Episode 819: 30,000 migrants to Guantanamo
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As a Canadian I was willing to go back to business as usual in 2020, but then Americans elected Trump a 2nd time. Once is a mistake, but electing someone who tried to overthrow your own government is a joke. And now 100 years of cooperation and friendship is in the toilet. I have cancelled nearly all my subscriptions to American companies, I will not travel to the US unless I have to for work..
Chris
2025-02-21 21:09:20 +0000 UTCIn FY2024, 76.8% of the budget was spent on... social security, medicare, medicaid = $2.935T (47.8%), defense = $826B (13.5%), and interest on national debt = $949B (15.5%). Note that the total budget expenditure was $6.135T; however, the fed only had $4.919T in revenues (80.2%). If the budget were balanced such that social security, defense, and debt interest spending levels remained the same, there would only be $209B left to fund everything else (FBI, FAA, CDC, FEMA, ICE, National Laboratories, NASA, education, infrastructure, CIA, NSA, State Department, Justice Department, subsidizing farmers, EPA, etc.). Arguably, there are but three options/tools to deal with the deficit; (1) economic growth, (2) decrease expenditures, and/or (3) increase revenues. Real growth comes from increasing productivity, which can come from improving productivity per capita and/or from having more employed people doing work. Productivity per capita is usually more affected by technology rather than by policies. Adding more workers, either comes from birth rates from about 25 years ago and/or via immigration. What do you think will happen to U.S. productivity when we stop immigration and kick-out millions of willing, hard-working, healthy workers for not having the correct documentation? By he way, artificial growth occurs when the fed implements stimulus measures like tax cuts and/or hands out major subsidies. Perhaps the GDP will grow, and eventually and inevitably these stimulus funds find their way into the pockets of the wealthy, but the overall national productivity doesn't necessarily improve. Decreasing expenditures can certainly help, but people don't want their benefits taken away. God forbid we actually tax the wealthy, who use disproportionately more resources than the rest of us, and/or tax major corporations, who often under-pay their workers to the point that many workers must utilize welfare programs and SNAP benefits just to get by. Luckily, the current administration is well-poised and more than willing to decrease the national productivity by targeting immigration and immigrants, lower taxes for the wealthy while implementing tariffs which are taxes for the the rest of us, and increase expenditures, especially on useless stuff like more guns, ammo, and bombs - but definitely not for Ukraine.
Sketchy Intentions, Disreputable Endeavors
2025-02-03 18:06:29 +0000 UTCAs someone in a hurricane state, my big beef with them (hurricanes) is that they’re also full of tornadoes. It feels like that shouldn’t be allowed, lol.
Kelsey Ann Livingston
2025-02-03 14:20:33 +0000 UTCThe Inheritocracy
Driller32
2025-02-03 13:22:52 +0000 UTCI'm going to have to push back. He hasn't been in office for 14 days. This isn't normal time, you know. You don't just increment the days, they compound. He's been in for 105 days. Tomorrow, it will be 120 days, 136 days the day after that, and by Wednesday it will be 153.
Asymetra
2025-02-02 20:52:13 +0000 UTC
