Thanks for the link. I can quibble with some of the details, but the approach makes sense.
I do like the idea placing more of the burden on the states where the voters are in closer proximity to the politicians. The voters can get much of what they want and can afford.
Everyone likes free stuff which is why all excesses should be purged from federal expenditures. The more federal dollars available, the more that free stuff costs.
A lot of seniors are well off and self-supporting. Incentives to keep them that way are needed. As I've said before, many of us require twenty years notice to plan for what we want and need in the future. And then we can shoulder more of the burden.
I agree that the two parties are the uniparty, that the bill will pass with slight variations, and that our debt will destroy us. But I have never heard of Trump believing Biden was a corpse and don't believe it. As far as the same old mantra about the John Birch Society, Red Scare, the McCarthyism charges it's so old. It is the left wing professors who have been indoctrinating university and college students for many decades with that propaganda. As it turns out, what the Society said about the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.N. and the NWO is true. Further, McCarthy wasn't so far off track. Fascists and Communists use character assassination and labeling to shut down free speech. They also throw the same charges out repeatedly so that they become the forever believed lies.
Having agreement on some basic principles does not a uniparty make.
Trump just tweeted/Truthed it the other day.
The John Birchers were just racist a-holes, and there's still plenty of proudly racist a-holes out there - I've had the misfortune of interacting with them elsewhere.
And you can tell that all they care about is how many brown people are around by how much they don't care about anything else: just look at Stephen Miller pulling law enforcement from their necessary criminal enforcement tasks/investigation in order to deport as many people as possible - not criminals, but just anyone that they can.
First, Steve, congratulations on your accurate prediction that two super egos, Trump and Musk, would have a falling out within a year. Second, while I can't agree with everything in this article, it certainly contains a lot of well-presented food for thought.
I can't agree with Mr. Trump that the 2020 election results was a political scandal. The election was close but not close enough to think illegal votes and counting changed the results. I do think that with increasingly close elections, voting irregularities are a real concern. I also believe that the cover up of Joe Biden's incompetence is one of the major USA political scandals ever. We must have confidence that the president we elect is really the executive in charge. As a practical matter, even if Biden had been impeached, it still would not have resulted in a President who was unimplicated in the scandal. That might also apply to any impeachment in today's divisive politics,
MAGA is a right wing (not conservative) version of progressive populism, but they seem increasingly leftist on many issues.
For a conservative approach on dealing with the debt: https://manhattan.institute/article/a-comprehensive-federal-budget-plan-to-avert-a-debt-crisis-2024
Thanks for the link. I can quibble with some of the details, but the approach makes sense.
I do like the idea placing more of the burden on the states where the voters are in closer proximity to the politicians. The voters can get much of what they want and can afford.
Everyone likes free stuff which is why all excesses should be purged from federal expenditures. The more federal dollars available, the more that free stuff costs.
A lot of seniors are well off and self-supporting. Incentives to keep them that way are needed. As I've said before, many of us require twenty years notice to plan for what we want and need in the future. And then we can shoulder more of the burden.
I agree that the two parties are the uniparty, that the bill will pass with slight variations, and that our debt will destroy us. But I have never heard of Trump believing Biden was a corpse and don't believe it. As far as the same old mantra about the John Birch Society, Red Scare, the McCarthyism charges it's so old. It is the left wing professors who have been indoctrinating university and college students for many decades with that propaganda. As it turns out, what the Society said about the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the U.N. and the NWO is true. Further, McCarthy wasn't so far off track. Fascists and Communists use character assassination and labeling to shut down free speech. They also throw the same charges out repeatedly so that they become the forever believed lies.
Having agreement on some basic principles does not a uniparty make.
Trump just tweeted/Truthed it the other day.
The John Birchers were just racist a-holes, and there's still plenty of proudly racist a-holes out there - I've had the misfortune of interacting with them elsewhere.
And you can tell that all they care about is how many brown people are around by how much they don't care about anything else: just look at Stephen Miller pulling law enforcement from their necessary criminal enforcement tasks/investigation in order to deport as many people as possible - not criminals, but just anyone that they can.
First, Steve, congratulations on your accurate prediction that two super egos, Trump and Musk, would have a falling out within a year. Second, while I can't agree with everything in this article, it certainly contains a lot of well-presented food for thought.
I can't agree with Mr. Trump that the 2020 election results was a political scandal. The election was close but not close enough to think illegal votes and counting changed the results. I do think that with increasingly close elections, voting irregularities are a real concern. I also believe that the cover up of Joe Biden's incompetence is one of the major USA political scandals ever. We must have confidence that the president we elect is really the executive in charge. As a practical matter, even if Biden had been impeached, it still would not have resulted in a President who was unimplicated in the scandal. That might also apply to any impeachment in today's divisive politics,