Re: Servicing debt can become #1 easily, with just 3-4 more percentage points

PACIFIC BEACH TIGER® · 2025-04-06T13:04:21.523Z

He cut federal workers who handle social security, veteran's benefits, and school lunches for the poorest of children. Meanwhile, musk's company collects 15 to 50 billion dollars from the US government in subsidies. I have an excellent idea for Dodge...cut musk and save 6x what Dodge has been able to scrape so far off the backs of the poorest people in the USA. Isn't that what Jesus teaches us? Let the children and the elderly starve so the very richest among us can collect more? Oh, but the deficit? LOL

Doge cut 1.5 Billion, but didn't hardly touch the biggest 49% (military budget).

Re: Doge cut 1.5 Billion, but didn't hardly touch the biggest 49% (military budget).

25% of the current debt was from Trump's first term.

Re: 25% of the current debt was from Trump's first term.

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I would have done it similar to Clinton, but bigger in scale.

Apr 6, 2025, 11:15 AM [ in reply to Re: Doge cut 1.5 Billion, but didn't hardly touch the biggest 49% (military budget). ]

I'd go in with a 10% mandate for cuts, first day in office, by the end of the first year. But instead of letting the world's richest guy run roughshod, I'd get the inspector generals of each department and task them with finding the best 10% to cut. After fiscal year one, 10% less is paid, so they will have to find the cuts or it's across the board. They will find the waste. THEN, second year, same. 10% MORE cuts. Find it. Second fiscal year ends, third starts off 10% less. And fourth year, 5% cuts demanded, same thing. See, Trump is in Biden's last fiscal year, and Congress' last fiscal year until this September. Any new President taking office is in the fiscal year of the prior President/Congress until September.

AND THIS APPLIES TO THE MILITARY AS WELL. OH AND THESE ARE REAL CUTS, NO BASELINE BUDGETING CRAP.

And if after cuts, Congress continues to spend more with baseline budgeting, every penny goes to the US treasury to pay debt.

While this is going on, my first meeting with the 50 governors would not be an opportunity to ##### at the governor of Maine over gender in sports. Nope, I'd lobby all governors to undertake an Article V convention of the states, proposing ONLY two amendments, a balanced budget (in 10 years, which I'd be working towards myself), and term limits in Congress. 2 terms, each house. Every year I'd see all 50 governors in a meeting and expect answers/results on that. Just asking for a vote, nothing more or less. I'd probably put some governor with ambitions as the head of that effort too.

Then I'd end subsidies to all US crops/farmers that makes any food crop grown for human consumption, metabolized in the pancreas as glucose, gets zero subsidies. Crop insurance and agricultural feed subsidies can remain, but if it goes into a human, and it's sugar, complex or simple, grains, rice, honey, corn, some fruits....yeah, subsidies gone.

Oh get this, I'd END America's cane sugar tariff. It is 14%, or was if I recall, and it's solely why HFCS even exists.

These would be the biggest things I'd want to accomplish. Ambitious for 4 years. If reelected, by year 8 I'd hope we'd be spending at least 50% less, health would improve, and Congress would no longer be a bunch of spineless dinosaurs, and they'd actually do their job. Just how I'd do it. The right way, legally, Constitutionally, and we Keep America Great.

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Because they didn't? The Theater Bois wouldnt be lying again

Doge cut 1.5 Billion, but didn't hardly touch the biggest 49% (military budget).

Re: Doge cut 1.5 Billion, but didn't hardly touch the biggest 49% (military budget).

25% of the current debt was from Trump's first term.

Re: 25% of the current debt was from Trump's first term.

Re: 25% of the current debt was from Trump's first term.

Servicing debt can become #1 easily, with just 3-4 more percentage points