How did you arrive at the conclusion that "he's trying to fix it"
DOGE is basically proving the Government is efficient.
Haven't there been cuts in the Social Security space? https://www.the-independent.com/new...al-security-cuts-payment-delays-b2738222.html
In 5 mins of looking at the DOGE site, it sure looks like there's some ridiculous spending as a result of the DOI. I appreciate that they're cutting the $3 billion dollar refugee resettlement program. $3 billion could go a long ways in taking care of the people who live in the US already.
If someone isn't doing their job well, they should be replaced...
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To a large degree, yes. But to the point of Forkyfinder, DOGE isn't addressing any of this stuff. Firing USFS or BLM workers isn't "taking any pain now". The reality is no one is willing to take the pain in the major categories. My point, the cuts to physician reimbursement will eventually lead to 1) less physicians and more quasi-physicians = shittier health care 2) more physicians electing not to take Medicare/Medicaid and 3) closing of rural hospitals.
That seems an awkward placement. You sure your plumber was licensed?
Poll is useless without also asking respondents to define "rich people".
The Guggenheim was not pleased when I used it...
I think those bumps you see in discretionary spending are related to 08 recession and covid.
The poll is useless for just about anything. But yes, that would be nice to know. I would guess that "rich" is anyone that makes more than the respondent. It is up there with the same polls where people say their approval rating of Congress is very low but they love their Congresspersons.
Yes - Boomers are the start of the bow-wave. They are also the ones who have contributed the most (in terms of $'s and by a large amount) into the program. But they are not the end of the bow-wave and therein lies the problem. You had a lot of boomers paying for the prior generation benefits (using the chart below - 3.5:1). Gen-X is barely over 0.8 compared to Boomers and Millennials are about even with Gen-X (1.1). Gen Z will be similar to where Gen-X is now compared to the group ahead of them (i.e., underwater @ 0.95). Gen-Alpha looks to be an even worse trajectory. Thus the solvency issue of SS and related entitlement programs.
You should stop using anything MSFT. I used to think the government was inefficient, but MSFT has dominated my job for the last 4 years, and it has completely changed my outlook on what acceptable baseline efficiency is. The metaphor one of their own consultants used was "imagine a wagon slowly rolling across the prairie, it can only go so fast, that is the speed at which a data center is constructed. Now imagine a large herd of riders on horseback, sprinting around it in circles, shooting at each other. Those are the contractors and consultants. Occasionally, they miss each other and hit the wagon, slowing it down for repairs." I tend to think a hurricane is more apt, all of the energy in a hurricane is in the rotational energy, not in the more linear travel path of the eye, same roles as above. Here's an example, one of those riders installed a water service in the way of a cooling water main, because they were trying to go so fast they didn't have time to plan. We had two meetings, with upwards of 20 people, and a cumulative billing rate well in excess of 5k/hr to determine that they refused to move the temp water service and I needed to pay my contractor to work around it. The temp water service would have cost them 3k to move. I paid my contractor 8k for structural shoring to go under it. So someone went too fast and caused a problem, then they spent an obscene amount of time to land the most complicated and expensive solution. That is just one small example from last week.
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Paid in the most - by what metric? Overall, and not based on per capita?
I think this is the key. A lot of people are annoyed about what waste they have been UNKNOWINGLY funding. I can choose to use or ditch MSFT as it suits me. I often can't choose to ditch government spending that I'm funding with my tax dollars.
True. I also wish it was optional. I don't need the gov to do my retirement planning for me.
I don't think anyone has implied that SS should be pulled or stopped.
