You Will Anyway: Congressional Budget Office

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Monday, June 16, 2025

Tim Scott's bogus defense of the Big Beautiful Bill

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Bride of Chuckie says stupid shit every day

1) Senators Johnson and Paul are not staffers in the CBO. Johnson is on both the budget and finance (specifically fiscal responsibility and economic growth) committees, so presumably he understands deficits.

2) Staffer financial contributions are not a measure of budget assessment accuracy.

3) If staffers in the CBO are not contributing to Republicans, that should tell you something about Republican economic policies.

UPDATE 06:06 pm:

Is the honeymoon over, too?

Did she not read it before she voted?

UPDATE 06/04/2025:

Apparently, they simply don't read the bills they vote on.

Also...

It seems there's a contest going on between devotion to Trump or desire for Musk money.

Thursday, May 22, 2025

Somebody at the CBO (or maybe everybody) is about to be targeted

Congressional Budget Office drops the awful truth.

"It takes only a bit of knowledge of history to realize how dangerous it is to think that the people who run the country know what they are doing." -- Howard Zinn

"It’s not about not having something to hide; it’s about having something to lose. What we lose when we’re under observation is our humanity...Rights are inherent to our nature, they’re not granted by governments, they’re guaranteed by governments. They’re protected by governments." -- Edward Snowden

"Terrorism is the willingness to kill large numbers of people for some presumably good cause.” -- Howard Zinn

"What we have is a foreign policy which is essentially a marketing strategy for selling weapons." -- Jill Stein

Life, as Explained in "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead"

GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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ROSENCRANTZ : The only thing that makes it bearable is the irrational belief that somebody interesting will come on in a minute.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

GUILDENSTERN: But we don't know what's going on, or what to do with ourselves. We don't know how to act.

PLAYER: Act natural. You know why you're here at least.

GUILDENSTERN: We only know what we're told, and that's little enough. And for all we know it isn't even true.

PLAYER: For all anyone knows, nothing is. Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that which is taken to be true. It's the currency of living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions.

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GUILDENSTERN : We act on scraps of information... sifting half-remembered directions that we can hardly separate from instinct.

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PLAYER: Life is a gamble, at terrible odds-if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.