More Trump and Musk cuts coming

[Radiorum]

Anyone who says this is about waste and fraud is living in la-la land.

This is Trump taking revenge on the US.

Social Security Administration leadership is under instruction to swiftly produce plans to cut its staff by half, according to two employees at the agency who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. And an office within the Labor Department that enforces equal employment opportunity laws is developing a plan to reduce its workforce by 90 percent, an internal document shows.

DOGE barrels toward a fresh round of firings, the most widespread yet

[Radiorum]

4 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

This is Trump taking revenge on the US.

They are burning it all down. There’s no rationality here, only a bent to destruction. They see the government as the enemy, the very government they are supposed to be administering.

The government will no longer serve.

[gatomontes99]

In posting this, did you think anyone would care?

[Radiorum]

2 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

In posting this, did you think anyone would care?

You don't care about American democracy, the functioning of government, or the American people?

You don't care that many, many real people are going to be hurt by this?

You are the exemplar of the real derangement syndrome.

[Barquentine]

A lot of Americans are going to care very soon... You'll probably come back at me with a bunch of stupid insults, but sit back and watch your country implode. Seems to be what you want.

[Radiorum]

2 minutes ago, Barquentine said:

watch your country implode.

This is what different commentators are saying. That Trump and Musk will self-destruct.

[gatomontes99]

5 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

You don't care about American democracy, the functioning of government, or the American people?

You don't care that many, many real people are going to be hurt by this?

You are the exemplar of the real derangement syndrome.

I don't care about democracy because unelected beaurocrats are getting cut and saving my grandchildren from crippling debt?

[Radiorum]

1 minute ago, gatomontes99 said:

I don't care about democracy because unelected beaurocrats are getting cut and saving my grandchildren from crippling debt?

OMG, the cuts Musk is making are barely making a dent in the total federal spending. But they will severely impact lives. 

Meanwhile, Trump's tax cuts will cost $4 TRILLION dollars over the next decade. You support that??

Where is your head at?

[gatomontes99]

Looks like I'm in a super majority:

Quote

72% OF VOTERS SUPPORT THE EXISTENCE OF A U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY FOCUSED ON EFFICIENCY INITIATIVES

FEBRUARY HARVARD CAPS / HARRIS POLL: 58% OF VOTERS ARE MORE SATISFIED WITH TRUMP'S JOB AS PRESIDENT THAN BIDEN

https://harvardharrispoll.com/press-release-february-2025/

 

1 minute ago, Radiorum said:

OMG, the cuts Musk is making are barely making a dent in the total federal spending. But they will severely impact lives. 

Meanwhile, Trump's tax cuts will cost $4 TRILLION dollars over the next decade. You support that??

Where is your head at?

Do you have anything to support that lie?

[Radiorum]

4 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

Looks like I'm in a super majority:

That poll was originally published a year ago! It's irrelevant.

Published Date

February 24, 2024

And it seems really shady.

Of course people want efficiency. But that's not what is happening now.

Here's a more recent (Feb. 19, 2025) poll for you - More Americans have an unfavourable view of Musk (and Zuckerberg) than a favourable view

Just over half of U.S. adults (54%) say they have an unfavorable view of Musk, including 36% who have a very unfavorable opinion of him. 

Two-thirds of Americans have an unfavorable view of Zuckerberg. This includes 26% who are very unfavorable toward him.

Here's another poll:

When asked whether respondents approved or disapproved of the job that Musk is doing within the federal government, a net 34 percent approve compared to 49 that disapprove.

The poll, carried out on February 13 – 18, found that 52 percent disapprove of Musk shutting down federal programs that he deems unnecessary, compared to 26 who approve.

14 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

Do you have anything to support that lie?

What lie?

[gatomontes99]

5 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

That poll was originally published a year ago! It's irrelevant.

Published Date

February 24, 2024

And it seems really shady.

Of course people want efficiency. But that's not what is happening now.

Here's a more recent (Feb. 19, 2025) poll for you - More Americans have an unfavourable view of Musk (and Zuckerberg) than a favourable view

Just over half of U.S. adults (54%) say they have an unfavorable view of Musk, including 36% who have a very unfavorable opinion of him. 

Two-thirds of Americans have an unfavorable view of Zuckerberg. This includes 26% who are very unfavorable toward him.

Here's another poll:

When asked whether respondents approved or disapproved of the job that Musk is doing within the federal government, a net 34 percent approve compared to 49 that disapprove.

The poll, carried out on February 13 – 18, found that 52 percent disapprove of Musk shutting down federal programs that he deems unnecessary, compared to 26 who approve.

What lie?

Well, how about the one you just said about the poll I posted:

Then you can address the lie that the cuts to personnel will severely impact lives?

[Radiorum]

1 minute ago, gatomontes99 said:

Well, how about the one you just said about the poll I posted:

 

Read the published date under the title

That they reissued it with a new date makes them really shady.

2 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

Then you can address the lie that the cuts to personnel will severely impact lives?

It's not rocket science. If there is no-one working at Social Security or at the Labour department, service is going to suck

[gatomontes99]

20 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

Read the published date under the title

That they reissued it with a new date makes them really shady.

It's not rocket science. If there is no-one working at Social Security or at the Labour department, service is going to suck

It was not. Here is a screen shot of the data that you can download from my link: 

Feb 2025.

So you just made shit up.

You made shit up about SNAP.

You made shit up about Medicaid.

You made shit up about the Trump Tax cuts.

Everything you have said tonight was a lie. It is all a lie.

[Radiorum]

3 minutes ago, gatomontes99 said:

So you just made shit up.

You made shit up about SNAP.

You made shit up about Medicaid.

You made shit up about the Trump Tax cuts.

Everything you have said tonight was a lie. It is all a lie.

No, no, no, no, no.

[Deluge]

1 hour ago, Radiorum said:

Anyone who says this is about waste and fraud is living in la-la land.

This is Trump taking revenge on the US.

Social Security Administration leadership is under instruction to swiftly produce plans to cut its staff by half, according to two employees at the agency who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. And an office within the Labor Department that enforces equal employment opportunity laws is developing a plan to reduce its workforce by 90 percent, an internal document shows.

DOGE barrels toward a fresh round of firings, the most widespread yet

DOGE is good.  

[Radiorum]

Just now, Deluge said:

DOGE is good.

For whom?

[gatomontes99]

18 minutes ago, Radiorum said:

No, no, no, no, no.

Yeah. I had links to credible sources that debunked everything you posted. You had no, no, no, no, no.

[Barquentine]

1 hour ago, gatomontes99 said:

I don't care about democracy because unelected beaurocrats are getting cut and saving my grandchildren from crippling debt?

How much did Trump just raise the debt ceiling? How much are the 4.5 Trillion tax cuts gonna cost you? Penny-wise and pound foolish.

[Legato]

Must be a supply chain problem all the grapes are sour.

[gatomontes99]

39 minutes ago, Barquentine said:

How much did Trump just raise the debt ceiling? How much are the 4.5 Trillion tax cuts gonna cost you? Penny-wise and pound foolish.

First, tax rates have minimal impact on the federal inlays. If you look at the graph of total tax revenue generated by year, the years for cuts and increases are indistinguishable.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S#

Finally, you assume that all spending is mandatory so revenue is the only solution. Revenue, in fact, is not the solution. Regardless of the tax rates, the country will collect roughly 16.5% of the GDP. Spending must be less than that to not run a deficit.

[Deluge]

1 hour ago, Radiorum said:

For whom?

For the American people. 

Keep this in mind, comrade: Federal cuts are GOOD! 

[ironstone]

On 2/26/2025 at 9:21 PM, Radiorum said:

For whom?

Witness Will Tell House DOGE Panel How Terrorists Got $122 Million from USAID
Evidence of mis-directed U.S. tax dollars is growing wider and deeper as investigators within and without government keep digging.

Middle East Forum (MEF) Executive Director Gregg Roman said he will testify that “there’s a fox loose in the henhouse of our foreign aid system” before the panel’s Feb. 26 hearing focusing on “America Last: How Foreign Aid Undermined U.S. Interests Around the World.
 “This problem began under the Obama administration, grew under the Biden administration, and now requires immediate action to halt dangerous mismanagement and a fatal moral confusion,” Roman said in a statement made available to The Epoch Times.
That USAID is directing tax dollars to terrorist groups and their affiliates that are committed to the destruction of the United States and its allies is not merely mismanagement, according to Roman.

“We’re not just talking about waste, fraud, and abuse—this is a national security problem,” Roman said. “Every misdirected dollar destabilizes conflict zones and puts American lives at risk.”

Greene will discuss at length during questioning by members of the panel the multiple groups with terrorist links that received portions of the $122 million in U.S. funding. The links were confirmed by MEF investigators through U.S. government documents, USAID records, and other publicly available information sources.

Among the groups is the Christian relief agency World Vision, which in 2014 sent funds it received from the U.S. government through the Islamic Relief Agency to a group formed by Osama bin Laden as a precursor to al-Qaeda. The money was approved despite protests from a USAID whistleblower. 
Another such group is Helping Hand for Relief and Development, which MEF investigators found was connected with the 2008 attacks by a Pakistani-based Islamic terrorist group that killed 164 people in Mumbai, India.
Other groups benefiting from USAID funding include Lebanon’s Jamal Trust Bank, which is linked to Hezbollah, and Bayader & Unlimited Friends Association (UFA), which is connected to Hamas, according to government records examined by MEF investigators. 

[WestCanMan]

On 2/26/2025 at 4:52 PM, Radiorum said:

They are burning it all down. There’s no rationality here, only a bent to destruction. They see the government as the enemy, the very government they are supposed to be administering.

The government will no longer serve.

Remember when pipeline jobs were cut and the Dems said "Just find something else to do"?

Remember when coal mine jobs were cut and the Dems said "Go program computers"?

It's kinda like that. 

[Nationalist]

On 2/26/2025 at 7:52 PM, Radiorum said:

They are burning it all down. There’s no rationality here, only a bent to destruction. They see the government as the enemy, the very government they are supposed to be administering.

The government will no longer serve.

What chickenshit.

[Radiorum]

1 hour ago, ironstone said:

Witness Will Tell House DOGE Panel How Terrorists Got $122 Million from USAID
Evidence of mis-directed U.S. tax dollars is growing wider and deeper as investigators within and without government keep digging.

Middle East Forum (MEF) Executive Director Gregg Roman said he will testify that “there’s a fox loose in the henhouse of our foreign aid system” before the panel’s Feb. 26 hearing focusing on “America Last: How Foreign Aid Undermined U.S. Interests Around the World.
 “This problem began under the Obama administration, grew under the Biden administration, and now requires immediate action to halt dangerous mismanagement and a fatal moral confusion,” Roman said in a statement made available to The Epoch Times.
That USAID is directing tax dollars to terrorist groups and their affiliates that are committed to the destruction of the United States and its allies is not merely mismanagement, according to Roman.

“We’re not just talking about waste, fraud, and abuse—this is a national security problem,” Roman said. “Every misdirected dollar destabilizes conflict zones and puts American lives at risk.”

Greene will discuss at length during questioning by members of the panel the multiple groups with terrorist links that received portions of the $122 million in U.S. funding. The links were confirmed by MEF investigators through U.S. government documents, USAID records, and other publicly available information sources.

Among the groups is the Christian relief agency World Vision, which in 2014 sent funds it received from the U.S. government through the Islamic Relief Agency to a group formed by Osama bin Laden as a precursor to al-Qaeda. The money was approved despite protests from a USAID whistleblower. 
Another such group is Helping Hand for Relief and Development, which MEF investigators found was connected with the 2008 attacks by a Pakistani-based Islamic terrorist group that killed 164 people in Mumbai, India.
Other groups benefiting from USAID funding include Lebanon’s Jamal Trust Bank, which is linked to Hezbollah, and Bayader & Unlimited Friends Association (UFA), which is connected to Hamas, according to government records examined by MEF investigators. 

 

First off, we need to consider the source. I would approach anything Gregg Roman says (and is reported in the Epoch Times) with a critical eye. To suspect that the US is directly funding the terrorists they fight is absurd.

Indeed, all of the allegations against organizations that have received funds are for “suspected links” to terrorist organizations.

What this calls for is greater oversight, not the dismantling of a wide variety of humanitarian, economic development and democracy-promotion efforts, for example:

• Disaster relief and other humanitarian aid ($15.6 billion, or 21.7% of total aid disbursements in fiscal 2023)
• Efforts to solve the ongoing battle against HIV/AIDS ($10.6 billion, or 14.7%)
• Combatting “pandemic influenza” and other emerging public health threats ($1.5 billion, or 2.0%)
• Promoting democracy, good governance and the rule of law ($2.3 billion, or 3.2%)

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/02/06/what-the-data-says-about-us-foreign-aid/