Amazing graphic! No real surprise for those paying attention to the government's spending. It's also a somewhat frightening graphic and reflects the Congress' failure to fix the most pressing problem. Personally, due to the divided political parties I don't believe that the House and Senate have to desire nor courage to do what's best to save SS, Medicare and Medicaid.
I think it is critical that we listen to Heather Cox Richardson and help the country understand that this is way, way more than just giving tax cuts to rich people. This one paragraph from her recent article sums it up perfectly.
"The craziness going on around us in the first two months of the second Trump administration makes a lot more sense if you remember that the goal of those currently in power was never simply to change the policies or the personnel of the U.S. government. Their goal is to dismantle the central pillars of the United States of America—government, law, business, education, culture, and so on—because they believe the very shape of those institutions serves what they call 'the Left.'"
Amazing graphic! No real surprise for those paying attention to the government's spending. It's also a somewhat frightening graphic and reflects the Congress' failure to fix the most pressing problem. Personally, due to the divided political parties I don't believe that the House and Senate have to desire nor courage to do what's best to save SS, Medicare and Medicaid.
1: control medical costs - both big Pharma, elegant hospital lobbies, doctors' salaries.
2: control defense costs - no more $600 hammers or huge cost overruns
3: reform SS, Medicare/aid - a variety of solutions
4: fix Congress so that real debate and compromise happen - perhaps stop the ridiculous one-member majorities controlling all committee chairs
THis is amazing and shocking at the same time. Nothing like a picture. Wish someone with the data would do a similar visualization for Maine
I think it is critical that we listen to Heather Cox Richardson and help the country understand that this is way, way more than just giving tax cuts to rich people. This one paragraph from her recent article sums it up perfectly.
"The craziness going on around us in the first two months of the second Trump administration makes a lot more sense if you remember that the goal of those currently in power was never simply to change the policies or the personnel of the U.S. government. Their goal is to dismantle the central pillars of the United States of America—government, law, business, education, culture, and so on—because they believe the very shape of those institutions serves what they call 'the Left.'"