FLBear5630 said:
Doc Holliday said:
J.R. said:
ironically, many of you cat who are RWNJs sound just like Dems. Oh, poor me. People have 3 choices. 1)get educated 2) Increase your revenue as it isn't a cost problem. 3) live within your means.
You misunderstand completely.
It's more like we're paying way too much for a service that the government fails to deliver. It's like buying something online and it never being delivered.
Getting screwed financially pisses me off. Don't know why it doesn't piss you off.
What isn't being delivered? You choose a Philosophy degree and you meet the requirements, you get the degree. There is no non-performance. What you do with it is up to you.
I know Philosophy majors that did well, went to Wake Forest on ROTC scholarship chose Philosophy because he liked it. Became an ADA Officer and now makes alot of money as a Contractor.
Others that can't find a job. It is not the degree.
There are legit programs to get your education paid for, if you choose to use them. If you choose not to and call your own shots more power to you. But don't ***** that it cost too much.
How many on this site used their VA benefit to get their first house or business? That isn't Govt spending too much, that is someone using what is available and paying in other ways.
I don't know how much you guys think little things like clean water, transportation, wastewater, Ports, Airports, Defense cost. Most people are paying pennies on the dollar for the benefits received. You take stuff for granted. Watch too many of you "Government spends too much" people yell that right up to the point when a road needs to go through your property, then you want top dollar. Driving costs of building a road to over a million a mile, most is Right of Way cost. But that is ok, as long as it goes in your account.
In most cases it is the degree and how the world has changed toward credentialism. You're not going to get a degree in liberal arts and make a lot of money as a W-9 employee in that field and you're highly unlikely to get a job in a different field without credentials that you absolutely have to pay for in today's world. Does it happen? Yes. Can it happen at scale? No.
Really the crux of the problem is interest on entitlements. Non-discretionary spending is mandated by law. It includes entitlement programs, like Social Security, Medicare, and making the interest payments on the federal debt. Those entitlement programs are garbage on top of that because we're printing money to pay for it which causes inflation and lowers buying power. Its self defeating.
In 2024, FedGov's budget is $6.5 trillion, with a deficit of -$1.9 trillion. The National Debt stands at $35 trillion.
At an interest rate of only 2%, the yearly interest payments on that $35 trillion amount to $700 billion.
At 5%: $1.75 trillion
At 7%: $2.45 trillion
At 10%: $3.5 trillion/year
Just the interest payments on the debt ($870 billion) are the third biggest item in the Fed budget, exceeding even Defense spending. The CBO says the debt will be $50 trillion by 2034.
On top of all that we still spend like idiots. Just look into an omnibus bill:
$200,000,000 for the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund
$50,000,000 for the Women's Leadership Fund.
I dunno I'm sure the National Coast Guard Museum is the t its, but could we hold off on the $50 million facelift until we get our financial sh *t together?
There's countless earmarks like this and they add up to a TON of money.
The premise of what I'm saying is you could be in the top 5% of earners and at the rate we're going they money isn't going to get you very far.