The US Government COULD Simply Stop Spending Money Like Crazy. For Example: A Billion Dollars to Bail Out the PG&E Nuclear Power Plant at Diablo Canyon... That's Insane! Just Shut it Down!

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Keeps on Speaking about the US Government Running Out of Money in JUNE... and That Will Cause the Collapse of Civilization... Billions of People Starving to Death... and a Thousand Years of Dark Ages...

Yellen warns of U.S. default risk by early June, urges debt limit hike... 

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/yellen-urges-us-congress-act-quickly-debt-limit-2023-01-13/

WELL, Why Not Simply TAX THE RICH? Why Not CUT Defense Spending? We DO NOT Need to Give Lockheed Martin a Billion Dollars for a "New and Improved Jet Airplane." We DO NOT Need a SPACE FARCE... We DO NOT Need to Defend Earth from Attack by Extraterrestrials in Flying Saucers... Even If Aliens and UFOs are Real, They are So Far Advanced That we Could Not Possibly Win a War... SO DEFUND THE SPACE FARCE!

GOP rep: US defaulting on national debt a ‘real threat’

https://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/3814002-gop-rep-us-defaulting-on-national-debt-a-real-threat/

The threat of a possible default comes after Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said last week that the U.S. is projected to hit its borrowing limit — roughly $31.4 trillion — by Jan. 19. Yellen’s pledge to take “extraordinary measures” to fend off a default sets the table for a showdown between the White House, Democrats in the Senate and a Republican-controlled House.

Wouldn't It Be Wonderful If We Could CUT Government Spending and Raise Voluntary Taxes At the Same Time? 

Simply Legalize Marijuana Nationwide... Collect VOLUNTARY TAXES... Release all the Cannabis Prisoners... Close the Unneeded Prisons... A Massive Increase of Tax Revenue and a Massive Cut to Spending! EVERYONE WINS! and I Wouldn't Pay a Penny because I Don't Smoke... 

We Could Simply NOT Send Women to The Moon... We Already Went There in 1969 and There's Nothing of Interest There... Now The USA is Planning to Send Women and Minority Groups to the Moon Because Everyone that Walked on the Moon was a WHITE MAN... Well, So Freaking What? Get Over It!

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Elizabeth Warren Would make a GREAT Secretary of the Treasury... If she doesn't win the 2020 Election, Sanders should appoint her. She has Great Ideas. Kamala Harris for Attorney General. Cory Booker at HUD... Every Democratic Candidate Ought to Get a Cabinet Post. WHAT IF WE ALL WORK TOGETHER AS A TEAM?

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren/democrat-warren-confronts-2020-electability-question-head-on-in-ohio-idUSKCN1SH0DH


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It may be GREENWASHING but ExxonValdez Might actually discover something worthwhile... GO! https://cleantechnica.com/2019/05/10/nrel-exxonmobil-team-up-for-renewable-energy-research/
the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado has teamed up with ExxonMobil to “pursue new breakthroughs in low-emission energy technologies,” according to the Denver Post. By the terms of the agreement, ExxonMobil will invest $100 million over the next decade in the NREL’s research programs.

Trump's EPA Ruling in Favor of Corporate Pollution and Against People's Health...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/climate/epa-asbestos-rule-scientists.html
E.P.A. Leaders Disregarded Agency’s Experts in Issuing Asbestos Rule, Memos Show...

Andrew Wheeler, the E.P.A. administrator, said when the rule was issued that it would significantly strengthen public health protections. But in the memos, dated Aug. 10, more than a dozen of E.P.A.’s own experts urged the agency to ban asbestos outright, as do most other industrialized nations.

A Quote from - Richard Brautigan
“Karma Repair Kit Items 1-4.
1.Get enough food to eat,
and eat it.
2.Find a place to sleep where it is quiet,
and sleep there.
3.Reduce intellectual and emotional noise
until you arrive at the silence of yourself,
and listen to it.
4.” [YES, ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS LEFT BLANK INTENTIONALLY]
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/7970.Richard_Brautigan

THE EVIDENCE IS STRONG: AIR POLLUTION SEEMS TO CAUSE DEMENTIA.
https://www.wired.com/story/air-pollution-dementia/
As I reported in Mother Jones, the research implicating air pollution as one factor that can contribute to dementia was alarming, consistent, and, ultimately, “suggestive.” Since then scientists have published a wave of studies that reveal that air pollution is much worse for us than we had previously imagined.

Elie Mystal and Symone Sanders OUGHT TO Form a Rap Music Group... They Could Do Their "Angry Yadda-Yadda" with a Beat and Sell a Gazillion Recordings! Is she Sarah Huckleberry Sander's Sister or Colonel Sander's Daughter?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/10/epa-air-chief-3238271
A secretive utility industry coalition formerly represented by a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency is dissolving amid investigations into whether its members received special treatment from the Trump administration.

The Utility Air Regulatory Group has been under scrutiny from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which was seeking information on the relationship between power companies, EPA air chief Bill Wehrum and the law firm Hunton Andrews Kurth, which represented the group.

ON A PERSONAL NOTE: I Stopped advertising for Amazon on my Blog... They simply did not pay enough to make the Associates Program worth my time and SPACE ON MY BLOG... I always put a Link to buy my favorite books whenever I wrote a Review... I still write Book Reviews because I want The IDEAS written about to be published worldwide... and the Authors benefit from free advertising... and maybe that will encourage them to write more books... C-SPAN has Interviews with authors every weekend and It's interesting... and Pirate TV also has Authors... "HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE" by Andrew Keen sounds GREAT...

In the "Ender's Game" series of Books by Andrew Scott Card, Ender and his sister become BLOGGERS and Debate Ideas in Public... and cause Galactic Peace thru the publication of worthy concepts... I'm inspired by that book... I'm a Blogger Promoting Whirred Peas by Publishing My Own Words of Wisdom... and Finding Wise Words online and Pirating Them... Did you ever read "The Monkeywrench Gang" by Ed Abbey? It's Wonderful... The Hero, George Washington Hayduke is based on TED Danson of the TV Show "Cheers." 

There Will Always Be Another Last Chance Sale... Quotations of Gregory Vanderlaan

My Brother has "High Frequency Rolloff" Deafness. It Make it Difficult to Hear Women and Children Talk. He Says: "What a Blessing!"

WHO COULD POSSIBLY BENEFIT BY MORE HOMELESS AMERICAN CITIZEN CHILDREN? Proposed Rule Could Evict 55,000 Children From Subsidized Housing
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/10/722173775/proposed-rule-could-evict-55-000-children-from-subsidized-housing
Tens of thousands of poor children — all of them American citizens or legal residents — could lose their housing under a new rule proposed Friday by the Trump administration.

The rule is intended to prevent people who are in the country illegally from receiving federal housing aid, which the administration argues should go to help only legal residents or citizens.

But the proposal targets 25,000 families that now receive such aid because they are of "mixed" status, which means that at least one member of the family is undocumented while the others are citizens or legal residents. These families now pay higher rents to account for their mixed status.


Rap Artist Indicted for Obama 2012 Campaign Donations... How Could It Possibly Matter all these Years Later? This is "OLD NEWS" Just like the Jewish Carpenter who Rose from the Dead 2000 years ago... That's REALLY OLD NEWS... Just Like Trump being the #BillionDollarLoser... That's OLD NEWS... Wait! I Understand why old news matters... We Could LEARN FROM HISTORY! We Ought to Investigate ALL FOREIGN CAMPAIGN DONATIONS! Like the NRA/Russia 30 Million to Trump Scandal... Malaysian businessman Jho Low also charged alongside Pras Michel...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/former-rap-artist-indicted-for-obama-2012-campaign-donations-11557522077
Former Fugees rapper Pras Michel was indicted on charges of funneling millions of dollars in foreign money to then President Obama’s 2012 re-election effort, amid widening fallout of the multibillion-dollar fraud scandal at a Malaysian government fund.

I Don't Like Biden or Trump... Let Them Fight and Destroy Each Other... A WARREN/SANDERS Team would be BEST! EW for President and Bernie for Vice President... Jay Inslee-EPA, Corey Booker-DEA, Kamala Harris-Attorney General, YANG-Treasury Secretary, Pete B- Secretary of Defense and all the other candidates in Other Appropriate Cabinet Posts...

What's going on with Biden and Ukraine? And how does it involve the Trump-Congress whistleblower fight? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/09/22/donald-trump-joe-biden-ukraine-whistleblower-standoff-explained/2388648001/

Biden Says: I'm Gonna Beat Trump Like a Pinata!

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Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich Law is a Total Failure. The Government is simply not receiving enough money in Taxes to pay for what it spends... DUH...

The government has to borrow more and more money to keep operating...  

Treasury Secretary Little Stevie Mnuchin on Wednesday said that the debt ceiling will need to be lifted by “late Summer,” earlier than some analysts had predicted.

“I haven’t been given an exact date, but I would say it’s late summer, and I share your concern and I urge Congress to raise the debt ceiling as soon as possible,” Mnuchin said at a House Financial Services Committee hearing.

The debt ceiling, which limits how much Treasury can borrow to pay off the government’s bills, was technically reached in March, but the Treasury Department has embarked on a series of “extraordinary measures” that allow it to borrow internally to keep paying bills.

https://thehill.com/policy/finance/445056-mnuchin-pegs-debt-ceiling-deadline-as-late-summer-earlier-than-expected

#DitchMitch in 2020... Not only do we need to #DumpTrump but we need to Throw All the Republicans OUT of the Senate... and then LOCK 'EM UP!

Republicans are Evil. The US Senate is Packed with Bought Puppets of the Super Rich... Did You Know that Mitch is having a Russian Aluminum Factory built in Kentucky? Treasury Secretary Little Stevie Munchkin REPEALED the Sanctions on Oleg Dreipaska and NOW they have made a Big Deal... WHEE... Russian Bribes Work!

https://www.newsweek.com/company-russian-oligarch-millions-aluminum-plant-mitch-mcconnell-1397061

Rusal, the aluminum company partially owned by Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, announced plans to invest around $200 million to build a new aluminum plant in Kentucky just months after the Trump administration removed it from the U.S. sanctions list.

The new aluminum plant, slated to be built in the home state of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, will be the biggest new aluminum plant constructed in the U.S. in decades.

Show US Trump's Tax Returns! It's the LAW... In Fact, "We the People" want to find out if Trump is a CROOK.

The American People Voted Against Trump in 2016. Hillary Clinton GOT MORE VOTES! So when Republicrimes say "We the People" voted to Let Trump Keep His Tax Returns SECRET, they are LYING. 

The law invoked last week by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal, D-Mass., empowers Congress to obtain the returns of any taxpayer directly from the Internal Revenue Service. 
https://www.npr.org/2019/04/09/711256462/white-house-lawyers-discussed-trump-tax-returns-with-treasury-department

Treasury Department: Where are the missing "Suspicious Activities Reports" of Michael Cohen's Bank Accounts? Could it be a coverup? Conspiracy?

Reports on Other ‘Suspicious’ Michael Cohen Transactions Have Gone Missing.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/missing-files-motivated-the-leak-of-michael-cohens-financial-records

First Republic had filed three suspicious-activity reports about Cohen’s account. The latest is the one that fueled last week’s reports; it describes transactions with companies including Novartis and AT&T, which occurred from September 2017 to January 2018 and totaled nearly a million dollars. That document refers to two previous reports, but the official could not find them in the FINCEN database.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/05/reports-on-suspicious-michael-cohen-transactions-are-missing.html

Attention Treasury Department: RELEASE the SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITIES REPORT of Michael Cohen's Bank Accounts.

Enquiring Minds Want To Know... Where did the 4.5 Million Dollars GO? Did Trump Know? Why are all these companies giving Cohen millions of dollars? Bribery? Corruption? Pay for Play?

The Michael Cohen Revelations Are a Crash Course in Shady Corporate Entities

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-michael-cohen-revelations-are-a-crash-course-in-shady-corporate-entities

The Curious Case Of Trump Atty Suspicious Activity Report

By Hdeel AbdelhadyApril 13, 2018, 11:53 AM EDT

Law360 (April 13, 2018, 11:53 AM EDT) -- From early March 2018, news outlets have reported the existence of a suspicious activity report linked to the president's "personal lawyer," Michael Cohen.[1] On March 5, The Hill, describing a Wall Street Journal story of the same day, reported that Cohen’s “$130,000 wire payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election was flagged as suspicious” by First Republic Bank and “reported to the Treasury Department."[2]

https://www.law360.com/articles/1033224/the-curious-case-of-trump-atty-suspicious-activity-report