HeloDude

I wonder how AA will do in the next several years? Asking since they didn’t so great with airline travel booming the last couple years and, if I’m a betting man, we see a little bit of a slow down in the next couple of years.

If the Trump/GOP don’t lower the deficit then it was all a joke. I get how they want to “increase spending at a lower rate” compared to the Dems, but this is the same nonsense they (the GOP) have done before. If someone wants to know where I stand, look at what Massie says and I’m sure I’m close to his position.

Well, last fall they publicly said they would hire 2K in 2025, then around the holidays it was said closer to 1500, then I think at the latest conference people were hearing closer to 1K-1.2K. Delta also went from around 1K, to 700-800, to a little over 500. BL: It’s not going to be some hiring boom year. If AA is going to pause new hire classes after a week, then those with original class dates afterwards will probably find out in the next 1-2 weeks, so we’ll know soon.

Nice try at a save lol.

I never got a Covid stimulus check…but nice try.

Did you voluntarily return your tax cut under Trump to pay to reduce the debt? If you didn’t, then why not?

Best news I’ve heard all day!

Perhaps, wait for it…Europe could defend…Europe. This is not the late 1940s after much of Europe was destroyed during WW2 and we were wanting to hold back communism. Germany is one of the strongest economies in the world, but yet they “can’t” defend themselves and the neighbors?…no, the reality is that they would rather spend their money elsewhere. We’ve been the fool for far too long and spending anything less than what we’re currently doing is a step in the right direction.

This from a nav…

You lost me at “income inequality”…it’s called life, and some people are just better at it than others. Sorry, but if you’re a progressive who believe in more social programs than less, then you’re right, we’re definitely not going to agree on much.

The problem with socialism is the eventually you run out do other people’s money. We already have a very progressive tax system and yet we’re extremely in debt…but sure, let’s just do more of it. And have you seen the average American today?—yeah, not what I would call a model example of thriving society.

Again, we have too much welfare and federal spending as it is…and the poorest don’t pay federal income taxes, and if they work, they actually get paid by the IRS, so don’t give me the “poor pay too much in federal income taxes” BS. Compare apples to apples and tell me what percentage of revenue received from federal income taxes are paid by the top 20% of earners vs the bottom half of earners. You’re just for more social programs, paid by higher earners, and I am for less.

You didn’t say anything abut debt, you originally were taking a hit giving/taking from people based on their income/wealth. As for the debt, yep, I’m all for reducing it as much as possible by reducing spending. We have a spending problem, not a tax problem.

Reducing taxes on people who make more money is not “giving” them anything…it was their money to begin with. And “taking away” from the poor is not taking anything from them as was never their resources to begin with.

With regards to progressives complaining about the cuts, this is nothing new. In 2013 Pelosi said there wasn’t room to cut anything…and now we’re paying for DEI stuff overseas, promoting trans nonsense in other countries, paying hotels for illegals here in the US, on and on. It’s almost hard to fathom how the left is defending this crap, but that’s just who they are/how they think. https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-now/2013/09/pelosi-says-the-cupboard-is-bare-173214

Progressives are upset that Trump is doing a lot of what he said he would do, and yet, non-progressives are supposed to be upset as well? And I love the “unconstitutional” part of what Trump is doing…this is their new catchphrase since the Musk Nazi-salute nonsense didn’t work.

^^^Too funny coming from the guy who said Biden was doing a good job as president

Perhaps we’re talking past each other. I’m for cutting waste, cutting overall spending, and cutting taxes. I’m probably one of the few on here who is for cutting welfare and the defense budget. As for social security and Medicare, that Ponzi scheme was never going to work and was doomed to failed, just like any other Ponzi scheme.

Your original post was about “tax cuts for billionaires”, was it not? So if those progressives who are against tax cuts, my question is why don’t these same progressives give back their tax cuts to the government? Your response above literally had nothing to do with the tax cuts.

Funny how progressives never give back their savings from tax cuts back to the government…

Tulsi is in. Curious as to what she’ll do in the next several weeks now that she’s in charge of the intel community. The intel community/progressives were fervently against her so there must be a reason they were so worried.

Then why was the previous administration so focused on changing it?

Yep…(checks own username)—I agree.