Posted on 02/13/2025 4:35:29 AM PST by MtnClimber
It is astonishing what the media and other Democrats get outraged about and what they don’t.
In FY 2024, the U.S. had an almost $2 trillion deficit, almost 7% of the total GDP, in a supposedly good economy. Total debt is over $36 trillion, and our economy has a GDP of less than $30 trillion, which includes massive amounts of government spending. Total federal spending in FY 2019, before COVID was $4.4 trillion. Today it is around $7 trillion, up over 50% while inflation is up a little over 20%. So, government spending is up two- and one-half times inflation. Due to COVID and the intentional closing of a significant amount of the private economy, there was a lot of (manufactured) emergency spending in FY 2020. The problem is the Biden administration and Congress never rolled back emergency spending. They just kept increasing everything.
The massive $36 trillion debt falls on both parties, because politicians in both parties passed the spending, yet spent very little time reviewing how all the money is spent. The trajectory we are on is extremely dangerous for this and future generations.
I am 72 this year and for the first time in my lifetime we have a president who is going to go through the entire executive branch budget with a fine-toothed comb to see how the money is being spent. He is very transparent. I would think that the media would be happy with the transparency so they could see how the money is spent. Sadly, most of the media seem to prefer keeping the details secret from the public.
Most of the media, a few judges, and other Democrats, think the president has no say in how executive branch agencies spend the money once it is appropriated. That is nuts and why
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Why didn’t anyone go through the budget before this?
They didn’t have Trump and Elon’s BRAINS!
Democrats want an all-powerful government to realize their socialist dreams and punish their political opponents. As that goal slips farther and farther from their grasp, they’re bound to go more insane. As if they weren’t insane enough already.
Time to send in shrinks and counselors over to the “other side of the aisle” in Congress. Normal Americans need to find out if it’s safe to be in the same building as those far-left loons. Should the general public still be allowed in there? Is it safe. Those people have some major mental issues. They are no longer satisfied with murdering babies. They want to kill all of us now.
Because a lot of the "waste" isn't waste. It's graft to the Democrats and their donors.
Many Democrats are going to be wearing orange soon. Some RINOs too.
bkmk
That bald-headed, Trekkie chickenplucker, Airhead Pressley, now wants millions for ahos that never picked cotton if it was already in an aspirin bottle. That empty skull has got to go. She’s braindead, Jim.
DOGE will set back Cloward-Piven decades. It may even break the stranglehold. Trillions flushed down the toilet in order to break the back of capitalism. DOGE is sniffing it out. I hope eventually that enough people are so sick of their criminal elected officials that they drive them from the seats of power.
Way back in the 90s they tried to pass a bill to go through everything one bill at a time. It was shot down.
The bottom line is that our government has been taken over by domestic enemies of the USA who have been looting the people probably for decades, and all of this is going to be for naught unless those involved are sent to prison. I think it was Elon the other day who said they want to look at these individuals who became millionaires on average salaries, where are they getting this money?
“The massive $36 trillion debt falls on both parties”
Not really, it’s just one party that put this nation into the perilous condition it is in.
It’s called the UNIPARTY.
Why didn’t anyone go through the budget before this?
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Debt is one way to destroy a nation. It is bonus that they were able to transfer billions of dollars to left wing causes.
Their money pot is gone. George Soros will be spending Alex’s inherentance now. Alex doesn’t appear to be that bright to make any on his own.
We haven’t had a budget since the 90s. It’s been continuing resolutions where the the money is just poured into the government with no accountability. That’s why the IGs have been fired and there’s DOGE.
Bingo. Democrats buy votes with tax payer money while taking a skim for themselves. Watching them squeal as the gravy train goes off the tracks is amusing. I hope the DOJ opens a widespread investigation into government corruption.
in the movie Dave, they did... it was a mess then too.
She is not a Democrat. She Is a WIG!
“They didn’t have Trump and Elon’s BRAINS!”
What are the odds that the world’s smartest and richest man would connect with the world’s most powerful man?
What are the odds that an assassin’s bullet would only graze POTUS’ head?
So many other “coincidences”.
Democrats have to at least consider the possibility that God is in this. That’s assuming that they believe in God, which they probably don’t.
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