and that is a very healthy thing.
Jimmy Carter wanted one and didn't get it. Reagan tried to get one and gave up. Wanting an audit is nothing new under the sun. A lot of us have wanted one for decades.
We should have been having one every few years. Instead that can has been kicked down the street since Andrew Jackson managed to get the national debt paid off.
I think that USAID is just the tip of the iceberg and can't wait until the team goes through Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security because they will have quite a field day there.
Years ago a friend of mine was annoyed as hell because Congress approved $250K for a study on why children fall off of bicycles. He was right because anyone knows that it's because they're kids and sometimes clumsy. Still, Congress approved the study.
That's all well and good because Congress was up front about it and approved the money during session. Everyone could see it and there was no hiding it. While most of us thought it was stupid, it was at least up front and honest.
That's well and good.
It's the monies buried elsewhere that have to be brought to light.
As I said earlier, the can has been kicked down the road for far too long and now someone named Trump has decided to open the can of worms and what a can of worms he has opened!
This never should have happened because the government should have been audited regularly all along.
Someone turned the light on and the cockroaches are scurrying for cover! The Democrats (who appear to have stolen the lion's share of our monies, but Republicans are not 100% clean, either) are screeching to hang the president. They're using every lame excuse in the book about wanting to protect the public's privacy and SSNs.
The latter is somewhat of a lame joke. Before 2015 the military had GI's SSN on their dogtags. In many states they were used as driver's license numbers. A quick Google search says that in my state it's still on my license although if it is, it's probably inside the scanner strip on the back as I can't find it on the front.
Why are the Democrats trying to keep the people's SSN from the duly appointed government auditors? The government issued them the number in the first place! You are trying to hide the numbers from the people that issued them? Does anyone know how stupid that sounds?
As for trying to hide the public's banking information, that holds no water, either. One has to provide financial institutions with an SSN to open an account and banks are required to report any interest payments to the IRS. Another lame excuse. The government already know about our banking business.
If anyone wants to know my financial business all they have to do is go into the IRS, punch in my SSN and BINGO! All of my banking information, all of my retirement accounts, CDs, savings, everything comes up and it's all there. All of it. The only thing they don't know is how many dollar bills I have put into Bubbles' G-string at the club the other night.
Any elected or appointed official trying to interfere with the LONG needed audit is either guilty of stealing or misappropriating government funds or they are complicit in covering this up and shows a complete lack of integrity because they are trying to hide the audit results from the American people.
Get back to work, DOGE.
You know what’s funny, piccolo? I’m one of those guys that you’re always dumping on, college educated, former hippie, left leaning, thinks Trump is an idiot. But I completely agree with what he’s doing now. All those people screaming about how this isn’t how we do things in Washington, well, the way things have been done in Washington is what got us into this financial mess. I hope Trump makes good progress cutting waste.
ReplyDeleteI'll answer this with a later post. There are a LOT of people like you.
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