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Trump!! Cuttin' OFF the GRAVY TRAIN!!
Trump!! Cuttin' OFF the GRAVY TRAIN!!
By *Beekeeper
28 Jan 2025 11:52 am in No Holds Barred Political Forum
Yesterday 8:51 am
This is good news. But a couple of observations:*Beekeeper » Today, 5:08 am » wrote: ↑ Hegseth said that this was going to be a top priority of his. The days of a $50,000 toilet are likely over.
1. It is perfectly justifiable that the U.S. government pays a lot more for a toilet - or anything else - than you or I. You or I whip out the cash or plastic upon receipt. The U.S. government has multiple bureaucratic layers that must be negotiated by vendors, and a minor **** up at any level with halt payment indefinitely. In essence, companies that deal with government are loaning money on a midterm basis, and money has to get paid. Not only that, but staff are required by these private companies whose only job is getting the government to pay its bills. So when I see the government paying triple the price that I would expect to pay, I do not bat an eye. If it's more than triple, I roll an eye. Two eyes. I smell corruption.
2. It is not how only much the government pays that is indicative of corruption, fraud and abuse. It is what the government buys. The reason the USA is losing its proxy war in Ukraine is that Russia's military industrial complex is state owned, and it responds to the orders of appropriate officials. The respective government departments determine their needs, and the MIC fills those needs at no profit on the state ruble. In the US, the arms producers bribe congress and high level bureaucrats to buy what the MIC wants to sell, rather than selling what responsible functionaries want to buy. The result is parking lots full of unwanted tanks being maintained for no other purpose than to avoid the embarrassment of parking lots full of rusted equipment.
What is needed is not so much a review of costs as a review of purchases. I do care what we paid for it, but not as much as I care whether we should ever have bought it. Even at bargain prices, unnecessary purchases are corrupt - and we never get bargain prices.
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You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not your friend
An opinion you won't defend is not yours. It's someone else's.
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe.
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge.
Only religions declare heresy; only lies require protection.
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?
Yesterday 9:52 am
That's how you know that Trump's dead over the target and the BOMBS are going to hit with precision!!
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The Democratic Party seems intransigent on their position of keeping the party ‘woke,’ detached, exclusionary, and totally insane.
Yesterday 11:14 am
Yesterday 11:17 am
Trumpyous the Liar...aka...24 Hour Trumperton.
90 more Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
Zelensky LOOOVES that Trumpy Gravy Train....
wonder where on the black market many will be sold?
US Sends 90 Patriot Missile Systems to Ukraine
90 more Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
Zelensky LOOOVES that Trumpy Gravy Train....
wonder where on the black market many will be sold?
US Sends 90 Patriot Missile Systems to Ukraine
Yesterday 11:21 am
Your link credited Biden.....nothing about Trump....you Kameltoe loving sycophant.Sumela » 4 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Trumpyous the Liar...aka...24 Hour Trumperton.
90 more Patriot missiles to Ukraine.
Zelensky LOOOVES that Trumpy Gravy Train....
wonder where on the black market many will be sold?
US Sends 90 Patriot Missile Systems to Ukraine
Yesterday 11:23 am
Shipment occurred under King Trumpy.RebelGator » 5 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Your link credited Biden.....nothing about Trump....you Kameltoe loving sycophant.
He said ALL weapons supply to Uke would stop. Catch up Sparky
Yesterday 11:25 am
I called, he said he had no knowledge of it, he's been busy doing stuff.Sumela » 3 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Shipment occurred under King Trumpy.
He said ALL weapons supply to Uke would stop. Catch up Sparky
Yesterday 11:26 am
Duh, of course he has no knowledge...its bigger than him. Trumpy is running in circles.RebelGator » 1 minute ago » wrote: ↑ I called, he said he had no knowledge of it, he's been busy doing stuff.
Yesterday 11:27 am
You want his number, so you'll be in the know next time?Sumela » 5 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Duh, of course he has no knowledge...its bigger than him. Trumpy is running in circles.
Yesterday 11:29 am
Listen, that little regional squabble is taking a backseat to more important stuff.Sumela » 5 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Duh, of course he has no knowledge...its bigger than him. Trumpy is running in circles.
Yesterday 11:38 am
but...24 hour Trumpy?RebelGator » 13 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ Listen, that little regional squabble is taking a backseat to more important stuff.
Yesterday 11:39 am
Is that how you schedule your gloryhole time with him
?
Yesterday 12:17 pm
Like it or not.. this is going to cause a recession and a rise in the unemployment rate. Not exactly a terrible thing. It had to happen eventually. Pain in 2025 versus pain in 2031 or whenever. Critics are going to say that he tanked the economy and if you use LAUS and CES as your metrics.. they will be correct for a short while.
Yesterday 5:39 pm
circles are completed cycles in series of events arrived so far. Put them all together and the universe is what it is now without percentages of the whole, just all the parts of the whole here now.Sumela » Today, 12:26 pm » wrote: ↑ Duh, of course he has no knowledge...its bigger than him. Trumpy is running in circles.
Yesterday 5:50 pm
I aint heard that one probably 20/30 years or soJohnnyYou » Yesterday, 7:41 pm » wrote: ↑ It's like Greenland has invaded. Everything is Frozen.
One way to balance the budget is just don't spend any effing money.
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Yesterday 6:12 pm
Sumela » Yesterday, 2:08 pm » wrote: ↑ Except for his Owners in Pissrael...
he promised them $BILLIONS more in weapons.
His Trumpyness is an Owned Bitch
Piss in your mouth ***.
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