Long one here. You have been Warned. Heh. Advisers to the Cheeto Prophet and Republicans, because Democrats are now completely out of the picture, out of mind since there is a GOP majority in the Senate, and House of Republicans, plus let us not forget (as if) that our President-Elect has the façade of being a Republican too, except he’s for himself and not others. I repeat ad nauseum that for tRump, it’s all about power. Power, power, power, and more power, and ABSOLUTE FUCKING IMMUNITY. The plans he has coming into the office would *explode* the federal debt by as much as five $$TRILLION$$ over the next decade. 5. Trillion. And the Orangutan wants to do away with the debt ceiling. Good gods, this is a recipe for disaster waiting to blow up, and it has a very short fuse. So instead, they are grasping at everything that could be cut so it doesn’t explode.
First thing on the list is tariffs. You and I know what’s going to happen and I already covered this in a different post. Then, moving down in terms of amount of money, here’s a couple more … repeal clean energy programs, repeal Biden Student Loan Forgiveness, end the Education department, cut food stamp benefits and there are more. There is a list of 10 things that they feel they can cut or do away with to get the things THEY want. Republicans, have you actually followed one of these all the way to the end to see what the *actual* result will be? It doesn’t look nearly as easy from that perspective, does it?
Of course, it seems the GOP doesn’t believe in climate change even when they affect their home states (Hello North Carolina? Helene called for you) (and you too, Georgia) So taking away the clean energy programs doesn’t matter right? RIGHT??? The world is dying around us but climate change isn’t real. How can these people be so damn BLIND? But, of course, I can rant and be pissed off all I want, but if the Democrats and GOP in my state won’t listen, it kinda makes you wonder why you’re trying. But I can’t NOT try.
Repeal Student Loan Forgiveness? I went through a lot of hell to pay off my student loans and they weren’t nearly as bad as lawyers, or doctors, or nurses, anyone in the fields like that who *need* those student loans to learn, but don’t need them to turn you into living paycheck to paycheck because you have to pay off those heavy, heavy, heavy student loans. Forgiveness at least lets people get back on their feet again and make arrangements so they are NOT paying off their loans for LITERALLY the rest of their lives. I don’t want to even think about trying to keep paying when all you have is Social Security to *live on*.
Cut food stamp benefits? When that’s all that’s in between starving and living? I’ve known quite a few people who got food stamps, and they needed that security to try and get back on their feet, so they could get a worthwhile job, or help, or whatever, to pull themselves out of poverty. And they DID so. With just that help, they were pulling themselves up out of poverty. That’s a pretty serious reward for not having to worry about food because at some point, you won’t need them anymore, and they’ll get passed along to someone who does.
End the Education department. Ooooh this sticks in my craw. Look at all the changes made over the past year (specifically looking at you Ron DeSatan and Moms for Repression … er … Liberty). Liberty is being free to choose. Liberty is not having books and education taken away from you because there’s no such things as critical race theory. Slavery didn’t ever exist. There are all kinds of love in the world. Something is too “woke” and where did that come from, because *I* think it sounds like something good. But it apparently isn’t. Woke up, WAKE up to all the worlds in front of you through education. Liberty is not having to suffer with the plain old predigested CRAP that’s all that’s now allowed in many, many schools today. I used to spend hours reading in the library, and no one told me I couldn’t read something. No one said there were books only good for kindergarten, or an “adult” book was too much for me. I still read everything and anything I can get my hands on. And by the way, all the sorts of eReaders are nice but there’s nothing like having an actual BOOK in your hands. But removing the Department of Education takes away those choices. People who love to wag their dicks in the air, real or fake, and tell us we can only read what THEY say. We can only study what they say is alright for us. That’s not a choice. That’s torture. That’s a lack of education. And what gives them the right to choose for someone else??!! Sometimes, yes, you have to fit in. But most of the time? Be true to yourself and read what you want to read, learn what you want to learn, expand your horizons as much as YOU want to.
And yes, there’s more to be cut, chopped, spindled and mutilated. There are things this country needs to take care of ALL of its people except the rich, generally white, generally males who do NOT need to worry about all the cuts they want to make. Why is it that the people who need the most help are the ones that suffer the most? Why is all the money in the pockets of gazillionaires who care for nothing but themselves? And they care nothing for all the other PEOPLE in our country? But no, cut cut cut it doesn’t matter what just cut anything to save *their* tax and spending plans without any regard for anyone else. It just never stops. I thought we had a good government. What’s coming up on January 20, 2025? Won’t be.
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This broad is a hoot! I must admit though that I’m sometimes drawn to reading her horrible musings, purely for my own entertainment. Hahaha
How’s the weather in Moscow comrade?
Broad? Really? How is the weather in your cave man?
I was a senior in high school in 1966 in a small Oregon coastal town. I asked the librarian for Brave New World, Animal Farm and 1984, and being a sniffy, little old thing she said, ‘oh honey, you don’t want to read those’. Well, yes, I did and ended up going uptown to the import grocery store where they had interesting foods and all manner of things, including paperbacks, and bought myself those books. Censorship is nothing new and seems to have made a comeback thanks to the perversion of politics and religion foisted on us by the neurotic right wing, repugs, and fascio-xtians who seem hell-bent on taking us back several centuries to the unenlightened times, as well as helping disease make a comeback with their anti-science idiocy. God help us from his ‘fans’.
For such macho blowhards…they sure are scared of ideas. Their paper tiger leader, and the gold plated calf they worship, doesn’t seem to give them much courage does it?
Carol, that librarian was the exception, not the rule. I was a school (K through 12) and public librarian. My job was to.encourage kids to read by introducing them to books via book talks and storytelling. My favorite was my retelling of Harriet the Spy, which actually got applause ( and junior high students are a very tough audience, lemme tellya).
I also spent a lot of time in.libraries. We moved a lot so I was in 7 schools before heading off to college. Friends who lived nearby were few and far between so reading was a main source of amusement, along with designing clothes for my paperdolls ( good training for can amateur costumer; I’ve made clothes from 11th c. England to the Regency and 1890s, with my favorite being Italian Renaissance gowns made my own wedding dress) and writing (and as an adult getting paid for it). The weekly trip to the library was the highlight of my week.
I am.sorry you ran into an old biddy librarian. I never did. I found brilliant children’s and YA librarians who introduced me to authors. By 4th grade I was already reading adult science fiction and fantasy. No one ever discouraged me. My parents and local.librarians had the mindset that if you could read and understand the book, no problem. That would have been when I discovered Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury and read Gone With the Wind.
But I will admit that there are two distinct types of librarians: the ones who care about Apoearances( neat shelves with books flush with the edge of the shelf; they frequently seem to resent patrons pulling books off those precious shelves to check.them out) and those of us who love Reading, Research, and Books. Fortunately I didn’t run into former sort until I was actually a librarian myself (she wss an utter horror,,legendary among Brooklyn Public Library employees as the Meanest *itch of the East,,and we would all have loved to.drop a house on her). Again, apologies.