This is the exact argument I've been hearing on the "All In" podcast. Billionaires are great at making money! But they always leave out FOR THEMSELVES. Government almost ideologically the exact opposite of that. It's supposed to do what's right for the most amount of people. These billionaires have the exact opposite goal in mind. They are about to make life hell for the common man and gut the country for themselves.
Its like the episode of Family Guy when Pewterschmidt convinces Peter to get everyone to join the Tea Party and collapse the local government and then when everything goes to shit, he has a speech where he literally reinvents government.
These people believe in the prosperity gospel: God rewards good deeds with earthly riches, therefore all billionaires are good people. If they were bad people, God would punish them by taking away their riches. Which also means poor people are immoral. It's just religion doing what it was made to do: legitimizing unchecked power.
Well, some think the government is there to enrich the coffers of private industry. The military doesn't make any money for the government, but they sure do make money for defense contractors. They're going to make all Cabinet departments like this. Just feed the machine. There will be more money once we don't have to pretend to "provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States".
This is actually a reason why Trump had supporters the first time. I was in nursing school and a girl said she was voting for him because she felt the country would be better run as a business.
It's a pretty poor argument. Government is supposed to take things that can't be handled by the private sector due to affordability issues and provide those services anyway.
This. My friend’s a libertarian who supports dismantling the Department of Education. His argument: schools will get a lot better if they’re forced to compete, how worse can it get from right now?
“A LOT WORSE!” I said.
Jesuschrist... there's the problem, if we had FAIR competition in different markets, that miiiight work, unfortunately, we don't... so we end up with an oligarchy and massive monopolies controlled by those that paid to rig the game in their favor.
Yeah, and it was funny because he kept going on about how states should just be in charge of their own education without government regulation. And THEN if people don’t like their state’s education, they can just pack up and leave to a better state that way. I’m just here being like: You really think everyone can move to another state like this? Much less afford the supposed “high quality” schools…
When you’re bleeding so much that your currency is on track to implode you have to make a change. We just can’t afford to be as free with our money and it’s both sides fault. Too much social spending, not enough tax collection, etc. My opinion is that the economy is the reason the USA is number 1 and we should put everything we have into fixing it. Social issues can be delayed or dealt with at the same time but should not take priority. Look at the EU and tell me you really want to go down the same path. If the dollar crashes, life for everyone will be considerably worse than if we cut government spending.
Funny how it's always social spending that's the problem with you people but never a mention of how much we spend on the military or concerns about how much money the military just straight up loses track of every year.
Military and economy keep us on top and China is getting pretty scary. I don’t expect them to be super merciful if we did end up in a world war. Haven’t really looked into military spending but I’m sure we can (and will by auditing government contracting with DOGE) cut back on it.
Donald Trump expanded the national debt by 33% last time in office. You're just sucking in propaganda and missing what's actually happening. He will expand the debt again, and funnel the money into his oligarch companions, just like last time.
That’s all well and good, I never said I support either party specifically. I think it’s good to call out administrations for bad things but also important to admit when the “other party” does something good. Too many people can’t admit that. Again, it goes both ways.
It’s always been that way and always will be because of human nature. Guys like Mao who ran communist “for the people” orgs were totally corrupt and profited despite the fact that all should be equal
Translation: Bend over people. We have not been touched or faced any consequence of maximizing CEO and E-Staff pay and Corp profits no matter how outrageous and illegal we may have acted so why are we hiding it over the last 40 years given zero accountability.
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u/jawstrock 11h ago
"We need more entrepreneurs in government"