The just-passed $740 billion “Inflation Reduction Act” contains, among other expenditures, $300 billion for deficit reduction. The national debt is now approximately $30 trillion — or $30,000 billion. How is $300 billion going to help deficit reduction? My arithmetic tells me that is 1/100th of 1 percent. Who is kidding whom?
No accounting for shrinkflation with accurate figures hard to find.
The New York legal system is so stacked against Trump.
Biden is constantly harping on how Trump is a threat to democracy and will be a dictator, eliminating our freedoms. It is Biden, however, who has proven himself the dictator who is threatening democracy.
Every student, regardless of background, should feel valued and supported in his or her learning journey.
As a cop who was at not only at the 1968 Democratic convention at the Conrad Hilton on Michigan Avenue, but also the Chicago arson fires on the west side, I feel there were many reasons why the city was a tinderbox.
A lot of us walk or jog in the summer nights when it cools down. The juice vendor was a wonderful break before starting the return half of our exercise. Alas, never more.
