• BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    Clawing BACK money that’s ALREADY been Approved for LOCAL BUSINESSES is Exactly the type of Big Brain Business we NEED to FIX OUR STRUGGLING ECONOMY (that wasn’t Struggling until Trump became President!)!

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    I hate this headline. On first glance it sounds like they are asking Congress to claw back the money that Doge already cut and put it back into the places it was cut from.

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    The request to Congress is unlikely to meaningfully change the troublesome increase in the U.S. national debt. Tax revenues have been insufficient to cover the growing costs of Social Security, Medicare and other programs. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the government is on track to spend roughly $7 trillion this year, with the rescission request equaling just 0.1% of that total.

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    Elon wants more money to spend on his shitty companies, congress wants more money to spend on their donors, and Trump wants more money to put towards DHS brownshirts. It’s like circling dogs fighting for which is going to eat the poor first.

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      Elon wants more money to spend on his shitty companies

      Well more than that, musk wants the nail in the coffin for all the government agencies that want to tell him things like, you can’t work people to death, you can’t tell people cars are self driving when they crash into stuff on their own, you can’t commit massive frauds, you can’t spew poison gas all over Memphis, etc…

      Musk benefit’s massively from a huge chunk of what he ordered DOGE to do, even if we only count the destruction of the departments he shut down, and don’t factor in the possibility that the money may be re-alocated towards his own companies.