Well, the Big Beautiful Bill passed, and I've expressed my concerns and what I think the budget should be all about. I didn't go far enough. There's a lot of clabber from both sides, and believe it or not, both sides have valid arguments, both sides are lying, but the Democrats are so over the top with their usual emotional pontifications they win the Horsepucky of the Year Award, hands down.
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On Friday I posted this piece, Budgets, the National Debt, and We're Running Out of Time, and since I knew there was going to be a lot of commentaries about this budget I decided to add links to that article I deemed worth your time, from both sides. But one regarding Medicare was particularly profound in my view because it highlights three important issues this bill on how to fix Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid before they collapse.
It seems clear if Social Security isn't privatized it will take a huge tax increase to save it, Medicare will no longer be mostly free. It also seems to me Medicare recipients who paid into the system, will soon have to start paying monthly premiums. As for Medicaid, that's an anchor that's going to drag the nation down with politicians on both sides of the aisle virtue signally with self-righteous hand wringing and chest pounding. At one point the Republican controlled Senate, with a 56/44 vote, actually refused to kick illegal aliens off Medicaid. Three Republicans crossed over. Are you shocked to know Susan Collins was one of them.
- BELLY-UP—Medicare and Social Security Going Broke Ahead of Schedule - Final Word: Blind pundits only see rising taxes or cutting. It’s not ‘time travel’; the clock is just running faster, but the frightening news is, America is fighting against the clock and losing. The long-feared insolvency of Medicare and Social Security just got a little closer....
- The 'Go-Broke Date' for Social Security Is Moved Up - Social Security and Medicare are heading toward financial trouble sooner than expected, according to new federal projections. The Treasury Department's latest reports show that Social Security's combined trust funds are now forecast to not contain enough money to pay full benefits in 2034—one year earlier than last year's estimate, Politico reports. Medicare's hospital insurance fund is set to be depleted in 2033, moving up its funding cliff by three years........
As more and more classified information is being found by Trump appointees, and it's shocking how much these agencies hid, and are still trying to hide. People like "former FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and DNI James Clapper worked together to purposely corrupt the Trump-Russia investigation in 2016 before Trump entered office."
The FBI blocked an investigation into the 2020 "Chinese mail-in voting scam to protect Chris Wray who likely lied to Congress". The DOJ is pursuing that and before all of this is over, and if there's any justice in the world, Wray, Comey, Brennan, and Clapper should all be heading to prison. After all, "no one is above the law." (More here) But it gets better. Those who corruptly went after Donald Trump filing false criminal charges against him are going to be exposed, as Senator Grassley is promising to name names.
The Trump administration is purging the EPA which is long....long... overdue, a full scale audit "of the SBA 8(a) program found over $550 million in contracts were linked to bribery and fraud schemes."
Let me tell you about Wilson Tindi, DEI and due process. Tindi is an illegal alien from Kenya. A convicted felon, and registered sex offender who the state of Minnesota knowingly hired as an auditor rising to the "highest rank available in the state career civil service".
Did you ever wonder why the left is so hot due process for illegals? Because it's forever. This article outlines how this has been going on with this guy since 2005, his criminal activity and the "due process" procedures, all of which he lost, and he's still here. That's what the left's due process is all about, straining the system to make in impossible to deport illegal aliens. If a man with his criminal record can't be deported, it's impossible to deport anyone easily. I might also add so much of this would be impossible if not for the corrupt federal judges who are part of this story.
University of Pennsylvania has been forced to apologize for robbing female athletes of winning titles promoting and allowing a man who calls himself Lia Thomas to compete against women, and have now stripped Thomas of his improperly earned titles. In my opinion, this may have also deprived these women of financial opportunities, so not only the university, but university officials and Thomas need to be sued personally.
Let's talk about Russia for a minute. Here's a map of Ukraine that Russia has now conquered, after over three and a half years, .... that's it, and Putin tells Trump Russia will never stop trying to conquer Ukraine.
His economy is crashing, their agricultural harvests are shrinking, and due to sanctions only 16 nations are buying Russian grain. Since the price of oil is dropping, and for reasons I don't understand the value of the ruble is strong, so Russia's gas revenues fell dramatically. Russia's small business community is facing declines in sales, with the expected loss of revenue making it difficult to get loans, resulting in cuts to expansion and hiring. The decline in small businesses is a bigger part of the story than is appreciated.
You can tell when a tree is starting to die because it no longer produces leaves on the upper branches, and each year the number of bare branches increases. It feels like the leaves have fallen off the upper branches of the country. Unknown
Putin's lost hundreds of thousands of young Russian men and is incapable of fielding his army without tens of thousands of North Korean "volunteers". He can't manufacture the military hardware he needs, and now Iran may not be able to supply him the drones he's been using. Another high ranking officer has been killed, and I have to say I've never read where so many high ranking officers have been killed in a war as this one.
As for the blatantly stupid argument about Putin attacked Ukraine because he was afraid of NATO, and not blatant aggression, then perhaps they can explain to me why "Russia continues to illegally occupy about 20% of Georgian territory?"
In Tony Judt's book Post war, a History of Europe since 1945, Part Two, Chapter IX he goes into great detail about the Hungarian revolution and Czech resistance and the Soviet use of force to make sure they all stayed under Soviet control. Nothing's changed except the names. It's not about depth of defense, it's about conquest and power, it really is that simple, it's always been that simple, and it will always be that simple when dealing with Russia. And everyone needs to get that.
Trump needs to understand even his negotiating skills, which are impressive, aren't going to make a difference. We're already seeing his remarkable negotiations between Congo and Rwanda starting to come apart with disputes over interpretation, economics, and the continued violence by "proxy" groups. I'm not expecting to see this agreement to hold. For the sake of all these people who've suffered mighty for 30 years, I hope I'm wrong.
Europe is a mess, and I've a lot of stored articles dealing with that, so more will be coming soon. My conclusion is, and has been for a long time, Europe as we know is is doomed. They did it to themselves, and it's going to get a lot worse.
And finally, Elon Musk is still at it, looking for attention. First of all, the only third party to be successful in America is the Republican party, and an attempt to be a Ross Perot spoiler for political clout by backstabbing former allies isn't going to play well. Nothing is in his favor. His character, his actions, or his goals. While Ross Perot could be criticized, his goals were deemed honorable. Not so with Musk. This "new party" is going nowhere, and any clout he will have will be in his ability to contribute heavily to politicians of his choice, and that may even end up to be a nothing burger.
I've been busy this week with 12 commentaries of my own and 19 by others, and the six permanent links. Have a great weekend, and best wishes to all those of honest heart and good will.
Let's start out with this Quote of the Day.
My Commentaries
- Budgets, the National Debt, and We're Running Out of Time
- The Left is Bereft of Heft
- The XYZ Factors of Organizations
- Now, Back to the House
- Who Raises A Banner That Says: I Stand For Consensus!
- Is Aphorism Another Name For Humor and Snarkiness?
- Elon is Just Being Elon. So, Who Cares?
- Trump, the Federal Judiciary, and The Government of the United States
- Slinging Sammy Baugh
- International Asteroid Day
- Is Zohran Mamdani Really the Anointed One? Part II
- Let Me Get This Straight
- The EPA Grows A Pair And Takes A Stand On Glyphosate By Josh Bloom
- When Did Michelle Obama Turn into a Harridan? By Susan Daniels
- Treasury Must Protect American Companies By Paul Driessen
- Burning trash for energy, people and planet By Paul Driessen
- Boston Muslim Illegal Alien Councilwoman Replaces July 4th Before Going to Prison By Daniel Greenfield
- A Radical Company is Paying Supreme Court Justices Millions By Daniel Greenfield
- Who Really Bombed a Damascus Church? By Daniel Greenfield
- Democrats Gone Wild By Robin Itzler
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier Guards By Robin Itzler
- Made in America: But check the label By Robin Itzler
- The 2030 Census and Making America Great Again By Robin Itzler
- Revolutionary War Secrets And July 4th Trivia By Robin Itzler
- Settler-Colonialist Zohran Mamdani Calls For "Seizing The Means Of Production" By Francis Menton
- Since Upper-Income Taxpayers Finance the American Welfare State, Leftists Should Be Nice to Rich People, Part II By Dan Mitchell
- Is the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Worth Supporting? By Dan Mitchell
- Ohio Joins the Flat Tax Club By Dan Mitchell
- What’s the Most Important Election of 2025?
- Another Contestant for Politician of the Year By Dan Mitchell
- Feds Fail to Offset Wind Turbine Eagle Kill By Craig Rucker
Elon Musk continues to disappoint. He will make it so no one wants to work with him because if he doesn’t get his way he throws a tantrum.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your interest, and I agree.
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