Showing posts with label Saving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saving. Show all posts
Monday, May 12, 2025

No DOGE savings show up in April US Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the Federal Government, but higher deficits sure do, $194 billion higher year to date than last year

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Fiscal 2025 deficit, October-April: $1.049 trillion Fiscal 2024 deficit, October-April: $0.855 trillion Increase in the deficit in 2025 Oct-...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

In the age of everything that is good is awesome, everything bad must be an emergency

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 The Zeitgeist is epitomized by a general hysteria, incapable of proportional thinking and hostile to reason, and so it should come as no su...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

As predicted, the hubris of Elon Musk's promises of $2 trillion in DOGE savings now crashes on the rocks of reality as he promises only $150 billion in savings in FY 2026

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   Have there been no savings from the Department of Defense, the costliest department in the federal government? No $1,000 toilet seats to ...

No DOGE savings show up in March US Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the Federal Government, but higher deficits sure do, $242 billion higher year to date than last year

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   The fiscal year to date deficit last year was $1.064691 trillion. The fiscal year to date deficit this year is $1.307132 trillion, $242.4...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Trump will stop at nothing in his quest for imperial power and will destroy the credibility of US Treasury debt

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  telegraph.co.uk If you think it’s alarming now, just wait for Trump to wreck the bond m...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Government belt-tightening theatre at CNBC: Social Security new proofing procedures requiring in person visits are a joke, a costly upheaval designed to stop a puny problem

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  Social Security Administration to emphasize in-person office visits to curb identity fraud As the Social Security Administration seeks t...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

The federal government farts through $20 billion a day, Social Security under Trump boasts of finding $800 million in savings for fiscal year 2025

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 Not even $1 billion a year. Whoopdeedoo. Don't spend it all in one place, boys. Social Security Administration says it’s identified $80...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Kamala Harris' cloud cuckoo land climate plan when she ran for president in 2019 would cost only $10 trillion in the first ten years, would end all gasoline cars by 2035, penalize oil and gas companies just for existing

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https://web.archive.org/web/20191203230607/https:/kamalaharris.org/policies/climate/full-policy/ : ...