Donald Trump
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Unfortunately state spending keep on going up.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Quite amusing, the only problem being is that lefties over here might read it and get ideas about what else to waste money on.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Almost like announcements are easy and doing the work is hard.
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I don't think any government ever has been good at efficiency. It's like asking lions to eat less meat.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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In which case, the best way is to keep governments as small as feasible then they have less scope to be inefficient.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Spending isn't that hard. Ask any left wing politician.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I thought this was a thread about finding government efficiencies, not a general purpose rant about "the wefties".
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Just your periodical reminder that under the cover of covid, Johnson promised and spaffed £37bn on 'test-&-trace' (not that it really did either of those) without batting an eyelid, and that was after retreating from £100bn on Operation Moonshot. That was after his wasted £50m on the aborted London Garden Bridge.
I still don't understand how the £37bn figure was arrived at in the first place (it seemed a rather odd figure - why not £40bn? - and how they actually managed to spend it.
tl;dr Tories are good at pretending they don't spend lots of money, but they always do. It's only since Johnson that most of it has gone to mates, and meanwhile let critical spending (NHS etc) wither catastrophically. I wouldn't expect a Trumpian agenda be much different: the oligarchs backing him are trying to find ways to smash the state at the same time knowing that they'll enrich themselves. People like Trump & Musk see themselves as the embodiment of America, so whatever's good for them and their type must therefore be good.
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And right on cue...
For many reasons, conditions are ripe for right wing elites to loot the place from top to bottom. Remember when Trump vowed to give Big Oil execs what they want in exchange for $1 billion in campaign funds? Now we'll likely never get to the bottom of it.
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Is it just me that is perplexed by MAGAs looking for an immigrant South African to rescue good ol' USA?
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
curiously no mention of the massive gop/maga pork barrels, nor whether there was real justification for any of the listed items
there is a serious issue though: governments taking the "we must do something" approach, but after a while all that "doing something" becomes rather expensive
the trouble is, a lot of voters, lobbies, and other vested interests of all persuasions, keep demanding that government "do something", and they scream and bitch at any attempt to stop "doing something" they benefit from - winter fuel allowance for instance
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You think that's a rant? Blimey.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Curious that you think the "test" part of "test and trace" didn't do any testing. I'm not saying the testing service was provided efficiently or without snouts in the trough, but there was an industrial scale effort providing it.
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More of a background hum 😝
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0
