What a terrible regime we have in the White House and the Cabinet. GOP MAGA will be responsible for failure to help all the citizens and hurt people forever. I was proud to stand in a downpour with my 11 year old granddaughter at NO Kings rally yesterday. The cuts are going to hurt my grandchildren grievously due to health issues, food insecurity and the tariffs keeping inflation boiling
Wow after reading what you said here Don, it appears as though "they" are trying to run the government like a business! But unfortunately if one lays off or fires people and then hires them back I would say all that money that DOGE was trying to save is probably not happening. It also makes it appear that NOBODY working in our government at present has a clue just what to do. It's kind of like shutting the barn door after all the cows are gone and wondering why they aren't getting any milk anymore.
"A week in the (White House) was the precise reversal of the six busy days described in the first chapter of Genesis. It seemed to end in a world without form and void. From Order came forth Chaos."
The government shutdown during Trump's first term ended in large part when the commercial airlines flight attendant unions threaten to strike because of unsafe skies due to overworked and non-paid air traffic controllers. There will surely be a similar breaking point with this Republican government shutdown.
Then this: "there are strong incentives for school systems to shortchange students with disabilities by skirting the IDEA mandates." This is why charter schools are so popular with Republicans. Charter schools can decide who are admitted to their schools. They can exclude students with disabilities and leave them in the public schools while siphoning off the able bodied students. All the costs end up on the public schools as they see falling enrollment from students poached by the charters.
I was a child when a Republican President initiated the largest federal project since the Manhattan project. The president was Eisenhower and the project was the interstate highway system. Where did the money come from? It came from the very richest people in the country. The highest marginal tax rate following WWII was in the 90% range.
Time to pull the teeth of the billionaire class and tax their ill gotten gains to benefit everyone in the country.
When Trump et al, reduce or eliminate positions or whole sections of agencies, it is not because they think their jobs are no longer necessary but because if you stop reporting on cyber security, on pollution, on safety, on fraud, etc. then those problems simply disappear. If you are not made aware of a problem, in their minds the problem simply doesn't exist, at least from a political standpoint. The political left will need decades to undo what they are doing and that is exactly the point.
This is a common theme with Trump, it's the ostrich syndrome of head in the sand. Trump said about COVID “You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’” He's so deranged in the head to think if sick people have no testing they're no longer sick. Just like you said, if there's no reporting on Russians hacking our infrastructure with our cybersecurity gutted, then the electricity being cutoff or gas pipelines blowing up must have been our imagination.
Mr. Bought I saw on cspan his comment was no kings 2 would keep this government shutdown and it’s very hateful that We The People protest when the government doesn’t even know how much they can control our country! America is in crisis! We need to keep unifying our country. Despicable People of this Administration doesn’t represent us! They represent only their pocket books! Good article very informative!
All articles printed for public consumption should be prefaced by the statement , “ This information is offered the MAGA Republican Administration/ MAGA Republican Party and, therefore, its veracity cannot, but should be verified.”
“But only Trump and his budget chief Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we make things worse? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? Never mind if it illegally strips away valuable public services that we all rely on.”
Malice. Sadism.
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
What a terrible regime we have in the White House and the Cabinet. GOP MAGA will be responsible for failure to help all the citizens and hurt people forever. I was proud to stand in a downpour with my 11 year old granddaughter at NO Kings rally yesterday. The cuts are going to hurt my grandchildren grievously due to health issues, food insecurity and the tariffs keeping inflation boiling
Wow after reading what you said here Don, it appears as though "they" are trying to run the government like a business! But unfortunately if one lays off or fires people and then hires them back I would say all that money that DOGE was trying to save is probably not happening. It also makes it appear that NOBODY working in our government at present has a clue just what to do. It's kind of like shutting the barn door after all the cows are gone and wondering why they aren't getting any milk anymore.
"A week in the (White House) was the precise reversal of the six busy days described in the first chapter of Genesis. It seemed to end in a world without form and void. From Order came forth Chaos."
A quote borrowed from Ellery Sedgwick
The government shutdown during Trump's first term ended in large part when the commercial airlines flight attendant unions threaten to strike because of unsafe skies due to overworked and non-paid air traffic controllers. There will surely be a similar breaking point with this Republican government shutdown.
Then this: "there are strong incentives for school systems to shortchange students with disabilities by skirting the IDEA mandates." This is why charter schools are so popular with Republicans. Charter schools can decide who are admitted to their schools. They can exclude students with disabilities and leave them in the public schools while siphoning off the able bodied students. All the costs end up on the public schools as they see falling enrollment from students poached by the charters.
I was a child when a Republican President initiated the largest federal project since the Manhattan project. The president was Eisenhower and the project was the interstate highway system. Where did the money come from? It came from the very richest people in the country. The highest marginal tax rate following WWII was in the 90% range.
Time to pull the teeth of the billionaire class and tax their ill gotten gains to benefit everyone in the country.
When Trump et al, reduce or eliminate positions or whole sections of agencies, it is not because they think their jobs are no longer necessary but because if you stop reporting on cyber security, on pollution, on safety, on fraud, etc. then those problems simply disappear. If you are not made aware of a problem, in their minds the problem simply doesn't exist, at least from a political standpoint. The political left will need decades to undo what they are doing and that is exactly the point.
>"then those problems simply disappear. "
This is a common theme with Trump, it's the ostrich syndrome of head in the sand. Trump said about COVID “You’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people, ‘Slow the testing down, please.’” He's so deranged in the head to think if sick people have no testing they're no longer sick. Just like you said, if there's no reporting on Russians hacking our infrastructure with our cybersecurity gutted, then the electricity being cutoff or gas pipelines blowing up must have been our imagination.
Mr. Bought I saw on cspan his comment was no kings 2 would keep this government shutdown and it’s very hateful that We The People protest when the government doesn’t even know how much they can control our country! America is in crisis! We need to keep unifying our country. Despicable People of this Administration doesn’t represent us! They represent only their pocket books! Good article very informative!
We are in deep and terrible trouble. We need to find a ladder quickly, or we will be in this chaotic hole for the foreseeable future.
All articles printed for public consumption should be prefaced by the statement , “ This information is offered the MAGA Republican Administration/ MAGA Republican Party and, therefore, its veracity cannot, but should be verified.”
“But only Trump and his budget chief Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we make things worse? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? Never mind if it illegally strips away valuable public services that we all rely on.”
Malice. Sadism.
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
— Luke 6:31