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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

so rather than just pay a tax like a socialist country would up front, US is now only just surviving on tariffing ..which is paid … by their own people ….as a tax. On top of whatever tax you already pay ……while digging more deficits.

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 24 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Overseen by man with significant history of refusing to repay loans.

[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 points 8 minutes ago
[–] opus86@lemmy.today 30 points 6 hours ago

Ah, Republicans. They make a huge deal about spending any time they are not in power and then spending like a drunk Sailor when in power.

[–] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago

They say anything to get into power. Literally anything. None of it matters and they know it.

[–] discocactus@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Just for the sake of argument: It's possible to create gasoline from any hydrocarbon feedstock (wood, cow shit, OSB scraps, rice hulls, sugar) for about $12/gallon. At 42 gallons of gas/jet fuel/diesel/kerosene per barrel of oil, that's roughly $504 of finished product per barrel (@ $12/gal).

That means $50 billion would get you about 100 million barrels of synthesized oil. Since the US consumes about 20,000,000 barrels of oil per day we'd be able to synthesize 5/7ths of our oil consumption from waste biomass for that $50 billion per week. Food for thought.

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[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 38 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

I just saw a study that said if Trump continued on at this rate, he will be responsible for 55% of the national debt. And that was BEFORE the Iran War.

When we get these psychopaths out, and start to rebuild, we already know that they'll suddenly get fiscally conservative, and they'll pretend to be concerned about spending.

When that happens, just take theirs away. THEY are responsible for the debt, so if it bothers them so much, they should be the ones to make the sacrifice to pay it back.

[–] RandallFlagg@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Republican administration completely fucks up the budget, leaves office with massive deficit

Democrat administration spends the next 4 years cleaning up that clusterfuck

GOP tells it's dumbfuck base that it's all the Dems fault that their 1996 Dodge Ram 3500 gets 8 mpg and they're gonna fix everything

Dumbfuck republican voters fall for it, yet again, because they never passed the 9th grade and have been huffing diesel exhaust for the past 20 years

Dumbfuck masses rally and vote in another Republican administration

That cycle has gone on repeat over and over and over again for literally my entire lifetime. It's all I know. That has been my experience with with the US government, for my whole life.

I'm tired, boss.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

And the pendulum swings harder every time...

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

assume the dems are going to get in, given the recent events i dont see how some of them will get elected, with people like schumer/hakeems and the other dinos, NEWSOM is pretty unattractive right now . they are complicit to the GOP agenda, only AOC, bernie, and maybe some other is fighting it.

are people even going to remember what hakeem and schumer did in the next election, who they tried to shield when voting for the shutdown.

[–] The_Almighty_Walrus@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

They already pretended to care about spending and then some guy called Big Balls helped Elon Musk harvest all our data

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I hate how that is not even a little taken out of context or exaggerated.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

remember russia hacked the moment doge got access to the SS/ and other data.

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 4 points 8 hours ago

Link to study please please please

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money.

[–] brem@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 hours ago

...but what about the bones?

They should be used for broth, not to sharpen the dentures of a senile old racist...

[–] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 54 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Good thing the fiscally responsible party is in power

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago

Gotta spend money to make genocides

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 5 hours ago

no wonder they had to slash all the departments, and not keep the extended subsidies for healthcare.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 43 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Damn ... if only there was a department of government efficiency to stop insane and fiscally irresponsible shit like this.

Or ... we need a branch of government that "controls the purse" so crazy spending like this doesnt happen.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Actually, we did all those things and now America is Great Again

[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 2 points 7 hours ago

We’re not even as great as we were a week ago.

[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago

Oh yeah! I forgot. Problem solved.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Trump has never paid his bills a day in his life.

He fucked over his own chauffeur, and thousands of his contractors and employees. He's declared bankruptcy something like eight times, leaving investors with nothing. He's gone to court over a thousand times; no other real estate developer has these problems. Interestingly, his mentor was Roy Cohn, who had the same issue of skipping bills (coincidentally I am sure).

So, long story short for libbies, Trump will buy a company named "American Fury MAGA USA Friends" and transfer all the country's debt to it, and THEN that company will declare a new feature he's devised, called "Supreme Bankruptcy" which cannot be overturned by the Supreme Court because it's Supreme, too.

Problem solved, in your face commies

......

Related to this problem, our entire country's financial system is based on debt; we don't even control our own money. The FED is controlled by select appointed bankers, who practically all work for banks or are on the boards of banks and investment firms before and after their appointed terms.

The dollar is worth less every year for a reason, it's called profiteering. It's designed to collapse; with each collapse these same interests buy everything once prices are tanked. Then, they start the process again. Every year it gets exponentially worse because math is mean.

They don't even hide it.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fedexplained/who-we-are.htm

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 5 hours ago

his bankruptcies are intentional to allow russia to money laundering through his properties. he also somehow ousted MARY TRUMP of the will of his parents too.

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 90 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

For healthcare? Education? Can’t possibly imagine what …

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 55 points 14 hours ago (12 children)

Maybe they are secretly building a super efficient and expansive social safety net behind our backs and making it a surprise!!!!

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 100 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds like there needs to be some sort of efficiency department set up

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 23 points 9 hours ago

We can call it the Department of Grifting Everyone

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

They have a plan: They'll borrow money to pay the debts and to spend on top of that.

Literally infinite money glitch

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

The Rothschild family and banks are delighted with the shit situation. They have the USA by the balls.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 hours ago

Those $2-mil missiles add up fast.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 43 points 15 hours ago (10 children)

interest payments on the debt are expected to exceed $1 trillion this year

If my finger-counting math is right ye yanks, on average (including children), are paying ~$250 a month just in interests... I ain't no economist but that seems like a lot.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 6 points 11 hours ago
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