Werewolf said:
Articulate and writes extremely well.......but, well........... LOL
I should apologize to you #Sieve, my generation created your generation. What the F did I do.
The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a 2 year jail term. Statute of limitations is 5 years.
— Bobby Kogan (@BBKogan) October 15, 2025
Most money has what's called a period of availability. You can go about obligating it only during that period. While it's illegal to not use it all (that's the illegal impoundments Trump has been doing all year), after that period of availability ends, you can't use it anymore.
— Bobby Kogan (@BBKogan) October 15, 2025
When money is appropriated, it's also authorized to be used only for certain activities. So if you give $50 million to the Department of Transportation to build bridges, it couldn't use that money to build airports instead.
— Bobby Kogan (@BBKogan) October 15, 2025
In the case of DOD, there's a limit of $8 billion. And, importantly, when you move money from one account to another account, that money has follow the allowable uses and the period of availability of that new account. So now let's dig into the specifics.
— Bobby Kogan (@BBKogan) October 15, 2025
But here's the problem: if you tried to transfer that money into the military personnel accounts (milpers), it would immediately transform into money whose period of availability ended on September 30, 2025 - and thus not be usable anymore, despite the money existing.
— Bobby Kogan (@BBKogan) October 15, 2025
Civilized said:Oldsouljer said:Civilized said:hokiewolf said:
No kidding. It's this hyperbole that solves nothing with respect to healthcare. Saying that is saying "I don't want to fix it"
Really?
Because it sure seems like what solves nothing is Republicans wanting to Monday Morning QB and delete Obamacare without ever doing the hard work of coming up with a more affordable, more accessible, more inclusive plan.
If someone in my family doesn't like the dinner spot that gets thrown out to the group, they have to come up with something better or else we just stick with what we have.
If one of my staff points out a problem on a job without also suggesting a solution, I remind them that announcing problems is the easy, low-value part of ultimately addressing an issue.
Like Smapty said, you may think Obamacare is now too expensive (but not without acknowledging the since-deleted mandate helped address the affordability piece).
But you can't with any level of serioiusness say that the Republicans have put forth anything that's better because they haven't put forth anything at all. They've just done the easy part without adding any value.
Aside from care for prisoners and veterans, I've never been clear on why medicine and medical insurance is any Constitutional business of the federal government.
Because it's ridiculous to take a strict constructionist stance on issues like this. The Constitution was written in 1787, decades or centuries before industrialization, the Internet, global markets, or nationwide healthcare systems existed.
National or global issues can't be managed effectively by 50 separate states.
And private industry and the market has shown it's incapable of providing adequate coverage and care for Americans, absent incentives and/or participation by the government.
Which first-world countries enjoy the best health outcomes and highest ROI on per-capita spending? How do they administer care? Which countries rank lowest on that same scale (I'll give you three guesses but you'll only need one).
All that has to happen is Johnson gavels in the House and they do it legally. Why is that too much to ask? Hell, you might even get some democrats stupid enough to vote on record against it.wolf howl said:
Find you someone that loves you as much as Democrats love not funding the military service members right now.
