Bless their hearts
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:31 last edited by
When you sit this many people in the street, you're going to have some sad stories.
There's no way around it.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:34 last edited by jon-nyc
But maybe publicizing a few will tamper down the glee with which the maga right has greeted these individual job losses. At the end of the day all these people did was apply for a decent job.
Agreeing with the cuts is one thing, celebrating the tragedies the individuals are going through (let me know if you’d like receipts, but I’m sure everyone here has seen it) quite another.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:42 last edited by
Somebody has do it. You know it. I know it. It's not gonna be pretty and it's going to hurt.
Yet, if we do nothing, you'll be the first to point fingers.
Time to cut the baby in half. Make a decision.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 21:59 last edited by
Every dollar we cut is a dollar that doesn’t go to increase the debt, and we have a long, long way to go.
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Every dollar we cut is a dollar that doesn’t go to increase the debt, and we have a long, long way to go.
wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:23 last edited by@Mik said in Bless their hearts:
Every dollar we cut is a dollar that doesn’t go to increase the debt, and we have a long, long way to go.
Absolutely.
We got here through massive political pandering and MMT.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:31 last edited by
MMT never made it out of a third tier economics program in New England.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:33 last edited by jon-nyc
It’s a little easier to point to the GOP’s deliberate decision to take us off our debt reduction glide path 24 years ago with forever wars and tax cuts.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:35 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Bless their hearts:
MMT never made it out of a third tier economics program in New England.
Well, sure seems like we've been printing money out of thin air to satisfy debt.
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It’s a little easier to point to the GOP’s deliberate decision to take us off our debt reduction glide path 24 years ago with forever wars and tax cuts.
wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:37 last edited by@jon-nyc said in Bless their hearts:
It’s a little easier to point to the GOP’s deliberate decision to take us off our debt reduction glide path 24 years ago with forever wars and tax cuts.
You can piss in your pants, too, if you want a warm , fuzzy feeling. Doesn't pay off a damn thing.
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 22:46 last edited by
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wrote on 16 Feb 2025, 23:32 last edited by
Let's not leave out the small, insignificant fact that the United States was the only major economy left unscathed by WW2.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2025, 00:22 last edited by
Oh no. They cut out 1700 healthy cells when removing this giant bloated tumor from my prostate…
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wrote on 17 Feb 2025, 00:24 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in Bless their hearts:
Look at that lovely trajectory Bill and Newt handed your boy W.
Really? And look at what happened 2009-2017…
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wrote on 17 Feb 2025, 00:29 last edited by jon-nyc
When Bill and Newt put the country on a debt reduction glide path in the 90s, the debt totalled ~5.5T.
The GOP, likely without a single democratic vote, will add ~4T in the coming 24-30 months.
DOGE is part side show, part ideological purge.
Watch what they do not what they say.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2025, 00:34 last edited by
@Horace said in Bless their hearts:
Well, I knowingly support the tribe that seems dead set against remote work.
You’re not a federal government employee; the tribe you support does not directly influence your work arrangement.
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@Horace said in Bless their hearts:
Well, I knowingly support the tribe that seems dead set against remote work.
You’re not a federal government employee; the tribe you support does not directly influence your work arrangement.
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wrote on 17 Feb 2025, 01:45 last edited by
I will give President Trump credit IF he continues this path, even when public "sentiment" turns against him on this.
Rare for a president to take a long term view on a subject.
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wrote on 16 Mar 2025, 21:43 last edited by
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
In this case, the wife overstayed her original visa.
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wrote on 19 Apr 2025, 07:50 last edited by
Who’s the soy boy now, Cletus?
