Put upcoming Biden three trillion dollar infrastructure bill in context with trillions Fed used (printing $ trillions put right on deficit) artificially propping up stocks good for those with stocks, 401ks, even pensions but for half country w/o nada who nevertheless pay for ...
... roads. Set aside value of all the jobs created by infrastructure work (work unemployed need) just look at 1940-1961 when highest tax rate over 90% & not so many richest paid zero in taxes let alone complained about using $ to pay for Eisenhower interstate highway system ...
... with bridges now crumbling through neglect and unions were growing partners not enemies of companies closing income gap growing middle class away from just rich and poor. What happened to us? Now income gap increasing and middle class being forced into poverty through no ...
... fault of their own except those who bought into Trump/complicit GOP lie promised unfunded tax cuts 83% to top 1% would “ trickle down” and create jobs. Sadly they did neither just making rich richer. Trump/GOP 1st 3yrs BEFORE PANDEMIC created one million fewer jobs than ...
... Obama/Biden’s last three years and deficit about as big as Biden Covid relief bill which will create jobs and $ (at least) will go into economy instead of being held by rich or used by corporations to buy back their own stocks rather than create jobs. Not an opinion ...
... just facts which can be googled. Obama/Biden last 3yrs created a million more jobs REDUCING DEFICIT than Trump/complicit GOP did 1st 3yrs BEFORE PANDEMIC creating trillion+ deficit. DURING PANDEMIC Trump/complicit GOP ran deficit up many more trillions killing through ...
... deliberate misinformation and refusal to follow science hundreds of thousands of Americans who did not have to die from Covid ( Dr Birx just admitted it but played along when speaking up would have made a difference ). Covid handled as dishonestly by GOP as our economy.
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@johnlundin Reportedly McConnell bragged he told Obama to his face he’d never get a SC nominee & followed through refusing to bring Obama ‘s SC nominee Garland up even for discussion as required by Constitution Senate duty to advise & consent (or not). Filibuster NOT even in Constitution.
@johnlundin McConnell saying he will obstruct is entirely disingenuous because that’s all he’s done holding 100s of dem bills on his desk not bringing up even for discussion relishing “grim reaper” nickname quite literal with bipartisan Covid relief on his desk bill May to Dec 2020 ...
@johnlundin ... while almost 60,000 a day were forced into poverty and lines at food banks stretched to miles. How many lives could have been saved if McConnell had brought up universal background checks approved of by 90% of Americans including a majority of republicans. McConnell ...
Manchin focused on his personal opinion about importance of 2A minority rights not held by majority of Americans & minority rights of smaller population states many GOP & rights of minorities in his state who hold views like his 2A views contrary to majority in his state let...
...alone majority of Americans’ views in every state contrary to his own like approval of universal background checks & red flag laws has a right to go “scorched earth” along with McConnell & GOP to protect his minority views but is he willing to kill voting rights to protect 2A?
Kill voting rights (let GOP kill them with 253 bills and counting bills in individual states) just to protect a 2A“slippery slope” that does not exist. Background checks are not guns any more than large capacity magazines are guns. 50 or 100 round clips convenient for those ...
@Bodhi66@BerniceKing@soccermom1517 Respectfully, “in God we trust” did not appear on U.S. paper money until 1957 when Eisenhower signed it into law. It was NOT part of Constitution or “centuries,” of American life afterwards. I don’t know why he did it or if he would regret it now. Eisenhower in memoirs did ...
@Bodhi66@BerniceKing@soccermom1517 ... regret making a campaign stop for commie fear mongering Joseph McCarthy who ruined many people’s lives. Eisenhower knew McCarthy’s fear mongering was wrong but upon the advice of political advisors played along to get along just to get a few votes - something as I said he ...
@Bodhi66@BerniceKing@soccermom1517 ... regretted. I wonder what Eisenhower would think of Trump - someone if has regrets afraid voice them. I don’t know but I absolutely know what Lincoln would think of Trump because he made it very clear rejecting offer of Trump like “American” party “on principle” because...
Whatever happened to common sense one person’s rights end where another person’s begin?
1A freedom of religion means for each person individually - it was ever intended one person or one religion force their beliefs on others.
Pilgrims escaped persecution of ...
@BerniceKing@soccermom1517 ... Church of England which COULD persecute because it was part of the state.
We became independent because we did not want a king like England ( one man rule ) or any one religion forced on us ( Church of England take it or suffer consequences).
No religious declaration is...
@BerniceKing@soccermom1517 ... is required to be President or any other government official - separation of church and state. “So help me God” heard after oath sometimes is not required nor is Bible ( FDR was sworn in once without one ) -any book of beliefs may be used or no at all. “Swear” or “affirm” ...
Coincidence Amy Barrett believes Justices’s “opinion” should trump “precedence” in cases like Roe vs Wade?
Argument for HER is w/o original thinking of Justices like her slaves not free & women wouldn’t be able to vote.
She reveals herself in her 2013 hypothetical opinion on...
... what would happen if Roe vs Wade were overturned. She said states would be “free” to ban or keep abortion. Problem is while “states” would be “free” women would no longer be “free” to decide what to do with their own bodies.
Set aside fact Federalist Society (GOP) put in ...
... judges who followed “precedence” ( following what has already been decided ) and picking Barrett so monumentally and obviously gives them a judge not following precedent just to overturn precedent of Roe vs Wade which is a goal of single issue voters voting GOP.
2018 FL passed a Constitutional amendment former felons who previously could not vote could vote. But GOP Desantis legislators being who they are passed a more restrictive version with, yes, they can vote, but not any who have outstanding court fees or costs. Here’s my ...
... question. Previous felons who paid their debts to society can still vote which is only fair.
But are non-previous felons who have outstanding court costs or fees prevented from voting?
I hope not - I’m not advocating that.
Just pointing out this targeting court costs is...
... not about collecting outstanding debts it’s simple voter suppression. It’s an illegal poll tax - the old you pay a certain amount of money or you could not vote ruled illegal.
Not only should previous felons who owe court costs be able to vote as people never convicted ...