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I believe our American problem is really quite simple if we look at it mathematically and logically. The problem is the system we have allowed to be pushed on us. And the solution is to merely do away with what doesn’t work.

First, the math. The GDP is about $24 Trillion and the government is presently proposing a budget of about $6 Trillion. So, the public sector (government) is 25% of the private sector (You and me as well as the other 75%). We outnumber them 3:1.

Just five years ago the GDP was $21 Trillion and the government was $4 Trillion which was 19% and 81% respectively. The ratio was closer to 4:1. Can you see the deterioration of our position? That is the math and it is irrefutable.

The logic is strange. COVID was used to change the math and this is harder to prove. But if we look at the economics of the percentages from above, it makes sense to me.

The truth is the private sector economy pays for the public sector economy. The total of both sectors adds up to the GDP of America, but only the private sector makes money. The public sector is a money taker and user at the expense of the people (You and me).

This perspective tells us what a winning strategy has to be. Reduce the size of the losing proposition and grow the money making side. I hope this not hard to understand because this exactly what DOGE is showing us daily, but no one is explaining it simply.

This is not rocket science but Trump has hired a rocket science expert to do the job. The public sector is a Ponzi scheme and has been since 1871. It has been funded by the private sector with more and more elaborate promises of socialist Utopia. But, the public sector is bankrupt and has always been so.

The very good news is the private sector is doing quite well. People are going to work every day and money is being earned. That money is slowly being devalued by the public sector, but that is the design that was sold to us over and over again with promises of Utopia.

The simple solution is to just stop! Stop taxing us to pay for a losing proposition. Decide what is absolutely necessary for our government to perform the duties laid out in our Constitution and find rational ways to fund those. Then, look at the “extra stuff” we have become addicted to and see if we can afford them. More debt should not be an option. But the present huge debt is the proof of what I am writing here. Our government has proven that it cannot afford the promises it has made because it loses $2 Trillion a year after taxing America to the maximum extent of our ability to pay.

So, watch as Elon and Donald bring about a business solution to a business problem. It is all about profit and loss and always has been. Government needs to be limited so business can expand. That’s the bottom line.

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HueCry's avatar

Whether you are rambling or rumbling, as I thoroughly enjoyed your Kwast interview, recognizing that he was subliminally communicating aspects of the “Prince of the power of air,” that I noted you are beginning to gradually comprehend, as we all see through a glass darkly.

So understand that completely inverting and restructuring the world’s financial system cannot happen in a day, but the seeding and germination process is clearly under way. Two choices are available. Serve God or mammon. The choice is ours individually, but if you try to do both, you will hate one and despise the other. It is going to be Biblical. The shoots are beginning to sprout!

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