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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just FYI, the Washington Post and Jeff Bezos is in favor of the GOP killing Americans. (Don’t worry I don’t subscribe and neither do my neighbors which is why they moved our failing local paper to Apple News.)

By The Editorial Board 
[b]The shutdown conversation no one wants[/b]

“As the partial government shutdown enters its second week, neither party is leveling with the American people about the hard choices required to get federal spending off a fiscally ruinous trajectory.
President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats used covid-19 to justify chasing the mirage of a European-style welfare state without raising the necessary taxes to pay for it. Now, prodded by the left, party leaders have shut down the government in a bid to permanently extend what was sold in 2021 as emergency subsidies to help people struggling during the pandemic afford health insurance.”

[lies about the deficit, and a small slap of MAGA]

“
Yet Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend the covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this will cost $350 billion over the next decade. These temporary benefits were included in the American Rescue Plan of March 2021 and extended the next year in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act until the end of 2025.

The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable. President Barack Obama’s signature achievement allowed people to buy insurance on marketplaces with subsidies based on their income. The architects of the program assumed that risk pools would be bigger than they turned out to be. As a result, policies cost more than expected.“

[more nonsense re why Dems are to blame]

https://apple.news/A9CT7nVkiSC6rRC_hLcYeTg

*Our traditional media is no longer free*
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But I thought we’re rolling in tariff money? And all the companies opening factories here will contribute to the economy and generate taxes. The dollar is so strong. America is going to be BOOMING soon, right??! ….[/quote]

What gets me is that WAPO totally ignores that Biden significantly reduced the deficit afterward until 2024. Now it's larger -- a fact it conveniently ignores.[/quote]

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