continue to go back. charles: you know, david, i look at the numbers every single day as you do, so i know wages were really coming on strong in real life, against inflation, prior to the pandemic. i know that this year, every single month, wages when you add in inflation, have been negative and i think this is what real people are feeling. they may grill a steak tomorrow for dad s day, but they are going to be worrying if they can do it again next year. david, you follow the numbers, what are they telling you? well, i mean, some of the stuff is just in sane. wages were growing significantly in 2017, 2018, and 2019, it s in disputable, but i don t agree that the inflation issue is the big concern. danielle talked about the fiscal policy side and i m more focused there, because i think it s in excusable that we have 9.3 million job openings and we can t fill the jobs, so for someone to come on tv and talk about how there s these great opportunities of wages going up, when people are b
the united states is a country fractured into parts. i think that s dindisputable at this part. an author explains how the united states has become fractured into four distinct groups. he s also author of last best hope:america in crisis and renewal. george, i want you to go through the four groups and explain what they are. first you talk about free america. america is the america that began during the reagan years. each of the four had its turn at dominating our politics, and free america is the thinking of low taxes, deregulation, setting business free of government intervention, and it sees americans essentially as
Maxwell: The man behind a town s name
16 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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The district named after George Maxwell is on course to be renamed Pakaraka. Photo / File
Whanganui Chronicle
By: Dave Scoullar
In Whanganui District Council discussions George Maxwell has been described as probably not the nicest guy. Whether he was or not it s indisputable that he played a prominent part in an infamous event. Just over 150 years later the district named after him is on course to revert to its earlier name of Pakaraka.
So who was Maxwell and how did it come to this? He was born in Alloa, Scotland, and arrived as a young boy in Wellington in March 1852 on the Agra with his parents John and Catherine Maxwell.
people. but today this president has forced us into a serious debate. we re talking about a president who used the power of the presidency for his own political gain. risking our national security and putting the integrity of the next election at risk. it s a sad day when a president shows complete disrespect for congress as a coequal branch of government and for the american people who elected us. we collected the evidence, and the facts are the disputable. we all took an oath to protect and defend our constitution. we have the solemn responsibility to hold this president accountable because it s our job. i urge my colleagues to live up to our responsibility and show our fellow americans that no one, not even the president is above the law. and i yield. gentle lady yields back. thank you, madam speaker. at the moment i yield to the gentle lady from oklahoma. i ask to enter into the
the gentle lady is recognized for one and a half minutes. i come to impeachment with deep sadness. the facts of this case are painful and indisputable. we know that the president illegally held up con gregzly appropriated aid to the ukraine. we know he conditioned the release of the aid on president zelensky opening an investigation based on a debunked conspiracy theory about his political rival and foreign interference in the 2016 election. we also know that the president has actively blocked congressional attempts to determine the extent of his misconduct by ordering executive branch officials to defy subpoenas and withhold information. despite the unprecedented obstruction from the president, the evidence in this case is powerful enough that to delay this vote any further would risk