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The last resort of those who have nothing is to make personal comments. You've got nothing.

Do you suffer from index finger paralysis? There were plenty of specifics in the articles I cited. Do you need me to spoon feed them to you? And your resort to the usual trumpist dodge of claiming that the sources are questionable. But you don't offer any evidence of your own to counteract the information contained in those sources. As for "Dude followis me around', this is a forum open two members of aseanow.com. It is not a gated community. You think your comments are entitled to immunity from criticism?

Did you skip over that mention of health insurance?

I offer a source. You offer nothing. Come up with a source that has verified Musk's claims. Good luck with that.

One of the most remarkable pieces of ignorance that characterized Trump supporters is the lack of understanding of the balance of trade. They seem to have a problem digesting this bit of info: "With foreigners buying large amounts of dollar-denominated assets, Americans can consume more than they produce. One way to fix this would be to limit those inflows by imposing capital controls, but that would lower US living standards and damage the dollar’s status as the global reserve currency." In fact, foreign investment in the US counts as a negative in the balance of trade because from a national accounting point of view, it's a loan. But, of course, foreigners want to invest in the US because of its dynamic economy. It seems unlikely that the economy will continue to be dynamic given the loony economic measures taken by Trump. And also the threats to some of their investments. One proposal, from Stephen Miran, appointed by Trump to be the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, is to forcibly convert foreigners investments in short term bonds into long term bonds. Not exactly a way to encourage faith in the US government.

I don't have to. Donald Trump has already offered his evaluation. Why isn't that good enough for you?

They simply pointed out that Musk hasn't offered any evidence to back up his claim. Or maybe yYou got some links to actual facts that back up what Musk claims? We know he's been promoting falsehoods. Why would anyone believe these claims without genuine evidence.

Anything is possible. But what exactly is CNN trying to save itself from?

I'll do even better. I'll quote you a guy you may have heard of who says price controls are "full communist" Donald Trump on Saturday ripped Vice President Kamala Harris’ plan to slap socialist price controls on groceries, saying she’s gone “full Communist.” The Republican presidential nominee compared economic proposals to reduce inflation that “Comrade Kamala” announced a day earlier – which includes cracking down on price gouging – to infamously failed communist plans pushed in Venezuela and the former Soviet Union. “She wants to destroy our country. After causing catastrophic inflation, Comrade Kamala announced that she wants to institute socialist price controls,” Trump said. https://nypost.com/2024/08/17/us-news/trump-kamala-harris-price-control-plan-is-full-communist/ Actually, the case is even worse. Harris wanted to stop price gouging. But Trump wants to stop auto manufacturers from pricing in the very real costs s caused by his protectionist polcies.

He's going right for the jugular of big business. That's why he's pushing for a big cut in corporate tax rates from 21% to 15%. He's going to kill them with kindness.

This is completely nuts? Do you have any evidence that CNN has hidden the results of its polls in the past? What their pollster guy is saying is that Trump's numbers, while negative, are better than they were in the past. And it's just one person. Does he speak for CNN? You think that because Fox News fires analysts when they actually get it right, that CNN would fire an analyst because they might not like what he says? Let's see what gets said a month from now in the wake of Trump's latest bombshells. The trendlines don't look good for Trump https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating

Funny. Usually I get criticized by Trumpists for linking to information in reply to their assertions instead of composing a reply myself. Apparently, they need the texts dumbed down.

Another ridiculous comment. How do you get your news? Via telepathy? Or are you tapping into the US government's phone lines?

Really? That's quite a bubble you live in: Here Are The Biggest DOGE Hoaxes And Inaccuracies—As $8 Million Canceled ICE Contract Listed At $8 Billion As billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency scours federal agencies for cost savings, Musk and his team have repeatedly made baseless or false claims about government spending—or exaggerated the level of fraud and waste uncovered at some agencies. https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/02/19/here-are-the-biggest-doge-hoaxes-and-inaccuracies-as-8-million-canceled-ice-contract-listed-at-8-billion/ DOGE shared its receipts — and some of them don’t match “Everyone is very well-aware they’re repeating the wrong numbers,” said one manager at a company on DOGE’s list of cuts. But among the 1,100-plus contracts purportedly canceled, POLITICO found: Contracts that had not yet been awarded Instances where a single pot of money is listed multiple times — tripling or quadrupling the amount of savings claimed Purchase agreements that have no record of being canceled, but were instead stripped of language related to diversity, equity and inclusion Contract savings identified by DOGE that do not match with records they refer to in the Federal Procurement Data System Contracts where the underlying document is for an entirely different contract https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/22/doge-data-errors-inconsistencies-00002576 Elon Musk makes false claim about billion-dollar National Park survey Elon Musk claimed in a Fox News interview Thursday night that the Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, frequently uncovers "billions" in government waste, citing a supposed $1 billion survey about National Parks as an example. CBS News found no evidence that the Department of the Interior spent or planned to spend that much on a survey or on any single contract. .. "For example, [a] simple survey that was literally a 10-question survey [that] you could do with SurveyMonkey, costs about $10,000, the government was being charged almost a billion dollars for that." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-doge-false-claim-billion-dollar-national-park-survey/

It was about 6pm, just after its Palestinian residents had finished their daily Ramadan fast, when dozens of masked Israeli settlers armed with batons, knives and assault rifles entered the West Bank village of Susiya, in the rural Masafer Yatta area of the south Hebron hills. Among them were a group of Israeli soldiers who escorted the settlers into the village where Hamdan Ballal, one of the four directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, lives... Ballal said that two Israeli soldiers had chased him outside his house and encircled him, while a settler started beating him, before violently striking him on the head with the butt of their rifles. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/28/attack-palestinian-director-rising-israeli-settler-violence-

"Then in that case, second off, far from all of those fired were revenuers. Loads of deadwood, friend's cousins, nephews, and DEI tickboxes." What I particularly admire about this assertion is the wealth of evidence you didn't offer to support it. Not even a paucity. Just a nullity which means you got nothing. As for mind reading, you characterized the revenuers as rapacious. Making things personal much? Rapacious means aggressively greedy or grasping? How are these agents aggresively greedy or grasping? That you call these agents rapacious doesn't leave much room for doubt that you think that those who draw their attention are being unfairly targeted. And if the targeting is unfair, that must mean you believe that they are actually paying what they owe. If that weren't the case, why would it make sense to denigrate IRS agents.

First off, far from all of those people were revenuers. Many were there to improve customer service and to upgrade systems which desperately need it. And the revenuers were hired to go after the wealthy not the middle class. And apparently, you believe that if there isn't the means to enforce the tax laws, the wealthy will gladly pay up what they owe the government anyway,

Why should anyone care what you believe when you don't back up your arguments with reasoning or facts?

Who knows how much he's really saved? And what percentage of federal spending that amounts to? And who knows how much of his savings will actually come back to bite America in a certain place? For instance, will slashing the NIH ultimately save America money or will it cost America a huge amount in the future? As others have pointed out, what management consultants typically do is advise companies to slash their payroll. At first, that does result in increased profits. But over times, when no new products are developed by the company, but rather by their competitors who have hired that displaced staff, it turns out that even in the medium run, it was a huge mistake. In the case of nations, already other countries are looking to snatch up scientists let go by Doge. All that investment in their training and some other country gets to benefit. In another instance, Doge has slashed staffing in the IRS. So, it's going to make finding and prosecuting tax cheats a lot harder. What kind of insanity is that counsels firing the people who actually increase the government's income and pay for their salaries many times over?

You seem awfully credulous of Musk's claims. Where's the actual evidence? He does have a history in regard to his claims. What we know about claims DOGE found $312M in business loans to children https://www.yahoo.com/news/know-claims-doge-found-312m-232300567.html

You mean because Musk doesn't run Doge?

He's said lots of things about how Doge is saving money.. Lot of which turn out to be false.

The only reason that happened is because Musk had no way to wriggle out of paying that bill. Essentially in 2012 he was granted stock options that had a 10 year life span. I guess he could have waited another year, but how to tell how the stock would be doing then? So he cashed out and paid the tax. https://inequality.org/article/a-perfect-storm-has-elon-musk-paying-11-billion-in-tax/

Musk tried to put a stop to the fact-checking of his claims by eliminating codes that could identify programs and expenditures allegedly cut. He got called out on that. DOGE Reverses Move That Made Its Claims Nearly Impossible to Check In early March, the group — which had been caught in a series of high-profile errors — began posting itemized claims about the savings it had achieved from canceling federal grants. Its website interface provided only minimal details about those grants but the site’s public source code included identification numbers, making it possible to glean more information from other official sources. On March 5, however, the group removed those identifiers from the code, while also adding thousands more grants, making it very difficult to verify the figures provided. A White House official said the group had withheld identifying information “for security purposes.” https://archive.ph/jCl5o

Here's a link to the VOA website. https://www.voanews.com/ Please share with us the communist propaganda you find on it.