I absolutely hate politics. The older I get the more I hate it. I’m wondering where we will stand this
evening if Congress is unable to approve a spending bill. There are several trade-offs embedded in the $1.1
trillion spending bill that the Democrat and Republican negotiators unveiled Tuesday
in an effort to keep the federal government functioning past Thursday.
One trade-off I do not support is
the changes that would allow the wealthy to donate up to $777,600, from the
current $97,200, to the national party committees. This country is already run by big
corporations and the wealthy. This would
further silence the average American from having a voice in our government. I support campaign reform but this is going
in the wrong direction.
Banks also won a rollback of a
section of the 2010 Dodd-Frank law related to derivatives trading. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) blasted the
changes to Dodd-Frank. “We all need to stand and fight this giveaway to the
most powerful banks in this country,” she said. “These are the same banks that
nearly broke the economy in 2008 and destroyed millions of jobs.”
Michelle
Obama’s school nutrition effort was also targeted. States would get the option to let schools
skip out on rules requiring serving whole grains while the defense industry
secured new funding for F-35s fighters the Pentagon didn’t even ask for,
I can’t
wait to see if these mental giants can reach some kind of resolution before
they shut down the government. Today
should be interesting.
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