Manufacturer Optimism Hits Record High After Tax Reform Plan Revealed
President Trump touts tax reform proposal at National Association of Manufacturers meeting today according to a survey from the National Association of Manufacturers.

Optimism for small and large manufacturers over the last three economic quarters has averaged a record high of 90.87 percent, which is the highest seen in 20 years. It's also significantly higher than 59.77 percent optimism seen in the first three quarters of 2016.

The survey found that 64.3 percent of manufacturers said the promise of tax reform would allow them to expand their business, 57.3 percent said they would hire more workers, and 52.2 percent said they would increase wages and benefits for employees.

The survey results were presented at the National Association of Manufacturers board of directors meeting Friday where both manufacturing members and President Trump touted tax reform and the framework that was released on Wednesday.

"We are so excited, so optimistic—our nation is a coiled spring and we're about to launch," said Drew Greenblatt, president and owner of Marlin Steel Wire Products. "Our company is buying one million dollars’ worth of new equipment this week to take advantage of this wonderful new tax reform."

"That means new jobs will be created in our city," he said. "That means we'll be more efficient, more effective, and our employees will have the best tools in the world."

"Manufacturing jobs are solid middle-class jobs, our people pay far more taxes than they consume," he said. "We're seeing right now a huge surge of optimism among manufacturers from relaxing regulatory burdensome regulations that we've seen over the last six to eight years."

"Manufacturers are more optimistic now than they've ever been in the history of manufacturing," Gimmel said. "The government is going to quit stacking things against us in terms of our ability to be globally competitive, and they're going to start getting on our side and give us the tools we need to really compete globally."

President Trump said the tax reform framework will make America more competitive globally and will be best for everyday hard-working American families.

"Manufacturing confidence is at an all-time high, America is finally back on the right track," Trump said. "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to pass tax reform that is pro-growth, pro-jobs, pro-worker, pro-family, and pro-America."

"We will cut taxes on American businesses to restore our competitive edge and create more jobs and higher wages for the American worker," said the president. "When it comes to business tax, we are now dead last among developed nations. We have the highest tax of any nation in the world—our rate is the least competitive rate."

"It is time to go from dead last to pretty much the front of the pack," he said. "We will dramatically cut our business tax rate so that American companies and workers can compete with our foreign competitors. This is a revolutionary change and the biggest winners will be everyday working families as jobs start pouring into our country."

I like the way he showed that fly who was boss.

Sorry but.
Just,"Plenty of sources" or "several studies", sounds like a baseless agenda to me.

There are no studies to prove your post? So the OP is a baseless
story just to bash Cops?

The above post is why I like Trump.

If the OP is based on "several studies", we need to know about
them. Which ones are they? Otherwise the OP is baseless.

It does sound interesting. What studies produced this?

Muslims will always choose their religion over your life. Infidel!

Yes, I guess it does.
I haven't watched a football game in over three years. I don't buy
any sports endorsed products either. Just me.

Corruption scandal threatens eligibility for college players

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal fraud and bribery scandal shaking college basketball has led to a key question of what will happen to recruits who received money linked to attending certain schools. It could mean the permanent loss of college eligibility for some players for violating a core NCAA rule prohibiting improper benefits. But there's also the chance that some ineligible players could go through the NCAA's reinstatement process and eventually play after sitting out some games.

Louisville men's basketball coach Rick Pitino leaves Grawemeyer Hall after having a meeting with the university's interim president Greg Postel, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, in Louisville. Ky. Louisville announced Wednesday that they have placed Pitino and athletic director Tom Jurich on administrative leave amid a federal bribery investigation. (Michael Clevenger/The Courier-Journal via AP)

September 28, 2017

"Some of them will possibly not play depending on how large the benefits or inducements were," said Michael L. Buckner, a Florida-based attorney who has worked on infractions cases. "Others, it's going to impact them some, some of them may have to be withheld (from games). But I think overall, they're going to have that stigma that they were involved in this fraud and corruption scandal."

The case went public Tuesday, with federal prosecutors announcing that 10 men — including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches at power-conference programs — were charged with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes' choice of schools, shoe sponsors and agents.

Prosecutors also said at least three top high school recruits were promised payments of as much as $150,000, using money from Adidas, to attend two universities sponsored by the company. Court papers didn't name those schools but contained enough details to identify them as Louisville and Miami.
One of the coaches arrested, Oklahoma State assistant Lamont Evans, was fired Thursday. He is accused of taking $2,000 a month in bribes to funnel athletes to certain agents. In addition, Louisville interim president Greg Postel said Wednesday that one student-athlete has been informed he will not practice or play for the university until the investigation is resolved. Postel and court documents didn't name the athlete but the complaint had enough details to make clear investigators were referring to 6-foot-7 freshman Brian Bowen.

They wont be takin a knee anytime soon.

Problem is, if this nut explodes a Hydrogen Bomb in the atmosphere, it
will affect everyone including US. An EMP Pulse produced could knock
out every thing. Within a year, they say at least 90% of Americans would
die.
That of course would mean the end of kneeling at football games too.

Dust has it right, unless we have space shuttle service to a distant planet, all will die eventually. I would hope for a direct hit too.

yes, and a horn....Ricola!

That and a whole lot of makeup



"It's HUGE!"

Yea but, Jerry Jones is still ugly

Greed. What happens when money comes in.
On the good side, tax dollars weren't involved.

Jerry Jones saw it as an opportunity to get his ugly *** face
on national tv.

Football is big bidness

Adidas exec, 4 coaches charged in college bribery scheme

NEW YORK — In one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men -- including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches -- were charged Tuesday with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes' choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, even tailors.

Some of the most explosive allegations appeared to involve Louisville, one of college basketball's biggest powerhouses, which is already on NCAA probation over a sex scandal.

Federal prosecutors said at least three top high school recruits were promised payments of as much as $150,000 -- using money supplied by Adidas -- to attend two universities sponsored by the athletic shoe company. Court papers didn't name the schools but contained enough details to identify them as Louisville and Miami.

"The picture of college basketball painted by the charges is not a pretty one," said acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim, adding that the defendants were "circling blue-chip prospects like coyotes" and exploited them to enrich themselves.

Prosecutors said that while some of the bribe money went to athletes and their families, some went to coaches, to get them to use their influence over their potentially NBA-bound players.

The coaches charged are Chuck Person of Auburn, Emanuel Richardson of Arizona, Tony Bland of Southern California and Lamont Evans of Oklahoma State. Person and Evans were immediately suspended.

Those charged also include James Gatto, director of global sports marketing for basketball at Adidas; Rashan Michel, a maker of custom suits for some of the NBA's biggest stars; and various financial advisers and managers.

NCAA President Mark Emmert condemned the alleged misconduct, saying in a statement, "Coaches hold a unique position of trust with student-athletes and their families, and these bribery allegations, if true, suggest an extraordinary and despicable breach of that trust."

Since 2015, the FBI has been investigating the influence of money on coaches and players in the NCAA. Kim noted that a special FBI hotline has been set up and asked anyone aware of additional corruption to come forward.

Prosecutors said the coaches took bribes to use their "enormous influence" to steer players toward certain financial advisers and agents.

Most if not all of the 10 defendants were under arrest. Lawyers for Gatto and three of the coaches did not immediately respond to requests for comment. It was not clear whether Evans had an attorney.
Person, associate head coach at Auburn, was drafted by the Indiana Pacers in 1986 and played for five NBA teams over 13 seasons.

Prosecutors said Person accepted about $91,500 in bribes from Blazer in 2016 to steer clients to him when they reached the NBA. Some payments were alleged to have been arranged by Michel, a former NBA referee turned high-end clothier.

Person was quoted by prosecutors as telling one player: "The most important part is that you ... don't say nothing to anybody ... don't share with your sisters, don't share with any of the teammates, that's very important `cause this is a violation ... of rules. But this is how the NBA players get it done."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaabk/adidas-exec-4-coaches-charged-in-college-bribery-scheme/ar-AAsuhOi?li=BBnbfcL

I've seen dogs and 8 year old's doing the same thing,
cept they don't make millions.

Points Msharmony to this

The Player Contract

But beyond the Constitution, contract law allows any NFL team to terminate any player for behavior it deems to be injurious to the organization or the league.

Every professional player must sign the standard NFL player contract. In it, the player promises as follows:

“To conduct himself on and off the field with appropriate recognition of the fact that the success of professional football depends largely on public respect for and approval of those associated with the game” (Paragraph 2). “ If player has engaged in personal conduct reasonably judged by the Club to adversely affect or reflect on the Club, then the Club may terminate this contract” (Paragraph 11).

This language makes it clear that a team will decide whether a player’s personal conduct adversely affects the club. Since it is a subjective standard, NFL owners have enormous latitude and discretion to fire a player for reasons of conduct.

But that is not all. The collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the players’ union and approved by the players themselves authorizes suspension or termination “for conduct detrimental to the integrity of, or public confidence in, the game of professional football” (Article 46).