Oct. 11, 2017
Good morning from Washington, where the left is in an uproar over the Trump administration's plans to start rolling back the Clean Power Plan. Nick Loris explains why the plan wouldn't have significantly helped the environment, but would have hurt your pocketbook. Is the Northeast about to start prioritizing workers over unions? Kevin Mooney has the scoop on the Delaware county gearing up to start the revolution. Plus: Bill Walton on Washington's entitlements spending problem, Walter Williams on the inanity leftist professors are pushing at colleges, and Kelsey Harkness on the direction liberal feminists want to see our country go.
"We have to create opportunities. Right to work is a tool we need to compete for jobs," says David Genshaw, mayor of Seaford, Delaware.
Feminist economists are calling for a massive expansion in government benefits, from universal child care to universal health care plans that cover abortion, birth control, sterilization, fertility, and surrogacy.
Environmentally, the climate impact of the Clean Power Plan, which the Trump administration is rolling back, would have been pointless.
The federal government spends $4 trillion per year. It takes in $3.3 trillion in taxes and fees and thus runs a deficit of about $650 billion.
President Trump's letter to Congress calls for closing loopholes on illegal immigrants to make deportations easier, and to fund another 370 immigration judges to expedite court cases.
The multiculturalist and diversity crowd seems to suggest that race or sex is an achievement. That's just plain nonsense.
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