Anonymous wrote:This reminds me of election time in India. Our domestic helpers would come home from election rallies with all kinds of goodies such as TVs, sewing machines and so forth. The vote went to the candidate who handed out the most expensive gifts.

Ha! The Indians have nothing on the Filipinos. Aspiring congressmen would hand out small denomination bills stamped with their name.

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of early in the process to be showing this kind of desperation already.

Musk didn't say this, some idiot made it up and now it's all over MAGA internet. Almost like they're really gullible.

+1

Musk responded he’d float it by Trump and now the dimwits are flapping their jaws about it.

Their reported financial goal was to reduce the deficit. That is where every “saved” dollar should be going. But I guess it’s too much to expect the common man to understand a ledger.

Republicans Yap holiday about the deficit but then as soon as they get in power they just want to throw money at people to keep them happy. Panem et circenses

Anonymous wrote:Read the fine print. 20% of whatever they save. $8000 assumes $2 trillion savings and, at most, they’ve saved $4 bn. That. Ones of to about $5 per person. Before lawsuits kick in and people start getting settlements to negate all $4 bn of savings.

There's no way they've saved $2 trillion right now. I've heard it was much less because Elon doesn't understand the difference between a million and a billion. Remember when people thought he was really smart?

Anonymous wrote:Omg this is so hilarious. Please, everyone keep believing whatever nonsense Elon makes up. That check will come any day now!

+ 1 I heard it’s in the mail!

Anonymous wrote:Say goodbye to benefits of being an American if they try to send out $8000 checks to all Americans without Congress approving it.

The US is the world's reserve currency because people trust in the dollar and in the American system.

Sending Americans an 8000 check would shoot inflation through the roof. It would add even more to the deficit and completely trash international markets belief in the dollar or in the American system.

If you get a check for $8000 from Musk, use it to buy a flight out of the country.

So, we can’t send eight grand to individual American citizen taxpayers. But we absolutely can send billions to different non-profits and grifting contractors and give the bureaucrats who set these deals up six figure paychecks?.. 🤨

Read the fine print. 20% of whatever they save. $8000 assumes $2 trillion savings and, at most, they’ve saved $4 bn. That. Ones of to about $5 per person. Before lawsuits kick in and people start getting settlements to negate all $4 bn of savings.

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Anonymous wrote:Kind of early in the process to be showing this kind of desperation already.

Musk didn't say this, some idiot made it up and now it's all over MAGA internet. Almost like they're really gullible.

+1

Musk responded he’d float it by Trump and now the dimwits are flapping their jaws about it.

Their reported financial goal was to reduce the deficit. That is where every “saved” dollar should be going. But I guess it’s too much to expect the common man to understand a ledger.

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump suggested that some savings from his federal cost-cutting effort, overseen by billionaire Elon Musk, could be sent back to US taxpayers, with another portion being used to reduce the national deficit.

“There’s even under consideration a new concept where we give 20% of the DOGE savings to American citizens, and 20% goes to paying down debt, because the numbers are incredible,” Trump said referring to his Department of Government Efficiency effort during an address Wednesday at an investment summit backed by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund in Miami.

Trump’s idea has been floated previously by Musk, who was in attendance for the address. Musk responded this week to a post on his social media platform X suggesting that Trump announce a “DOGE Dividend” with a $5,000 tax refund check sent to taxpaying households, saying he would “check with the President.”

The remarks were the latest signal that Trump is working to justify his DOGE effort, which has sent shockwaves through Washington as Musk’s moves to slash the federal government’s spending and workforce invite legal challenges and questions over the effort’s authority and powers.

Critics have argued that the slash-and-burn style of canceled contracts and worker layoffs risk crippling critical government services while doing little to deliver long-term taxpayer savings. And Trump and Musk have repeatedly overstated the amount of realized taxpayer savings — casting doubt on whether ambitious goals to significantly slash spending could be met.

While the White House has claimed some $55 billion in savings so far, itemized documents posted by the group suggest the actual savings are only a fraction of that amount. Sending 20% of the roughly $8.6 billion of DOGE savings the group has so far listed on its website would amount to about $11 per taxpayer.

Still, some 75,000 federal workers took a offer for a buyout offer, Trump said, arguing it would provide long-term savings to the government. And Trump and Musk have argued that the biting cuts are necessary given the nation’s debt.

The US recorded an annual deficit of $1.8 trillion in the last fiscal year, and deficits are on track to rise over the next decade, adding further to government red ink. The US would need to eliminate those budget shortfalls before even beginning to make a dent in its $29 trillion debt load.


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This might be one of the stupidest things I have seen in a long time.

Anonymous wrote:Better 8k to Americans then to Ukraine or Africa

Not if your kid has to go fight a war against Europe or your family gets ebola and all die.

Anonymous wrote:Although it's a rumor it would be interesting what the public would think if they got refund checks from all the govt cost cutting. Some rumors have it in the $8000

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/18/doge-stimulus-check-internet/79121544007/

I thought musk was going to save money.

Omg this is so hilarious. Please, everyone keep believing whatever nonsense Elon makes up. That check will come any day now!

Do the people who are proposing this not realize that there are no savings, and won't be until the budget is at least balanced? For now, the only "savings" are in the form of "reduced shortfall." And a reduction of the increase in the national debt.

“President Trump said on Wednesday evening that the newly established Department of Government Efficiency might return a portion of the savings accrued through job cuts and other budget curbs to American taxpayers.

The idea of giving back 20 percent of the money saved as a result of initiatives recommended by the new department, known as DOGE, is “under consideration,” said Mr. Trump. The potential initiative, he said, was “a new concept” under which his administration would give “20 percent of the DOGE savings to American citizens” and “20 percent goes to paying down debt.” (He didn’t mention what would be done with the other 60 percent of the money.)” -NYT

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Anonymous wrote:Better 8k to Americans then to Ukraine or Africa

Well, that’s what you think because you work for Putin.

Loyal Americans know that foreign aid was an investment in us not being slaves of Putin.

Relax. We have overwhelming military superiority over Russia. Russia knows this.

Anonymous wrote:lol, it’s going to $8k in TaintCoin or whatever it is they are pushing.

Lolz. Taint real money!