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It's not very fun in any of those places. mspart

That would be a good thing. It needs to be eliminated. mspart

Stupid is as stupid does - Forrest's mother. mspart

The fine was a crock. It was designed to do just this. mspart

Is it possible RV was saying no increasing inflation rates? If taxes are raised, deficits go down and no more inflation pressure. Maybe he wasn't talking about tax rates. His main goal is to reduce the deficit. He just wants to go about it by raising taxes more and more and more. He mentions cutting spending only with regard to Defense. He doesn't want to cut any other spending. I am good with 10% across the board spending cuts. That is not enough to erase the deficit but would be a good start. There is no way the government cannot handle 10% real spending cuts. Right now. Then hold those cuts in real money for a few years. That would bring the deficit to zero. No more auto inflation raises. I might make an exception for the VA. But then you have to start making exceptions for every other thing. But I think VA has a special place that should not be touched other than getting rid of waste. mspart

I think you do know what to do about it. But it is too draconian. What to do? Every nation needs be forced to go cold turkey on fossil fuels right now because we have almost gone over the edge if not already of no return. That means no more air conditioning, no more flights, no more cars, no more factories, no more cooking on electric or natural gas, no more computers, no more anything. Back to the 1500's with us. And along with that mass extermination of billions of people due to disease and injury/infection. We must do this now because we don't have enough wind and solar and nuclear power to cover the whole world so the UN will have to shut everyone down. By force. And that will go over really well I'm sure we all can see. So in other words, we do what we can, we can't force anyone else to do anything. And know that our efforts alone are futile in the end. I am sure that our emissions affect the atmosphere. How much I do not know. To affect climate change as much as they say, I don't think so, but I think it is not unreasonable to think that humans have a part in it. 100% part, I don't think so. I guess we need to get into sequestering technologies or converting gaseous CO2 to something solid like C + gaseous O2. Yeah, make diamonds. mspart

Not to mention volcanoes. Those are notorious emitters. There's an island forming in the Hawaiian chain east of the Big Island. It just spews and spews. The top is 3000 feet below sea level. It has another 50k years of growing to do before it pops out. mspart

Care to restate that? https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/CUUR0000SA0L1E?output_view=pct_12mths It appears to me it was going down near the end of 2020 and into 2021. Yes things have gotten better than the 4 years of Trump inflation wise. mspart

So what do we do about it? Force China and India to change their ways? We have reduced emissions more than any other country. But it is not enough. Look at how much China and India have increased their emissions. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2024/02/04/why-the-us-leads-the-world-in-reducing-carbon-emissions/?sh=3eacd1c3541c Ain't nothing going to change until those top two guys do something. We continue to reduce our emissions and that is good, but not at as big a pace as they are increasing. And us in WA state are doing everything we can and it is not even a blip, just like Inslee's Presidential campaign. We are paying more for gas, heating oil, natural gas, food, other goods, and it just isn't doing much. mspart

RV, I disagree. You say probably need to cut spending. There is no probably. It is necessary to get the budget under control. In the environment we have operated in for years and years, an increase in taxes increases spending. A decrease in taxes increases spending. When has there been a decrease in spending in our lifetime? That needs to happen now. Budget is 6.5 Trillion. 1.5 Trillion is deficit spending. That is 23% of the budget. That is just plain wrong. So maybe rather than eliminate 100B from each department, we just reduce each of their budgets by 23%. They will have to figure out what is the most important spending and eliminate the not so important spending. That's what they get paid the big bucks for. The national debt is 34.5 Trillion now. We will need to hold the spending down, taxes will increase as they always have and the overage can be put to paying down the debt. It will take years to accomplish but it won't be done by taxing more with nothing more being done to curb spending. Interest is now 0.66 Trillion per year and going up. That is 10% of the budget. Put "when was the last time the federal government reduced spending" into google or some search engine. You don't get an answer. There are plenty of moans about reducing the projected rise in spending. But that is still increased spending. It never stops. It really needs to or we are in deeper do do than climate change. The economic climate will do a real doosy on us. mspart

Deficit is projected to be 1.5 Trillion for 2024. There are 15 federal departments. Each reduces their budget by 100B and we have a balanced budget. Now perhaps more can be taken from some and less from others but that is the deal. Each department on average spends 100B more than they have. That has to stop. mspart

It would be more prudent to reduce spending now, and then if that can no longer be done, then introduce new taxation. At least in my opinion. Any increase in taxes will be met immediately with increased deficit spending. mspart

Completely unreasonable to assert that we can realistically reduce the deficit by any meaningful amount by relying 100% upon increasing taxes; especially when these same people hypocritically want to INCREASE budgetary spending, which is already a fat, bloated pig. mspart

Nothing he said relates to Fani. He's just spouting off. The Rs didn't make her commit adultery. The Rs didn't make her commit adultery with an underling. The R's didn't make her pay her consort huge amounts of money so they could share in the largesse. The Rs didn't make Fani deny the affair. The Rs didn't make Fani and her consort lie about the timing of the affair in court. But it seems that it was up to those under indictment to dredge this up and show all the world how there is a two tier system of justice. 20 years ago, both would have been booted from the case. How the judge could kick one off but not the other for both lying to the court is unbelievable. They both perjured themselves which last I heard is an offense worth prison time. Now of course, they will have to be indicted for such and seeing that the DA is populated with one of the two, an indictment will not be coming quickly. mspart

If everyone wrestles to seed, what will the team scores be? If someone has this info that would be great. Not asking anyone to go do it jusr for the sake of it. I'm just curious. mspart

He has 7 more days to let us enquiring minds know. mspart

She came along for the ride with Mr. I'm not Trump. mspart

I don't think much will change with a sale either, other than China will not have direct access to the data anymore. The ides of social media was so friends could connect. That is no longer their purpose. mspart

Since we are informed that common sense is not a thing, what will stop this madness? mspart

What demographics are those since the party hasn't been around all that long? mspart

If it isn't Nikki, I'd be surprised. mspart

Harris has already run for President. She was out before primary voting began with 0% support. She was dumb then. If your statement is true, then she has gotten even dumber. Which is possible I guess. mspart

The distinction that you are making here is between legal migrants and illegal migrants. You want to believe that all people coming to the US are legal migrants or just migrants, but that is not the actual case. The difference is between those that came with the express good wishes of US Law and those that didn't. No one wants to keep legal migrants out of the country. Immigration laws already account for these people. Most everyone wants to keep illegal migrants out of the country. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/03/07/state-of-the-union-2024-where-americans-stand-on-the-economy-immigration-and-other-key-issues/ It can be easily argued that the yellow box and the red arrows are greatly related. Reduce illegal immigration, you will reduce crime. Maybe just a little but it will reduce it. Without so many kids in the schools, education will improve. Without so many illegal migrants using hte health care system, that will reduce health care costs. And closing the border will reduce the danger of terrorism. Many terrorists have been caught. How many haven't been caught with this porous border? Reducing illegal drugs is a big issue. Closing the border would help with this. Your position is not based on any fact, law or common sense. You deny there is common sense so you are against facts and the law. I rebut you on this, but with no hope that you will read this or actually admit your error. You will just keep on posting your erroneous emotional diatribes here that have nothing to do with fact and law (or common sense for that matter). To continually do so is proof of your empty rhetoric. mspart

Trillion per month?!?!?! I can see per year, but per month. That's 12 trillion per year. At 8% that's 100 Trilliion in debt. I guess we are heading there but in 10 years? That should wake someone up. mspart

True. How do you eliminate Tik Tok in the US? You can make it illegal to provide the app from an app store. But with VPN, anyone can go anywhere and get the app no problem. There is no stopping it, you have to bankrupt them. I'm not sure forcing a sale is any better, but at least it wouldn't be China. Of course, a case could be made that China derives very little of value from Tik Tok since there is nothing of value on that platform. mspart