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[unable to retrieve full-text content]The 2024 Election Voting numbers are shown below. I did break down the votes for others so you could see them. A big factor in Trump winning was a smaller turnout in 2024 as compared to 2020. There was a slight increase in voting for others. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections In 2020, […] The post Why Not Voting Makes a Difference appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“One point about the Musk firing spree that was barely getting any attention at first is now starting to break through into mainstream media accounts: veterans are hugely overrepresented among federal civil servants, and even more so among probationary employees. They’re getting hit hard by these erratic and needless firings.” So vets are DEI hires? […] The post DOGE hates vets appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]For those of you who may wonder? I am not pirating a Krugman article. I pay for a subscription as well as others which I feature from time to time at Angry Bear. Economist Paul is popular. I like his reads on particular issues, and I know others do also. Angry Bear does have some […] The post Making Manufacturing Great Again appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Donald Trump plans a $200 million anti-immigrant ad campaign in the US and overseas. . . .Apparently we can’t afford to fully fund medical research at CDC or NIH these days, but we can find a few dollars under the sofa cushions to thank President Trump for closing the border.” We can’t afford Medicaid for […] The post Annals of “government efficiency” appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Regarding my commentary on the need for ideology, maybe this will help clarify my position. Ideological Purge: DOGE’s Federal Layoffs Especially Target Agencies Perceived as Liberal Two responses to my discussion questioned what are the policies positions. There were specific issues of concern presented. I was not addressing specific policy at all. That these questions […] The post Democratic Policy Without Ideology is just Random Activity...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“Congress is considering proposals that could change Medicaid financing and eligibility. “Some of these proposed changes could cause millions of people to lose access to care under Medicaid. People without coverage often skip necessary care, leading to worse health outcomes. For people in poor health, the results can be dangerous. “Cuts will put a greater […] The post GOP cuts to Medicaid will harm America’s health appeared...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Today’s Republican Party stands back and stands by in case we need to deal with the past. Have for years, now. For no good reason, it has aplenty the dumb as dirt, ignorant as a pig, mean and cruel, and corrupt members of Congress. Kentucky’s First Congressional’s best and brightest says it all. Mostly, they […] The post The Republican Party appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]This certainly isn’t pro-life: “The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection system, run out of CDC, “designed to identify groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems, to monitor changes in health status, and to measure progress towards goals in improving the health of mothers and infants,” […] The post The Trump/Musk Administration shuts down Pregnancy Risk Assessment...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]DOGE is claiming to have saved $55 billion so far. The NYT calls bullshit: “The math that could back up those checks is marred with accounting errors, incorrect assumptions, outdated data and other mistakes…. Some contracts the group claims credit for were double- or triple-counted. Another initially contained an error that inflated the totals by […] The post The fake economics of DOGE appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]“But that is what he ran on, what the people who elected him wanted him to do,” the TV journalist said in response to the interviewee’s criticism of some of a deluge of executive orders.  If what he ran on grants license, Trump has license to do almost anything. Say a presidential candidate runs promising […] The post Low-Information Voters appeared first on Angry Bear.