Posted on 11/27/2024 8:13:54 AM PST by CFW
Senator Joni Ernst put together a fairly spectacular thread detailing how she could eliminate more than TWO TRILLION of Washington waste in just 22 easy steps ... it's a start, right?
@SenJoniErnst
We can eliminate more than $2 trillion of waste in Washington in 22 easy steps.
Here is how @elonmusk, @VivekGRamaswamy, and @DOGE can begin to trim the fat and #makeemsqueal.
@SenJoniErnst
1. Ghost Workers 👻
We are spending $15.7 billion a year on underutilized buildings.
Many are vacant!
Bureaucrats refuse to show up to work, so why are we paying for empty buildings?
[snip]
@SenJoniErnst
4. Cancel the Crazy California Gravy Trains 🚂
Three trains in California are costing taxpayers $144 billion to build.
Let's put a stop to these train wrecks.
[snip]
22. Common Sense
For every $1 billion spent by Washington, $102 million is waste.
Implementing basic management principles would have saved taxpayers $688.5 billion last year.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitchy.com ...
It's a good start and could be easily done if not for the Democrats who shout "We can't cut any funding! We would all die!"
She suddenly learned how to speak? Amazing miracle. She stayed out of the election and MAGA. And now she is trying to jump into cab on the MAGA train?
She’s been in DC for 10 years and never helped us at all.
She needs to STFU and vote how MAGA and tells her for a while.
NUKE THE 80%+ UNCONSTITUTIONAL PORTION OF THE FEDS!!!!
BUMP! I’m sure others can think of more things to cut.
Sheeeeeyit! I'd put the ratio at least 50/50.
I remember her campaign promise, so I have watched her since then. She has of yet made no one squeal.
DC Waste:
The intentional looting of the treasury and extortion of media, celebrities and academia to propagandize and indoctrinate support for politicians and polices that enable the looting.
What is Washington DC? It’s one of the biggest tourist attractions in America and yet it’s treated like the NPR or PBS of America’s theme parks. The Swamp doesn’t need all those taxpayer dollars. It’s just another American theme park run by morons and corrupt politicians that is loaded with American freeloaders.
Congressional RINOcrats will sabotage such efforts to cut government waste.
I wish these pols would stop saying “eliminate waste” and “trim the fat.” That sort of talk leads to NOTHING.
In 1982 (FORTY TWO YEARS ago), President Reagan said “We’re here to cut back on waste and mismanagement; to eliminate unnecessary, restrictive regulations that make it harder for the American economy to compete and harder for American workers to find jobs; to drain the swamp of overtaxation, overregulation, and runaway inflation that has dangerously eroded our free way of life.”
Sound familiar? Yet the GD federal behemoth is vastly larger than what it was in 1982.
The only way to get the damned government under control is to put it back in its constitutional bounds. That means draconian SLASHING of the government and killing entire useless departments.
“Eliminating waste,” “stopping fraud,” and “trimming the fat” will never and can never achieve anything. The damn government is a weed, sucking all the nutrients out of the soil, killing surrounding good plants, and is resistant to most pesticides. We need industrial strength Glyphosate.
As a matter of fact, her campaign pledge to “make them squeal” amounts to about the same thing as investigations by Jim Jordan. Can someone help me out here; has any investigation by Jim Jordan ever amounted to more than a fart in a hurricane?
This is just her battling Tom Cotton for a Senate leadership position. Nothing more.
Even Elon has not suggested it will be easy. He also has not claimed you could cut all non-defense discretionary spending. That would still not be enough to save the US federal government $2 trillion annually.
She’s been underwhelming since she took office, but who knows—this could be her moment.
Cut all benefits to illegal aliens. Housing, food, education, medical care. ALL OF IT. They are here illegally. The taxpayers pay for this for Americans, not for illegal aliens.
On a side note, crack down hard on employers who employ illegal aliens. Threaten to send managers and owners to prison if they’re caught employing a lot of illegal aliens or if they’re caught doing so twice. Then offer illegal aliens free transport back to their home countries. No need to hunt them down. With the money spigot now cut off, they’ll volunteer to be sent back.
Well, I hope and pray that Cotton gets it!!!!!
Ernst appears to be a fan of being in the SPOTLIGHT.
I don’t appreciate that
I think that’s exactly what it is. She wants attention and to position herself.
I think you're being too kind, but it's a start. I honestly think it's closer to 75% waste. Probably even more, though.
Did her BFF Mitch McConnell give her permission to try and squeeze back into Trump’s favor? I see she’s also jumped back to her hog-castrating rhetoric. What a pathetic joke she is. One of the bigger disappointments.
Hey Joni! We’re gonna need a couple banjo players!
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