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Stuff you may or may not know about your local, state, and federal government

Finance, Government

What Is The Money For?

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I downloaded the text of the House $3.5 TRILLION “infrastructure” bill. There are at least 114 occurrences of $1,000,000,000.00 or MORE in the bill. The authors willy nilly toss about spending BILLION$ of DOLLAR$ with abandon. Okay, I have written many proposals for government contract work in the past and if I had submitted a proposal worded such as this, I would have lost my job.  This is a complete travesty.

The biggest issue is that there is almost no clear explanation of what the money will be used for. Most of the sections state some nebulous ill-defined task and then state many BILLION$ of DOLLAR$ will be needed to fund the task. There is NO justification for the numbers and NO historical backup to justify the expenditures.

Here’s a sample of a section:

“SEC. 80010. FUNDING FOR GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION FEDERAL CITIZEN SERVICES FUND.
In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is
appropriated to the General Services Administration for
fiscal year 2022, out of any money in the Treasury not
otherwise appropriated, $2,000,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2031, to be deposited in the Federal Citizen Services Fund.“

That’s it. It just says that TWO BILLION DOLLAR$ must be allocated the the GSA for the FEDERAL CITIZEN SERVICES FUND (FCSF).  The FCSF spent $74 MILLION in 2020,  plans to spend $68 MILLION in 2021 and is requesting funding in 2022 to the tune of $59,200,000.00.

What does the FCSF do? From the 2022 appropriations, “The Federal Citizen Services Fund (FCSF) enables public access and engagement with the Government through an array of public and agency facing products and programs.”

Basically it’s for web based access to government information.

Now for some unknown reason, we need to allocate 34 TIMES MORE of the ANNUAL BUDGET for this one task for no apparent reason. The work statement above just says, “give TWO BILLION DOLLARS to the fund in 2022“.

What the fuck?

Most of the bill is written in a similar fashion.

I think that the HOUSE and SENATE should REQUIRE a justification with historical data for any item that costs the taxpayers over $100 MILLION. For any bill, any section that does not have proper justification for the expenses should be immediately lined out. Then they can vote on what remains in the bill.

C’mon man, do your F’ing jobs.

Culture, Government

Minority Is The Operative Word

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Angry Joe let loose on the American people on September 9, 2021, ranting angrily about the China Virus.  I suspect this was truly a deflection from his botched surrender and retreat from Afghanistan, but here is what he had to say.

“Many of us are frustrated with the nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated…” and “But what makes it incredibly more frustrating is that we have the tools to combat COVID-19, and a distinct MINORITY of Americans… are keeping us from turning the corner“, Joe screamed at us.

Just who are these 80 MILLION that will cause the rest of us to suffer under the TYRANNICAL MANDATES of Angry Joe?

Here are da facts, Jack.

30 MILLION Hispanic (AKA Brown People) and 22 MILLION Black folk are unvaccinated. That’s 52 MILLION of Angry Joe’s 80 MILLION problem children. Black and Brown comprise almost TWO THIRDS of the reason for Joe’s “frustration“.

According to the Kaiser Family Foundation as of Sept 7, 2021, Hispanics who received “at least one dose” of the vaccine was at 48% (52% unvaccinated). The vaccination rate for BLACKS was at 43% (57% unvaccinated). You can see the trendlines HERE. BLACK had the lowest vaccination rate. There are 57 MILLION Hispanics which give us 30 MILLION unvaccinated BROWN.  There are 39 MILLION Blacks which gives us 22 MILLION unvaccinated BLACK.  Again that’s 52 MILLION unvaccinated MINORITY folks.  My people the Asians have the highest vaccination rate at 68%, even higher than Whitey.

Crazy Joe and media are portraying this “problem” as a Trump voter, white supremacy problem.

Joey, the racist that he is (according to his BFF Kamala Harris), should be calling it as it is and shouting, “All you darkies need to do your part! I’m sick and tired of you damn minorities ruining it for the rest of us!“

Truth in lending, Angry Joe’s number of 80 million unvaccinated makes no sense.  It has no basis in fact that I can see.  The number looks to be closer to 147 million unvaccinated by my calculations.  The real numbers are elusive.

Government, Politics

Why Joe Was Confused

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I’m writing this on August 28, 2021, however I’m not posting this until after the debacle in Afghanistan ends to respect those who died and to those who were left behind.

I believe Joe was confused when he was told, “The Taliban are taking over the country”.

He began singing,

“Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan’ go home
Come, Mister tally man, tally me banana
Daylight come and me wan’ go home?“

The advisors told him, “No it’s the Taliban with the Haqqanis“.

Joe then started laughing as he regaled that he just watched on the TV (while eating his ice cream) how  F-Troop was dealing with the Hekawis.

The advisors told him, “No we’re not talking about the American West, but Afghanistan in South Asia“.

Joe muttered “Where the Fugawi?“