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To: Bill who wrote (1507762)	12/12/2024 11:42:01 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570954

I like those ideas, Bill. Unfortunately, the cuts your proposing only amount to maybe $400B at most. That still leaves us with $1.5T left in the deficit. However, that should be enough, IF we also freeze spending for all other programs that don't get axed. No more year-over-year increases. If spending freezes but tax revenues continue to increase like they usually do, the deficit will naturally go down. Tenchusatsu

To: Bill who wrote (1507762)	12/12/2024 11:48:31 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Recommended By denizen48 Respond to of 1570954

I have to admit being wrong again ... Message 34899992 TIME Person of the Year 2024: How We Chose Trump won the honor again. That wasn't too hard to predict. However, it looks like TIME portrayed him in a much more positive light than I expected. I think I know why the mainstream media has completely flipped on their Trump bias, from anti to pro, but that discussion is for another time. For now, I agree with everything TIME says about Trump, especially this paragraph: Trump has remade American politics in the process. He won by enlarging his base, seizing the frustration over rising prices and benefiting from a global turn against incumbents. With those tailwinds, exit polls suggest that he won the largest percentage of Black Americans for a Republican since Gerald Ford and the most Latino voters of any GOP nominee since George W. Bush. Suburban women, whose anger over restrictions to reproductive rights was thought to be a bulwark for the Democrats, moved not away but toward him. He became the first Republican in 20 years to win more votes than the Democrat, with 9 of 10 American counties increasing their support for Trump from 2020. Nice to see how the media accepts the result of this year's election, even though Trump infamously couldn't four years ago. Tenchusatsu