Budget Lunacy
Increases in our national debt should be reserved for economic or national security emergencies, neither one of which we are experiencing at the moment.
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Les Cohen is a long-term Marylander, having grown up in Annapolis. Professionally, he writes and edits materials for business and political clients from his base of operations in Columbia, Maryland. He has a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Economics. Leave a comment or feel free to send him an email to [email protected].
Author: Les Cohen
Congress: Good Men and Women Doing Nothing
Does President Trump care that he’s breaking the law? Of course not. The Supreme Court has ruled that a President is immune from prosecution as long as he breaks the law in the ordinary course of his Presidency. What a crock.
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Where is our Congress now that we need one?
President Trump is, as of this writing, on the verge of giving private citizen Elon Musk access to everyone’s IRS file, yours included. He says he’s doing this for reasons related to improving the efficiency of the IRS, but has stopped well short of telling what, precisely, those reasons might be.
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Trump’s ‘Highway Robbery’ Plan
Laying people off is just the means or result of carefully identifying and correcting inefficiencies. And he’s cutting back because we can’t keep funding the government by borrowing and paying interest on so, so many trillions of dollars of debt.
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Where is Kamala Harris now that we need her?
Yes, Kamala Harris lost the election to Donald Trump. An impressive 75 million Americans voted for her, but it wasn’t enough. Unfortunately, 77.3 million other Americans chose, for a variety of reasons, to re-elect Donald Trump.
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President Clueless is lying to you. Again and again
In a press conference Wednesday and I’m sure at other times as well, President Trump repeated his argument for shutting down the Department of Education. There are two things wrong with his explanation.
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Imbalanced Trade Can Make Perfectly Good Sense
President Trump is a bully. Everything he does in business and politics is based on his leveraging wealth – his or that of the country whose executive branch he now manages – over financially weaker opponents, to his advantage at their expense. In the private sector, it’s how he gets away with not paying his contractors. In the Oval Office, it’s what he’s doing when he uses tariffs to hurt even our closest, most essential allies. Being a bully is all he knows.
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Lemmus Spinus, God – or whatever you believe – bless their souls
Henceforth, I – an ordinary citizen of these United States – am replacing the traditional elephant mascot of the Republican Party with the Lemmus Spinus or, in English, the Spineless Lemming, a small rodent, lacking courage or convictions, with an undeserved reputation for committing mass suicide.
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Missing The Point – We all need to calm down
Don’t panic. We’ve all got to calm down, me included. It’s not as bad as it seems. …Well, let me rephrase that. It is as bad as it seems, but it could be worse.
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Missing the Point – The Economy is in Charge
Apparently, the majority of the American people who care enough to vote are either unaware of who Donald Trump is or, for whatever reasons, are willing to overlook his criminal history, and authoritarian preferences.. His dishonesty is so prolific, how can the American people, our allies, and opponents trust anything he says?
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