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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 9h

Damn, I didn’t realise that people hate the Sacramento Kings this much.

Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 4h

Hope everyone had fun at the #NoKings event

Now what?

How about volunteer at the homeless shelter
Work at the food bank
Join the park clean up
Donate blood
Get to know your neighbors
Work with your pastor to see what members need help you can do

Chanting in the park is fun. But it’s time to work.

Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 12h

Yes. And how much worse would it be if Illinois had a third to half its budget cut overnight?

No fed funds for unemployment, the state can only cover two weeks and at 20%.

No funds for free lunches in gov schools.

No funds for shelters.

That is the trade off. That’s a lot to ask of a politician

Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 12h

People need to realize the half time show is not to attract people like them.
They were going to watch the game (comerciales) anyways.
The show is to get the people who currently don’t watch the games to start watching and get interested in real football not that soccer stuff.

Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 12h

I drive around and pick up the bags of leaves people put out
Run them through my bagging lawnmower a few times then cover the garden when I finish harvesting for the year
Normally get a good 5 to 6 inch deep mulch cover. Add in chipped branches, then a light layer of soil to plant the cover crop

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 12h

A very small degree so far
The felon says a lot of things he can’t do. (Greenland, 51st state of Canada) with holding funds for no reason requires Congress
But if the state refuses to enforce federal law, that gives him reason to with hold
Zero prep time. Give the state four years they might be able

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 12h

The state could do it.
But it would cost a lot.
It would hurt a lot of people.

Is it worth gutting state spending and destroying the state economy?

I doubt the politicians feel it is and I doubt they thing the average voter would support it. They would be voted out and lose their jobs.

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 12h

You miss the facts.
The state would have to cut spending by 50%. That means cutting fire/ems. Medicaid is only facing a 30% cut over seven years, it’s not gone nor will be. Just less able to help. Take 50% more from the state and it would be gone
Prisons keep murders off the streets. They are needed

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 13h

I normally hear the “they are paid” stuff about protests during normal working hours.
Which is what gives the lie legs.
If they can’t take time off to go protest on a work day, these people must be making money to be there.
Or the other lie: they are just unemployed losers seeking attention

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 13h

That has always been the case unless Congress grants a change.

Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 13h

It is not “defending” them to point out the facts and reasons they are not doing what you demand.

The state could do what you want. But it would have to give up federal funding. Which is 35-50% of the budget.

That is a big demand. No more Medicaid, state aid, homeless out reach, prisons, fire/ems

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 15h

Louisville Metro EMS graduated new EMT’s
These medical providers will be responding to 911 soon
The next few months they will pair up with experienced providers to help them put the schooling into real world practice
They serve the community even though other places pay more
“Always In Service”

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 19h

Ah that makes a bit more sense.
I am still not sure what A.I. has to do with the size of the military.

Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 1d

They would have to pay back all the funding they have taken from the Fed Gov and give back all equipment, weapons, uniforms, and buildings the national guard has because the Fed Gov paid for it.

I doubt they have the budget and that leaves the state with no resources in an emergency.

Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 1d

Because it is the law.

Unless the state is willing to give up all the federal funds they get they must follow federal law as well.

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 1d

That is grasping.
A tunnel? Connecting what?
There is no rail line any where near the two closest points, no roads as every thing is flown or shipped in.
Building a 70+ mile tunnel would take years. (The Chunnel is 32 miles long and took 7 years)
Even then that’s not Trump giving away Alaska.

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Travis Hanson Life of the Party @travtheartist.bsky.social · 1d

life of the party episode 2415

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 1d

Who is Al? Not sure what he has to do with this question about if we need such a big military all over the world.

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 2d

Cutting the military budget by $250 to $500 billion could bd done by brining all our troops home and discharging the number that were overseas.
(No neither party would do that, but it would reduce spending and is not a bad idea)

Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 2d

The question was about his fear that the military would be used against him.
So does he want to bring all the troops home from Europe et al and discharge them.
It’s not about being able to fund it.
It’s about the military he fears how it’s used.

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 2d

I know soldiers who use it to write the operations orders.
They say it speeds up a lot of the work and they only have to go in and modify specific points.
One has been building her own module that focuses on the annexes to the brigade’s op orders. She says it’s very useful.

Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 2d

Well they would not be spending it on the military and there is no way the gop would spend it on welfare.
About all that’s left for that much funding is debt reduction.
But I’m sure politicians of both sides would find some way to spend it on their friends.

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 2d

If the U.S. had left nato after the USSR collapsed (as it should have) Russia would be in nato now.

The UK and France wanted to send troops early in the invasion. But Biden held them back and pushed sanctions that only drove nations away from the U.S. dollar.

Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 2d

The question is should we demand the troops be brought home and discharged.

Or should we keep them there and hope nothing happens till the orange man is replaced?

NATO does not need the U.S. if not for the U.S. it would already have pushed back Russia.

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Busy Poor Dad @busypoordad.bsky.social · 2d

Do not disagree.
But that is not the question.

Should we demand all troops come home and be discharged?

That way they can’t bomb boats in the gulf, can’t be used against people.

Should we pull the troops back and discharge them.

That is the question, not money.