Posted on 04/04/2026 5:10:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Feckless blue states are spending like there is no tomorrow, but tomorrow will come, and they’ll be demanding red state money to pay their debts.
I begin by presenting three trends. One might even call them inevitabilities, and one might argue they’re not trends at all, but present realities that are intertwined and will tend to collapse in on each other, inevitably leading to the third inevitability.
The first trend is a Congress of feckless fools:
I’ll get to Lippencott’s final question momentarily, but our Congress does seem unable to accomplish anything of consequence, such as the SAVE Act, which will make election fraud not necessarily impossible, but more inconvenient for the Democrat party, which arguably cannot win an election without massive fraud. A paralyzed Congress can’t even pay the Department of Homeland Security at a time when the danger of a massive terrorist attack within our shaky borders is at an all-time high. Democrats don’t care. If thousands of Americans die, they’ll blame it on Trump, with the help of their media propaganda arm.
While Congress does little to benefit America or Americans, its members excel at giving their power to unelected bureaucrats who, through rulemaking and nonsensical interpretation of congressional language and intent, run the bureaucratic state, which rules by ever-increasing rules and regulations.
The ATF was recently caught prosecuting Americans for possessing braced pistols, even though the prior ATF decision criminalizing them was rescinded. Congress could, by doing what it supposedly exists to do—legislating—resolve that once and for all, but it can’t even pass the SAVE America Act, which has as much as 90% public approval. Circa April 2026, apparently, 100% approval is required to pass anything, and it’s doubtful Congress could be roused to act even then.
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We are paying them for doing nothing. Who are the real idiots?
The Republicans have extremely slim majorities in both houses.
The two parties are at loggerheads in philosophy, so there is a deadlock. It is nothing new, but the situation where one of the major parties wants to destroy the existing country, while in cahoots with the old, dominant, Progressive Media, is fairly new, though it developed over a long time.
It took 250 years, but we’ve moved from “No Taxation Without Representation” to just straight-up “No Representation”.
Your government hates you. And it has no interest in giving you what you want.
No question they’ll try. Its vital they be flat out rejected. States are sovereign. They need to be forced to clean up their own messes. It would be totally unfair to force voters in Red States who had no say in how irresponsibly Blue States blew money to pay for it. That would literally be taxation without representation.
“Feckless blue states are spending like there is no tomorrow . . .”
See https://equable.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/State-of-Pensions-2025_January-Update_Final.pdf
That, and the unchecked influx of muslims, is going to lead to the 2nd American Revolution. It was coming.... and the election of DJT just delayed it by a few years.
When multinational corporations record record profits, when governments have never-ceasing thirst for tax dollar, when the average citizen cannot afford basic life necessities, Revolution is inevitable.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the holdouts on not passing the SACE Act are Democrats, including Thune.
Oust him from his position.
SAFE not SACE
I actually expect some sort of bailout of the Democrat states, done as part of a deal. The GOP gets something. The Democrats get their bailout.
Of course, any bailout would bad for the country. But most Republican leaders have already shown that they don’t care about long-term negative effects.
🙁
Reason for civil war II.
The article starts out with a questionable premise.
It’s phrased as blue States requiring Red State money. I may be out of date on this but it is my recall that revenue coming from Red States versus government payments going to Red States is a greater deficit than that of the blue States.
I just asked an AI for the top five Federal deficit States. They are Virginia, Arizona, Alabama, South carolina, and Maryland. So three of five are red.
California and New York are net surplus, not deficit.
Clearly SCOTUS will find bailouts of individual states unconstitutional.
You have to look at the details of those calculations to make any useful statements about them. Depending on what is included in the calculation, one of the biggest factors in the blue-red discrepancy you describe is the migration of people who work in one state and retire in another. This introduces a high level of bias into the calculation, because these people are paying FICA and income taxes in one state and then collecting pension, Social Security and Medicare benefits in another.
Classic. Create the problem and spend ten times more money to appear to fix it.
I’d be very careful.
Congress can and will override a Trump veto.
We get the government we tolerate.
That makes us all idiots.
𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. 𝘞𝘩𝘰 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘵𝘴?
Most of us aren’t paying them willingly, and if you don’t they tend to send letters, garnish wages, or send armed agents. The demand for 86,000 new agents came about around 2022, and both parties keep funding them.
CONgre$$ has many dishonorable individuals.
That’s what you think. On NYS, and AI is using Albany’s numbers...
“New York State faces a significant structural budget gap, with projections indicating a cumulative three-year deficit of $34.3 billion through State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2029, according to the Office of the New York State Comptroller. The SFY 2026 financial plan shows this growing gap is driven by projected revenue revisions, increased spending, and economic forecasts, with principal reserve levels expected to decrease.
Office of the New York State Comptroller (.gov)
Office of the New York State Comptroller (.gov)”
And BTW, it’s not just Albany that’s demanding a bailout.
So are our major metros...
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