We’ve had an annual ‘budget crisis’ for over 20 years, i.e. our govt. cannot do what most American families manage to do: match spending with income.
Well, a big part of the problem is because the US congress & executive is “Diamond Jim” Brady when it comes to giving away our treasure (and military material), sometimes to our enemies.
We are at the point now where America spends more in the national budget servicing the public debt than it does on our armed forces. This is outrageous. Can you imagine a household spending more to pay credit card interest than on the mortgage and groceries?
But yeah, in their next breath these brassbound, fierce defenders of the borders of every country in the world—save One—have the temerity to propose “buying back” our personal firearms ... with public tax dollars.
“And, uhh, let’s make it mandatory (gulp).”
Paging Thomas Paine.
.........these fierce defenders of the borders of every country in the world—save One—
have the temerity to propose “buying back” our personal firearms ... with our own tax dollars.......
newsweek.com
Oct 28, 2023
By James Bickerton
US News Reporter
Joe Biden’s Impeachment is Looking More Likely
It is “very likely” that President Biden has committed impeachable offenses, according to Speaker Mike Johnson. Johnson said that the evidence suggested impeachable offenses had been committed, but he added that he will follow due process. Johnson said: “The reason we shifted to the impeachment inquiry stage on the president himself was because if, in fact, all the evidence leads to where we believe it will, that’s very likely impeachable offenses.
“That’s listed as a cause for impeachment in the constitution; bribery and other crimes and misdemeanours. Bribery’s listed there, and it looks and smells a lot like that. We’re going to follow the truth wherever it leads. We’re going to engage in due process because, again, we’re the rule of law party,” he said. “I know people are getting anxious and they’re getting restless and they just want somebody to be impeached, but we don’t do that like the other team. We have to base it on the evidence,” added Johnson.
Matt Gaetz, the Florida Republican representative who introduced the motion to vacate that saw McCarthy become the first speaker in U.S. history to be removed from office, had described the impeachment inquiry as a “failure theater.” Speaking to Politico, he said: “I don’t believe that the impeachment effort under Kevin McCarthy was intended to convict Joe Biden as much as it was to save Kevin McCarthy.” However, Gaetz added that he had greater confidence about the impeachment process under Johnson. He said that the new speaker will “approach this like a lawyer” rather than “a desperate person trying to cling to power.”
On October 20, Republican House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer shared an image of a $200,000 check sent to Joe Biden by his brother James Biden in 2018. Comer said that James Biden had received “shady” loans totaling $600,000 from a hospital firm. They were based on claims that his family name could help secure a “large investment from the Middle East.”
Biden has consistently denied any wrongdoing, and White House spokesperson Ian Sams said: “House Republicans have been investigating the president for nine months, and they’ve turned up no evidence of wrongdoing. His own GOP members have said so.” However, on X, formerly Twitter, Sams posted that the money was clearly marked as a loan repayment. The White House oversight and investigations spokesperson wrote: “Comer is pretty desperate to try to distract from Republicans’ speaker mess. “It’s a loan repayment from when President Biden loaned his brother money. When he was out of office in 2018, no less. It’s right there on the check!” Sams added.