Musk’s DOGE hackers could only find .00008 of the DoD budget to cut, all for “woke” programs. No efficiency cuts for wasteful spending, no elimination of cost overruns, no cuts of obsolete programs. Just more DOGE Thought Police censorship.…
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A chainsaw approach has left a hack job where those fully educated to do the job are gone and their replacements totally ineffective. The American people and those we help around the world can no longer access the help they need.…
Massachusetts and New York State are both part of a coalition of 23 attorneys general and two governors challenging this administration’s termination of AmeriCorps grants and dismantling of the agency through an 85 percent reduction of its workforce.…
Who do you know that is being trumped to death? A retiree that’s trying to talk to a Social Security agent on the telephone? An undocumented worker that frets her U.S.-born children may lose their birth-right citizenship?…
In our area, “Hands Off!” rallies were held in Oneonta, Norwich, Delhi and other nearby venues. The Oneonta event was organized by Indivisible groups from Cooperstown/Oneonta, Butternut Valley, Cherry Valley and Schoharie County, as well as by Otsego Residents for Democracy.…
The events seek to raise awareness of what protestors consider to be the unconstitutional and damaging policies of the Trump administration, calling attention to what they view as radical and unprecedented gutting by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, of federal agencies, grants, and services that most Americans rely on.…
The Department of Government Efficiency, “DOGE,” is ostensibly in charge of increasing the efficiency of the departments it audits. What it is actually doing is crippling or eliminating those agencies—the VA, FAA, DoE, USAID, National Parks Service, Post Office, FEMA, etc. for the purpose of monetizing their assets and privatizing their services.…
Make sense of this, if you will. How can one individual of clearly dubious character freeze so many into total submission? I know it is not the first time. And it will not be the last. No tyrant ever goes it alone. But what does it say about human nature?…
The net result is that the top 2 percent of tax payers will get lower taxes, and the other 98 percent will pay more in Trump Tariff Taxes for a reduction in government services, Medicare, Social Security benefits, etc.…
The bottom line is this: Unless you radically change Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, all of which would require legislative action and the signature of a president, there are only two real choices to reduce spending.…
