According to Martin O’Malley, former commissioner of the Social Security system, Social Security is already running lean, with overhead of 1.2 percent. Compare that to an insurance company like Liberty Mutual, with overhead of 23 percent.…
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The Department of Government Efficiency, “DOGE,” is ostensibly in charge of increasing the efficiency of the departments it audits. What it is actually doing is crippling or eliminating those agencies—the VA, FAA, DoE, USAID, National Parks Service, Post Office, FEMA, etc. for the purpose of monetizing their assets and privatizing their services.…
Approximately 200 people from across Otsego County attended, carrying protest signs, waving flags, and chanting pro-democracy slogans, such as “We want our country back,” and “This is what democracy looks like.”…
The bottom line is this: Unless you radically change Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid, all of which would require legislative action and the signature of a president, there are only two real choices to reduce spending.…
In our names, Mr. Trump and his team broke promises of employment to our workers and breached contracts with partners (including farmers) locally and around the globe.…
We believe that these, and other actions taken by this administration, are immoral and antithetical to the concepts of mercy, compassion, integrity and humanity which should be at the core of any civilized society.…
“All these people are out here today, on Presidents Day, to participate in the national day of rallies sponsored by a whole bunch of Democratic groups to fight for democracy,” Cooperstown/Oneonta Indivisible spokesperson Virginia Kennedy said during the protest.…
The overhaul the Trump administration is missing: Start with the most egregious and work down!…
Last time, we saw how our National Debt ballooned to $33 trillion from the $6 trillion spent by the Trump Administration and $3 trillion by the Biden Administration for the COVID rescue. The unprecedented spending definitely helped create an inflationary economy.…