re: So what, exactly, is the problem with real federal spending cuts?

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This is exactly my point. Dems wanted to allow like 5000 a day. Turned out we needed a different president who go all and didn’t settle.

Now we have people saying “just sign this so we get some!” Essentially the equivalent of the dems saying “allow 5000 a day.”

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So you don't understand the difference between things the president can do and things Congress must pass?

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Tell me, how do you think this will get resolved?

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I don't want to be too dramatic, but after the Trump/Biden Covid spending and the issues/inflation it causes, I don't know how many shots we'll get after Trump before it isn't able to be addressed.

That's why this weird MAGA defense of big spending is so weird, especially since so many of them were on the black pill path prior to the election. Now they're pushing Democrat-level spending/deficits.

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So you don't understand the difference between things the president can do and things Congress must pass?

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Is the legislative process different for immigration bills and budget bills?

Or, how about this: tax cuts....like the "Trump tax cuts"?

How many lawyers have ever really fixed anything? That’s the problem and the biggest issue with most politicians. They don’t know how to fix anything because they never truly have

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You still don't understand that no immigration bills are needed.

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And his example was an immigration bill.

Which was rejected.

Because of the incremental process it proposed.

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And his example was an immigration bill.

Which was rejected.

Because of the incremental process it proposed.

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Allowing 5000 immigrants a day isn't incremental anything when 0 per day is already allowed.

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Allowing 5000 immigrants a day isn't incremental anything

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It was compared to the alternative bill at the time in the hypo he's referencing.

Spending is killing us. Look at every failed empire in human history from Rome to Britain. They all collapsed from over expansion and debts they couldn't cover. Unless we turn things around, we are headed the same direction.

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So what, exactly, is the problem with real federal spending cuts?

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Politicians' currency is votes. That's how their "economy" works.

For those of us in the productive sector, the profit/loss system let's us know if we're fricking up or not, and we pay for our bad decision personally, so there's way more incentive to do things the right way and do it efficiently.

"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." - Thomas Sowell

So, all of that is to say to rational people, the spending and debt is a huge problem that needs to be addressed. The problem is the number of rational, principled people in society is probably around 10%...and that's being generous.