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Now it’s China showing all the signs of intelligent global leadership while our ignorant president withdraws the United States more and more every day from the world stage by insulting our allies, breaking trade and climate agreements, and vowing to build a wall and cut immigration.
Every time I see Trump acting childish again it makes me realize how our country has really hit rock bottom politically. It’s so embarrassing to have him representing our country.
More layoffs at the Carrier plant. Four months after they laid off 340 employees at its Indianapolis plant, Carrier announced they would terminate 215 more. Do they get to keep that $7 million in incentives that President Trump gave them to keep those jobs?
A Fox News spokesperson confirms that the network has hired Sebastian Gorka as a National Security Analyst. I did Nazi that coming.
Equifax was hacked over the summer. But before that was revealed, top executives sold millions of dollars of shares of their stock. Now their special committee is saying they did nothing wrong. Did we really expect a different outcome from them?
It’s always very fascinating to watch how people can be so easily brainwashed. Cults, mega-churches and pyramid schemes do it so easily. We now have a politician that has done it to people without giving them anything in return. Quite amazing.
Now that the Borman is a parking lot, don’t try to drive around the area by Kennedy Avenue, Indianapolis Blvd., Main Street, or Ridge Road at around rush hour; They are horrendous — backed up for miles and with winter approaching, it will only get worse.
The only way we will return to any semblance of normalcy in this country is to repeal the Citizens United dark money powering the unethical dealings of our campaigns. And we need to restore the Fairness Doctrine. This free-for-all is so way beyond control.
I do hope that the good citizens of the City of Gary realize that if Gary School Recovery L.LC. and their Emergency Manager Peggy Hinckley can not reduce the annual operating deficit, reduce the $104,000,000 Debt, and improve the performance of the students, in the time left on the remainder of their contract, that the holders of that massive debt will force the Gary Community School Corporation into bankruptcy and liquidation. The state would then parcel the students out to the remaining schools in North Lake County. Nobody wants to see that happen, but if improvements aren’t made, that will be the reality.
If a lie is repeated 10 million times, it gains credibility. It becomes a central part of a campaign. People can become easily manipulated. They are too lazy to make sure something is true before they repeat it before shouting “Lock her up” or walking into a pizza joint with a loaded gun.
Just think how big of a tax cut the middle class could get if the Republicans were willing to run up the $1.5 trillion debt for us instead of businesses.
House Speaker Paul Ryan was angry that people criticized his standard “thoughts and prayers” statement after the Texas shooting. Yes, people pray, and many believe in prayer. But prayers don’t stop bullets, and our politicians need to do much more than offer prayers.
The GOP makes the excuse that the current gun laws are ineffective, so why create more laws. What law is 100 percent effective all the time? So why have any laws? So make any future campaign donations in the form of thoughts and prayers, since they work so well.
It does appear that the prosecuting attorneys in Indiana are more concerned with job security than they are with curtailing opioids, or keeping our jails from being filled with low-level drug users. What has happened to considering what is the benefit for the greater good?
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