Anonymous wrote:It is not likley that the economy will collapse or even slow down in 2025. 2026 is possible. You do realize that almost nothing that Trump has announced will take effect.

Anonymous wrote:Right now we're heading for stagflation. 1970s here we come!

Anonymous wrote:Cut back like Clinton did. He involved Congress. He did it slowly and methodically. Through voluntary separations, early retirement, real buyouts. He used the system. He kept civil servant protections in place. But he was able to reduce the number of jobs by over 350,000 over 8 years.

Conduct systematic reviews using subject matter experts. If indirect costs to research universities is oversized, scale back over three years. Not just full stop. Don't blow stuff up to rebuild later.

You know, the rule of law.

Anonymous wrote:Cut back like Clinton did. He involved Congress. He did it slowly and methodically. Through voluntary separations, early retirement, real buyouts. He used the system. He kept civil servant protections in place. But he was able to reduce the number of jobs by over 350,000 over 8 years.

Conduct systematic reviews using subject matter experts. If indirect costs to research universities is oversized, scale back over three years. Not just full stop. Don't blow stuff up to rebuild later.

You know, the rule of law.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've stopped vaccinating people in other countries like airplanes and boats don't exist.

We've stopped funding cancer research.

We are deporting our agricultural workers.

We are ignoring environmental catastrophe and getting rid of NOAA and FEMA.

We are alienating our allies.

All of these things have consequences. Life has been hard for all of humanity until the last 100 years and we have chosen to go back in time.

So tell me where you would cut $2 Trillion from? How do you suggest we get to a good budget situation? I don’t think you realize that we can’t continue on this trajectory.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've stopped vaccinating people in other countries like airplanes and boats don't exist.

We've stopped funding cancer research.

We are deporting our agricultural workers.

We are ignoring environmental catastrophe and getting rid of NOAA and FEMA.

We are alienating our allies.

All of these things have consequences. Life has been hard for all of humanity until the last 100 years and we have chosen to go back in time.

So tell me where you would cut $2 Trillion from? How do you suggest we get to a good budget situation? I don’t think you realize that we can’t continue on this trajectory.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We've stopped vaccinating people in other countries like airplanes and boats don't exist.

We've stopped funding cancer research.

We are deporting our agricultural workers.

We are ignoring environmental catastrophe and getting rid of NOAA and FEMA.

We are alienating our allies.

All of these things have consequences. Life has been hard for all of humanity until the last 100 years and we have chosen to go back in time.

So tell me where you would cut $2 Trillion from? How do you suggest we get to a good budget situation? I don’t think you realize that we can’t continue on this trajectory.

DP but some of what Trump is doing will cost us money, not save it. He's proposing massive tax cuts for the wealthy. You think alienating our allies will save money? Even the fork proposal is a huge expense, paying workers who aren't working through September even though most who took it would have left (without severance) through normal attrition anyway.

Everyone knows if you really want to shrink the budget, you don't do it with USAID or NOAA, which are relatively small programs. Are they going to go after the defense budget, the national intelligence budget, Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid? Because those are where the $$$ is. Yet he has promised not to touch them.

He should not touch Social Security or Medicare for anyone Gen X and older. We have been paying for these for decades. Any changes there should be phased in by age group.

Buying and developing Trump Gaza is going to cost billions.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who has lived through the collapse of a democracy or studied that topic is very worried. Are they crazy or just better informed than you about the signs that institutions are failing and power is being dangerously ceded to one man with authoritarian tendencies?

A lot depends on if the executive still follows the courts. The legislative branch has shown no signs of being a check. They’ve been verbally threatening not to follow court orders for a few days. Threatening judges. Project 2025 says ignore the court rulings and proceed with your policies.

Are we crazy for taking them at their word? Where do other people find the confidence to believe they wouldn’t actually do it?

Really something that reducing the size of the federal workforce and ending ridiculous spending by USAID = the end of democracy.

If this is so obvious, why won’t he just propose these cuts to congress so they can pass a law cutting them? Why does he insist on doing it illegally?

Because congress is absolutely worthless and they can’t legislate. I am absolutely furious that because of them we are in this situation. The goal of Trump has been stated, to remove $2 Trillion from our spending. To have our debt 3% of GDP. Paying down our debt will have a massive positive impact. Will it be easy? No, but we must get our fiscal house in order.

Anonymous wrote:The hyperbole and hysteria are curious. Government waste, fraud and abuse are funded and tied to many, if not most of these jobs. Perfect time for Entrepreneurs.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, your fearless leader who wants to cut unnecessary spending wants to turn Greenland into Red White and Greenland 🙄

Sounds like a really good use of government money over cancer research.

Anonymous wrote:How will tax cuts for the wealthy lower our debt and get our economic house in order? Can someone please explain?