(1:15) – While MAGA legislators deny wanting to cut IPERS, history indicates their word is not their bond:

School is about to start- it starts next week in Iowa. When I think of schools I think of teachers. As most of us understand, the teaching profession is not highly paid. But in Iowa, there is a long range reward in the form of the Iowa Personnel Employees Retirement System or IPERS. Now, a group of Iowa MAGAs is touting cutting IPERS way back.

No doubt the cuts to IPERS will be accompanied by a cut to the wealthy. Funny how that happens. Iowa is not the most popular destination for workers in the country. Iowa government workers have been lower paid than their counterparts in the private sector, but IPERS help maintain employees in Iowa’s public sector. If they cut IPERS you can expect losses in the rolls of public service employees.

As pointed out by Aimee Rivers of iowastartingline.com in her weekly Iowa Workers Almanac newsletter, the government of Iowa has never been a friend of workers. She cited these historical moves by the Iowa legislature and more specifically Iowa republicans (now MAGAs) in harming workers in Iowa:

• Iowa Republicans passed one of the first “right-to-work” laws in the nation, in 1947.

• The state legislature stripped public workers of their collective bargaining rights in 2017, only letting workers bargain on wages.

• That same year, they made public workers vote to keep their union each time a new contract is up.

• In 2022, they cut unemployment for all workers by 10 weeks, which has hit seasonal workers like construction workers especially hard.

As school starts remember public employees are people and deserve to be treated as such. Elections have consequences. MAGAs make lousy leaders.

I am so sick and tired of the FIWH {Felon In the White House}. As I write this he is selling Ukraine out to his buddy Putin.

A) What city had the “honor” of hosting the Putin / FIWH meeting?

B) Last weekend a man with a gun went crazy and shot up what government facility in Atlanta?

C) August 14th marked the 90th anniversary of the signing of what much beloved government program into existence?

D) Melanie Trump seems to want to get into the family business. Who is she threatening to sue for a billion dollars?

E) Let’s do some back to school trivia this week and next. When did the first taxpayer funded public schools start in the US (or colonies)?

F) But there is NO climate change. What state fair closed a day early (Saturday instead of Sunday) due to flooding caused by torrential downpours?

G) In a show of fascistic force, the FIWH took over control of what city’s police force despite crime being at a record low?

H) The FIWH has nominated a person to lead the BLS who took place in what uprising against this country?

I) What building for schools often seen in rural America is now a long gone nostalgic icon? 

J) This year’s Kennedy Center recipient announcements were very different in what ways?

K) What Democrat is stepping up and fighting MAGA fire with mockery and threats of counter action?

L)  What American city is being threaten by “glacial outbursts” brought on by climate change?

M) What did The Producers Price Index indicate in its measurements for July?

N) Despite a jump in tariff revenue, the budget deficit grew nearly 20% to what level in July?

O) When did school buses adopt their current ubiquitous yellow color?

P) In a survey released last week the consumption of what substance is at its lowest level since consumption has been tracked?

Q) According to the CBO, how many Americans will lose access to SNAP benefits under the FIWH? 2 million

R) What was Taylor Swift’s big announcement this week?

S) Seemingly the stuff of cartoons what were students sometimes forced to wear as a punishment in 19th century schoolhouses?

T) The newest entrant into the Iowa US senate race is what state representative from Council Bluffs?

Always Remember – Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump had a fight over who owned a 15 year old girl when they were in their late 50s. – TheRealThelma1

Answers:

A) Anchorage, Alaska (although the FIWH kept saying he was going to Russia)

B) The Center for Disease Control 

C) Social Security

D) Hunter Biden for a statement Biden made. Biden is waiting for the discovery process

E) 1644 in Dedham, Mass (as a colony)

F) The Wisconsin State Fair

G) Washington, DC

H) EJ Antoni was at least at the capitol on January 6th

I) The one room school house

J) First they were done by the FIWH. No president has done that before. 2nd the FIWH was involved in the selection

K) California governor Gavin Newsom

L) Juneau, Alaska 

M) that inflation rose steeply at .% for the month (tariffs have yet to really kick in)

N) $291 billion

O) 1939

P) Alcohol. Only 54% of Americans said they drink alcohol. This has been tracked since 1939

Q) 2 million

R) That she is releasing a new studio album

S) a dunce cap

T) Josh Turek. Phony Joni says ‘bring it on!’

Trump’s tariffs are reducing supply and raising real costs of almost every good in the economy.

It’s like what OPEC did to the United States in 1973-75, only this time it’s the US president doing it to his own country. – David Frum