Offering No Solutions

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The House GOP is again going to play chicken with the US debt ceiling, saying they won’t go along with increasing the debt ceiling without balancing the budget.

They’ve rejected outright any tax increase. They also want to take funds away from the IRS, which the CBO projects will increase the deficit.

Various GOP factions have outright rejected any cuts to defense spending. Many reject cuts to entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.

The target then becomes discretionary domestic spending, with very popular programs such as farm subsidies, water programs, infrastructure, and more.

But to balance the budget by cutting only discretionary domestic spending would require cutting 85% of that spending.

So far there’s no solution offered up, let alone one that will pass the Senate and White House.

So we’re left with what… magic thinking? Or the favorite response when they don’t know what to do, thoughts and prayers.

It’s more newsworthy when America doesn’t have a mass shooting

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Half Moon Bay. Monterey Park. Chicago. Robinsonville. Baton Rouge. Shreveport. Houston. Fort Pierce. Goshen. Rockford. That’s not even all of them in the past week.

It’s so frequent we are numb to it. Maybe that’s why most of America continues to do nothing?

C’mon, Joe

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After all the fuss over Trump having classified government documents in his office, now we find that Biden had some in his private office, too, even when he was not in office.

Yes, it’s not the same, as the Biden team has voluntarily returned the documents to the National Archives when they found them, while Trump was holding documents long after their return was ordered.

But, c’mon, Joe, it’s not a good look.

Biden’s Immigration Plan

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The Biden Administration introduced a new immigration policy that makes no one happy. Among other policy plans, it would restrict people from applying for asylum at the U.S. Border, instead telling people to stay where they are and apply for asylum from home.

Completely ignoring that the reason people need asylum is because their home is no longer safe.

Do better, Joe.