I couldn't get my add medication for 2 years under Biden, and no one said anything about the shortages of medicine. Now everything under trump will be a scandal
The last 5 years of the bungling of the “COVID response” by so called at experts at the CDC, NIH and other such agencies have not inspired a lot of confidence on my part that they would do any better managing future disease threats. Hence why I am ok with some of them being let go. COVID showed us that a lot of damage can be done by an over response to things.
"The public blamed Biden despite the press, who lectured Americans for four years about how good the public had it. Now, Trump is the incumbent. He is no more to blame for a measles outbreak in Texas than Joe Biden. Still, Biden did not appoint a vaccine skeptic as Secretary of Health and Human Services, nor did Biden lay off massive numbers of federal employees related to public health."
Missing from this musing is the massive harm done by the Biden Democrats in their lies and over-reactions related the covid pandemic. There are hundreds of thousands of school children that are forever harmed. Thousands of small businesses destroyed. Families that lost loved ones that could not be comforted. Changes to the economy including massive corporate consolidation and massive inflation. The hundreds of thousands of excess deaths and disabled of otherwise healthy young people beginning after December 2020 when the big pharma jabs were pushed on the public get zero press. Even the bird flu... where the now fired USDA IG dictated the slaughter of all the egg-laying chicken when one of them sneezed... is a sign of a sort of Democrat Munchausen disease.
But yeah, let's focus on how Trump is firing these harm-causing bureaucrats is creating more risk that something might be missed.
There is a saying in business that the pursuit of perfection is the enemy of the good. The pursuit of some unattainable zero risk system generally results in terrible outcomes. By making government more efficient we are seeking the greater good, not some mythological and unattainable perfection in risk mitigation. Shame on everyone that trumpets their importance as armchair quarterbacks criticizing the rest of us working to make America great again. The status quo has sucked... yugely. Needed change will break things. Get over it.
I'm incredibly happy that federal agencies are going through layoffs, and we are finally trimming the fat. As the largest US employer by far, surpassing Walmart and Amazon, who likely go through layoffs every year, I'm not sure if fed employees have ever had to worry about job security? I'm sorry people have to lose jobs, but if you have gained needed skills, you can fins a job I'm the private sector.
Additionally, I don't use Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram at all. Most people I know don't. People have become a lot more skeptical of msm and social. I think most commenter on these platforms are simply trying to gain influence and will say just about anything fir likes. I'm sure there are exceptions. I would not take thos platforms as indicative of how voters will react in the mid terms. Obviously (real) people on both sides see positives to the policies and actions of Trump in the past mth. Especially cutting waste...
I agree with you, Erick, and I’m hoping when you are in Washington this week you and others will be able to impart wisdom and a better strategy for the president and VP. Encourage him to be systematic and put a system in place for moving forward. He can’t help being who he his SA— can sometimes be but he’s tiring and it’s not yet been a full 30 days.
He promised lower prices at the grocery store. He should get on it!
Please provide your (legit) source on RFK, Jr. being anti-vax. All I've ever heard (from his words) is he is for vaccines going through the appropriate trials and tests before being given to the public. Please stop the gaslighting and false reporting. You're starting to sound like an Elizabeth Warren or Margaret Brennan.
Boring stuff is what I deal with every day running my business. Do I pay this bill? Every day, I balance my check book. Every day I look at my budget. At the beginning of the month, I transfer my P&L stmt from my accounting system to my excel spreadsheet. I can show you my monthly P&L since 1996 when I started my business.
I have used two distinct accounting systems. The current one is an integrated SAAS system that confirms to Sarbanes Oxley. The annoying part of this system is I cannot delete an erroneous journal entry. I must reverse it, which just pollutes my system with mistakes reversing mistakes and so on. The system generates a history file of every change I have made to the accounting system. Anyone using my accounting system (my tax accountants and employees) are tracked by the history file. Lots of boring stuff. Do you think the US government has an equivalent system in all its agencies?
I read today on X that Social Security has 17,165,517 social security numbers that correspond to people over the age of 100. 12,431,110 over the age of 120. The correct quantification of this data is there are 17,165,517 social security numbers that have a death field coded as false. Do we really have 17,165,517 individuals that have a social security number that are over the age of 100? Or better yet, the database has 1,039 social security numbers between the ages of 220-249. I assume there is a rational reason for these numbers existing in the database. For instance, there is one person aged 360 to 369. Did someone enter the wrong year for a date of birth? For instance, typing in 1666 instead of 1996. The “6” is under the “9” on a standard number pad on your keyboard. Or maybe these social security numbers belong to a Trust. A trust can certainly outlive a person. Maybe there is a trust created in 1669 that is still active because the law at the time allowed trusts like this to exist. Think of a person from the Massachusetts Bay Colony who created a trust for his future progeny. Could it happen? I don’t know.
The boring stuff is simple to spot. Can someone please explain how we can have an active SSN that corresponds to the age of 240 to 249 and one 360 to 369? Pretty boring stuff, correct?
This is the important thing to understand about this data on X. In the early 1980s, President Reagan, Speaker Tip O’Neal, and Sen. Bob Dole passed a bill that “saved” social security. The bill did a few basic things. First it raised the retirement age and, second, it raised the tax rate. From 1982 (or about that year) Social Security taxes generated a surplus. That surplus was accounted for using an accrual account at Treasury that “booked” treasury protected securities. [Please don’t get mad at me if my memory is a bit off and the terms are not accurate]. These TPS generated an interest income stream. Something like 2%, which is not great on a long-term investment plan. The actuarialists modeled this surplus running for 30-40 years give or take. Here we are in 2025, and Social Security has run a deficit for 3 straight years and will continue to do so for another 7 years or so. At that point the TSPs will have been “spent”. Once there is no longer a surplus, by law, social security payments to everyone must be reduced by 20%. Does anyone really think the American people will stand to have their social security reduced 20%? Political chaos. If you want to read boring stuff, please go here.
Back to the X post and the data I spoke of earlier. The average social security payment in 2024 was $1,862. Multiply this by 17 million recipients over 100 and you have $31 billion in monthly payments times 12 months, and you get $380 billion annual payments to individuals over the age of 100. Are these payments reasonable and proper? If so, a simple search on the web says there are 80,139 people over the age of 100 in the US. The obvious question is follows. Are all these 17 plus million SSNs receiving social security payments?
Every state has a Vital Statistics department. This department registers births and deaths. You get your birth and death certificate from this department. Does the social security administration routinely cross reference its database with all state agencies to ensure only living individuals are registered in the systems and receiving their proper benefits? Does the SSN correspond to a “legal” recipient within the US? Does each state have an information system that easily corss references to the Social Security Administration database? lots of boring stuff.
Hopefully DOGE can solve it quickly.
This is boring stuff and hopefully, Trump and Congress can do the boring stuff to force the government workers do the daily boring stuff toe protect the liberty of the American citizen by insuring fraud is minimized as much as possible.
Well, when you consider that a short time ago something like 16 or 19 VA employees were fired for engaging in an orgy ON DUTY in a facility, I would say there is room for some cuts. They aren't needed if they have time to do that.
Good Morning People let us not forget that DJT has always had the good of the American people on his mind but he has a big mouth and mean tweets he is our president and leader. He sometimes makes bad choices just like we all do but we should back him and give him the benefit of the doubt God Bless America we will survive Amen
I don’t mind paying taxes, but I want them to be used properly.
How many vaccines does a newborn need in the first year of life? One of my jobs eons ago was working in a blood bank. As I remember a newborn didn’t have a functional immune system. Any antibodies were from the mother.
Graft in government has been around since governments started. It wasn’t right then and isn’t now.
Lets face it, this election we had a choice between bad or worse. We knew, at some point Trump will do something which we will not like but the alternative was a continuation of the Biden committee of the acacademia leftist that have no clue how to run a country and only care about LGBTQ issues and pushing green hysteria. Trump has started off well but we know at some point we will go from cheering him on to wanting to real him in to back to cheering him and agonizing over his election. As far as the media, whether they realize it or not, their clout, their power is gone. Everyone recognizes they are the media wing of the DNC, inept, untruthful, useless. They might as well run reruns of Friends on CNN to get their viewership up.
Thank you for the article. The pandemic is what really woke me up to vaccine regulations and research and thank God it was before I had my first child and could make informed decisions (why does a newborn need Hep B??) The pandemic is also where I started following RFK Jr. because he was one of the loudest voices for medical freedom and informed consent; that is until his social media accounts were shut down for “misinformation.” He is not anti-vaxx. He is pro informed consent.
That was important enough for me to print it out. I am very disgusted with anyone who hurls the term, "anti-vaxxer" at anyone who is skeptical of the actions of those in the medical or scientific professions who insist on complete compliance. I had one granddaughter nursing a baby and one pregnant when they were pushing the shots. Neither submitted to the pressure. Meanwhile, the father in law of one of them got a covid shot and within a few days had a massive heart attack and died.
Oh Lord, the pendulum swings in American politics. We deserve what we get or do we get what we deserve? Of over 300 million people in the USA, only a handful bother to vote? Priorities, people, priorities. This is the year of Jubilee. Read about it. There are 6 doors of Pilgrimage this year in Georgia. One and only one Holy Door in Rome, Italy. I am going to all 6 churches to walk through all 6 Doors. Thus obtaining a plenary indulgence. Why don’t you try it too?
I guess not being on all sorts of social media insulates one from some of the crazy. Though I think I see enough. But aren't we all pleased at the actual cutting of government both in spending and personnel? Most of the firings are probationary people who were probably not necessary or important anyhow. The outrageous things our money is being spent on needs to be outed and stopped. Could we all recognize that bird flu has always existed, but has not always been tested in this rather maniacal manner which is resulting entire flocks of thousands being killed though most of them may not be infected? Stop killing the chickens and the egg problem will be solved. It almost seems that now that the "deep state" is being exposed, the same folks who were hollering about cutting the size of the government are upset that the size of the government is being cut.
I couldn't get my add medication for 2 years under Biden, and no one said anything about the shortages of medicine. Now everything under trump will be a scandal
The last 5 years of the bungling of the “COVID response” by so called at experts at the CDC, NIH and other such agencies have not inspired a lot of confidence on my part that they would do any better managing future disease threats. Hence why I am ok with some of them being let go. COVID showed us that a lot of damage can be done by an over response to things.
"The public blamed Biden despite the press, who lectured Americans for four years about how good the public had it. Now, Trump is the incumbent. He is no more to blame for a measles outbreak in Texas than Joe Biden. Still, Biden did not appoint a vaccine skeptic as Secretary of Health and Human Services, nor did Biden lay off massive numbers of federal employees related to public health."
Missing from this musing is the massive harm done by the Biden Democrats in their lies and over-reactions related the covid pandemic. There are hundreds of thousands of school children that are forever harmed. Thousands of small businesses destroyed. Families that lost loved ones that could not be comforted. Changes to the economy including massive corporate consolidation and massive inflation. The hundreds of thousands of excess deaths and disabled of otherwise healthy young people beginning after December 2020 when the big pharma jabs were pushed on the public get zero press. Even the bird flu... where the now fired USDA IG dictated the slaughter of all the egg-laying chicken when one of them sneezed... is a sign of a sort of Democrat Munchausen disease.
But yeah, let's focus on how Trump is firing these harm-causing bureaucrats is creating more risk that something might be missed.
There is a saying in business that the pursuit of perfection is the enemy of the good. The pursuit of some unattainable zero risk system generally results in terrible outcomes. By making government more efficient we are seeking the greater good, not some mythological and unattainable perfection in risk mitigation. Shame on everyone that trumpets their importance as armchair quarterbacks criticizing the rest of us working to make America great again. The status quo has sucked... yugely. Needed change will break things. Get over it.
Applause.
I'm incredibly happy that federal agencies are going through layoffs, and we are finally trimming the fat. As the largest US employer by far, surpassing Walmart and Amazon, who likely go through layoffs every year, I'm not sure if fed employees have ever had to worry about job security? I'm sorry people have to lose jobs, but if you have gained needed skills, you can fins a job I'm the private sector.
Additionally, I don't use Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram at all. Most people I know don't. People have become a lot more skeptical of msm and social. I think most commenter on these platforms are simply trying to gain influence and will say just about anything fir likes. I'm sure there are exceptions. I would not take thos platforms as indicative of how voters will react in the mid terms. Obviously (real) people on both sides see positives to the policies and actions of Trump in the past mth. Especially cutting waste...
I agree with you, Erick, and I’m hoping when you are in Washington this week you and others will be able to impart wisdom and a better strategy for the president and VP. Encourage him to be systematic and put a system in place for moving forward. He can’t help being who he his SA— can sometimes be but he’s tiring and it’s not yet been a full 30 days.
He promised lower prices at the grocery store. He should get on it!
Please provide your (legit) source on RFK, Jr. being anti-vax. All I've ever heard (from his words) is he is for vaccines going through the appropriate trials and tests before being given to the public. Please stop the gaslighting and false reporting. You're starting to sound like an Elizabeth Warren or Margaret Brennan.
I have a twitter account I don’t post there are more screwballs on there left and right and in between
Boring stuff is what I deal with every day running my business. Do I pay this bill? Every day, I balance my check book. Every day I look at my budget. At the beginning of the month, I transfer my P&L stmt from my accounting system to my excel spreadsheet. I can show you my monthly P&L since 1996 when I started my business.
I have used two distinct accounting systems. The current one is an integrated SAAS system that confirms to Sarbanes Oxley. The annoying part of this system is I cannot delete an erroneous journal entry. I must reverse it, which just pollutes my system with mistakes reversing mistakes and so on. The system generates a history file of every change I have made to the accounting system. Anyone using my accounting system (my tax accountants and employees) are tracked by the history file. Lots of boring stuff. Do you think the US government has an equivalent system in all its agencies?
I read today on X that Social Security has 17,165,517 social security numbers that correspond to people over the age of 100. 12,431,110 over the age of 120. The correct quantification of this data is there are 17,165,517 social security numbers that have a death field coded as false. Do we really have 17,165,517 individuals that have a social security number that are over the age of 100? Or better yet, the database has 1,039 social security numbers between the ages of 220-249. I assume there is a rational reason for these numbers existing in the database. For instance, there is one person aged 360 to 369. Did someone enter the wrong year for a date of birth? For instance, typing in 1666 instead of 1996. The “6” is under the “9” on a standard number pad on your keyboard. Or maybe these social security numbers belong to a Trust. A trust can certainly outlive a person. Maybe there is a trust created in 1669 that is still active because the law at the time allowed trusts like this to exist. Think of a person from the Massachusetts Bay Colony who created a trust for his future progeny. Could it happen? I don’t know.
The boring stuff is simple to spot. Can someone please explain how we can have an active SSN that corresponds to the age of 240 to 249 and one 360 to 369? Pretty boring stuff, correct?
This is the important thing to understand about this data on X. In the early 1980s, President Reagan, Speaker Tip O’Neal, and Sen. Bob Dole passed a bill that “saved” social security. The bill did a few basic things. First it raised the retirement age and, second, it raised the tax rate. From 1982 (or about that year) Social Security taxes generated a surplus. That surplus was accounted for using an accrual account at Treasury that “booked” treasury protected securities. [Please don’t get mad at me if my memory is a bit off and the terms are not accurate]. These TPS generated an interest income stream. Something like 2%, which is not great on a long-term investment plan. The actuarialists modeled this surplus running for 30-40 years give or take. Here we are in 2025, and Social Security has run a deficit for 3 straight years and will continue to do so for another 7 years or so. At that point the TSPs will have been “spent”. Once there is no longer a surplus, by law, social security payments to everyone must be reduced by 20%. Does anyone really think the American people will stand to have their social security reduced 20%? Political chaos. If you want to read boring stuff, please go here.
https://www.ssa.gov/oact/TRSUM/
Back to the X post and the data I spoke of earlier. The average social security payment in 2024 was $1,862. Multiply this by 17 million recipients over 100 and you have $31 billion in monthly payments times 12 months, and you get $380 billion annual payments to individuals over the age of 100. Are these payments reasonable and proper? If so, a simple search on the web says there are 80,139 people over the age of 100 in the US. The obvious question is follows. Are all these 17 plus million SSNs receiving social security payments?
Every state has a Vital Statistics department. This department registers births and deaths. You get your birth and death certificate from this department. Does the social security administration routinely cross reference its database with all state agencies to ensure only living individuals are registered in the systems and receiving their proper benefits? Does the SSN correspond to a “legal” recipient within the US? Does each state have an information system that easily corss references to the Social Security Administration database? lots of boring stuff.
Hopefully DOGE can solve it quickly.
This is boring stuff and hopefully, Trump and Congress can do the boring stuff to force the government workers do the daily boring stuff toe protect the liberty of the American citizen by insuring fraud is minimized as much as possible.
What about laying off VA employees? I have visions of understaffed VA hospitals. Hope I'm wrong. Patient care matters.
Well, when you consider that a short time ago something like 16 or 19 VA employees were fired for engaging in an orgy ON DUTY in a facility, I would say there is room for some cuts. They aren't needed if they have time to do that.
I worked at the VA. The VA needs to be privatized. Better care would be given in the private sector. I am a witness.
Let's try to persuade Doug Collins, the new guy. I was a student nurse at the ATL VA in 1974. I agree with you.
I have already written to Osoff but he hasn’t written back. I’m game.
Good Morning People let us not forget that DJT has always had the good of the American people on his mind but he has a big mouth and mean tweets he is our president and leader. He sometimes makes bad choices just like we all do but we should back him and give him the benefit of the doubt God Bless America we will survive Amen
I don’t mind paying taxes, but I want them to be used properly.
How many vaccines does a newborn need in the first year of life? One of my jobs eons ago was working in a blood bank. As I remember a newborn didn’t have a functional immune system. Any antibodies were from the mother.
Graft in government has been around since governments started. It wasn’t right then and isn’t now.
Lets face it, this election we had a choice between bad or worse. We knew, at some point Trump will do something which we will not like but the alternative was a continuation of the Biden committee of the acacademia leftist that have no clue how to run a country and only care about LGBTQ issues and pushing green hysteria. Trump has started off well but we know at some point we will go from cheering him on to wanting to real him in to back to cheering him and agonizing over his election. As far as the media, whether they realize it or not, their clout, their power is gone. Everyone recognizes they are the media wing of the DNC, inept, untruthful, useless. They might as well run reruns of Friends on CNN to get their viewership up.
Regarding "vaccine skepticism": https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/intentional-abuse-of-health-outcomes
Thank you for the article. The pandemic is what really woke me up to vaccine regulations and research and thank God it was before I had my first child and could make informed decisions (why does a newborn need Hep B??) The pandemic is also where I started following RFK Jr. because he was one of the loudest voices for medical freedom and informed consent; that is until his social media accounts were shut down for “misinformation.” He is not anti-vaxx. He is pro informed consent.
Exactly correct!
That was important enough for me to print it out. I am very disgusted with anyone who hurls the term, "anti-vaxxer" at anyone who is skeptical of the actions of those in the medical or scientific professions who insist on complete compliance. I had one granddaughter nursing a baby and one pregnant when they were pushing the shots. Neither submitted to the pressure. Meanwhile, the father in law of one of them got a covid shot and within a few days had a massive heart attack and died.
I wouldn’t trust the CDC or FDA as far as I could throw them. Hoping the public will finally wake up to how they’ve been deceived.
Oh Lord, the pendulum swings in American politics. We deserve what we get or do we get what we deserve? Of over 300 million people in the USA, only a handful bother to vote? Priorities, people, priorities. This is the year of Jubilee. Read about it. There are 6 doors of Pilgrimage this year in Georgia. One and only one Holy Door in Rome, Italy. I am going to all 6 churches to walk through all 6 Doors. Thus obtaining a plenary indulgence. Why don’t you try it too?
Competency has entered the chat, being a GD squish is tedious
I guess not being on all sorts of social media insulates one from some of the crazy. Though I think I see enough. But aren't we all pleased at the actual cutting of government both in spending and personnel? Most of the firings are probationary people who were probably not necessary or important anyhow. The outrageous things our money is being spent on needs to be outed and stopped. Could we all recognize that bird flu has always existed, but has not always been tested in this rather maniacal manner which is resulting entire flocks of thousands being killed though most of them may not be infected? Stop killing the chickens and the egg problem will be solved. It almost seems that now that the "deep state" is being exposed, the same folks who were hollering about cutting the size of the government are upset that the size of the government is being cut.