The racism in this thread is palpable.

Did Doge take the day off? I mean, there is no way they can think giving 5 million to the family of a domestic terrorist is a good idea.

Are school districts now going to have to compensate the families of school shooters?

What is the dumb world we are in? It can't be real.

They are fumbling it like a one legged man in a ----------- contest.

The issue is prohibitive cost. We have effectively priced ourselves out of quality education through our own ignorance and reflexive disgust at all things funded by taxes.

The reason college tuition is exorbitant, is devise forget got involved in the dumbest way possible. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the idea of wanting college accessible to everyone is wonderful. But the way the government chose to do it is sheer insanity. Government guarantees the loan, and made it not dischargeable in bankruptcy.

So banks will give all the money anyone wants every time they ask for it, because it is risk free to do so. What happens in an environment where the stream of money grows infinitely? The structures supported by that money grow infinitely large.

Well we've reached the breaking point where it's not justifiable to take on the cost of college, compared to the salaries gained at the end from your degree.

By no means am I advocating for financially means testing. That implies looking at families and previous incomes to gage risk. That will leave college for only the rich. That's not a great idea. But the government needs to stop both guaranteeing them and change it so they can be discharged like other debt.

Loans should only be looked at for future earning potential by the banks. In other words: they should only be able to ask what your major is. Engineering, business, nursing, medicine, etc? Yeah those demonstrate real earning potential so sure you will get a loan if you need it ... . But only in line with your future earning potential. Nurses in average make between 75 and 100k. Do they need 150k in loans to get that degree? Probably not. But the doctor or lawyer who has an earning potential much higher probably should get more loans.

You want to major in Eastern Serbian Architecture? Womyns studies? Or any of a million other nearly useless degrees? Have fun funding them yourself.

The net effect is a shrinking pool of resources, which sounds bad ... but it isn't. It will force colleges to be more competitive in how they draw students and how they price themselves in the market.

23: these aren't people that "can't get used to" black people being in charge. Apartheid ended 35 years ago. These are ------ looking for a barrage of free stuff that has been promised to white people as lobbied for by the grifter-king fElon Musk.

Yeah I wish some barrel sucker could tell me why the second amendment is so awesome, but the 5th and 14th don't at all.

And spare me the "constitution only applies to citizens" crap. That is a lie and you know it.

The 5th says no PERSON shall be arrested without due process. And the 14th amendment makes sure that amendment applies to the states as well.

No PERSON. not "no citizen". Not "no legally Present person". No PERSON shall be arrested without due process.

The best pope of my nearly 60 years. Kept truer to the teachings of Jesus than his predecessors. I was proud for him to be my pope.

Is this his application for a position in Trumps cabinet?

It's scary how they can't separate the person from the process.

Biggest piece of crap criminal in the country has the right to due process and facing their accuser.

The accused, no more how bad, is exactly who the constitution was written for to protect.

The fact that he is piece of crap and probably guilty is 100% immaterial. The soul of this country is founded on individual rights, separate but equal branches, Andersson checks and balances. We took a dump on our soul and's so many are declaring victory about it.

23: all of that is true.

He's probably a piece of crap.

But the crux of the matter is this:

The 5th amendment says "no PERSON shall be arrested without due process." Not "no citizen," not "no person in the country legally.."

No PERSON will be arrested without due process

The accused get to face their accuser in this country.

Law enforcement should NEVER have the power to investigate, try, convict, sentence, and then implement the sentence. That destroys due process.

We have separate but equal branches for a reason

A judge should have signed a warrant. A judge should have held a hearing to ensure law enforcement arrested the right person. A judge Should have had a hearing to hear the facts from the accused and law enforcement.

That's how justice works in America for everyone. At least it's supposed to. There wasn't a judge anywhere in the process. It was unconstitutional as all get out.

I'm just focused on the positive, which is that at least they provided him due process and he was able to see a judge. The scariest thing as an American to me was watching ice arrest, convict, sentence, and carry out said sentence on people without a single judge ANYWHERE in the process. Police should never ever ever have that kind of power.

So it's a little victory that he saw a judge. The ruling isn't my favorite, but having judicial oversight at least provides SOME degree of constitutionality to the process.

So you made an effort with the keystone. The pipeline that was obsolete BEFORE it was built.

I thought you were all for canceling wasteful spending? Oh I forgot m, that's only when you are firing tens of thousands of blue collar government jobs.

You do realize a lot of government jobs are blue collar, yes?

#24 vague platitudes isn't going to cut it. Be specific. Exactly what policies have they sought or enacted that was anti us blue collar workers.

Please. Be very specific

Please tell me in what way they have become the party of maximizing government growth and control, and anti us worker.

Be specific

This should be entertaining.

They could sell a lot more if they didn't demonize working from home.

Too soon?

This may be a waste of time? But it's overdue. The man deserves to be in the hall of fame. He's literally one of the best ball players to ever live.

Keeping him out of the hall is just silly.

#30

Yep. My wife and I are in the most heavily taxed prime in the country because we are dual income, both of us right at the the income threshold so we pay crazy amounts in taxes.

Those poor billionaires deserve every dollar they get to save on taxes. I just can't wait to stand here like conservatives with my mouth open waiting for them to trickle down all over me with their largesse.

That is to say: the ultimate goal of a tariff is that no one pays it because we've moved all the manufacturing here.

I am no trump supporter, but the purpose of tariffs is being misrepresented here. Yes it makes things cost more for the consumer in this country for things produced outside of it. But that isn't the whole story.

Their intent is to make it cost effective to produce that widget in America, So they it stimulates job growth here.

There are problems, like retaliatory tariffs the countries impose on our goods. But generally, in an economy as massive as ours, that matters very little. China is really the only country that can approach our spending power, so tariffs are heavily weighted in our favor.

Provided they are surgically applied. Something trump doesn't show signs of doing. His bar for tariffs I'd like everything else: did someone forget to fall on their knees and prostrate themselves before my kingly self? Bam. Tariffs.

#32. When I got out of the army after 10 years of service. I was offered more money than I had ever seen in my life to go to Iraq as a contractor. I turned it down for a government job that paid a third as much.

Why? Because I didn't want to deal with the hassle of working a contract and then being unemployed until either I could find a new contract or the one I was on was renewed.

Government employees generally are looking for stability over massive pay.

Being upset that the government is going back on its promises of stable employment knowing they sacrificed higher pay for that very stability isn't unreasonable.

Not to mention he's never supervised anything. Never been responsible for a budget. Hell, he's never written a performance evaluation for a subordinate.

Other than that he is totally qualified!

Wow! Only 25 million per jerb! Those must be some high paying jerbs! I know the dirty illegals won't be able to steal it from me despite my compete lack of education or training!

You think any job change happens instantaneously? That's number one. Number two is: they have no experience outside of their previous job, who's going to hire someone without experience with enough pay to support their families? Farm work? Do they live near farm work? If not, how will they get there that doesn't cost them money they don't have and/or can't spare?

-Source: Pew Research Center.
#11 | POSTED BY ZARNON AT 2025-02-24 09:15 PM | FLAG:

My favorite start of this is: the entire budget of USAID in 71 years, would barely cover what this country spends on healthcare in 2 months.

And yet ... . That's the problem we go after first?

Never mind the fact that those usaid dollars were being spent on goodwill, so that when we asked for mineral rights or other investments in a country, we got them, resulting in a massive return on the investment.

But yay! Short sightedness FTW!

Go Doge! Solve the insignificant problems but not the real ones!

Yeah its just $4Billion dollars, whats that 0.01% of the federal budget?

#8 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT AT 2025-02-24 08:36 PM | REPLY | FUNNY: 1

So you don't care about something that is ".01%" of the budget, but you love to see thousands of government employees fired being a savings of .000000000001% of the budget ... .. oh and now they need unemployment, food stamps, and welfare after being summarily thrown out on the street, negating much of the savings ... .

Yay! Go DOGE!!