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Author: TyroneIrish (19771 Posts - Joined: Oct 8, 2020)

Posted at 4:25 pm on Feb 27, 2025

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size and scope of their tax breaks...i.e. the new American government...for and by Plutocrats, like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel (who, btw, owns J.D. Vance)

The problem here is that one of our two major parties...the GOP...has been effectively taken over by the Plutocrats. What's needed is for those Republicans who still believe in Democracy, to grow the spines that Conservative Judge, Michael Luttig, called for, and help enact guardrails to control them and make sure ALL Americans are factored into any changes. This brings to mind the Clinton administration's approach to major cost reductions within government...i.e. they brought EVERYONE involved, including unions, together over several months and challenged them to achieve workable reductions across the whole of government...IT WORKED...so much so that the Senate voted 99-1 in favor of the cuts, which then resulted in a government SURPLUS.

THAT's how you do it...not putting on a blindfold and swinging at a "Pinata" filled with real people's lives.

Replies to: "You mean the corporate and super-wealthy self interests who want to extend and increase the"

I think reasonable people can connect the dots. [LINK] - iairishcheeks - 3:01pm 2/27/25 (37) [View All]
- The Feds under Biden were auditing churches who got COVID money. There's COVID waste, but not where - LanceManion - 7:46am 2/28/25
- When Elon takes your healthcare to pay for his tax cut remember to connect the dots, Dummy. [NT] - ND521 - 4:56pm 2/27/25
  - I think you could reframe that into something less stupid and thus more persuasive. [NT] - iairishcheeks - 4:59pm 2/27/25
    - You salute the Musk Reich. I give you no quarter. [NT] - ND521 - 5:08pm 2/27/25
      - Reminder, you thought Kamala had the election in the bag. - iairishcheeks - 6:01pm 2/27/25
        No. If not Joe, then Gavin or..or..or..or almost anybody but Kamala. ND521 - 11/10/22 [NT] - ND521 - 6:09pm 2/27/25
        
        Don't know, but Gavin is smart & relatively young. Far superior choice than Kamala. - ND521-11/30/23 [NT] - ND521 - 6:08pm 2/27/25
        Then what happened? - iairishcheeks - 6:12pm 2/27/25
        Joe stuck Ds w/Kamala who somehow managed to lose to your guy the racist, traitor & felon. [NT] - ND521 - 6:33pm 2/27/25
        Why do you insist on framing Trump as "my guy"? - iairishcheeks - 6:42pm 2/27/25
        Truth hurts, eh? [NT] - Frank L - 7:33pm 2/27/25
        
        Ah sorry, now you are a Herr Himmler-Musk bootlicker. [NT] - ND521 - 7:06pm 2/27/25
        So in your mind I'm a Nazi? [NT] - iairishcheeks - 8:17pm 2/27/25
        More like a fellow traveler or useful idiot. [NT] - Frank L - 10:53pm 2/27/25
        ^^^FTC [NT] - Buffaloirish - 11:15pm 2/27/25
- You're leaving out some "Dots"...i.e. local and state "Speed-Bumps" and "Road-Blocks"...not to [LINK] - TyroneIrish - 4:04pm 2/27/25
  - In degrees of warming or inches of sea level rise, what is the tangible result? [NT] - iairishcheeks - 4:19pm 2/27/25
    - The attached link provides as good a view as any...btw, it's only going to get worse... [LINK] [IMAGE] - TyroneIrish - 4:38pm 2/27/25
      - Maybe I wasn't clear, I want to track results to expenditures. [NT] - iairishcheeks - 4:42pm 2/27/25
        First you have to have a GOAL for any and all expenditures...you're not there yet...get back to us - TyroneIrish - 5:10pm 2/27/25
        Right, when we gave Stacey $2B, what was the goal, and what is our progress towards that goal? [NT] - iairishcheeks - 6:06pm 2/27/25
        This is where he responds with platitudes and can't answer. - jakers - 7:10pm 2/27/25
- The Democrats bankrupted the country for their own gain. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 3:48pm 2/27/25
  - Markets down, inflation up. Failure is not #Winning. [NT] - ND521 - 6:01pm 2/27/25
  - they F'D this country up every way [NT] - cubsfanin16 - 5:46pm 2/27/25
  - I look at the budget fight going on as Republicans have to pay off their donors as well. - iairishcheeks - 3:51pm 2/27/25
    - I don’t assume “everyone does it” when one group is found to be an egregious violater. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 6:45pm 2/27/25
    - You mean the corporate and super-wealthy self interests who want to extend and increase the - TyroneIrish - 4:25pm 2/27/25
      - Elon is not the problem, that's where you lose all credibility. - iairishcheeks - 4:33pm 2/27/25
        Yes he is..."Elon Musk’s mass government cuts could make private companies millions"... [LINK] - TyroneIrish - 4:53pm 2/27/25
        Should Musk return the $20 Billion he took from the US government? [NT] - ND521 - 5:00pm 2/27/25
        The government paid Musk to put rockets into space, he delivered at 1/10 the cost. - iairishcheeks - 5:02pm 2/27/25
        You forget the decades of “Lessons Learned” and expenses Musk inherited…as well as the - TyroneIrish - 8:59pm 2/27/25
        There are no rockets in space without Elon. [NT] - iairishcheeks - 10:48pm 2/27/25
        
        This is the part that is incredibly insane to me. - iairishcheeks - 4:57pm 2/27/25
        Not true…I repeatedly cite the Clinton Admin’s very successful and - TyroneIrish - 9:10pm 2/27/25
        You think we're an "Elect Bill Clinton" away from prosperity? [NT] - iairishcheeks - 10:53pm 2/27/25