12 thoughts on “News/Politics 2-25-25

  1. Surfs up!

    https://x.com/profstonge/status/1894379321768513587?t=PMq-IhuF8b7UgnL6UNplHA&s=19

    “Business confidence hits fresh records as 63% of CEO’s now expect a boom. Under Biden it was just 19%.

    They’re eager to invest — and create jobs — to ride the wave.”

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    https://x.com/RealJessica05/status/1894390836810420681?t=KJkf7GxRhDNwV4DliKPUBQ&s=19

    “Business confidence jumped on Trump’s win, and now it’s hitting post-pandemic records.

    Business confidence leads to investment. And investment leads to jobs.”

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  2. Not shocked at all.

    https://x.com/continetti/status/1894352053293482355?t=68lYKyKSK-MmLYhBMThbQQ&s=19

    “Red-District DOGE Protests, Cited As Proof of Broad Musk ‘Backlash,’ Were Organized By Left-Wing Groups”

    “Funny thing about the “democratic” left: nothing they do is grassroots. It’s all top-down orchestrated and funded smoke and mirrors to create an illusion of the people’s will. But they’ve now been exposed beyond redemption.”

    https://x.com/DavidLimbaugh/status/1894389005753434540?t=HE0Hg0PRUWY76ulgeLi-wQ&s=19

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  3. I was reading about various layoffs and cuts to the different departments and speaking of DOGE a government employee was asking the question “[w]hy are our elected officials allowing an unvetted agency such unchecked power, without any visible oversight or accountability?” That’s a question many of us have been asking for years. This is the direct result of many years of unaccountability.

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  4. When I worked as a co-op student for IRS as a tax auditor back in the midst seventies, we had an efficienct group do an assessment. We had to track our time, minute by minute (or hour by hour, how much time we were spending auditing the files we were given to complete. It was a very detailed report. It was not listing a simple five things you accomplished this week.

    It appears to be wise to ask for this simple thing of all government workers. Do the workers even exist? They should find out according to the filling out of the simple request, and if some supervisors are having fake hires to doll out paycheck, then they will be inclined to fill out fake reports of what employees are accomplishing. That will be great evidence to use in court to convict any who are commiting criminal acts in this manner. It will also work to weed out those who accomplish nothing to earn their paychecks.

    When I worked in accounting at Days Inn home office we also had an efficiency crew evaluation. It was very stressful to have someone sit with you at your desk and observe every move knowing you might be losing your job if they saw any flaws

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  5. I am sorry for those losing jobs, but it is a reality in the private sector, so I don’t understand why anyone would think it should not be in the government sector. It is a sad thing to have such a big government with so little oversight so that we have no idea who is actually working and where our tax money is actually going. Our tax money in MN went to all kinds of scams using feeding children etc. They could never repay all the hundreds of thousands they stole.

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  6. I recall these government employees getting fired. Where was the uproar from the left?

    From 2021 to 2023, the Biden Administration and former Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin discharged over 8,000 troops solely due to their COVID-19 vaccination status.

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  7. The vote on Friday night, which initially appeared bound for a delay, was 217-215, with all Democrats opposed, and the outcome was in jeopardy until the gavel. Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., wound up the lone GOP vote against.

    “On a vote like this, you’re always going to have people you’re talking to all the way through the close of the vote,” Majority Leader Steve Scalise said before the roll call. “It’s that tight.”

    After passage, Johnson and other House Republican leaders issued a joint statement:

    “Today, House Republicans moved Congress closer to delivering on President Trump’s full America First agenda — not just parts of it

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