re: Government is officially closed for business

The way you end a shutdown is to stop paying Congress during the shutdown.

What time frame were you at Polk? Would like to hear more of these stories.

I don't hate Schumer enough

Yes.

Estimated Timeline

Short-term (2025-2030): 30-50%

Automation of bureaucratic tasks, saving $20-40B/year and cutting ~500,000-1M roles via attrition/retraining (per Deloitte/McKinsey baselines). Focus on low-risk areas like HR, procurement, and data entry. Legal frameworks start solidifying via EOs and pilots.

Medium-term (2030-2040): 70-80%

Feasible with AGI-like advances, but constitutional tweaks (e.g., "AI Accountability Act") needed for trust. Workforce shrinks to ~600,000-800,000 in exec admin.

Full 90% Threshold (Your Scenario): 2040-2050.

Tech catches up by 2040 for 80%+ automation, but embedding constitutional guardrails (human vetoes, audits, transparency) adds 5-10 years of iteration and court battles. Aggressive pushes (e.g., DOGE expansions) could shave it to 2035-2045, but backlash over job losses and errors likely slows it.bb4e8f This assumes no major setbacks like AI winters or privacy scandals.

In short, AI could handle the grunt work soonish, but making it constitutionally bulletproof while gutting 90% of the workforce? That's a 15-25 year marathon, not a sprint.

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Why is Trump saying the Democrats want to protect healthcare for illegals? Aren’t illegals in eligible for healthcare subsidies?

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medi-cal gets 70% of its funding from fedgov. Medi-cal blew $23 billion over 2 years giving free healthcare to illegals.

ETA: Also, illegals granted parole are eligible for Medicaid. Guess who blew open the doors to parole for millions of illegals the last 4 years?

Hopefully this is resolved by next week. Wife and I are supposed to be camping in the Smokies and I'd like the toilets to actually be working, trash clean up to be happening, roads and trails not being forced to be closed because people have no self restraint or common sense etc.

Yay.. I woke up today and life felt the exact same as yesterday.. I thought I was going to die at midnight

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I ate too much chocolate now I can't sleep.

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j/k

Paid vacations for non essential government employees. They will get back pay for not working during the shutdown. What a deal. If they have savings to tie them ovet they love shutdowns.

Hakeem told Russ to get lost

After watching some of the Patel hearings, and the democrats refusing to pray for Charlie Kirk. After they literally removed God from their plank officially years ago.

I have been waiting 30 plus years for the gloves to come off and the tables flipped over.

Pass the popcorn.