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Trump is no fiscal conservative. Let me be the first to predict: there will eventually be conflict between DOGE and Trump, and the time will come when Trump will side with the swamp, and attack Musk and Vivek, just like he has attacked Massie and Roy.
Vivek out, Musk out, DOGE ignored by Trump in his "Big, Beautiful Bill".
Prediction confirmed.
USAID was NOT "nonsense".
The RINOs in Congress are being RINOs, that restricts Trump, but he is going to pursue impoundment.
Musk left at the end of the period he could stay as a Special Government Employee, he's still working with DOGE and things are far from over.
I'm expecting the spending to increase over the next few months. Sometime around August the debt ceiling is going to be lifted and the debt will probably climb by close to a trillion by maybe October. I'm guessing things could start to get interesting.
Most of the spending is from the intra governmental debt that was borrowed from social security to pay for the Iraq War and the GWOT.
Whether it was wise or not thats not what I am saying. George W Bush at the time said the USA would benefit from doing it especially after 50 years.
It has been about 25 and atleast Trump has been able to secure trillions of dollars in trade deals.
The project for a new American century was highly published at the time.
Most of the spending that we are spending right now is spending that we spent already 20 years ago.Most of the spending is from debt? What does that even mean? I think you're cutting and pasting shit without a clue.
Wrong. The money we spent 20 years ago contributed to the debt. We pay interest on that debt. Out of the 7.5 trillion or so we spent last year about 1 trillion was to pay interest on that debt. The other 6.5 trillion was from current spending.Most of the spending that we are spending right now is spending that we spent already 20 years ago.
We spent that money 20 years ago and there is no time machine to go back and unspend it.
We borrowed money from Social security and Medicare trust funds and federal employee retirement to pay for it.
We didnt increase taxes like every other country would have to do to go to war.
We put those wars on credit card and then when that credit card was full we put that credit card on another credit card and another credit card.
Wrong. The money we spent 20 years ago contributed to the debt. We pay interest on that debt. Out of the 7.5 trillion or so we spent last year about 1 trillion was to pay interest on that debt. The other 6.5 trillion was from current spending.
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