The Cost of Canada's War on Guns
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DOGE Performance Evaluation
- jim Young In the realm of expectation, disappointment is king.” - anon If someone promised to save you a substantial sum of money and was only able to produce less than 15% of half of what they originally promised… you likely wouldn’t afford them much credibility in their field, would you? In fact, in light of their failure, you would likely think they were pretty stupid. Either that or they were taking you for a ride all along. Musk is the richest man in the world. So if he’s stupid, he must be very, very lucky to get where he is. Yet this is what he has done “for”, or perhaps “to” the American people might be a better way to put it. PROMISES AND EXPECTATIONS While campaigning for Trump, Musk bragged about cutting $2 trillion from government expenses. Once Trump was elected Musk reduced that promise to $1 trillion. As recently as last March, Musk bragged he was on schedule to reduce spending of $1 trillion by the end of May. Recently Musk has reduced that to just 15% or ...
The Billionaires Don't Have To Feel The Pain
- jim Young “The Government cannot afford to have a country made up entirely of rich people, because rich people pay so little tax that the Government would quickly go bankrupt. This is why Government men always tell us that labour is man's noblest calling. Government needs labour to pay its upkeep.” - Russell Baker On Feb 2, Speaking about tariffs, Trump warned Americans, “We may have short term, some little pain and people understand that.” In addition to the “pain” the American people are expected to endure from the tariffs, Trump’s henchman, the richest man in the world, has fired or let go 30,000 government workers. I’m sure they will “understand” there might be some short term “pain” too. Trump on the other hand has been golfing 25% of his first 69 days in office (9 out of the 10 weekends) at a cost of over $26 million (estimated using 2017 costs) to the taxpayers, including the costs of security and the use of Air Force One. It doesn’t look like Trump is feeling any of th...
Here's a fun fact.
ReplyDeleteIf you do the math, the Canadian Government is prepared to spend $27 for every man, woman and child in Canada to protect them from "law-abiding citizens".
But they are only prepared to spend $2 for every man, woman and child to protect them from the "criminals".