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The Billionaires are getting richer on the backs of working Americans, and the Republican party is just fine with that. Just think, just a couple of years ago, the Republicans were trying to sell themselves and the working man's party. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

What I see in Trump’s Big, Beautiful Billis just another extension that has been happening for over forty years by the Republican party, with Trump's Big Beautiful Bill being one of the biggest abusers of the poor. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

Of course, you can tell he was basically ignored. In Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, does any of that get addressed? Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

Olivier De Shutter of the U.N. wrote in an email to the retail giant Walmart and the U.S. government, stating he was “extremely disturbed that workers in some of the most profitable companies – in one of the richest countries on earth – are struggling to-”. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

Walmart, of course, is not alone. Other top offenders include McDonald's, Dollar Tree, Amazon, Burger King, and FedEx. The United Nations took aim at Walmart and others for their low wages. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

A significant number of them worked in the restaurants and department of grocery stores. The one company that is in the top four will surprise no one. That company, of course, is Walmart. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

According to the GAO, 70 percent of SNAP and Medicaid users in the study were full-time workers, with 90 percent of them working in the private sector. A significant number of them worked in the restaurants and department of grocery stores. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

SNAP, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is another program that is facing huge cuts, right along with Medicaid. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

They found that millions of full-time workers were stuck relying on federal medical and food programs to survive. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

In 2020, the Government Accountability Office, also known as the GAO, at the request of Bernie Sanders, studied who was using federal assistance programs and where they worked. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

The truth is that two-thirds of the adults between the ages of 19 – 64 enrolled in Medicaid already work. Of the other third, most would not be subject to a work requirement based on having disabilities, caring for family members, or attending school. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

There has always been that assumption by the supporters of the Republicans' attack on Medicaid that the people are just too lazy to work and are just mooching off the government. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

One of the focuses of the bill is a reduction of $800 billion in Medicaid savings. Most of the industrialized world has Universal Healthcare, and we are still working at ways to deny people healthcare. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

Silencers on guns just add to the stealth of the criminals. So, I ask again, who benefits from silencers for guns? It is the criminals who benefit. Why does that not surprise me? Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

Noise is a protector, just ask someone with a barking dog. Stealth is something that makes us less safe; that is the purpose of stealth. Silencers on guns just add to the stealth of the criminals. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

Do you know one group that would benefit from silencers on guns? That would be the criminals. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

I would think silencers on guns would make the police’s job harder, not easier. Would having a silencer help me with home protection? I don’t see how. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

Another thing that is being repealed is the $200 tax on gun silencers that has been in place since 1937. Who benefits from the tax on silencers going away? Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

And there it is …

Democrats hold the White House, and then have amnesia about the deficit when the Republicans are in power, but no matter what, the deficit grows. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...

The Republicans seem to talk mostly about the deficit when the Democrats hold the White House, and then have amnesia about the deficit when the Republicans are in power, but no matter what, the deficit grows. Read: cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/05/trum...