Posted on 07/17/2025 9:40:00 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Pardon me whilst I don’t celebrate this hollow victory. If it’s this difficult to cut a mere $9 billion from the budget, then I just don’t see any way out of our debt spiral. It’s not that I’m pessimistic...I’m a realist first. There’s not enough money on the planet to pay what we owe, and it’s only a matter of time until the people that buy our debt bonds figure that out.
They left behind 400 million for aids in Africa, why the f are we funding aids in Africa? This 400 million can be used here. Rat bastard politicians continuing to pay for bullsh## with out tax dollars
3 million people will die today because of these “cuts”. /s
Fitzpatrick also represents a House district that Trump has lost three times. He is a “RINO” because his constituents are predominantly Democrats.
“There’s not enough money on the planet to pay what we owe, and it’s only a matter of time until the people that buy our debt bonds figure that out.”
Most our debt is held by Americans.
Good question/point.
If Congress doesn’t re-impose regular order under the Constitution (missing since 9/11/01) pronto, all of this will be for naught.
This Guy further believes that the number of representatives in the U.S. House of Representatives should be doubled or tripled and every one of their backsides banished to committee work till the cows come home, the balanced budget is passed, and every necessary regulation to implement the laws they passed is written and passed in committee and by our elected representatives in Congress (not unelected agency bureaucrats occupying sinecures).
Life as an elected member of the House of Representatives should be nasty, brutish, and short by comparison to what individuals like Nancy Pelosi make out of it.
“They left behind 400 million for aids in Africa, why the f are we funding aids in Africa?”
That’s disgusting. Maybe next time ...
Every April 15 we should be able to check off boxes indicating where our tax money should be allocated. I wonder how many would check the box, “AIDS in Africa”.
no surprise there!
ALL of our debt will be PAID for by Americans.
So glad that after many decades the PBS/NPR funding is rightly or wrongly settled for now.
Public broadcasting will survive and will need to adapt how they raise revenue. Simple as that.
Re: 47 - wrong form of government for that.
“As I said before, we PRACTICALLY have 2 more Democrats in the Senate.”
I agree, a Northeastern DEMOCRAT would be far better than Collins, who vote for 98% of Trump’s judicial picks in his first term.
One 10th of 1%.... A slap in the face.
Make lobbying a felony, eliminate all pork, end all welfare and social programs and cut federal government by at least 50%.
You don’t say.
Too bad the representatives we vote for become corrupt so soon after arriving in DC.
Yeah, it’s “only $9 billion” but this is absolutely huge. Trump, Johnson, and Thune deserve heaps of gratitude for helping drive a stake into the heart of the Democrat’s mouthpiece and funding scheme. This is huge. How many decades have we begged and pleaded for this?
This is what needs to happen next.
1) Fix the Census. Remove illegals from the citizenship count. Make that permanently illegal to hide illegals in the citizenship count.
2) Fix the election cheating scam. Paper ballots. No mail-in voting. Same day voting.
3) Dismantle Act Blue, the other well-known fraudulent fundraising arm of Democrats.
A lot of good things happening. Progress is being made. As much as I’d like to see the Epstien thing exposed, I think we need to laser focus on laying a solid foundation to dismantle the Deep State and the dirty Democrats.
They are not IN the count now!
Yes. The U.S. Census Bureau collects data from all foreign born who participate in its censuses and surveys, regardless of legal status. Thus, unauthorized migrants are implicitly included in the Census Bureau estimates of the total foreign-born population.
PBS will survive and will need to adapt how they raise revenue.
/ ya, in addition to asking me to donate my car or boat, they will now ask me to donate an organ.
Spit.
No kidding. All that sturm und drang for a 0.15% cut
Winning. I love it.
I guess it's a start - but not a great one.
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