Posted on 06/04/2025 6:45:00 AM PDT by Starman417
I was under the illusion that with Donald Trump back in charge and the wind at his back Washington Republicans might actually take off the gloves and say eff-it and take on the swamp. With the failures inherent in the Big Beautiful Bill, it appears I was wrong. I don’t blame Trump. This abysmal betrayal of the American people was written in the halls of Congress…
The Republicans in Congress talk a good game, but when it comes to actually doing what they say they’re going to do, it turns out they’re really snake oil salesmen. Not that this is new. Remember when they ran on killing Obamacare throughout Obama’s presidency then bungled it when Trump became president?
We’re now watching that same treachery play itself out in real-time, and it involves the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that just passed the House. This monstrosity ostensibly does a number of good things. It extends Trump’s 2017 taxes that were set to expire, it increases spending on border security and apparently, it cuts federal support for Planned Parenthood. All of these are good things… but they’re the equivalent of trying to save the Titanic by emptying water over the side one bucket at a time while a thousand gallons of water pour into the hull every second.
What this bill doesn’t do is cut spending or cut the deficit. Indeed, it puts the deficit on overdrive, just as interest rates on government debt seem to be heading upward. The president’s advisor Steven Miller (who is one of the smartest guys in Washington) pushes back, by pointing out that Reagan’s tax cuts weren’t balanced by spending cuts. True, but then Reagan didn't have, if I remember correctly, a national debt 125% the size of the GDP that needed to be serviced.
A small part of this problem has to do with the calendar. The writing of this budget began back in December after it became clear the GOP would have both houses but before they were technically in complete control. As such, this Frankenstein started being put together long before DOGE started showcasing exactly how dysfunctional the federal government is. But that’s no excuse. It’s been over 4 months since the Elon Musk managed vehicle started highlighting problems.
This One Big Beautiful Bill Act demonstrates exactly why the federal government is as screwed up as it is. They say that you can’t turn around a ship on a dime, and that’s true. But there’s a difference between turning on a dime and setting a course, full speed ahead, for the closest iceberg.
This bill literally adds $2.5 trillion to the government’s debt and runs a deficit larger than Biden’s last one! At the same time, it basically allows the government to go on, business as usual. There are no major cuts to spending. There is no elimination of departments. There is no substantial paring of regulation. There’s basically the same budget compiled by the Democrats, RINOs, and the administrative state every year with infinitesimal changes except for the taxes.
This bill doesn’t reflect the will of the people, it reflects the will of the establishment and the swamp.
If Congress really wanted to fix the budget they’d take to heart many of the recommendations and revelations from DOGE, as well as codify much of what Trump has done or tried to do via Executive Orders. Hell, it doesn’t even eliminate the Department of Education, something Trump explicitly ran on.
This bill cuts $4 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act, Joe Biden’s attempt to get everything, including the kitchen sink into the budget, including green energy, social spending and taxes on the rich. Four billion sounds like a lot until you understand that the IRA is a $1.4 trillion boondoggle.
The reality is, 2/3 of the federal budget, fully $4 trillion out of $6 trillion is wealth redistribution. Even if you argue that Social Security isn’t that, which is mostly true, and remove it, you’re still looking at almost half the federal budget being wealth distribution of one sort or another. How much of that is waste, fraud and abuse?
Elon Musk had initially suggested that he thought $2 Trillion could be cut from the budget. He lowered that target to $1 Trillion and in the first 4 months of the year DOGE has done a yeoman’s job and cut $170 billion of waste. And that’s with just 100 people on staff and facing a bureaucracy of literally millions who scheme and obfuscate at every turn in order to maintain the cash pipeline. Imagine how much a DOGE team of 1,000 could do!
But more than actual cuts, DOGE recommended things like personnel cuts, cutting green energy subsidies and of course cutting regulation. But relatively little is actually being codified in law. That’s despite the fact that 67% of Americans support DOGE cuts of at least $1 trillion, 77% support looking at the entirety of the budget to find savings and 78% support cutting spending to balance the budget. Indeed, so little is being cut that Elon Musk has announced that he will be stepping back to refocus his efforts on his companies and playing a much smaller role in political spending.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Not this shiite again.....
I hate to say it, but DOGE was just another flash in the pan. It’s dead and no lasting reform will come out of it. Has everybody noticed all the hysteria about DOGE and Musk quickly disappeared?
I was really hopeful that this time it would be different. But, no, we are still watching the same old slow motion 500 car pile up on the interstate.
As great as our governing documents are, our government still sucks.
Republicans are self interested to the point of excluding all else.
Democrats are self interested, but the hive mind causes them to fall in line and push an agenda.
The way things are reflects what has been done in the past, and how it has evolved.
When Lyndon Johnson created Medicare, he thought he was solving a problem for a small set of voters, who would be grateful and support the Democrats. He never thought it would grow to $1.5 trillion a year in spending, and be relied on by 60 million people - nearly all of whom vote in every election.
Now what?
Maybe all of this was planned a very long time ago.
Maybe Trump is a small piece of all of this, like Obama and those before him.
Maybe like George Carlin said, “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”
Maybe they care about your grandkid’s future as much as you do?
Maybe we’ll get this straight in 2032.
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The article is damning. But it can also be slanted to the point of being dishonest.
If I could ask one question it would be this: Does the bill really run a deficit larger than Biden’s last one?
If the answer is yes, then the author is on the right track. Doesn’t mean Trump is to blame. For sure it means the Republican Congress is to blame.
The fact Doge Cuts are not in the bill is a killer imo
The DemonRAT losers have chosen “Doctor Jill’s” racial slur, “Breakfast Tacos” to attack Trump. I guess this is the way they’ve chosen to attack all of the “Tacos” who voted for President Trump back in November. I don’t think calling Trump a “Taco” is going to offend him much. He’s proud of the number of votes he received from the Mexican Americans during the last election.
Truth be known..... I’m wholly not interested in Medicare and would like to keep my current insurance through the state which is over $800 a month. Alas.... I’m being forced onto this government program whether I like it or not. /:^(
“If the answer is yes, then the author is on the right track.”
The answer is NO.
“I’m being forced onto this government program whether I like it or not. /:^(”
We are on Medicare as primary but still have our state BC/BS as secondary.
Works great.
The DOGE cuts will be addressed after this BBB passes.
The problem is that our politicians are the swamp. Its always been the problem. They will not act against their own self interest.
Not to keep posting the same thing over and over, BUT: Washington Republicans ARE the swamp.
That’s not the purpose of the slur. It’s that Trump promised reduced spending, hired Musk to help, finds a boatload of corruption and wasteful spending, and follows up with nothing. Has Bondi put anyone in jail yet, even though we know corrupt people who should be in jail by now? Has Patel put anyone in cuffs yet who stuffed ballot boxes? Has Trump put any of the DOGE-defined dollars back into public coffers or used those funds to retire the debt? Have any of the bogus NGOs been prosecuted? Then after all that, he supports a pork-filled bill that has a few crumbs of what Trump wants.
Time to fight for a line item veto and a small kick in the ass.
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