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“Where you spend your money says a lot about your values.” – Al Franken President Joe Biden has unveiled his proposed budget for the 2025 fiscal year, and politics, being what they are, an editorial in the Washington Post rightly explained it has “zero...
by RickElia
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on Sun Mar 24, 2024 at 05:38 AM PDT
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Hi’. Argentina elected Javier Milei (Reuters) to fix their country’s budget. Explicitly. Milei is pledging economic shock therapy. His plans include shutting the central bank, ditching the peso, and slashing spending, potentially painful reforms that...
by Vuld Edone
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on Thu Mar 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM PDT
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Donald Trump’s recent public appearances have featured a mishmash of barely coherent ramblings , ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Mar 15, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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So what I'm saying is that it just ain't gonna work. And it's very interesting that the man who invested this type of what I call a voodoo economic policy … “ — George W.H. Bush (Carnegie Mellon University April 10, 1980) GOP AZ Senate hopeful Kari...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Thu Mar 07, 2024 at 04:36 PM PST
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Every few months the Republican Party threatens to shut down the federal government claiming the country is in massive debt and must tighten its spending belt by cutting social programs. In January Congress passed and President Joe Biden signed into...
by Alan Singer
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 02:35 PM PST
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Maria Bartiromo interviewed MT Greene. If you were hoping for some new material — sorry. The Fox News host’s conversation with MAGA Barbie provided a glimpse into an addled mind, dented by conspiracy theories, stupidity, and ego — but nothing original....
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sun Jan 14, 2024 at 03:35 PM PST
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When President Bill Clinton took office, the deficit had risen to hundreds of billions of dollars and the unemployment rate was 7.4 percent. When President Bill Clinton left office, the unemployment rate was 4.2 percent and the last 3 years of his...
by Dem
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 06:50 AM PST
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Reposted from My Substack When they came into office, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all faced economic recessions. The economy was in a slump, jobs were being lost, and things were headed into a downward spiral. Clinton turned this...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 09:00 AM PST
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NPR is beating the drum for a new congressional push to create a “debt commission” to deal with the nation’s national debt, but the only debt they are talking about is social security. Let us be clear. The national debt is a problem but social security...
by msusanesq
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on Tue Dec 05, 2023 at 04:56 PM PST
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House Republicans are trying to defend their demand to “offset” aid to Israel with a cut to Internal Revenue Service funding, which would actually increase the deficit by reducing the amount the IRS could collect from wealthy tax cheats. That means...
by Laura Clawson
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on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 01:41 PM PDT
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We need to assign blame to the rich now overtly! Is Liz Cheney just teasing a presidential run? Jewish groups are challenging Israel's inhumanity towards innocent Palestinians for the HAMAS terrorist act. Jewish group targets inhumane war! Watch...
by Egberto Willies
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 01:13 PM PDT
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The Treasury Dept has spoken and the answer is that the Bush and Trump Tax Cuts for the wealthy has added a total of $10 Trillion to the National Debt. "After record U.S. government spending in ...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Sun Oct 22, 2023 at 09:00 AM PDT
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by side pocket
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on Sun Sep 03, 2023 at 09:00 PM PDT
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I am back hammering this same point about the economy, but in a slightly different way. In this argument, I would be asking people to tell me what the state of the economy was at the end of the term for each of the last 3 republican presidents and what...
by Dem
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on Fri Aug 25, 2023 at 05:56 PM PDT
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President Biden took over a crisis that the previous administration had left in a mess. He took over for a president who had the distinction of being the first president since HERBERT HOOVER to leave with fewer people employed at the end of his term...
by Dem
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on Sat Jul 29, 2023 at 12:22 PM PDT
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Former U.S. vice president and benign colon polyp Mike Pence will never be confused with a vertebrate, but he does sit up straight and look you square in the eye when repeating what he thinks Jesus would say if Jesus were the corporate spokesperson for...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sun Jun 18, 2023 at 10:16 AM PDT
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Trump supporters. Pretty much what you’d expect. Loud and crazed. Here we have the usual “Two-Tiered” Justice system arguments. It’s actually quite amazing how well-disinformed these people are. They know every detail of the Trump case — except they...
by Frank Vyan Walton
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on Fri Jun 16, 2023 at 07:34 AM PDT
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Now that Republicans have finished (for the time being, anyway) threatening people’s Social Security checks with their irresponsible economic brinkmanship, they can go back to harassing elderly people in all the usual ways—like convincing them that...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
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on Sat Jun 03, 2023 at 10:47 AM PDT
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on Fri May 26, 2023 at 05:00 AM PDT
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I am working on an in depth diary full of documentation showing why Ron DeSantis should not be president. It is time consuming to write. However, in the meantime, I wrote this comment in response to another user (apparently a MAGA person) who tried to...
by Dem
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