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to 'Destroy the Media' if Nothing Else

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JOHN BINDER 30 Aug 2018


New York Times best-selling author and populist conservative columnist Ann Coulter says she just wants President Trump to “destroy the media” – even if nothing else is accomplished by his administration.


In an exclusive interview on SiriusXM Patriot’s Breitbart News Sunday, Coulter told Breitbart News’s Deputy Political Editor Amanda House that she wants Trump to continue to “destroy” the establishment media, specifically exposing its distaste that the president tweeted about the killing of white farmers occurring in South Africa.

Coulter said:

The more I look at some of the things that Trump is doing, okay maybe he’s never going to act like a president… But I just want him there to destroy things. I want him to destroy the swamp. I want him to destroy the media. And I … want him to expose where the Democratic Party is going with [things like] their chant ‘No borders, no wall, no USA at all,’ [with] Governor Cuomo saying America was never great, [with] New York Times hiring Sarah Jeong who just tweets hatred and venom towards white men.

And now with the South Africa tweet, the media is angry because they want the genocide of white farmers to go through. It’s stunning how Trump really brings out the best of them. And this constant exposure, this constant taunting of them. As much as I wish someone would tap Trump on the shoulder every morning and remind him ‘You’re president. You’re not limited to tweeting. You have lots of powers at your disposal. How about you do some of the stuff you ran on.’

As much as it annoys me that he doesn’t seem to realize he is president, the destruction he is wreaking, maybe we need to destroy before we can rebuild. [Emphasis added]
 
BREAKING. President Trump Cancels Federal Pay Hikes
Posted at 3:30 pm on August 30, 2018 by streiff

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Federal, non-military employees were scheduled to receive a 2.1% pay increase in January 2019, but that may not happen now.

“Under current law, locality pay increases averaging 25.70 percent, costing $25 billion, would go into effect in January 2019, in addition to a 2.1 percent across-the-board increase for the base General Schedule. We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases,” Trump’s letter said.

Currently annual federal pay increases are baked into the system. By law, there is an annual increase of 2.1% and a locality increase of about 25% of that meaning that the average fed gets an cost of living increase of about 2.5 per year. (Federal base and locality pay scales.)

The current state of play is that the House budget includes no pay increase and the Senate bill includes a 1.9% increase. If no pay increase is specified in the budget, then the president has authority to modify the annual pay increase.





This is what President Trump has to say:

Title 5, United States Code, authorizes me to implement alternative plans for pay adjustments for civilian Federal employees covered by the General Schedule and certain other pay systems if, because of “national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare,” I view the increases that would otherwise take effect as inappropriate.

Under current law, locality pay increases averaging 25.70 percent, costing $25 billion, would go into effect in January 2019, in addition to a 2.1 percent across-the-board increase for the base General Schedule. We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases. Accordingly, I have determined that it is appropriate to exercise my authority to set alternative across-the-board and locality pay adjustments for 2019 pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5303(b) and 5304a.

Specifically, I have determined that for 2019, both across‑the‑board pay increases and locality pay increases will be set at zero. These alternative pay plan decisions will not materially affect our ability to attract and retain a well‑qualified Federal workforce.

As noted in my Budget for Fiscal Year 2019, the cost of employing the Federal workforce is significant. In light of our Nation’s fiscal situation, Federal employee pay must be performance-based, and aligned strategically toward recruiting, retaining, and rewarding high-performing Federal employees and those with critical skill sets. Across-the-board pay increases and locality pay increases, in particular, have long-term fixed costs, yet fail to address existing pay disparities or target mission critical recruitment and retention goals.



I don’t know about the “national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare” stuff, but I definitely agree that this is the correct decision and it sends the right message.

The federal workforce is a pampered workforce operating under rules much closer to what would would find in a union shop in the northeast or upper midwest in the 1950s or 1960s. Once you’ve been employed for three years you have tenure which means that it is a difficult, time consuming, and very certain process to fire someone who is not convicted of committing a felony while at work. Regular in-grade increases happen unless a supervisor can document they are not deserved. The federal system has one of the last defined-benefit pension plans in existence in addition to a 401k equivalent where the government matches up to 3% of your base on a dollar-for-dollar basis and the next 2% on a 50% basis meaning contributing 5% of your base gets you a 9% total contribution.

There is always a lot of bellyaching about “pay comparability” by feds but the fact that they aren’t searching out higher paying jobs in the private sector is the tell. Tenure and a defined-benefit pension have a value that offsets those instances where higher private sector wages exist for the same work.

And, of course, there is the added bonus that the federal workforce is virtually an arm of the Democrat party.

The best case here is if the conference committee quietly drops the Senate pay increase and lets Trump take the heat.

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Sheriff Joe said:
BREAKING. President Trump Cancels Federal Pay Hikes
Posted at 3:30 pm on August 30, 2018 by streiff

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Image via Flickr Creative Commons by Dustin Iskandar https://goo.gl/WTewNU licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0/Original



Federal, non-military employees were scheduled to receive a 2.1% pay increase in January 2019, but that may not happen now.

“Under current law, locality pay increases averaging 25.70 percent, costing $25 billion, would go into effect in January 2019, in addition to a 2.1 percent across-the-board increase for the base General Schedule. We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases,” Trump’s letter said.

Currently annual federal pay increases are baked into the system. By law, there is an annual increase of 2.1% and a locality increase of about 25% of that meaning that the average fed gets an cost of living increase of about 2.5 per year. (Federal base and locality pay scales.)

The current state of play is that the House budget includes no pay increase and the Senate bill includes a 1.9% increase. If no pay increase is specified in the budget, then the president has authority to modify the annual pay increase.





This is what President Trump has to say:

Title 5, United States Code, authorizes me to implement alternative plans for pay adjustments for civilian Federal employees covered by the General Schedule and certain other pay systems if, because of “national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare,” I view the increases that would otherwise take effect as inappropriate.

Under current law, locality pay increases averaging 25.70 percent, costing $25 billion, would go into effect in January 2019, in addition to a 2.1 percent across-the-board increase for the base General Schedule. We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases. Accordingly, I have determined that it is appropriate to exercise my authority to set alternative across-the-board and locality pay adjustments for 2019 pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 5303(b) and 5304a.

Specifically, I have determined that for 2019, both across‑the‑board pay increases and locality pay increases will be set at zero. These alternative pay plan decisions will not materially affect our ability to attract and retain a well‑qualified Federal workforce.

As noted in my Budget for Fiscal Year 2019, the cost of employing the Federal workforce is significant. In light of our Nation’s fiscal situation, Federal employee pay must be performance-based, and aligned strategically toward recruiting, retaining, and rewarding high-performing Federal employees and those with critical skill sets. Across-the-board pay increases and locality pay increases, in particular, have long-term fixed costs, yet fail to address existing pay disparities or target mission critical recruitment and retention goals.



I don’t know about the “national emergency or serious economic conditions affecting the general welfare” stuff, but I definitely agree that this is the correct decision and it sends the right message.

The federal workforce is a pampered workforce operating under rules much closer to what would would find in a union shop in the northeast or upper midwest in the 1950s or 1960s. Once you’ve been employed for three years you have tenure which means that it is a difficult, time consuming, and very certain process to fire someone who is not convicted of committing a felony while at work. Regular in-grade increases happen unless a supervisor can document they are not deserved. The federal system has one of the last defined-benefit pension plans in existence in addition to a 401k equivalent where the government matches up to 3% of your base on a dollar-for-dollar basis and the next 2% on a 50% basis meaning contributing 5% of your base gets you a 9% total contribution.

There is always a lot of bellyaching about “pay comparability” by feds but the fact that they aren’t searching out higher paying jobs in the private sector is the tell. Tenure and a defined-benefit pension have a value that offsets those instances where higher private sector wages exist for the same work.

And, of course, there is the added bonus that the federal workforce is virtually an arm of the Democrat party.

The best case here is if the conference committee quietly drops the Senate pay increase and lets Trump take the heat.

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As noted in my Budget for Fiscal Year 2019, the cost of employing the Federal workforce is significant. In light of our Nation’s fiscal situation, Federal employee pay must be performance-based, and aligned strategically toward recruiting, retaining, and rewarding high-performing Federal employees and those with critical skill sets. Across-the-board pay increases and locality pay increases, in particular, have long-term fixed costs, yet fail to address existing pay disparities or target mission critical recruitment and retention goals.
 
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The best element of this mugshot is the height marker at just over 6 feet. He’s true height. Doubt me? Check him standing next to Jeb Bush at one of the 2016 debates. Bush is 6’3”. Trump is lucky if he’s close to 6’2”. His vanity and commitment to denigrating adversaries who are overweight based on height standards leaves him committed to claiming to be 6’3” so his weight doesn’t tip into the “obese” range, where it is painfully obvious he has spilled over and into it some years ago.
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Trump Says He Will Pull U.S. Out of WTO ‘If They Don't Shape Up’

Aug 30 2018, 8:23 PMAug 30 2018, 8:57 PMAugust 30 2018, 8:23 PMAugust 30 2018, 8:57 PM


(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he would pull out of the World Trade Organization if it doesn’t treat the U.S. better, continuing his criticism of a cornerstone of the international trading system.

“If they don’t shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Trump said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg News at the White House.

A U.S. withdrawal from the WTO would severely undermine the post-World War II multilateral trading system that the U.S. helped build.

Trump said last month that the U.S. is at a big disadvantage from being treated “very badly” by the WTO for many years and that the Geneva-based body needs to “change their ways.”

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has said allowing China into the WTO in 2001 was a mistake. He has long called for the U.S. to take a more aggressive approach to the WTO, arguing that it was incapable of dealing with a non-market economy such as China.

Lighthizer has accused the WTO dispute-settlement system of interfering with U.S. sovereignty, particularly on anti-dumping cases. The U.S. has been blocking the appointment of judges to the WTO’s appeals body, raising the possibility that it could cease to function in the coming years.

©2018 Bloomberg L.P.
 
Sheriff Joe said:
Trump Says He Will Pull U.S. Out of WTO ‘If They Don't Shape Up’

Aug 30 2018, 8:23 PMAug 30 2018, 8:57 PMAugust 30 2018, 8:23 PMAugust 30 2018, 8:57 PM


(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he would pull out of the World Trade Organization if it doesn’t treat the U.S. better, continuing his criticism of a cornerstone of the international trading system.

“If they don’t shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Trump said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg News at the White House.

A U.S. withdrawal from the WTO would severely undermine the post-World War II multilateral trading system that the U.S. helped build.

Trump said last month that the U.S. is at a big disadvantage from being treated “very badly” by the WTO for many years and that the Geneva-based body needs to “change their ways.”

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has said allowing China into the WTO in 2001 was a mistake. He has long called for the U.S. to take a more aggressive approach to the WTO, arguing that it was incapable of dealing with a non-market economy such as China.

Lighthizer has accused the WTO dispute-settlement system of interfering with U.S. sovereignty, particularly on anti-dumping cases. The U.S. has been blocking the appointment of judges to the WTO’s appeals body, raising the possibility that it could cease to function in the coming years.

©2018 Bloomberg L.P.
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Trump will demolish our credit rating with his ignorance and naiveté.
 
SO MUCH WINNING!

President Donald Trump informed Congress on Thursday that he is canceling pay raises due in January for most civilian federal employees, citing budget constraints.
 
Since taking office, Trump has blocked a number of people for criticizing him or even just cracking jokes at his expense, including celebrities such as model Chrissy Teigenand author Stephen King.

However, in May, a federal judge said Trump’s blocks were unconstitutional as his Twitter feed was a public forum which “has been used in the course of the appointment of officers (including cabinet secretaries), the removal of officers and the conduct of foreign policy.”
 
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