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Karnal
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thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 30 th, 2024 at 9:43am: Karnal wrote on Nov 29 th, 2024 at 11:38am: Frank wrote on Nov 29 th, 2024 at 9:20am: Karnal wrote on Nov 29 th, 2024 at 8:49am: MeisterEckhart wrote on Nov 28 th, 2024 at 6:12am: Karnal wrote on Nov 27 th, 2024 at 10:37pm: He's also a card-carrying futurist who's turned to join the fascists.
His goal is to replace Western democracy with a macho technocratic oligarchy.
Trump is already over him. Unfortunately, Musk is holding the purse strings.
One thing we know, Trump's no Mussolini. Power bores him. All Trump wants is adulation.
All Elon wants is power. Jack Spratt could eat no fat, no? You're right about Trump... To him, power is a stag head on the wall. Musk is a genius with the emotional capacity of a 15-year-old. My guess is that the mundane banality of the work power requires will ultimately bore him. He wants to ride fast, break things and build spaceships in the basement. The clean-up is for the butler and the maid. Ha! Very good points. Yes, the big fella loves a jolly trophy. To him, the White House is no more than one of the medals he got at military school for shining his belt buckle. All he cares about is erections. I'd suggest the same is true for dark MAGA Elon. Why would he care about bean counting? Their policies come directly from memes, rally chants and stuff that rated well in a podcast interview. control. Spending? SLASHED. We'll win so much we'll grow tired of winning, no? NOTHING CAN EVER BE CHANGED! Anyone who tries to change the Uniparty is doomed to failure, vilification, ridicule. A Democrat led US is the best of all possible worlds. Any change to it is evil AND impossible Of course it can't be changed. The budget?Fixed. Over three quarters is military, social security and Medicaid - programs your DL is fully committed to funding. Can't be changed. Karnal, while I appreciate your humourous exposes' of blinded by ideology Conservatives, and their inability to debate in a logical fashion (Frank being a prime example), I suspect your knowledge of macro economic is also...shaky?..... From prof Steve Keen's latest book: My book explains why Reeves’ obsession—and Musk’s in the USA—with running a balanced budget looks sensible to her. IF the Neoclassical model of banking, called Loanable Funds, is correct, THEN the future crisis that she and Musk fear is inevitable. Government debt and interest rates skyrocket, and GDP collapses.
But the model is wrong. Households don’t lend to firms, nor do they buy bonds off the Treasury (at the initial auction of bonds): banks do. And the government’s main bank accounts are at the Central Bank, not private banks. By simply removing those two false assumptions, a totally different outcome applies. A government deficit results in a growing money supply, and no crisis.
Hope this helps you and Musk - the director of the new DOGE (!), no less...
Musk can't do a thing, dear. He pulled a $2 tril cut out of his hat recently, just like that. Impossible. Quote:The federal government’s payroll is about $752 billion, a princely sum for sure. However, it is only 12% of the government’s total spending in 2023 — since most government spending is on the entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare. And it takes federal employees to keep those programs running.
Now consider a collection of programs that people like — or can’t do without: Transportation Security Administration’s airport screening, the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control system, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs, and the Coast Guard. Add the civilian workers at the Department of Defense who keep the nation’s armed forces in the field.
Even if policymakers make the cuts, they wouldn’t pick up that much cash — and they’d cripple programs on which the public depends, whether they live in blue states or red, like East Palestine, where Donald Trump beat Joe Biden by 45% in 2020. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-is-it-so-hard-to-cut-federal-spending-thr...Fascists never do cuts. Small government is counter to their hyper-controlling autocratic aims. DL wants to spend [i]more. They want more control of you too. Fascists care deeply what goes on in the stalls of ladies' lavs. They're equally passionate about the contents of trannies' knickers. God created Adam and Eve, you see, not Adam and Steve. If a chap wants to become a lady, he needs to look the part. God was perfectly clear on this. Getting tarted up in a feather boa with a five day shadow like George Santos isn't going to cut it, dear. Congresswomen refuse to powder their noses next to ridiculous old drag acts like George. The Congressional ladies' rest rooms have a dress code, as one would expect. LAWFARE !!!!
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