Deficit could hit $1 trillion in 2018, and that's before the full impact of tax cuts

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/poli...969347001/

Lynching Free Speech: The Intolerant State of America

http://www.gilmermirror.com/view/full_st...f-America?

Trump announced his intention to fix "our crumbling infrastructure" in his state of the union address, almost sounding like Bernie Sanders. Good idea. How is he (how are we) going to pay for it? From federal, state, local and private sources, he said. But there's no money for this from any government sources. It has all gone to tax cuts and the military. So unless Trump and the Republicans want to raise back some taxes, infrastructure will not be paid for. Private sources? How will THEY pay for all this building of roads and bridges etc.? Democrats shudder. The private construction companies have to pay for it somehow. Toll roads, it appears. In other words, Trump wants us to go back to the Middle Ages when you had to pay a toll to travel down a road or a river. The Lords shot you or jailed you if you didn't. So much for travelling freely in America, then. Travel only for those who can afford it. I can't see how this helps the economy. The Democrats will not approve this, and most states won't be able to.

Maybe we can pay for it with cuts to the humongous military budget Trump and Republicans want, then. But the military budget increases aren't paid for either. It all just means more and more debt. How about we spend the same amount of money that we take in through taxes, then, more or less. How about some fiscal responsibility, not borrow and spend and send the bill to our grandchildren, if we even have a country left at that point after all this mismanagement.

Trump and the expanding power of the 
presidency

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...4ffe4f7c8c

Congress Approval Rating Hits Lowest Point of Trump Era

https://www.yahoo.com/news/congress-appr...10056.html

State of Our Union: A House Divided, Enslaved & Mired in the Mistakes of the Past

http://gilmermirror.com/view/full_story/...-the-Past?

Trump team weighs plan to nationalize high-speed networks

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-team-we...30274.html

US Treasury says government borrowing will hit 8-year high

https://apnews.com/79871c1fec6f4d4eb56d4ea175b51105

For the 2018 State of the Union Address, the first by our despot -- excuse me, current President.

Ominous sign of a gang that cannot shoot straight:



Of course, the President has bigger deficiencies than a shortage of spell-checkers. He needs more fact-checkers, too, and "bigly".

Higher minimum wage will kill entry-level jobs and economic growth

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/de...kill-entr/