If you're reading this web site, you pay attention to the news closely otherwise you never would have found us. Thanks for that. It also means you're smarter than most and are constantly infuriated by the stupidity of certain "leaders" of our country and the people who support them.
Here's an example of this stupidity that makes us want to scream.
The GOP agenda, in 3 simple steps:
Step 1: Cut taxes on corporations and the rich, increasing deficits
Step 2: Induce panic about high deficits, cut health care spending for the poor and elderly in response
Step 3: Repeat
Tax cuts reduced corporate tax revenue by almost a third even though corporate profits are through the ceiling. If Republicans win, they will push a “grand bargain” - no corporation pays a penny more but Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security will be on the chopping block.
WE CAN NOT ALLOW THIS.
Trump administration officials and many Republicans are so lost in their bubble they sometimes say out loud exactly the evil they plan to do. It's as if their stupidity overtakes their evil for a moment and they give up their entire game plan to us. Is anyone paying attention?
A top economic adviser to Trump said on Monday [9/17/18] he expects.... there would likely be an effort in 2019 to cut spending on entitlement programs. Kudlow did not specify where future cuts would be made.
The headline of this post is a completely accurate statement. There's hardly anything else we can say but we'll include portions of the sourced articles below.
The Department of Health and Human Services is diverting millions of dollars in funding from a number of programs, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, to pay for housing for the growing population of detained immigrant children.
Nothing is more emblematic of the Trump doctrine than to spit in the face of a poor, homeless American. Conservatives love to make it sound so simple. Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps they say. WHAT IF YOU HAVE NO BOOTS? What if you literally have nothing? These safety net programs are the last resort for millions of Americans.
Trump favors imposing stricter requirements on adult recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as food stamps, and has disparagingly described beneficiaries as “welfare” recipients.
Republicans screamed at the top of their lungs for eight years under President Obama about budget deficits and our national debt. They blamed him for bank bailouts initiated before his term. They shot down vital stimulus plans to bring our economy out of a total collapse and, you know, make America great again.
As we wrote about in June 2018, the Republican tax heist is causing massive budget deficits.
Trump said he's eliminating a pay raise for civilian federal employees slated for 2019 in order to "put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course." He and Republicans fell all over themselves to give trillions of dollars of tax cuts to the wealthy and to big businesses, and they want to give them even more. But when it comes to working people, retirees, and the disabled, suddenly deficits matter again.
The White House’s own budget projections see federal deficits surpassing $1 trillion in 2019 alone and beyond.
....the White House’s Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimated that new legislation enacted since the release of its February budget — alongside new projections on other spending and receipts — would add $101 billion more to the 2019 deficit, pushing it above $1 trillion.
Paul Ryan will retire come January 2019, at least temporarily. His political career is best summarized by saying he has championed evil policies while many tout him as an intellectual...the smart one in the GOP. He's not smart, nor has be accomplished anything positive. Good riddance.
The Republican tax heist that passed in December 2017. It's details confirmed that the Republican leaders’ primary goal was to enrich the country’s elite at the expense of everybody else, including future generations who will end up bearing the cost. This fatally flawed law has many hidden gems still coming to light.