Haski123

My previous response has answers imbedded in you quote- hit show quote for my full response.
Click show quote on previous response to see response to each bullet within text Baer the bulleted item.

Haski123

Here is the chart on crime thru 2021 . I was unable to get 2022 complete or 2023 ytd

American Vet

How about starting with the misnamed "Inflation Reduction Act":

The bill will likely increase near-term inflation, depress household incomes, and produce the long-term deficits that fuel long-term inflation. The bill is about as far away from a genuine Inflation Reduction Act as possible. In reality, this bill is a litany of policies aimed at scoring political points that has been recklessly and hurriedly slapped together.
Using the Congressional Budget Office’s latest scoring, estimates of the most recent changes, and accounting for very expensive gimmicks, it’s likely that the bill will produce deficits.
The cumulative deficit would be around $52.5 billion over the next four years, at least $110 billion through fiscal year 2031, and more beyond. That would mean adding to near-term and long-term inflationary pressures, in contrast to what proponents such as Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., claim.
In short, the bill is about as far away from a genuine Inflation Reduction Act as possible. Though it would be harmful under any circumstances, signing it into law during a period of stagflation would be the worst possible timing.
https://www.heritage.org/markets-and-finance/commentary/heres-the-t***h-about-what-inflation-reduction-act-would-do

It is rife with PORK (aka - a payoff to l*****t entities)Here’s a small sampling of what Congress has decided to throw inflationary cash at.

1. This Pork Smells Fishy
Roger Williams University in Rhode Island will receive $1.6 million for “equitable growth of shellfish aquaculture industry,” which combines corporate welfare with identity politics. A “freshwater mussel hatchery” in Pennsylvania gets $925,000. Non-state territories also get in on the action: A “fisherman’s co-op facility” in Guam nets $3 million.

2. Reduce Pollution by Lighting Cash on Fire
The spending bill contains dozens of “green” projects, many of which have no chance of meaningfully helping the environment. For instance, an “eco village” in Baltimore will reap $3 million.

There’s a $1.5 million “solar field” in Toledo, Ohio, a $1.9 million “solar testbed” in West Virginia, and $3 million for “floating solar” near Albany, New York. Something all three places have in common is long stretches of the year with minimal sunlight.

3. Funding the Woke Left
Sometimes identity politics is concealed behind academic jargon, but in several instances the spending bill provides taxpayer funding to explicitly left-wing enterprises.

There’s $475,000 for the RAISE Institute at Ohio State University, which supports activist professors. Worcester State gets $500,000 for a “diversity in STEM” initiative focusing on climate, which is part of a long-term agenda to move science to the left.

Of the dozens of housing projects getting payola, none can match the wokeness of a $1 million earmark for “L***Q-friendly senior housing” in Dallas.

4. Metaphor Alert
A $2 million project in Michigan is labeled “biosolids to fertilizer.” While this is an apt description of the omnibus in general, we have to go to a press release to learn that this means handing human sewage to farmers.

Another $4.2 million is dedicated to, literally, “sheep experiment station infrastructure improvements” in Idaho.

5. Bigwigs Get Big Bucks
The year’s top porker is Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., who is retiring at the end of the session. He raked in a total of $548 million, including $100 million for Mobile’s airport, over 10 times as much as any other airport in the country. Shelby is the ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee.

His counterpart on the committee, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., hauled in a total of $160 million, including a “farm to school institute” and an “institute for rural partnerships” despite Vermont being located far from the agricultural heartland.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., got $2 million for “cultural placekeeping.” If you have no idea what that means, welcome to the wide world of progressive word salads.

House Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., put his stamp on many projects, including $650,000 for “digital equity” in the Bronx and $800,000 for an “activity center” in the college town of Ithaca.

6. Small Towns Get Big Bucks
Most pork involves using federal money to pay for projects that ought to be the responsibility of local governments or private charities.

The wealthy town of Middleburg, Virginia, has a population of 539 people. They’re getting a $2 million town hall. Michigan’s Mackinaw City, which is actually a village of 805 people, gets $3 million for a “rejuvenation project.”

It’s worth considering whether those projects would cost so much if it meant a big hike in local taxes.

7. Museums to Waste
There’s going to be a museum dev**ed to Mahatma Gandhi in Houston, and we’re chipping in a $3 million earmark for it, which is about half of the amount they’ve raised so far.

Palo Alto, California, is home to billionaires like Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Yet they apparently can’t afford to pay $3 million to renovate a building at their history museum, so we get to help out whether we want to or not.

The spending bill even has $3 million to build a literal tourist trap, converting an old Illinois prison into a museum.

8. Pork Pastimes
If you think public soccer fields would be reasonably affordable, clearly you haven’t been to Anaheim, California, where they’re getting $2 million. A single theater in Baltimore receives $3 million.

Bermuda Run, North Carolina, will get $3.65 million for “recreational infrastructure.” Considering that the area is full of golf courses, you can guess what that means. (You can also guess whether they can afford to pay for it themselves.)
https://www.heritage.org/budget-and-spending/commentary/8-varieties-rancid-pork-latest-spending-bill

The Inflation Reduction Act: An Orwellian A*********n
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) proclaimed that the IRA will help every citizen in this country and make America a much better place. What grandiloquent baloney. The second clause — the assertion that this act will make our country a “better place” — is revealing: It encapsulates progressives’ prevailing ideological belief that America currently is not a good place and can be redeemed only by Democratic/progressive economic central planning. The first clause — the assertion that the IRA “will help every citizen” — is a blatant lie.
https://spectator.org/inflation-reduction-act-orwellian-a*********n/

Haski123

You make your biases clear. You appear to pick another thorn vs all the other roses. Sounds like it’s time to v**e out the congressional representatives that proposed and passed the bill, especially those that forced their amendments to make it middle of the road and less effective.

Carol Kelly

Good point.

BIRDMAN

Holy crap do you need help

American Vet

Nope, I picked the first ‘thorn’. The others are just as troublesome.

Shall I continue?

Earl Ritter Loc: Virginia

HA, HA,HA,HA. LIAR!!!!!

Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

Obviously Psaki123, you are so enamored with the agenda that is destroying this country you cannot see the forest for the trees.
1.) obama is not old news we see him in the news frequently. we are enduring his third term through his puppet, biden.
2.) Historians offer their rankings is based on opinions not empirical data. They have their heads stuck in an oven on broil and their feet frozen in a bucket of ice and say, "On the hole I am comfortable".
3.) mulatto
moo͝-lăt′ō, -lä′tō, myoo͝-
noun
A person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially one having one white and one black parent.
One who is the offspring of parents of whom one is white and the other a negro.
The offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion. Either obama fills this definition or not. I say he does. I see nothing derogatory or offensive in the definition. If so, then so is caucasian. obama has the distinction of being our first muslim president.
4.) If you believe that biden is making competent decisions, you have a different dictionary than the majority of Americans. His "competent" decisions have armed the taliban with billions of dollars of American arms and equipment, inflated the cost of diesel fuel, gasoline and heating oil, removed plentiful and affordable foodstuffs from grocery shelves, turned 401k's into 201k's, negatively affected investments and retirement programs, caused the United States to become vulnerable on the world stage, sent billions of taxpayer dollars to the Ukraine that are unaccounted for and being laundered.
5.) Like the historians and statisticians, Doctors can be found to provide a diagnosis in line with what the patient wants. If you believe that this doddering, drooling, incontinent, senile old fool is "all there", you must be in a state of mental decline yourself. He cannot complete a comprehensible sentence or walk upright. SOMETHING is wrong with biden.
6.) 30k lies from POTUS Trump? Is that figure a WAG (wild ass guess) or a SWAG (scientific wild ass guess)?
7.) Your crowd cannot define a woman (judge brown). Your gaggle's latest proclamation is that a man (male X & Y c********es) can bear children. I am of the opinion that someone a woman (female X c********es) gave birth to the two children that barry and michael flaunted. No one has ever seen a DNA test, have they? The two girls (sorry for the offensive term) do not resemble either parent. Maybe Michael needs to confer with the doctor who claims biden is of sound mind and body!
8.) your mention of PegW and non-validity do belong in the same sentence, but you put too many words in the sentence.
The worst presidents in my lifetime have been (listed from bad to worst) lbj, jimmy carter, barrack hussein obama and now joe biden. Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it. I am looking to the future of the nation I love and have served and I see her being ripped asunder by your ilk and those you support.

Ricktloml

Ricktloml

"It always amazes me when people have been a victim of a con job. They refuse to admit it."

Gee pegw must be in a perpetual state amazement...as are most of the useful i***t faction of the left/Democrat/C*******t Party. Only they have been more than conned...outright/in-your-face REPEATEDLY lied to. But the left/Democrat/C*******t Party knows their base. They know they can not only depend on them to swallow the same lies that have been told for decades...but to promote/magnify those lies. Useful i***ts have helped their evil left-wing masters destroy one society after another...and their sights are set on the USA

Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

Haski123

Destroying this country is a strong statement-Biden policies destroying this country is your biased opinion. Country is functioning well every day. Issues have risen and Biden administration is working to fix them(infrastructure,drug costs,inflation c*****e c****e,C***d,jobs,separation of branches(executive,judicial,congress,agencies), many need Congress help(border issue, budget,gun control).
While nothing will change your opinions in 8 items in your note. I will try to show facts that show most of your opinions are unsupported and or inaccurate and just biased opinions. So here goes.
1.Biden is President, the Biden administration (White House & Cabinet), have little input from Obama. Biden is his own man. He worked with Obama for eight years so his beliefs will be similar. Your statement that Biden is Obamas puppet is an unsupported opinion and with little supporting evidence.
2.Your statement on historians is inaccurate and only your opinion. If you read the analysis these people do, they clearly evaluate major new items they implemented while in office, how they handle crisis while in office, leadership decisions, international relations, published rankings by e*****rate, handling any other items that arise. They have used this type of empirical based analysis with some opinion for decades. While opinions are a part of its mostly based on actions taken and policies implemented while in office.
3.Defintion of mulatto- mine came from Wikipedia as did statement that the term is outdated and offensive to some. So we are both correct, but according to Wikipedia your view and application of the word is “outdated”.
4.Your Opinion of competent-Afghanistan pull out was poor, mostly because NO ONE thought Afghanistan leader would flee & Afghanistan Army would immediately lay down their arms( vs Stay and fight as Ukrainians have) with no plan B.
The inflation items you mention are WW and while Biden owns them as he’s in office ,his policies in the 2 1/2 years were not the major contributing factor(price gouging by major businesses,C***d, Russian war with Ukraine, OPEC decisions on supply, all were contributing factors -Thank goodness USA employment has grown keeping cash flow to most citizens) in fact actions on C***d, assisting Ukraine, making price gouging by big oil & pharma visible/ more t***sparent-legislation to cap drug costs, Fed increasing interest to reduce inflation are all administrations actions to fix issues. My 401 K has fully recovered. Billions of Tax $’s sent to Ukraine (many equipment & Supplies) I have not been able to find examples of laundering-please support your opinion/assumption.
5. Based on your words in this item and note you trust no one except Trump. My research on internet indicated Less than ten % of Doctors did not support C***d medical actions taken(CDC Guidelines))
6. 30k Trump lies is not swag or wag but from Washington Post,( CNN , Reuters) had similar numbers of lies by Trump. Fact checking has been done for years but was needed more during Trumps administration. Note Biden is fact checked as well and has told some lies, while no lies are acceptable Trump had 300 times more lies than Biden. Fact not SWAG- using same processes to analyze & track.
7.I am not a crowd, I am a person. I can define a women. - you are really reaching on this one. One person can’t define in an interview and now the whole “crowd” as you call it is the same as that person. Please get real- you are an individual with your beliefs and are not and should not be labeled every time one persons erroneously speaks. You sound like a judge- we have no right to be judge jury and executioner of each other.
8.purely an attempted slam of pegw and myself, purely your biased opinion. I served as well. I don’t agree with your view/opinion of worst Presidents, I’ll go with the scholars and historians vs your clearly biased opinions. You are entitled to those, I’m entitled to disagree. I’ve added a few charts from public sources for your perusal.

Jim0001 Loc: originally from Tennessee, now Virginia, USA

Thank you for your service that you mentioned. Also, thank you for taking time to post your response. I personally would call it somewhat left-leaning and biased. Washington Post, CNN, Reuters, Wikipedia that you get your information from are all biased left-leaning sources. 1.) If Obama isn't the puppeteer, then who is pulling Biden's strings? He certainly is not mentally capable of even running to the bathroom. 2.) "While opinions are a part of its mostly based on actions taken and policies implemented while in office". Their personal biased opinions.... 3.) I find Wikipedia to be very left wing and written by someone who wants to be an expert on something, right or wrong. Offensive to ???? Not me. No one I know has ever said they found the classic definition of mulatto offensive. You liberals find EVERYTHING you don't agree with offensive, Burp and get over it. 4.) How many billion dollars of American arms did Biden leave for the Taliban when he cut and ran? Why didn't Biden have a plan B? He is the CinC. The inflation is worldwide, and Biden started it day one in office. "OPEC decisions on supply"! We were energy independent and exporting product before this feckless fool took office. People going back to work after Biden and F***i shut down jobs for the s**mdemic is not creating jobs. The government does not create jobs. They create roadblocks to impede jobs. The private sector creates jobs that redistribute wealth back into the economy. I am glad your 401K has recovered. Mine has not and I doubt it ever will as long as Biden keeps wasting taxpayer dollars like a drunken sailor. Biden throws billions with a B into the cesspool known as the Ukraine with absolutely NO American oversight. Tell me that is fiscally responsible. By his own admission VPOTUS Biden threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine if they didn't pull the investigator off H****r's butt. 5.) In my opinion F***i is a maniac who should be indicted. He isa known Clinton sympathizer. 6.) 300X huh? Biden. just like Obama would rather climb a tree to tell a lie than he would stand on the ground and tell the t***h. Funny that I always hear you democrats spout about POTUS Trumps lies but I am never told what they were. You must really miss the "mean" tweets. 7.) "One person can’t define in an interview and now the whole “crowd” as you call it is the same as that person". No but your whole crowd accepts it and supports it. Collusion is what they call it and it is acceptance by association. 8.) As of today, we still have a first amendment to our Constitution and yes you are entitled to it and to even speak it. And as far as pegw goes I have not seen any intelligible posts from he, she, it or wh**ever pronoun is preferred since day one of signing onto OPP. I don't imagine that will change. We agree to disagree and that is probably the only thing we will ever agree on because I love this country too much to see her destroyed by the Bolsheviks.

Haski123

The sources I referenced were for the fact check and fact check numbers and they were similar in findings and not wag or swag as you inferred. I read both right and left leaning news outlets then have to decide which is most factual- that’s the tough part. The chart I attached on POTUS administration indictments is from public source. You just don’t seem to want to accept facts comparing different people using same criteria- not left or right. Just like Trump admitting he took govt. documents, withheld their return and stated on tape he knew they were classified and couldn’t share them. That is all fact from Trump not partisan .
3.You can take your mulatto definition issue up with Wikipedia vs point at liberal bias.
1.Per my note Biden with inputs from his F***i and many many Republicans, career politicians, career government employees, most career military officers and enlisted as has Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton,staff and administration pulls his own strings, No puppeteer here, just an opinion/ conspiracy theory.
2.You fail to mention the empirical data I mentioned that historians use to rate Presidents. You have Trump in top five, they have him at 42. Using same process for all Presidents for decades. I’ll stay with their non partisan process.

4.congress supports and approves aide to Ukraine- v**e your congressman out.

5. I expect you have had a long and successful life, as had F***i, many career politicians, many career government employees, enlisted and officers in military, Joe Biden, Hillary and many Republicans but that sa now that Trump has driven more partisanship into the nation and wants to “drain the swamp” in six months if re-elected ( which he was unsuccessful to due during his four years in office). This direction says your career, my career, all the many dedicated people above career were corrupt, were incompetent, did not earn their salaries. I strongly feel that most of us, you and I were dedicated, worked their best, made mostly good decisions, but all probably made a few poor decisions, but earned our keep.
6.+30,000 Trump lies over four years vs Biden by same source/process has 150 over two years.(15000/150=100times) Sorry did math incorrect at first pass it’s only 100 times more lies by Trump than Biden- my math mistake.
7. You can’t find a needle in a haystack pile, then say the whole pile is now needles- inaccurate logic.
8.I support first amendment as well,what I don’t support is degrading others opinions and name calling, where you’ve only seen thorns in pegw posts, I see some thorns but many roses. Showing facts that support one’s view I support as well. When I’m wrong, ( 300x vs 100x Trump lies ,vs Biden-still significant difference) I’m not afraid to admit it and correct it, but I try to be accurate up front. That said I appreciate the civil sharing of opinions & views . Thanks
I love this country as well and feel the solid partisanship vs listening,analysis and fixing problems along with open funding/ lobbying by wealthy and large corporations will move us to oligarchy and or dictatorship government vs Democratic Republic and negate individuals v**e/ influence and negate representative government.