Coco Cincinnati
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Looking at the election results, it seems less than a million people actually voted to reduce the size of the federal government and cut spending. Guess what, if you picked an R or a D, you aren't among them.
2024 Presidential Election
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mugatu
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Yeah. They'd actually save a TON on the defense budget by increasing the government workforce. Lots of work is handed off to contractors who get paid a lot more to do what the government side isn't staffed for.
mugatu
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You know Elon is just going to cut his competition out of the government... even worse would be doing something like he did with Twitter and do across the board without any consideration into what people are doing/ office work/staffing load and end up killing function and hurting those (people and business) that depend on the gov actually functioning.
Unthinking mass layoffs is my concern. Like any large workforce, I'm sure there are people not doing much. And if this is really an efficiency review, fine. I can tell you my team works their tails off. And, we have had several retirements/changed jobs and there has been hiring freeze so we are already short. But, if it is just a couple of wealthy guys saying "Cut 50% now" and putting that on X for their own satisfaction they are going to cause serious problems.
Probably the plan- make us work short, then claim "See the VA is garbage."
mugatu
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I guess at least she doesn't EAT pets, she just shoots them.
mugatu
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ahhh... the old GOP preventing government from doing its job and then saying it needs to stay out of services because it sucks approach. Sounds about right.
mugatu
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Nepotism sucks.
We really are back to the 1890s gilded age approach to things aren't we. Is that now their concept for when America was great, I thought it was the 1950's but maybe it was late 1800s. Same roles for women and minorities, child labor, hate of unions.... yep all adds up.
Yep. Neither of the major parties, and candidates, paid much lip service to stopping or even slowing the national debt. And neither spoke about fixing the looming Social Security shortage.
PF5
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The big question Americans are Googling after electing Trump
One big question hangs over the heads of millions of American voters after the US election. And they’re taking to Google to ask it in huge numbers.
thenightly.com.au
The big question Americans are Googling after electing Trump
One big question hangs over the heads of millions of American voters after the US election. And they’re taking to Google to ask it in huge numbers.
Lotta voters once they start to pay attention after they voted:
PJ-OSU
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Schedule F of Project 2025. The discussion on this topic starts at roughly 12:50 into the video below. Putting unqualified people into positions of control is never a good idea.
I assumed those were for the census?
mugatu
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That would make sense.
The party of the working man has 2 billionaires running it. Makes total sense
PF5
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Trump's plan for Social Security would help baby boomers in the short term and cut benefits for anyone younger
Trump promised to cut Social Security taxes. Experts say the plan could slash benefits for low-income retirees and younger generations.
www.businessinsider.com
What are their salaries?
Just like a congressman getting wealthy off a $174k salary. What a naive question to think they are doing this for a salary. LOL. I'm pretty sure Musk will get the same non-salary he got from Tesla and will likely end up that much more wealthy getting paid "zero."
I just assumed they were doing it out of the goodness of their own hearts.
