JUST SOME POSTS

 This post will be a bit different as I do not have a dialog or point to make specifically. Our government is divided into three separate but equal parts - the legislative branch - the House and Senate, the judicial branch - the Supreme Court, and the Executive - the Presidency and all departments and cabinet. We normally speak of "control" of government relating to what party has the majority in the House, Senate, and the Presidency. Control of all three, along with the power of the Presidency to nominate Supreme Court judges and the Senate's power of approval of the nominees means that control of the Congress and Presidency is a powerful thing indeed.  I was thinking about what party has controlled Congress and the Presidency in recent times. I defined "recent" as after WWII - 1947 to current - 2025 as I write this. I came up with a chart showing the party in majority in the House, in the Senate, and holding the office of the President for each two year term o...

  As I have not done a reminder in a while, first a bit of a review: 1) There is NO government money. There are detailed explanations in other posts on this blog as well as many other sites. Just know that any time you hear something is being paid for with "federal funds", a "federal grant", "State funds'' or any other euphemism for government money, know what it really means is - taxpayer's money - either current or future. 2) Corporations DON'T pay taxes! PEOPLE PAY TAXES! You can put whatever tax rate you want to on Corporations and the taxes will be paid by their customers eventually. I have seen arguments that try to explain why the taxes will be paid by the company due to market forces or other reasons. This is not true in almost all cases. Every Corporate P&L (financial statement/planning) has a line item for taxes. It is a cost of doing business and computed into the finances like any other cost and built into the price of their wa...

 Somewhere among all these posts is one where I talked about how the problems that the politicians were going to fix have been the same all my life. The political ads from the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and 90s could be used today with a small bit of "polishing".  Our elected representatives have been correcting inequities and solving the same problems for as long as I have been hearing politicians. I am sure it goes back way before me! If the politicians wanted to (or giving them the benefit of the doubt - were able to ) solve these issues - they would have - period. There are also posts here where I try to delineate the powers and responsibility of the branches of our government as outlined in the Constitution. I will not go there again (if you care - go looking), I will just say that the three branches have to work together - at least somewhat - to get anything done. As a reminder the three branches are the Executive (President), the Judicial (the federal courts headed by the Suprem...

A note: If you truly care to learn a (very) basic lesson in the 3 branches of government and impeachment, you may want to read the two previous posts As noted above, this is the third in a series. I have noticed a lot of people that think Trump has been convicted of something or is now being put out of office. Here is a basic explanation of where we are now in this great journey curated by the Democrat party. President Trump has been impeached. I think the confusion comes from a lot of people not knowing what that actually means. Impeachment essentially means that the President (or any other government employee that is subject to impeachment) has had charges drawn up against him. In very simplistic terms the House of Representatives has acted as a grand jury or government attorney's office and determined that a case can (and should be made it the House votes to make the impeachment formal) be made: essentially an indictment. The Constitution left the grounds for impeachment v...

I have tried to somewhat stay away from the political battles going on, but I have been stewing on some "stuff" for a while now. So, here we go... There seems to be a tremendous outcry of things President Trump has said or done in running the government. (an understatement maybe?) Since neither Civics nor Political Science are taught much at all any more I wanted to remind (or maybe let some know for the first time) some facts about how our government was designed and is set up to be run. ( A note: if you are not into a civics lesson and want to get to the "point" of this - scroll down to the line -------- and start there ) Ultimately, but indirectly, the government is run my us - We the People. We do that through voting every 2, 4, and/or 6 years depending on the elected office. However for all practical purposes the government is run by each of the three branches - the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial. The Judicial at the Federal/National level...