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DESANTIS DROPS OUT
Side note, dropped, cleaned and reinstalling video computer. Still listening to YouTube on the main blogging one. Going to be busy and as Ron said, well distracted as he wants me to be right now. For me, there is no better distraction than working on computers. I do love it, tweaking the settings, trying to find the best performance. Hugs. Scottie
Great Biden Ad
Let’s talk about Biden, banking, and overdrafts….
I hate hearing someone say both parties are the same. Tell me a republican that would try to stop wealthy banks from raking in billions in profits from the poor people? Those people don’t think both parties are the same, they simply don’t have a good reason to support theirs, so they have to claim the other side is the same thing. It also is why the republicans are so desperate to impeach Joe Biden. Can’t let tRump a republican be the only one, we have to falsely claim democrats are just as bad. Not that tRump was good or correct, but that Biden is as bad! Hugs. Scottie
Let’s talk about Trump probably paying more….
Let’s talk about Trump, Nikki, and Nancy….
What in the fuck is going on
How far the down in the gang thug chaos are the republicans wanting to go? Attacking the defenseless simply because they already have nothing and nowhere to go. What happened to bettering society, making things better for everyone? These people only want to make it great for them, the rest are for exploitation and amusement. This country, the US, had a brief resurgence of enlightenment and now in the last 8 years, especially the last 3, the right wants to tear it all down, destroy anything good or enlightened in the country. They mock decency and act like they are superior for being cruel. I am at a loss these days what is driving these people. I have seen them before, in my childhood. I thought they were going extinct, yet here they are within inches of full power over everything. Hugs. Scottie
The bill would at the same time enhance penalties for drug use (specifically fentanyl, as it is their go-to talking point at the moment), and making it a felony to run away from the police…
Just anything that is observed among those whose living situation is so desperate, and basically saying it is illegal for anyone from a minority community to be fed up with this shit..
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Also, considering the rate of LGBT+ homelessness compared to the general population. 5% of the youth population in general, yet accounting for 25% of homeless youth. I consider the Bill to be specifically targeted at LGBT+ people.
Considering the above. Some bigoted parents could disown their kid, kill them, and claim it was homeless trespass?
The Debate We All Want
House Republicans Take Another Stab at Cutting Social Security
Another interesting short read from Ten Bears site. Hugs. Scottie
by Joan McCarter | January 20, 2024 – 8:07am
Republicans just cannot give up on their dream of ending Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Nor can they give up on the idea that they’ll be shielded from the voters’ blowback of cutting those programs if they get someone else to tell them to do it. That’s what they tried back in 2010 with the Bowles-Simpson fiscal committee, dubbed the “catfood commission” by the left, and again with the failed “super committee” in 2011.
The House Budget Committee was back at it this week, approving yet another fiscal commission they want to see included in the final appropriations package they should be voting on in March, having kicked that can down the road again with the short-term funding bill they passed this week. They want another commission that could fast-track cuts to social insurance programs, blocking efforts by Democrats to add protections for those programs in the bill.
The House GOP has been harping on this since they regained the majority in 2022. They tried to include a fiscal commission in their failed attempt to pass a continuing resolution to fund the government back in September. It even featured highly in the fight to find a new speaker after the Freedom Caucus ousted Kevin McCarthy last fall.
Cutting the programs took center stage when GOP Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma nominated Jim Jordan for the job. Jordan showed “courage,” Cole said, in fighting “to get at the real drivers of debt, and we all know what they are. We all know it’s Social Security, we all know it’s Medicare, we all know it’s Medicaid.”
We all know that cutting these programs has been at the top of Republicans’ wish list since the programs were created decades ago. It’s never going to change. But it is providing yet another powerful opportunity for President Joe Biden to shine.
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