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Anyone ever heard of the firm Spire law?
Thank god we have memes, or maybe not
Anyone here 40s never married, no kids?
Any Chicago folks in here..?
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They're not trying to cut governed fraud or waste. As others mentioned, you'd go after the low hanging fruit: defense (which they increased budget for) and contract management.
Social security is like the one agency where there's no waste. SS is in a separate bucket for inflows and outflows. The administrative exps are capped by law at like less than 1%. He's just fueling the partinsanship talking points for dumb Americans while enriching himself with our data and dismantling regulators and enforcers.
It’s fascinating—and honestly a bit ironic—to hear some people argue against dividend distributions like DOGE going primarily to higher earners. Taxpayers earning below $40,000 typically receive more in credits than they pay in taxes, meaning they’re already effectively subsidized by the system. Meanwhile, the top 1% shoulder roughly 40% of the entire tax burden, paying an average of over $600k each annually. Yet somehow, we still hear claims that the wealthy don’t pay their ‘fair share.’ If dividends like these are meant to reward those actually funding the system, eligibility rules based on contribution seem pretty reasonable.
DOGE savings were initially targeted at $2 trillion but verified savings so far are around $2 billion.
Sorry, Elon has always been a fraud.
"By burning your house" is crazy lmao
Wheres the truth here?
While democrats out here letting all the bad guys in, and ramping up crime like never seen before. Now that's burning our own house meann
If Santa Claus was real.
Who qualifies for a gift?
Same damn chance.
DOGE purposes are to steal our data, stop any investigations on Elon, corrupt government agencies, undermine democracy, and to enrich Elon further.
That's their entire mission statement. Stop the delusions.
People upset that the bloated government is being trimmed are so funny. “It’s only $2 billion,” which I haven’t looked into being true or false, as if that’s still not a good thing..
Also— did he cut every essential service, or is it just $2 billion? Somehow people think both are true.
It’s just pure partisanship. Reminds me of McKinsey being the Illuminati and useless at the same time.
How is it difficult to understand? Other government spending went up or revenues went down.
My wife and I paid over $300k in state and federal taxes last year. While I’d love to get some of that money back into my own bank, if we don’t start paying down debt I’ll either be taxed more in the future or my children will be speaking Mandarin.
Those taxes went to illegal immigrants and the Ukraine money laundering operation.
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Totally fair. Why would you get taxes back if you didn't pay any 😂
We only get what we work for, besides those who have real legitimate disabilities which would make this less possible. If we have 10 Americans who don’t want to grind it out since they don’t have the drive for of an immigrant from India for example then they aren’t worth the investment. Thats why I agree with Vivek on this post:
“The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over “native” Americans isn’t because of an innate American IQ deficit (a lazy & wrong explanation). A key part of it comes down to the c-word: culture. Tough questions demand tough answers & if we’re really serious about fixing the problem, we have to confront the TRUTH:
Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long (at least since the 90s and likely longer). That doesn’t start in college, it starts YOUNG.
A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.
A culture that venerates Cory from “Boy Meets World,” or Zach & Slater over Screech in “Saved by the Bell,” or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in “Family Matters,” will not produce the best engineers.
(Fact: I know *multiple* sets of immigrant parents in the 90s who actively limited how much their kids could watch those TV shows precisely because they promoted mediocrity…and their kids went on to become wildly successful STEM graduates).
More movies like Whiplash, fewer reruns of “Friends.” More math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less “chillin.” More extracurriculars, less “hanging out at the mall.”
Most normal American parents look skeptically at “those kinds of parents.” More normal American kids view such “those kinds of kids” with scorn. If you grow up aspiring to normalcy, normalcy is what you will achieve.
Now close your eyes & visualize which families you knew in the 90s (or even now) who raise their kids according to one model versus the other. Be brutally honest.
“Normalcy” doesn’t cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent. And if we pretend like it does, we’ll have our asses handed to us by China.
This can be our Sputnik moment. We’ve awaken from slumber before & we can do it again. Trump’s election hopefully marks the beginning of a new golden era in America, but only if our culture fully wakes up. A culture that once again prioritizes achievement over normalcy; excellence over mediocrity; nerdiness over conformity; hard work over laziness.
That’s the work we have cut out for us, rather than wallowing in victimhood & just wishing (or legislating) alternative hiring practices into existence. I’m confident we can do it. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸”
So those doge dividend checks just went from $5000 to $5 based on the forecast savings vs actual savings.
I’d rather they keep the lousy $5k and actually keep the government programs I already paid for with my tax dollars.
Honestly, I would be shocked if anyone actually got one of these checks.