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16 hours ago, theblether said:

USAID - there are six named D.O.G.E. geniuses pouring through this department line by line. Aged 19 to 24, Dems are calling them little boys. 

 

Translation - they are cr*pping themselves as these young men are ripping USAID apart. $20,000 to fund a LGBT comic book in Peru among many other ridiculous grants. 

 

But here's the real problem - Dems are saying USAID is only 1% of the Federal budget. True. 

 

But D.O.G.E has only had access for days, and Trump was inaugurated 2 weeks ago. Give it 18 months and we'll see how much waste and abuse is going around the Fed budgets. 

 

The problem for Dems is that they are downplaying these "small amounts" of money. By the midterms the GOP will be able to demonstrate at least half a trillion of savings. 

 

So what will the Dems say then? "Oh, it's only half a trillion?" But here's where the party will really start. 

 

Wait till D.O.G.E get their hands on the Medicaid and Medicaire contracts. They're going to uncover wild overcharging to the US government and consumers. 

 

Good luck trying to win the midterms if Trump crashes the cost of medication. I predict a midterm landslide. 

 

 

Far more likely for health costs to go up if Trump's past performance is any indication. You clearly don't recall that during his first campaign he called for government to negotiate the prices medicare pays for pharmaceuticals. He reneged on that before he got to office. He promised repeatedly to come up with a plan to replace Obamacare. A plan that would be cheaper and better than what Obamacare has to offer.  Nothing in Trump's record shows that he's willing to go after insurers or big pharma. In fact, the case is quite the opposite.

And while they may be IT whiz kids, what do they actually know about policy or why various expenditures are made.  Remember when Elon Musk promised savings of 2 trillion dollars. He's backed off of that one, hasn't he?

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23 minutes ago, theblether said:

 

You are easily the most gullible and delusional poster on this forum. The link is to the notorious Democrat mouthpiece - NPR. They point out that the cost of the top 25 tier procedures - ie, the expensive ones, dropped by 6.3%. 

 

Ah, but you will celebrate the 3.4% rise in the cost of lower tier procedures? Then you'll get annoyed that it was well under inflation for that period. 

 

Even Biden joined in the push for transparency, you're actually arguing against a policy that the Dems agreed to promote and legislated to expand Trump's initial push. 

 

Once again, just be quiet. 

 

https://www.npr.org/2024/12/19/nx-s1-5233326/trump-health-care-price-transparency-employers

And by the way, it was Obamacare legislation that called for pricing to be made transparent. The Trump administration to its credit did formulate rules, but it was neither Trump's nor is administration's idea.

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4 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

How long have you had health care in the US and where?

Clearly you are unaware that we are all anonymous here. I won't say that what unconfirmable claims we make in this forum aren't worth the pixels they're printed in, but I will say that they aren't worth any more than that.

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3 minutes ago, theblether said:

 

Did he mention in a single year? Nope. 

 

He'll do $2 trillion over 4 years easily, are you annoyed? 

Stop denying facts. Here's the question he was asked at Madison Square Garden on Oct 27, 2024

Questioner:"How much do you think we can rip out of this wasted 6.5 trillion Harris-Biden Budget"?

Musk: "Well, I think we can do at least 2 trillion."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2024-10-28/elon-musk-we-can-cut-2-trillion-from-us-budget-video

Note that that was his minimum figure. Considering that discretionary spending in the Federal Budget  totals less than 2 trillion, that's quite a claim.

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