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March 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Do you have any numbers on how it will affect Indiana businesses? Esp small businesses? That might be useful. His biggest issue with govt is all the "needless bureaucracy" that small biz has to go through to operate -- the fees, paperwork, compliance, the hoops/circles. (He's not entirely wrong)
March 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Do you have any numbers on how it will affect Indiana businesses? Esp small businesses? That might be useful. His biggest issue with govt is all the "needless bureaucracy" that small biz has to go through to operate -- the fees, paperwork, compliance, the hoops/circles. (He's not entirely wrong)
I'm not sure what services he depends on, but good idea. He def uses highways! IDK about medicaid. I think it's going to take things really crumbling for people to see what's happening. There's lots of "they must be lazy if they need govt services" without understanding where federal $ actually goes
March 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I'm not sure what services he depends on, but good idea. He def uses highways! IDK about medicaid. I think it's going to take things really crumbling for people to see what's happening. There's lots of "they must be lazy if they need govt services" without understanding where federal $ actually goes
A hometown friend works with the local VA hospital, helping older and disabled vets adapt to living at home as their health declines. She got the 5-things email. She says it's a total waste of time, and everyone is pissed about it. Maybe the heartland will wake up soon, as this is coming for them.
March 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A hometown friend works with the local VA hospital, helping older and disabled vets adapt to living at home as their health declines. She got the 5-things email. She says it's a total waste of time, and everyone is pissed about it. Maybe the heartland will wake up soon, as this is coming for them.
At the same time he's calling me every 2 days to ask how I'm doing, what's happening with my own income, and saying he wishes he could do something to help. But he means help *me* find a new job/a new field of work, not help stop the whole dismantling of the government from happening.
March 2, 2025 at 12:45 PM
At the same time he's calling me every 2 days to ask how I'm doing, what's happening with my own income, and saying he wishes he could do something to help. But he means help *me* find a new job/a new field of work, not help stop the whole dismantling of the government from happening.
He was shocked by the morning paper saying that his state gets 42% of its funding from the federal government. But I can't even tell how he is processing that info. Is he thinking "well, that's 42% 'waste' to cut," or is he thinking "hm, federal funding must be important to our state's well being."
March 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
He was shocked by the morning paper saying that his state gets 42% of its funding from the federal government. But I can't even tell how he is processing that info. Is he thinking "well, that's 42% 'waste' to cut," or is he thinking "hm, federal funding must be important to our state's well being."
How do you even have conversations with people you love about this stuff when the foundations on which to build dialogue are parallel universes and our media and information sources project alternate realities and values?
March 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
How do you even have conversations with people you love about this stuff when the foundations on which to build dialogue are parallel universes and our media and information sources project alternate realities and values?
Yea, Trusk is burning everything down and approvals are super low. Power loves a vacuum. Who is going to step in? Would be nice if there were an intentional choice. Opposition is def fractured now, but it has been for aaaages. Hope Dems wake up soon or - even better - an alternative emerges.
February 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Yea, Trusk is burning everything down and approvals are super low. Power loves a vacuum. Who is going to step in? Would be nice if there were an intentional choice. Opposition is def fractured now, but it has been for aaaages. Hope Dems wake up soon or - even better - an alternative emerges.