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Honest question, do expect people to actually believe you're a serious person interested in rational debate with that kind of response? What Trump / DOGE has p
by starspangled 2y ago
Honest question, do expect people to actually believe you're a serious person interested in rational debate with that kind of response?
What Trump / DOGE has proposed or claimed to have cut amounts to far less than $500 billion / year from the budget. Like 1/10th that amount. Yet people are seriously concerned about those cuts. Clearly it's not a reasonable amount, as you would understand if you had any idea of the context of this conversation.
- stouset 2y agoWhat DOGE has claimed to have cut is a similarly meaningless amount (and likely significantly overinflated), and what's worse, the value we were getting from those expenditures likely greatly exceeds what we were paying for them. $500bn/yr would be about 15% of the annual budget. That number doesn't even pass a basic sniff test.
- starspangled 2y ago2% of US GDP is 500 billion. I don't know what you're confused about. I'm taking numbers linked from the IMF so perhaps you know better? Also it's obviously not a 2% increase over 45 years, it's a nearly 6% increase, so not sure if numbers are your strong suit here. At least you did admit I was correct though, so I don't know what you're really continuing to try argue about. What I wrote originally stands.
- kelnos 2y agoI think GP misread what you were saying, and thought you were asserting that DOGE had cut $500B/yr of spending. (I sympathize; I read it that way myself at first, but realized what you actually meant during a confused re-read.)