"This is Trump's America now."

[stollcpa]

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Wasteful spending on “Orwellian cat experiments” and more highlighted in annual Festivus report

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Senator Rand Paul has released his annual “airing of grievances” about wasteful government spending in his 2024 Festivus report. In his report, named after the holiday made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld, Senator Paul highlights what he describes as over $1 trillion in...

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[BradStevens]

Wasteful spending on “Orwellian cat experiments” and more highlighted in annual Festivus report

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Senator Rand Paul has released his annual “airing of grievances” about wasteful government spending in his 2024 Festivus report. In his report, named after the holiday made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld, Senator Paul highlights what he describes as over $1 trillion in...

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Sickening.

 

[stollcpa]

Sickening.

Yep, we have no idea how much we don’t about.

 

[IUCrazy2]

Wasteful spending on “Orwellian cat experiments” and more highlighted in annual Festivus report

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Senator Rand Paul has released his annual “airing of grievances” about wasteful government spending in his 2024 Festivus report. In his report, named after the holiday made popular by the sitcom Seinfeld, Senator Paul highlights what he describes as over $1 trillion in...

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The wasteful spending was actually $108 billion. $892 billion of it, per the article, was interest on the debt. I agree with cutting out the stupid spending but when the cutters disingenuously sell this type of stuff as what drives the $2 trillion in deficit spending, it is hard to take them seriously. We HAVE to pay the interest. The reason we have that interest is mostly due to entitlements, not weird experiments on cats. So go ahead and cut the $100 billion in odd spending, we got $1.9T to go.

 

[NPT]

Only thing to add--they pass you on the right shoulder.

If you don't like the way I drive get off of the sidewalk. 🤣 🤣

 

[stollcpa]

The wasteful spending was actually $108 billion. $892 billion of it, per the article, was interest on the debt. I agree with cutting out the stupid spending but when the cutters disingenuously sell this type of stuff as what drives the $2 trillion in deficit spending, it is hard to take them seriously. We HAVE to pay the interest. The reason we have that interest is mostly due to entitlements, not weird experiments on cats. So go ahead and cut the $100 billion in odd spending, we got $1.9T to go.

Someone questioned marbles in cats asses. I posted article about it.

The low hanging fruit seems like an easy place to start. We haven’t even been willing to get rid of this stuff. How do we expect to ever get to the big stuff?

 

[The Original Happy Goat]

Someone questioned marbles in cats asses. I posted article about it.

The low hanging fruit seems like an easy place to start. We haven’t even been willing to get rid of this stuff. How do we expect to ever get to the big stuff?

Not to speak for others, but the dumb part of your post wasn't drawing attention to animal cruelty. The dumb part was blaming it on Democrats. I'm sure it's a bunch of pansy liberals in the DOD that approved that study, right?

 

[stollcpa]

Not to speak for others, but the dumb part of your post wasn't drawing attention to animal cruelty. The dumb part was blaming it on Democrats. I'm sure it's a bunch of pansy liberals in the DOD that approved that study, right?

Democrats seem to be the party resisting cutting out dumb shit like this. I know, I know, they want to cut it the right way.

 

[The Original Happy Goat]

Democrats seem to be the party resisting cutting out dumb shit like this. I know, I know, they want to cut it the right way.

Well, the first study published from those experiments was in 2021. Based on the normal time lag between proposal to approval to experiment to article (2-3 years), this whole cat marble ass thing was probably approved while Trump was in charge.

So, yeah. But please, keep blaming Democrats for everything. It looks good on you.

 

[LoneStarHoosier56]

Man accused of attacking TV reporter, saying ‘This is Trump’s America now’


This will be an ongoing thread for the next 4 years, kind of like the Biden's America thread. Please feel free to submit items.

America does not belong to tRump. He is only destroying America with each and every decision.

 

[stollcpa]

Well, the first study published from those experiments was in 2021. Based on the normal time lag between proposal to approval to experiment to article (2-3 years), this whole cat marble ass thing was probably approved while Trump was in charge.

So, yeah. But please, keep blaming Democrats for everything. It looks good on you.

Hell Milley communicated with China behind Trump’s back. You really think Trump was aware of marbles up cat asses?

 

[The Original Happy Goat]

Hell Milley communicated with China behind Trump’s back. You really think Trump was aware of marbles up cat asses?

No, but you had no problem blaming Democrats to begin with.

 

[stollcpa]

No, but you had no problem blaming Democrats to begin with.

I still blame them now.

 

[UncleMark]

I still blame them now.

Landgrebe

 

[BradStevens]

I still blame them now.

You don't have to place blame on anyone, though, to read about some of these expenditures and think "hey, maybe we as a nation shouldn't spend money on that."

By playing the blame game, though, you ensure people spend much more time defending their tribe or attacking the other one rather than addressing the actual issue.

 

[stollcpa]

You don't have to place blame on anyone, though, to read about some of these expenditures and think "hey, maybe we as a nation shouldn't spend money on that."

By playing the blame game, though, you ensure people spend much more time defending their tribe or attacking the other one rather than addressing the actual issue.

I’ll quit blaming them when they come out and support getting rid of this crap.

 

[Baller23Boogie]

I’ll quit blaming them when they come out and support getting rid of this crap.

Can you point to a single post where anyone on this board has said they are against getting rid of waste?

 

[outside shooter]

You don't have to place blame on anyone, though, to read about some of these expenditures and think "hey, maybe we as a nation shouldn't spend money on that."

By playing the blame game, though, you ensure people spend much more time defending their tribe or attacking the other one rather than addressing the actual issue.

Speaking of which, the actual issue has little to do with wasteful expenditures, which are dwarfed by interest on the debt and by committed entitlements.

It's like you are advising a person facing bankruptcy due to huge health care costs, and instead of trying to figure out a way to cut those costs, you put all your energy into coaxing him to stop buying a pack of gum at the grocery store every other week.

Stop wasteful spending, yes, but stop pretending it is the be-all-and-end-all. It's not even a baby step to debt reduction. Which I see no evidence that Trump wants to do, anyway. He wants to send you a big beautiful check with his name on it, and checks 100x bigger to rich folks.

 

[The Original Happy Goat]

You don't have to place blame on anyone, though, to read about some of these expenditures and think "hey, maybe we as a nation shouldn't spend money on that."

By playing the blame game, though, you ensure people spend much more time defending their tribe or attacking the other one rather than addressing the actual issue.

I believe we are at a point where the blame game is the issue. It's not simply that people like stoll are too quick to blame the other side. That has always happened. Rather, what stoll is doing in his mind is transforming the Democrats from the opposition into a bogeyman that is, by default, responsible for everything evil in the world. Anytime anything goes wrong, the Democrats did it.

This is the kind of thinking that leads to violent oppression in most countries.

 

[hookyIU1990]

Speaking of which, the actual issue has little to do with wasteful expenditures, which are dwarfed by interest on the debt and by committed entitlements.

How do you think the debt, on which we're paying so much interest, came to be? It certainly wasn't from prudent spending.

 

[outside shooter]

How do you think the debt, on which we're paying so much interest, came to be?

Spending too much money on national park fire fighters?
Spending too much money on cancer research?
Spending too much money on giving veterans basic health care?

Those are the types of "savings" we are going after, which is like eliminating the extra pack of gum in my earlier analogy.

Not everything the governments spends money is a waste. Even the POS POTUS is waking up to that, calling for a scalpel rather than a hatchet. Don't think for a moment that the POS POTUS didn't give Musk a talking to over the chainsaw stunt, which was a much a bad visual/ fiasco as numbnuts Michael Dukakis riding around in a tank wearing a goofy helmet, back in the day.

 

[twenty02]

How do you think the debt, on which we're paying so much interest, came to be? It certainly wasn't from prudent spending.

Fighting two wars for 10-20 years (legacy costs) and not enough workers for each retiree.

 

[hookyIU1990]

Fighting two wars for 10-20 years (legacy costs) and not enough workers for each retiree.

Bingo!