The new DOGE (department of government efficiency) is looking to cut federal spending.
It seems that the defense budget and interest payments on the debt will be hard to cut from.
Social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance also seem hard to cut from. This would hurt old people and poor people.
Then there's spending on veteran's benefits, infrastructure, and farm subsidies.
Out of all those things, I think farm subsidies would get the least amount of blowback to cut out. Cutting anything else would hurt too many people.
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Will DOGE cut farm subsidies?
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Will DOGE cut farm subsidies?
"Empathy is the fuel that runs a decent society. Without it, only dry rules and competitions for power are left."
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Fuck Nazis, MAGA , & Elon Musk. I never imagined the US descending into authoritarianism, but it is.
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Re: Will DOGE cut farm subsidies?
I actually put my money on Medicaid being cut. The boys in charge have no time for handouts, not even for their own voters 

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-Jaron Lanier, 2018.
Fuck Nazis, MAGA , & Elon Musk. I never imagined the US descending into authoritarianism, but it is.
-Jaron Lanier, 2018.
Fuck Nazis, MAGA , & Elon Musk. I never imagined the US descending into authoritarianism, but it is.
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Re: Will DOGE cut farm subsidies?
I actually think these boys would be happy to cut anything that hurts people, especially poor people! They don't like poor people at all.Voltron wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 3:48 pm The new DOGE (department of government efficiency) is looking to cut federal spending.
It seems that the defense budget and interest payments on the debt will be hard to cut from.
Social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance also seem hard to cut from. This would hurt old people and poor people.
Then there's spending on veteran's benefits, infrastructure, and farm subsidies.
Out of all those things, I think farm subsidies would get the least amount of blowback to cut out. Cutting anything else would hurt too many people.
After all, poor people only have themselves to blame. If only they weren't so lazy and understood what hard work is, they wouldn't be so poor.
Poor people should get off their lazy asses and go to trade school.
Another path to success would be to leverage your family's wealth from the emerald mining industry to buy a bunch of businesses. I don't understand why all these poor people don't consider doing something like that.
You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch?
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Re: Will DOGE cut farm subsidies?
I'm looking forward to when those two big boys finally collide and have to work out who is top dog. Younger boys might do it via physical scrap, but with these two it will be a freak show, like grizzly bear vs gorillaBunker Inspector wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 4:43 pmI actually think these boys would be happy to cut anything that hurts people, especially poor people! They don't like poor people at all.Voltron wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 3:48 pm The new DOGE (department of government efficiency) is looking to cut federal spending.
It seems that the defense budget and interest payments on the debt will be hard to cut from.
Social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance also seem hard to cut from. This would hurt old people and poor people.
Then there's spending on veteran's benefits, infrastructure, and farm subsidies.
Out of all those things, I think farm subsidies would get the least amount of blowback to cut out. Cutting anything else would hurt too many people.
After all, poor people only have themselves to blame. If only they weren't so lazy and understood what hard work is, they wouldn't be so poor.
Poor people should get off their lazy asses and go to trade school.
Another path to success would be to leverage your family's wealth from the emerald mining industry to buy a bunch of businesses. I don't understand why all these poor people don't consider doing something like that.
"Empathy is the fuel that runs a decent society. Without it, only dry rules and competitions for power are left."
-Jaron Lanier, 2018.
Fuck Nazis, MAGA , & Elon Musk. I never imagined the US descending into authoritarianism, but it is.
-Jaron Lanier, 2018.
Fuck Nazis, MAGA , & Elon Musk. I never imagined the US descending into authoritarianism, but it is.
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Re: Will DOGE cut farm subsidies?
The whole administration, really, will amount to a series of petty squabbles between a rotating cast of Bond villainsVoltron wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 6:01 pmI'm looking forward to when those two big boys finally collide and have to work out who is top dog. Younger boys might do it via physical scrap, but with these two it will be a freak show, like grizzly bear vs gorillaBunker Inspector wrote: ↑Wed Nov 27, 2024 4:43 pmI actually think these boys would be happy to cut anything that hurts people, especially poor people! They don't like poor people at all.Voltron wrote: ↑Mon Nov 25, 2024 3:48 pm The new DOGE (department of government efficiency) is looking to cut federal spending.
It seems that the defense budget and interest payments on the debt will be hard to cut from.
Social security, Medicare, unemployment insurance also seem hard to cut from. This would hurt old people and poor people.
Then there's spending on veteran's benefits, infrastructure, and farm subsidies.
Out of all those things, I think farm subsidies would get the least amount of blowback to cut out. Cutting anything else would hurt too many people.
After all, poor people only have themselves to blame. If only they weren't so lazy and understood what hard work is, they wouldn't be so poor.
Poor people should get off their lazy asses and go to trade school.
Another path to success would be to leverage your family's wealth from the emerald mining industry to buy a bunch of businesses. I don't understand why all these poor people don't consider doing something like that.
I agree it'll be especially interesting to see what happens when these two big boys butt heads
Will "big daddy" intercede, and in whose favor?

You call yourself a salesman, you son of a bitch?
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