What Exactly Does "Smaller Government" Mean?

[g5000]

DOGE boi said he was going to cut $2 trillion from government spending.

Yet, in December, co-presidents-elect Musk and Trump demanded the Republicans eliminate the debt ceiling. As I pointed out at the time, there is only one reason they would want the debt ceiling eliminated, and that is to allow for unlimited spending without any restraints.

Why have these two completely opposite goals not induced cognitive dissonance in MAGA world?

My guess is that would require cognition rather than blind, unquestioning devotion to the cult leader.

Smaller government? How does that explain the $3 trillion the recently passed House budget will add to the federal debt?

Why is this not ringing alarm bells in the MAGA camp? Is this all some stupid game in their minds?

It isn't a game, folks. Trump is already on track to shatter his previous debt record.

Here's a fact for you. Every president since JFK has left a better deficit situation to their successor than what they inherited. Every Republican president has left a worse deficit situation than they inherited.

House Budget Allows At Least $2.8 Trillion of Deficit Increases​

The budget’s reconciliation instructions pave the way for a bill that could add at least $2.8 trillion to deficits through FY 2034, or $3.4 to $4 trillion of debt including interest costs.


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[progressive hunter]

DOGE boi said he was going to cut $2 trillion from government spending.

Yet, in December, co-presidents-elect Musk and Trump demanded the Republicans eliminate the debt ceiling. As I pointed out at the time, there is only one reason they would want the debt ceiling eliminated, and that is to allow for unlimited spending without any restraints.

Why have these two completely opposite goals not induced cognitive dissonance in MAGA world?

My guess is that would require cognition rather than blind, unquestioning devotion to the cult leader.

Smaller government? How does that explain the $3 trillion the recently passed House budget will add to the federal debt?

Why is this not ringing alarm bells in the MAGA camp? Is this all some stupid game in their minds?

It isn't a game, folks. Trump is already on track to shatter his previous debt record.

Here's a fact for you. Every president since JFK has left a better deficit situation to their successor than what they inherited. Every Republican president has left a worse deficit situation than they inherited.

House Budget Allows At Least $2.8 Trillion of Deficit Increases​

The budget’s reconciliation instructions pave the way for a bill that could add at least $2.8 trillion to deficits through FY 2034, or $3.4 to $4 trillion of debt including interest costs.


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basically anything that pisses off democrats,,

 

[Mac1958]

DOGE boi said he was going to cut $2 trillion from government spending.

Yet, in December, co-presidents-elect Musk and Trump demanded the Republicans eliminate the debt ceiling. As I pointed out at the time, there is only one reason they would want the debt ceiling eliminated, and that is to allow for unlimited spending without any restraints.

Why have these two completely opposite goals not induced cognitive dissonance in MAGA world?

My guess is that would require cognition rather than blind, unquestioning devotion to the cult leader.

Smaller government? How does that explain the $3 trillion the recently passed House budget will add to the federal debt?

Why is this not ringing alarm bells in the MAGA camp? Is this all some stupid game in their minds?

It isn't a game, folks. Trump is already on track to shatter his previous debt record.

Here's a fact for you. Every president since JFK has left a better deficit situation to their successor than what they inherited. Every Republican president has left a worse deficit situation than they inherited.

House Budget Allows At Least $2.8 Trillion of Deficit Increases​

The budget’s reconciliation instructions pave the way for a bill that could add at least $2.8 trillion to deficits through FY 2034, or $3.4 to $4 trillion of debt including interest costs.


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All they understand is sloganeering.

They're celebrating hundreds of thousands of layoffs, and they're fine with more and more power going to the very top. The details are simply beyond them. MORE POWER TO THE LEADER.

In America.

If you're base MAGA, you're either a fascist or a "useful idiot". Which one doesn't matter to me.

 

[progressive hunter]

All they understand is sloganeering.

They're celebrating hundreds of thousands of layoffs, and they're fine with more and more power going to the very top. The details are simply beyond them. MORE POWER TO THE LEADER.

In America.

If you're base MAGA, you're either a fascist or a "useful idiot". Which one doesn't matter to me.

hired government employees arent supposed to have power,,

 

[rightwinger]

Smaller Government means that citizens receive less services for their tax dollars.

Less healthcare, less education, worse food and environmental protections, poor suffer more, worse infrastructure

All so that billionaires will pay less in taxes

 

[Darkwind]

All they understand is sloganeering.

They're celebrating hundreds of thousands of layoffs, and they're fine with more and more power going to the very top. The details are simply beyond them. MORE POWER TO THE LEADER.

In America.

If you're base MAGA, you're either a fascist or a "useful idiot". Which one doesn't matter to me.

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[kyzr]

All they understand is sloganeering.
They're celebrating hundreds of thousands of layoffs, and they're fine with more and more power going to the very top. The details are simply beyond them. MORE POWER TO THE LEADER. In America.
If you're base MAGA, you're either a fascist or a "useful idiot". Which one doesn't matter to me.

1. Sloganeering is way more than Biden and Kamala understood. They are both functioning morons.
2. Trump is actually running the government, the government is not running him.
3. DOGE is saving the US from bankruptcy, i.e. having the US dollar collapsing and being worthless.
4. Democrats are simply too stupid to understand than there is no more "kicking the can down the road", there is no more road, just a fiscal cliff.

 

[westwall]

DOGE boi said he was going to cut $2 trillion from government spending.

Yet, in December, co-presidents-elect Musk and Trump demanded the Republicans eliminate the debt ceiling. As I pointed out at the time, there is only one reason they would want the debt ceiling eliminated, and that is to allow for unlimited spending without any restraints.

Why have these two completely opposite goals not induced cognitive dissonance in MAGA world?

My guess is that would require cognition rather than blind, unquestioning devotion to the cult leader.

Smaller government? How does that explain the $3 trillion the recently passed House budget will add to the federal debt?

Why is this not ringing alarm bells in the MAGA camp? Is this all some stupid game in their minds?

It isn't a game, folks. Trump is already on track to shatter his previous debt record.

Here's a fact for you. Every president since JFK has left a better deficit situation to their successor than what they inherited. Every Republican president has left a worse deficit situation than they inherited.

House Budget Allows At Least $2.8 Trillion of Deficit Increases​

The budget’s reconciliation instructions pave the way for a bill that could add at least $2.8 trillion to deficits through FY 2034, or $3.4 to $4 trillion of debt including interest costs.


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awww, you has a sad......

 

[sealybobo]

DOGE boi said he was going to cut $2 trillion from government spending.

Yet, in December, co-presidents-elect Musk and Trump demanded the Republicans eliminate the debt ceiling. As I pointed out at the time, there is only one reason they would want the debt ceiling eliminated, and that is to allow for unlimited spending without any restraints.

Why have these two completely opposite goals not induced cognitive dissonance in MAGA world?

My guess is that would require cognition rather than blind, unquestioning devotion to the cult leader.

Smaller government? How does that explain the $3 trillion the recently passed House budget will add to the federal debt?

Why is this not ringing alarm bells in the MAGA camp? Is this all some stupid game in their minds?

It isn't a game, folks. Trump is already on track to shatter his previous debt record.

Here's a fact for you. Every president since JFK has left a better deficit situation to their successor than what they inherited. Every Republican president has left a worse deficit situation than they inherited.

House Budget Allows At Least $2.8 Trillion of Deficit Increases​

The budget’s reconciliation instructions pave the way for a bill that could add at least $2.8 trillion to deficits through FY 2034, or $3.4 to $4 trillion of debt including interest costs.


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"You Can't Govern if You Don't Believe in Government"

In a May 25, 2001 interview, Grover Norquist told National Public Radio's Mara Liasson, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." Norquist got his wish.

www.thomhartmann.com

Let the corporations handle your old-age pension. Let the corporations decide how much protection we and our environment need from their toxics. Let the corporations decide what we're paid. Let the corporations decide what doctor we can see, when, and for what purpose.

What they don't say is that the reason they want to remove government in its protective capacity is because they can then make an enormous amount of money, and have a lot of control over people's lives, when they privatize former governmental functions. They want a power vacuum, so corporations and the rich can step in.

Halliburton made a fortune from Iraq and Hurricane Katrina's cleanup.

Sound familiar? This op ed was written in 2005. There's very little difference between Bush and Trump. Bush wanted to privatize social security too. Trump might just finish the job.

 

[westwall]

"You Can't Govern if You Don't Believe in Government"

In a May 25, 2001 interview, Grover Norquist told National Public Radio's Mara Liasson, "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub." Norquist got his wish.

www.thomhartmann.com

Let the corporations handle your old-age pension. Let the corporations decide how much protection we and our environment need from their toxics. Let the corporations decide what we're paid. Let the corporations decide what doctor we can see, when, and for what purpose.

What they don't say is that the reason they want to remove government in its protective capacity is because they can then make an enormous amount of money, and have a lot of control over people's lives, when they privatize former governmental functions. They want a power vacuum, so corporations and the rich can step in.

Halliburton made a fortune from Iraq and Hurricane Katrina's cleanup.

Sound familiar? This op ed was written in 2005. There's very little difference between Bush and Trump. Bush wanted to privatize social security too. Trump might just finish the job.

Better than the government giving money to people they import who then rape and murder their way across the country.

 

[kyzr]

Smaller Government means that citizens receive less services for their tax dollars.
Less healthcare, less education, worse food and environmental protections, poor suffer more, worse infrastructure
All so that billionaires will pay less in taxes

Smaller FEDERAL government means that less money will be wasted on "overhead" and more money will flow to the states, the ED department is a perfect example, cost went up and scores went down when ED was created. Taxpayers need vouchers to send their kids to the schools they prefer.

FEMA is another example, your help depended upon which politician's sign is in your front yard.

The IRS is another example, Lois Lerner punished conservative organizations. STATES can cover all of the environmental, healthcare, and other areas that the Federal government over-regulates.

The FBI went way outside their lane, investigating Catholics, investigating parents, censoring real stories like Hunter's laptop, arresting Sisters of the Poor, falsifying evidence to get a FISA warrant, operation Crossfire-Hurricane, etc...

 

[ReinyDays]

MAGA wants tax cuts for the Rich ... [blush] thank you ... the Middle Class gets nothing ... best they go poor and stop nagging the Rich ...

 

[Meister]

MAGA wants tax cuts for the Rich ... [blush] thank you ... the Middle Class gets nothing ... best they go poor and stop nagging the Rich ...

You forgot to say that MAGA is racist.

 

[kyzr]

MAGA wants tax cuts for the Rich ... [blush] thank you ... the Middle Class gets nothing ... best they go poor and stop nagging the Rich ...

Democrats conveniently forget that even though the "rich" get their 2.2% tax cut extended, the middle class gets their 1% tax cut extended, or about $2,500 a year.

 

[Polishprince]

President Trump is just fulfilling the promise of Slick Willy, "The era of big government is over"

 

[rightwinger]

Smaller FEDERAL government means that less money will be wasted on "overhead" and more money will flow to the states, the ED department is a perfect example, cost went up and scores went down when ED was created. Taxpayers need vouchers to send their kids to the schools they prefer.

We need to spend taxes on the level of Government that makes the most sense and is most efficient.
Some functions are best done at the local Government, other at the state level and some at the federal
Federal level reduces duplication and can focus funding on areas of need

 

[LeftofLeft]

At this point, I’d be happy with more efficient government and less waste:

-$42 Million Johns Hopkins Research and Drive Social Change in Uganda.

-$20M for Fiscal Federalism in Nepal

-$18M for Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal

-$1.5M for Voter Confidence in Liberia

-$14M for Social Cohesion in Mali

-$2.5M for Inclusive Democracies in South Africa

-$47M for Improving Learning outcomes in Asia

-$14M for Improving Public Procurement in Serbia

-$422M for improving Political Process in Moldova

-$21M for Voter Turnout in India

-$2.3M for Strengthening Independent Voices in Cambodia

-$32M for the Prague Civil Centre

-$10M for Voluntary Circomscisions in Mozambique

-$40M to Improve the Inclusion of Sedentary Migrants

$520M for Environmental Consultation

 

[sealybobo]

Better than the government giving money to people they import who then rape and murder their way across the country.

As the saying goes, the pendulum swings both ways. Since FDR the country got too liberal. Now it'll get too conservative before it starts to swing the other way. This is what makes the country great. So long as one side isn't rigging elections.

 

[SeaMajor7]

At this point, I’d be happy with more efficient government and less waste:

-$42 Million Johns Hopkins Research and Drive Social Change in Uganda.

-$20M for Fiscal Federalism in Nepal

-$18M for Biodiversity Conservation in Nepal

-$1.5M for Voter Confidence in Liberia

-$14M for Social Cohesion in Mali

-$2.5M for Inclusive Democracies in South Africa

-$47M for Improving Learning outcomes in Asia

-$14M for Improving Public Procurement in Serbia

-$422M for improving Political Process in Moldova

-$21M for Voter Turnout in India

-$2.3M for Strengthening Independent Voices in Cambodia

-$32M for the Prague Civil Centre

-$10M for Voluntary Circomscisions in Mozambique

-$40M to Improve the Inclusion of Sedentary Migrants

$520M for Environmental Consultation

All a giant kick-back pig's trough.

 

[g5000]

basically anything that pisses off democrats,,

So it is all a game to you.

"We owned the libs derp-derp-derp."

Meanwhile, you will go back to bitching about deficits when a Democrat is in office.

Hypocrites.