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USMAC Exempts Certain Items Coming out of Mexico and Canada

It must be fun to play the crowd, making them think what a tough guy the president is. Did he (being Trump) not know there was a trade agreement with Mexico? Something called the USMCA Agreement? Of course, he did. Of course, much of the US population do not realize this exists and has existed […]

The Trump/Vance Administration seeks academic mediocrity

American universities are the envy of the world—for now. If President Musk’s cuts to the NIH budget hold, that will likely change*. But for JD Vance, that’s a feature, not a bug: “When President Trump and his allies think of the idealized version of higher education, they don’t look to the Ivy League or the […]

Word Usage for Which the Usage is Being Discouraged by the Gov.

I acquired this listing of not-to-be used words from Digsby’s Hullabaloo. This looks like a laughable moment that our government would spend time doing this. Or is it? Trump seeking to purge the federal government of “woke” initiatives, and agencies flagging hundreds of words to limit or avoid. This is according to a compilation of […]

New Deal democrats Weekly Indicators March 3 -7 2025

 – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. The malign and moronic “policies” of the 2nd T—-p Administration so far have driven Economic Policy Uncertain to all time record highs: But despite that, the rumblings under the surface of the data have been quite minor so far. There are changes in […]

DOGE for thee, but not for me

Trump was only supposed to hurt “those people”: “Jennifer Piggott proudly hung a red-and-blue Trump campaign flag outside her one-story home during the November election race. Now, after she was abruptly fired from her civil service job, her days of supporting the president are over. “Piggott is among more than 125 people dismissed in February […]

Social Security and Its Administration in 2025

Introduction The Social Security Administration is an independent executive branch agency with a sole responsibility of administering the Social Security program. It was established in 1935 as part of the Social Security Act. Then President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Bill into law on August 14. This came 14 months after sending a […]

DOGE goes where the money is

When asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton simply replied, “Because that’s where the money is.” DOGE is targeting the IRS for massive cuts. And that’s where the money is, to be sure. But robbing the IRS of personnel will ensure that the wealthy and corporations will keep the money they were supposed to pay […]