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If anyone needed proof that they were married to the UNAffordable Care Act, this vote should prove that Democrats don't care about American government workers. The article opens by saying "Senate Democrats again blocked a plan by Republicans to ensure that federal workers and the military would receive a paycheck as the shutdown back and forth revs into high gear. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., again tried to advance a modified version of his 'Shutdown Fairness Act' bill that would see federal workers and the military paid now and during subsequent government shutdowns. However, the bill failed 53-43 with 3 Democrats defecting to support the bill. Georgia Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, and Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico voted for the bill." The Democrats made a counterproprosal that includes a 1-year extension of the UNAffordable Care Act subsidies. It's been highlighted that the vast majority of the subsidies go to insurance companies, not people. Real peopl...

Is Tim Walz incompetent? Is Tim Walz corrupt? Is Tim Walz a little of both? I'm voting C -- a little of both. As Jeff Johnson's campaign manager, I'll admit that I'm a little biased. That said, Tim Walz called himself a knucklehead during the Vice Presidential debate. Further, it's difficult to say that a DFL governor who's had more than $1,000,000,000 paid out in fraudulent Medicaid claims isn't corrupt. It's important to remember that he hired Pam Wheelock as his Commissioner of Minnesota's Department of Human Services only a couple months into his administration. Walz did that shortly after Tony Lourey resigned as commissioner of Human Services . It's difficult to prove that someone who let fraud happen for 5+ years isn't corrupt and/or incompetent. Tim Walz's administration is famous for virtually no fraud prevention controls. That's how more than $1,000,000,000 in fraudulent Medicaid payments were paid. I wrote here about a repo...

It's indisputable that Nancy Pelosi is an historic figure. It's equally indisputable that her 'accomplishments' will be treated harshly by historians. At the top of her list is the passing of the UNAffordable Act and the 2 impeachments of President Trump. The UNAffordable Care Act is still getting subsidized 15 years after it passed. Count the ACA a spectacular failure for the American people. Of course, ABC wrote a puff piece article without a single dissenting opinion. The article quotes President Obama as saying "No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed -- and I will always be grateful for her support of the Affordable Care Act. She made us proud to be Democrats, and will go down in history as one of the best speakers the House of Representatives has ever had." Pelosi will be remembered as an impactful speaker. History won't be kind, though, in measuring whether her legislative victories improved people's l...

Thank God that Minnesota conservative taxpayers finally have a fulltime watchdog that's watching where their tax dollars are going. The name of this taxpayer watchdog is Alpha News. Thank God for Alpha News's vigilance. According to Alpha News's reporting , "Rep. Pam Altendorf, R-Red Wing, recently took to social media to highlight how Minnesota saw a 174% increase in SNAP issuance between fiscal years 2020 and 2021, the largest one-year jump of any state in the nation, according to federal data. 'Granted, this happened during the year of Covid, however no other state has seen anything close to an increase like this,' Altendorf said in a press release." Later in the article, Rep. Altendorf said "No one wants people to go hungry who truly need assistanced. But we also cannot turn a blind eye to potentially massive fraud happening through the SNAP program." That isn’t the only aggravating part about the SNAP program. This is: The USDA found one gu...

Jacob Frey did something that people thought was impossible. Frey won a third straight term as Minneapolis's mayor. Actually, Frey did 2 things that people didn't think were possible. He won a third stright term as Minneapolis's mayor and he defeated Omar Fateh, the so-called Midwest Mamdani. According to Alpha News's reporting , a third amazing thing happened Tuesday night. Alpha reported that "On election night, results from the first round of Minneapolis’ ranked-choice voting system showed Frey with 41.7% of the vote to Fateh’s 31.6%. After the other mayoral contenders were eliminated from the ballot in the second round, ballots were recounted and showed Frey had won with 50.03% of the vote." I didn't see that coming. First off, I didn't know who'd win. Next, I thought that Sen. Fateh would be the one to win early if anyone won early. The chief takeaway is that the Midwest's Mamdani met with a harsh outcome, as did St. Paul's Melvin Car...

According to the NY Post, the exodus from NYC to Dallas has officially started . The NY Post reports "Dallas, whose grab bag of major business moguls has included Ross Perot, Mark Cuban and Jerry Jones, has more recently become a major draw for big financial firms that were born and raised in the Big Apple. Goldman Sachs is building an 800,000-square-foot, $500 million campus in Dallas. It’s set to open in 2028 and consolidate over 5,000 employees. Last year, the mega bank hired Robert Kaplan, the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, as its vice chairman." If you're thinking that's just a single firm, that's true...until you add this information: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new $3 billion headquarters on Park Avenue last month. The bank has 7,000 more employees in Texas, than in New York.JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new $3 billion headquarters on Park Avenue last ...