Er eitthvað sem ríkið getur ekki gert verra?

DOGE hefur í hótunum

"Musk and Ramaswamy are being asked to cut potentially a trillion or more dollars from the US government’s annual $6.75 trillion in spending and they will be looking at everything from over-priced soap dispensers for the US military to sponsoring drag shows in Ecuador, the Daily Mail is reporting.

Trump has compared DOGE to the Manhattan Project that created the world’s first atomic bomb. Except DOGE will be dismantling, not building. Musk has promised that he can find up to $1.9 trillion in government waste to cut. “We will also have a leaderboard for most insanely dumb spending of your tax dollars,” Musk posted on X. “This will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining.”"

Þetta verður gaman.

Til skemmtunar, skoðum nýsamþykkt fjárlög:

Innviðaráðuneyti: "Hagskýrslugerð, grunnskrár og upplýsingamál" - 700.000.000.

Hljómar ekki uppbyggilegt.

Stjórnsýsla innviðaráðuneytis: Milljarður.

Umhverfis ráðuneyti: Meðhöndlun úrgangs: 10 milljarðar.

Stjórnsýsla umhverfismála: 6 milljarðar.

Stjórnsýsla umhverfismála: 14 milljarðar.

Shit, þetta er dýrt og gagnslaust.  Hvers vegna heldur þetta þjóðar-krabbamein áfram að vera til?

Menningar & viðskiftaráðuneyti: Ferðaþjónusta - 2.3 milljarðar. 

Ferðaþjónustan skilar semsagt engu af sér.

Fjölmiðlun: 7 milljarðar.

Ríkisrekstur fjölmiðla er fasismi.  Bókstaflega.  Spyrjið bara Mussolini.

Félagsmálaraðuneyti: Málefni innflytjenda og flóttamanna: 5 milljarðar.

Útlendingamál: 8 milljarðar.

Svo... ef við sleppum þessu bara, þá spörum við okkur 54.000.000.000 krónur, eða 150K á hvern einasta íslending, hvort sem hann er skattborgari eða ekki.

Hver getur ekki notað 150.000 kall?  Þetta eru 4-5 mánaða matarútgjöld  sem ríkið er að hafa af mér og sóa í vitleysu.

Og þetta var bara yfirferð á hundavaði.  Það er auðveldlega hægt að spara margfalt meira.

 

Þetta gerðist

"President-elect Donald Trump, his crew, and an unexpected guest, Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., chowing down on McDonald’s aboard Trump’s private plane.

Donald Trump Jr. posted the photo Sunday morning with the funny caption, “Make America Healthy Again starts TOMORROW,” which was nothing short of internet gold."

Kannski batnar McD í framtíðinni.

USA er alveg eins og Ísland núna

"Atop federal spending generating that debt load of $200,000 per taxpayer, Congress and agencies prod extensively in the form of economic and social regulation ...

Were one to allocate annual regulatory costs assuming the full pass-through of costs to consumers, U.S. households "pay" $15,788 annually in embedded costs ($2.1 trillion in regulation divided by 134,090,000 consumer units), or 17 percent of average income before taxes (and of course more as a share of after-tax income)."

Það sama og við höfum, það sama og við munum hafa, vegna þess að fólk er hrætt við breytingar.

Svíar hafa komið sér í eitthvað vesen

"Sweden is sending out some five million pamphlets to residents urging them to prepare for the possibility of war, with instructions on how to stockpile food and water amid growing fears of a conflict with Russia.

It comes as neighbouring Finland launched a new preparedness website and after Norwegians recently received booklets instructing them on how to manage on their own for a week in the event of war and other threats.

Both Sweden and Finland dropped decades of military non-alignment to join the US-led military alliance NATO in the wake of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine." 

Meira vesen.