"For ten months now, he has been pressing to fire the vast majority of CFPB employees—more than 1,000 officials expertly trained to uphold the laws protecting consumers—though the courts have blocked him from doing so. This is a grotesque waste of taxpayer money, as Vought continues to idle the agency’s workforce regardless of the laws that Congress has enacted."
This corrupt regime set out to grotesquely waste taxpayer money. Musk had the brilliant idea of paying federal employees not to work and forcing us to pay their severance as well. Republicans forced an incredibly costly shutdown by refusing to uphold the ACA subsidies that we the people instructed them to put in place with our votes. We pay for all the frivolous and illegal lawsuits. We pay the salaries for illegally installed lawyers. We pay via our states to sue ourselves when the feds break the laws that affect states' rights. And on and on. And, of course, we pay for the tariffs and now, the farmer bailout of said tariffs.
People like me can only make so much money. And money runs out. The deficit is huge and our credit as a nation is maxed out. Good luck getting blood from these stones--and guess what? You can't spend our blood, Trump.
The headline of the article is a no-brainer. Of course this administration doesn't care. As long as they enrich themselves (at our expense) they remain tone-deaf to the people. We were promised lower prices, and nothing that Trump or this administration has done has reduced them one bit. We are still paying more on the average for everything.
The both of them showed that we the people no longer have representation in Washington; Congress is literally shut down, and by Trump's design. As Smith says, he doesn't WANT Congress. They just get in the way with their pesky budgets and pesky oversight. With the million other things going on, this sad fact has been buried.
Pesky oversight?? This Congress? The GOP led Congress has done little to resist Trump and his efforts, and even passed his Big Butt-Ugly Bill. It hasn't put a brake on his tariffs, nor on his increased corporate welfare (subsidies and tax breaks). The man should have nowt to complain about.
I read a recent report that 'we the people' only have a 2% influence today on what Congress does. Diverse influencers, lobbyists, and corporate interests have far more sway, and maybe even some foreign countries. Dark money, enabled by the Citizens United decision helped to make that happen.
Keeping up with all that's being done to us is difficult as so much #%*^ is being chucked at us daily. The summaries in The Contrarian sure help to keep us informed.
The millionaires that make up the cabinet have no idea of the costs of items. Most of them don't ever see a bill, as it goes straight to their accountants to pay. Some may say the price of gas is going down, however the cost of other products that use oil as an input are not going down. Using gas as a loss-leader to appease #47? Trump has three projects in Saudi. So much corruption.
"For ten months now, he has been pressing to fire the vast majority of CFPB employees—more than 1,000 officials expertly trained to uphold the laws protecting consumers—though the courts have blocked him from doing so. This is a grotesque waste of taxpayer money, as Vought continues to idle the agency’s workforce regardless of the laws that Congress has enacted."
This corrupt regime set out to grotesquely waste taxpayer money. Musk had the brilliant idea of paying federal employees not to work and forcing us to pay their severance as well. Republicans forced an incredibly costly shutdown by refusing to uphold the ACA subsidies that we the people instructed them to put in place with our votes. We pay for all the frivolous and illegal lawsuits. We pay the salaries for illegally installed lawyers. We pay via our states to sue ourselves when the feds break the laws that affect states' rights. And on and on. And, of course, we pay for the tariffs and now, the farmer bailout of said tariffs.
People like me can only make so much money. And money runs out. The deficit is huge and our credit as a nation is maxed out. Good luck getting blood from these stones--and guess what? You can't spend our blood, Trump.
The headline of the article is a no-brainer. Of course this administration doesn't care. As long as they enrich themselves (at our expense) they remain tone-deaf to the people. We were promised lower prices, and nothing that Trump or this administration has done has reduced them one bit. We are still paying more on the average for everything.
The most hair-raising realization I made today came from watching Rubin's talk with Sen. Adam Smith (https://contrarian.substack.com/p/venezuela-western-dominance-and-regime?utm_source=publication-search) and reading Nancy Mace's gripe column in the NYT "What's the Point of Congress?"
The both of them showed that we the people no longer have representation in Washington; Congress is literally shut down, and by Trump's design. As Smith says, he doesn't WANT Congress. They just get in the way with their pesky budgets and pesky oversight. With the million other things going on, this sad fact has been buried.
Pesky oversight?? This Congress? The GOP led Congress has done little to resist Trump and his efforts, and even passed his Big Butt-Ugly Bill. It hasn't put a brake on his tariffs, nor on his increased corporate welfare (subsidies and tax breaks). The man should have nowt to complain about.
I read a recent report that 'we the people' only have a 2% influence today on what Congress does. Diverse influencers, lobbyists, and corporate interests have far more sway, and maybe even some foreign countries. Dark money, enabled by the Citizens United decision helped to make that happen.
Oh, barf. That's worse than I thought. Well, nice ta see ya today, Steve.
Keeping up with all that's being done to us is difficult as so much #%*^ is being chucked at us daily. The summaries in The Contrarian sure help to keep us informed.
The millionaires that make up the cabinet have no idea of the costs of items. Most of them don't ever see a bill, as it goes straight to their accountants to pay. Some may say the price of gas is going down, however the cost of other products that use oil as an input are not going down. Using gas as a loss-leader to appease #47? Trump has three projects in Saudi. So much corruption.