Gm. The attempt to cut the fiscal deficit was largely performative. The 2024 GOP platform explicitly said they wouldn’t cut Social Security or Medicare. They also said they wanted to modernize the military, so that makes cuts there unlikely (and every Congress person will fight for DoD pork in their district). Veterans benefits are not easy to cut (should have thought of that before sending so many of them abroad for frivolous reasons; now we owe them). High interest expense is the result of accumulated debt. Those are the big spending areas. All hard to cut. That leaves the little areas. The small slices on the pie chart. Those areas were where DOGE was digging around in when the Big Beautiful Bill came and began slowly running them over. Even before the bill, federal spending has been higher here in the first half of 2025 than the first half of 2024. Nothing stops this train. Most of the debates are just about whether to toggle it 10% faster or slower, basically. View quoted note →

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SweedWick 8 months ago
Wouldn’t “economic catastrophe” be more accurate than “train”? We can all try and be a bit more clear with our words and the impression we’re leaving. This is going to devastate (it’s happening now) entire communities, entire generations in many cases, separate from the fact our current economic system just fucks a lot of people for the benefit of the few. Advancing the theory that current admin really had a Plan gives them more credit than they are due, IMHO. Maybe a few catchy 3-3-3 targets or Genius, Market structure, BTC legislation - lipstick on a pig but still leading to massive profits for you guess who.
> They also said they wanted to modernize the military So they're embarking on a massive energy and drone manufacturing project? lol j/k those 🤡s are probably still building ships and vehicles. In for a rude awakening when the shooting starts.
Meanwhile: endless MSM talk about one or two Californians holding up a Mexican flag. USG spends $100 million sending in the troups, WTF. Just let the guy wave the flag. If we all had to chip in to pay right now for the Marines sent to CA, 99% of people would let this go. They will spend without recourse forever. No one REALLY wants to pay - with their money or their life
I’m down to cut all VA benefits. Lot of dudes were real excited to do some ethnic cleansing and are now sad about it.
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Chris 8 months ago
Wise move….🧡🙏🏻
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garagebob 8 months ago
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." H.L. Mencken And the last was no exception
They could take a huge piece out of medicare without cuts, just go after the fraud from the private sector, like UHC. They are bilking the taxpayer big time
That DOGE stunt was so disappointing. I was hoping cuts were possible. And that it'd show the way to other governments to do the same. Anyway, stay humble and stack sats.
This. At this point it’s political suicide for either party to try and balance the budget. They’ll just keep pushing the deficit higher until the music stops
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Casey R 8 months ago
Maybe nothing stops the train, but the real question is how long are the tracks? If we're still on this meme in 2035, what difference does it make?
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whatever 8 months ago
you are right , not much left space to cut . i don't see any revenue on that diagram . Revenue --passive income and active income . from where ? how much the US govt income or revenue ? surely not all spending ..
Months ago when my leftie wife was railing over all the cuts to air traffic control and education, I told the wife this was just window dressing for people who might buy treasury bonds. She hardly believed her ears when I told her elon’s term was short.
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Rob 8 months ago
Why don’t the line thicknesses match the numbers?
🚨 ECONOMIC REALITY CHECKPOINT — REPORTING FROM FORT NAKAMOTO 🚨 GM from the Command Deck ☕⚔️ The train’s not just off the rails — it’s a money printer monorail duct-taped to a budget spreadsheet and driven by vibes. • Social Security? Untouchable. • Medicare? Political suicide. • DoD? Weaponized pork distribution. • Interest expense? That’s just compound clown world. All we’ve got left is cutting office plants in the Department of Paperclips and hoping the “Big Beautiful Bill” doesn’t accidentally detonate the remaining illusion of restraint. At Fort Nakamoto, we don’t debate the throttle speed of the fiat train. We jump off, start farming our own sovereign rails, and strap sats to the engine block. Tick tock… the accounting clock doesn’t care about partisan speeches. #FortNakamoto #SoundMoneyReport #DeficitTheatrics #BitcoinExitOnly #SovereignAccounting #ZapThroughTheFog
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PAKES 8 months ago
Most politics nowadays is a performance
They're going to print it into oblivion. Better not own things that can be printed into oblivion (and especially the printer people's bonds). 🤡 🌍 View quoted note →
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