Always whining and complaining, always blaming the rich instead of cutting out the free stuff now he plans on driving out the money he wants...

"Turning to the city’s finances, Mamdani didn’t hold back in painting a grim picture of a “serious fiscal crisis” with a massive deficit. He’s pointing fingers at past leadership, particularly former Mayor Eric Adams, for underfunding essential services like rental aid and special education. It’s a mess he claims was handed to him like a “poisoned chalice.”

But Mamdani’s blame game doesn’t stop there—he’s also targeting former Gov. Andrew Cuomo for allegedly draining city resources over years of state-level mismanagement. He argues New Yorkers foot over half the state’s revenue but get far less in return. It’s a compelling statistic, but is it the full story?

“The result is a stunning fiscal imbalance,” Mamdani declared, emphasizing the disparity in state funding. While the numbers sound damning, critics might argue the city’s own spending habits deserve scrutiny before pinning everything on Albany. After all, accountability starts at home.
Tax Hikes on the Wealthy Proposed

Mamdani’s solution to this financial quagmire is to hike taxes on the top 1% and big corporations, framing it as a moral necessity. He’s betting that squeezing the rich will plug a $12 billion hole and rebuild the city stronger. But will this drive away the very job creators and investors who keep the Big Apple’s economy humming?

Rich Azzopardi, a spokesperson for Cuomo, fired back with a scathing rebuttal, defending the former governor’s record. “Andrew Cuomo inherited an $11 billion deficit when he first took office and managed to close it through hard work and fiscal discipline—words that just aren’t in Mamdani’s vocabulary,” Azzopardi quipped. It’s a sharp reminder that not everyone buys Mamdani’s narrative of victimhood."

https://patriotpostdaily.com//mayor-mamdani-proposes-nypd-unit-dissolution-and-tax-hikes/

SteveDeace · 3h

Here’s what absolutely cannot happen, and I fear it may so I’m going to speak up and risk offending allies now in the hopes doing so means the George W Bush (Iraq/TARP) level generational political mistake I fear we could make is avoided.

WE CANNOT ACCEPT ALL THE POLITICAL BLOWBACK FROM DOING WHAT MUST BE DONE TO DEFEND OUR WAY OF LIFE, AND THEN NOT FOLLOW THROUGH AND DO IT.

That will be the next generation’s “bringing democracy to the Middle East” or “suspending free market principles to save the free market” dumbassery. If you’re going to step on a shibboleth of the damned, you must smash that idol into pieces. Do not go into these blue state/city-state communist hellholes timidly.

They are cultural Fallujah, and culturally invading foreign countries in every way but location within this land mass. Treat them accordingly, or never go in at all. But if you do go in you cannot back down. You cannot look weak. You must sweep the leg.

These are the Jim Crowers of the modern era, attempting to install a separate America from the constitutional union — treat them accordingly. If you do not have the political will to do so, don’t start the fight lest you risk accelerating their plans. If your generals don’t have what it takes, get new ones pronto. But what you absolutely mustn’t do here is what the French did in the Rhineland, which is run at the first sign of pushback and only embolden the evil more.

This is no time to get wobbly, George…err….Donald.

Surging #Education Spending Squeezing #Homeowners Out - it’s destroying #privateproperty - https://libertysentinel.substack.com/p/surging-education-spending-squeezing

An Instruction Manual For Escaping The #Digital Gulag That You’re Already In - The #financial #freedom you think you have on #Coinbase is an illusion. Here is the technical blueprint for taking your #Bitcoin off the radar, “ghosting” the surveillance state, and spending your wealth without permission. https://thefreethoughtproject.com/solutions/an-instruction-manual-for-escaping-the-digital-gulag-that-youre-already-in

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9 Examples of How the Government Is Throwing Away Billions
WASTEFUL SPENDING: Rand Paul’s latest “Festivus Report” puts what he calls government waste at $1.6 trillion.

Let’s go through nine examples that stood out the most from the report.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5_whTZtRmM
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Politics in a nutshell...

"“The swamp is real. But we did pass the Shower Act this week. I could use one after spending so much time in this awful place,” Crane wrote."

thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/m

Rather like the Democrat Party ...

It's been a part of their culture so long that it has become an ingrained feature of their people ...

"A Somali lawmaker has accused his country’s government of serving as a “fraud pipeline”—a charge that comes as the Trump administration moves to end temporary protected status for thousands of Somalis living in the United States.

Dr. Abdillahi Hashi Abib, a sitting member of Somalia’s Parliament and its Foreign Affairs Committee, told the Daily Caller that the corruption now under federal investigation in Minnesota and across the United States is merely the “downstream result” of a system of graft deeply rooted in Somalia’s political culture.

“This corruption did not arise overnight,” Abib said. “It is an extension of the same criminal networks that have looted foreign aid in Somalia for decades — and now operate freely in the United States under the guise of charity and community development.”

Abib said his conclusions are based on both firsthand experience inside Somalia’s government and extensive data that he has attempted to share with U.S. agencies. In a 2023 letter titled A Sample of Somalia Government Fraud, Abib’s parliamentary committee detailed more than 400 gigabytes of data outlining itemized expenditures between July 2022 and June 2023. The report accused Somalia’s government of widespread illegal spending, including cash withdrawals without receipts, inflated travel expenses, and rigged contracts routed through family-owned businesses.

The report further alleged that the Central Bank of Somalia’s general manager engaged in tax evasion by reclassifying a quarter of his salary as “bonuses” to avoid paying income tax."

https://conservativebrief.com/somali-lawmaker-fraud-98118/

#Economy
92 Percent Of Employed Americans Have Cut Back On Spending As The #StandardOfLiving In The U.S. Crumbles https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/92-percent-of-employed-americans-have-cut-back-on-spending-as-the-standard-of-living-in-the-u-s-crumbles/

Trump Proposes Increasing Military Spending by 66 Percent With $1.5 Trillion 2027 Budget
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-proposes-increasing-military-spending-in-2027-with-1-5-trillion-pentagon-budget-5967702?utm_source=Morningbrief&src_src=Morningbrief&utm_campaign=mb-2026-01-08&src_cmp=mb-2026-01-08&utm_medium=email&est=zMAOMLLG4lQKgRD4g9dpi8ERzLOuWXC1%2B3nxW5Y0Mr5BFDd1mWDRkLSeejdg7xPeKQ%3D%3D

https://press.spglobal.com/2026-01-08-Substantial-Shortfall-in-Copper-Supply-Widens-as-the-Race-for-AI-and-Growing-Defense-Spending-Add-to-Accelerating-Demand,-New-S-P-Global-Study-Finds

SHORTALLS IN WORLDWIDE COPPER PRODUCTION

Surging #Education Spending Squeezing #Homeowners Out https://libertysentinel.org/surging-education-spending-squeezing-homeowners-out/

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/trump-defense-spending-increase/2026/01/07/id/1241215/

Military Aid to Ukraine is pouring tax dollars down a rat hole!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/12/just-senate-advances-900-billion-defense-spending-bill/

"I will never forget the day that DOGE discovered that FEMA was spending $59 MILLION to house illegal aliens in luxury hotels in NYC…

…all while FEMA nearly kicked out 3,000 Americans from their hotel rooms in the dead of winter in Western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene"

https://x.com/mattvanswol/status/2002776174066630932

How does it cost 1 million dollars to fix a single step of a state Capitol building? Homeowners and businesses are able to repair steps of their own front porches and entry ways for far less.
https://www.wnd.com/2025/04/we-cannot-comment-state-spending-almost-1-million-per-step-to-fix-capitol-entrance/?utm_campaign=Cannot_comment%3A_State_spending&utm_source=izooto&utm_medium=push_notifications

And that is not even one percent of the wasteful spending that has taken place.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14334647/donald-trump-condoms-gaza-trans-operas-colombia-foreign-spending.html?ito=push-notification&ci=aB2Fj52Ofq&cri=0L9ahZcD_Q&si=DjsGEsUcCwi7&xi=8102ee85-8eee-4c80-adf9-4540e8140d66&ai=14334647

Brethren, are you in need? In need of what? God promises to supply all our needs according to His riches in glory in Christ (Phil. 4:19). If anyone has need, all we need to is ask. For Scripture says, “Ask, and it shall be given you” (Mt. 7:7).

Why then do we do without? Perhaps we doubt the promise. James tells us we “must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways” (Jas. 1:6-7).

Perhaps we confuse “need” with “want.” Such lusts can lead us to trouble. God promises to give “what is good”, meaning, that which is good for us, just as any good parent would (Mt. 7:11 - Luke relates this to the Holy Spirit in Lk. 11:13). But when we ask for our fleshly desires, why should we expect our Father to acquiesce? As James exhorts, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures” (Jas 4:3).

Let us remember, Jesus told us not to store up here treasures for ourselves (Mt. 6:19). Instead, we are to seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and our needs will be met (Mt. 6:33).

Do not seek after worldly wealth. For such perishes, and those who lust after it pierce themselves with many griefs (1 Ti. 6:9-10). No, let us see our needs, and His desires. “For we have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either. If we have food and covering, with these we shall be content” (1 Tim. 6:7-8).

Yes, let us be content, so long as we have our needs met, and when we have needs, let us ask, “for everyone who asks receives” (Mt.7:8).

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Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Morning, December 5

"Ask, and it shall be given you." Matthew 7:7

We know of a place in England still existing, where a dole of bread is served to every passerby who chooses to ask for it. Whoever the traveller may be, he has but to knock at the door of St. Cross Hospital, and there is the dole of bread for him. Jesus Christ so loveth sinners that He has built a St. Cross Hospital, so that whenever a sinner is hungry, he has but to knock and have his wants supplied. Nay, He has done better; He has attached to this Hospital of the Cross a bath; and whenever a soul is black and filthy, it has but to go there and be washed. The fountain is always full, always efficacious. No sinner ever went into it and found that it could not wash away his stains. Sins which were scarlet and crimson have all disappeared, and the sinner has been whiter than snow. As if this were not enough, there is attached to this Hospital of the Cross a wardrobe, and a sinner making application simply as a sinner, may be clothed from head to foot; and if he wishes to be a soldier, he may not merely have a garment for ordinary wear, but armour which shall cover him from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head. If he asks for a sword, he shall have that given to him, and a shield too. Nothing that is good for him shall be denied him. He shall have spending-money so long as he lives, and he shall have an eternal heritage of glorious treasure when he enters into the joy of his Lord.

If all these things are to be had by merely knocking at mercy's door, O my soul, knock hard this morning, and ask large things of thy generous Lord. Leave not the throne of grace till all thy wants have been spread before the Lord, and until by faith thou hast a comfortable prospect that they shall be all supplied. No bashfulness need retard when Jesus invites. No unbelief should hinder when Jesus promises. No cold-heartedness should restrain when such blessings are to be obtained.

Did the government end the filibuster:

The filibuster was not entirely ended by the government, but its use was notably bypassed in a recent Senate vote. On November 9, 2025, the Senate advanced a deal to end the ongoing government shutdown by voting 60-40 to break the filibuster. This allowed the Senate to proceed with a bipartisan spending package without the usual hurdles typically associated with a filibuster.

Key Details
A group of eight Democratic senators joined all but one Republican to support breaking the filibuster, which was necessary to move forward with a spending bill designed to fund the government through January 30, 2026.
The agreement generated significant backlash among many Democrats, particularly those who were concerned that the plan did not adequately address pressing healthcare issues linked to the Affordable Care Act.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and several progressives criticized the vote, labeling it a betrayal that could lead to increased healthcare costs for millions of Americans.
This recent legislative maneuver reflects ongoing tensions regarding government funding and the use of the filibuster in the Senate.

Believer, are you parched? Do you, as a deer pants for water, long for God?

What is keeping you from drinking out of the everlasting spring Jesus promised? Are you trying to dig your own well? Why, when Jesus promised not only to provide water that you might drink now, but that you may never thirst again (Jn. 4:14)? He has given us water that creates in us a well springing up unto eternal life!

Why then are you thirsty? Do not be mistaken, we all should have an unending thirst for God’s word; however, since it is so readily available, we should never find ourselves dehydrated, parched, longing to have our tongue but touched with a dampened fingertip.

If your spiritual live has become so arid, perhaps it is time to examine why. Are you regularly spending time with the Lord, in His word and in prayer? Are you fellowshipping with other Christians, using your gifts to edify them and being edified by them exercising theirs? Are you preaching the gospel to the lost? This last is not a call for pastors to reach unbelievers invited into the congregation, but an exhortation to all Christians to be bold, unashamed, bearing witness of the Lord as the Holy Spirit empowers us to do (Acts 1:8; Rom. 1:16).

There are many reasons why we may suffer through drought, but it generally comes back to us leaving the well, because the well will not leave us.

Drink deeply, brethren, for He promises to pour out water on the thirsty (Isa. 44:3).

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Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions

Morning, November 6

"I will pour water upon him that is thirsty." Isaiah 44:3

When a believer has fallen into a low, sad state of feeling, he often tries to lift himself out of it by chastening himself with dark and doleful fears. Such is not the way to rise from the dust, but to continue in it. As well chain the eagle's wing to make it mount, as doubt in order to increase our grace. It is not the law, but the gospel which saves the seeking soul at first; and it is not a legal bondage, but gospel liberty which can restore the fainting believer afterwards. Slavish fear brings not back the backslider to God, but the sweet wooings of love allure him to Jesus' bosom. Are you this morning thirsting for the living God, and unhappy because you cannot find him to the delight of your heart? Have you lost the joy of religion, and is this your prayer, "Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation"? Are you conscious also that you are barren, like the dry ground; that you are not bringing forth the fruit unto God which He has a right to expect of you; that you are not so useful in the Church, or in the world, as your heart desires to be? Then here is exactly the promise which you need, "I will pour water upon him that is thirsty." You shall receive the grace you so much require, and you shall have it to the utmost reach of your needs. Water refreshes the thirsty: you shall be refreshed; your desires shall be gratified. Water quickens sleeping vegetable life: your life shall be quickened by fresh grace. Water swells the buds and makes the fruits ripen; you shall have fructifying grace: you shall be made fruitful in the ways of God. Whatever good quality there is in divine grace, you shall enjoy it to the full. All the riches of divine grace you shall receive in plenty; you shall be as it were drenched with it: and as sometimes the meadows become flooded by the bursting rivers, and the fields are turned into pools, so shall you be- the thirsty land shall be springs of water.

(GALLUP) Most Americans favor spending cuts over #tax hikes to reduce #deficit https://sharylattkisson.com/2025/10/gallup-most-americans-favor-spending-cuts-over-tax-hikes-to-reduce-deficit/

Sheriff busted for spending government money on Krispy Kreme, Waffle House, app store
https://www.wnd.com/2025/10/sheriff-busted-spending-government-money-krispy-kreme-waffle/