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Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by tomrod »

realdjtthrow wrote: post #224
3vidence wrote: post #216

Honest question for Americans. What do you think the federal government is doing to make you "poorer" that deserves dismantling the government. US income tax is generally lower than other advanced economies. Housing and medical insurance is mainly a state issue.

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Fox has testified in court that they are entertainment, not news. Consider more factual sources.

Yes, deficit spending has been high due to Covid and recovery. Of course it was started by Trump"s tax cuts.

Perhaps we consider taxing wealthier people.

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Post by agildehaus »

ctrlp wrote: post #108
agildehaus wrote: post #73

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Something like USAID is established by statute (The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961). It cannot be eliminated or gutted by executive order. Sidestepping this, which is happening left and right currently, is democracy failing.

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After the Act. Read the very first line of JFK's order that created it.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-10...

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Post by antigeox »

[deleted] wrote: post #246
Animats wrote: post #118

What we're seeing happen in the downsizing area is mostly from the Project 2025 policy manual.[1] The just-confirmed head of the Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, was one of the major authors of Project 2025. It's worth reading that, at least the key sections. Trump has insisted that Project 2025 is not his policy, but what's happening is close to the manual. The Project 2025 people couldn't agree on t…

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Re: Elon Musk's Demolition Crew

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Post by realdjtthrow »

3vidence wrote: post #247
realdjtthrow wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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High levels of government debt aren't exactly unique to America, however, America has the unique ability to issue it's own reserve currency that other countries will absolutely buy. Also isn't by far the number one government spending item the military? Why aren't they starting there?

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #130

Elez, the guy who pushed the changes the devs were not allowed to review to the production payment system, is the guy that has just resigned because of hyper racist comments he made in the past that have come to light. If in doubt, I recommend checking them out because they're incredibly awful, to the extent that it makes you wonder if the payment system he pushed to had ethnic information attached to it.

> that has just resigned because of hyper racist comments he made in the past that have come to light.

Just to add clarity, "the past" in this case wasn't even that long ago, as these racist tweets that were uncovered were from June to December of 2024.

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Post by realdjtthrow »

tomrod wrote: post #251
realdjtthrow wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Fox has testified in court that they are entertainment, not news. Consider more factual sources. Yes, deficit spending has been high due to Covid and recovery. Of course it was started by Trump"s tax cuts. Perhaps we consider taxing wealthier people.

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Post by 3vidence »

realdjtthrow wrote: post #254
3vidence wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

High levels of government debt aren't exactly unique to America, however, America has the unique ability to issue it's own reserve currency that other countries will absolutely buy. Also isn't by far the number one government spending item the military? Why aren't they starting there?

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Does that really align with occupying Gaza, invading Panama and occupying Greenland?

Let alone the loose threats to Canada.

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Post by ty6853 »

tomrod wrote: post #14
adamtaylor_13 wrote: post #7

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Some of us don’t agree with the rampant waste in our government. Some of us also don’t have faith that the system can fix itself without drastic measures like this. I’ll admit I’m wrong if and when it turns out that I am. Until then, I’m cheering it on.

Rather than tearing the system down, let's identify the areas of rampant waste to a degree more lucid than what a news channel or podcast claims. Most areas people claims for alleged waste are legally required/statutory or spindoctored (especially grant topics). Social security isn't waste, but it is on the chopping block. It blows my mind that people are so hungry to hurt so many others and themselves in the process…

We've had since FDR to try and curb the post WW2 federal hyper expansion. Regulations keep growing, our prison population reaches one of the highest rates in world, and we get vanishingly little infrastructure or other benefits for the taxes the common man pays.

Patience has expired.

There was lots of time to use the scalpel. The doctor never showed up, so the pre med dropout showed up with a sledgehammer, dumb and self serving as he may be. Trump is the symptom of the disease not the main cause.

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