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Up to a point. I think abortion is wrong, but that’s based on my religious beliefs. Whether or not you have one should be between you and your creator, IMO. BUT, the problem comes in when a person can’t afford one. Should we then collectively be responsible to pay for a procedure that we believe to be immoral? That’s where the argument lost me. If the right have one means that the rest of us should foot the bill for anybody else getting one, then I’m out. And I’d love to hear your opinion on the movement to abolish all property taxes in Texas?

I hope this happens on the HS side too. [Hidden Content]

The government shouldn't be involved in the marriage business. The government shouldn't be involved in the abortion or not business. If what someone does in their own home--or daily activities--does no harm to others, it's none of my business. The government wouldn't be involved if we hadn't invited them in.

Same… I’ve always been conservative fiscally and socially, but feel myself recognizing more from the “other people” these days. Today “fiscally conservative” means “cut taxes and end regulation, that’ll fix everything” when it’s the not the answer. Even the successes that they point to are more like cautionary tales. There are some things that I can actually agree on from a liberal/progressive standpoint. Same-sex marriage, for one. If my wife (or I) die suddenly, there are rules for the disposition of our estate that protect the surviving spouse. Same with medical or end of life decisions. It doesn’t matter how long a same-sex couple has been together, until gay marriage was legalized, the significant other had no say in anything… that’s not right, when the only thing that would prohibit such unions were the religious beliefs of others. I’ve heard it said, but it’s true. We’re not a Christian nation, where a nation where we’re free to be a Christian. Or not. Or a Muslim, Hindu, etc… conservatives today don’t understand that basic fact of our constitution.

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I'm a fiscally conservative libertarian. There's actually a pretty big difference in that and typical conservatism. Typical conservatives still believe in some market manipulation to help achieve their social goals. Liberals and Progressives are at the total opposite end of the spectrum from me from a fiscal and personal liberty stance.

I’m just surprised at all of the supposed “free market, conservative” people who don’t a problem with all of the things you just described.

This is the new norm.

Gotta start somewhere. So you like Newsom. Got it.

I don't like government interference in private lending markets. Protecting against predatory lending practices? Sure. Setting rates? No. This Administration has already interfered way too much in the free enterprise markets in my book. This is not what I expected from a supposedly conservative, free market Administration. We've got free trade manipulation, government purchasing majority stakes in private corporations and basically nationalizing them, and desires to limit the credit lender's ability to minimize risk in their own practices. While I don't think limiting some people's access to 'easy credit' is a bad thing, it's not government's job. The only thing government manipulation has ever done is interfere with the free market, and they have a horrible track record of picking winners and losers.

Be honest. Would you really want Texas to look like California?

Wishful thinking. 👍

Currently 23 straight years that Silsbee has advanced to 2nd round. Looking to make it 24.

Huntington goes 4-0 at the Palestine tournament out scoring their opponents 43-3.

The state will not turn red. What if Texas turn blue?

Tarriffs were always in place. Trump attempted to increase the percentage that other countries paid.

[Hidden Content] Doesn't talk about him serving 5 years in Federal Prison for drug trafficking. Just maybe sex offenders can be rehabilitated and lead our education department. SMH.

Haven’t seen either team play but it would be hard to pick against Silsbee in a first round playoff game. Tradition carries some weight.

My point is now you have the Mayor doing the same thing. [Hidden Content] MAGA is sick to their stomach on hearing this news. Take a look at the fox MAGA comments. Have they forgotten?

That’s not true at all. Garland, Loretta Lynch and Eric Holder. To think that the DOJ has been trustworthy until Trump is delusional.

It has been that way up until Trump’s administration. It went out the window when Trump hired a convicted Federal Drug Trafficker to be the second highest law enforcement officer in the U.S. as a Deputy Director.

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I have a friend that’s in management at one of the largest local credit unions. I asked her what they’d do if Trump’s plan to limit interest rates to 10% was to actually be implemented. She said that they’d still extend credit, but only to customers who deserved a 10% interest rate, dramatically limiting the credit extended to risky borrowers… typically the ones who rely upon credit the most. To your point, the proposed cap on credit card interest rates could also push the debt to income rate to even lower lows, lol. I think that it can be seen from other perspectives, too. Higher mortgage rates are keeping a lot of people in their current homes/mortgages because the cost to finance a new property is keeping them in their old home. If you’re in a 200k mortgage financed at 2.75, but the next logical upgrade is to a 350k mortgage, but at 6.00, you’re probably not going to upgrade. You could have afforded that $350k mortgage at 2.75, but not at 6.0-so they stay put. Trump’s demand to scrub 2 points off of the fed rate (and assuming there’d be a corresponding drop in mortgage rates) would move a lot of people to upgrade, but with resulting inflation that would drive prices up further. The uncomfortable truth is that low mortgage rates (too low, probably) caused problems in the system that were just now beginning to understand. Same story with vehicle debt. Tariffs cause higher prices, and high interest rates discourage purchases… end result is a lower DTI. It’s a win, I guess. The fact that mortgage delinquencies and auto loan defaults are rising is a much better indication of where we stand financially.

You’re making my post out to be more than it is. It was just a simple eye opening stat that I posted. I am aware mostly everyone’s 401 is doing well. Over the past 50 years, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% according to that "bastion of socialism" the Rand Corporation. And a large portion of that transfer of wealth has been since Covid. There were hundreds of thousands mom and pop businesses that were put out of business because of the plandemic.