Sounds like there needs to be some sort of efficiency department set up
this post was submitted on 10 Mar 2026
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We can call it the Department Of Grifting Everyone
For healthcare? Education? Can’t possibly imagine what …
Maybe they are secretly building a super efficient and expansive social safety net behind our backs and making it a surprise!!!!
You are more likely to become soylent green.
No they are building a space ray to shoot down some planet we never heard of.
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Good thing the fiscally responsible party is in power
Gotta spend money to make genocides
interest payments on the debt are expected to exceed $1 trillion this year
If my finger-counting math is right ye yanks, on average (including children), are paying ~$250 a month just in interests... I ain't no economist but that seems like a lot.
Gets worse when you realize it’s mostly the middle class paying it
There's no such a thing as 'middle class'. The working class is paying all of it.
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If we get some crazy inflation that won't be more than the price of a cup of coffee.
It's actually worse than this if you just consider the number of working adults.
Which is about 165 million.
Which means every working adult is paying ~$500/m just on the interest.
Which.... Isn't working, at all, the US is cooked.
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I just saw a study that said if Trump continued on at this rate, he will be responsible for 55% of the national debt. And that was BEFORE the Iran War.
When we get these psychopaths out, and start to rebuild, we already know that they'll suddenly get fiscally conservative, and they'll pretend to be concerned about spending.
When that happens, just take theirs away. THEY are responsible for the debt, so if it bothers them so much, they should be the ones to make the sacrifice to pay it back.
Republican administration completely fucks up the budget, leaves office with massive deficit
Democrat administration spends the next 4 years cleaning up that clusterfuck
GOP tells it's dumbfuck base that it's all the Dems fault that their 1996 Dodge Ram 3500 gets 8 mpg and they're gonna fix everything
Dumbfuck republican voters fall for it, yet again, because they never passed the 9th grade and have been huffing diesel exhaust for the past 20 years
Dumbfuck masses rally and vote in another Republican administration
That cycle has gone on repeat over and over and over again for literally my entire lifetime. It's all I know. That has been my experience with with the US government, for my whole life.
I'm tired, boss.
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They already pretended to care about spending and then some guy called Big Balls helped Elon Musk harvest all our data
I hate how that is not even a little taken out of context or exaggerated.
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Damn ... if only there was a department of government efficiency to stop insane and fiscally irresponsible shit like this.
Or ... we need a branch of government that "controls the purse" so crazy spending like this doesnt happen.
Ah, Republicans. They make a huge deal about spending any time they are not in power and then spending like a drunk Sailor when in power.
Its a deliberate strategy they've used for the past 50 years. Its called the Two Santa's Strategy.
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Oh man, this must be that FiScAl ReSpOnSiBiLiTy I keep hearing about from the ~~reich~~ right
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so rather than just pay a tax like a socialist country would up front, US is now only just surviving on tariffing ..which is paid … by their own people ….as a tax. On top of whatever tax you already pay ……while digging more deficits.
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My esteemed congratulations to 1930's history enthusiasts.
You're about to relive it
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Just for the sake of argument: It's possible to create gasoline from any hydrocarbon feedstock (wood, cow shit, OSB scraps, rice hulls, sugar) for about $12/gallon. At 42 gallons of gas/jet fuel/diesel/kerosene per barrel of oil, that's roughly $504 of finished product per barrel (@ $12/gal).
That means $50 billion would get you about 100 million barrels of synthesized oil. Since the US consumes about 20,000,000 barrels of oil per day we'd be able to synthesize 5/7ths of our oil consumption from waste biomass for that $50 billion per week. Food for thought.
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Thank god Doge found all that extra money.
They say anything to get into power. Literally anything. None of it matters and they know it.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking real money.
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Uggg this old trope.
It's not really "borrowing" when they print the money.
It's just another wealth transfer from the poor to the extremely privileged.
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I disagree, according to my observation U.S. borrowed at least $69.7B per week 1 394,11 / 20
United States of America 3,5% 25/28 US91282CPC90 99.75 13/10/2025 USD 100 15/10/2025 3.50% 15/10/2028 59.08 bn
United States of America 3,625% 25/30 US91282CPD73 99.23 31/10/2025 USD 100 31/10/2025 3.63% 31/10/2030 74.02 bn
United States of America 3,5% 25/27 US91282CPE56 99.74 31/10/2025 USD 100 31/10/2025 3.50% 31/10/2027 72.96 bn
United States of America 3,75% 25/32 US91282CPF22 98.81 03/11/2025 USD 100 31/10/2025 3.75% 31/10/2032 46.53 bn
United States of America 0,000% 25/26 US912797SK41 97.28 03/11/2025 USD 100 30/10/2025 - 29/10/2026 52.80 bn
United States of America 3,5% 25/28 US91282CPK17 99.73 13/11/2025 USD 100 15/11/2025 3.50% 15/11/2028 67.03 bn
United States of America 4,625% 25/55 US912810UP11 96.67 17/11/2025 USD 100 15/11/2025 4.63% 15/11/2055 28.89 bn
United States of America 4% 25/35 US91282CPJ44 98.53 17/11/2025 USD 100 15/11/2025 4.00% 15/11/2035 48.54 bn
United States of America 3,75% 25/32 US91282CPM72 98.76 01/12/2025 USD 100 30/11/2025 3.75% 30/11/2032 49.03 bn
United States of America 3,5% 25/30 US91282CPN55 98.85 01/12/2025 USD 100 30/11/2025 3.50% 30/11/2030 70.00 bn
United States of America 3,375% 25/27 US91282CPL99 99.68 01/12/2025 USD 100 30/11/2025 3.38% 30/11/2027 76.89 bn
United States of America 3,5% 25/28 US91282CPP04 99.72 11/12/2025 USD 100 15/12/2025 3.50% 15/12/2028 58.00 bn
United States of America 0,000% 25/26 US912797TC16 96.78 06/01/2026 USD 100 26/12/2025 - 24/12/2026 52.30 bn
United States of America 3,875% 25/32 US91282CPQ86 99.48 02/01/2026 USD 100 31/12/2025 3.88% 31/12/2032 48.69 bn
United States of America 3,625% 25/30 US91282CPR69 99.38 02/01/2026 USD 100 31/12/2025 3.63% 31/12/2030 77.46 bn
United States of America 3,375% 25/27 US91282CPS43 99.67 02/01/2026 USD 100 31/12/2025 3.38% 31/12/2027 76.35 bn
United States of America 3,5% 26/29 US91282CQA26 99.91 13/02/2026 USD 100 15/02/2026 3.50% 15/02/2029 74.43 bn
United States of America 4,125% 26/36 US91282CPZ85 100.81 17/02/2026 USD 100 15/02/2026 4.13% 15/02/2036 53.90 bn
United States of America 4,75% 26/56 US912810UR76 0.00 18/02/2026 USD 100 15/02/2026 4.75% 15/02/2056 32.08 bn
United States of America 0,000% 26/27 US912797TV96 96.67 23/02/2026 USD 100 19/02/2026 - 18/02/2027 52.28 bn
United States of America 4,625% 26/46 US912810UT33 99.95 24/02/2026 USD 100 15/02/2026 4.63% 15/02/2046 17.92 bn
United States of America 3,375% 26/28 US91282CQB09 99.71 27/02/2026 USD 100 28/02/2026 3.38% 29/02/2028 77.27 bn
United States of America 3,5% 26/31 US91282CQD64 99.24 02/03/2026 USD 100 28/02/2026 3.50% 28/02/2031 78.39 bn
United States of America 3,75% 26/33 US91282CQC81 98.78 03/03/2026 USD 100 28/02/2026 3.75% 28/02/2033 49.27 bn
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As a solitary meat popsicle with limited understanding of fucked up shit, at what "level" of fucked up shit is the US finally and officially "perma-fucked"?
Every time my meat popsicle brain thinks "That's probably the last straw" they find thousands more straws somewhere AND I DON'T GET IT.
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Trump has never paid his bills a day in his life.
He fucked over his own chauffeur, and thousands of his contractors and employees. He's declared bankruptcy something like eight times, leaving investors with nothing. He's gone to court over a thousand times; no other real estate developer has these problems. Interestingly, his mentor was Roy Cohn, who had the same issue of skipping bills (coincidentally I am sure).
So, long story short for libbies, Trump will buy a company named "American Fury MAGA USA Friends" and transfer all the country's debt to it, and THEN that company will declare a new feature he's devised, called "Supreme Bankruptcy" which cannot be overturned by the Supreme Court because it's Supreme, too.
Problem solved, in your face commies
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Related to this problem, our entire country's financial system is based on debt; we don't even control our own money. The FED is controlled by select appointed bankers, who practically all work for banks or are on the boards of banks and investment firms before and after their appointed terms.
The dollar is worth less every year for a reason, it's called profiteering. It's designed to collapse; with each collapse these same interests buy everything once prices are tanked. Then, they start the process again. Every year it gets exponentially worse because math is mean.
They don't even hide it.
https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/fedexplained/who-we-are.htm
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Bigger shock is that somebody loaned him anything since his bankruptcies have been public knowledge for decades
It’s the federal reserve loaning the government money, there’s no way they’re paying for all this in bond auctions.
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i'm starting to worry if lisa will actually be able to fix all this after he's gone.... i do not have much confidence in secretary millhouse
The US, like all governments, can simply create money. Unlike most commodities, modern currencies are gated only by the choice to do so. Just change the number in the computer. Trump can simply choose to create money and give it to himself. That's what he wants, which is why he's hounding the fed to reduce rates, so he can create more money. Then he just gives it to himself and his allies through some obvious scheme or direct it to his efforts, despite no congressional approval of the funds purpose. The massive increase in expenditures of the US government is just Trump printing money to give himself and his allies. It's insane to give someone like Trump control of a system whose only real barrier is a choice.
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