A U.S. debt default is no joke. Federal employees and military personnel wouldn’t be paid, Social Security checks would be late, and up to 8 million workers could lose their jobs. But a crisis-weary American public isn’t paying much attention. NBC News describes (here) the recent drumbea[...]
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The many complex nuances of the debt ceiling fight
The debt ceiling has a long history (read about it here). It’s a gimmick enacted by Congress to restrain its own spending. It’s not a budget, it’s a borrowing limit, and potentially could prevent Treasury from paying expenses previously approved by Congress, as the U.S. has run bud[...]
GOP senator calls student debt relief “a handout to the wealthy”
Attention struggling student borrowers, according to a GOP senator who wants to be president, you’re a rich deadbeat. Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), who plans to seek the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, called student loan relief a “handout to the wealthy.” (See story here.) When he was[...]
The amazing power of artificial intelligence
It can transform a draft dodger who never spent a day in military uniform into this. (To find out who Brigitte Gabriel is, go here; to watch Ana Kasparian call her a “clown,” go here. For a real picture of U.S. soldiers, go here.) Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
Can Trump beat Biden in 2024?
I don’t know. It’s not even assured they’ll be the nominees, although both are running. The polls suggest neither are popular, but do polls at this stage really tell us anything about an election over 18 months away? Here’s what one of HorsesAss.org’s most articulate po[...]
New poll suggests Trump faces uphill battle
Trump is the early favorite for the 2024 GOP nomination, but even if he isn’t wearing an orange prison jumpsuit by then, he’s unlikely to win over general election voters. A new AP/NORC poll released on Thursday, April 20, 2023, shows 70% of Americans don’t want him to run for pres[...]
A Democrat who knows rural voters
If Democrats are frustrated by rural voters, it’s because they don’t know them, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) says. Khanna represents Silicon Valley, but travels the country, showing his face in places like Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Appalachia Virginia. A progressive, he talks abo[...]
Why do Republicans think crazy is a winning election strategy?
Probably because they’ve been around their own voters too long, and need to get out of the barn more. After 3 teachers and 3 kids were murdered by an AK47-wielding woman at a Nashville Christian school on Monday, March 27, 2023 (see story here), a survivor of the July 4, 2022, Highland Park pa[...]
March 15th, 2023 - 5:11 pm § in America, Biden, Donald Trump, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Politics, Republicans, Russia, Schools & Colleges
Foreign policy …
… is the most important task a president does. It’s literally about war and peace. But this poses a conundrum, because presidential campaigns are waged and won or lost on domestic issues; politics is very much a “what will you do for me” affair. (The softer and more polite wa[...]