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It’s $31B that wasn’t in taxes. Apparently 1/3 of the money from gambling known as the lottery goes to schools and 2/3 goes to the players. That 1/3 set aside pays about a week worth of education statewide. Is that a ripoff? Let’s go out on a limb and say 100% went to schools. Of course, then the question comes up, who would play the game if they were never any winner? But let’s set that aside for now and just say that every dollar someone spends on the lottery goes back to the schools. So instead a funding one week worth of schooling in each school year, the lottery at 100% returned to the state, would pay for only three weeks. Is that a problem with the program or the way it was sold or the fact that that’s just how many people are playing? At 1/3 is a pretty good profit for a voluntary program but even doubling it to 2/3 would only pay for two weeks of schooling. 🤔

Kelly had his fingers crossed behind his back. 🤞🏼

Ridiculous? You throw up your logical fallacy straw man as a response. Who on the left defends this stuff? Classic! So who on the right in this forum defends child molestation? Surely even you can see the folly of your rationale. On second thought….. 🤣

TDS is in full display from CB. Better hope TDS as a mental illness doesn’t become law. 😂😂😂 I am sure that no Democrat, especially at the state level, has ever been charged in a child sex crime Oh wait… [Hidden Content] [Hidden Content] [Hidden Content] Yep, better hope TDS doesn’t become a certified mental illness. We know it exists however…. 😎😎😎

The conservatives aren’t anti-green. That is yet another logical fallacy. They are against forced actions. I had never seen conservatives or Trump tell people not to buy electric cars. They are against the government forcing companies to make electric cars and giving thousands of dollars of incentives for people to buy them. If you want to buy an electric car and run your home off of solar panels, go for it. The demand for electric vehicles is small with the government wants to force people‘s decisions. That is what confused you… Again.

I have seen claims saying that this is a racist situation. The local (there) NAACP came out in support of the attacker. I guess no support for the victim who was assaulted. There was a rally to support the girl charged in the crime. She is being targeted supposedly. Please ignore what you saw on the video.

What immunity has Israel been given?

I think she would have been better off admitting it and immediately. She could have pleaded that she had a horrible spur of the moment reaction, it was neither her parents nor coaches fault as they taught her to do the right thing but she messed up. Now she has gone on international news and claimed basically that is being railroaded with her fake crying. It’s hard to have sympathy and her parents just spurred on the situation so we see where she probably gets it from.

Anytime you think, this Bizzaro World can’t get any crazier, the Dems come up with a new one…..

WHAT? Don’t people run races, especially sprints, with their left arm across their chest, and their right hand raised above their head??

I am assuming that most people have seen the race where one girl beat the other in the head with a baton. She had a tearful interview that seems to have gone viral where she proclaimed that it was not intentional. She has now been charged with assault. [Hidden Content]

🤣🤣🤣 More false claims but we understand. An article from that well known conservative news source Fox News had an article in May 2024 showing that Biden lied when he claimed inflation was at 9% when he took office. In fact the change in prices in the year leading up to Biden’s inauguration was 1.4%. It rose to just over 9% 16 months after he took office. His claim was completely false. WAIT, I am so sorry, I made a mistake. It wasn’t Fox News, it was CNN that well known ultra liberal news outlet [Hidden Content]

Yes and no. Assuming that I have a grasp on a little (or never) used law Can a president line item veto a budget? No. Congress passed a bill when Bill Clinton was in office to allow a line item veto. He used a line item veto against New York City and they sued all the way to the Supreme Court. NYC won. Under the separation of powers, Congress passes what money can be spent and the president can only veto or accept. The Supreme Court also ruled that a president is obligated to carry out the money spent. So if Congress approves money for 100 new battle tanks, the president cannot refuse to build those tanks and he cannot use the money elsewhere. That is within the authority of Congress. The president’s constitutional authority is to veto or accept. So can a president veto a budget item? Yes. You might ask, WHAT? I thought the president could not veto something that Congress has passed as a line item. He has to accept all or nothing. Correct. However….. In the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, after a budget item is signed into law ordering the president to carry out many actions, the president in writing can ask if Congress will approve a change to their spending items if he sees something that is not needed or wanted. For example, let’s say that Congress passes a budget authorizing an $800B budget to keep the government running until September. The president’s constitutional authority at that point is to sign it into law completely or to veto it and potentially shut down the government. Not wanting to shut down the government, he signs the bill. In that bill is $20B for the Department of Education. The president does not want to spend that money, however he cannot line item it. Under the Impoundment Control Act, he can send that written request to Congress to review that particular part of the budget and ask them to delete it. Congress if within 45 days take no action m, case it is over and the money is still in the budget. Congress can bring the request up for a vote however. If it passes both chambers, the item is removed or essentially a veto by “request” is granted. This would not conflict with the Supreme Court ruling on the line item veto because it would not be the president going against the separation of powers on the budget but Congress itself would make the change and they do have that constitutional authority. But wait….. The Senate rules require 60 votes in cloture to end the filibuster and allow it to come up for a vote. With currently 53 Republican senators, there is no way that seven Democrat senators are going to support the president and vote for cloture. But wait….. The Impoundment Control Act only requires a simple majority vote. So with control of both houses, the Republican Congress could pass the bill to uphold the president’s request for a kill a line item by one vote in each house. Will the Republican Congress back up the president if he requests deleting a budget item? We don’t know. Also can the Act allow the cutting of a budget item from a previous Congress? Like if the last Congress under Biden passed the budget to spend $25B annually for the next four years on a program, can the current Congress undo what the previous Congress authorized? I don’t know. Is there a time frame built into the Act such as a president has 180 days to request amending a budget item? I don’t know. Congress always has the authority to change the budget under the regular passing of any law but they always run up against the rule on cloture. Under the Impoundment Control Act, it changes the game. Will it ever be used……..

Not a hard call….

Yep. All were being rude but that is a different issue. They shouted and shut up. Al Green stood there yelling, was given an admonishment and told to return to his seat. He continued with his tantrum. It’s like crossing a street against the red light and nobody gets hurt. Then compare that to someone who beat another person up and put him in the hospital. The Democrats would have you believe that since they are both crimes, they are equal. Uhhh…… no.

Trump needs to just start line item vetoing some of this congressional money.

It sounds like fake news. Just sayin’…….

Is all of your numbers facts or is it speculation? Like I asked, is there a cutoff for the vounchers? I gave the example of $50,000. Is it $100,000? You say that if a less fortunate family doesn’t take the voucher, the banker is allowed to take it? Is that true so there is no threshold of family income? I need to find a page that has the facts but I keep seeing political pages with proponents from both sides which is useless.

So the outage is fake. The mass protests and attempting to hide illegal aliens is all false since Biden did more. Got it!! The Democrats faked news in order to promote a false narrative. Any other admissions that you want to make?

Is that in the law or are you guessing? That’s why I have no opinion because I have no idea what the bill says. What if the bill says that the family cannot have a household income of over $50,000 to qualify? Is that for the rich or a family that could likely not even consider a private school? On the Kelly HS website they show tuition at $13,570. If the voucher system restricts the household income, like I suggested at $50K, would a student be able to use the $10,000 as the full amount if Kelly accepts the voucher as paid in full or basically writing off $3,570 the other $3,570? Or what if the family could afford the $3,570 but not the full amount? Is a $50,000 household income considered “people with money” as you suggested? Again, I have no clue as to what the bill says but I have seen a lot of speculation or claims. I only went to public schools and have never had children so I don’t have a dog in the hunt. I am curious about some of the claims that I read. So, IF the vouchers were only for low income families, would it matter to you if it wasn’t used by people with money? As you claim, you couldn’t afford private school with or without a voucher. If my scenario was correct that a high school might accept the voucher as a paid in full tuition, would you consider it or are you simply against the voucher concept and I know that some people are?

Every time a student transfers, the district loses money. Every family that decides to homeschool causes the district to lose money. What is fair about a 9th grader who can’t read at a 3rd grade level? What is the incentive for some schools to correct their abysmal performance? That is where standardized testing came from but it didn’t improve the system. It only highlighted the failures. I am assuming that the threat of a district losing money might be that carrot in front of the horse. You don’t want a district to lose money. Neither do I but I read the stats of failing schools and hate that more.

What in this article shows the bill isn’t fair to public schools? All that I saw was a vote count from the House from two years ago. Is it the same bill from the previous session? What if anything was changed this session? Who gets the money, how much and under what conditions? I have no opinion on vouchers because I have no clue what it is. I know basically it is to fund private schools for supposedly the underprivileged but as they say, the devil is in the details. What are the details?

Who knows? It’s a hot button topic and the issue that may be left is the conference committee and if they can iron out the differences. A bill cannot be engrossed and sent to the governor’s desk unless the Senate and House agree word for word on the compromise bill or even no compromise at all. One side could double down and just say take it or leave it. With such a narrow vote (I think) I could see one house or the other standing firm.

Not much…… Another rocket today for 42 satellites put into orbit in two days, an exploration mission to the Moon and prepping the launch pad to send 4 astronauts into space in less than two weeks.

SpaceX launched two rockets yesterday. I believe one was a mission to the moon and one put 21 satellites in orbit. The stages of the Rockets were recovered to be used again. The satellite mission was critical because it cleared the launch pad for a mission in less than two weeks to launch astronauts to the International Space Station. Feel free to have another company step up and launch multiple rockets per day with different missions and have to hurry and clear the pad so they can send people to the ISS. If Musk had remained a Democrat, that side of the aisle would be crowing this as a stunning accomplishment.