Posted on 02/19/2025 1:04:54 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
their sights on slashing $2 trillion in the US federal budget. The number was amped up to $4 trillion after Musk and his team accessed the Treasury and saw how “wasteful” the government expenditure was. However, looking at the numbers, it might still not be enough to positively affect the US debt.
Let’s put aside the question of whether Musk’s efforts are legal. What about national debt? Even by tackling one problem at a time, the billionaire himself admits how there’s “terrifyingly” too much to do with so little time.
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America is a stage 6 cancer patient. Cheerleading and band aids won’t help. Gotta amputate and irradiate.
Also of concern is the efforts of traitorous leftwing judges who are issuing insane opinions trying to stop the identification and curtailing of fraud and waste. It’s as if they or their puppetmasters are trying to bankrupt the federal govrnment. Of course, that is what traitors would be expected to do.
Musk was right that it is now or never. The $36T debt amidst rising interest rates as the debt is refinanced means the debt is starting to snowball. Either we win this battle NOW or we will be seeing scenes reminiscent of the Weimar Republic in a few years as hyperinflation kick in.
Everyone being laid off gets, what, 8 months of pay anyway? That takes them right through the 2025 budget year.
For decades I was convinced the national debt would doom the country.
However that was based on the assumption that no Congress and no Administration had the courage to cut and slash spending.
That assumption proved to be incorrect.
The mindset change is the critical step.
Once slashing and cutting (eliminating waste, fraud, abuse and evil) becomes normalized the long term trend looks good.
The same exponential forces that worked against us can begin to work for us.
Absolutely. Isn’t that Cloward/Piven taken one step further?
“Let’s put aside the question of whether Musk’s efforts are legal.”
Wy wouldn’t they be? Or are there laws protecting waste and fraud?
“For decades I was convinced the national debt would doom the country.”
I remember late 80’s/early 90’s some political person came by my house to solicit my vote. He asked what my main concern was, and I said it was the national debt. He looked incredulous and scoffed that the national debt wasn’t a problem.
Look where we are now.
^ This
Your classic "Idiots Guide to How Empires Fail"/history repeats itself.
...even Stevie Wonder could see the corruption that's been neglected by decades of lethargy/inaction by the pee-pole.
Thinking one man can solve this "being devoured by parasites" problem is foolish thinking.
36 t $ in debt and it had doubled in the last 16 years. Drunk sailors at least csn’t spend what they don’t have but stupid politicians of all stripes have ignored and or put off any responsible remedy to spending more than they have. I’ve no taste for dc and would just as soon be shed of the whole caboodle, abolish the fed.
Sell dc.
There seem to be - as long as the waste and fraud are well-intentioned, Federal judges always rule that the spenders are on the side of the angels. :)
What's to put aside?
Musk works for the President of the Unted States in a special advisory role. Musk can do nothing without the President's consent.
It is unquestionably legal. The only one's questioning his legality are those who are politically opposed to President Trump, like Cryptopolitan.
By the way, I've noticed several articles by this rag recently. I never heard of them a month ago.
But they are decidedly pro-democrat/Left and anti-Trump/Conservative.
Maybe Elon should look at their funding.
He asked what my main concern was, and I said it was the national debt.
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Yup... Have had the same discussion and got the same blank stares. It’s amazing how something isn’t a problem until it is....
In Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, a character named Mike Campbell is asked how he went bankrupt. He offers the sobering and famous line, “Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
“ Everyone being laid off gets, what, 8 months of pay anyway? That takes them right through the 2025 budget year.”
But they will have to pay for their health benefits now with COBRA.
This reminds me of how Ross Perot warned us about having too much debt a third of a century ago.
Kind of like a doctor who tells you to stop smoking when you’re thirty and now you’re sixty three, with emphysema and dying of congestive heart failure.
Government needs to cut spending, that’s how you start.
As long as they don’t cut funding to the Doomsday Clock we should be fine.
*And* they will have to pay...
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