1ºRobert Buzzendore right before pandemic under the Republicans tax scams scheme they got paid big time from corporate contributors to free up their money so that they can invest into stocks and not pay taxes. Don't call me ignorant look for yourself because it's true they were actually publicly disclosed even buying back their own company stocks. And then this corrupted so-called Republican cult con me an organization. Made sure those stocks profit and enforced strategies like they did when they enforced tariffs. Enforcing tariffs deliberately forcing America to pay higher prices so that their stocks profit more off of us. The first enforcement upon the tariffs was placed on Steel. One of the reasons why they were so aggressive to get the wall they made more expensive by enforcing tariffs so that they're steel shares profit. And they took it another step when Donald Trump threaten America if he didn't get funding for that wall he would not hesitate to shut down America in which he had done for 2 months. 2 months of shutting down America was the first phase of inflation. Then they allow the virus to spread, able to reset down America again driving prices up even more for their stocks profit. Allowing the virus to spread eliminating seniors so they're Wall Street investors can do a major property grab to hijack rentals in which we all have witnessed. It wasn't only just to keep us from the election post because they had another strategy enforced with that when they planted a conflict of interest inside of the postal service who deliberately dismantled sorting machines taken away overtime and fired management not only a strategy to defer mail and ballots but as we all know it was another enforcement of the get rich scheme. They knew by doing this not only deferred the male and balance but it would cause our credit cards and mortgage to become late and stick us with the late fee for their Wall Street buddy boys. And they are remind you when you pay late fees it puts you in a higher risk of interest being forced to pay higher interest when a car or a house etc they ain't nothing but a corrupted con me an organization who has clearly destroyed the Republican party so don't call me ignorant call those con men in Washington what they are. And don't forget they were willing to project an insurrection to continue to screw us over and anybody who thinks that's okay is some kind of super ignorant
2ºJulie Bledsoe yep, nobody owes anyone, anything. 2/3 of federal spending is mandatory spending and must be funded with or without a budget or if there’s a government shutdown. The budget increased by 45%! during the pandemic and has never been reduced since. It went from 4.4 trillion in spending pre-pandemic. It went to 6.4trillion and higher and this admin proposed a 6.9t+ budget. That covers the infrastructure spending per year and then some.
“Mandatory spending refers to federal programs that are funded outside of annual appropriations, including Social Security, Medicare, and food stamps (SNAP). Mandatory spending also includes interest spending on the federal debt.”
Mandatory spending accounts for 2/3 of the federal spend and is funded no matter what congress does…even in a shut down
3ºPaul Ross Who told you all this nonsense information?!! First, no individual has the right to usurp someone’s land just to attack him, as is claimed, and the belief of any Palestinian is to defend his land even if the cost is his life. As for Egypt and Jordan, they only reject Hamas’ interference in their affairs, but all of us as Arab peoples support Hamas in defending their land. But what you are doing in this war is not heroic in killing children and bombing them with planes. If America is truly full of strength and courage, let it go and confront Russia, North Korea, or China.
4ºKassondra Mathis Houdek good. Shut it down. Mandatory spending occurs during shutdowns and without a budget. 2/3 of all federal spending HAS to be covered with or without congress. It’s called MANDATORY spending.
“Mandatory spending refers to federal programs that are funded outside of annual appropriations, including Social Security, Medicare, and food stamps (SNAP). Mandatory spending also includes interest spending on the federal debt.”
Federal Retirement programs for Federal and Civilian Military Retirees, Veterans programs, and various other programs that provide agricultural subsidies are also included in mandatory spending. Also included is smaller budgetary items, such as the salaries of Members of Congress and the President.”
Mandatory spending accounts for 2/3 of the federal spend and is funded no matter what congress does…even in a shut down
5ºWhen it comes to budgetary and economic principles, NEITHER party can claim the moral high ground. Both sides are MORE than willing to run deficits as long as they get to spend on what THEY want.
The fact of the matter is that, in order to balance the budget, stop the deficit spending, and freeze our level of debt (over $33T) we have to decrease spending and or increase taxes by 1.4T (or 22.3%) annually.
More over, keep in mind that in 2022, we spent 6.3T, took in 4.9T, and borrowed 1.4T.
Of the 4.9T we “earned” (took in in taxes), 4.1T of that went to MANDATORY spending (Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and interest on the debt), leaving only 800B to fund everything else (defense ALONE was 751B).
There just is NOT enough money to go around for what we want to do, and it is likely both unrealistic and probably impossible to simply eliminate one or more cabinet level departments.
So…we need to make the hard choices and recover that 1.4T annual deficit spending either by raising taxes and or cutting spending. It’s gonna hurt, but either we do it now, where we can reasonably manage it, or we are going to be forced to do it later where it’s REALLY gonna hurt and possibly cripple our economy.
6ºTom Emmer is a Drumpf bootlicker, election denier and supporter of all things that goes against this country's Democracy. Just like Drumpf, Jordan and any other politician with that stance...should never hold office. Especially if it's a leadership role. Just look at the domino that have been falling.
2 former Drumpf lawyers have pled guilty because of the evidence gathered of their crimes....and it's even more hilarious with the very much expected Drumpf response, "she was never my lawyer." Which in that case could be true since he probably never paid her either. but ohhhh she was definitely his mouth piece while standing next to him many many times.
Get bent
..stay bent
7ºJesse Dell-Ross …No, and here’s why.
NEITHER party is trustworthy enough to operate in a super majority and/or in control of 2 (in reality 3) of the branches of government. As soon as they do that, they push their agenda with little to no consideration for the “other side”.
Ideally, under the provisions of the constitution, especially the 9th and 10th amendments, there should be maximum exercise of rights/power by the states and the people, with the federal government given just enough latitude to effectively govern.
Put another way, the states and people should be able to exercise rights, RIGHT UP TO THE POINT, that their actions become unconstitutional.
In reality what we have morphed into is a system where those in power seek to expand rights that fit their agenda while seeking to curtail those that do not.
Because politicians have proven untrustworthy, balance is necessary. It would seem that the legislative and executive branches SHOULD be opposing parties with the legislative branch holding a SLIGHT majority (but nowhere near a super majority…to prevent overriding a presidential veto).
This forces negotiation and compromise rather than the scorched earth power approach we see so frequently.
8ºYou know this would be hilarious if these clowns weren't taking the country down with them. The Republicans let this small group within their group, who between all of them have absolutely no legislative accomplishments unless you count bomb, throwing temper tantrums, ridiculous speeches news conferences, hearings and investigations that go nowhere built out of imagination and conspiracy theories, just take over their conference and the house, change the rules and kick out of office they're duly elected chairman that the majority of them wanted to keep, then blame the Democrats for not doing something that they have never done in history which is vote for a Republican speaker no more than they would vote for the Democratic speaker. The moderate Republicans need to deal with the Democrats make those eight Republicans powerless and get on with the business that they were elected to do.
9ºFrank Lopresti yes why should Democrats save Republicans , especially when they refuse to work with Democrats ?
Maybe if our elected leaders weren’t so partisan; both sides, things could get done .
I don’t know how old you are but if you are receiving SS ,Medicare or even Medicaid; that you have been paying for ever since you started working, you don’t care that the Republicans want to make cuts or even privatize the programs?
Republicans want to cut spending because they feel Democrats are spending too much money.
Do you know how much money Democrats have added to the deficit thus far compared to how much Trump added to the deficit?
Which programs that are in place right now do you believe should be cut ?
10ºWhat you have here is people who won under former president Trump that was under the perception that he would win and he didn’t so now they are proving they had no real qualifications and now their stuck for a term no leadership skills and the truth behind their lack of knowledge has worn thin so they reek havoc and can’t get along with anyone.Plain and simple they ain’t that smart.
The only way for America to come back is vote all Republicans or as many as we can out of office.The Matt Gratz,Jim Jordan,Ted Cruz,Marco Rubio,Tommy the military hold out guy,Marjory Taylor Green and all the old racist and SCOTUS John Roberts and the Clarence Thomas.
Then we can turn the US back to the US we should represent.And to the republicans so support Putin go live there you have no idea where the people in America that support him like Trump want to take the fact of America having a dictatorship you get what he says you can have and if you poor or middle class kiss comfort goodbye…