Unfinished Thoughts

It's time that the United States - and the MAGA party in particular - own its policy that if you don't work, you don't deserve healthcare. I was listening to NPR (I know, I know...) and there was a story about the ACA premiums exploding with the expiration of subsidies. They interviewed a doddering retiree (on Medicare, naturally) and it really should be quoted in full here: QUIRMBACH: Here, extending help for ACA enrollees does not have a lot of support. Stepping away from the game, Rita Schulte, a retiree who's on Medicare, the federal health program that covers most seniors, says the Obamacare enhanced subsidies should only be extended a short time, if at all. Schulte says for people who aren't retired like her, she wants bigger changes in the Affordable Care Act that lower costs for taxpayers. RITA SCHULTE: If they'd ever get it overhauled, maybe we wouldn't need all this extra help from the government because you can't rely on the governmen...

More of a stub than usual... Any honest political observer would have understood Texas Governor Greg "Hot Wheels" Abbott's scheme of bussing illegal immigrants to places like NYC, Martha's Vineyard and Chicago was both 1) appalling and 2) politically, perhaps the most brilliant stunt of the election cycle.  Outside of the Democratic party's continued insistence on doing this... :  ... the bussing of migrants might have been the single most effective campaign tactic to bring home just how broken the border had become. Leaving aside that the Republicans torpedoed the immigration bill to keep it as an issue.  Because let's be very honest: it's very easy for the cities and states 1000+ miles away from the border to loudly virtue signal about the humanity of illegal immigrants when they don't have to deal with even close to the same magnitude of problems that emanate from an unsecured border. Martha's Vineyard cried for the National Guard, Chicago added...