Category Archives: Fiscal Stupidity

Trump’s ‘God Bless the U.S.A’ Bible Was Made in China

It is always a grift. Trump’s bible – and, boy, are historians gonna have fun with *that* – is made in China. You know, the country we are supposedly in a trade war with thanks to Trump. The existential threat to our economy. Yeah, those guys.

Never mind the whole notion of a sin-ridden politician selling bibles for personal gain….

Speaking of things that should not be, the Secretary of Ed in Oklahoma has mandated bible training in public schools. Guess which “good book” is the only one approved? Yeah, the Chinese-made “Trump bible“.

It. Is. Always. A. Grift.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.

I mean, I am not an education specialist or a journalist, but this headline – and assumption – are just ridiculous.

Pro-tip for modern American journalism. If a Republican says something is about saving money or freedom? It is about NEITHER.

At least for you. Vouchers are for sending public money to private institutions that can’t make it on their own. It is about tax breaks for folks who don’t need them. It is about denying children a proper education on the public end, and to shield children from properly learning about the real world on the private end.

It is about taking from the poor and kicking them while they are down some more for cheap jollies. That’s it.

If I were an employer, I’d hesitate to hire someone who hid from the world in homeschooling, or private/parochial schools without at least asking why it was done. You are getting an incomplete person, even with the finest instructors. Public schools *should* be better, I agree, but life lessons are learned from being challenged, not running away and saying, “screw you and your’s, I’ve got mine (on your dime)”.

Curt Schilling shutters his game studios, lays off entire staff – latimes.com

Anti-government conservative blowhard who benefited financially from being in a union has to close company down and lay off 400 people because his job creating ass can’t pay a tax bill to a state despite getting tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to fund his venture.

I am not even going to try to create the required flowchart to show how much of a hypocrite Curt Schilling is, in even just this phase of his career goals.

Christ, these kinds of folks can’t even be honest with themselves, much less their philosophy.