Piloerection.What are hackles, anyway?
Look it up. Makes an animal look bigger, as a visual warning to a threat.
Piloerection.What are hackles, anyway?
Co-sign. The gov lifers. Biden 50 years. Harris her entire working. On and on Don’t care. They play with Monopoly money. Never worry about payroll. Bottom lines. Etc. Just tax the people. Terrible stewards of our moneyThings like this are why I’m just not all that moved by charges that Pete Hegseth is unqualified to lead the DoD.
Look at what the people who are (supposedly) qualified to lead it have done. It’s (no pun intended) indefensible.
I went looking for an answer to my question.
~$900,000,000,000.00 in waste was identified last year.
PDF Download of Report
Now add in stuff like this:
Covid money boondoggle. And Medicare fraud. That pls interest on debt is basically that entire $900b
I mean paying $659B in interest sucks.... But it's not really optional.
One of the (smart) things he’s done is remove import tariffs.
Cutting 10% would be a miracle. We balanced the budget in the 90s by basically just not increasing the budget - much.Like I said, go in with the intent to burn it all down and let the pols bust their asses to save what's really important to them. We elect representatives for a reason. Make them earn their money. If the end result is even a 10-15% reduction, it's better than nothing.
You don't want to knowWhat are hackles, anyway?
This week's Economist:
Javier Milei: “My contempt for the state is infinite”
Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better
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