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I tried to explain, over and over again, the fiscal situation. This was a couple of years ago.

I looked at debt to the penny for 1 OCT 2023, then compared in with the same number for 1 OCT 2024. Then I looked up federal spending in fiscal 2024. I calculated a deficit of 8.2%. You can replicate that calculation, some of you, but not most. 40% of every dollar of federal spending is borrowed.

These aren't even RIFs. RIFs are coming. The money doesn't exist to pay those salaries. 20% is of federal spending interest expense, which cannot be cut.  In order to balance the budget we have to cut around 50% of all noninterest spending.

Once we hit a recession, the deficit will blow out to $5 trillion. No one will finance our deficits. The dollar will crumble. Inflation explodes.

The leftists here decided they didn't love their children enough to care about all of that. The crisis was avoidable, were it not for people like you. All you had to do was balance the budget. Stop believing the lie.

I wish the best to all of you. Prepare for what is coming or don't. Your track record so far isn't great. 

 

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16 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

I tried to explain, over and over again, the fiscal situation. This was a couple of years ago.

I looked at debt to the penny for 1 OCT 2023, then compared in with the same number for 1 OCT 2024. Then I looked up federal spending in fiscal 2024. I calculated a deficit of 8.2%. You can replicate that calculation, some of you, but not most. 40% of every dollar of federal spending is borrowed.

These aren't even RIFs. RIFs are coming. The money doesn't exist to pay those salaries. 20% is of federal spending interest expense, which cannot be cut.  In order to balance the budget we have to cut around 50% of all noninterest spending.

Once we hit a recession, the deficit will blow out to $5 trillion. No one will finance our deficits. The dollar will crumble. Inflation explodes.

The leftists here decided they didn't love their children enough to care about all of that. The crisis was avoidable, were it not for people like you. All you had to do was balance the budget. Stop believing the lie.

I wish the best to all of you. Prepare for what is coming or don't. Your track record so far isn't great. 

 

Dems, like me, have been screaming about the deficit, and the need to cut military spending, and reverse the insanity of cutting taxes on the wealthiest citizens. 
 

How did the USA pay for the debt incurred saving Europe from fascism?

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On 1/28/2025 at 6:46 PM, Valmy77 said:

The arbitrariness of this seems idiotic. How can they prevent really important personnel from taking the offer and less important ones hanging around? Surely a scheme like this should be more targeted.

In the past I would have assumed I just didn't know the details and surely more thought was put into this behind the scenes...but these days who can say?

Because they don't give a fuck.  Actual job performance means nothing if it doesn't toe the MAGA line.  There's no guarantee, and an absolute likelihood, that MAGA replacements will suck shit through a straw, and also orange man's crank.

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wait...surly 'leftists' are responsible for the federal budget not being balanced?? i mean i know we're part of the biggest NIL collective and the largest political forum in Texas, but i had no idea we had that kind of power and influence 😮 

 

 

 

 

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7 minutes ago, mchookem said:

wait...surly 'leftists' are responsible for the federal budget not being balanced?? i mean i know we're part of the biggest NIL collective and the largest political forum in Texas, but i had no idea we had that kind of power and influence 😮 

 

 

 

 

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Let's not forget that presidential track record on budget deficit explosions.

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2 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

I tried to explain, over and over again, the fiscal situation. This was a couple of years ago.

I looked at debt to the penny for 1 OCT 2023, then compared in with the same number for 1 OCT 2024. Then I looked up federal spending in fiscal 2024. I calculated a deficit of 8.2%. You can replicate that calculation, some of you, but not most. 40% of every dollar of federal spending is borrowed.

These aren't even RIFs. RIFs are coming. The money doesn't exist to pay those salaries. 20% is of federal spending interest expense, which cannot be cut.  In order to balance the budget we have to cut around 50% of all noninterest spending.

Once we hit a recession, the deficit will blow out to $5 trillion. No one will finance our deficits. The dollar will crumble. Inflation explodes.

The leftists here decided they didn't love their children enough to care about all of that. The crisis was avoidable, were it not for people like you. All you had to do was balance the budget. Stop believing the lie.

I wish the best to all of you. Prepare for what is coming or don't. Your track record so far isn't great. 

 

So surely you advocate for holding tax rates at least steady if not increasing them to help pay down this debt right? 

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5 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

I tried to explain, over and over again, the fiscal situation. This was a couple of years ago.

I looked at debt to the penny for 1 OCT 2023, then compared in with the same number for 1 OCT 2024. Then I looked up federal spending in fiscal 2024. I calculated a deficit of 8.2%. You can replicate that calculation, some of you, but not most. 40% of every dollar of federal spending is borrowed.

These aren't even RIFs. RIFs are coming. The money doesn't exist to pay those salaries. 20% is of federal spending interest expense, which cannot be cut.  In order to balance the budget we have to cut around 50% of all noninterest spending.

Once we hit a recession, the deficit will blow out to $5 trillion. No one will finance our deficits. The dollar will crumble. Inflation explodes.

The leftists here decided they didn't love their children enough to care about all of that. The crisis was avoidable, were it not for people like you. All you had to do was balance the budget. Stop believing the lie.

I wish the best to all of you. Prepare for what is coming or don't. Your track record so far isn't great. 

 

 

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4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Because they don't give a fuck.  Actual job performance means nothing if it doesn't toe the MAGA line.  There's no guarantee, and an absolute likelihood, that MAGA replacements will suck shit through a straw, and also orange man's crank.

Relevant:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-systems/
 

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The highest-ranking career official at the Treasury Department is departing after a clash with allies of billionaire Elon Musk over access to sensitive payment systems, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private talks.

David A. Lebryk, who served in nonpolitical roles at Treasury for several decades, is expected to leave the agency soon, the people said. President Donald Trump named Lebryk as acting secretary upon taking office last week. Lebryk had a dispute with Musk’s surrogates over access to the payment system the U.S. government uses to disburse trillions of dollars every year, the people said. The exact nature of the disagreement was not immediately clear, they said.

Officials affiliated with Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” have been asking since after the election for access to the system, the people said — requests that were reiterated more recently, including after Trump’s inauguration.

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Typically only a small number of career officials control Treasury’s payment systems. Run by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, the sensitive systems control the flow of more than $6 trillion annually to households, businesses and more nationwide. Tens, if not hundreds, of millions of people across the country rely on the systems, which are responsible for distributing Social Security and Medicare benefits, salaries for federal personnel, payments to government contractors and grant recipients and tax refunds, among tens of thousands of other functions.

The clash reflects an intensifying battle between Musk and the federal bureaucracy as the Trump administration nears the conclusion of its second week. Musk has sought to exert sweeping control over the inner workings of the U.S. government, installing longtime surrogates at several agencies, including the Office of Personnel Management, which essentially handles federal human resources, and the General Services Administration, which manages real estate. (Musk was seen on Thursday visiting GSA, according to two other people familiar with his whereabouts, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal matters. That visit was first reported by the New York Times.) His Department of Government Efficiency, originally conceived as a nongovernmental panel, has since replaced the U.S. Digital Service.

The executive order Trump signed creating DOGE also instructed all agencies to ensure it has “full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems,” which would appear to include the Treasury payment systems.

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It is unclear precisely why Musk’s team sought access to those systems. But both Musk and the Trump administration more broadly have sought to control spending in ways that far exceed efforts by their predecessors and have alarmed legal experts.

On Monday, the White House Office of Management and Budget ordered a freeze on all federal grant spending — an order it rescinded two days later amid intense political backlash and multiple lawsuits over the consequences of that decision.

Musk has characterized the rising national debt as an existential threat to the country and has proved willing to break norms in service of sweeping change.

Still, the possibility that government officials might try to use the federal payments system — which essentially functions as the nation’s “checking book” — to enact a political agenda is unprecedented, said Mark Mazur, who served in senior treasury roles during the Obama and Biden administrations.

“This is a mechanical job — they pay Social Security benefits, they pay vendors, whatever. It’s not one where there’s a role for nonmechanical things, at least from the career standpoint. Your whole job is to pay the bills as they’re due,” Mazur said. “It’s never been used in a way to execute a partisan agenda. … You have to really put bad intentions in place for that to be the case.”

In the 2023 fiscal year, the payment systems processed nearly 1.3 billion payments, accounting for about $5.4 trillion, nearly 97 percent made electronically, according to the Treasury Department. Every payment was made on time.

Lebryk’s departure is expected to be a shock to Treasury personnel, among whom he enjoys a sterling reputation. The lifelong bureaucrat joined the department as an intern in 1989 and spent three decades at the agency under 11 different treasury secretaries, serving as acting director of the U.S. Mint and commissioner of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, among other roles.

Michael Faulkender, whom Trump nominated as deputy U.S. treasury secretary in December, praised Lebryk’s work in 2023.

“I could not, to this day, tell you his politics,” Faulkender, who served as an assistant secretary at Treasury during Trump’s first term, told The Washington Post at the time. “He always seemed to be relaxed and under control.”

 

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6 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

I tried to explain, over and over again, the fiscal situation. This was a couple of years ago.

I looked at debt to the penny for 1 OCT 2023, then compared in with the same number for 1 OCT 2024. Then I looked up federal spending in fiscal 2024. I calculated a deficit of 8.2%. You can replicate that calculation, some of you, but not most. 40% of every dollar of federal spending is borrowed.

These aren't even RIFs. RIFs are coming. The money doesn't exist to pay those salaries. 20% is of federal spending interest expense, which cannot be cut.  In order to balance the budget we have to cut around 50% of all noninterest spending.

Once we hit a recession, the deficit will blow out to $5 trillion. No one will finance our deficits. The dollar will crumble. Inflation explodes.

The leftists here decided they didn't love their children enough to care about all of that. The crisis was avoidable, were it not for people like you. All you had to do was balance the budget. Stop believing the lie.

I wish the best to all of you. Prepare for what is coming or don't. Your track record so far isn't great. 

 

Literal LOL at patting yourself on the back for blaming the deficit/debt on the left. 

Holy shit.

 

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