Notices by The Felon Pope :popephil: (phil@freeatlantis.com)

@twitloyalist

So far he has not refused to spend a single penny of the money appropriated by congress. he is just stopping illegal spending of that money. It is his duty to make sure it is spent correctly and that the scum that infest government are not using it according to their own agenda.

@twitloyalist

Well I wouldn't go that far, but it does make the point, that just trying to dismiss something as a consparacy theroy without addressing is a tactic of fools.

@twitloyalist
Just so, of course at present, the conspiracy theory people are turning out to be more correct then their detractors, who are being shown to just be credulous and easy marks.

@twitloyalist Seems dumb to me, but It was appropriated by Congress and signed by Biden, so of course it's dumb.

@twitloyalist and your assertion is patently false. Congress allocated the money based on the foreign assistance act. This act requires that grants meet certain conditions. Much of the spending DOES NOT meet those conditions and is thus illegal.
Are you dumb enough to believe that congress allocated 50m dollars to buy condoms for some 3rd world country?

@twitloyalist
Read the law on which unsaid is based. It is supposed to aid in economic development. Condoms are not development. And taking money by threat of force from Americans and using it to do such bullshit is vile, Immoral, and inexcusable. Anybody who supports such thing is scum who deserve to die a horrible death

@twitloyalist stop paying taxes for a few years and see what happens. How is that not force?

@twitloyalist if taxes were voluntary would you pay them? If you don't have a choice, you are forced.

Last year we had to send a check for 84k and change when we filed. Our bookkeeper transposed the last 2 digits and shorted the check by 40 bucks. In a year where out total tax bill was close ro 200k and after many audits where nothing was found, we received a notice of an intent to lien our property over 40 bucks. And the auditors always treat us as criminals.

@interfluidity @dcc @p
mediocre at best.

In spite of several market crashes, I have saved money for retirement my whole life.
I've put away less than, the cost of SS in 401ks. Nonetheless, those 401k will provide 3x the income in retirement than SS will.

I have also saved in taxable funds, without which, 4x ss would be a pretty modest retirement.

2 the feds have spent 22 trllion on the war on poverty, about 3 trillion actually went to the poor, and it has been a complete failure.

@interfluidity @dcc @p

If I didn't have to pay so much into SS, I could a much larger retirement income.

nobody denies that some good comes from government, but for every good thing there are about 3 bad.

Every problem they solve, creates 2 more.

They're a self interested group, that mostly lives to serve themselves.

Theres a roll for government, but it should be finite and restricted

it should set and enforce the rules and then stand back.

They currently manipulate it for their cornies.

@interfluidity
Every time a government has shrunk, their economy has thrived. It's happening in Argentina right now. And has happed many times.
There is INSURMOUNTABLE evidence that big government crushes freedom and prosperity.
You have to be completely snowed, or brainwashed, or willfully blind to not see it.

@interfluidity
An amazing thing happened in the 1970's
The labor force participation rate in the US skyrocked due to women entering the workforce in huge numbers.
At that point the federal workforce should have been cut nearly in half.

Instead, the portion of the wealth the country generates, that it consumes has grown.
From 3% in 1900 to over 24% today. (though about a quarter of it is borrowed from future generations.)

@interfluidity 2% is too many. Have you seen the stats on how much time is spent watching porn on federal computers?
.5% should be just fine.

@interfluidity You are the one falling for propaganda and maniuplation of statistics.

This graph is meaningless.
1. The overall percantage of the US workforce has also fallen as a percentage of the population overtime.
2. As a result of productivity gains, the private sector workforce, per $million of GDP has also fallen significantly.
3. The "decrease in the federal workforce as a percentage of the population is nowhere near what it should be.
4. This graph is cherry picking the years.

@interfluidity
superficial. As an example, nearly 90% of all money spent on welfare is consumed by the beast, crumbs actually go to the poor.

USAID is only one small venue through which money is spent on corruption/waste.
Federal workers are over paid, underworked, and overly self important.

Yes we should go after everything, I'd be happy to see the entire thing collapse.

What percentage of my life should I have to work for other people to reap the benefit? At present it's about half.

@interfluidity
You give credit to government where credit is not due,
they're just ascertions.
the productivity came, not as a result of government, but in spite of it.
It's a result of technology and industrial revolution and inovation.

Government mostly hinders these things. I know this, I live it every day.

@interfluidity The words government and investment do not belong in the same sentance.
Govt takes money out of the economy consumes most of it, then dumps a little of it back in on the otherside of the bucket This is not investing.
It's a hinderence to investment. Govt is an expense.
Some are necessary, but most is unnecessary and a drag.

We employ 58 people. When the business makes money 25% is re-invested in it. 25% comes to us. 50% goes to government.
if not for that we have 200 emp.

@interfluidity
People had business and employees when the federal government was 3% of GDP, so this is just made up bull shit, fed to easy marks by the very government whose dick they suck.

@interfluidity for 50 years a great beast has been hovering over our nation engorging itself, growing ever larger and shitting more and more all over the people. Trump and Musk are disembowling that beast, but those who love wallowing in the beasts excreta and live to feed it, are mourning the process.

@interfluidity Doesnt matter, federal spending as a percentage of GDP has grown steadily since 1948. And this number UNDERSTATES the problem since federal spending is included in GDP, if you look at federal spending in relation to non government GDP, its grown to be enourmous. and its intrusive, wasteful and corrupt.

Regarding the number of people, regardless of percentages, (which is a bogus measure since many positions have nothing to do with the size of the population) its way to many