• HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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    I always found it hilarious when someone points out how much we help less fortunate people and how much they take advantage of the system to freeload off of it. Apparently, that number is super small, and looking at how much is given and how hard it is to collect anything further shows how ridiculous that claim is. Yet I never see any one of them complain about all our money going to people like this to fund stuff that may or may not be used responsibly or even needed at all, yet here we are. This one person probably stole enough money to pay for an entire town or small city to survive and still not feel any impact.

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    This comment makes it look like he has successfully cut a lot of the budget, which is false. Not only has he cut important programs, but he’s missed the largest chunk of the cake: DoD

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    Shouldn’t it also point out, say… everything else in that gap.

    IE, Cancer/Aids research, Disease prevention. millions of federal jobs etc…

    While it’s still obviously corrupt as fuck… it wouldn’t really effect the average american that much if he only gutted things that hurt him directly (I mean still obviously causes problems when he kills the CFPB, OSHA etc…), but obviously all the USAID projects etc… those wouldn’t effect him in any way shape or form, but he’s still after them.

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      Can I interest you in a $1000 hammer from Boeing? No waste here. That’s a quality hammer.