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As if anyone wanted to provide room and board to knuckle dragging dumbfucks.

Screeching "untested" doesn't make it so.

But dumbfucks gonna dumbfuck.

Redirecting isn't cutting, Gladys.

“If you just came to yell, I can leave.” Bentz told the audience.

He pointed out that many of his colleagues are not even holding town halls.

“I’m here to try and speak with you,” he said. “You should be here to speak with me.”

Those in attendance who wanted to officially address Bentz were given a ticket when entering the theater. Tickets were drawn at random.

Over the course of the afternoon audience members kept coming back to two key issues — “Power of the Purse” and the downsizing of the federal government.

Congress is invested with the “power of the purse” meaning that it has the ability to tax and spend public money for the national government. Many members of the audience expressed their concern that Trump usurped this power from Congress.

Bentz responded that Trump is making sure government agencies are “doing what they are meant to be doing” and working to reduce spending. He added the president is trying to make sure the nation doesn’t “go broke.”

“I’m perfectly happy with our president doing his best to exercise his legal power,” Bentz said.

https://www.reddit.com/r/oregon/comments/1iubon1/seven_hours_later_i_arrive_at_my_congressmans/

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tax-cuts-are-primarily-responsible-for-the-increasing-debt-ratio/

Taken together, the Bush tax cuts, their bipartisan extensions, and the Trump tax cuts, have cost $10 trillion since their creation and are responsible for 57 percent of the increase in the debt ratio since then. They are responsible for more than 90 percent of the increase in the debt ratio if you exclude the one-time costs for responding to COVID-19 and the Great Recession. While these one-time costs increased the level of debt, they did nothing to affect the trajectory of the debt ratio. With or without them, the United States would currently have stable debt, albeit potentially at a higher level, despite rising spending.28 In other words, these legislative changes—the Bush and Trump tax cuts—are responsible for more than 90 percent of the change in the trajectory of the debt ratio to date (see Figure 3) and will grow to be responsible for more than 100 percent of the debt ratio increase in the future. They are thus entirely responsible for the fiscal gap—the magnitude of the reduction in the primary deficit needed to stabilize the debt ratio over the long run.

if you think they don’t work that hard, you don’t know any K-8 teachers.

The unjustifiable expansion of positions within school districts (particularly admin) might be one of the very few subjects we do agree on.

Advanced degree, 15+ years of service, taking on additional contract incentives and responsibilities outside of school hours, cashing in unused sick days, and teaching in the Northshore School District (in the case of the highest paid teacher in the category) can get you to a pretty decent payday in the State of Washington. Not shedding any tears for the very top earners, but they only got there by paying their dues, not unlike the high earners in any occupation. And anyone who thinks teachers work only on school days didn't grow up in a school teacher's household.

if it’s so easy how come nobody here does it?

jealousy is a stinky cologne

Countering the lies can be exhausting, but let's begin with "hundreds of billions" of dollars. We have not contributed hundreds of billions of dollars.

It's almost as if any asshole can say any fucking thing he wants on the Twitter.