The Budget Problem Visualized

In fascinating graphs... What a MESS!!!

Iowa Passes School Vouchers

Without requiring equal expectations. :-O  Jerry's dream has come true in Iowa.  The state is going to use tax payer funds to subsidize people who want to send their kid's to religious and other private schools.

And those schools will be allowed to cherry pick only the best students and families.  They can turn down special needs, troubled and other children.  Therefore the traditional schools will lose funding and good families / kids.  And the poor / unlucky families and kids will suffer. Oh well...

Florida Fears Complexity

In African American college prep classes.  It still amazes me how Conservatives want State politicians to dictate what is acceptable in local school districts?

So much for them being the proponents of Local Government control... :-(

GOP Plays With Debt Limit

FIRE.  Do they never learn?

Now I want to balance the budget and pay down some of the debt.

However lets get real, it will likely require more tax revenue AND spending cuts.

Trump Tax Fraud Fine Too Small

Why IRS NEEDS Personnel and why GOP is trying undercut the IRS. 

Apples and Watermelons

Biden vs Trump document situation.  I mean both screwed up and were careless with classified documents.  However Biden self reported the findings and worked with the National Archives to get them returned when they were found.  

Where as Trump repeatedly lied and sought to obstruct the effort to return the documents to the National Archives.  Even today he claims to have the right to retain them.

And yet people will try to equate the situations.  It is so strange...

PPP Wasted Billions

This report is Amazing and Disturbing...

In the meantime, the Paycheck Protection Program has contributed to the country's $31 trillion federal debt, an amount that eventually could lead to higher taxes and fewer government services.  "Basically," said MIT's Autor, "we've just put a huge debt on our children to pay people in the present."

 

Biden Visits Border

Both Sides unhappy with his Moderate positions.  

I will never understand the Conservative "Open Border" silliness since the vast majority of people are caught and processed per the US laws.

And though the Biden admin apparently encouraged desperate people with their silence.  The GOPers certainly did not solve the problem when they were in charge.

Not sure what to do about desperate people just showing up by the MILLIONS, but making this mess a political game is just so WRONG...  They are humans and our religions call them our neighbors, brothers and sisters...

GOP Disrepects Officers

GOP skips honoring officers being injured and killed.  What is WRONG with these people?

I am so embarrassed again... :-(

GOP Speaker Debacle

 "Chaos Politicians" cause dysfunction, no surprise here. John Boehner explained it well.

Politico’s Heidi Przybyla recalled that in his 2021 memoir, former Republican speaker John Boehner said of this faction: “What they’re really interested in is chaos.… They want to throw sand in the gears of the hated federal government until it fails and they’ve finally proved that it’s beyond saving.” And they are tied tightly to right-wing media: “Every time they vote down a bill, they get another invitation to go on Fox News or talk radio,” he said. “Its a narcissistic—and dangerous—feedback loop.”

On the other hand are Republicans like the one who spoke to CNN’s Jake Tapper last night, saying that the holdouts want “procedural trickery that no one in America gives a damn about, but that might give these few loudmouths just a little bit more of the attention and power they crave…. None of these narcissists—and that’s what they are, pure narcissists—did a damn thing to help us win the majority. Nothing. If anything, many of them were liabilities, requiring outside help from Kevin McCarthy, ironically. So they contribute nothing to the team, and then have the audacity to demand outsize influence and power.”

The statement is important; equally important is that the source wanted to stay anonymous.

Oh well... I guess the conservative voters are getting the dysfunction they wanted... :-)

Links to Trump Taxes

If you are interested.  Or over here. I am sure HAPPY the Congress helped Trump to keep his promise to release them. :-)

And what about his "donating" his salary? :-O