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A note on initial jobless claims

 – by New Deal democrat It’s Thursday, which typically means it’s time for the weekly initial and continuing jobless claims update. As we all know, the Federal government has shut down, because there is no budget for this fiscal year that began yesterday. BUT, I went back and checked, and during the extended government shutdown in […]

The Sanity of Student Loans

Oops my mistake. There is no sanity to student loans lasting a lifetime. Not when every other loan people have, get in trouble with, is forgiven through bankruptcy. It does not matter when or what they do is stupid, miscalculated, abused, spent unnecessarily, etc. The loans are forgiven. The only difference here is a student […]

The art of the deal

Until this year, China has been a major consumer of US soybeans. But Trump’s trade war with China has resulted in a shutdown of that major market for American farmers and billions of dollars in lost sales. Trump has promised federal dollars to farmers to compensate for the loss of the Chinese markets. So taxpayers […]

Taking Hostages and Threatening Their Healthcare?

Information on what happens if the Senate caves. A post from xpostfactoid (one of my go-to guys for information). Before his words is an example of the difference in cost for healthcare plans Before and after costs as taken out of the comments section: Silver: Was: $607 per month ($7,281 per year) in premiums (which […]

Anti-Trump lawsuit ROI

Trump has threatened to withhold federal funds generated in part through NYC taxpayer dollars from New York City if they don’t elect Mario Cuomo as mayor. Zohran Mamdani claps back: “I look for examples across this country that showcase the best way to respond to Donald Trump’s… threats rather is responding with strength,” he continued. […]

Government Shutdown . . . Maybe

The Trump Threats and Stare Offs Tonight I was looking around to see if there was a list of government departments which will shut down due to a Trump and his supplicants and ass-kissers being to afraid to say “no.” But I am sure Democrats will find some means of getting out of this fix […]

Hopefully, this Claim by Trump dies

More information on the Tylenol issue as created by our President’s claims of Tylenol being dangerous to the developing fetus. It is bad enough he will increase the deficit, cut ACA healthcare subsidies to millions, reduce Medicaid, and threatens those on Medicare. Now he is claiming Tylenol can cause harm to a fetus thereby spreading […]

Biden Left a Bad Economy for Tr_mp?

Not, likely although there were still recovery issues. This article is ~4 months old. It does not claim the problem of a bad economy when Tr_mp left office in 2020. It also does not state Biden left a bad economy for Tr_mp either. People seem to forget what took place 4 years ago. Donald Trump […]

“freedom of expression” is becoming the issue

Different legal opinion by a renowned legal expert. It answers the question of whether ABC infringed on Kimmel’s 1st Amendment rights. However, it should not have caved to the FCC when it threatened to pressure from the FCC. The FCC did violate 1st Amendment Rights of ABC by threatening them. “FCC overstepped in push to […]