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US General Domestic Politics #38 Begins 11/02/21.


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7 hours ago, Ridgerunner said:

JFK jr. killed himself and his wife through an act of stupidity when he tried to fly a plane in foggy conditions when he was not yet instrument qualified.:sad:

Wrong.  He was instrument qualified, but didn't trust them when he needed to.  It wasn't stupid, it was sad and unfortunate.  Do you have a shred of decency inside your black heart?

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8 hours ago, Ridgerunner said:

Right now they are helping the country by stopping Democrat legislation that would destroy the country. Thank God for the checks and balances system written into our U.S. Constitution.

You're happy because your Authoritarian dream is still alive.

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8 hours ago, Ridgerunner said:

Air quality in the U.S. actually improved during the Trump Administration.

OMG you're a fucking idiot.  Air quality improved because Covid kept everyone inside for a long period of time.  Fucking moron.

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8 hours ago, Ridgerunner said:

No, that's exactly what the Democrats are trying to do right now. The purpose of their so called voting rights legislation is to insure that Democrats never ever lose another election. The dictator governor of Michigan just vetoed a voter ID bill because the legislation would make it more difficult for Democrats to steal elections. 

It's called free and fair elections asshole.  The voter's rights bill will stop GQPers from changing the results when they lose and have a butthurt attack.

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8 hours ago, Ridgerunner said:

I thought you did research. Apparently the only research you do is in left wing propaganda blogs. Actually, it's very easy to research current news. Just go the MSN News web page and browse the headlines. But I guess for someone as dumb as you that's too difficult. 

Stupid comment.

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9 hours ago, Ridgerunner said:

No, Biden should have told the world that he is an incompetent, senile asshole that is nothing more than a figure head who has a White House staff telling him what to do.

Your ignorance is unlimited.

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The “Rs” will do whatever it takes to protect their wealthy and corporate donor base, but when it comes to serving the best interests of the nations citizens, they turn their backs again and again. This is easily illustrated by the “Rs” recent responses to funding the Infrastructure measure. Originally it called for a rollback of the 2017 tax breaks that primarily benefited the wealthy and corporate sector which they rejected. Next there was a proposal to increase funding for the IRS to specifically go after wealthy and corporate tax cheats who have short changed this nation by trillions over the years. That too was rejected. Finally they “agreed” (by process of elimination, they dictated) using unspent pandemic emergency funds while we are seeing new surges with the Delta Strain and a new strain just discovered in Florida, one of the states with a low vaccination rate, that are forcing a return to restrictions, along with a program to go after “fraud” in Unemployment.

Again spare those at the top and themselves by sacrificing the average citizen. That’s been the “R” way for a while now.

Some Dems, like Sen . Manchin who claimed that S.1 (The For The People Act) was too “partisan”, but then doesn’t bat an eyelash at the “Rs” decidedly “partisan” agenda and activities, are also at fault. Instead he and other Dem holdouts should be pushing to raise or better yet, abolish the earnings cap. If that happened the trust would be self sustaining for decades - even centuries - and benefits could be increased to get seniors, the disabled, and survivors out of poverty.

It is getting wearisome that that these two extremely popular programs are always trotted out like “sacrificial lambs” whenever an issue with the budget comes up.

Social Security is a sustaining trust where benefits are paid for by both employee and employer contributions throughout an individual’s working life, not from the general fund. Same for Medicare. Therefore that part is, or is supposed to be, immune to deficit and debt caps. The funding part that does come out of the general budget is for administrative operations, which is tiny in comparison to the what the MICC, fossil fuel industry, Pharma, and other special interests receive, and has been already cut to the bone.

The only other time the general fund comes into play is if there is a surplus in funds collected which is converted to treasury bonds that other programs and expenditures borrow against, and must repay. That has nothing to do with inflation or debt ceilings, though it is using our hard earned contributions as temporary form “collateral”.  From their viewpoint, it does make sense to gut benefits because that makes for a larger treasury “piggy bank” other spending measures can use instead to avoid debt or deficit ceilings. So not only will workers pay income tax all their working lives to support the nation’s budget, but now more of their SS and Medicare contributions as well, which will never benefit them as they should.

It is becoming increasingly infuriating that our elected representatives on “Capital Hill” (not a typo, I call it that because it’s pretty much bought and paid for by special interest PACs and lobbies, in major part thanks to the “Wealth United” ruling that gives corporations person-hood and opened up the floodgates for PACs to dump hundreds of millions into election campaigns, who put the interests of the privileged and corporate sector and their own selfish interests above their job of representing the citizens and nation whom they swore and oath to serve

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