This is directly due to income inequality. The wealthy hoard so much wealth the tax base for social security has been narrowing for years due to regressive tax policies. Congress could easily fix this
If the governments job isn’t to secure even basic shit like clean drinking water for its citizens, what’s its actual purpose?! THIS IS WHAT WE WANT OUR TAXES PAYING FOR
@havenhoops@TucsonTomorrow@whatsuptucson If the working class had the buying power they had decades before, we could better support local businesses like this one, but sure, let’s pretend that’s the issue instead of 40 yrs of wage stagnation and poverty. Uplift your community instead and watch these issues go away
@TucsonTomorrow@whatsuptucson They’re 20% down going into the historically worst season for business. National consumer confidence is down and the economy is in the shitter. What do you expect local leadership to do? What’s your solution, random newspaper?
Think about all the column inches and headlines devoted to Graham Platner over the past week versus Ken Paxton and then tell me again we have a ‘liberal’ media.
The Trump administration has awarded a $9.7 billion contract to Dell.
This comes after Trump purchased up to $5 million in Dell stock and repeatedly promoted Dell during public events.
This fucker cracked the code in that if you simply inundate the world with extreme daily corruption, democracy can’t keep up and eventually most people become inured to the damage you’re doing. The must come a reckoning, but it’s hard to see when or even how.
This week alone:
DOJ opens an investigation into the woman Trump raped.
The White House is caught steering a $620 million contract to Don Jr.’s firm.
The Pentagon hands out a $10 billion contract after Trump buys stock in the company.
Foreign governments are caught funneling hundreds of millions into a random JPMorgan account tied to Trump’s “Board of Peace” with no oversight.
It’s just Thursday.
The corruption isn’t hidden anymore. It’s happening out in the open.
@MorePerfectUS The Republican Party exists for one thing and one thing only:
To DESTROY the infrastructure, safeguards, and norms necessary to fulfill the promise of life, liberty, and happiness promised to all of us as Americans
It’s an evil institution and ones that must be combatted by all
A woman in Texas was arrested after she made a Facebook post sounding the alarm about the water quality in her town.
The water in Trinidad, Texas, sometimes runs brown, but when Jennifer Combs posted about it, the cops came and took her to jail.
Video via @FOX4
This is a radical change to immigration policy, forcing anyone applying for a green card to leave the country indefinitely, forget whether they have American kids, spouse, etc.
The talking point that we do want legal immigration, we just want people to get in line and follow the rules, is BS. This is an attempt to blow up the line, blow up the rules, and make it insanely difficult to immigrate legally.
Black American should not be given reparations for hundreds of years of slavery. Here’s why the January 6 rioters should be given reparations for a couple months in jail for committing treason