Out of house sub-committee...they are hoping that Trump signs the agreement/CR tonight. Then they do the same thing again in January 2026?? They better kill the filibuster and start wiping out election integrity/voter ID issues and getting rid of Obamacare, as well as be better prepared for the next shutdown.

Great read about the state of our society... ==== consider what this means for young voters: so long as the clear fiscal insolvency of the federal government impends and you suspect that you are being made to pay in to a system from which you will never be able to take out: why would you play? why not jack up your time preference to “immediate” and take as much as you can from the existing system before it falls over? it’s going to do that anyway and obviously, someone will benefit from plundering it to death. so why them and not you? ==== https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/rational-smash-and-grab

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I know it isn't shocking, but I still stand in disbelief that they say Republican shutdown AND Republican healthcare crisis. And even more shocked that people still believe it. Gotta go nuclear option and try to clean up all of this crap in 3 years - with major headway going into midterms to at least retain the Senate. I love our country - I despise our government.

Mathmatically, it is doomed to failure...but if you want to slow the bleeding, get people off the books that simply do not belong there.

but at least the taxpayer got to pay for the bureaucrat, too...🤡

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Let's just get rid of the obviously fraudulent spending in government...QUICKLY...and use that as snowball to go after the swamp in earnest. And the recipients that are alive and getting paid twice - yep, they need to go to jail and WORK for the room-and-board they will get there.

The only place I'll offer a counter-view is on the topic of H1B Visas in this video. This comes from the perspective of being an analytics consultant and IT business owner for close to 30 years. We could never get the appropriate resources - for software/mobile development, test/test automation/devops, analytics/datawarehousing/etc through just a US labor force. Since I coach high school tennis now, I also get to ask a lot of students what they plan on studying in college. Almost none are picking STEM degrees - preferring business, marketing, finance, psychology, etc. *** Now - side point - I do not even advocate for college education any longer (even though my wife and I both got nursing/engineering degrees...and both of our daughters got degrees). I prefer technical school - and wish our labor system had more of an apprentice-style approach for new employees entering the work force. Employers get inexpensive labor that they can train to their specifications - employees get paid while also avoiding college debt. So this dearth of STEM education has resulted in a dearth of analysts/developers/testers in IT. Not enough bodies for the work to be done, so we had to augment with H1B. This is a nuanced issue because I also interviewed many people who were unqualified and - in some cases - were sent to me by a body shop that produced false copy/paste resumes. They also paid those consultants pennies-on-the-dollar relative to their US counterparts. Our broken money system, incredible asset inflation, sense of entitlement, and understanding that they are a scarce (citizen) commodity has our US born job applicants asking for SIGNIFICANTLY MORE in regard to W2/1099 bill rate. When a client is driving down your proposal costs, and your competitors are willing to drop theirs, it becomes a work of art to build a team of US-based citizens as well as supplementing with H1B. Now - back to that dearth of STEM candidates. You do NOT build a backlog of them in a day...a year...arguably 5+ years. I think Trump came to that painful realization between when he said "no more H1B", to we need to have H1B to keep our universities open (don't care on that one) and our factories with a competent labor force. I very much want to reshore our manufacturing, and become self-sovereign as well as better national defense without dependencies upon our adversaries, but we will need to wean off of H1Bs over years while strongly encouraging our youth to get STEM/trade school education. We also need to Fix the Money, Fix the World...so employees do not have to constantly ask for raises that prices them out of the market (and perpetuating the vicious asset price inflation loop). We need more employers paying in bitcoin - and employees financially savvy enough to at least convert into bitcoin, so their hard work is not debased. Please share this post a little more - interested in driving the discussion to get other opinions. We do NOT get to recover in 1-3 years what took 40-100 years to corrupt. I would love to see folks like and weighing in on this one...those latter two specifically because they also ran (much larger than my 100+ person shop that got acquired and grew to about 2,500) tech companies. That combined 2,500 employee company had an onshore/nearshore/offshore model to suit client demands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp6gQ35SoaM

And again, I believe some still NEED the assistance. But I'm looking at widows/orphans/disabled vets...and having to grandfather clause several vs cutting them off cold turkey. But even that weaning should only happen to US citizens who are NOT able-bodied to start working.