Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

On Fri, 30 May 2025 20:37:27 -0700, % wrote:

Joel wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 30/05/2025 20:21, % wrote:

Joel wrote:

John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 30 May 2025 07:22:51 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
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Well, I guess that’s over, now that Elon Musk has left the
building. That’s the end of DOGE, without “saving” anywhere near
the trillion dollars he originally promised.

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Comes as a *total* shock, lemmetellya.

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Let's say they had cut that much with this DOGE BS (not that it's
100%
a stupid idea, of course, but they were not approaching very
rationally), wouldn't the proposed tax breaks offset it?  Wouldn't
we still be spending a large fortune every year on the damn
military?
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no because there would be tariffs that go to trumps pocket

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Military spending is pretty low in reality.

 
 
Laughable.
 
 

And it is a *pragmatic* program, whereas so much is spent on purely
*moral* initiatives to employ people who think they can therefore tell
how to run your life better than you can yourself.

 
 
Never even heard of such a thing, unless you mean the war on drugs
(which is yet another discarding of money).
 

military spending is the usa's biggest bill it's close to 90%

There is mandatory spending including Social Security, Medicare, and other
expenditures required by law.

Then there is discretionary spending, which is less than a third of the
mandatory budget. Of that defense spending is a little less than half.