Re: The Nation's Financial Condition
Posted: Tue May 02, 2023 9:56 am
Thank you for your service.
Same Party, Different House
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great article.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 8:18 am https://www.newyorker.com/news/dept-of- ... n-shortage
My old admin assistant has two sons. They were not really interested in college. I suggest that they pursue trades. One became a plumber and the other a metal worker. We worked with clients to get them apprenticeships and ultimately jobs. There are a number of apprenticeship programs in CT and there is real demand. Government contracting drives a significant need. College isn’t for everyone but everyone pretty much needs something beyond a HS diploma.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 9:55 amgreat article.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 8:18 am https://www.newyorker.com/news/dept-of- ... n-shortage
More states should be doing this!...and it would make sense to have federal support. Wondering whether infrastructure act included funds for this sort of thing.
http://www.ibew.org/Who-We-AreTypical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 10:05 amMy old admin assistant has two sons. They were not really interested in college. I suggest that they pursue trades. One became a plumber and the other a metal worker. We worked with clients to get them apprenticeships and ultimately jobs. There are a number of apprenticeship programs in CT and there is real demand. Government contracting drives a significant need. College isn’t for everyone but everyone pretty much needs something beyond a HS diploma.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 9:55 amgreat article.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 8:18 am https://www.newyorker.com/news/dept-of- ... n-shortage
More states should be doing this!...and it would make sense to have federal support. Wondering whether infrastructure act included funds for this sort of thing.
Who is "Young", according to ?CU88a wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 7:24 am r's finally getting real about waste
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran ... t-ceiling/
Speaker McCarthy’s plan to raise the debt ceiling would cut the VA’s budget by 22% next fiscal year, Young said. That would force the Veterans Health Administration to eliminate 81,000 jobs, meaning that veterans would be unable to make appointments for wellness visits, cancer screenings, mental health services, substance abuse disorder treatment, and other healthcare services, according to Young. These cuts would translate into 30 million fewer veteran outpatient visits.
The VA has also issued a statement saying that cutting the department’s budget by 22% would limit the VA’s ability to provide telehealth services by reducing funding for the necessary information technology and support.
Speaker McCarthy’s proposal to raise the debt ceiling would also force the Veterans Benefits Administration to cut its staff by more than 6,000 people, and that would worsen the wait time for benefits by adding an estimated 134,000 claims to the disability claims backlog, the VA’s statement says. That is 22 case/claims, per person. Umm....ok
Wonder if Hunter B. mounted his "honorable discharge" and hangs it on the wall ? crack cocaine and guns.......thank you for your service, indeed.
22 case/claimsrunrussellrun wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 10:50 amWho is "Young", according to ?CU88a wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 7:24 am r's finally getting real about waste
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/veteran ... t-ceiling/
Speaker McCarthy’s plan to raise the debt ceiling would cut the VA’s budget by 22% next fiscal year, Young said. That would force the Veterans Health Administration to eliminate 81,000 jobs, meaning that veterans would be unable to make appointments for wellness visits, cancer screenings, mental health services, substance abuse disorder treatment, and other healthcare services, according to Young. These cuts would translate into 30 million fewer veteran outpatient visits.
The VA has also issued a statement saying that cutting the department’s budget by 22% would limit the VA’s ability to provide telehealth services by reducing funding for the necessary information technology and support.
Speaker McCarthy’s proposal to raise the debt ceiling would also force the Veterans Benefits Administration to cut its staff by more than 6,000 people, and that would worsen the wait time for benefits by adding an estimated 134,000 claims to the disability claims backlog, the VA’s statement says. That is 22 case/claims, per person. Umm....ok
...raise the debt ceiling.... (as in, INCREASE??
but, this "YOUNG" person claims, even tho the budget will INCREASE, overall.....certainly the VA budget , will...umm...drop ?
During the "lockdowns" of covid, how many (above/italics) of those VA "services" were a thing ? exactly
A comment made because of expected attempts to reduce the VA's budget, and somehow you try to move it to Hunter Biden. No wait! Welfare. No wait! Pandemics. No wait! Drug companies.runrussellrun wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 11:00 amWonder if Hunter B. mounted his "honorable discharge" and hangs it on the wall ? crack cocaine and guns.......thank you for your service, indeed.
...that cool $2 billion, unobligated from yet another all in TAATS vote (tRumps CARES and Bidens trillion$ in welfare )....can cover the nut?
Or, that monies can go to "future" pandemic issues. THIS time........we will make sure a Federal judge doesn't blow up our 75 year requests to withhold and documentation regarding our MANDATORY, new drug, thing.
take it....and STFUP about it......
“Thank you for your service indeed” seems likely to have been written by someone unfamilar with service or the toll it extracts. Bow many vets committed suicide lin the last 10 years? How much will services to Vets be cut undrr the GOP fake budget? The toll is sognificant esp among the special ops community.SCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 3:23 pmA comment made because of expected attempts to reduce the VA's budget, and somehow you try to move it to Hunter Biden. No wait! Welfare. No wait! Pandemics. No wait! Drug companies.runrussellrun wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 11:00 amWonder if Hunter B. mounted his "honorable discharge" and hangs it on the wall ? crack cocaine and guns.......thank you for your service, indeed.
...that cool $2 billion, unobligated from yet another all in TAATS vote (tRumps CARES and Bidens trillion$ in welfare )....can cover the nut?
Or, that monies can go to "future" pandemic issues. THIS time........we will make sure a Federal judge doesn't blow up our 75 year requests to withhold and documentation regarding our MANDATORY, new drug, thing.
take it....and STFUP about it......
Your neck must be killing you, what with your head on a swivel.
Mr. Contrarian, indeed.
I think you missed the sarcasm. Just before I posted "thank you for your service" someone posted about the GOP putting the VA on their chopping block.OCanada wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 1:16 pm“Thank you for your service indeed” seems likely to have been written by someone unfamilar with service or the toll it extracts. Bow many vets committed suicide lin the last 10 years? How much will services to Vets be cut undrr the GOP fake budget? The toll is sognificant esp among the special ops community.SCLaxAttack wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 3:23 pmA comment made because of expected attempts to reduce the VA's budget, and somehow you try to move it to Hunter Biden. No wait! Welfare. No wait! Pandemics. No wait! Drug companies.runrussellrun wrote: ↑Fri May 05, 2023 11:00 amWonder if Hunter B. mounted his "honorable discharge" and hangs it on the wall ? crack cocaine and guns.......thank you for your service, indeed.
...that cool $2 billion, unobligated from yet another all in TAATS vote (tRumps CARES and Bidens trillion$ in welfare )....can cover the nut?
Or, that monies can go to "future" pandemic issues. THIS time........we will make sure a Federal judge doesn't blow up our 75 year requests to withhold and documentation regarding our MANDATORY, new drug, thing.
take it....and STFUP about it......
Your neck must be killing you, what with your head on a swivel.
Mr. Contrarian, indeed.
Vet X leaves his special ops unit. Shortky after he orders a catered dinner to his house. He also hires a harpist to play throughout dinner. He leaves the table at the end and goes to another room; closes the door and a bang is heard. There are more stories of that genre than people realize. But hey let’s v
vut services we can’t afford anymore. They ate not limited to just vets either
Hunter was not a doecisl ops guy bit clearkly had issues beyond hos ability to control but he is far from unique or a disgrace
Wait....you are not allowed to post just the word 'interesting, that is not fair. Oh wait, you lean left, so it acceptable.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 6:47 pm Interesting:
https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1658519929534939155
Didn’t think it needed explanation.youthathletics wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 8:11 pmWait....you are not allowed to post just the word 'interesting, that is not fair. Oh wait, you lean left, so it acceptable.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Tue May 16, 2023 6:47 pm Interesting:
https://twitter.com/crampell/status/1658519929534939155
The funniest thing is when the daddy’s boy idiot in FL once levels a charge that I must not work hard because I post at 6am and 11pm never understood that this is precisely the pattern of someone who does work a lot of hours…that’s the person accusing others of not working hard. Mentally deficient and morally bankrupt.Seacoaster(1) wrote: ↑Wed May 17, 2023 7:05 am The Debt-Ceiling Cudgel:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/opin ... -poor.html
"Seen from outside Washington, the debt ceiling battle might seem like an abstract argument between the political parties over federal spending and deficits. But for millions of low-income Americans who depend on the federal government for health care and basic nutrition, the debate is about their very lives. That’s because Republicans have singled them out, yet again, as a prime target in this year’s extortion scheme.
The bill that Speaker Kevin McCarthy muscled through the House last month would impose tough new work requirements on Medicaid, food stamps (now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP) and welfare for needy families. The demands would effectively cut off health care for 1.7 million low-income people and cut off food stamps for 275,000 people. House Republicans say that if their demands are not met, they will refuse to raise the debt ceiling, plunging the country into an unprecedented default and almost certainly creating a recession.
It’s not that there is some crisis or scandal gripping those federal programs; Republicans are making these demands simply because the debt ceiling gives them the opportunity to do so. And they are going after the same group of people their party has demonized for decades.
“I don’t think hard-working Americans should be paying for all the social services for people who could make a broader contribution and instead are couch potatoes,” said Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, a member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus. (Mr. Gaetz’s deep concern about excessive spending didn’t stop him from requesting a $141.5 million earmark for a helicopter training hangar at Naval Air Station Whiting Field in his district.
“Couch potatoes” isn’t that far from the “welfare queen” myth conjured by Ronald Reagan or Newt Gingrich’s 1994 claim that a system of orphanages was necessary because low-income babies were being dropped off balconies or showing up in dumpsters. None of these slurs had any significant basis in reality, and all were intended to whip up fears among members of the white middle class that they were being played for fools by people of color who were lazily living it up on taxpayer dollars and ignoring their family responsibilities.
But these largely racist attacks, very much including the one now on the table, persistently ignore the little-mentioned fact that a vast majority of the people receiving these benefits are already working or are unable to work. In 2021, 61 percent of the 25 million people on Medicaid were working in full- or part-time jobs. The rest were retired or disabled or taking care of small children or in school. Similarly, most food-stamp recipients work, and able-bodied adults younger than 50 are required to work in order to get more than three months of benefits in three years, unless they are taking care of children.
The existing work requirements don’t get discussed by the drill sergeants who want to whip the vast army of couch potatoes into shape; they want more people to work and to work longer hours. Mr. McCarthy’s bill would require adults 50 to 55 to work at least 20 hours a week to receive food stamps, no matter that people in that age bracket often find high barriers to employment.
The bill would also require many adults 19 to 55 to work 80 hours a month to receive federally subsidized health coverage from Medicaid. (States could pick up the cost of those who are cut off, but many would not.) As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities notes, this requirement would particularly hurt low-income beneficiaries in states that expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act and seems designed as a backdoor way of undermining the expansion. Republicans couldn’t repeal the act through the front door, so they are using the leverage provided by the debt ceiling to try to achieve their ideological aim. It’s yet another illustration of why the ceiling needs to be abolished.
It’s been clear for years that these kinds of work requirements don’t actually put people back to work; they just pry people away from the benefits they need. In 2018, Arkansas became the first state to impose very similar work requirements on Medicaid, before a federal judge ended the experiment the next year. A study in The New England Journal of Medicine found that 13 percent of Medicaid recipients there lost their health coverage — about 17,000 people — but that there was no significant change in employment.
One of the reasons for this phenomenon is that it’s very difficult for the subjects of these cruel experiments to report their employment or their search for a job to the state. Many people in Arkansas didn’t know about the work requirements or didn’t understand the rules or lacked internet access, the study found. But since the goal of Republicans is cutting spending, not putting people back to work, the burdensome rules do save billions through human suffering. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the work requirements in the McCarthy bill, which the speaker said on Tuesday were a “red line” for his caucus, would save $120 billion over 10 years.
Once President Biden made the unfortunate decision to negotiate on the debt ceiling with the House hostage takers, the work requirements were on the table, and the president has not been clear about his intentions. On Sunday he told reporters that he had voted for work requirements currently in the law, apparently referring to cash welfare, and was waiting to see what the Republican proposals were. That was not exactly a comforting sign, particularly because the proposals are quite clear, though he did suggest that Medicaid changes were off the table. After progressives raised concerns, he issued a tweet on Monday condemning the harsher requirements for food benefits.
But with the default clock ticking and lives on the line, Mr. Biden needs to do more than send out a tweet. The most important thing the White House could do right now is say explicitly that using the debt ceiling as a cudgel to change federal safety net policy is unacceptable and inappropriate and will not be the subject of negotiation. Mr. McCarthy shouldn’t be the only one at the table with red lines, particularly when the health of millions of people is at stake."