American Politics

[EihTooms]

In 2021, the only way I could travel was if I got dangerous and worthless vaccines. The stores often did not have supplies. When I went abroad, thanks to Biden, I had to pay for a $100 test and have someone jab a Q-tip in my nose. Of course, that was if I went on an airplane. If I walked or drove across the border, the $100 Q-tip jab was not necessary and neither was a vaccine card. According to Biden, the vaccine could only travel in airplanes and oh yeah, if you got the vaccine, you would not get Covid.

And despite these absolutely bird brained policies, Biden actually polled well with his approval ratings. Covid was whisked away not with a bang but a whimper. This so called deadly virus was replaced with the next threat to mankind, Vladimir Putin.

So you can say how much better Biden is than Trump but I will take 2025 over 2021 any day. If you looked at the USA and now and preCovid, I bet you could not tell the difference.

For those of us in the workplace, people can breathe again. The ESG, DEI, white supremacy, disinformation bullshit is gone. Joe Rogan had a doctor on his show who was critical about vaccines and there was disagreement with what she said which is fine but there was no talk of the deplatforming bullshit.

When people talk of the economy being bad, they mean the stock market. Ah yes, like the market has never been wrong. Yes, the Targets and Walmarts are freaking out. The ships are slowing down. No shit. There is going to be an adjustment. I think you and the market are completely misguided on tariffs though. What do you think the tariff rates were on most Chinese packages before? Would you believe zero?

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/g-s1-...mu-shein-trump

De minimis shipments account for most of the cargo entering the USA, Customs and Border Protection said last fall. The agency said it was handling some 4 million de minimis shipments every day a rate that would blow past the previous year's mark of more than 1 billion shipments.

De minimis shipments "often don't have as much documentation, making it easier to get the shipments into the United States, whether we're talking about unsafe consumer products or fentanyl or food items that aren't permitted to be imported," Murray said.

Items imported under the exemption "are free of duty and taxes and are subject to expedited clearance processing," the USA International Trade Commission notes.

Backers of the existing de minimis structure say it eases commerce and gives consumers low prices; critics say it is used to hawk "cheap crap," as one lawmaker put it, and gives foreign companies an unfair advantage over domestic retailers.

And now the real kicker: Even before Trump was sworn in last month, de minimis was being targeted for change. The Biden administration proposed a new rule last fall to close the loophole. And USA Agencies and politicians have said the law is prone to abuse, from unscrupulous retailers falsely labeling expensive items as costing under $800 to criminals shipping illegal drugs under the guise of innocuous goods.

So while we see stories about the docks being empty, and dock workers doing nothing but waiting for ships, customs is overwhelmed logging in packages that previously were zipped through. I can see the labor force transition from receiving packages to inspecting them. That is what happens with change.

In the mean time, Together, Temu and Shein accounted for about 17% of the USA Discount market in 2023 for items such as consumer goods, fast fashion, and toys, according to a report on de minimis policies that the Congressional Research Service (CRS) updated last week.

It is fucking crazy that this was allowed to happen. I am supposed to cry because these cheap goods made at slave wages are not coming through?

So in the end, Biden considered doing tariffs but Trump actually did them. So what would you Democratic douches have done differently than Trump? Well, we know. You Democratic douches and Biden did nothing. Your only plan was and is to gripe about Trump.

Spoiler Alert: There is no mention of the USA Stock Market in this unavoidably glowing report on that first year of Bidenomics' Historic Recovery from Trump's Pandemic:

The 2021 U.S. Economy in Ten Charts.
Feb. 24, 2022

https://www.crfb.org/blogs/2021-us-economy-ten-charts

Strong Output Growth

After shrinking by a massive 9.5 percent in the second quarter of 2020, the economy has now recovered to its pre-pandemic trend. Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by 8.7 percent in the second half of 2020 and 5.5 percent in 2021. By the end of last year, real GDP was just 0.4 percent from CBOs pre-pandemic projection.
..........
Inflation

While economic growth in 2021 was strong, so too was inflation. Normally, the Federal Reserve targets 2 percent growth in Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) inflation and slightly higher Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation. In 2021, PCE inflation totaled 5.5 percent and CPI inflation totaled 6.7 percent on a fourth quarter-over-fourth quarter basis. That includes a 0.5 percent monthly increase in December alone.
..........
Personal Income Hit a New Record

Disposable Personal Income (DPI) in 2021 totaled $18.5 trillion 14 percent or $2.3 trillion higher than the 2019 level of $16.2 trillion. Total DPI for 2020 and 2021 was more than $4 trillion above the prior two years. The majority of this income growth was the result of COVID-relief measures such as recovery rebates and expanded unemployment benefits.

Recovery rebates, unemployment benefits, and other COVID relief responsible for this income boost mostly faded by the end of 2021. However, they were replaced by rising market income. As a result, total personal income in December remained 8.4 percent above pre-pandemic levels, which means it grew faster than either the prior trend or the elevated rate of inflation over that period.
..........
Employment Continues to Recover

In April 2020, the unemployment rate reached 14.7 percent the highest in modern history. Since then, unemployment has come down rapidly, declining to 3.9 percent by the end of 2021, the lowest since the start of the pandemic. The unemployment rate has only been that low twice in the last 50 years - in the year 2000 and for most of the two-year period before the pandemic.
...........
State & Local Governments are Flush With Cash

Over the course of the pandemic, policymakers authorized nearly $900 billion of aid to state and local governments. It is not clear this much aid was needed. State revenue and receipts, inclusive of federal aid, ended 2021 up 21 percent from the end of 2019. Even excluding federal aid, revenue and receipts were up 14 percent.

Now, before we enthusiastically choose the economy of 2025 over that of 2021, how about we wait for the final numbers in this first year of Trump's Colossal Botch of the Envy of the World Economy that Biden handed Trump barely 100 days ago.

[MarquisdeSade1]

In 2021, the only way I could travel was if I got dangerous and worthless vaccines. The stores often did not have supplies. When I went abroad, thanks to Biden, I had to pay for a $100 test and have someone jab a Q-tip in my nose. Of course, that was if I went on an airplane. If I walked or drove across the border, the $100 Q-tip jab was not necessary and neither was a vaccine card. According to Biden, the vaccine could only travel in airplanes and oh yeah, if you got the vaccine, you would not get Covid.

And despite these absolutely bird brained policies, Biden actually polled well with his approval ratings. Covid was whisked away not with a bang but a whimper. This so called deadly virus was replaced with the next threat to mankind, Vladimir Putin.

So you can say how much better Biden is than Trump but I will take 2025 over 2021 any day. If you looked at the USA and now and preCovid, I bet you could not tell the difference.

For those of us in the workplace, people can breathe again. The ESG, DEI, white supremacy, disinformation bullshit is gone. Joe Rogan had a doctor on his show who was critical about vaccines and there was disagreement with what she said which is fine but there was no talk of the deplatforming bullshit.

When people talk of the economy being bad, they mean the stock market. Ah yes, like the market has never been wrong. Yes, the Targets and Walmarts are freaking out. The ships are slowing down. No shit. There is going to be an adjustment. I think you and the market are completely misguided on tariffs though. What do you think the tariff rates were on most Chinese packages before? Would you believe zero?

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/g-s1-...mu-shein-trump

De minimis shipments account for most of the cargo entering the USA, Customs and Border Protection said last fall. The agency said it was handling some 4 million de minimis shipments every day a rate that would blow past the previous year's mark of more than 1 billion shipments.

De minimis shipments "often don't have as much documentation, making it easier to get the shipments into the United States, whether we're talking about unsafe consumer products or fentanyl or food items that aren't permitted to be imported," Murray said.

Items imported under the exemption "are free of duty and taxes and are subject to expedited clearance processing," the USA International Trade Commission notes.

Backers of the existing de minimis structure say it eases commerce and gives consumers low prices; critics say it is used to hawk "cheap crap," as one lawmaker put it, and gives foreign companies an unfair advantage over domestic retailers.

And now the real kicker: Even before Trump was sworn in last month, de minimis was being targeted for change. The Biden administration proposed a new rule last fall to close the loophole. And USA Agencies and politicians have said the law is prone to abuse, from unscrupulous retailers falsely labeling expensive items as costing under $800 to criminals shipping illegal drugs under the guise of innocuous goods.

So while we see stories about the docks being empty, and dock workers doing nothing but waiting for ships, customs is overwhelmed logging in packages that previously were zipped through. I can see the labor force transition from receiving packages to inspecting them. That is what happens with change.

In the mean time, Together, Temu and Shein accounted for about 17% of the USA Discount market in 2023 for items such as consumer goods, fast fashion, and toys, according to a report on de minimis policies that the Congressional Research Service (CRS) updated last week.

It is fucking crazy that this was allowed to happen. I am supposed to cry because these cheap goods made at slave wages are not coming through?

So in the end, Biden considered doing tariffs but Trump actually did them. So what would you Democratic douches have done differently than Trump? Well, we know. You Democratic douches and Biden did nothing. Your only plan was and is to gripe about Trump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdNO7n3Lp-4*Nice try James but you can't hide what you ANTI white scumbags really stand for!!

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/californ...olicy-d3e988c5

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/t...opioid-crisis/

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l.../PIIS2215-0366(19) 30218-4/ fulltext.

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/...em-2025-02-02/

Try finding fentanyl in CCPland or see what they would do if they caught you selling it (probably execute you and your whole family on live TV that same night).

If what they are doing isn't an ACT OF WAR what is?

Just nuke them off the map and be done with the savages already!!

[MarquisdeSade1]

America's farmers, if any of them were among the "poorly educated" that con man Donald Trump loves for obvious reasons, are sure getting a snootful of education about Trump and his Classic Repub Horrific Economic Results and Stewardship now:

Agriculture isn't nearing tariffs crisis, 'it is full blown crisis already' farmers say.
April 28, 2025

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/trad...ndroidappshare

And there is also this:

Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports.
Number of vessels scheduled to arrive at Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third year on year.
April 28, 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/business...ments-us-ports

I would say this is not going to get much better over the next 3 years and 8 months. Not as long as lunatic Trump is in the White House. Without even those scant few somewhat "normal" Cabinet and Staffer guardrails around him this time, he has been exposed irreversibly to the World to be the pathetically clueless clown or is it the outright malignant self-loathing and life-hating arsonist he so obviously always was. Therefore, every minute of every hour of his presence on the scene engenders utter uncertainty and international economic paralysis.

I might argue it won't get demonstrably better if any Repub is in the White House going forward into the foreseeable future. Not unless a Repub candidate runs denouncing every statement, move, result and concept of a concept of a plan ever proposed or enacted by Donald Trump in his entire political career. Which is not likely to happen in any of our lifetimes.

Oh well.

But, hey, the Maistream Media clutched their pearls and demanded the big money Dem donors pull their funding of down ballot Dems because the Record-Breaking Economically Successful President Joe Biden stuttered and garbled a single point due to a verbal tick that naturally intensifies with age at that debate and Kamala Harris apparently had a laugh that annoyed some dumb Repub hillbillies.

So I suppose it's understandable why there were not more "players on the field" in the election to override that tiny handful of angry Muslims whose 0. 75 percentage point swing vote from Harris to Trump in just three swing states that became the sole single-issue and single demographic reason Trump was "given the presidency" again.

Yep. Oh well.

You can dump that toxic made in CCPland / Korean / VietCong trash in the ocean (and just cut out the middle men) or sell it at Walmart Amazon we then dump it straight into our overflowing landfills with it after 1 usage.

I have a better idea stop destroying the planet and just stop producing that worthless trash and sending it out way!

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-e...-trump-tariffs

[Newton York]

I'm so tired of all the winning though. I know my brokerage account is tired of it. Everything is deep in the red. Can we stop winning now please? Just for once, I'd like to see my NVDA and AAPL positions be green please. Thank you.

[SubCmdr]

Gold continues to be on a tear. This is actually a bad time to be buying gold as a major correction is on the horizon.

What I do is speak about all aspects of a investment. Not just my view. Buy BONDS E2008 says. But he fails to point out that if the entity that issued those BONDS fail you lose EVERYTHING!

Gold if you hold it physically has held it's value adjusted for inflation over 5000 years. If there is a major reset (and there will be if the Dis-United States of America does not get it's act together) if all of your wealth is wiped out because the US Dollar goes to zero or hyper-inflates, I feel comfortable knowing I have something that I can use in the restart of the world economy.

[SubCmdr]

The democratic complainers posting among us need to realize that saying the Republic Racists are not good for us is not going to cut it.

Spending more time on dick politics instead of the basic economic policies that will help regular men and women of the Dis-United States of America put meat in the pot of the kitchens of those who do NOT own stocks (or BONDS) for that matter.

If the democrats are just going to pick a candidate to run for the presidency of the Dis-United States of America they should at least pick a decent one.

One that does not ignore the Crypto Industry or talk wack tax policies like taxing unrealized gains.

Until the democratic complainers among us do something more than complain, until they fix their own party platform, until they choose viable candidates for office of the presidency of the Dis-United States of America they will continue to lose by small margins because they do not realize that the country is divided and they need to fight for every vote.

Crypto

Democrats ignore us in the future a their own risk!

[Elvis 2008]

America's farmers, if any of them were among the "poorly educated" that con man Donald Trump loves for obvious reasons, are sure getting a snootful of education about Trump and his Classic Repub Horrific Economic Results and Stewardship now:

Agriculture isn't nearing tariffs crisis, 'it is full blown crisis already' farmers say.
April 28, 2025

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/trad...ndroidappshare

And there is also this:

Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports.
Number of vessels scheduled to arrive at Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third year on year.
April 28, 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/business...ments-us-ports

I would say this is not going to get much better over the next 3 years and 8 months. Not as long as lunatic Trump is in the White House. Without even those scant few somewhat "normal" Cabinet and Staffer guardrails around him this time, he has been exposed irreversibly to the World to be the pathetically clueless clown or is it the outright malignant self-loathing and life-hating arsonist he so obviously always was. Therefore, every minute of every hour of his presence on the scene engenders utter uncertainty and international economic paralysis.

I might argue it won't get demonstrably better if any Repub is in the White House going forward into the foreseeable future. Not unless a Repub candidate runs denouncing every statement, move, result and concept of a concept of a plan ever proposed or enacted by Donald Trump in his entire political career. Which is not likely to happen in any of our lifetimes.

Oh well.

But, hey, the Maistream Media clutched their pearls and demanded the big money Dem donors pull their funding of down ballot Dems because the Record-Breaking Economically Successful President Joe Biden stuttered and garbled a single point due to a verbal tick that naturally intensifies with age at that debate and Kamala Harris apparently had a laugh that annoyed some dumb Repub hillbillies.

So I suppose it's understandable why there were not more "players on the field" in the election to override that tiny handful of angry Muslims whose 0. 75 percentage point swing vote from Harris to Trump in just three swing states that became the sole single-issue and single demographic reason Trump was "given the presidency" again.

Yep. Oh well.

In 2021, the only way I could travel was if I got dangerous and worthless vaccines. The stores often did not have supplies. When I went abroad, thanks to Biden, I had to pay for a $100 test and have someone jab a Q-tip in my nose. Of course, that was if I went on an airplane. If I walked or drove across the border, the $100 Q-tip jab was not necessary and neither was a vaccine card. According to Biden, the vaccine could only travel in airplanes and oh yeah, if you got the vaccine, you would not get Covid.

And despite these absolutely bird brained policies, Biden actually polled well with his approval ratings. Covid was whisked away not with a bang but a whimper. This so called deadly virus was replaced with the next threat to mankind, Vladimir Putin.

So you can say how much better Biden is than Trump but I will take 2025 over 2021 any day. If you looked at the USA and now and preCovid, I bet you could not tell the difference.

For those of us in the workplace, people can breathe again. The ESG, DEI, white supremacy, disinformation bullshit is gone. Joe Rogan had a doctor on his show who was critical about vaccines and there was disagreement with what she said which is fine but there was no talk of the deplatforming bullshit.

When people talk of the economy being bad, they mean the stock market. Ah yes, like the market has never been wrong. Yes, the Targets and Walmarts are freaking out. The ships are slowing down. No shit. There is going to be an adjustment. I think you and the market are completely misguided on tariffs though. What do you think the tariff rates were on most Chinese packages before? Would you believe zero?

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/05/g-s1-...mu-shein-trump

De minimis shipments account for most of the cargo entering the USA, Customs and Border Protection said last fall. The agency said it was handling some 4 million de minimis shipments every day a rate that would blow past the previous year's mark of more than 1 billion shipments.

De minimis shipments "often don't have as much documentation, making it easier to get the shipments into the United States, whether we're talking about unsafe consumer products or fentanyl or food items that aren't permitted to be imported," Murray said.

Items imported under the exemption "are free of duty and taxes and are subject to expedited clearance processing," the USA International Trade Commission notes.

Backers of the existing de minimis structure say it eases commerce and gives consumers low prices; critics say it is used to hawk "cheap crap," as one lawmaker put it, and gives foreign companies an unfair advantage over domestic retailers.

And now the real kicker: Even before Trump was sworn in last month, de minimis was being targeted for change. The Biden administration proposed a new rule last fall to close the loophole. And USA Agencies and politicians have said the law is prone to abuse, from unscrupulous retailers falsely labeling expensive items as costing under $800 to criminals shipping illegal drugs under the guise of innocuous goods.

So while we see stories about the docks being empty, and dock workers doing nothing but waiting for ships, customs is overwhelmed logging in packages that previously were zipped through. I can see the labor force transition from receiving packages to inspecting them. That is what happens with change.

In the mean time, Together, Temu and Shein accounted for about 17% of the USA Discount market in 2023 for items such as consumer goods, fast fashion, and toys, according to a report on de minimis policies that the Congressional Research Service (CRS) updated last week.

It is fucking crazy that this was allowed to happen. I am supposed to cry because these cheap goods made at slave wages are not coming through?

So in the end, Biden considered doing tariffs but Trump actually did them. So what would you Democratic douches have done differently than Trump? Well, we know. You Democratic douches and Biden did nothing. Your only plan was and is to gripe about Trump.

[RamDavidson84]

According to the demonstrably Winger-leaning RealClearPolitics' preferred polling services consensus, heading into Trump's Festival of Lies Celebration of his "Greatest First 100 Days Ever", the American people are recognizing it as the Worst Ever.

They are even starting to warm up to the idea of Immigrants eating the cats and eating the dogs more than the shit-show of disaster this Trump's Pandemic Part 2 the MAGAs, a few stray "Bothsider / Neithersider" Third Party voters and, specifically, that relative handful of angry Muslims who foolishly and now quite regrettably swung their less than 0. 75 percentage point of the total votes in just three swing states from Harris to Trump and thereby were the sole reason Trump is president again gave us.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/pol...ating-2nd-term

It hasn't been great. I am very let down. One thing this has taught me is what I care about most and everything else is such a distant second. I ll vote for who ever as long as they put money in my bank account. Biden was the biggest joke of a clown fuck asshole I have ever seen, but I could care less because real estate and the investment markets boomed under him and I made a killing. Inflation was horrible, but I suspect it was unavoidable to a degree due to covid. My investment account and real estate holdings are taking a hit and it's pissing me the fuck off and it seems like it is directly related to Trump's tariffs. I don't give a fuck about tariffs as long as real estate and stock market is up. I don't buy shit from China anyway nor do I need a fucking manufacturing job. I ll let every fucking mexican ever born into the usa and half this country can change their gender ten times over as long as my bank account goes up and I can get back to my babies south of the border LOL.

[EihTooms]

America's farmers, if any of them were among the "poorly educated" that con man Donald Trump loves for obvious reasons, are sure getting a snootful of education about Trump and his Classic Repub Horrific Economic Results and Stewardship now:

Agriculture isn't nearing tariffs crisis, 'it is full blown crisis already' farmers say.
April 28, 2025

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/trad...ndroidappshare

The global backlash to President Trumps tariffs is punishing U.S. agriculture, especially a decline in Chinese buying of U.S. farm products.

A leading agriculture exports group says massive losses are already racking up at farms, with cancelled orders, pricing pressure as demand slumps and layoffs, as China stops buying products from pork to hay and straw, and lumber.

No one can replace all the volume that China buys, one farm operator reported.

And there is also this:

Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports.
Number of vessels scheduled to arrive at Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third year on year.
April 28, 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/business...ments-us-ports

Donald Trumps increasingly erratic trade war has triggered a slump in shipments to the USs most important ports, amid the growing risk of a recession in the worlds largest economy.

In the latest sign of the US presidents tariff policies rattling the economy, figures show the number of vessels scheduled to arrive at the Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third on the same period a year earlier.

I would say this is not going to get much better over the next 3 years and 8 months. Not as long as lunatic Trump is in the White House. Without even those scant few somewhat "normal" Cabinet and Staffer guardrails around him this time, he has been exposed irreversibly to the World to be the pathetically clueless clown or is it the outright malignant self-loathing and life-hating arsonist he so obviously always was. Therefore, every minute of every hour of his presence on the scene engenders utter uncertainty and international economic paralysis.

I might argue it won't get demonstrably better if any Repub is in the White House going forward into the foreseeable future. Not unless a Repub candidate runs denouncing every statement, move, result and concept of a concept of a plan ever proposed or enacted by Donald Trump in his entire political career. Which is not likely to happen in any of our lifetimes.

Oh well.

But, hey, the Maistream Media clutched their pearls and demanded the big money Dem donors pull their funding of down ballot Dems because the Record-Breaking Economically Successful President Joe Biden stuttered and garbled a single point due to a verbal tick that naturally intensifies with age at that debate and Kamala Harris apparently had a laugh that annoyed some dumb Repub hillbillies.

So I suppose it's understandable why there were not more "players on the field" in the election to override that tiny handful of angry Muslims whose 0. 75 percentage point swing vote from Harris to Trump in just three swing states that became the sole single-issue and single demographic reason Trump was "given the presidency" again.

Yep. Oh well.

[EihTooms]

According to the demonstrably Winger-leaning RealClearPolitics' preferred polling services consensus, heading into Trump's Festival of Lies Celebration of his "Greatest First 100 Days Ever", the American people are recognizing it as the Worst Ever.

They are even starting to warm up to the idea of Immigrants eating the cats and eating the dogs more than the shit-show of disaster this Trump's Pandemic Part 2 the MAGAs, a few stray "Bothsider / Neithersider" Third Party voters and, specifically, that relative handful of angry Muslims who foolishly and now quite regrettably swung their less than 0. 75 percentage point of the total votes in just three swing states from Harris to Trump and thereby were the sole reason Trump is president again gave us.

https://www.realclearpolling.com/pol...ating-2nd-term

[Sirioja]

Canadians hate Trump. Only Putin like to fuck him.

[SubCmdr]

E2008 that he does not benefit from the services of the United States Government he was born into as man of privilege is hardly credible.

Or perhaps that was orginally sourced from a country that our brave USA Military liberated and converted or retained as a cherished low cost trading partner.

In 2023, the US military spent approximately $820.3 billion, or roughly 13.3% of the entire federal budget for that fiscal year. In March 2023, the Department of Defense (DoD) requested $842.0 billion for 2024 a 2.6% increase.

With the worlds third-largest military, at nearly 1.3 million active-duty troops, the US estimates it spends more than any other nation on its national defense. Between 2014 and 2022, the US spent more than twice as much on defense as did all other NATO members, 30 nations in total.

[SubCmdr]

The average Social Security benefit was just $1,979 per month for retired workers in January 2025.

Yes, you are getting a $4000 check from the government and your paying back $500 of that $4000 is what you consider paying taxes.

Where did you get your numbers from E2008?

To qualify for Social Security's largest checks, you need to consistently earn an amount equal to or greater than the taxable wage base for the year. In 2025, that's $176,100. This limit was lower in past years and will likely be higher in future years.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...5/81887245007/

How much taxes are paid by individuals and employees for Social Security?

Social Security is financed through a dedicated payroll tax. Employers and employees each pay 6.2 percent of wages up to the taxable maximum of $176,100 (in 2025), while the self-employed pay 12.4 percent.
Total income, including interest, to the combined OASI and DI Trust Funds amounted to $1.351 trillion in 2023. ($1.233 trillion from net payroll tax contributions, $51 billion from taxation of benefits, and $67 billion in interest)

https://www.ssa.gov/news/press/facts...alSecurity.htm

So let me get this straight

E2008 is complaining because an individual works an entire lifetime paying into a system that is suppose to provide a lifetime benefit once they reach a certain age and he considers that to be some sort of welfare payment.

Where do the Republican Racists like Musk get this stuff?

[Elvis 2008]

We know neither you nor anyone in your family ever used a flush-toilet. So next time you hop from rock to rock on the way to the communal outhouse, check around the yard and see if you can identify anything that might have been delivered to the nearest wampum exchange by way of the Interstate Highway system.

https://www.pgpf.org/article/budget-...ay-trust-fund/

You look at this and it just shows how gutless the Feds are. They are too chicken shit to raise gasoline taxes to cover highway expenses and instead are racking up debt. There is no reason for any income tax to go towards highways.

[HotDog666]

He (American Jew) is one of the smartest and well informed people in America. 100%correct on solution for America's deficit. However I would add that America needs to reform it's healthcare which consumes twice as much per GDP shares as other countries much worse outcomes. It also needs to reduce aggregate consumption if it cannot increase production. Basic microeconomics.

On Israel, he eviscirates the obfuscation and propaganda of zionazis.

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZNd2fjBM8/

To add to this, how you guys got into this mess.

Iraq war: including all indirect expenditure: around $ 7 trillion on a needless and unjust war.

Covid: around $4 trillion.

So that's around $11 trillion or around 30% of the total debt.

Now moving forward:

Annual American military spend: around $ 1 trillion, or 3. 5 % of GDP annually.

Annual American healthcare spend: around $4. 5 trillion or 18% of GDP.

There's a clue there on what you need to go after. Yet this dumb fuck Musk thinks going after the peanuts from social security or critical govt programs or aid to the poorest people on the planet is somehow the solution- highly unlikely he will even save the $160 billion (itself being a fraction of the $2 trillion the Vice BS'er claimed initially).

Why does America need to spend 40% of the world's military spend? Let's save the spiel about how America is saving Nato- let the Europeans sort themselves out. Do you need 700 military bases? Do you know why it is China can make a new fighter jet for about 30% of the cost that America does?

As if it would make any difference to Russia if it were halved, and frankly sooner or later China will win out over America where it matters for them on Taiwan so you might as well throw in the towel now. So let's say that's 1. 5% of GDP savings by halving defence. Hey as a bonus people may start liking America again if you no longer threaten genocide and ethnic cleansing to appease your zionazi overlords.

American healthcare is a mess-I know as I have worked with pharma companies in Europe who charge one price to the ROW and another vastly inflated price to Americans-add on to this all the other insurance and other disfunctions and you still have a terrible system- other countries spend 10%-13% of their GDP on healthcare for vastly better systems. So a proper reform here should yield 6% of your savings. Why is America incapable of taking this on- I just don't get it. If you can put a man on the moon you can freaking reform your healthcare properly, instead of having a succession of bullshitters who fray around the edges from both the Dems and the Republicans.

And so you have it, 7% plus of GDP savings pa. Being what Prof Sachs says America accumulates every year.