Posted on 02/24/2025 8:14:44 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The federal government is clearly bloated.
Spending has grown 600% since 1990 from around $1 trillion to around $7 trillion while inflation has gone up around 140%.
Yet, the media and other Democrats are reacting to Trump's audits of agencies to find waste, fraud, and abuse as if they are illegal and a disaster.
They love auditing the people and businesses in the private sector, with their 87,000 new IRS agents, yet they are suing to stop the audits of government agencies.
There are 438 agencies in the federal government. Each one is its own bureaucracy.
I can't imagine how many agencies perform overlapping work.
For decades the federal budget appears to be on automatic pilot. They just increased last year's budget without justifying the spending this year.
The U.S has eighteen intelligence agencies none of which had any idea Israel was going to be attacked by HAMAS or that Syria was going to collapse.
They didn't seem to worry about terrorists at the border.
What were they working on? Preventing voters from learning about Hunter's laptop or trying to prevent Trump from becoming president again?
Not once in Biden's term did they try to figure out if money was properly spent.
Not once did we see how much money was spent on illegal immigrants or where the money came from. And not once did the media care but now they care about cutting spending and are colluding with Democrats to block the audits.
We kept hearing that the greatest existential threat was climate change or else Trump and his supporters.
But Democrats, including the media, were working very hard to destroy the oil, gas, and coal industry to pretend they could get to zero carbon.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Every time I buy wood from Home Depot, I see the stamp, “Product of Sweden.” Really grinds my ass knowing how many loggers and logging mills were just dismissed without a care by Washington. I want American wood from American trees cut by Americans. Screw Sweden.
People forget that Biden on the first day in office killed the Keystone Pipeline project. That instantly killed 11,000 union jobs directly employed by the project. That doesn’t include the thousands of indirectly-affected jobs. Where were the Democrats then?
The boo-hoo stories flying around isn’t about lost jobs. It’s about the Democrats losing power and the built-in voter base those jobs represent. It forces the Democrats to think about winning votes by doing what US citizens want, not the usually full-employment policies aimed to help Federal employees.
Because the media hates this country and want the democrats to take control eliminating the constitution. They hate anyone not connected to this effort.
Period
They do not donate to, and campaign for, Alt Left politicians and causes.
You can thank the Biden Green policies for that. The Greenies don’t care about jobs lost in the logging industry. Evidently, mud huts are the latest thing.
That's a lot of wood...and a lot of money and jobs for Canada.
Good article. Thanks for posting. Lays it all out there, for sure.
Also:
America’s 25 Dying Industries
America’s 25 Thriving Industries
I think it is worth noting that Musk cannot cut any funds (or positions) approved by Congress. Any of those cuts must be approved by the legislature, not the executive branch. This just goes to illustrate how massive the “deep state” is, with all of these jobs outside of congressional authorization. I use to work for a very large corporation, and staff just “grew” continually until it becames obvious we could no longer compete - so we were forced into cutbacks and layoffs to remain competitive. Our government has not faced this until now - years of surplus “overhead” are being cut - along with additions to original intent of Congressional legislation.
My first assignment at Ft. Meade, MD as an individual mobilization augmentee was to review three 3” ring binders containing communication, computers software initiatives/programs in the Army (1997). They gave me three days to review and prepare an assement.
Every branch was doing similar work, but none were inter operable!
Imagine this situation on a government-wide basis.
Bkmk
I’m lucky I guess. I have access to local mills in both ETX and NLA.
“”You can thank the Biden Green policies for that. The Greenies don’t care about jobs lost in the logging industry.””
They won’t allow logging or any forest management because they want to save the birds, bugs, mice and bushes. And because of that the forest burns down every year and everything is killed instead.
And they hate half the American people. Fire as many as possible.
What part of the country are you that Home Depot carries mostly European dimension?
Florida or SC ?
Meaning, if you went into a HD up here in NH the lumber mostly comes from Canada, ME and the NW US.
If you went to a HD in Boise the lumber is mostly from the USA and maybe Canada.
Same story in most places in the western half of the country.
Only Florida and the Carolinas have become a heavy Euro lumber market for white wood species.
I suspect all of the pressure treated lumber is ALL Southern Yellow Pine for the SE USA.
The Media is the Democrat Party voice.
How about this: Men in the oil and gas industries are often big tough manly men who get dirty at work and probably don’t smell all that great.
On the other hand, federal bureaucrats tend to be men who work at a desk (when they show up at the office). They don’t usually smell bad after a ‘hard’ day of work. They are likely ‘progressive’ in their politics. They are not at all unlike journalists.
As someone who has worked in and with the oil and gas industry for over 40 years, I can tell you that the industry has been a political whipping-boy for as long as I can remember.
My personal theory is that this is because it is probably the largest non-unionized industry in the US. There is a United Auto Workers, a United Steel Workers, but there has never been a United Oil Workers union. That is why the rust belt industries all got federal bail outs and subsidies. The anti-oil crowd claims that deduction of intangible drilling costs and percentage depletion are “subsidies” but are really just allowing us to deduct the cost of doing business, like any other industry.
Another reason for hatred of the oil and gas industry is that it has consistently produced independent-minded, entrepreneurial business people who have no use for government intervention. They just want to be left to do their business.
Unfortunately, politicians want to use oil and gas production as a political pawn (either for or against). In my opinion, if the market is allowed to function without government interference, there would be more than sufficient production at a price consumers are willing to pay.
“That’s a lot of wood...and a lot of money and jobs for Canada.”
Canada has a lot of forests with good wood.
Important to me is our balance of trade with other countries.
We need to be selling as much goods and services to Canada as they are selling to us.
There are 438 agencies in the federal government. Each one is its own bureaucracy.
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The U.S has eighteen intelligence agencies none of which had any idea Israel was going to be attacked by HAMAS or that Syria was going to collapse.
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