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Government waste and what should be cut, explained.

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by jjgator55, Feb 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM.

  1. jjgator55

    jjgator55 VIP Member

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    Government isn’t a business, it’s a service organization that is tasked to serve its citizens, but only benefits the rich.
     
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  2. Gatorrick22

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    Elon Musk found the backdoor to term limits for all these lifelong people in the U.S. Congress... He did it by bull-DOGE-ing USAID.

    Now all those elected people in the U.S. Congress will have to live with their $170K salary.


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  3. Gatorrick22

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  4. Gatorrick22

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    BullDOGEing... the waste in government.
     
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  5. ThePlayer

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    Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:
    • $38 million to Wuhan Lab
    • $20 million to recreate Sesame Street in Iraq
    • $15 million to Taliban for 'contraceptives'
    • $9 million for Syria actually went to Al Qaeda
    • $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
    • $2 million on pottery classes in Morocco
    • $2 million promoting tourism in Lebanon
    • $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
    • $500,000 on promoting atheism in Nepal
    • $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
    • $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
    • $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
    • $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
    • $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
    • Ukraine Aid wasted on trips for models to Paris/London fashion week
    • Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
    • Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
    • “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
    • Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
    • Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban
    The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for decades.
     
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  6. gator_jo

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    Hey Rick, it's a DOGE-pile!!! Do that one next, buddy!
     
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  7. jjgator55

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    Twitter post, not a real organization. Only a MAGA is that intellectually lazy to believe that is legitimate.
     
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  8. jjgator55

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    I always pick up the DOGE pile my dog leaves when I walk her.
     
  9. Orange_and_Bluke

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    I bet this is yours…
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  10. ThePlayer

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    You're right about one thing. The contraceptives to the Taliban were actually $45 million rather than $15 million.
     
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  11. gator_jo

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    It wasn't $50 mill in condoms to Gaza any more? Or it was both?

    Or you don't even know because you never actually read or learn anything about these things, and instead just toss around fake headlines from right-wing fake media?
     
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  12. jjgator55

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    Oh it’s true because Trump said it was true. Seriously guys like that are still sending money to that Nigerian Prince.
     
  13. jjgator55

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    Nope. That’s a MAGA dog.
     
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  14. gator_jo

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    They're allowed to believe lies, and to tell lies now.

    Because their criminal won.
     
  15. jjgator55

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    It’s call willful ignorance.
     
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  16. thomadm

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    Peanuts. At this rate, he might cut a trillion in 200 years. Want to get serious, cut Military, SS and Medicare. Everyone needs to feel pain, ie lose some weight, to get the debt down.
     
  17. SotaGator

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    Sure bets:
    -Military and ICE budgets will increase by at least 15%.
    - Tax cuts will be extended at least 5 yrs.
    - Huge money outlays created for new categories of crypto and sovereign wealth fund.
    -Major cuts to all domestic programs.

    Wall Street, corporations and wealthy folks will do just fine, assuming a recession is magically avoided.
    Many states, local communities and the rest of us - not so much.
     
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  18. vaxcardinal

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    Well they’re going after Medicare and Medicaid next. Lots of waste there
     
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  19. slocala

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    DOGE should focus on the fraud from hospitals, PBMs, PE MSO’s and bad actor doctors, but we all know they are going to focus on payments for certain medical care deemed “woke”.
     
  20. g8trjax

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    Yeah, I'd say give 'em a chance...it's only been a couple of weeks. :emoji_grinning: