Asian lady beetles eat butterfly eggs.

#10 Corky, you created a narrative out of whole cloth and I can't wait to see how that turns out.

#11 Just stating the facts as written. You said 'dictatorship' I did not, and you said I didn't like the results, what about I wrote would give you that impression?

#8 True, Kamala and Joe were both selected by the elites of a single party.

It's only democratic in the sense that the elites of a single party got to choose a new leader. That's the Soviet and Canadian systems in summary.

Stacy Abrams spent 2 billion dollars to study how to improve energy efficiency in a town of 90 homes.

Malicious compliance.

Are these refugees culturally Russians that tried to escape Zelensky's ethnic purges or are these culturally Ukrainians that tried to escape Zelenky's forced conscription and fascism?

He shook his cane in a threatening manner. It's called asault.

He shook his cane in a threateningassault. It's called asault.

My God, it was an insurrection and he obstructed a government proceeding. A ten year serntence should serve as a warning to others.

If Starlink gets the contract and doesn't adequately provide the service and save the government money, you may have a point.

So Zed, you wrote: "Elon Musk is about to swallow, personally steal, FAA funding." and got nothing to back it up?

Post the details.

Given the high degree of certainty that you all have that the Federal Government has no waste worth spending effort to eliminate, I'm sure there's no reason to look at defense spending and privatization contracts either.

You've convinced yourselves that nothing can be cut from a 6.8 trillion dollar budget without causing catastrophe. Not one employee out of 3 million is redundant. That's epic.

Do you realize you are arguing for your own taxes to be wasted?

Veteran affairs had to staff up to take of the needs of the WWII generation as they aged. They're all gone along with the Korean and many of the Vietnam era veterans. It's reasonable in most industries to staff up and then staff back down with demand. No reason keep these people idle waiting for the Gulf War I and II generations to need additional aid.

A 10-12% reduction in SS workforce doesn't seem to be too drastic given all the advances in technology over the last 75 years.

#98 No I don't. But you'd get that impression by the end of the world rhetoric over laying off a few dozen workers.

Directly nothing. Indirectly, roads, schools, police etc.

There is waste fraud and abuse in government spending. The vast sums that have been added to spending in the last several years are rife with it. Rooting out the corruption will be a messy process. Biden/Harris never spoke about it and were not planning to do anything about it. Should we continue to waste money we don't have?

Less money wasted means more money is available for Social Security's intended purpose.

No comments on the fact that this is Cali and San Francisco?

Almost no one gets a check. It's almost totally direct deposit. Just push a button. A keyboard macro could replace whole floors of workers.