Opinion As the rich get richer the answer is private giving and charities...

[CantCucktheTuck]

So making more people unemployed?

yes

 

[Darkavius]

gender studies in Pakistan or any other useless foreign aid, military contractors and suppliers, probably about 35%(maybe more) of our 128 foreign military bases, and most likely 50% of all people employed by the federal government working desk jobs. There is a list a mile long.

Hahahahahaha. This is a hilarious list. You're basically asking the United States to stop doing what it has been doing for decades now. Good luck with Trump stopping that without getting truly "assassinated" in the process. America has been interfering in other countries politics longer than many of us have been alive.

 

[JBJisGOAT14]

I'm looking to the newly formed D.O.G.E. to really cut government waste and unnecessary employees. That could be a truly lasting legacy.

Maybe Musk will cut his own government welfare for SpaceX in the tune of 20 BILLION? Most you rubes think the earth is flat anyways. Yeah, probably not, his seals will clap for other much smaller minuscule funded agencies getting cut that won’t have any dent.

How about recovering some of the 750 billion in PPP loans that were forgiven under draft dodger? The likes of Tom Brady (1 million forgiven), MTG, Brad Finstad and billionaire Doug Burgum all received money that was forgiven. D3 printed money and had no checks and balances in place for this shit and many didn’t go towards payroll, but whatever the rich got richer of course.

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

Hahahahahaha. This is a hilarious list. You're basically asking the United States to stop doing what it has been doing for decades now. Good luck with Trump stopping that without getting truly "assassinated" in the process. America has been interfering in other countries politics longer than many of us have been alive.

It's time for that to end.

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

Maybe Musk will cut his own government welfare for SpaceX in the tune of 20 BILLION? Most you rubes think the earth is flat anyways. Yeah, probably not, his seals will clap for other much smaller minuscule funded agencies getting cut that won’t have any dent.

How about recovering some of the 750 billion in PPP loans that were forgiven under draft dodger? The likes of Tom Brady (1 million forgiven), MTG, Brad Finstad and billionaire Doug Burgum all received money that was forgiven. D3 printed money and had no checks and balances in place for this shit and many didn’t go towards payroll, but whatever the rich got richer of course.

We have no idea yet what will be cut but calling the government paying the only private company in America who can reliably put Americans and satellites in space "welfare" is very disingenuous. NASA can't even do that at the moment.

 

[JBJisGOAT14]

We have no idea yet what will be cut but calling the government paying the only private company in America who can reliably put Americans and satellites in space "welfare" is very disingenuous. NASA can't even do that at the moment.

I can GUARANTEE you fatty musk won’t be cutting his own government welfare, that’s for sure! It’s also very disingenuous for the person in charge of DOGE, whom advises and influences draft dodger to make the fed cuts when he profits in the billions from it…no?

 

[CantCucktheTuck]

I can GUARANTEE you fatty musk won’t be cutting his own government welfare, that’s for sure! It’s also very disingenuous for the person in charge of DOGE, whom advises and influences draft dodger to make the fed cuts when he profits in the billions from it…no?

You sound unhinged.

 

[JBJisGOAT14]

You sound unhinged.

You sound like a bitch, likely an overweight bitch.

 

[Sinister]

It's time for that to end.

Isolationism is literally what we force upon Countries that dont want to sell us the rights to their resources. You want us to do it voluntarily complete with God-King who will wall us up and cripple the system or Governance.

This has been done before in History, it doesn't accomplish what you think it will.

 

[Darkavius]

It's time for that to end.

You want the Military Industrial Complex to end. While I get what you're trying to say let's be rational here. America has been a warmonger type country before it officially became America. Trump supporters are some very confused people sometimes. The majority of what you want to be ended is supported by Trump so I'm not sure why he would end something he supports.

On top of that the ending of government jobs is interesting because you're basically asking to increase the unemployment rate which means you're asking people who are not on the system now to get on a system that many think already has too many people on it. Additionally, people keep saying waste this and waste that but I thought industries as a whole were already understaffed and there was a worker shortage. So is the plan to increase the unemployment rate when there are already worker shortages?

 

[Misfit23]

It's time for that to end.

As resources dwindle the military budget is only going to grow. That's not going down anytime soon.

 

[ChosenOne]

All Charities IIRC are only legally required to put 11 cents to their root cause.
Those poor homeless veterans / starving dogs / refugees / sick children...
can NEVER see 89 cents out of every dollar donors send to help them.

Having compassion for what misery ya see, ya wanna help? Of course.

Remember that 89 dollars of your hundred dollar donation can go directly into a million dollar CEO salary, laughing at gullible donors. Sickening. Legalized theft.

Ya see a celebrity's pitiful begging, Know That Your donation is paying them first.

This is why I believe all charities and non-profits need to be eliminated. Doing all these charities and philanthropy is not sustainable for a society that can fix problems.

The top charities now all disclose what portion of the donations goes to Admin and Overhead, and it is typically around 5% or less. They may spend another ~25% in fund raising (tv commercials, etc) with 70% actually going to the cause.

It is these private charities that Trump and Elon and others create that are the grift. They are often not up to date on disclosure and not being audited by the IRS, but allow Trump and Elon and others to avoid paying taxes on the income they made.

That is a large part of why the uber rich want to gut the IRS as they want an IRS that can only audit small individual tax payers with very simple files and does not have the resources to audit complex tax and shield schemes.

 

[nonoob]

The top charities now all disclose what portion of the donations goes to Admin and Overhead, and it is typically around 5% or less. They may spend another ~25% in fund raising (tv commercials, etc) with 70% actually going to the cause.

YEAH, sure. Just don't buy any of their ocean front property in the MidWest.

 

[JBJisGOAT14]

You want the Military Industrial Complex to end. While I get what you're trying to say let's be rational here. America has been a warmonger type country before it officially became America. Trump supporters are some very confused people sometimes. The majority of what you want to be ended is supported by Trump so I'm not sure why he would end something he supports.

On top of that the ending of government jobs is interesting because you're basically asking to increase the unemployment rate which means you're asking people who are not on the system now to get on a system that many think already has too many people on it. Additionally, people keep saying waste this and waste that but I thought industries as a whole were already understaffed and there was a worker shortage. So is the plan to increase the unemployment rate when there are already worker shortages?

They yap up anything their rich, elite papa says. He could piss in their mouths and they’d ask for more. Truly a mental illness.

 

[AWilder]

It's time for that to end.

So weird that you guys are rooting for an end to American exceptionalism.

 

[Darkavius]

The top charities now all disclose what portion of the donations goes to Admin and Overhead, and it is typically around 5% or less. They may spend another ~25% in fund raising (tv commercials, etc) with 70% actually going to the cause.

It is these private charities that Trump and Elon and others create that are the grift. They are often not up to date on disclosure and not being audited by the IRS, but allow Trump and Elon and others to avoid paying taxes on the income they made.

That is a large part of why the uber rich want to gut the IRS as they want an IRS that can only audit small individual tax payers with very simple files and does not have the resources to audit complex tax and shield schemes.

To me it does not matter. All charities should be abolished. If you want to give money then give money but there's too much nonsense as a whole going on with charities and non-profits. We have all these non-profits and charities out here and communities are still facing the same issues they were facing decades ago. I understand what guys like Trump and Elon are doing but it's not about just guys at the top.

Non-profits, charities and philanthropy from my perspective in America does just enough work to give people hope and gives here and there, but not enough to make any actual long term significant changes.

 

[jk7707]

gender studies in Pakistan or any other useless foreign aid, military contractors and suppliers, probably about 35%(maybe more) of our 128 foreign military bases, and most likely 50% of all people employed by the federal government working desk jobs. There is a list a mile long.

So over a million people losing their jobs? Sounds about right considering his track record. A fitting legacy.

 

[Deleted member 577981]

So making more people unemployed?
I don't mind cutting the government’s expenditure. There is definitely a lot of bloated expenses that need to be taken care of. I just have a hard time believing that Vivek, MTG and Elon will parse what is necessary vs. not.

Musk should divest himself of all of his companies that get government contracts and subsidies before taking on the role.

 

[jefferz]

To me it does not matter. All charities should be abolished. If you want to give money then give money but there's too much nonsense as a whole going on with charities and non-profits. We have all these non-profits and charities out here and communities are still facing the same issues they were facing decades ago. I understand what guys like Trump and Elon are doing but it's not about just guys at the top.

Non-profits, charities and philanthropy from my perspective in America does just enough work to give people hope and gives here and there, but not enough to make any actual long term significant changes.

The problem is the wealthy in this country have grabbed power, and changed the laws so they can get away with this crap.

And instead of trying to close those loopholes, you just want to abolish charities all together.

 

[nostradumbass]

So weird that you guys are rooting for an end to American exceptionalism.

Citizens' control of the military, federalism and limited government WERE American exceptionalism. In fact, the concepts that were supposed to make the US the exception to other forms of government were for the government to not keep secrets from the people, but the people can keep secrets from the government.

Mass surveillance and people you've never heard of spying on citizens, over 1 billion classified documents the people aren't allowed to see, and a military controlled by a few powerful people against the will of the people, isn't exceptional at all, and is basically what every evil regime in history has been.