September 25, 20223 yr On 9/20/2022 at 11:20 AM, The_Omega said: District 12 representin yo! @The_Omega can't dance for ish!
September 27, 20223 yr Quote Student Loan Forgiveness Price Tag: $400 Billion The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has crunched the numbers and made its best guess as to how much Joe Biden's student-loan-forgiveness plan will cost the federal government. As you can see from the headline, it's a cool $400 billion over a period of many years. Note that the emphasis here should be on "best guess." The CBO always has to build its projections around assumptions of future behaviors and trends, but this particular situation is especially difficult to model. It's not known how many people will actually apply for the forgiveness, what the debt profile of those folks will be, how other debt-forgiveness programs will factor in, etc., etc. So, that $400 billion is just a ballpark figure. Very ballpark. Of course, it would be political malpractice for Republicans not to wield this as a political cudgel. And that is what they are already doing, as you might expect. For example, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) decreed: "CBO's $400 billion cost estimate shows this administration has lost all sense of fiscal responsibility. Rather than working with Congress to bring down college costs, President Biden has opted to bury the American people under our unsustainable debt." The Democrats do have a potentially useful response here. Two of them, actually. Option one is to point out that student debt is out of control, and that anything that badly constrains the purchasing power of the middle class ultimately brings down the whole economy. This is all true, but is a little too complicated for a sound bite, though. So, that brings us to option two: Point out that the Donald Trump tax cuts cost the government $230 billion. Per year. For 10 years. The staff accountant advises us that $2.3 trillion (i.e., $230 billion times 10) is rather more than $400 billion. We'll see if the blue team fights fire with fire. Normally, Democratic politicians are too gun shy for that, but this cycle they've displayed a decidedly more cutthroat style. (Z)
September 27, 20223 yr https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2022/09/20/most-republicans-support-declaring-the-united-states-a-christian-nation-00057736
September 27, 20223 yr 20 minutes ago, Tnt4philly said: https://www.politico.com/amp/news/magazine/2022/09/20/most-republicans-support-declaring-the-united-states-a-christian-nation-00057736
September 27, 20223 yr The most hilarious part is that they all lined up and chose Trump to be leader of their Christian Nationalistic movement. Is there anybody cast more in Christ's image than the guy who had an affair with a pornstar while his 3rd wife was at home pregnant with his 5th child? I submit that there is not.
September 27, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: The most hilarious part is that they all lined up and chose Trump to be leader of their Christian Nationalistic movement. Is there anybody cast more in Christ's image than the guy who had an affair with a pornstar while his 3rd wife was at home pregnant with his 5th child? I submit that there is not. Plus raping one of his wives.
September 27, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said: The most hilarious part is that they all lined up and chose Trump to be leader of their Christian Nationalistic movement. Is there anybody cast more in Christ's image than the guy who had an affair with a pornstar while his 3rd wife was at home pregnant with his 5th child? I submit that there is not. Never attended church the entire time he was president. Biden attends mass every Sunday and they hate him.
September 27, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, downundermike said: Plus raping one of his wives. Let he who is without 20+ allegations of sexual misconduct (including teens) cast the first stone.
September 27, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, we_gotta_believe said: The most hilarious part is that they all lined up and chose Trump to be leader of their Christian Nationalistic movement. Is there anybody cast more in Christ's image than the guy who had an affair with a pornstar while his 3rd wife was at home pregnant with his 5th child? I submit that there is not. They say that their god has always used unsavory characters to do his work. They use Bible passages and all.
September 27, 20223 yr 1 minute ago, Tnt4philly said: They say that their god has always used unsavory characters to do his work. They use Bible passages and all. I think it was Irony Eagle that once said Trump was literally sent by God to save America. We all laughed, naturally, but he was dead serious.
October 4, 20223 yr 25 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Ouch, that has to hurt. He is a family man. The Manson family.
October 4, 20223 yr Author 26 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Ouch, that has to hurt. Counterpoint: his opponent is a Democrat.
October 4, 20223 yr On 9/27/2022 at 3:04 PM, we_gotta_believe said: Let he who is without 20+ allegations of sexual misconduct (including teens) cast the first stone. Biden won't be speaking.
October 5, 20223 yr Trump Furious at Herschel Walker: "Only a Loser Pays His Bills” PALM BEACH — Donald J. Trump has angrily withdrawn his support from the U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker because, in the former President’s words, "only a loser pays his bills.” Reports that Walker paid a bill in 2009 "made me very upset and, quite frankly, very mad, because it means that Herschel, who I thought was a tremendous guy and very smart, is not so smart and maybe even a big dummy,” Trump posted on his social-media platform, Truth Social.
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