President Donald Trump's big bill making its way through Congress will cut taxes by $3.7 trillion but also increase deficits by $2.4 trillion over the next decade, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
Trump's tax bill helps the rich, hurts the poor and adds trillions to the deficit | Katrina vanden Heuvel[image or embed]
" The Guardian (@theguardian.com) June 2, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"The MAGA Murder Budget is going to kill people."
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But... maybe it won't Kill BillJ, so, what's the problem?
What's that you say, BJ... you're not your brother's keeper?
I've heard that somewhere before....
Red,
OMG...a tv show.
I don't turn to scripted drama for inspiration or the truth.
If that's your idea of political or religious insight, we're not even in the same orbit.
#66 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-06-04 02:54 PM
Okay. It is a dramatization and thought experiment. I find that reliance upon reality being suspended is ubiquitous with religion, so perhaps you could see how this parallel worldview has some exciting insight.
There is a theory that Moses would have led his people across the Sea of Reeds that recedes yearly, not the Red Sea which obviously cannot without an extreme climactic event such as an improbable tsunami.
"It may come as a surprise to many students of the Bible that in the original Hebrew text the body of water the Israelites crossed when leaving Egypt is called yam suph, "Sea of Reeds," not Red Sea (Ex 15:4, 22; Dt 11:4; Jos 2:10; 4:23; 24:6; Neh 9:9; Ps 106:7, 9, 33; 136:13, 15). Unfortunately, yam suph has been rendered "Red Sea" in nearly all of our translations, the Jerusalem Bible and the New Jewish Publication Society Hebrew Bible being notable exceptions.[New Evidence from Egypt on the Location of the Exodus Sea Crossing: Part I]
The "Red Sea" phrase came into the account with the third century BC translation of the Old Testament into Greek. Called the Septuagint (abbreviated as LXX), its translators made yam suph ("Sea of Reeds") into eruthr thlass" ("Red Sea"). The Latin Vulgate followed their lead with mari Rubro ("Red Sea") and most English versions continued that tradition.
Unfortunately, "Red Sea" was not a translation at all, and the LXX translators understood that. While we do not know their reasoning, they gave yam suph a historicized interpretation, based on their understanding of the region at the time (Kitchen 2003: 262; Hoffmeier 1996: 206; 2005: 81). When the Bible indicated the Israelites crossed a significant body of water on Egypt's eastern border, the LXX translators connected it with the body of water they knew as the Red Sea. Instead of translating the Hebrew phrase literally, they offered this historical identification as their interpretation of the text."
Does that make the prior authors subject to fictionalizing actual events? Why aren't you upset that you have been taught lies?
That is a cult of beliefs, not enlightenment.
All this discussion of the Sabbath while the oligarchs are picking us blind landed me here: youtu.be
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is continuing to rail against the "big, beautiful bill," calling it "grotesque" and "immoral."
Said Johnson: "This is immoral, what us old farts doing to our young people ... I can't accept the scenario, I can't accept it, so I won't vote for it, unless we are serious about fixing it."
Link: www.cnbc.com
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