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Trump team shows American Dream reminder as DOGE cuts more waste in latest move (www.foxnews.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by WilliamFBuckley@lemy.lol to c/Conservatives@hilariouschaos.com

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

$15m? Wow... We're well on our way to reducing the $1.2tn deficit.
Thanks Elon!

[+] WilliamFBuckley@lemy.lol -7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Every little bit helps. So you think we should just let 15 million dollars go to waste just becuase it not 1.2 trillion dollars?! Say wat m8?!

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So you think we should just let 15 million dollars go to waste

No, I think we should go after the real money wasters first: the military.

Then we should go after the billionaires and tax the shit out of them.

Only then should we go after insignificant sources of waste.

[+] WilliamFBuckley@lemy.lol -6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok, then how come the Democrats never did that when they had all the power?

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Your question is whataboutism and a logical fallacy.

I'm not comparing with Democrats or anything the Democrats did or didn't do. The Democrats are just as awful as the Republicans because they all belong to the fat-cat politician class, but with one crucial difference: they're not fucking fascists.

But I digress. This is beside the point.

The point is: Trump and his South African backer pretend to go after waste and they don't. If they did, DOGE would be busy gutting the Pentagon instead of USAID. But they're not doing that. In fact, they just gave the Pentagon more pork.

[+] WilliamFBuckley@lemy.lol -7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

And my point is he's doing more than the democrats did the entire time they had all the power.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

He is not and you know it.

He's wrecking stuff that the rich don't have their grubby fingers into - like Social Security, VOA, USAID and other poor people stuff - and leaving the military-industrial complex they make money out of intact. No significant amount of waste is being eliminated.

The Democrat didn't do jack shit. I agree. The Republicans are doing worse, is my point: what they're really doing is stealing from the poor to give to the rich, as always, but at level 11.