The 30 trillion deficit I wonder if the 2.9 trillion borrow from S.S. is included or deleted from this blowout / theft s.s.report we got 1.4 million Americans 113 yrs old drawing S.S. and over 50 billion dollars yearly paid out to dead people and checks are being cashed or is that laundered by those in goverment operating a scam on S.S.
I listened to you speak and I am extremely appreciative of what you stand for! Please never allow money to corrupt you in government. We need people like you running this country. Godspeed!
@@Thebibleauthority Does any functioning mind? I don't think so. When Hill got off, I knew the Core Ups hun was far to saturated in USA. We goin' down, from the INside?
Where are we on funding 800 military bases, invading and bombing countries that have done nothing to us and fighting proxy wars to keep the military contractors happy.
I'm torn on this one... do I think it's overkill? probably, however other than the Civil War a few hundred years ago there has been and likely won't be a land based war in the US in our lifetime or our kids, kids and their kids. Having the most powerful military is a deterrent to the rest of the world. Again, is it overkill, maybe, but I'm no expert to understand. 100% we over-police the world, but again what level do we need? That's the question.
Give the President the authority for line-item video power and cut Pork Barrel Legislation from the stupid Congress Representative who add this stuff to Bills.
Thank you so much for informing us of these extraordinary Government expenditures!! You are so right in questioning these expenditures. For the love of God let’s stop this!!! We the American people invested in your abilities to reasonably monitor our countrys budgets, if you cannot do it please let someone who can take your place!!
This makes me sick to my stomach these politicians are living high on the hog and we the people are suffering, I’m so damn mad because we are letting this go on, we the people need to unite together and stop this madness NOW.
Put all government employees on social security upon retirement and take government retirement and add it to social security. The only government employees who should have better benefits that the people they represent is our military.
Well they're already talking about programs that will eventually help me and you play Medicaid the VA social security but you think they'll talk about just for a second about cutting the military budget that'll never happen because guess who gets a bunch of military contracts
It won't be D.O.G.E., but rather more like DODGE.... As in dodge embarrassing questions because they don't have all those great ideas that will work. Perhaps they should be actively interviewing people that actually have something that will reduce costs..... Costs, anybody, costs, anybody C.O.S.T.S: anybody?
Too many political types in Washington say to themselves, it is only $15K or $500K on a multi trillion dollar budget. We got to a multi trillion dollar budget with an endless list of $15K and $500K requests, earmarks, pet projects, back scratching, deal making, etc, etc, etc!!! Why do we always hear that Social Security is going broke but we never hear that any of the multitude of social programs are going broke??? Our lawmakers have NO desire to fix our spending but plenty of desire to spend what we do not have!
Senator Lankford is likely speaking to an empty chamber. When this is addressed, everyone should be required to attend. This debt is their responsibility to fix. If they don’t fix it, they should be stripped of all their own wealth, as well as jailed! I’m sickened by our government!
Every expenditure that is in a bill should be required to have someone's N AME included with it so we can see who's being responsible and who's spending OUR money like a drunken sailor.
Senator Lankford, The main reason that my Nation is so far in debt is because Congress cannot stop using taxpayer dollars for pet projects; such as the swimming pool you mentioned. The President needs a line-item veto on each project that is put into the Nation's budget. I, along with almost everybody I've talked to, want to cut the Federal Budget by cutting stupid stuff. I hope the new DOGE department can wipe out a lot of this wasteful spending. First and foremost; take care of America First!!!
$2 billion spent and wasted... that's more money than you or I will make in our lifetimes. So right there, they wasted all the tax money you'll pay in your entire life. Government's finest.
Happy that at least one of our Senators sees that even small amounts add up! Don't just look at the Trillions and Billions when working on the Budget, look at the Millions and Thousands also. If you buy a $5 coffee every day for a year, you have spent $1825 that could have been saved and invested. If you invested that $152 monthly at just a 7% return, you would have over $26,000 in 10 years. If you charged that coffee everyday on a credit card at 20% interest, just think of how much interest you would be paying! With trillions in debt we are digging our nation into a whole. What is going to happen when we can't pay our bill? Someone is going to own our country.
This is TWO YEARS OLD. It would be interesting to see what the latest run down is, I imagine is dramatically WORSE. Go DOGE! End ear marks! Members of Congress should not be eligible for re-election if there is a budget deficit.
Well at the time of this Senator's presentation, the U.S. Debt was around 30 Trillion. Now at the end of 2024, that debt is now approaching 34 Trillion. So in the intervening 2 years i take it that not too much of the gist of Sen. Lankford speech has been taken to heart. Go figure..........we are doomed.........Go DOGE.
The root of this problem : Lobyist, should Not be allowed to influance our Federal Government..! Corruption starts with "Kickback" money for pet projects..!
god forbid we protect western values and donate used weapons that would otherwise need to be decommissioned for twice the price, its not cash being spent and do you know how much it costs to send to ask raytheon to decomission missiles plus the rest of this equiptment is sitting in storage lockers which costs a lot and if we can have ukraine in debt to us than we can trade favorably for the multi trillion dollar presious metal deposiits on their land
This man needs to be our next president so we can continue to clean out our government and continue to see OUR people thrive! THANK YOU, SIR for taking this on and for standing up and doing your job for your state. Heck, I'm proud of you and I'm not from Oklahoma.
"Stop it before it gets to $150 because that's all I can afford." Now imagine the person who only has $50 to spend because the RENTS are so high even a full time job doesn't cover it! Now imagine a senior citizen, who worked hard their whole lives, can't even afford to buy food because the BILLS are so high. These politicians can't, mainly because they make 6 figure incomes, and can afford daily expenses. What truly disturbs me is that so much time and money is wasted talking about these issues, yet nothing gets done. The rich get richer, the poor stay poor, and those who worked hard to achieve the "American Dream" are once again disappointed. But then, that's how the King of England treated us before we fought back, right?
Thank you Senator. It would behave us to have a quarterly list published online of every elected official vote on even bill which would list each amount in a bill and where specifically each $ would go for since a lot of our officials like to hide money for their pet projects in bills which include many items. This should be taken up by the financial committee!
Not to mention theirs a government committee that oversees the budget yet fails every year!! Federal post office loses $9B a year. Might be time to take business away from government! Don't ya think... Disco sucks
And he doesn't mention how many employees are needed to administrate the pork funds and as we stop these pork projects we can all that money spent on wages and benefits.
It is now 2 years later, Dec. 15, 2024, and I am sending this to DOGE. I was a Federal and Fortune 500 Internal Audit Manager and anti-corruption manager.
I have a question and a couple of follow-ups: Was there any other Senator present in the chamber other than Senator Lankford and the Senate leader? And if there was, why are they absolutely silent? And if there aren't, why not?
A senator from Oklahoma should not be talking about waste. Their state to this point has been a waste. Ranked almost last in every category that benefits their residents
All this money the government wastes, when all this money put towards the CITIZENS in the US, we would not have any homeless people, we would not have any hungry people, we would have health care for all CITIZENS. Tons of money would be left over to worry about everything else. This is nuts.
Lankford added $2,000,000,000,000 to the deficit by voting for the TCJA and does not care about the debt and deficit. More gaslighting. Government budget ≠ House budget.
These are ridiculous but they don't add up to 12 trillion dollars. I absolutely agree that they should be abolished and the people responsible for bringing up these debts to the Americans should be fired.
Dear Senator Langford, nobody is listening. Your constituents are. But your fellow senators. You are learning politicians do not care how they spend our money. They only want to get reelected. And then retire in luxury. Please change this.
"Don't worry, the government is not a private household. The government can spend whatever they like and then just print the money to pay it back, because there were times when we printed money and it didn't cause inflation. It's all good."
Unfortunately, things have gotten so out of hand that even if they cut all non-essential spending, the debt will continue to still grow due to all the interest that needs to be paid on the money that was previously borrowed. The hole will never be dug out of unless they combine spending reductions with increases in revenue - a/k/a - tax increases. But no, all we still hear out of the GOP is 'more tax breaks'.
According to US National Debt Clock the current U.S. debt is $654,766.00 for every tax paying citizen! Where are you and your wife going to get the necessary $1,309,532.00 dollars just to bring our debt to a zero balance? What we need to realize is that EVERY dollar expended by the Federal Government should be for something that benefits EVERY U.S taxpayer. That means military protection, interstate highway construction, federal aviation. The vast majority of spending is for things like a swimming pool in "Boondock" Colorado, or a multi-million-dollar study on how hamsters fight. Not to mention millions spent on illegals! Or even worse on "how to weaponize a virus" done in China. Lets rein our representatives in!
I love the initiative and the call to action. The items being highlighted are good but ultimately chump change. They definitely should be corrected, ie removed from the federal budget. The bigger items should be attached by Musk and Ramaswami. Cutting from bloated government agencies that are very problematic. The idea of for the people has been lost in these bloated agencies. Government needs to be drastically reduced.
Senator Lankford, Just this fiscal yr $899billion for Pentagon budget. That's almost $1trillion. With these wars we are told, not only borrowing the Pentagon budget from China, but also asking the taxpayers to guarantee this, add humanitarian, military pay, pensions, infrastructure, salaries of ngo execs to rebuild economy and now reimbursing the Pentagon's marshaling of the Middle East. I am in stunned disbelief and nauseous. We are told "Don't worry. We are being responsible and frugal. We are ridding our dead stock and building bigger and better. Whoever the hell is making this money and not paying taxes... Heavenly Father I beg You to touch these greedy, sadistic, users in whatever You Abba declare fit for these atrocious crimes of treason to the American citizens. Now Pentagon wants to sell F15s to Turkey. This is obvious supplying both sides of these wars. I am so disgusted with you all.
Will the Amarecan taxes payer will the stuck with the taxes Defasits. The leftes Palation should be held liable for kind of reckless spending, and not taxes payers. Americans shouddet be paying reckless Defasits, leftes Palation should be held responsibleity for this Defasits. Left Palation should be paying this out of thire money,that they take even back door money. Milton Donner
Keynes believed that we can fine tune the economy by spending during market recessions and taxing and revenue building during good times. This was the economic orthodoxy of the 40s 50s and 60s When the oil crisis of the 1970s and foreign competition triggered stagflation (NOT THE FAULT OF KEYNES) we turned to crack pot economists of the Austrian who just let the market run wild and roughshod over our country. Now unelected financiers are free to do whatever they please, buy as many politicians as they please and store masses of wealth in tax havens. We now have debt, massive deficits (because wecannot touch the sacred job creating cows) it is like keeping a dirty moldy house and saying the the mold will make it clean.
Could we consider raise the cap for social security tax per detail calculation so that the cash outflow will be more aligned with cash inflow consider the demographic change of aging population?
How about we stop paying to rebuild homes in Florida damaged by hurricanes, or homes damaged by tornadoes in Oklahoma, homes damaged by floods from the floods in Louisiana. Add that to the $$ to farmers not to plant some fields.
why aren't the names and positions of those who ok'd this BS, being made public?
I got a good feeling we are going to learn a lot the next 4 years. I totally understand your frustration!
The 30 trillion deficit I wonder if the 2.9 trillion borrow from S.S. is included or deleted from this blowout / theft s.s.report we got 1.4 million Americans 113 yrs old drawing S.S. and over 50 billion dollars yearly paid out to dead people and checks are being cashed or is that laundered by those in goverment operating a scam on S.S.
Politicians, especially DEMOCRATS, are intentionally bankrupting the country.
Because it's public record, you don't get it in your email.
TERM LIMITS .
Defense industries........ Still laughing all the way to the banks!!!😫
I listened to you speak and I am extremely appreciative of what you stand for! Please never allow money to corrupt you in government. We need people like you running this country. Godspeed!
But I don’t see these criminals in jail yet.
Jan.21 st is coming
@@Thebibleauthority Does any functioning mind? I don't think so. When Hill got off, I knew the Core Ups hun was far to saturated in USA. We goin' down, from the INside?
You will never see any of these people in jail because they control most of those in charge.
Yeah let's talk about it... All this Corrupt spending but no arrests.
But let's cut out Social Security.
Yeah but if they started arresting government officials on the crimes they commit there'd be hardly any of them left on either side
It's each of these 50 senators who push for their own pork barrel add ons when a bill is signed.
isn't it part of their job to bring Federal monies to their state?
Where are we on funding 800 military bases, invading and bombing countries that have done nothing to us and fighting proxy wars to keep the military contractors happy.
The war machine and the warmongers are hungry and must be fed...
And Lankford keeps voting pro war & anti-American. #VOTEHIMOUT2022
People will give up their rights for the good of the nation for the war effort and they will never get them back, Ilke
Blablablabla
I'm torn on this one... do I think it's overkill? probably, however other than the Civil War a few hundred years ago there has been and likely won't be a land based war in the US in our lifetime or our kids, kids and their kids. Having the most powerful military is a deterrent to the rest of the world. Again, is it overkill, maybe, but I'm no expert to understand. 100% we over-police the world, but again what level do we need? That's the question.
We need to cut wasteful spending in Washington!
But you have no problem with Trump giving a permanent tax break for millionaire's and billionaires and a temporary break to blue collar workers
Thank you, senator Langford.
I'm sure this is only the tip of the iceberg. Keep at it we will eventually win god bless you
But don't ever try and pass a Balanced Budget Amendment....
Heavens no....
49 states have to have a balanced budget by law.
I keep seeing people talking about over spending, but no one actually doing anything.
All this wasteful gov spending but monthly seniors worry about social security running out.
Give the President the authority for line-item video power and cut Pork Barrel Legislation from the stupid Congress Representative who add this stuff to Bills.
@@normmccarty8060 That was promised, "earnestly" since W was in ofc. It's BS.
Congress needs to change the rules to outlaw riders attached to bills because that is where most of the wastage is allocated
Thank you so much for informing us of these extraordinary Government expenditures!! You are so right in questioning these expenditures. For the love of God let’s stop this!!! We the American people invested in your abilities to reasonably monitor our countrys budgets, if you cannot do it please let someone who can take your place!!
MAGA voters will be watching you senator
But they likely do not ever Contact elected ones to say anything about it.
Screw maga ,they must all be billionaires paying trumps uneducated voters
Yes I am, I’m from Oklahoma so I can vote for or against you.
If more of the Rep. were like him it would have been a mandate but you had a slim majority. This is how more in our government need to govern .
You guys will be watching but not paying attention from what I have seen
This makes me sick to my stomach these politicians are living high on the hog and we the people are suffering, I’m so damn mad because we are letting this go on, we the people need to unite together and stop this madness NOW.
Put all government employees on social security upon retirement and take government retirement and add it to social security. The only government employees who should have better benefits that the people they represent is our military.
Can't wait to see what D.O.G.E. does.
Cut Veterans benefits. Cut Social Security. Cut Medicare and Medicaid. Give tax breaks to billionaires and corporations. That's Elon and Viveks plan!
@@FarmToMarketRoad Imagine letting Billionaire foreigners take away the social security we all worked for, because WOKE.
@@FarmToMarketRoadbot
Well they're already talking about programs that will eventually help me and you play Medicaid the VA social security but you think they'll talk about just for a second about cutting the military budget that'll never happen because guess who gets a bunch of military contracts
It won't be D.O.G.E., but rather more like DODGE.... As in dodge embarrassing questions because they don't have all those great ideas that will work. Perhaps they should be actively interviewing people that actually have something that will reduce costs..... Costs, anybody, costs, anybody C.O.S.T.S: anybody?
It won't ever change until people start going to jail and everything they have gets taken from them. Talk is cheap.
Senator Lankford, we just need to reveal the names of legislators who sponsor the bills or earmarks.I want to know!!!!!!!!
DOGE can't start soon enough. Thank you Langford. Now start naming names
Line/item vetoes and term limits! Get after it!
@@oldfarmer9004 They've been promising that since W was in ofc. Ain't in the cards.
Excellent presentation! Work on it !
I would like to see the size of the audience he is speaking to. I bet it isn't the people who pissed our money away.
Hurry up, Elon! FJB!
Too many political types in Washington say to themselves, it is only $15K or $500K on a multi trillion dollar budget. We got to a multi trillion dollar budget with an endless list of $15K and $500K requests, earmarks, pet projects, back scratching, deal making, etc, etc, etc!!! Why do we always hear that Social Security is going broke but we never hear that any of the multitude of social programs are going broke??? Our lawmakers have NO desire to fix our spending but plenty of desire to spend what we do not have!
Senator Lankford is likely speaking to an empty chamber. When this is addressed, everyone should be required to attend. This debt is their responsibility to fix. If they don’t fix it, they should be stripped of all their own wealth, as well as jailed! I’m sickened by our government!
Stripped of what they own! Stold!
Telling those who are the problem to fix it is "pissing into the wind".
This is why trump got in, to take the blame when the ish hits the fan.
Every expenditure that is in a bill should be required to have someone's N AME included with it so we can see who's being responsible and who's spending OUR money like a drunken sailor.
And yet congress approved every penny.
Senator Lankford, The main reason that my Nation is so far in debt is because Congress cannot stop using taxpayer dollars for pet projects; such as the swimming pool you mentioned. The President needs a line-item veto on each project that is put into the Nation's budget. I, along with almost everybody I've talked to, want to cut the Federal Budget by cutting stupid stuff. I hope the new DOGE department can wipe out a lot of this wasteful spending. First and foremost; take care of America First!!!
Thank you for standing up for us, and all your hard work.
He isn't standing up for us. This speech is 2 yrs old. Check out what he has been doing lately.
@@patriciahargraves659like trying to pass a bill that big pharma cannot own pharmacies? Yep, totally on board with that one, too.
And he’s done well in our government that he’s worth 4 million now wtf
This man is exactly the kind of help Elon and Vivek will need.
Let's Go DOGE
$2 billion spent and wasted... that's more money than you or I will make in our lifetimes. So right there, they wasted all the tax money you'll pay in your entire life. Government's finest.
I do believe Sen Lankford is Grandpappy to the Doge
Happy that at least one of our Senators sees that even small amounts add up! Don't just look at the Trillions and Billions when working on the Budget, look at the Millions and Thousands also. If you buy a $5 coffee every day for a year, you have spent $1825 that could have been saved and invested. If you invested that $152 monthly at just a 7% return, you would have over $26,000 in 10 years. If you charged that coffee everyday on a credit card at 20% interest, just think of how much interest you would be paying! With trillions in debt we are digging our nation into a whole. What is going to happen when we can't pay our bill? Someone is going to own our country.
This is TWO YEARS OLD. It would be interesting to see what the latest run down is, I imagine is dramatically WORSE. Go DOGE!
End ear marks! Members of Congress should not be eligible for re-election if there is a budget deficit.
TERM LIMITS .
Well at the time of this Senator's presentation, the U.S. Debt was around 30 Trillion. Now at the end of 2024, that debt is now approaching 34 Trillion. So in the intervening 2 years i take it that not too much of the gist of Sen. Lankford speech has been taken to heart. Go figure..........we are doomed.........Go DOGE.
The root of this problem :
Lobyist, should Not be allowed to influance our Federal Government..!
Corruption starts with "Kickback" money for pet projects..!
As of early December 2024 the debt is at 36.2 trillion dollars! And inflation is still a huge problem!
Hey Lankford, what about your yes vote to 40 billion to Ukraine! What is your kickback?
god forbid we protect western values and donate used weapons that would otherwise need to be decommissioned for twice the price, its not cash being spent and do you know how much it costs to send to ask raytheon to decomission missiles plus the rest of this equiptment is sitting in storage lockers which costs a lot and if we can have ukraine in debt to us than we can trade favorably for the multi trillion dollar presious metal deposiits on their land
He’s a conservationist . Not a puppet . Season is biblical . Term .
This man needs to be our next president so we can continue to clean out our government and continue to see OUR people thrive! THANK YOU, SIR for taking this on and for standing up and doing your job for your state. Heck, I'm proud of you and I'm not from Oklahoma.
"Stop it before it gets to $150 because that's all I can afford." Now imagine the person who only has $50 to spend because the RENTS are so high even a full time job doesn't cover it! Now imagine a senior citizen, who worked hard their whole lives, can't even afford to buy food because the BILLS are so high. These politicians can't, mainly because they make 6 figure incomes, and can afford daily expenses. What truly disturbs me is that so much time and money is wasted talking about these issues, yet nothing gets done. The rich get richer, the poor stay poor, and those who worked hard to achieve the "American Dream" are once again disappointed. But then, that's how the King of England treated us before we fought back, right?
Get rid of the Federal Reserve Bank to whom we are in debted to.
All politicians need to be audited every year and stop this corruption
i like to think he's speaking to an empty room
He is.🤔😒😒😒😡
It's too bad that all these overruns aren't punished by law. It might make a few changes if you can be held responsible.
Government employees and bosses waste our tax dollars on their whims and desires.
Thank you Senator. It would behave us to have a quarterly list published online of every elected official vote on even bill which would list each amount in a bill and where specifically each $ would go for since a lot of our officials like to hide money for their pet projects in bills which include many items. This should be taken up by the financial committee!
where can one find out who, where, why, when, was responsible for each earmark?
Not to mention theirs a government committee that oversees the budget yet fails every year!! Federal post office loses $9B a year. Might be time to take business away from government! Don't ya think... Disco sucks
@@0U812A The USPS is another Corporation ... for the corporation. Their charter could not be Renewed, though.
These are bogus reasons. Someone is sticking it in pockets, and laugh at us, give dumb reasons in our face! Easy to fix with a sharpie!
Everywhere! Thank goodness for Musk and ViVak
Wake up America
President Trump and his new staff will get on these problems
He is serious about helping americans!!
An abandoned lobster trap would have rotten lobster carcasses. The government should be involved in wildlife restoration.
Dam shame 😢
And what's going to come of this presentation? Nothing.
And he doesn't mention how many employees are needed to administrate the pork funds and as we stop these pork projects we can all that money spent on wages and benefits.
The biggest problem is……he’s talking to an empty room.
Political move, nothing else.
Much, Much MORE THAN THAT!!!!!
Senator William Proxmire instituted 'The Golden Fleece Awards'. . .
Senator Harry Truman oversaw an oversight committee which General George C. Marshall characterized as "worth two divisions".
It is now 2 years later, Dec. 15, 2024, and I am sending this to DOGE. I was a Federal and Fortune 500 Internal Audit Manager and anti-corruption manager.
Yep jObiden is the 1️⃣ 2 BLAME ‼️🤬
I have a question and a couple of follow-ups: Was there any other Senator present in the chamber other than Senator Lankford and the Senate leader? And if there was, why are they absolutely silent? And if there aren't, why not?
Yet 2 years later and Biden has just made this stupidity even more pronounced!
Yeah, nothing for mysterious drones in our airspace. Must be ours.
A senator from Oklahoma should not be talking about waste. Their state to this point has been a waste. Ranked almost last in every category that benefits their residents
Lankford's such a crooked RINO!
I have paid in my entire working life ,now being retired theres no staying ahead , with medicare ,copays deductibles ,huge medical bills
Really......I'm shocked
All this money the government wastes, when all this money put towards the CITIZENS in the US, we would not have any homeless people, we would not have any hungry people, we would have health care for all CITIZENS. Tons of money would be left over to worry about everything else. This is nuts.
dude this guy undoubtedly voted against the ACA
Lankford added $2,000,000,000,000 to the deficit by voting for the TCJA and does not care about the debt and deficit. More gaslighting.
Government budget ≠ House budget.
yeah, good point also did i miss smthn or do those numbers not add up to 10 trillion
He’s been in Washington for 15 years ….. and all of a sudden spending is an issue !
These are ridiculous but they don't add up to 12 trillion dollars. I absolutely agree that they should be abolished and the people responsible for bringing up these debts to the Americans should be fired.
Senator, lets talk about the 20 billion $$ a year that your oil and gas companies receive each year. Now that's something we should be looking out.
Put Congress on Medicare and Social Security and they will get fixed. Easy peasy.
Dear Senator Langford, nobody is listening. Your constituents are. But your fellow senators. You are learning politicians do not care how they spend our money. They only want to get reelected. And then retire in luxury. Please change this.
Given that Congress controls the purse, it’s ironic that a congress critter is expressing concern over frivolous spending.
Bring jobs back. We can only produce our way out of this.
And the $849.8 billion defense budget?
Funny how everyone screams about the defense budget but doesn't say a word about the entitlement handouts that cost us far more than defense does.
"Don't worry, the government is not a private household. The government can spend whatever they like and then just print the money to pay it back, because there were times when we printed money and it didn't cause inflation. It's all good."
Unfortunately, things have gotten so out of hand that even if they cut all non-essential spending, the debt will continue to still grow due to all the interest that needs to be paid on the money that was previously borrowed. The hole will never be dug out of unless they combine spending reductions with increases in revenue - a/k/a - tax increases. But no, all we still hear out of the GOP is 'more tax breaks'.
According to US National Debt Clock the current U.S. debt is $654,766.00 for every tax paying citizen! Where are you and your wife going to get the necessary $1,309,532.00 dollars just to bring our debt to a zero balance? What we need to realize is that EVERY dollar expended by the Federal Government should be for something that benefits EVERY U.S taxpayer. That means military protection, interstate highway construction, federal aviation. The vast majority of spending is for things like a swimming pool in "Boondock" Colorado, or a multi-million-dollar study on how hamsters fight. Not to mention millions spent on illegals! Or even worse on "how to weaponize a virus" done in China. Lets rein our representatives in!
why hasnt the people who wasted this money been held accountable? surely you know who they are.......what are you waiting for?
Much happier to spend 15k on a monkey opera than 15k on a single dumb bomb or 5 minuters of a F35 flying.
Stop spending the money. Pay off the debt.
I love the initiative and the call to action. The items being highlighted are good but ultimately chump change. They definitely should be corrected, ie removed from the federal budget. The bigger items should be attached by Musk and Ramaswami. Cutting from bloated government agencies that are very problematic. The idea of for the people has been lost in these bloated agencies. Government needs to be drastically reduced.
Senator Lankford, Just this fiscal yr $899billion for Pentagon budget. That's almost $1trillion. With these wars we are told, not only borrowing the Pentagon budget from China, but also asking the taxpayers to guarantee this, add humanitarian, military pay, pensions, infrastructure, salaries of ngo execs to rebuild economy and now reimbursing the Pentagon's marshaling of the Middle East. I am in stunned disbelief and nauseous. We are told "Don't worry. We are being responsible and frugal. We are ridding our dead stock and building bigger and better. Whoever the hell is making this money and not paying taxes... Heavenly Father I beg You to touch these greedy, sadistic, users in whatever You Abba declare fit for these atrocious crimes of treason to the American citizens. Now Pentagon wants to sell F15s to Turkey. This is obvious supplying both sides of these wars. I am so disgusted with you all.
It's time for Chef Trump to cut some fat
And have that wasteful money going for Important things
OK still has 16,000 abandoned wells
Its gone up 5 trillion since then.
Langford is not a good and honest person. We need to watch him.
2024 hope he gets recruited by DOGE
Will the Amarecan taxes payer will the stuck with the taxes Defasits. The leftes Palation should be held liable for kind of reckless spending, and not taxes payers. Americans shouddet be paying reckless Defasits, leftes Palation should be held responsibleity for this Defasits. Left Palation should
be paying this out of thire money,that they take even back door money. Milton Donner
how about the raises that government employees that preform poorly with no accountably
Governments are not households.
Keynes believed that we can fine tune the economy by spending during market recessions and taxing and revenue building during good times. This was the economic orthodoxy of the 40s 50s and 60s When the oil crisis of the 1970s and foreign competition triggered stagflation (NOT THE FAULT OF KEYNES) we turned to crack pot economists of the Austrian who just let the market run wild and roughshod over our country. Now unelected financiers are free to do whatever they please, buy as many politicians as they please and store masses of wealth in tax havens. We now have debt, massive deficits (because wecannot touch the sacred job creating cows) it is like keeping a dirty moldy house and saying the the mold will make it clean.
"Electricity bill".
An "electric bill" would literally be shocking, and possibly fatal.
Thank you Sir !!
Yet these bozos come after the post office
Could we consider raise the cap for social security tax per detail calculation so that the cash outflow will be more aligned with cash inflow consider the demographic change of aging population?
How about we stop paying to rebuild homes in Florida damaged by hurricanes, or homes damaged by tornadoes in Oklahoma, homes damaged by floods from the floods in Louisiana. Add that to the $$ to farmers not to plant some fields.
So why am I paying taxes to the IRS and not tords a Japanese bulldozer???
we have been looking into police vehicle equipment, many state agencies pay no attention to the costs..