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How can the White House support Bidenomics when THESE 28 states weren’t able to pay their bills?

November 30, 2023 by BlazeTV Staff Leave a Comment

Bidenomics is hurting every American, but the pain is far from equal.

According to the 14th annual Financial State of the States Report published by the Chicago-based nonprofit Truth and Accounting, the fiscal health of all 50 states is not doing great.

New Jersey beat out the other states for worst fiscal health and greatest taxpayer burden. Not far behind was Connecticut. After Connecticut were Illinois, Massachusetts, Hawaii, and Kentucky — which have Democrat governors.

Delaware, Louisiana, California, and Vermont followed Kentucky.

Each state listed is run by Democrats.

Pat Gray isn’t convinced, yet. “I’m sure you’ll find, I mean, really healthy Democrat states as well.”

The report found that 22 states reported surpluses: Alaska, North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Tennessee, Nebraska, Idaho, and Oregon.

Only one of the top ten states is run by a Democrat.

“I’m concerned that Texas isn’t in the top ten,” Keith Malinak says, disappointed.

In fiscal 2022, 28 states didn’t have enough revenue to pay all their bills. Texas was one of them, among several other Republican-run states.

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NJ school district drops transgender policy mandating that officials ‘accept a student’s asserted gender identity’

November 22, 2023 by Dave Urbanski Leave a Comment

A New Jersey school district has abolished its policy on transgender students, which had mandated that officials “shall accept a student’s asserted gender identity; parental consent is not required,” NJ.com reported.

What are the details?

The Freehold Township Board of Education voted 6-3 last week to throw out the policy, which also said students don’t need to meet “any threshold diagnosis or treatment requirements” in order for district officials and staff members to recognize their gender identities, the outlet noted.

Freehold board president Michelle Lambert confirmed the vote to the outlet but did not specify why the policy was abolished: “Each board member voted for various reasons.”

Superintendent Neal Dickstein in a letter sent to families the day after the vote said “a great deal of misinformation” was circulating about the policy, NJ.com said, adding that Dickstein didn’t cite specific examples.

He did say that the abolished policy “does not translate to the forced outing of children as it is being interpreted by some,” the outlet added.

NJ.com said Freehold joined a number of other districts in the state that have “controversially” revised or dropped their transgender student policies.

In Union Township in Hunterdon County, the school board on Monday conducted a first reading of a motion to abolish the district’s policy on transgender students, the outlet said, adding that board president Lou Palma said the second reading will take place in December.

NJ.com said at least five other districts in New Jersey also recently dropped their policies on transgender students.

How are folks reacting?

A couple of commenters weighed in on the NJ.com story about the Freehold district abolishing its transgender student policy, with one noting succinctly on X: “Good.”

Another commenter criticized the wording of the story: “You can tell where the writer stands as they frame the droppin[g] of the policy as controversial. Objectively though, by the definition of controversy, the policy itself is equally if not more controversial than dropping it. Yet only one action is framed as controversial.”

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