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From the article - Elong gets to determine what is value add for the average American. Wonderful.
“A more accurate measure of GDP would exclude government spending,” Musk wrote on his social media platform. “Otherwise, you can scale GDP artificially high by spending money on things that don’t make people’s lives better.”
Speaker Mike Johnson, in a discussion on DOGE, mentioned how shocking the results are from the fraud that Elon has uncovered. Why is this shocking? The Republicans have had the Hourse of Representatives 9 of the last 13 two-year terms. So 75% of the last 25 years was owned by a party that isn't capable of digging it up themselves? Is the primary reason they can't dig it up primarily because they're the ones that buried it??
People are not screaming loudly enough at the town halls. I'm impressed the Republican representatives are even attending them.
Comment by codliness1 at 03/03/2025 at 11:51 UTC
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What fraud, exactly?
Neither Musk nor Trump have provided any transparency or actual verifiable data on alleged fraud. What they have offered has been some easily debunked garbage, and some claims which were quietly removed from the DOGE website. It's just the same playbook as viewer fraud Trump has been pushing for many years (except where he wins, obviously).
Trump's normal SOP: Talk as much shit and tell as many lies as possible to flood the airwaves and conversations so that any actual fact checking gets buried. And the MAGAs will just endlessly rebroadcast the bullshit, without making any attempt whatsoever to fact check for themselves, partly because they can't be bothered, and partly because they actually don't want to know the claims are false, since you can't "own the libs" with facts you have checked for yourself are untrue.
If you want to find actual corruption in Government, look at the legalised pork barrel loading of kickbacks and backdoor handshakes tacked into completely unrelated legislation through the Senate and HoR, for a start.
Or just look at the bullshit Musk is currently pulling, where he just happens to be removing every body which was investigating, sanctioning, censuring, or trying to control him and his companies, while moving his companies into contracts he didn't previously have access to. Or Trump's revenge driven vendetta to remove every single person or organisation that said or did anything to offend him in the last four years.
The true corruption in the US government isn't an imagined thing, like the claims of Trump and Musk. It's right there in your face. And it's conspirators are actively boasting and crowing about it. They just happens to be the ones in charge.
Comment by BitterFuture at 03/03/2025 at 12:30 UTC
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“A more accurate measure of GDP would exclude government spending,” Musk wrote on his social media platform. “Otherwise, you can scale GDP artificially high by spending money on things that don’t make people’s lives better.”
Huh. So government spending, by definition, cannot make people's lives better.
All those privately-funded bridges and schools and roads are really something, aren't they?