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What Are We Going To Do About The Big Five?

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While doing research for my political opus, I came across the following graphic:

The top five categories account for 76 percent of the federal budget. Call me nuts, but I don’t think we can DOGE our way out of our fiscal mess.

If we’re going to avoid fiscal Armageddon, we’re going to have to drastically change how we do these five categories. The status quo equals Soviet Union-style collapse.

Over the next five weeks, I will target one of these five categories and suggest what changes must be made to it align its mission with fiscal solvency.

For today, I’m just going to leave you with some initial thoughts on this project. Here we go.

  • Why are we giving annual COLAs to all but the poorest of Social Security recipients? I know we want to protect our seniors from inflation. But didn’t we lose that luxury when our national debt surpassed 100 percent of our GDP?
  • Why are we paying our President and Congresspeople when they can’t come close to producing a balanced budget? As far as I’m concerned, our President and Congresspeople shouldn’t be paid a dime anytime they spend a billion dollars more than they confiscate from us.
  • Why aren’t we taking advantage of geo-arbitrage in medicine? We are told by our Woke Overlords that healthcare is cheaper and better in practically every country outside the United States? So why aren’t we shipping Medicare and Medicaid recipients down to Mexico or Cuba for expensive elective surgeries? Or better yet, why aren’t we importing hundreds of thousands of healthcare professionals from around the world? We could pay them half of what we pay our healthcare professionals.
  • Why are we paying for the healthcare of “migrants”? We are told by our Woke Overlords that immigration makes us stronger. But if that’s the case, why are “migrants” who decided out of the kindness of their hearts to help build our country rather than their own need any form of welfare? And if they are to get any form of welfare, shouldn’t it be paid by the people who employ them?
  • Why are we still contributing to Europe’s defense? Europe doesn’t look like it wants to be European anymore. It looks like it would rather be non-white and Muslim. So why help defend something that Europeans are actively destroying?

Okay, groovy freedomist, that’s all I got. Let me know what you think when you get a chance. Peace.

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4 responses to “What Are We Going To Do About The Big Five?”

  1. Sam Avatar
    Sam

    I feel like trying to “reform” social security and medicaid/medicare kind of misses the point. Those programs should not exist at all.
    And if a Soviet Union-style collapse does happen, then that will be a good thing. The government is bad so we should not be trying to prevent its self-inflicted collapse.
    Also, the national “defense” budget could be substaintially reduced by making it actually *defensive* and not going around the world doing forever wars.

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  2. Joe Avatar
    Joe

    Hello Mr. Groovy, looking forward to your thoughts on the budget. I would be against eliminating the COLA for higher earners. Let’s not turn Social Security into another welfare program. Higher earners already have 85% of their SS payments taxed (at income levels set in 1990 and not indexed to inflation). I hope there is a better way to save SS rather than reducing benefits.

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    1. Dale Avatar
      Dale

      Joe, Agree with you 100 percent. And the formula used by the Social Security for computing people’s SS benefits is weighted toward people who made less. A person who made more income will get smaller benefits in this formula compared to people who made less income throughout the working years. Not many people know that.

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  3. Bill Avatar
    Bill

    The federal budget is a real can of worms for sure. I hope you will also explore both the consequences and unintended consequences of reforms.

    As we witness now, when money flows change, unknown dominoes fall. We absolutely need to change money flows for our survival as a nation.

    I look forward to you getting after it. Good luck.

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