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Mari-José McMillian-Alcala's avatar

Thank you so much for your article. It explains thoroughly the situation in a very comprehensive way.

I'm from Switzerland and follow you guys on a dayly basé.

Keep up the good job 💙💙💙💙💙

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Jackie Robare Fiese's avatar

Failure!! Oh my God!! They got rid of all those people so Cockwomble could have that money to ‘play’ with. There were so many other ways to save besides getting rid of skilled workers.

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Susan Lionheart's avatar

He rigged the 2024 election for trump!

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Jim Tripp's avatar

It's wonderful to see Mockler HQ dive in on the debt at the perfect time: shutdown. I've written extensively on it this year, in my humble little substack, especially on the need for taxing the greedy to SOLVE the problem of the debt. Check out my post "Tax the greedy. Help the needy." https://hjamesphd.substack.com/p/tax-the-greedy-help-the-needy . It has embedded in it a post of mine on the fact that high taxes on the wealthiest do not kill the economy. Republicans pretend that the only solution to debt is to cut welfare and cut taxes for corporations and billionaires.

I proposed a balanced budget using chatgpt. We could zero the deficit this year. https://hjamesphd.substack.com/p/holy-crap-could-a-negotiable-balanced

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Adam Knight's avatar

Elons DODGE or rather DOD-GE(Y) was never designed to do what it said on the label !

It was a HEIST & EVIDENCE DELETION exercise!

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Judy Cross's avatar

What a shit show. The Republican have more money, therefore, they should continue to have more money at everyone's cost. The government doesn't care if they bankrupt the country as long as they have the money in their pockets. They take from the poor and the middle class to put more money in their pockets, when they could be paying their fair share and helping the country out. If we ran our households the way this government does, we would be homeless within a year. No place to live, no food to eat, unless you want to dumpster dive, no insurance, no new clothes, just the clothes that we could carry in a paper bag. Maybe a law should be passed that they pay more than their fair share because they have gotten away with the skimming for years. Maybe they should be responsible for paying the national debt, since they helped create it. Maybe it's past time for them to live like responsible US citizens, as so many of us have for years. Maybe their mansions should be open to the public to live in, those that don't have a home to call their own. Maybe they should share their meals with those that are hungry. Maybe it's past time for their turning their backs on our county and the people that live in it. They need to do their fair share and they need to do it honorably. Cut out the greed and the lies. Cut out the thinking that your money makes you superior. Do some good because you live in the US along with us and no longer because of us.

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Adam Knight's avatar

But that's why they're killing us of.

Because of sheer GREED !!!!

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Susan Norrell's avatar

Thank you so much for the information! Can’t rely n main stream media to give us information anymore! 💙💙💙💙

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HungarianAgrarian's avatar

Corporations are making more money than ever and I still have to do self serve when I go to the supermarket or doctors office to check in!!!

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Lulu Manus's avatar

The dictator's $1 million per day military deployments are also a huge failure.

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Della Mae Johnston's avatar

And truly all for nothing but cruelty and 'show'.

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Adam Knight's avatar

Revenge Presidency because we didn't let him win in 2020 !!

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Sheila's avatar

Does anyone want to take this situation on in 2028! That becomes the next problem, it’s such an absolute sh** show that no-one wants to govern.

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Adam Knight's avatar

REMOVE THE PDFILE ORANGE FUHERUR BEFORE HE REMOVES YOU!!!

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Honest Levine's avatar

Opt out of paying taxes, no representation no taxation. 👀🙄 America needs to be a more civilized society, FREE HEALTH CARE, food relief, education, safe homes, room for discovery, career security and healthy communities.

We want better and bigger for us. Hope for generations.

NOT TO BE AT WAR WITH OURSELVES OR OTHERS.

We have fed and sheltered, etc… others around the world, more than ourselves. WHY AND WHEN? Will we see our dollar coming back to us, (1M) each citizen? 😏

Almost 4 trillion in fiscal deficit. Where's the money?🤔

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Fink Daddy's avatar

It did everything it was designed to do.

It harpooned investigations against Musk by crippling the agencies launching them and punished the world's poorest.

Plus it harvested insane amounts of dara about the citizenry for AI surveillance.

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Trish's avatar

Excellent, well written article. Thank you.

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Carol Senal's avatar

I’m not so sure about that. I hope you’re right.

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Mary-Jane Aladren's avatar

Interesting because I think I have just seen Robert Reich saying that 1 in every 3 US dollars belongs to the 1% billionaires. Seems striking to me that the ratio is the same.

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Waskily Wabbit's avatar

Ever since the first time I was able to vote I have heard from Republicans how bad the

Tax and Spend Democrats are and how all of our countries problems are because of Tax and Spend. I have not had a response to this when it was said to me. But now it’s so easy because of the internet to go back and check.

The proof is in the history. Republicans have raised taxes and deficits every time they have been in office. Then if a Democrat is elected to replace them every time the story has been told by Republicans that we have to lower the debt and stop these tax and spend democrats. It’s like a broken record and the democrats have nothing to say when it happens. They don’t offer even a NO not true! They think the voters know what’s going on here but the voters might start out knowing but a voter will remember something that is said to them 50 times more than something that they have heard only once or maybe twice.

That narrative needs to change. When we hear tax and spend democrats we need to say something no matter who said it. It goes on at the state level too. It’s crazy. The last two republican governors of our state ran up deficits that made it impossible to balance the budget. Finally after 12 years a democrat was elected governor. Then almost immediately it started. The tax and spend Democrat was going to bankrupt the state and raise our taxes.

At first the new governor did and said nothing he just tried to get things done to get the budget back in balance. Then the new governor said he was going to have to raise DMV FEES to balance the budget there was no other it had gone 12 years with rainbows and wishes and it would take some money to fix so the governor put it on the ballot and the tax was approved. Of course Republicans are just screaming from the rafters about tax and spend democrats raising taxes and how they didn’t raise taxes in 12 years. Oh they definitely spent more they just didn’t have any way planned to pay for it. So far the people have remembered how it was before and not elected any other republican. But a governor election year is coming up and the republicans are doubling down with their tax and spend lies. Just remember that the last Republican in office padded over billions because he couldn’t do anything about it oh he tried he just didn’t find anyway to do it.

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