Well, you DO notice Ana furiously masturbating about the millions DOGE is supposedly saving us all by taking a chainsaw to programs on which human lives actually depend.....but you also notice that he has not a single problem with the trillions of dollars ADDED to our deficit by virtue of the reduced revenues caused by Trump's tax cuts.
See, we are in deficit danger! "DANGER! WE MUST DO SOMETHING! Let's cut this, and that, and that thing over there I don't even know what it is or what it does or whether it's important but let's cut it!"
Cool. So, I guess we should also see if we could find some more revenues, too, to add to the plus side of the ledger to help close that gap, right, since "unsustainable deficit" is the greatest existential threat the Republic has ever seen?
"Oh...no. We need to slash revenues too."
Anyone who has passed third grade math:
Deficit hawks are liars. They always are.
If my household budget was truly in the type of dire straits that Ana says our country is in, I'd both 1) slash spending (sorry, no more purses, no eating out, turn the A/C temp up, no vacation this year) AND 2) tell my wife she needs to get a full-time job to give us more revenue.
If I followed the DOGE plan, I would 1) shut off all my utilities, sell my cars so I couldn't get to work anymore, decide that only 3 out of 4 of my household get to eat each day, and 2) tell my wife to quit her part-time job, and start working less myself, because hey, producing revenues is hard and unpleasant. Oh, and I'd slash more in revenues than I slashed in spending because like Barbie said, math is hard.