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This last election showed that every vote counts. If you don’t show up, you may wake up and find your country has been hijacked and headed somewhere that is not good for your family.
On his way to speak at the FBI’s National Academy, Trump pauses to bloviate to the media about what a mess the “disgraceful” FBI is in, and how he intends to “rebuild” it. Then when he gets to the Academy, he brags about how no President has ever been so supportive — of the FBI. Hypocrisy, your name is Trump.
Over the past 7 years, the economy has added 17 million jobs, unemployment has fallen from 10 percent to 4.1 percent, the stock market has doubled, and median income reached new highs. But somehow if we don’t ram through massive tax cuts for gazillionaires by next week, it all falls apart.
Trump just spoke to reporters and belittled the FBI. Then he praised Putin. This isn’t fake news. This is a disgrace and a danger. Wake up Trump supporters before its too late.
Two members of the Gary School Board are trying to defend their actions of giving the Superintendent a $30,000 bonus. It doesn’t matter, she was given a bonus for something that wasn’t deserved. It is as simple as that.
How can most authorities on taxes tell us the new tax bill is going to hurt the middle class and yet the all knowing Republicans tell us it is the greatest thing since sliced bread? I guess most of them do not remember “trickle down economics”.
Paul Ryan said that the biggest problem with our economy is that people are not having enough children to buck up the workforce. Yep, that’s the biggest problem.
Is there any chance that Republicans, especially those that are up for re-election, realize that although their health care and tax policy is liked by their donors, is unpopular with their voters?
“Better to fight for something, than to live for nothing.”
Maybe it’s high time our political parties realize that crackpots do not make the most appealing candidates.
I am just a plain middle class retired man, but the way I read the new GOP tax and job creating legislation, I am going to come out pretty good. I never have enough to itemize, so just by doubling the standard deduction, I come out smelling like a rose. All of this other talk of what you can and cannot itemize is just clutter that does not affect me. Of course, I want the best for my children and as I see it, they all come out ahead — doubling the standard deduction covers a lot of sins.
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