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(06-06-2025, 05:07 PM)Jag149 Wrote: Amazing news !  The Democrats and the Judges they purchased wanted Kilmar Garcia back. Well, they appear to be getting their wish!  The DOJ has investigated him because of the bright light they shined on him. See article....wow I would hate to be a Maryland man if this is what it is.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kilmar-...-nashville

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(06-06-2025, 05:07 PM)Jag149 Wrote: Amazing news !  The Democrats and the Judges they purchased wanted Kilmar Garcia back. Well, they appear to be getting their wish!  The DOJ has investigated him because of the bright light they shined on him. See article....wow I would hate to be a Maryland man if this is what it is.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/kilmar-...-nashville

ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 100%

I was always told to be careful what you wished for......... My Senator Van Hollen and the rest of the Dems are now going to need to wash egg off their faces........
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(06-05-2025, 12:44 PM)Jag149 Wrote: Everyone believe this drama between Musk and Trump? I have a tough time buying it. 

A possibility,
Elon takes heat for helping cut costs, liberals attack
Elon departs his assignment after setting the DOGE organization up and illustrating Government waste and fraud.
Both Elon and Trump want more cuts in bill.
If Trump comes out and says that it is counter productive. Trump has to play somewhat nice to get votes for the bill.
Elon doesn't have to play nice AND gets the Libs off his butt. This helps get more things codified.
After dust settles they make up. Mission accomplished.

Or Elon has caught on that the issue is the Uniparty and the show must go on but he decided he wants no part of it?
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(06-06-2025, 06:58 PM)copycat Wrote:
(06-05-2025, 12:44 PM)Jag149 Wrote: Everyone believe this drama between Musk and Trump? I have a tough time buying it. 

A possibility,
Elon takes heat for helping cut costs, liberals attack
Elon departs his assignment after setting the DOGE organization up and illustrating Government waste and fraud.
Both Elon and Trump want more cuts in bill.
If Trump comes out and says that it is counter productive. Trump has to play somewhat nice to get votes for the bill.
Elon doesn't have to play nice AND gets the Libs off his butt. This helps get more things codified.
After dust settles they make up. Mission accomplished.

Or Elon has caught on that the issue is the Uniparty and the show must go on but he decided he wants no part of it?

If we had even one functioning political party, Congress would be way more productive. 

The majority of Americans believe it's possible to reduce the debt without raising taxes, or cutting social security, Medicare, or defense. And for their part the majority of Democrats believe it's possible to reduce the deficit while only raising taxes and increasing spending.

If you get close to political power, there are really only two choices. You can play along with the people's delusions, and stay on the stage for a long time, or you can tell them the truth and get booed off.
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(06-06-2025, 08:00 PM)mikesez Wrote:
(06-06-2025, 06:58 PM)copycat Wrote: Or Elon has caught on that the issue is the Uniparty and the show must go on but he decided he wants no part of it?

If we had even one functioning political party, Congress would be way more productive. 

The majority of Americans believe it's possible to reduce the debt without raising taxes, or cutting social security, Medicare, or defense. And for their part the majority of Democrats believe it's possible to reduce the deficit while only raising taxes and increasing spending.

If you get close to political power, there are really only two choices. You can play along with the people's delusions, and stay on the stage for a long time, or you can tell them the truth and get booed off.

You can reduce the debt and balance the budget without ever raising taxes by reducing spending.
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(06-06-2025, 08:05 PM)copycat Wrote:
(06-06-2025, 08:00 PM)mikesez Wrote: If we had even one functioning political party, Congress would be way more productive. 

The majority of Americans believe it's possible to reduce the debt without raising taxes, or cutting social security, Medicare, or defense. And for their part the majority of Democrats believe it's possible to reduce the deficit while only raising taxes and increasing spending.

If you get close to political power, there are really only two choices. You can play along with the people's delusions, and stay on the stage for a long time, or you can tell them the truth and get booed off.

You can reduce the debt and balance the budget without ever raising taxes by reducing spending.

Of course, but in doing so you will be making severe cuts to Defense, Social security, and Medicare.
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(06-06-2025, 08:28 PM)mikesez Wrote:
(06-06-2025, 08:05 PM)copycat Wrote: You can reduce the debt and balance the budget without ever raising taxes by reducing spending.

Of course, but in doing so you will be making severe cuts to Defense, Social security, and Medicare.

Not increasing spending is not a cut.  Baseline budgeting is what got us into this mess.
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(06-06-2025, 08:36 PM)copycat Wrote:
(06-06-2025, 08:28 PM)mikesez Wrote: Of course, but in doing so you will be making severe cuts to Defense, Social security, and Medicare.

Not increasing spending is not a cut.  Baseline budgeting is what got us into this mess.

For defense, sure, but the number of retirees increases every year, and an inflation factor is baked in to both Social Security and Medicare.
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If those of us that lived through the "Cold War" thought that was bad..... this is 1000X worse......

Chinese bioterror suspects' arrests signal communist country plotting 'something worse' than COVID: expert
After Chinese nationals were allegedly caught smuggling crop-killing fungus, a CCP expert says America 'will get hit' if action is not taken

After the pattern of recent covert communist Chinese infiltrations of the U.S. continued with the arrest of two suspected "bioterrorists" in Michigan this week, one expert said it's time to sever relations with China completely.

"The only way to stop this is to sever relations with China," attorney and Chinese Communist Party expert Gordon Chang told Fox News Digital. "And I know people think that's drastic, but we are being overwhelmed, and we are going to get hit. And we are going to get hit really hard. Not just with COVID, not just with fentanyl, but perhaps with something worse."

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chinese-biote...vid-expert
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(06-06-2025, 08:28 PM)mikesez Wrote:
(06-06-2025, 08:05 PM)copycat Wrote: You can reduce the debt and balance the budget without ever raising taxes by reducing spending.

Of course, but in doing so you will be making severe cuts to Defense, Social security, and Medicare.

Actually, there is more than enough tax money. (If used properly and not stolen)

Pass legislation requiring the CBO to show their formulas and work. Also, rotate employment there. Transparency is key here as it is a tool we need. They overestimated the effect of the first Trump tax cuts and underestimated the effect of Biden spending. This shows they are a political entity and of little use to the congress or the people. 
Do the tax cuts. The government is the most ineffective and inefficient money spender known to man.

Eliminate the waste and fraud from entitlement programs.
Add the work requirements for able bodied people to receive.

Establish a modest tariff rate on non essential industries. (10-20%)
Establish a penalizing rate on essential industries. (steel,Aluminum, etc)
This is a usage tax. It will give everyone the option of buying a domestic product or paying more for one imported. The rich will be the ones opting for the latter and therefore pay more of the tax. They also consume more resulting in the same.

All entitlement programs are to be rolled back to pre-covid levels. Covid is over.
Legal Aliens that have contributed to the entitlement programs get benefits in line with their contributions to them.
Illegal aliens get no benefits from entitlement programs.
Illegal aliens are deported. 
Illegal aliens can go quietly where they can get in line. or if we need to go to court to deport them they are banned permanently from entry into the US..
Those seeking asylum still go. If they do not wish to return to their country they have many to pick from...choose. Kind of like the song. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here"

Teachers need to teach. They have no right to discuss sexuality with adolescents. If you have the need to talk to an adolescent about sexuality you are not a teacher you are a predator and should be treated as such. 

No school may admit a "guest student" without the approval and vetting by the State department. Those schools found being funded by foreign governments lose all accreditation.
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Jamie Raskin either has Biden dementia or is a liar – says he can’t remember one Democrat that defended Abrego Garcia

RatSKIN is at it again.. He’s not old enough to have Biden dementia, so I’ll just call him a filthy liar which is what he is.. Suddenly. RATSkin can’t remember one Democrat who defended the child trafficking, wife beating, child porn soliciting MS-13 gangbanger. Funny that.

https://www.pacificpundit.com/2025/06/06...ego-garcia
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(06-07-2025, 09:14 AM)Jag149 Wrote:
(06-06-2025, 08:28 PM)mikesez Wrote: Of course, but in doing so you will be making severe cuts to Defense, Social security, and Medicare.

Actually, there is more than enough tax money. (If used properly and not stolen)

Pass legislation requiring the CBO to show their formulas and work. Also, rotate employment there. Transparency is key here as it is a tool we need. They overestimated the effect of the first Trump tax cuts and underestimated the effect of Biden spending. This shows they are a political entity and of little use to the congress or the people. 
Do the tax cuts. The government is the most ineffective and inefficient money spender known to man.

Eliminate the waste and fraud from entitlement programs.
Add the work requirements for able bodied people to receive.

Establish a modest tariff rate on non essential industries. (10-20%)
Establish a penalizing rate on essential industries. (steel,Aluminum, etc)
This is a usage tax. It will give everyone the option of buying a domestic product or paying more for one imported. The rich will be the ones opting for the latter and therefore pay more of the tax. They also consume more resulting in the same.

All entitlement programs are to be rolled back to pre-covid levels. Covid is over.
Legal Aliens that have contributed to the entitlement programs get benefits in line with their contributions to them.
Illegal aliens get no benefits from entitlement programs.
Illegal aliens are deported. 
Illegal aliens can go quietly where they can get in line. or if we need to go to court to deport them they are banned permanently from entry into the US..
Those seeking asylum still go. If they do not wish to return to their country they have many to pick from...choose. Kind of like the song. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here"

Teachers need to teach. They have no right to discuss sexuality with adolescents. If you have the need to talk to an adolescent about sexuality you are not a teacher you are a predator and should be treated as such. 

No school may admit a "guest student" without the approval and vetting by the State department. Those schools found being funded by foreign governments lose all accreditation.

1) tariffs are a tax, you just called for a tax increase,
2) none of that adds up to enough to balance the budget.
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(06-07-2025, 04:10 PM)mikesez Wrote:
(06-07-2025, 09:14 AM)Jag149 Wrote: Actually, there is more than enough tax money. (If used properly and not stolen)

Pass legislation requiring the CBO to show their formulas and work. Also, rotate employment there. Transparency is key here as it is a tool we need. They overestimated the effect of the first Trump tax cuts and underestimated the effect of Biden spending. This shows they are a political entity and of little use to the congress or the people. 
Do the tax cuts. The government is the most ineffective and inefficient money spender known to man.

Eliminate the waste and fraud from entitlement programs.
Add the work requirements for able bodied people to receive.

Establish a modest tariff rate on non essential industries. (10-20%)
Establish a penalizing rate on essential industries. (steel,Aluminum, etc)
This is a usage tax. It will give everyone the option of buying a domestic product or paying more for one imported. The rich will be the ones opting for the latter and therefore pay more of the tax. They also consume more resulting in the same.

All entitlement programs are to be rolled back to pre-covid levels. Covid is over.
Legal Aliens that have contributed to the entitlement programs get benefits in line with their contributions to them.
Illegal aliens get no benefits from entitlement programs.
Illegal aliens are deported. 
Illegal aliens can go quietly where they can get in line. or if we need to go to court to deport them they are banned permanently from entry into the US..
Those seeking asylum still go. If they do not wish to return to their country they have many to pick from...choose. Kind of like the song. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here"

Teachers need to teach. They have no right to discuss sexuality with adolescents. If you have the need to talk to an adolescent about sexuality you are not a teacher you are a predator and should be treated as such. 

No school may admit a "guest student" without the approval and vetting by the State department. Those schools found being funded by foreign governments lose all accreditation.

1) tariffs are a tax, you just called for a tax increase, Yes, kind of like the lottery. The lottery is also a tax. A voluntary tax. If you do not play it it doesn't affect you. The same is true of imported goods.
2) none of that adds up to enough to balance the budget. Yes it does. you are incorrect. More than half of the current 2 trillion dollar operating deficit we are running is due to money for illegal aliens. The rest are related to fraud, corruption, government bloat, over regulation. 

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(06-07-2025, 04:27 PM)Jag149 Wrote:
(06-07-2025, 04:10 PM)mikesez Wrote: 1) tariffs are a tax, you just called for a tax increase, Yes, kind of like the lottery. The lottery is also a tax. A voluntary tax. If you do not play it it doesn't affect you. The same is true of imported goods.
2) none of that adds up to enough to balance the budget. Yes it does. you are incorrect. More than half of the current 2 trillion dollar operating deficit we are running is due to money for illegal aliens. The rest are related to fraud, corruption, government bloat, over regulation. 

You're smarter than this.
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(06-07-2025, 06:39 PM)mikesez Wrote: You're smarter than this.

I am correct. Problem you are having is you are belieing the propaganda. Here is one example.

https://www.cato.org/blog/medicaids-fund...uels-fraud

Additionally, 

if you were living in say living in Arizona and moved to Georgia both states would receive the compensation.
Also, both New York and California are running a money laundering scheme presently. I am sure we will find these methods in other blue states as the investigation continues.

https://paragoninstitute.org/medicaid/ca...mmigrants/
Do the research yourself you will find I am correct.
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(06-07-2025, 09:14 AM)Jag149 Wrote:
(06-06-2025, 08:28 PM)mikesez Wrote: Of course, but in doing so you will be making severe cuts to Defense, Social security, and Medicare.

Actually, there is more than enough tax money. (If used properly and not stolen)

Pass legislation requiring the CBO to show their formulas and work. Also, rotate employment there. Transparency is key here as it is a tool we need. They overestimated the effect of the first Trump tax cuts and underestimated the effect of Biden spending. This shows they are a political entity and of little use to the congress or the people. 
Do the tax cuts. The government is the most ineffective and inefficient money spender known to man.

Eliminate the waste and fraud from entitlement programs.
Add the work requirements for able bodied people to receive.

Establish a modest tariff rate on non essential industries. (10-20%)
Establish a penalizing rate on essential industries. (steel,Aluminum, etc)
This is a usage tax. It will give everyone the option of buying a domestic product or paying more for one imported. The rich will be the ones opting for the latter and therefore pay more of the tax. They also consume more resulting in the same.

All entitlement programs are to be rolled back to pre-covid levels. Covid is over.
Legal Aliens that have contributed to the entitlement programs get benefits in line with their contributions to them.
Illegal aliens get no benefits from entitlement programs.
Illegal aliens are deported. 
Illegal aliens can go quietly where they can get in line. or if we need to go to court to deport them they are banned permanently from entry into the US..
Those seeking asylum still go. If they do not wish to return to their country they have many to pick from...choose. Kind of like the song. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here"

Teachers need to teach. They have no right to discuss sexuality with adolescents. If you have the need to talk to an adolescent about sexuality you are not a teacher you are a predator and should be treated as such. 

No school may admit a "guest student" without the approval and vetting by the State department. Those schools found being funded by foreign governments lose all accreditation.

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(06-07-2025, 07:02 PM)Jag149 Wrote:
(06-07-2025, 06:39 PM)mikesez Wrote: You're smarter than this.

I am correct. Problem you are having is you are belieing the propaganda. Here is one example.

https://www.cato.org/blog/medicaids-fund...uels-fraud

Additionally, 

if you were living in say living in Arizona and moved to Georgia both states would receive the compensation.
Also, both New York and California are running a money laundering scheme presently. I am sure we will find these methods in other blue states as the investigation continues.

https://paragoninstitute.org/medicaid/ca...mmigrants/
Do the research yourself you will find I am correct.

I didn't say that there wasn't fraud and abuse. I said that it doesn't add up to 1 trillion dollars per year. 
It's not even close.
It's tens of billions of dollars, maybe more than a  hundred, but it's not a trillion.
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(06-07-2025, 07:47 PM)mikesez Wrote:
(06-07-2025, 07:02 PM)Jag149 Wrote: I am correct. Problem you are having is you are belieing the propaganda. Here is one example.

https://www.cato.org/blog/medicaids-fund...uels-fraud

Additionally, 

if you were living in say living in Arizona and moved to Georgia both states would receive the compensation.
Also, both New York and California are running a money laundering scheme presently. I am sure we will find these methods in other blue states as the investigation continues.

https://paragoninstitute.org/medicaid/ca...mmigrants/
Do the research yourself you will find I am correct.

I didn't say that there wasn't fraud and abuse. I said that it doesn't add up to 1 trillion dollars per year. 
It's not even close.
It's tens of billions of dollars, maybe more than a  hundred, but it's not a trillion.

Your confusing improper payments with fraud and abuse. They recovered about 7.1 billion last year in improper payments, The inspector gereral estimated it at about 600 billion 4 or 5 years ago. Add the temporary expanded benefits due to COVID and the money laundering schemes some states are running now and it just may exceed the trillion. 

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/witn...-trillion/

The Dems are upset as they do not want the scams to cease. Like Copycat said is easy unless you have an agenda. what is yours ?
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(06-07-2025, 08:04 PM)Jag149 Wrote:
(06-07-2025, 07:47 PM)mikesez Wrote: I didn't say that there wasn't fraud and abuse. I said that it doesn't add up to 1 trillion dollars per year. 
It's not even close.
It's tens of billions of dollars, maybe more than a  hundred, but it's not a trillion.

Your confusing improper payments with fraud and abuse. They recovered about 7.1 billion last year in improper payments, The inspector gereral estimated it at about 600 billion 4 or 5 years ago. Add the temporary expanded benefits due to COVID and the money laundering schemes some states are running now and it just may exceed the trillion. 

https://www.nationalreview.com/news/witn...-trillion/

The Dems are upset as they do not want the scams to cease. Like Copycat said is easy unless you have an agenda. what is yours ?

And now you're talking about a one time event. 
Even if that story is accurate, that money is not being wasted that way anymore. 
You guys are smarter than this.
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