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Inflation should not have been a surprise and if the media was paying attention to the Democrats spending spree they could have predicted it.
From 2019 to 2024 the federal budget increased from $4.4T to $6.8T. That is a ridiculous, and irresponsible, increase of 55% . In the meantime, revenues increase by 40% or $1T. That kind of government spending is going to cause inflation. In 2024, the budget deficit increased to $1.9T! That is absurd.
Trump needs to get this under control if he can. The problem is Medicare and Medicaid costs increase by $430 billion. Interest on the debt increased by almost $600 billion, to just under $1T per year.
This doesn't even include Social Security which will be under water in a few years.
Based on the revenue increases this is clearly not a revenue or taxation issue. It is a spending issue, and if you look at the budgets over the years it has always been a spending issue. This is why calling for more taxes on the rich is just politics. Taxing the rich more will not put a dent in the deficit. We have to stop spending. Having worked in the private sector for over 35 years I know we could cut 20% out of the federal budget without any Americans feeling the difference. Trump needs to get it done.
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And stupid Alaska Republicans are the reason she is still in office. She should have lost her last election, and by a normal process she would have. But Republicans put in ranked choice voting in Alaska and that is the only reason she won. Alaska needs to do away with this system and then Murkowski will lose just like Cheney did.
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More info on Alaska's ranked choice voting. Last November Alaskans voted on a measure to repeal the ranked choice voting and that measure was defeated by a few hundred votes. The campaign to keep the system brought in over $14 million from outside sources, including a number of out of state media groups. You have to ask why would out of states organizations donate money to support or oppose a voting bill in Alaska? The answer is simple, they know this bill makes it possible to sneak in candidates who would have no chance of winning in a purely Democratic vote. Ironically, groups that claim to support Democracy were the largest contributors to the campaign to keep the ranked choice system.
The proponents of the bill to eliminate ranked choice voting have vowed to continue the fight. They can try to get the same measure on the ballot again, or the state legislature can pass a bill eliminating it. Alaska is a RED states with a Republican legislature. They can undo this voting system very easily, and the governor will sign the bill. All it takes is Alaskan Republicans to get on the phones can let their representatives know they need to get this done.
The proponents of the bill to eliminate ranked choice voting have vowed to continue the fight. They can try to get the same measure on the ballot again, or the state legislature can pass a bill eliminating it. Alaska is a RED states with a Republican legislature. They can undo this voting system very easily, and the governor will sign the bill. All it takes is Alaskan Republicans to get on the phones can let their representatives know they need to get this done.
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Forcing it on the ballot in 2026 will be too late. The governement needs to get involved with election integrity measures.
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The Democratic Party has become the party of the bitter & aggrieved with an axe to grind they wield whenever possibly upon the object of their disdain. It's a horrible to view life through the lens of misery and its even worse to have these people in positions of power and/or influence.
Every avid Trump hater I meet is angry, bitter &/or arrogant who feel free to puke any thought that is in their head at any time and place they choose but gawd forbid you try to engage them in discourse, they'll close that down faster than a screen door in a hurricane (or block you if you're on Twitter, et al but not before leaving an insult you never get a chance to respond to)
The cries of Trump is just like Hitler in the days before he took power are ringing louder than ever from so called Facebook experts who are both Jewish and claim to be well studied in that era. I marvel at their certainty and wonder why I see things so differently
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The grievance industrial complex.
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Ex Dem Senator Bob Menendez is now on Trump's side....
“President Trump is right. This process is political and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system,” he said, reading from a sheet of paper and calling himself the victim of “the Wild West of political prosecutions.”
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“President Trump is right. This process is political and it’s corrupted to the core. I hope President Trump cleans up the cesspool and restores the integrity to the system,” he said, reading from a sheet of paper and calling himself the victim of “the Wild West of political prosecutions.”
Former US Sen. Bob Menendez gets 11 years in prison for taking bribes and acting as agent of Egypt
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for his conviction for accepting bribes of gold and cash and acting as an agent of Egypt, crimes his own lawyer said earned him the nickname "Gold Bar Bob."
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