All_Pro_Bills

I'm curious what some specifically object to with project 2025? Has anyone read the thing? One point suggests that in order to successfully implement new government policies and reforms its necessary to replace some 6 to 8 thousand federal employees responsible for administering and managing the running of the departments and cabinets. The premise is these employees are ideologically committed to liberal causes and positions and sabatoged the former President's first term. Replacing them is required if you want to get any changes implemented. I tend to agree. This is consistent with what liberals have systematically done over decades which is replacing managers in federal, state, and local governments, and most private institutions such as school boards, universities, etc., with ideologically compliant people that will prioritize the progressive agenda over getting anything done. It would make sense the left opposes the enemy use any approach or tool they've used and understand is effective. But they can't simply state that publicly so excuses to criticize must be invented using the standard storylines.

The IC peddled a conspiracy theory that could have been invalidated simply by performing an actual investigation. The shop owner that turned the machine over to the FBI. He had an authentic service order and receipt with Humter's real signature. Instead we here false references to him being a Russian asset with zero proof. Typical smoke and mirrors. How about conducting itervies withthe people all those e-mails were addressed to or copied on, or sent by. Becuause they were on everybody's e-mail accounts not just the machine. They would have provided verification. Unless they want to claim all those other people were involved with the Russians? The IC knew it was real. The FBI also knew it was authentic early on and buried the laptop until well after the election.

It sure is. You nuts ridicule conspiracies created because officials withhold the truth at all costs but you all rally around the belief a guy in a dress with a pair of balls underneath it is a women simply by playing make-believe. There's nothing on Earth weirder than that ridiculous nonsense. I get a chuckle every time some twerp or lib skank can't get the words out to the question, do you know what a woman is?

Make up complex excuses. They just flat out lied about the authenticity of the laptop. Because the truth would have hurt Biden. End of story.

Always remember, they can't say what a woman is. Because they're afraid to speak truth to the cult of chaos.

I agree there would have been terrible consequences but the sytem would not have failed. The free market system would have been allowed to work. In a free market good bets are rewarded, bad bets are not. But the bankers bad bets received preferential treatment and were transformed into good bets and losses were transfered to other parties that correctly shorted bad banks and took options and futures against them. It's a favor none of us would be afforded. The $250 trillion or so in derivatives tied to the markets are still out there waiting for the next accident. Bailouts just encourage more and greater risk taking because there is an expectation a safety net will catch anyone that falls. And if the banks are too big to fail they need to be broken up through anti-trust action or as a condition for assistance.

The terms "moral hazard" or "to big to fail" come to mind for 2008. The government should have let those banks fail, insured their depositors accounts at 100% and sold off their assets to better run financial institutions through receivership or bankruptcy proceedings and let the stockholders and creditors take a loss. That would be the free market approach. Instead they got rewarded for oversized and reckless risk taking and set the stage for the assumption that any major institution that fails in the future for whatever reason will be taken care of by the government. The message is the banker class can privatize profits and socialize losses when the situation calls for either. You or me? On our own. And even after bailing them out the government should have broken them into smaller non-integrated parts to mitigate any further systemic risks. Separating out commercial, investment banking, and other areas. All they did was kick the can down the road for the next emergency.

You're right. Tariffs would support less efficient domestic producers and cost consumers more than the cost of the non-tariffed foriegn product. But when used to counter "dumping" or government subsidized foriegn producers they might be valuable tools.

There's no evidence it was all entirely due to supply chain disruptions or that the cause in early 2025 needs to be consistent with 2020. Don't forget all those government handouts and payment freeze edicts too. I mentioned that central banks are diversifying their reserves away from the dollar. Some to avoid the risk of being at the mercy of US sanctions and potential asset seizures. Who knows what might anger Washington? Others to manage their reserve mix. Even Poland. A staunch NATO ally has been dumping dollars for gold. It was revealed recently the Saudis had purchased 160 tonnes. The interest on the US debt surpassed $1 trillion recently. And with deficits of $4 trillion plus a certainty no matter who wins in November its all a mathematically calculation that our currency is headed to be worth less and less. More inflation. The alternative is to deal with financial reality, cut government spending, limit social assistance and corporate giveaways and live as a country within our means. But who wants that or would vote for anyone suggesting such an approach? Even though when it comes to our personal finances that's what successful and financially solvent people do.

The expectation is the Fed will cut a couple more times but i expect inflation will re-accelerate quickly. The dilemma is that monetary policy can only be so effective when the real problem is fiscal policy. You can't run quarterly fiscal deficits close to 1 trillion dollars provided through borrowing and expect no consequences. Add in the demand for dollars and Treasury bonds from other central banks for reserve purposes is being replaced at a noticeable rate by gold purchases and you've got a dollar over-supply issues. The law of supply and demand translates to a lower dollar. Less purchasing power, more inflation. And while most trade settlement is still in dollars and faces no immediate threat from the BRICS or anywhere else that demand is slowly eroding via bilateral trade deals settled in local currencies. The long and short is all these dollars created by government borrowing have in the past found a home outside of the US economy to avoid domestic inflation and that foriegn demand is clearly shrinking.

The story doesn't elaborate beyond the term "sex scandal" and it was "leaked" by his opponent in the coming election. its either true or a case of disinformation. "According to the sources, the campaign of Attorney General Josh Stein, Robinson’s opponent in the race for North Carolina’s Executive Mansion, leaked the story to CNN and local Raleigh news outlet, WRAL. It is expected to hit airwaves later on Thursday." I say wait until there are more details before jumping off a bridge here.

I've got to say you're off your game lately. Your answers to my posts have been pathetic one liner slogans and insults. Your argument, if your responses even qualify to be at the intelligent argument level, are weak. First off, nothing I stated is a lie. You can go to the DMV, get a drivers license, and check the I am a US citizen box with a Yes, and get registered to vote. There is zero level of verification required or performed. I seriously doubt anyone here illegally is worried about the consequences of lying on a drivers license application. And if they get caught, so what? Nothing is going to happen to them anyway. You can name call all you'd like, all of what I say here is true. I look at the Democrats and all the rhetoric they lay out there. They stand on their soapboxes and make lots of big time speeches and proclamation with claims of supporting election integrity. Championing democracy. Other BS. Then I look at what they do versus what they say. Its all talk. And after observing their behavior, if I ask the question, what's more important to the Democrats? A) Winning through any means B) Election integrity The answer for the Democrats is "A". Because if the answer was "B" they wouldn't object to and block every proposal to ensure election integrity. That's it.

Generous Joe donated $35 billion of other people's money, the taxpayers, to buy the votes of a specific constituency. So now the special interest group members can retire while you still work to fund other people's retirement that was "guaranteed" through a private pension fund but needed a public bailout because the employers over-promised their workers and union members bigger benefits they couldn't pay for given the economics of the industry. In other words, somebody made a commitment and you get to pay the bill. I'm not picking on these guys but its just an example the 10's of trillions in over-promised benefits and compensation the system, public and private, has committed to pay out. The last guy in line of this Ponzi scheme gets the bill and royally screwed. It won't be me but if you're under 35 to 40 you're going to it.

So you're saying voting in national elections requires you to show proof of eligibility?

You're threatening election integrity by making it easy for non-citizens to vote by resisting the application of reasonable checks and balances into the US voter registration and validation processes. Consistent to those in place in other democracies. Why can't it work here? Because then you can't cheat. That's all there is to it, end of discussion...

How about "Fed lowers rates fifty basis points as housing prices and stock market indexes reach all time highs fueled by speculation of future rate cut decisions. Inflation to re-accelerate later this year".

A recount is an audit of the count answering the question, did we count all the ballots correctly? Its not an audit that answers the questions, was every vote cast by a legally eligible citizen?

Every person or organization that has attempted or might attempt to "prove" non-citizens are registered to vote or have voted in the past are greeted by a barrage of administrative roadblocks and lawsuits. Mostly from Democrats. Few requests for information are granted. Fewer audits or reviews are performed. All requests are resisted and delayed. The truth is this. Democrats don't want to know whether they vote or not. Its not to protect the rights of those individuals. Its because they know allowing for the potential for non-citizens to cheat the system and violate the law to cast votes can provide them the edge to win if necessary. If anyone wants to audit the results of the election to identify any potential non-citizens votes they'll deploy the usual team of lawyers on the scene and initiate "election denier" propaganda against the skeptics. You know this to be true as much as I do. If there's nothing to hide why so much resistance to finding the truth and putting the issue to rest? Because they know they're cheating and don't want to get caught. Anyone that claims this isn't true is either stupid or a liar. Its that simple.

There's the national debt and the annual budget deficit. Trump did not triple the national debt. In 2016 it was $19.5T, in 2020 it was $26.9T, in 2023 it was $32.2T. In 2024 its been reported to have exceeded $35T. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/29/us/politics/national-debt-35-trillion.html#:~:text=America’s gross national debt topped %2435 trillion for,its daily report detailing the nation’s balance sheet. 2016 to 2020 up $7.4T 2020 to 2024 up $8.1T (final numbers projected higher) Trump's administration did a poor job managing the country's finances but the COVID outbreak and lock downs were contributing factors. Biden's administration is doing worse during what we're constantly told is a wonderful economy. But looking under the covers its what economists have call bifurcated. Two layers. People owning assets like stocks and real estate are fairing well while those without such assets or too young to have begun to accumulate sizable savings and investment funds are feeling the consequences of a poorly performing consumer along with inflation. Both candidates have said next to nothing about getting the national debt under control. They offer tax cuts without explaining the source of funds (they will borrow) for increased spending. The ever popular more taxes on the rich will not bring the debt or annual deficits under control. They're just going to spend more. A Trump administration would add to the national debt but Harris will be worse. Already under Biden they're adding almost a trillion every 100 days. Extrapolating that rate, which I expect will be higher under Harris, out 4 years its over $14 trillion in new debt. So it goes from $35 in 2024 to almost (and probably over) $50 trillion in 2028. The annual interest will be something like $2 trillion (its over $1 trillion now) and what do you think is going to happen to the purchasing power of all those dollars you hold in your 401K? If people think the increase in prices under Biden's inflation was bad just wait. They ain't seen nothing yet. You're going to need $50 to buy a "value" meal at McDonald's. Please don't pretend Trump will be ruinous and Harris will be hearts and flowers with constant sunshine.

Trump is certainly entertaining. He's also one of a very limited number of people willing to take on the establishment. Like real liberals used to do and not today's posers selling out for their 30 pieces of silver. A few others taking a stand Gabbard, Bernie Sanders, Musk. Who else?

Clapping like trained Seal looking for a fish or two from their masters at Chaos HQ. And what's the deal with Travis? 2 games with just 4 catches for 39 yards. Is it a slow start or is she sucking the life (literally or figuratively, take your pick) out of the guy?

Before COVID in Feb 2020 and the State level imposed lock downs that followed "Trump's economy" was doing fine.

There's no soft landing yet. These guys have been behind the curve on the economy on the way up and on the way down.

Fed cuts 1/2 point.

Everyone should stop the holier than thou moralizing. The terrorists have no such moral concerns when they launch attacks against the US or other targets of the "decadent" western countries. Bin Laden said it clearly. If you're an American and you pay taxes that support the US military and groups like the CIA in their aggression toward Islamic countries and killing people all over the planet then you are not innocent. You are funding and implicitly condoning the killing and therefore complicit and a valid target. That's what our enemies think. Your compassion and kindness will be viewed by them as weakness.