• echo@lemmings.world
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    2 days ago

    You know, Trump could skip every other golf outing and save far more? Why isn’t DOGE calling out this waste, anyway?

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      2 days ago

      Corruption? It seems pretty obvious to me.

      Also, how is a golf club that expensive? Or is Trump using tax dollars to pay his private company?

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      2 days ago

      Good point. Dem presidents shouldn’t be able to golf either, right?

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        2 days ago

        Not as their primary activity and not if they’re going to be a fucking hypocrite.

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      2 days ago

      That doesn’t mean pay off TOTAL national debt. It’s like you selling your motorcycles to pay off debt. Doesn’t have to mean all of it, just paying it down.

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        1 day ago

        Fair point. Let’s take a slightly deeper look. The annual interest on the US national debt is approaching $1 TRILLION. Any number starting with “M” amounts less than a tenth of one percent of that. So it won’t “pay down” anything, it will just add a tiny drop in the bucket to one year’s interest. I haven’t done any math to estimate the problems resulting from putting a shitload more guns into circulation, but my guess it they would cost more than the benefits. But that’s like, just my opinion, man.

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          So it won’t “pay down” anything, it will just add a tiny drop in the bucket to one year’s interest.

          Agreed. But just like paying off personal debt, “any” is more than “none,” so I have no problems with it.

          I do have problems with both parties wasting money and getting us into debt in the first place, though.

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            1 day ago

            Like I said tho - cost/benefit analysis. Introducing what I assume is a huge number of confiscated guns into the population will create costs downstream, not just moar freedom.