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Ol Janx Spirit

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4. While the BLS may stop giving reliable data on employment, the P&L statements from these businesses...
Wed Aug 6, 2025, 09:10 AM
Aug 6

...will tell the actual story whether MAGAss-kissing politicians like it or not.

With roughly 70% of the U.S. economy being consumer spending, the impact of the cuts in the OBBB to everyone not named Trump, Musk, or Bezos are likely to have a huge impact on the customers the business leaders in that room depend on for the P side of P&L. No amount of corporate giveaways will make up for a collapsing customer base or a sudden disruption in their labor supply.

Ricketts, Fischer, and Flood do not care, but the people of Nebraska just might wake up from their fever dream of ending the scourge of trans-athletes and letting women run...well, anything...when they can't afford--what's the word--groceries for their families and healthcare for their kids.

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