Trump 2025

Just saw Elon found a savings of $1MM because a government agency is using tape backup instead of digital and cloud.

Now, lefties will say “big deal not much money there” and compared to the entire budget no. But this is the way you add up savings. That savings is Trumps paycheck for two years (even though he donates it back unlike recent Democrats who bragged about how much money they had) it is still savings. And it is the kind of thing agency managers should have been doing. But there is zero incentive for them to try to save money. Showing why DOGE is so important.

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Just saw Elon found a savings of $1MM because a government agency is using tape backup instead of digital and cloud.

Now, lefties will say “big deal not much money there” and compared to the entire budget no. But this is the way you add up savings. That savings is Trumps paycheck for two years (even though he donates it back unlike recent Democrats who bragged about how much money they had) it is still savings. And it is the kind of thing agency managers should have been doing. But there is zero incentive for them to try to save money. Showing why DOGE is so important.

I think Doge is doing a great thing but I think there's a downside to it also. It's like a rich family in an old southern town and they own the only factory in the area and it employs everybody and keeps the town going. The largesse of the family helps out the small businesses all the time and gives them loans and props them up and keeps the whole town going. Eventually the family gets overextended and has to cut back and this is good for them but not very good for the town because businesses have to lay people off, they do less business through the door, and some of them have to close. With all the money that doge is saving on the other end of it is somebody who's not getting the money, or somebody who is losing their job, and this is going to cause a ripple effect. It has to, it's a law of nature. But it has to be done just like the rich family had to cut back or lose their entire fortune.

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"Nieces book says." IOW, no verification at all.

She KNOWS him, she is FAMILY.

Unlike you, a fan, she iis an observer with knowledge.

But of course you discount her observation: otherwise your house of cards would crumble.

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I think Doge is doing a great thing but I think there's a downside to it also. It's like a rich family in an old southern town and they own the only factory in the area and it employs everybody and keeps the town going. The largesse of the family helps out the small businesses all the time and gives them loans and props them up and keeps the whole town going. Eventually the family gets overextended and has to cut back and this is good for them but not very good for the town because businesses have to lay people off, they do less business through the door, and some of them have to close. With all the money that doge is saving on the other end of it is somebody who's not getting the money, or somebody who is losing their job, and this is going to cause a ripple effect. It has to, it's a law of nature. But it has to be done just like the rich family had to cut back or lose their entire fortune.

For sure a lot of people are living off the waste. That’s why it is so hard to get rid of. I’ve been in jobs where we had little to do but they had to have people on the project. In the corporate world that is short term in government it can be a career.

Quote: Evenbob

Crazy like a troll, I know your game. You completely forget that you told me who you are. Big mistake.

You've no freakin' idea as to "who" I am, spike: you see only what I let you see.

Of course I admit to enjoying "stirring the pot:" many others do as well: that in itself proves nothing.

So tell me, Einstein: you say you've got the goods on me: what exactly do you have?

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Donald Trump’s nostalgic fantasy

, In 2008, the US economy was about the same size as the Eurozone. By 2023 it was nearly twice that size. US average wages were but 20% greater than the average of the advanced industrial world in 1990. 
They are now around 40% higher. The average Japanese person was 50% richer than an American in 1995 in terms of GDP Today, an American is about 150 percent richer than a Japanese person. 
In fact, the poorest American state, Mississippi has a higher capital GDP. than Britain or France or Japan. And yet Donald Trump has been convinced that all these decades, as America has moved ahead, it is actually in steep decline. His worldview seems to have been set in the 1960s, when in his memory, America was a great manufacturing power.

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America’s tariff and non-tariff protectionism before this move was already higher than 68 other countries

Trump bringing back the good ol' days. 1929.

Trump Reds may be a tad high, but possible, because of:

(1) Covid clot-shots.

(2) 50+ years of abortion variance.

(3) Not counting the illegal replacements.

(4) Recent conversions (blues awakening).

(5) Fake news, polls, and elections.


They're fighting for the Party's survival.

I'd stay clear of them for safety.

Such as, drive down a different street, shop at different stores, etc.

NOW THE EU IS BACKING OFF!

But....but....but.........he needs to use a scalpel!

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NOW THE EU IS BACKING OFF!

But....but....but.........he needs to use a scalpel!

Watching fake news again?