"My own view on the BBB is that it will change nothing fundamental in the life of the nation without a spiritual renewal leading to a greater level of virtue and healthy living by the population as a whole and a determination to resist the regime of endless war abroad and interminable debt at home. War and debt create and enrich a vicious monetary aristocracy that has driven the US into the ground over the past century and brought nothing but misery to the world and death and destruction to whole nations."
Wow, no comment on the change in the Federal Government to decrease its role and increae federalism, the states role. This starts to take us back to the original intent of our Founders. Instead, everyone is intent on their small peeve or want for daddy fed gov to take care of their particular interest. No wonder our country will never recover.
The Senate-passed version, several House Republican Representatives argued, compromised too much.
Rep. Chip Roy wrote on X Tuesday night;
FACT: The Senate OBBB increases deficits and violates the terms of the budget deal in the House.
FACT: The Senate OBBB removes key provisions the House put in the bill to stop taxpayer funding of transgender surgeries.
The increase in the federal deficit of over $3 trillion over the next few years, the huge amount of money allocated to military expenditures, and stopping taxpayer--any!--funding of transgender surgeries are important concerns of mine.
I was disgusted that after all of the feather-fluffing of many in the House after the Senate-revised BMB (Big Monster Bill, I call it) came back, only two Republicans voted against the bill: Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania.
Good for them for standing strong, and not folding like cheap tents to the pressures from Trump and Johnson!
I generally find Childers to be spot on; but he has missed the mark all week on OBBBA. That trillion dollars shifted back to the states? It may be necessary, but it is not something to celebrate. You know. Small-town Rural America needs a health clinic to thrive. They are not profitable. Their clients are heavily on Medicaid and Medicare. This will weaken rural America.
The day before, Childers was crowing about how immigrants will have their DNA recorded. Fifteen years from now, so will my grandkids. It's Bonhofer's slide (first they profiled the immigrants, but I wasn't an immigrant). He crowed about something else yesterday that I think that we will regret in the long term.
After a lifetime of political deceit and chicanery, I am inclined to agree with all of Mr. Cook’s wry observations. However, yesterday I encountered an alternative theory of the President’s plan. This theory holds that the “big beautiful bill” provides for the Trump tariffs to fund an “executive trust” that the President can use to fund whatever he likes. This will enable him to shut down the IRS, which would halt the interest payments on the “national debt” which is owned by the central bank (the “Federal” Reserve, which is privately owned by secretive foreign entities that are undoubtedly British). That would render the “national debt” worthless. I won’t speculate further about the details and ramifications but suffice it to say that lots of things might be changing in the near future.
All anyone needs to know is this.:
"My own view on the BBB is that it will change nothing fundamental in the life of the nation without a spiritual renewal leading to a greater level of virtue and healthy living by the population as a whole and a determination to resist the regime of endless war abroad and interminable debt at home. War and debt create and enrich a vicious monetary aristocracy that has driven the US into the ground over the past century and brought nothing but misery to the world and death and destruction to whole nations."
Wow, no comment on the change in the Federal Government to decrease its role and increae federalism, the states role. This starts to take us back to the original intent of our Founders. Instead, everyone is intent on their small peeve or want for daddy fed gov to take care of their particular interest. No wonder our country will never recover.
About the BBB~
The Senate-passed version, several House Republican Representatives argued, compromised too much.
Rep. Chip Roy wrote on X Tuesday night;
FACT: The Senate OBBB increases deficits and violates the terms of the budget deal in the House.
FACT: The Senate OBBB removes key provisions the House put in the bill to stop taxpayer funding of transgender surgeries.
The increase in the federal deficit of over $3 trillion over the next few years, the huge amount of money allocated to military expenditures, and stopping taxpayer--any!--funding of transgender surgeries are important concerns of mine.
I was disgusted that after all of the feather-fluffing of many in the House after the Senate-revised BMB (Big Monster Bill, I call it) came back, only two Republicans voted against the bill: Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania.
Good for them for standing strong, and not folding like cheap tents to the pressures from Trump and Johnson!
I generally find Childers to be spot on; but he has missed the mark all week on OBBBA. That trillion dollars shifted back to the states? It may be necessary, but it is not something to celebrate. You know. Small-town Rural America needs a health clinic to thrive. They are not profitable. Their clients are heavily on Medicaid and Medicare. This will weaken rural America.
The day before, Childers was crowing about how immigrants will have their DNA recorded. Fifteen years from now, so will my grandkids. It's Bonhofer's slide (first they profiled the immigrants, but I wasn't an immigrant). He crowed about something else yesterday that I think that we will regret in the long term.
After a lifetime of political deceit and chicanery, I am inclined to agree with all of Mr. Cook’s wry observations. However, yesterday I encountered an alternative theory of the President’s plan. This theory holds that the “big beautiful bill” provides for the Trump tariffs to fund an “executive trust” that the President can use to fund whatever he likes. This will enable him to shut down the IRS, which would halt the interest payments on the “national debt” which is owned by the central bank (the “Federal” Reserve, which is privately owned by secretive foreign entities that are undoubtedly British). That would render the “national debt” worthless. I won’t speculate further about the details and ramifications but suffice it to say that lots of things might be changing in the near future.