Wednesday's video: People will vote in a week. So far, it looks good for the GOP in Texas. Around the country, the House could go either way but the Senate will stay GOP.......click to watch.......... https://t.co/Bex6hdRBon via @YouTube— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 31, 2018
The “birthright citizenship” debate: https://t.co/GSHZmY9Y4a via @YouTube— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 30, 2018
A couple of ideas for Bolsonaro: https://t.co/NW7II1uqSY via @YouTube— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 29, 2018
The Havana Consulting Group, based in Miami, has estimated that in 2017 more than 48,000 Cubans made an average of 11.5 trips abroad to buy merchandise. The value of that activity far surpasses the foreign investments that the Cuban government has managed to attract to the Mariel special development zone — barely $265 million in 2017.Havana Consulting has estimated more than $2 billion may leave the country with the Cuban shoppers, about the same amount that the Cuban government estimates it needs in foreign investment per year.The Cuban government “is not taking advantage… of the large amount of hard currency that these businesspeople generate, compared to the drought of hard currency faced by state companies and the central government administration, which has forced the government to drastically reduce the purchase of raw materials abroad and led to its failure to pay many providers,” Havana Consulting President Emilio Morales wrote in a report.The $2.39 billion that Morales estimates leaves the country winds up abroad with airlines, hotels, drivers, shop owners and the companies that ship packages to Cuba.Many Cuban business owners also have managed to obtain residence in the United States, Spain and other countries, which allows them to buy properties and obtain loans and credits that they use to finance businesses on the island…But the government allows all that money to seep out of Cuba because of its ambivalent attitude toward the private sector, experts say.
Sunday's video: The silliness of the O’Rourke endorsements........ https://t.co/ktPYRhHXEz via @YouTube— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 28, 2018
The second quarter might have been the peak quarterly growth rate of this business cycle because it was when the biggest impact of the Trump tax cuts hit the economy. But growth remains at a solid clip. The third quarter is the second-fastest pace in four years, after the previous quarter’s torrid pace.And economists are forecasting close to a 3% growth rate for the fourth quarter. The outlook for 2019 is less certain.
Reagan and this week in 1983....We remember the Beirut bombing and invasion of Grenada.....click to watch....... https://t.co/7Iuxovd7ul via @YouTube— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 27, 2018
For its report, the Media Research Center did a lot of visual spadework. It viewed some 1,007 evening news stories about the Trump White House on ABC, CBS and NBC from June 1 to Sept. 30.That’s the equivalent of about 32.7 hours of coverage, by TV standards an eternity of news time.What they found was, as Trump himself might say, sad: “Over the summer, the broadcast networks have continued to pound Donald Trump and his team with the most hostile coverage of a president in TV news history – 92% negative, vs. just 8% positive.”
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 45% of all Likely U.S. Voters think that when most reporters write about a congressional race, they are trying to help the Democratic candidate.Just 11% think they’re trying to help the Republican instead.Only 35% think most reporters are just trying to report the news in an unbiased manner.
The media and the tone of our politics: https://t.co/BS04rvirFr via @YouTube— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 26, 2018
When, in the course of human events, a people become so divided among themselves that they can no longer engage in meaningful political discourse or even remain civil to one another, it is time to take bold steps forward.
O’Rourke is no conservative Democrat.His positions on taxes, immigration, the judiciary, federal regulations and health care are further to the left than many statewide voters would like.But he is shattering expectations in a state where Democrats haven’t won a statewide race in decades.The dollars he has raised and the number of supporters he has garnered are evidence of an embedded hunger in this state and country for a campaign that’s based on unifying communities.In the divisive times in which we live, we believe that tone and leadership are the top issues with which to judge these candidates’ tenures in office.So we’re placing a bet on Beto.
Red state Democrats screaming: Why a caravan two weeks before election day?— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 26, 2018
The packages and too much selective indignation: https://t.co/4RUSLxbNTc via @YouTube— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 25, 2018
Democratic leaders want their members to stay silent.And there’s one thing about silence.“Chi tace acconsente,” says my barber, Raffaele Raia. “He who is silent says ‘yes’. The silence is the consent.”And so, whatever you call this, it may just be the event that finally compels Americans to think long and hard about why a sovereign nation would even bother to have borders at all.But calling the mass of people moving through Central America a caravan is just a bit too precious, isn’t it?Depending on your politics, you’ve probably already called it something.Or, you may have followed the example of Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi or Chuck Schumer, who’ve found a nice pile of warm sand and stuck their heads in there.
One of the short stories on the Times’ online Book Review page – to be published in Sunday’s print edition – is titled, “How it Ends,” by Zoe Sharp – a chilling story about a drunken Russian’s plot to murder the president with a Makarov pistol. Sharp’s particular story doesn’t mention Trump by name, but it’s no secret as the collection of stories is headlined, “Five novelists imagine Trump’s next chapter.”
The Democrats and silence about the caravan: https://t.co/REROw9CsdQ via @YouTube— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 24, 2018
The frontrunner in Brazil’s presidential election — far-right former army captain Jair Bolsonaro — gave a fiery and confrontational speech to supporters on Sunday in which he said he would purge the country of left-wing “criminals”.“We are the majority. We are the real Brazil. Together, we will build a new nation,” he said. “These red criminals will be banished from our homeland.”The speech pleased supporters but sent a chilling message to political rivals and raised further concerns about how Bolsonaro would rule in Brazil.“Bolsonaro is doubling down on his campaign strategy,” said Matias Spektor, a professor of international relations at the Getulio Vargas Foundation in Sao Paulo.“This is an election about change and anger.”
The Democrats want to talk health care but the caravan spoiled that plan. Illegal immigration and border security are in the minds of many voters today. Wonder who planned this caravan 2 weeks before the election? Did they seriously think that it would hurt Pres. Trump?— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 24, 2018
Tuesday's video: It looks like Bolsonaro in Brazil,,,,We hear that Mr. Bolsonaro is leading in the polls. The election is on Sunday....click to watch...... https://t.co/PBfuL4Ba9Q via @YouTube— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) October 23, 2018