Despite the fact that all of my so-called Social Security raises are eaten up by increases in my Medicare Part B premiums, if they screw with Medicare and/or Social Security Congress will be bludgeoned with adjustable canes and mowed down with electric wheelchairs.
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Mueller happens
The ladies (like the ones in Alabama) decide they’ve had enough.
when the emergency rooms fill up with dying children
Oh, and when they screw with Medicare someone should remind them that the fastest growing demographic population are 90+ year olds
]]>Corporations, Trump Inc., real estate investors, the 1% make out while the majority of people who actually earned their money by working get screwed as usual. The reason for this deficit buster is to give the Republicans an excuse to go after Medicare and Social Security because they don’t want to pay back all of the money they have been spending from the trust fund.
The Republicans have sealed the loss of the House, and the Senate is looking shaky, The real question is when is Trump leaving.
]]>How the GOP tax bill will wreck what’s left of Puerto Rico’s economy
There’s also talk that it will impact Guam (that will annoy the Navy and USAF), Virgin Islands, & others. Then there are the Native American lands which are typically “unorganized territories”, In fact PR is still officially “unincorporated” even though a District Court judge ruled in 2008 that a sequence of Congressional actions have had the cumulative effect of changing PR status from “unincorporated” to “incorporated”. The official recognition of the “incorporated” status is still winding it’s way through the insanely slow US legal system after a decade!
Fun for all!
]]>WTF? Why do us (relatively) wealthy folk need a 4% tax cut but regular Americans only get a measly 1%? That’s whack!
Of course if I owned a house I’d be screwed, because it removes the tax deductibility of mortgage interest on most of the houses here in the Sillycone Valley…
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