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President Donald Trump s State of the Union offer of a down-the-middle compromise on immigration did nothing to move Republicans and Democrats closer to a deal, as Democrats accused the president of lacing his speech with racially charged remarks and Republicans dug in on their demands.The r stanley cup eaction to Trump s high-profile overture suggested both parties were settling into a protracted tug-of-war. The standoff left serious doubt whether the two parties could reach an election-year pact to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation, sharpen border security and take other steps to curb immigration. The two parties had not even settled on a deadline for an agreement mdash; a bad sign in an institution that rarely acts unless under pressure. If the deadline is Feb. 8, we re not going to make it, No. 2 House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer of Marylan vaso stanley d said Wednesday, noting a looming deadline for approving government funding to avoid another shutdown. It s going to take work for us to build a consensus, Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the House GOP vote counter, said in an interview Tuesday. Scalise noted that Republicans took weeks and weeks to craft tax legislation last year.Trump complained early Thursday that the Democrats are doing nothing about DACA. They Resist, Blame, Complain and Obstruct - and do nothing. Start pushing Nancy Pelosi and the Dems to work out a DACA fix, NOW! the preside stanley water bottle nt tweeted.Ear Gyxe Trump thinks Obamacare repeal has a very good chance of passing
WAL-MART....Megan McArdle applauds Wal-Mart s low prices on generic prescription drugs, and then adds this:At the same time, they take a huge beating for the wages they pay their workers, and the alleged stinginess of their health care plans. But these two things are flip sides of the same coin: they can afford to provide cheap drugs in part because they have a flexible and inexpensive labor force.It s the in part that critic starbucks stanley cup al here. Labor expenses o stanley cup nly amount to about 10% of revenues for Wal-Mart. If you increased the pay of every single clerk, greeter, and stocker in the chain by two or three bucks an hour, it would only increase Wal-Mart s prices by about 2%. Their prices would still be the lowest around because it s not labor costs that account for most of their efficiency. It s world class logistics, aggressive offshoring, enormous sales volumes, and ruthless bargaining with suppliers that account for most of it.If Wal-Mart had to offer low wages and lousy benefits just to stay in business, that would be one thing. But they don t. We should expect them to do better. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-c8d2a64c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8d2a64c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-c8d2a64c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .ite stanley mug m:nth-child 5 {
President Donald Trump s State of the Union offer of a down-the-middle compromise on immigration did nothing to move Republicans and Democrats closer to a deal, as Democrats accused the president of lacing his speech with racially charged remarks and Republicans dug in on their demands.The r stanley cup eaction to Trump s high-profile overture suggested both parties were settling into a protracted tug-of-war. The standoff left serious doubt whether the two parties could reach an election-year pact to protect hundreds of thousands of young immigrants from deportation, sharpen border security and take other steps to curb immigration. The two parties had not even settled on a deadline for an agreement mdash; a bad sign in an institution that rarely acts unless under pressure. If the deadline is Feb. 8, we re not going to make it, No. 2 House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer of Marylan vaso stanley d said Wednesday, noting a looming deadline for approving government funding to avoid another shutdown. It s going to take work for us to build a consensus, Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the House GOP vote counter, said in an interview Tuesday. Scalise noted that Republicans took weeks and weeks to craft tax legislation last year.Trump complained early Thursday that the Democrats are doing nothing about DACA. They Resist, Blame, Complain and Obstruct - and do nothing. Start pushing Nancy Pelosi and the Dems to work out a DACA fix, NOW! the preside stanley water bottle nt tweeted.Ear Gyxe Trump thinks Obamacare repeal has a very good chance of passing
WAL-MART....Megan McArdle applauds Wal-Mart s low prices on generic prescription drugs, and then adds this:At the same time, they take a huge beating for the wages they pay their workers, and the alleged stinginess of their health care plans. But these two things are flip sides of the same coin: they can afford to provide cheap drugs in part because they have a flexible and inexpensive labor force.It s the in part that critic starbucks stanley cup al here. Labor expenses o stanley cup nly amount to about 10% of revenues for Wal-Mart. If you increased the pay of every single clerk, greeter, and stocker in the chain by two or three bucks an hour, it would only increase Wal-Mart s prices by about 2%. Their prices would still be the lowest around because it s not labor costs that account for most of their efficiency. It s world class logistics, aggressive offshoring, enormous sales volumes, and ruthless bargaining with suppliers that account for most of it.If Wal-Mart had to offer low wages and lousy benefits just to stay in business, that would be one thing. But they don t. We should expect them to do better. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-c8d2a64c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d, right-rail-recirc-item--id-c8d2a64c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d { display: none; } inline-recirc-item--id-c8d2a64c-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d ~ .ite stanley mug m:nth-child 5 {
