Senate confirms Project 2025 co-author Vought for Office of Management and Budget
Russell Vought, 48, the architect of Project 2025, will lead the Office of Management and Budget, where he will oversee the president’s budget.
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Time for We The People to start saving pennies, re-using grey water, cooking our foods thoroughly, and generally taking care of business we’ve been paying the government to take care of. We know what’s going to happen.
Still, it seems We The People ought to get some great tax refunds over the next few years! (I know. Just sayin’. It’s our money, not Vought’s.)
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Hi Ali. I understand what you are saying. But in honest plain talk what is the job of the government. I see it the way the preamble to the constitution says. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Those words promote the general Welfare. To me that means clean air, clean safe water, safe foods, safe medications and all the other things the government regulates to keep us safe. To me it means feeding those who can’t / don’t have food, get housing for those who need housing, and promote the blessing of liberty and prosperity for everyone. That is my view and why I call myself a progressive.
To the wealthy in the White House it means insuring their own prosperity while others suffer. The right seems to feel right now the blessing of liberty only apply to white straight cis Christians. I could go on but I am tired. I bet you or Randy could write a grand post based on that preamble and what it really should mean. Hard to understand but for their time most of the founding fathers were very progressive in their views of the world. Hugs
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Right. But those words also mean it is up to us to direct our legislators to represent us. If they don’t hear from us, they think we like what they’re doing. All the founders expected to hear from people so they’d know what to do for us. I am sorry; you’re not too much younger than I am, but evidently the ideas of civics and letter-writing were not taught? We got it in both social studies and English; writing to the government at all levels. It’s just always been a thing that we the people do, from what we got in school in the 60s and 70s. I know things vary from state to state, though. I’m not disparaging. Anyway:
I just got an email from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez about this very issue. I’m going to copy it into here:
“Everyone needs to call their Senators right now.
“Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
“Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. The GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that, and they know it.
“TODAY is the showdown.
“It should be very clear: any vote for Cloture will be considered a vote for the bill.
“People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games. They know exactly what is going on.
“Defend Medicaid.
Vote NO on Cloture.
NO on bill.
“In solidarity,
“AOC”
Voting is only part of our responsibilities to our neighbors and our way of government. So get on the phone! Say it however you like, just say it. It’s only 7 people, all machines, easy peasy, and then you know you did what you could. I mean this for all reading, not only Scottie! If we let this go, I don’t know of a good reason to keep blogging, myself; seems like a waste of the short time available for enjoying life. But, that’s just me.
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