2024/11/12 17:16:54
r3g3
Your lib   friends in Cal are big on them War -even doing mandates-They are so environmentally responsible they are even getting rid of their fossil fuel plants out there. Then they have to buy fossil generated electricity from outa state-and still require rolling blackouts lol
Libs can be such hypocrites
2024/11/12 22:20:13
MyWar
Speak of the devil. Now Elmo gets to run some government “department” with the acronym DOGE. Nice.
2024/11/13 00:26:34
bigfoot
I recently heard Mr Musk state that cutting 2 trillion from the federal governments spending would be easy. After that, a lot harder. Let’s see if he can back that up, or as they say in Texas “all hat, no cattle.”
2024/11/13 11:58:52
Porktown
bigfoot
I recently heard Mr Musk state that cutting 2 trillion from the federal governments spending would be easy. After that, a lot harder. Let’s see if he can back that up, or as they say in Texas “all hat, no cattle.”

Take a look at spending breakdowns. Right now it is about $6.5T. The overwhelming majority is SS, Medicare, VA, deficit and Military. Better hope you don’t get what you’re asking for if Medicare, VA and SS are funds that you rely on.

No doubt there can be more efficient ways than how the government can be run, but cutting roughly 1/3 of spending “easily”, likely means programs you likely don’t want cut.

Or, like Trump did four years ago, who cares about our kids/grandkids. They won’t mind paying for you.
2024/11/14 06:14:07
Porktown
DeadGator401
Matt Gaetz going AG. Let's goooooooo
https://apnews.com/article/trump-attorney-general-matt-gaetz-justice-department-9d51501fb6ad5c04b5b4113d3a6a584b


 

Are him and Beavis a packaged deal?
2024/11/14 09:19:50
bigfoot
Porktown
bigfoot
I recently heard Mr Musk state that cutting 2 trillion from the federal governments spending would be easy. After that, a lot harder. Let’s see if he can back that up, or as they say in Texas “all hat, no cattle.”

Take a look at spending breakdowns. Right now it is about $6.5T. The overwhelming majority is SS, Medicare, VA, deficit and Military. Better hope you don’t get what you’re asking for if Medicare, VA and SS are funds that you rely on.

No doubt there can be more efficient ways than how the government can be run, but cutting roughly 1/3 of spending “easily”, likely means programs you likely don’t want cut.

Or, like Trump did four years ago, who cares about our kids/grandkids. They won’t mind paying for you.

How about starting by rooting out the reported half trillion of fraud every year and perhaps eliminating some departments. Let’s start with department of education. Over 2.8 billion spent there every year. How about cutting back on some foreign aid and funding some of the ridiculous studies on things such as foreign drag shows and transgender monkeys?
2024/11/14 12:21:58
psu_fish
I was told by a certain someone on here, that his Likely Voters pre-election poll numbers were still terrible with Latino's 
 
Why So Many Latino Voters Abandoned Democrats, According to the DataDigging deep into the data shows why so many Latino voters abandoned Democrats.
https://www.politico.com/...or-trump-data-00189482
2024/11/14 12:38:31
JerryS
I see where "The Onion" just bought "Infowars".  Went from a far-right website to satire, basically no change. 
 
Now that Alex Jones is unemployed, he would fit perfectly in Trump's cabinet.  They already have a Fox news host in charge of the $800B Pentagon, and a sex trafficker/drug dealer in charge of the DOJ.
2024/11/14 14:04:33
DeadGator401
bigfoot
Porktown
bigfoot
I recently heard Mr Musk state that cutting 2 trillion from the federal governments spending would be easy. After that, a lot harder. Let’s see if he can back that up, or as they say in Texas “all hat, no cattle.”

Take a look at spending breakdowns. Right now it is about $6.5T. The overwhelming majority is SS, Medicare, VA, deficit and Military. Better hope you don’t get what you’re asking for if Medicare, VA and SS are funds that you rely on.

No doubt there can be more efficient ways than how the government can be run, but cutting roughly 1/3 of spending “easily”, likely means programs you likely don’t want cut.

Or, like Trump did four years ago, who cares about our kids/grandkids. They won’t mind paying for you.

How about starting by rooting out the reported half trillion of fraud every year and perhaps eliminating some departments. Let’s start with department of education. Over 2.8 billion spent there every year. How about cutting back on some foreign aid and funding some of the ridiculous studies on things such as foreign drag shows and transgender monkeys?


Bigfoot my friend - I had to look this up because honestly, these numbers never apply to me and I wasn't sure but. There's a thousand billion in a trillion. 
So, if Porks numbers are right, 6.5 Trillion are spent. (according to google, 916 Billion spent on Military in 2023). 

So we have 6.5T = 6,500 billion. 

The Department of Education has 238 Billion in funds allocated to it for 2024, not 2.8 Billion. 
Most of their money spent is on Federal Aid and Loans for students. Feel free to check it out here: https://www.usaspending.gov/agency/department-of-education?fy=2024
That website is cool. 

Anyways, the Department of Education spends 1.8% estimate of the total money spent per year in the US.

1.8% for Loan programs and grants for the education of people. 

We want to get rid of that? Really? From mostly kids? Out of all the things listed here, which shows a great visual for the Govt Budget: https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function


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