pay those costs.

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Do you believe that a national single payer system is needed to drive down healthcare costs?

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Do you believe that a national single payer system is needed to drive down healthcare costs?

Yes

42 votes

2 votes

Possibly

2 votes

Do not know

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America healthcare cost crisis 17 pct of GDP

David Frenkel

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Saturday July 14, 2012 · 3:46 AM PDT

2012/07/14 · 03:46

Americas healthcare costs dwarf their defense spending. At 17 pct of GDP it compares to Australia at 9 pct and most Western countries which sit around the 9-10 pct. The outcomes for Americans is not as good on average as for Australians. For the 1 pct things are just great in America.

If America was at 9 pct, Americans would save 1.2 trillion dollars per YEAR.

On June 4 at the MIT Broad Institute in Cambridge Ma, Dr Wah, Chairman of the AMA and several others presented the cost and outcome comparisons and Dr Wah identified at least 1.2 million dollars per year of preventable costs.

Http://www.vimeo.com/channels/nehcen

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do you feel The affordable healthcare act

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do you feel The affordable healthcare act

Will reduce healthcare costs

6 votes

Raise healthcare costs

2 votes

Will not effect costs

3 votes

Price manipulation by Big Oil

David Frenkel

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Saturday February 25, 2012 · 10:31 AM PST

2012/02/25 · 10:31

Check out this video on YouTube:

From the 30 minute mark is her explanation of how the futures exchange ICE which has been set up by the oil industry and Goldman Sachs as an unregulated exchange, manipulates the price of oil.

It is very relevant to the price escalation we are seeing now.

http://www.youtube.com/...

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Do you feel that gas prices are rising because

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Do you feel that gas prices are rising because

Natural market forces?

1 vote

Speculator manipulation of the market?

9 votes

OIl industry market manipulation of supply and markets?

2 votes

Both 2 and 3?

48 votes

Do not know

0 votes

Do not care

0 votes

Big Tent? 1% black vote in GOP South Carolina

David Frenkel

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Tuesday January 31, 2012 · 2:31 PM PST

2012/01/31 · 14:31

The GOP Big Tent was shown for the fraud it is in the South Carolina GOP primary. Less than 1pct black vote when the black population is 27.9% of the SC population versus a national average of 12.6%.

A special shame-out goes to Newt Gingrich who's coining of the "Food Stamp President" epithet during that campaign must go down as a new low, even for him.

One must give full credit to the black population of South Carolina who clearly understand that, large though that well funded GOP tent is, there is no place reserved for them on the inside.

Shame. shame, shame.

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Is the GOP Southern Strategy racist?

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Is the GOP Southern Strategy racist?

Yes

37 votes

1 vote

Do not know

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Do not care

1 vote

Demand Creators ARE the Job Creators

David Frenkel

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Saturday December 24, 2011 · 5:25 AM PST

2011/12/24 · 05:25

In the upside down world of the GOP spin-meisters we must all bow down to, coddle and protect the JOB CREATORS. Give them tax breaks that mean they pay a lower effective rate than the vast numbers of W2 wage earners.

The truth is people who run businesses are there to make a profit by meeting DEMAND of consumers and other businesses and government. Without demand there is no business and when the economy slows down it is because DEMAND has slowed, not becuase JOB CREATORS are in a snit over their tax rates. This is especially true in an economy that is well below capacity.

Henry Ford (that well known socialist) paid his worker three times average wages so they could afford to buy his cars. He understood, no demand, no sales, lower profits.

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What creates jobs?

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What creates jobs?

Buyers of goods and services

14 votes

job creating employers

0 votes

What Obama should say

David Frenkel

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Wednesday December 07, 2011 · 8:27 AM PST

2011/12/07 · 08:27

"When I came into office, I inherited an economy that was not just on the brink of Niagara Falls, but headlong plunging almost to the rocks below, driven there by the unbridled greed and reckless deregulation that the Republicans have the gall still today to claim as 'fiscal prudence' and 'the way to get the economy going again.' Yes, it will get the economy going again--right back over Niagara Falls.

"It was only because we put into place extraordinary measures that we stopped the ship of state smashing onto the rocks, and what you have seen in these past three years is the very difficult process of pulling the economy back up the Falls. And, no, we are not yet in some safe harbor miles upstream, enjoying the rapid growth and low unemployment and massive budget surpluses that my Republican predecessor inherited. But remember: the Bush years of greed and recklessness, of his 'trickle-down-to-the-poor/gush-up-to-the-rich' policies, pulled us out of the safe harbor and plunged us nearly to the rocks: and they want to do it again. DON'T LET THEM."

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Is this the theme the Democrats should adopt?

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Is this the theme the Democrats should adopt?

yes

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not sure

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other themes are stronger

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Just say nein nein nein to 999

David Frenkel

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Sunday October 16, 2011 · 5:41 AM PDT

2011/10/16 · 05:41

This bad GOP bumper sticker slogan masquerading as a serious policy proposal deserves a bumper sticker response. Progressives everywhere should chorus nein, nein, nein to Herman Cain's 999 and avoid complicated (although valid) wonkish rebuttals of 999, which lacks any sound underlying economic and human impact analysis.

When will we ever get a real public debate about how to transform America into a democratic country with income distribution policies and laws that provide incentives to work hard, save prudently and which leave no people behind in poverty?

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Which GOP primary candidate do you feel would be best for you?

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Which GOP primary candidate do you feel would be best for you?

Romney

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Cain

3 votes

Perry

0 votes

Gingrich

0 votes

Huntsman

9 votes

Bachman

0 votes

Santorum

0 votes

Murdoch's Uncle was very different

David Frenkel

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Wednesday July 20, 2011 · 8:13 AM PDT

2011/07/20 · 08:13

It is shocking to me to see how low Rupert Murdoch has sunk over his career in terms of catering and pandering to the dark side of our world.

He came from better stock than that.

I want to share with you this wonderful essay, written by his uncle Sir Walter Murdoch in the dark days of World War 2.

It is both brilliant and uplifting.

I only wish his nephew had continued his fine work,

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Do you feel Rupert Murdoch has helped humanity more than hurt it?

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Do you feel Rupert Murdoch has helped humanity more than hurt it?

Yes

0 votes

17 votes

Really do not know

2 votes

Crossing Zero..Afghanistan War critique and solutions

David Frenkel

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Tuesday June 07, 2011 · 5:33 AM PDT

2011/06/07 · 05:33

"Host David Frenkel interviews the coauthors of the book, Crossing Zero. Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould were the first television journalists to enter Afghanistan in 1981 after the Soviet invasion and filed a report aired by CBS Television at that time.

Since then they have become experts on the region coauthoring two books. In this interview they recap the regional history and are very critical of the current and past US strategy. They describe the kind of strategies that would more likely to lead to peace and why they would be more likely to work, based on the cultural and ethnic regions."

http://vimeo.com/...

This link takes you to the entire television program. It will let you preview what will go to air in two weeks time. The program runs 1 hour and 20 minutes and explains the complex range of conflicting territory claims through the use of several maps.

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Is the USA Afpak strategy?

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Is the USA Afpak strategy?

on the right track?

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based on bad analysis?

0 votes

Doomed to fail?

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Both 2 and 3

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GOP Greatest Obstructionist Party

David Frenkel

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Thursday May 26, 2011 · 4:46 AM PDT

2011/05/26 · 04:46

Today's GOP stands in the way of every vital shift in American social, economic and environmental strategy needed to reenergize and reshape Americas future. It has become the slave of every monied interest with a reason to protect their status quo.

Even when the Democrats had a wide majority in both houses plus control of the White House the GOP would not give any quarter. They still felt their mandate to obstruct was real and they used the fillibuster like never before.

I fear that until America has its Spring with millions taking to the street to demand reform of such basics as campaign finance, secure voting and an end to endless spending on the military, America's future and the future of our next generation does not look optimistic.

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What will it take to make strategic change possible in America?

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What will it take to make strategic change possible in America?

Democratic control of Congress?

4 votes

Revolution?

2 votes

Millions of peaceful street marchers?

10 votes

Other

0 votes

Hamas: War criminals all.

David Frenkel

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Sunday January 11, 2009 · 6:29 PM PST

2009/01/11 · 18:29

iThe United Nations Charter makes wars of aggression a crime. Various treaties make using civilians as a shield a war crime, using civilian buildings to launch attacks a war crime and fighting without uniforms a war crime, firing weapons that deliberately target civilians a war crime and therefore suicide bombing is also a war crime.

By all these laws and treaties, the mere election of Hamas as the government of Gaza was a declaration of a war of agression, since their charter makes the destruction of Israel a central plank. Their every action is a war crime.

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Are Hamas actions war crimes?

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Are Hamas actions war crimes?

Yes?

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No?

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Do not know?

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