Let's not scapegoat every Afghan refuge .GOP senators have supported legislation for resettlement and a pathway to permanent legal status for Afghan refugees who aided the U.S.
Bill Cassidy, Mike Crapo, Lindsey Graham
Lisa Murkowski Jerry Moran James Risch Mike Rounds Thom Tillis Roger Wicker

Trump's bill increases the deficit through tax cuts for the super rich while cutting Medicaid. To move toward a balanced annual budget, we must increase taxes on the rich and find ways to to deal with entitlements. We are in big trouble. Watch the bond market! The world is losing faith in the US.

FEDERAL BUDGET

FY2023
EXPENDITURES $6.1 TRILLION
INCOME $4.4 T
ANNUAL DEFICIT $1.7 TR.

SOCIAL SECURITY $1.3 TR.
MEDICARE $839 BILLION
MEDICAID $616 B
DEFENSE $800 B
VETERAN BENEFITS $502 B
INCOME SEC. PROGRAMS $446 D
NON-DEFENSE $917 B

US heading for big trouble. Roman Empire collapsed over debt. "Big beautiful bill" is accelerating our decline. National debt since 2000.

I pray for Joe Biden and his family. So much tragedy in his life but I worry about his legacy. He saved us from Trump in 2020, and did phenomenal work in his first two years. I wish he followed through on his promise to be a "transitional" President and let a vigorous primary occur in 2023. Hubris.

I'm attending North Carolina Democrats's event, “Holding the Line: Update on the Fight to Protect Democracy” - sign up now to join me! #buildingblue www.mobilize.us/ncdems/event...

The New Yorker on the UHC CEO murder: "the term “structural violence”.. distinguishes between forms that violence can take... Our society fixates on only direct physical violence committed by a person intending harm." The other type is the pain inflicted on millions from denied insurance claims

Want to better understand another reason why the inequality of wealth keeps getting worse in our country? Read Jesse Drucker's article in today's New York Times. Each year, the richest Americans pass down $200 billion without paying a dime of estate tax. The GOP has gutted the tax.

Final Count on 2024 House races: 222R-215D.

It shows close the election really was.

Despair not: 2026 is just around the corner, just like 2018!

He's Back! McKinley elected to the presidency in 1896, in comes the enormous, fat tariff hog "demand(ing) a prohibitive tariff on all importations" J.S. Pughe (1897) 🗃️

I just leave this here.....

No more words need be said

For looking for some peace, strength and stability in this time, I have found this sit every helpful
dailystoic.com

Aspen, Colorado ❄️

If you are ever in northwestern Pennsylvania, please visit the Ernst Trail which runs from Meadville to Conneaut Lake (mostly along French Creek). My fiend who passed away in 2008 envisioned this 25 mile trail 30 years ago and it os now complete! See ernsttrail.org

More nourishment for the soul...on the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon at sunrise!

Enjoy the Great Allegheny Passage, a 160-mile bike trail from Pittsburgh, Pa to Cumberland, Md. It will clear your mind and be good for your soul