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Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by TheGator, Feb 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM.

  1. G8trGr8t

    G8trGr8t Premium Member

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    this is where they need to start and live.

    set up an office in downtown Miami to cut travel costs

    problem is good people with real world life and death issues will be impacted by the everything looks like a nail approach by this bunch just like people wills tart starving to death and violence will occur, people will die, trusts will be broken by their broad approach to fraud at USAID. the frontline impacts of that decision are devastating, and I really hope the news does a good job of documenting the chitstorm as it occurs. i fear they are going to continue to downplay to the impact of what is occurring while we watch rome burn at the hands of a ketamine addicted unelected official.

    the kind of pain and suffering that is going to be propagated by these decisions void of any sort of empathy and enacted on a purely transactional basis are going to foster violence at some point on local and national scale. It almost feels encouraged to warrant a harsh response accompanied by more usurpation of authority under the guise of national emergency..
     
  2. gator_jo

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    What an abject clown.

    The world's richest man asked his army of X followers in an informal poll whether they would like to see the IRS audited by DOGE, which received a staggering 94.3 percent support.
     
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  3. slocala

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    I agree. There will be some bad results on citizens in the near term. Americans will learn a lot about Medicare fraud and how hospitals, PBMs, billing companies, PE owned MSOs, etc have fleeced our tax dollars.
     
  4. slocala

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    The IRS is one agency that probably brings in more than their cost by cracking down on tax fraud and dubious tax shelters. They can definitely be more efficient. They systems are terribly antiquated. Would be interesting to see if the “external revenue service” gets spun out of the IRS as a separate department.
     
  5. 92gator

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    Means 1 billion down, 1,999 billion to go.

    :cool:
     
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  6. 92gator

    92gator GC Hall of Fame

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  7. snatchmagnet

    snatchmagnet Bring On The Bacon Premium Member

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    Crybaby rating would be fantastic. Only allowed to give out 2-3 per month. Would have to use them wisely.
     
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  8. snatchmagnet

    snatchmagnet Bring On The Bacon Premium Member

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    Or maybe the 5.7 percent feel the same way you do
     
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  9. Tjgators

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    I've shared before the Democrats love to blame conservatives for doing something they are already doing. In this case, it's 24/7 and squared to the power of 3.
     
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  10. ThePlayer

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    These aren't cows...only cash cows for leftist policies.

    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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  11. jjgator55

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  12. 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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  13. ridgetop

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    Yes
    I saw that list. And it is embarrassing that our tax dollars go to such drivel
    However, that is a minuscule amount of the entire budget. Cut the waste, fire those who initiate such stupid give aways, and clean up USAID.. but dismantling the whole thing… seems to have a high cost than we save.
     
  14. Gatorrick22

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    Bull-DOGE-ing waste is... awesome.

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  15. gator_jo

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    Imagine seeing this list of lies and believing it.
     
  16. slocala

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    Can Elon figure out how to get rid of TSA for us common folk who fly domestic?
     
  17. ThePlayer

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    Even to begin cutting the waste you have to cut the people who think American taxpayers should have to pay for it.
     
  18. ThePlayer

    ThePlayer VIP Member

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    It's too much for even YOU to believe, huh?
    And how much more of this money actually wound up in nefarious hands besides the money sent to Syria?
     
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  19. citygator

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    I have to admit this is getting really meaningful according to my inside sources on Too Hot. I look forward to the budget Trump passes that is a spending cut and the corresponding tax cut I will get from it.

    [​IMG]sh
     
  20. HeyItsMe

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    Source of all these savings besides the world’s richest person saying trust me bro? Why you people still believe anything that comes out of these billionaires’ mouths thinking they actually care about you or the working class is hilarious. If Elon wants to put it in a spreadsheet for us to actually look at with the receipts of the savings to compare side-by-side, maybe I’d start to believe him, but until then, it’s just a corrupt dufus being taken at his word.