Budget

Dangerous Federal Deficits

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With all the Trump drama, there is one extremely serious story which has a negative effect on everyone in the US. According to US budget analysts, POTUS tax cuts, spending bill is projected to raise the federal deficit to $804 Billion this year, that is nearly $1T by 2019.

The last 3 GOP presidents left Oval Office with higher deficits than when they were sworn in.

Both Democrat presidents left with lower deficits than when they walked in.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Trump is on track for a 2020 deficit to be 50% higher than 2017.

Hyperbole Presidency

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The Greeks used hyperbole, also known as exaggerations. The word is related to hyperballen, to throw over or beyond," from hyper- beyond + bole a throwing, a casting, the stroke of a missile, bolt, beam, from a nominative of Ballen "to throw". OK, do you know what it means when folks call it BS?

Do you have a good B.S. detector? You need one in our digital age. Spotting false information rubbish, lies, nonsense or, fake news is essential in this day and age.

Have you noticed a #POTUS pattern being used here? Do you know about the boy who cried wolf?

USA Revolution

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Americans are not only unhappy, the eagle has landed and the people have begun to stand up to take the nation back before its too late. Too many have perished and the deaths have sparked a #USA Revolution.

The young people are marching in the streets in a grassroots effort to demand change which will only occur by removing irresponsible politicians by electing true representatives of the people, by the people, for the people, who shall no longer perish.

Déjà vu Again and Again

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American children, as well as their parents, are furious with Congress and warning them that is you don't get their act together on gun violence, they will be replaced at the ballot box. The solution is not to run away from the problem and they're demand action now. A 6-minute fatal rampage for shocked Florida school https://www.yahoo.com/news/aftermath-shooting-community-mourns-wonders-…

Survivors of the Florida high school shooting are speaking out about the attack that nearly took their lives https://www.washingtonpost.com/?utm_term=.ce982ae1a7aa

Lawless GOP?

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Long-time Republican Senator and now US Attorney General Sessions is blasting a GOP Senator over a delay in DOJ nominations. During his speech at the National Sheriffs Association, he defended his marijuana policies and blamed Colorado's Cory Gardner for holding up high-ranking DOJ appointees in protest of those policies.
Attorney General Sessions Delivers Remarks to the National Sheriffs' Association https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/attorney-general-sessions-delivers-r…

Trump Budget

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President Trump's budget cuts necessary funding for Amtrak by half despite a string of deadly crashes. But it gets worse. Are you sitting down? Well, lay down for this one because there is a $554 billion cut in the US Medicare program in his released a $4.4 Trillion dollar budget.

Thos following are stories from the world's oldest news organizations and what they're reporting about the greatest and latest #Trump spending bill.

Trump's $4.4 trillion budget moves deficit sharply higher https://www.apnews.com/e50aec4820da4e30aed4bea9ff440e86

Trump budget cuts domestic programs, favors military and wall https://reut.rs/2G80m12

Trump says 'OK with me' if plan to rebuild roads founders https://www.apnews.com/d3ae66b59c8f461388d584a4bb33a322

Trump unveils infrastructure plan; uphill battle awaits in Congress https://reut.rs/2Bt54XU

Agency-by-agency highlights of Trump's 2019 budget https://www.apnews.com/56c0cf072a5446c295b179d069198e1b

US Distress SOS

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Some are characterizing it as irresponsible, impractical, unpredictable, and reprehensible so stick em up America, you're about to be ripped off to the max.

Following a military budget the likes of which the Pentagon has never ever seen. $700 billion is a whole lot more in defense spending than China and Russia.

And after strapping US taxpayers with an outrageous tax cut for big business which so far is not trickling down, is the GOP now plotting to remove Social Security benefits?

SS IS NOT A GIFT We and our employers paid 12.4% or more of our paychecks ALL OUR WORKING LIVES.

Cult of Personality

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Who's next among infamous cults of personality? Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao, Kim, Saddam, Putin, Castro...

Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders and prevention.
None of these dangerous men would have done their harm to humanity if they had undergone psychiatric tests. The longer they're in office, the more they shocked and alarmed with strange and extremely unpresidential behavior.

https://www.biography.com/video/adolf-hitler-playlist-5336039365001

https://www.biography.com/search?query=Mussolini

The Nightmare Before Christmas

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Back in the good old days during this season, the US ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, forever abolishing slavery in the United States. Now, American taxpayers have become slaves to big business after special interests wrote and made sure their "Yuge" tax bill was approved by our so-called representatives, which apparently never read it first.

The move has been called the art of a steal by Trump's hometown newspaper, but it can also be called robbing the hood, the engine, or just plain carjacking. Republicans in Congress delivered their epic overhaul of tax laws, bringing "Bigly" cuts for business, and tiny ones for middle-class Americans. No public hearings and no time for our independent government experts to analyze it.

Did fraudsters out in full swing and ready to steal our holiday cheer and we allowed them to get away with it? Those who swore to work in our best interest have allowed steep tax cuts for businesses and for the wealthy. There were no public hearings held on this tax bill as it stands. The US is about to pass the $1.5 trillion tax bill, and send it to the President's signature by Christmas.

Shame on @SpeakerRyan @HouseGOP, @SenateMajLdr @SenateGOP and on @POTUS and @realDonaldTrump
who refuses to show us his returns. What are you hiding? DoYouPay? #ShowMeTheMoney. #TRUMPTAXES

This tax bill is a win for donors, corporations, and the one percent. Its a win for corporations and a loss for the average American and will be a loss for you next year.

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little." President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Does Congress know what they are doing? The US House will have to vote once again on a sweeping tax overhaul after a late-afternoon glitch delayed the plan. US Senate parliamentarian ruled that three provisions in the bill did not comply with strict budget rules and would have to be taken out. Though Senators approved the bill Wednesday morning, now the House fixes the mistake, the GOP $1.5 Trillion bill is a permanent 40% tax cut for corporations, and smaller businesses will also see their tax burden shrink significantly. But what about the rest of US? A sweeping tax plan whose promises face widespread doubts https://apnews.com/fd184b6b1cbf499b954b2916df99db58

Open Enrollment Now

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We wonder why Trump has slashed Obamacare's ad budget, as well as grants to outside organizations that are supposed to help consumers sign up? Obamacare 2018 enrollment clouded by uncertainty under Trump https://reut.rs/2lD20ST

Months of debate over replacing #ACA and healthcare reform have added to confusion over the exchanges but health experts and advocates also say ACA funding cuts have played a role. Just do it before 12/15.