We really aren’t a serious country anymore, are we?

[Tom Paris]

Where did I say I was ok with fox lying? Try reading once.

You're not fooling anybody. What you should really look at is the MAGA idiots agreeing with you. If you REALLY aren't one of them, maybe think about the dumbest of the board dummies agreeing with you. If Scruddy, abby, and willie start agreeing with me, I would get myself checked out.

 

[ICHerky]

Can you explain how they are incompetent?

Let’s start with the border. Then we can move to the transitory inflation. How about the AG, not good!

Education, HHS, I could keep going but these are very incompetent people who shouldn’t have their positions.

 

[hawkeyetraveler]

Someone either hasn't looked at the entirety of the budget or purposely omitting things. Which is it?

Sigh, have you ever looked at the actual budget? My numbers are pulled straight from it. Let me walk you through it.

In 2023 we had receipts of $4.4 trillion and spent $6.1 trillion for a deficit of $1.7 trillion. The $1.7 trillion is ironically the same number as total discretionary spending. I did misspeak above in that judges, Congress and the President’s salaries are defined as mandatory. Still, the point remains we would need to eliminate all discretionary spending (including the military) or dramatically reduce social security/medicare etc to balance the budget if you don’t raise taxes.

The spending splits between mandatory spending, discretionary spending and interest on debt as follows:

• Mandatory: $3.8 trillion
  • Social security: $1.3T
  • Medicare+Medicade: $1.4T
  • Other mandatory (Veterans benefits, pensions, unemployment, etc): $1.0T
• Discretionary: $1.7 trillion
  • Defense: $0.8T
  • Everything else $0.9T
• Interest: $0.7 trillion

Here is the link:

The actual budget, not GOP talking points

 

[DooBi]

You're not fooling anybody. What you should really look at is the MAGA idiots agreeing with you. If you REALLY aren't one of them, maybe think about the dumbest of the board dummies agreeing with you. If Scruddy, abby, and willie start agreeing with me, I would get myself checked out.

Good for you. I couldn't care less.

Not fooling anyone. Fooling anyone about what? I think you just like to ascribe a view to a person and then attack that view. Makes it pretty easy to be right all the time. In your head anyway.