Democrat’s Debt & Tax Plan: The Democrats are proud of the fact they will increase spending by $3.5 Trillion without a Republican vote, they raise taxes by some $2 Trillion and they want the Republicans to join them in raising the debt ceiling to further burden our children & grandchildren with an ever bloated deficit.
Let the Democrats own it!
Let the $3.5 Trillion in NEW Spending and the raising the debt ceiling be the Democrat’s legacy. Let their actions paint a clear picture for the American people to see.
The so-called “moderate Democrats” are afraid to challenge the crazy, progressive left wing of the Democratic Party that controls Congress and the White House.
It’s the Democrat’s pork.
It’s the Democrat’s Green New Deal.
It’s the Democrat’s social engineering.
It’s the Democrat’s spending.
It’s the Democrat’s debt.
Don’t let them hide behind a few Republican votes. Don’t give them cover.
Biden is NOT a moderate. His presidency will usher in some of the most liberal, progressive policies in our country’s history. Don’t let him & his mainstream media allies fool anyone.
It’s time for bold colors vs pastels, draw a contrast, stand for principle, fight the fight!
Parents Revolt: It’s happening. Mainstream, every day, non-partisan, regular Americans have had enough. Parents and even some normal teachers are revolting…enough is enough!
“Thankfully parents are reengaging in their children’s education and reasserting their rightful place in decisions about curriculum and content. The question will be whether their efforts are strong enough and sufficiently sustained to win the battle against the radical tide of educators, nonprofits and federal education bureaucrats who are working to rewrite American history.”
Read the stories below…engage…make a difference. Our country depends on it!
Biden’s Afghanistan Retreat: A complete disaster! Biden’s poorly planned and executed retreat has left the Taliban with BILLIONS of dollars’ worth of U.S. arms and equipment to use against our allies and potentially the U.S.
This is an unmitigated disaster…thousands of lives ruined, billions wasted because Biden’s hasty, poorly designed retreat.
I support getting out of (and never getting into) endless wars where we don’t belong. However, once we commit our blood, sweat, and dollars to a cause we need to do it right.
Biden’s retreat will cost us billions in taxpayer dollars and unfortunately more American lives.
When Government Fails: Below is a link to a Power Point presentation that discusses “Failures’ Fallout” when government fails. An excellent presentation worth checking out and sharing. Note: this is a liberal perspective, but still insightful and interesting.
Interesting fact: 53 of the 57 epidemics between the Black Death in the 1300s and the Spanish Flu of 1918 led to civil unrest & revolts.
https://mehlmancastagnetti.com/wp-content/uploads/Failures-Fallout-Mehlman-Q3-2021.pdf
–Saul Anuzis
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https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/social-security-2022-cola-estimate
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Biden’s radical remaking of America
Senate Democrats released a 92-page outline of President Joe Biden’s agenda Monday morning. It is nothing short of a blueprint for a far-left, radical remaking of the United States.
Weighing in at a supposed $3.5 trillion, the Democratic spending plan pushes mothers into full-time jobs with a childcare plan that ignores mothers who want to work at home or part-time.
It punishes married couples with an extended child tax credit that is worth more to single parents. It creates a universal prekindergarten program, despite convincing evidence from Canada that such programs are harmful to children. It pumps up a failing higher education system instead of investing in trade schools. And it raises taxes on working people through a new carbon tax while cutting taxes for rich Democrats in wealthy coastal states.
This legislation is designed to punish those who want to live a traditional way of life and reward those who live a progressive lifestyle. Worse, it tries to change the very definition of who is American by giving amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in the U.S.
The legislation does not even try to pair this massive amnesty program with any effort to deter further illegal immigration. Instead, it contains billions of tax dollars for “border management investments” designed to process new illegal immigrants into the country faster.
One might think such radical changes to our nation’s laws would merit some committee hearings or even a supermajority in either chamber of Congress. Nope. Democrats are not waiting for either. They are attempting to ram this bill through the Senate this week, in the dead of night, before sending it to the House.
And they can pass all of these changes without a single Republican’s support. With just a 50-50 tie in the Senate, the Democrats’ only path to passage is the tiebreaking vote Kamala Harris gets to cast as vice president.
Democrats’ Radical $3.5 Trillion Agenda
We previously warned Republicans against supporting a smaller infrastructure deal with Democrats, because it was always part and parcel of the broader effort to pass a sweeping liberal agenda. Sure enough, after 18 Republicans voted to advance the so-called infrastructure compromise over the weekend, Democrats responded on Monday morning by unveiling a radical $3.5 trillion proposal meant to transform the United States into a place more closely resembling a European social-welfare state.
One of the characteristics that has distinguished the U.S. has been the fact that a critical mass of Americans have always believed that the government cannot or should not attempt to solve all of its citizens’ problems. Of course, we are far removed from having a Congress that narrowly follows its enumerated powers, or from an interpretation of the Tenth Amendment that defers most questions to the states. But skepticism of centralized power, in addition to the checks and balances inherent in our form of government, has prevented the U.S. from going as far in intervening in people’s lives as the governments of other Western nations do.
Democrats have always seen this reality as a bug — not a feature — of our constitutional structure, and they have long been frustrated by the fact that the U.S. has not emulated other countries with as robust of a welfare system. While the Democrats’ current reconciliation proposal would not turn the U.S. into Europe overnight, it would take a huge leap in that direction.
What’s important to keep in mind about the Democratic proposal, released by socialist Senate Budget Committee chairman Bernie Sanders, is not merely that it spends an exorbitant sum of money, but that it creates new programs that would permanently change the relationship between Americans and their government from birth until death. And Democrats will be able to pass it without a single Republican vote, bypassing the Senate filibuster, as long as they can get around the Senate parliamentarian.
Taliban sweep across Afghanistan’s south; take 4 more cities
The Taliban completed their sweep of the country’s south on Friday as they took four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war.
The latest significant blow was the loss of the capital of Helmand province, where American, British and allied NATO forces fought some of the bloodiest battles in the past 20 years. Hundreds of foreign troops were killed in the province, which is also a major opium hub.
The insurgents have taken half of the country’s 34 provincial capitals in recent days, including its second- and third-largest cities, Herat and Kandahar. The Taliban now control more than two-thirds of the country just weeks before the U.S. plans to withdraw its last troops.
Biden Fails…Taliban Wins! When Kabul falls, America is in danger again
As Baghdad was falling to the forces of the United States and its coalition partners in March 2003, Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, better known to Americans as “Baghdad Bob,” was offering an entirely different account of the events taking place on his doorstep. Among his most memorable quotes — and there were many — were “There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!” and “They are not even [within] 100 miles [of Baghdad]. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion … they are trying to sell to the others an illusion.”
As numerous analysts have pointed out, officials in Kabul and Washington appear to be no less delusional than Saddam Hussein’s minister. Moreover, they have been fooling themselves for even longer than Baghdad Bob. American officials have not ceased to believe that the Taliban would abide by the terms of the Feb. 29, 2020, Doha agreement, which was advertised as the first step in a process that would lead both to American and NATO withdrawal of their forces and a settlement between the Taliban and the Afghan government. Yet little has materialized from the Taliban commitment to “intra-Afghan dialogue and negotiations.” On the contrary, in a manner reminiscent of Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap’s ultimately successful offensives against the Army of [South] Vietnam, which were stepped up after Henry Kissinger negotiated the 1973 Paris Peace Accords — for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize — the Taliban has stepped up its operations against the Kabul government’s forces throughout the country.
Nevertheless, even as the Taliban offensive continued to intensify, Biden administration officials believed in the negotiations’ positive outcome and insisted that while the Taliban might control the Afghan countryside, it would not attempt to seize urban areas, and especially provincial capitals. When the Taliban did just that, administration officials posited that the Taliban would not attempt to seize major provincial capitals such as Kunduz, Herat, Kandahar or Mazer-i-Sharif. Kunduz, Lashkar Gah, Herat and Kandahar have fallen; it appears to be only a matter of days before Mazer-i-Sharif falls as well.
Biden Gets Eviscerated on Economy and Inflation in New Poll
We’ve reported on how the polls in regard to Joe Biden have started to slide big time away from him, and we’re only six months into the madness that he’s propagating.
His numbers have started to crash to the earth with an Economist/YouGov poll that found more Americans thinking he wasn’t honest or trustworthy than who thought he was and 53% perceiving him as a weak leader.
Now, a new Fox poll shows that they’ve slid still further and are hitting him big time in the all-important area of the economy.
The survey found that 33% of the Americans thought that the economy was in poor condition, with another 38% saying it was “only fair.” While many blamed the pandemic, 79% also blaming Biden’s government policies for the spike in inflation. That’s a huge number, and it showed 86% of Americans were concerned with inflation, another huge number. He’s also underwater on his handling of the economy — 47% approving to 49% not. When voters show up at the polls, it’s the economy that is usually uppermost in their minds because that’s the thing that really affects them.
The poll showed that rising prices are starting to hit people hard. 70% said that rising grocery prices had caused them financial hardship, with 67% saying that about gas prices, as well.
Democrats are playing with fire on spending and inflation
For the first time since Jimmy Carter’s presidency, inflation is back in a big way: 5.4% from July 2020 to July 2021. From February 2020 to June 2021, food prices went up 5.4%; energy prices increased 8.9%. You’ve probably noticed it at the pump and the grocery store.
Inflation bites household budgets unevenly, landing harder on older people with savings and fixed incomes. It feeds a vicious cycle, as workers demand more pay and their employers raise prices to cover the costs. It makes it harder to plan ahead, and uncertainty is always bad for investment. Hyperinflation, when inflation just takes off and runs away, has long destabilized societies and toppled governments.
Two things cause inflation. One is having more money in circulation chasing the same amount of goods. If you gave everybody in Monopoly an extra $1,000, they’d bid more for Boardwalk.
The other is more demand: the readier people are to spend what they have, the more businesses can afford to raise prices. (Businesses also need to raise prices when wages are rising, but they can only sustain that without losing sales if the demand is there.)
Demand has been running hot for months, as people resume travel, dining out, and other pent-up activities that were shut down for COVID. More people are back to work, too, with more money to spend. These are good things, but they raise the risk of inflation.
Democrats Default on the Debt Limit
Democrats run the White House and all of Capitol Hill, and they keep telling everyone they can pass a $3.5 trillion spending bill with 50 Senate votes and nary a Republican. Then why are they ducking responsibility for raising the U.S. debt limit that would let them finance their unprecedented spending?
In 2019 Congress passed a two-year suspension of the debt limit, but it expired July 31. The Treasury Department is already employing “emergency measures” to keep paying government bills without issuing new debt beyond today’s $28 trillion.
The obvious step is for Democrats to include a debt-limit increase as part of the budget resolution they plan to pass in the Senate this week, following Tuesday’s passage of a $1 trillion infrastructure bill. They can pass the budget with 50 Democrats, plus Vice President Kamala Harris, and Republicans can’t stop them.
The Great Parent Revolt
As overreach in classrooms by progressive school administrators, nonprofits and the federal government has reached new heights, parents are stepping up to fight back.
Moms for Liberty, Informed Parents of California, EdFirstNC, NJ Parental Rights, No Left Turn in Education and Parents Against Critical Theory are just a few of the hundreds of new parent groups that have emerged across the country in recent months. Many parents have become education activists because of schools’ failure to bring children back into the classroom or their continued imposition of mask mandates.
Others are engaging because of the content being taught. Whether it’s age-inappropriate sex education, critical race theory, or anti-American history, parents are seeing more of what their children are learning—thanks to COVID’s virtual learning—and they don’t like it. As a result, parents are organizing, speaking out, and pushing back, and they are having a noticeable impact.
Some of the most effective efforts have begun with individual parents who reached a boiling point and decided to speak out. Mom and investigative journalist A.P. Dillon helped expose critical race theory training in Wake County, N.C., public schools. Elana Fishbein was a lone parent in Lower Marion, Pa., who objected to content in her children’s curriculum, which, in her words, “described ‘whiteness’ as an entitlement to steal land, garner riches, and get special treatment on equity and race.” That letter reached a national audience when Tucker Carlson invited her onto his Fox News Channel show.
Sen. John Thune: Biden, Dems’ reckless tax-and-spending spree would decimate family farms and businesses
Throughout the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, one catastrophe was avoided: we never ran out of food. Granted, there were supply chain hiccups across every industry, but the agony of lockdowns across the country was not accompanied by widespread food shortages and rationing of meals.
You can thank farmers and ranchers for that, and we should. Pandemic or not, American farmers and ranchers showed up day in and day out to feed the world, like they always do.
Which is why it is stunning that President Biden is proposing new tax increases on family-owned businesses and agricultural producers to pay for his $3.5 trillion reckless tax-and-spending spree.
The U.S. tax code allows family-run businesses to be passed down to the next generation without imposing capital gains taxes on the built-in gains from the prior generation. After all, many of these “gains” are unrealized – the price of the land may have risen since being owned by previous generations, but farmers aren’t seeing a penny of actual gain. It’s called “step-up in basis,” and it prevents families from paying a fortune when a loved one dies.
Where are the illegal immigrants going?
Watching television coverage of people crossing the border illegally at our southern border, I began to wonder: Where are they going?
I was shocked to learn that the Biden administration refuses to tell the states and cities how many people they are sending – and who they are sending. Apparently, immigrants just get put on airplanes, buses, and trains and go off into America.
We are learning that a substantial number of the people who have crossed the border illegally have COVID-19. McAllen, Texas, had to declare a state of emergency when 7,000 infected immigrants arrived there. So, the Biden government could send people with COVID-19 to your neighborhood and then refuses to tell you that it has put you at risk.
Some of the illegal immigrants have gang connections, including members of the famous MS-13 El Salvadorian gang. Keep in mind, a 2020 Department of Justice report found that 74 percent of the MS-13 defendants in custody were here illegally. Under the wide-open Biden policy, they can be sent into your town without you knowing it.
What makes President Biden’s policy, so infuriating is its sheer scale.
Defund the Police Means Law and Order for Only America’s Elites
When the law breaks down and anarchy and violence reign, only the wealthy, powerful, and corrupt thrive.
In a moment of clarity, Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO)—a “rising star“ in the Democratic Party—perhaps unwittingly put a spotlight on this reality in an interview with CBS News. Bush, who had slept outside the capitol building to protest the end of the eviction moratorium, explained why she needed to spend $70,000 on private security.
“They would rather I die?” Bush asked. “You would rather me die? Is that what you want to see? You want to see me die? You know because that could be the alternative.”
Bush explained that to protect herself she would spare no expense and that she needed the security because people want to kill her and she “had work to do.”
What kind of work?
“Defunding the police has to happen,” Bush said. “We need to defund the police.”
Bush has every right to defend herself if she feels threatened, but don’t regular people have that right too? What about those who aren’t members of Congress and can’t go around with an armed detail of private security?
The truth is that the defund the police movement won’t further social justice or really any kind of justice. Instead, it produces a kind of neo-feudalism, where the rich and powerful can evade its consequences while everyone else suffers.
Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer in May 2020, calls to defund police departments became a rallying cry for left-wing activists. These activists, who often accuse police departments of systemic racism, have demanded shifting funds away from traditional policing and into public health services and schools.
Some insist on outright abolishing police departments.
Looking worse for Democrats
The warning signs for Democrats in 2022 are continuing to pile up.
The biggest sign of where things may be going is the retirement of Democratic Rep. Ron Kind, who announced he would not be running for reelection for his Wisconsin seat. Kind represents a district that former President Donald Trump won by almost 5 points in 2020, and Kind himself escaped his GOP opponent by just 2.6% last November. Without a battle-tested incumbent to defend the seat, Republicans now have the inside track on another seat with Democrats holding a slim House majority.
Rep. Sean Maloney, the New York Democrat in charge of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has told vulnerable Democrats in a closed-door meeting that Republicans lead by 6 points on the generic ballot in battleground districts. Democrats currently hold 220 seats in the House (with two vacant seats that will elect Democrats in special elections in the coming months). The magic number to make a majority is 218.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden’s approval is continuing to deteriorate. According to the RealClearPolitics polling average, Biden’s approval sits at its lowest point in his presidency at 49.7%. While his approval has steadily dropped, his disapproval rating is continuing to rise. Biden’s approval is underwater on crime, immigration, and gun violence. A majority of adults are pessimistic about the direction of the country. His approval rating is also falling among independents.
The Villages, a retirement community in Florida, was the fastest-growing metro area over the last decade
Amid a slowing of overall population growth in the United States, a Florida retirement community continued its rise to the top of the population charts: The Villages, a sprawling master planned community in Central Florida, was the fastest-growing metropolitan area over the last decade, according to census data released Thursday.
About a 45-minute drive from Orlando, the area’s population jumped 39 percent since 2010 — from about 93,000 residents to about 130,000. The growth was fueled in large part by a steady stream of retirees lured by Florida’s year-round balmy weather, beaches and endless golfing. The community, a collection of homes and villages, has made the fastest-growing list of metropolitan cities for several decades.
Its most recent growth spurt helped fuel Florida’s overall rise in population, which yielded an additional Congressional seat.
Built in the 1960s as a collection of tracts that could be purchased by mail order, The Villages skyrocketed in popularity in the 1980s and 1990s as it expanded to include large-scale dining, shopping and other leisure activities, becoming a palm tree-lined, self-contained home for seniors beginning their next chapter.
The Villages stretches across three counties but is mostly in Sumter County. It includes three ZIP codes, along with multiple town squares, movie theaters, grocery stores and libraries.
