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Anna
That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
We are probably about to learn that our devout Christians on the Supreme Court don't get a rats about whether Americans eat much less get to have a say in how their tax money and tariffs are spent.
I keep having visions of a 95-yr old orange blob still lounging around in the WH while American citizens, a quarter of which are now homeless and hungry, keep sending in the tax money to fund the DeUnited Sovereign Wealth Fund OR ELSE. (Give me the …
“After I posted in the inflation & other thread, the post seemed to disappear completely. So, I re-wrote and reposted. Then the original post appeared (5 minutes later) and so I deleted the first. Currently @Old_Joe’s excellent thread on prices…
@msf I hear you. But I tend to keep thinking about young people starting out and forming a family while facing job disruptions and high housing costs. Also, from what I can see the direction of the country safety net is headed, they will need to hav…
Even though more of the federal money comes from blue states. I perceive red states rely on the richer states, which tend blue, for a high return on their tax revenue investment. I guess that return will just have come from the federal debt clock fo…
So, if you follow the money trail. 30% of tariff increases has passed to the consumer and, I guess, that means 70% has passed to shareholders of the sellers even if those shareholders are just small business owners? What's a proper share split of a …
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@Anna, in Texas?!?!
No, in Washington State but I imagine there is a lot of the same sentiment in Texas right now. In WA, like OR, we have been targetted for our Blue shores, especially reports of ICE endangering previously calm waves. WA DC not hap…
The people across the street just put up a big poster on their fence that says "Make Lying Wrong Again". I'm thinking they probably used it in the No-Kings March.
I got the same email. Since I already have both login.gov and id.me accounts, I didn't worry about the email. I just logged into ssa.gov and looked around. I already set my communications to non-paper and didn't see anything new or needing attentio…
Well, once you shutdown the government and arrange a tarrif to Argentina laundering service, there isn't much left to do to entertain yourself. Maybe the second terms are endless retirement parties.
If the imprudent actions of one man threaten our leadership in the world,
perhaps he should be deported/exiled to Eswatini?
WOW. The government sounds like the one we have been having here. Their constitution allows a lot of just ignoring what it e…
Found the soon to go away school lunch budget that 20B might have funded. Guess they will find it in the fed worker salary line item and play more delete: "The estimated 2025 federal budget for the National School Lunch Program is $17.4 billion, wit…
I grew up seven miles west of Leland. My heart breaks for them. One usually thinks of Leland as the quiet zone on the border of Greenville. Povery is really high now in the entire area. Guns are just household furnishings. Five or more per household…
@Crash We don't seem to have a Allah Mighty that cares about justice. Our Mighties seem to be defocused else and every-where. I am more confident about predicting the plans for the mid-terms. I am confident that, even if the House changes hands, the…
I don't understand people's confidence about the outcome of flimsy to non-valid charges nowadays. If the government can shop around for a prosecutor to bring the charges, I see no reason to assume the courts cannot be likewise manipulated. (I have n…
Could someone please explain to me where the Consitutional Order of things can be found within the Constitution or a document that supersedes the Constitution. If the later, is there a link to the superseding, Constitutionally enacted, document?
How much are we paying the government to word police the military and civil service. I want my money back. Even I can find a more productive use for it. Geez, I am helping pay for this?
I seem to be the only one concerned about putting a large number of the defense leadership of the United States in the same location. Isn't that rather risky in terms of unnecessary risk of, maybe remote but real, deadly consequences. Losing the mil…
“the best laid plans of mice and men often go astray”. Most of my family died by age 70, including my older cousins. My sister lived to be 74 but that was after my planning. Most of my husband's family lived past 90. The problem was that I was the h…
Yea, I've had share price scare me away many times even if it makes no sense. It is just the feel. It feels like getting 10 t-shirts for $100 each instead of 200 t-shirts at $5 each (which "feels" like a fuller closet). Of course, the analogy is ver…
