• altphoto@lemmy.today
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    2 hours ago

    How is money made? Well if Elon asshole can work his ass off to earn 1 trillion dollars, then everyone else should too right?

    Just work your ass off. The trillions will be coming your way soon.

  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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    6 hours ago

    Gee, whatever happened to those fiscally conservative GOPers?

    Edit: /s Indeed I have been witness to what has happened.

    • Janx@piefed.social
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      6 hours ago

      ICE budget went from 10 billion to 75 billion with Trump. The wallet flies open when it’s an opportunity to punish and deport brown people…

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          3 hours ago

          Uh… what? It was clear from the first word you were being sarcastic, I wasn’t calling you out or anything! Merely agreeing, and reminding us all of the skyrocketing cost…

  • DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 hours ago

    US has monetary sovereignty, so the national debt is little more than a cudgel to justify austerity. We know this because any budget cuts that happen supposedly because of it have never reduced spending, they’ve just reallocated funding away from social benefits to bailouts, military, police, and prisons.

    And shockingly this has never taken the US even close to bankruptsy despite decades of neoliberal blathering, because again the US has monetary sovereignty and thus doesn’t operate under the same logic as a household or fucking car dealership

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      5 hours ago

      They already did… they started saying it was due to the Economic Bomb Biden left