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Musk: Feds Have “Magic Money Computers” That Issue Payments “Out Of Thin Air”
Modernity ^ | March 18, 2025 | Staff

Posted on 03/18/2025 7:28:09 AM PDT by Red Badger

Elon Musk says that DOGE has discovered the US government has “magic money computers” that make payments “out of thin air.”

Sitting down with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for his podcast that was recorded at the White House, Cruz said: “One of the things you told me about is what you called, ‘Magic Money Computers.’ So tell us about it, ’cause I never heard of that ’til you brought it up.”

Musk: “Okay, so, you may think like the government computers all talk to each other, they synchronize, they add up what funds are going somewhere. And, that they’re coherent … And that the numbers that you’re presented as a Senator are actually the real numbers.”

Cruz: “One would think!”

Musk: “One would think – they’re not … I mean they’re not totally wrong, but they’re probably off by five percent or 10 percent in some cases. So, I call it ‘Magic Money Computer’: any computer that can make money out of thin air. That’s magic money.“

Cruz: “So how does that work?” Cruz asked.

Musk: “It just issues payments.“

Cruz: “And you said there’s something like 11 of these computers at Treasury that are sending out trillions in payments?”

Musk replied that they’re mostly at the Department of Treasury, and others are at the Department of Health and Human Services as well as the Department of Defense.

Musk: “We’ve found now 14 ‘Magic Money Computers. They just send money out of nothing.“

Watch:

MULTIPLE VIDEOS AT LINK...............

The full interview is here:

DOGE’s $1 Trillion Target

Musk also told Cruz that DOGE will save taxpayers $1 trillion by the end of fiscal year 2026…

“If you look at DOGE now, you look at the government and what you’re finding, what percentage have you guys even gotten to and how much of it is ‘mars’ where you haven’t even gotten there yet because there’s so much you’re finding out here,” asked co-host Ben Ferguson. “You seem like a timeline guy – when you say ‘I want to get in there and get numbers and things’ – how far are we from the endgame, where you’ve seen it all – you know, to process it all, and fix it. Are we years away? Months away?“

Musk: “Not years. I’m reasonably confident that we’ll be able to get a trillion dollars of waste and fraud out, meaning that it will have, we’ll have a net savings of FY26 of a trillion dollars, provided we’re allowed to continue and our progress is not impeded.”

Watch:

Of course, then there’s the big leagues…


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1 posted on 03/18/2025 7:28:09 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

Should be easy enough for DOGE to track where the payments went.....no wonder the democrats are screaming bloody murder.


2 posted on 03/18/2025 7:30:50 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: Red Badger

More than one... several agencies have these magic money machines.

Anyone telling you ‘public servants’ are wonderful people knows they’re lying about ‘the people at the top’... and often the people in the middle and bottom.


3 posted on 03/18/2025 7:31:15 AM PDT by GOPJ
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To: Red Badger

I saw this interview on youtube. Ted Cruz and someone else interviewing Elon.

I am so glad Trump and Elon are cleaning the Federal mess up.


4 posted on 03/18/2025 7:32:08 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: V_TWIN

I want one!...................


5 posted on 03/18/2025 7:33:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I’m trying to tie what Mr. Musk is doing back to what I learned in Political Science classes in the 70’s.

How is this Fascism? It appears to be the opposite.


6 posted on 03/18/2025 7:35:35 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: DannyTN

We all are.


7 posted on 03/18/2025 7:37:07 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Red Badger

I see headlines and bombshells, and no real accounting. Let’s get this stuff all in a GL format like year end closing. other wise it’s just nothing.


8 posted on 03/18/2025 7:39:02 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: V_TWIN

democrats are screaming bloody murder

“But children are going to starve, education, climate change, measles!”


9 posted on 03/18/2025 7:39:02 AM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: gitmo

It is..............


10 posted on 03/18/2025 7:39:45 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

Piece of paper reads...

This is a million dollar bill.

Signed,

Epstein’s Mom


11 posted on 03/18/2025 7:40:09 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: HombreSecreto

It’s been going on since the creation of the Federal Reserve
was created.Just like Baron Rothchild did,creating his wealth by creating others’ debt.


12 posted on 03/18/2025 7:45:20 AM PDT by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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To: Red Badger

Fiat money always leads to ruin. Always.


13 posted on 03/18/2025 7:54:14 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Red Badger

Does he need my email address? I only need about $1.5M to get my start-up business going...


14 posted on 03/18/2025 8:05:52 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: gitmo

All of the leftists screaming fascists are the real fascists. They are the ones who want to punish free speech, punish free will, and have the government tell you what to do.


15 posted on 03/18/2025 8:29:15 AM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: Red Badger

With the unfortunate federal accounting rule approved under Trump I, essentially fake books can be reported as well—allowing in combination for the ultimate and perfect crime.

(And yes, that rule needs to be reversed.)


16 posted on 03/18/2025 8:30:36 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Red Badger

Get someone to trip over the plugs


17 posted on 03/18/2025 8:32:58 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Red Badger
After all these "magic" payments and other spending is finally audited and reconciled, I fear that we're going to soon find out that our real national debt is actually something like $50Trillion.

There's no way our accounting can be accurate considering what we've learned in the last couple months.

18 posted on 03/18/2025 8:35:20 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: Repealthe17thAmendment

I had a buddy named Tim about 12 years ago. Tim passed away, but way back in 2013, I was worried about a systemic American collapse.

Tim advised me not to worry. “They still have to loot the Treasury and steal everything from us. Relax. They have a long way before they’ll collapse things.”

Well, Tim, old buddy, you were dead-on accurate. Hope you are smiling that mischievous smile you used to sport, when you knew you were right about something.


19 posted on 03/18/2025 8:40:08 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I'm so on fire that I feel the need to stop, drop, and roll!)
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To: Red Badger
Republicans have been accusing Democrats of wasteful spending and fiscal irresponsibility since forever.
But this time it's different.

Turns out they were literally just stealing.

20 posted on 03/18/2025 8:42:29 AM PDT by Salman (Lasu Eŭropon bruli!)
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