Present for my mum: a Lego Julbock for her wintery village.
Calamity! Disaster! Arson!
Noooo!
“Rationality is shown not so much in what you believe as in how you believe it. You are rational if you believe it on evidence and as firmly as the evidence warrants and if, further, your belief leads you to act only in ways which are no obstacle to the discovery of error.”
— Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others (via philosophybits)
Congress
will approve $1.375 billion for a wall along the southern border as
part of the $1.4 trillion omnibus spending bill for the next fiscal
year, according to GOP sources.
Congress is expected to pass the
measure on Monday along with a $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill. The
White House signaled Sunday evening that President Trump would sign it.
Trump
had previously given conflicting signals on whether he’d support the
massive package, which congressional leaders in both parties backed on
Sunday. The money for the border wall, which matches the funding
included last year for Trump’s signature issue, could represent another
reason for Trump to sign the bill.
Funding for the wall has been a
regular sticking point in annual spending bills, and led to the
nation’s longest government shutdown in December 2018.
Budget law requires the government to spend appropriated funds, but it is unclear whether President-elect Joe Biden will seek a way to circumvent the law or whether Congress would take action to enforce the law.
The funding for the wall in this measure would continue after Trump leaves office.
Trump
had requested $2 billion for the wall in 2021, but Democrats put no
funding for the project in their appropriations bills, going so far as
to claw back funds from previous years and block transfers from other
accounts using emergency powers in legislation that passed in the House.
The $1.375 billion figure is the same that Democrats and Republicans agreed upon in a compromise spending bill last year.
While
in previous years Trump was vocal about insisting that the wall be
funded, the issue took a back burner in this year’s negotiations as
Congress focused on the COVID-19 legislation.
This pandemic is 100% proof that capitalism not only *requires* human misery and oppression to work but in fact it *THRIVES* in it.
Stock market is at 30k. Billionaires have increased their wealth by almost a trillion dollars already. Everything is for them. This system isn’t meant for US.
