Reduce all senator and representative pay, do a pay cap for all politicians, NO annual rase, set term limits, No politician can accept money investments or company CEO/top pay positions for 5 years after leaving service. Let politicians be treated the way everyone else is treated and see how may stay in public service. Is disgusting that these people can spend their whole career in public service and become multi millionaires by insider trading and peddling for companies instead of working for the American people!
I would add in no more come speak at my business for 10 million dollars. Ie how AOC went from a bartender to a millionaire in only a couple years. They all do it just an easy example.
They are just deflecting, they are in fact selling us out to banks for perpetual interest based debt slavery. the higher the ceiling goes the more debt we incur from interest payments every year... which means our tax dollars will perpetually be profit for international banking interests. a nation that cannot pay off their debts is a nation enslaved to the hand that feeds them.
@@wildfire9280 the difference is the founding fathers had to work for their wealth. Today politicians just add a new a fee or slap a tax on something and sit back.
@@Pickled_PoetI mean, they kinda can't. The 27th Amendment sees to that. > inb4 "they'll just get it when they're reelected" There's no guarantee that they'll get reelected. Especially if word gets out that particular member voted to give themselves a raise.
"We literally can't afford all of our spending, and are infinitely climbing into debt" "We should lower spending" :"NNNOOOOOO WWAAAHHHH WAHHHHH WAHHHH DUMB REPUBLICANS WE CANT DO THAT WE NEED TO SPEND MOOOOOOORE DONT YOU UNDERSTAND LOOOGIC?!?!?!??!" Jesus christ democrats are unhinged....Cut spending. It's literally the only solution, sorry you hate basic logic.
Like in a courtroom , judges - prosecutors - defence attys , put on a big show , lawyers fighting , the judge acting above it all , impartial ( ? ) then later they're all together at the country club playing golf & wining & dining & having a great old time .
because those programs are actively losing money, and they are essentially pointless. A person investing in the stock market will get a much higher return than social security, for example.
@@itsmenotjamesYa but we need to ruin the nations future credit to fund social security to bail out boomers and make Gen Z hold an even bigger bag. But don't feel too sorry for Gen Z because they want the government to spend even more. Basically everyone thinks maxing out your credit card to pay for stupid stuff is dumb. But everyone wants the government to do it
They don't make that much from their real salary and would littley make almost no difference in the monry saving it's like not buying a pack of gum one year while doing it once every other year once such big savings they make all their money from lobbyists
I know and the same when the ex Senior Advisor to the President received a $2 Billion Saudi Check for "future business" and him and his wife made a whopping $640 million at their time at the Whitehouse 🤔
@@Arkansas112 I'd say less than 10% actually do anything good. The rest are money hungry leaches dragging this country towards disaster. Left and right.
Yep, it's all inflation, if the government got its grimey fingers off the print button, then most people would have increased wages and savings and not decreased.
@@tripolarmdisorder7696 Unfortunately most people are so stupid they lack any amount of media literacy. The greatest example of this is probably the onion where people don’t realize satirical news is supposed to be reflective of real news as a parody.
It never happens.. they all wait until the final week before they take there month long vacation… and they not missing that so they are all willing to let us burn then take the time during the rest of the year
Federal spending also includes wasting money in other countries, pointless wars, bailing out massive companies, allowing illegal invaders to cross the border, and much more.
Agreed. And the one about the illegals shouldn’t even be a divisive political issue. Everyone should agree on protecting our own country. Also bailouts are so frustrating when those big companies don’t care about what normal people need but they get handed money just because they need it without earning it.
I think both Republicans and democrats can agree that we need to defund politicians. They are growing evermore selfish and uncaring for the American people. Edit:Lmao this got a lot of attention
On the absolute contrary, they all should be on state funding only and donations should be illigal. You need to fund them, or the oil moguls and friends will happily buy them off you.
You're wrong. Their pay is just a minor portion of their compensation. They've access to information that allows them to manipulate the stock market, they get money from donors and lobby groups. Why do you think they spend more time raising money than doing actual work?
@@yavvivvay but that good salary still needs to be capped at like 200% of the median income of their state (or 120%+ that of the cost of living in DC, if they are there more than not)
Vasalysa, would you say low wages among police officers in other nations make them less corrupt. Or is earning a living wage means you have to be corrupt, increase the chance of corruption? That you think politicians are corrupt anyway isnt the point.
Well as a small business owner I’m fine with it as long as the government pays for the wages since my business cannot exist with 15 dollar minimum wage or we are running our business in mexico
@@paulryan2.052 if your business can only exist without paying your employees a livable wage, then that means you are failing at running a business. Livable wage meaning a wage able to cover the cost of living in the city you operate. The fact that you think your employees don’t deserve that… it’s inhuman and evil to value profit over people.
@@BobbyMaler-fy6wh The point is if people in office earned only minimum wage, they would have to experience what it’s like to not be able to afford rent or groceries in the city they live in. The fact that you think some people deserve to live in poverty just because you look down on their profession is very telling. A fast food corporation like McDonald’s makes billions of dollars and employ over 100,000 each year. It’s not acceptable that they aren’t paying a livable wage to the very workers that are on the ground every day in a hot kitchen, keeping the stores open.
@@Razor-gx2dqimagine being able to opt out of paying taxes outside of sale taxes if you didn't support where the money was being spent. Our budget would be a fraction of what it is now.
At this point nearly everyone is invested in the market, so that's impractical. Are you saying that if I were to be elected to a local office, then I need to immediately liquidate my 401k, IRA, kids' 529, etc? That seems rather extreme. How far does "family" extend? Spouses, children, parents, siblings, in-laws, grandchildren, cousins, second cousins, fourth cousin twice removed?
We had a tradition of Presidents putting their assets into a blind trust until someone ruined it. Good luck convincing Congress to follow a precedent the Republican frontrunner won't.
@@sonicpsycho13 The problem is legislators can intentionally make laws to influence the values of certain stock they may or may not have. They conduct insider trading with classified information they have and never get in trouble for it. Another major issue is the unlimited anonymous funding they get from major corporations and individuals. The rich bankroll people they want elected, and are successful far too often for America to be called anything other than an oligarchy.
@Lord Unhold I'm confused, when was it mentioned how much their official salary counts towards their overall wealth? each member of congress/senate is paid a salary of about 200k/year according to the quick search I did. There are 50 people in one of them, & over 200 in the other. Assuming 250 total (which I think is low, but I don't know), that's 50 million a year solely towards their salaries.
@@tjfrye11that’s 0.125% of what they spent on Ukraine in the most recent Ukraine funding bill. Which is also only a small part of what the government spends in total per year. It is pocket change what we pay politicians compared to what we spend as a nation annually. Not saying they shouldn’t be payed less, you’re just wrong about how much they (legally) take up in our spending budget
@hudsonhaas2661 ok, so there's this thing called an exaggeration, right? Where you purposefully make something sound bigger than it is for some reason, be it comedy or whatever. Obviously, they don't make up anywhere near the majority of the national debt.
@hudsonhaas2661 yes, it's not much in terms of the national spending. However, it is a lot when you consider what it could be going to instead. Be it schools, roads, etc.
If a singular person needed to take on more debt to pay their existing debt, they would be at risk of bankruptcy or criminality. Just because it’s the USA doesn’t make it OK
Ahh yes the classic “the United States is like a home” no it’s not. The United States has currency sovereignty meaning as long as its debt is owned (mostly) by itself it will not and cannot default. This is all literally political theater.
Uh the gop is trying to cut social security dems aren't that a huge difference. Fuck parties that's my grandpa and grandma's money that they worked for that the GOP is trying to steal
I think the sooner this idea get embraced by everyone the better, either side of the isle they arnt working for you, they are just virtue signaling BS whilst lining their pocketbooks, both sides of the isle.
@trueblue true, everyone is to worried about getting re elected and not about this nation. Not to mention just the lack of representation everyday citizens feel from the government lately.
It's not even that, though. The debt ceiling as a time bomb that Congress makes, they can blame the president for exploding that only they can fix. Congress passes a budget and sets taxes. The president MUST, by law, adhere to the budget Congress sets and has only the tax revenue they bring in to spend that budget. If the taxes don't cover the expenses, then the president, being bound by law to adhere to the budget, must borrow money to cover the difference. Except that the president can't borrow above a certain arbitrary dollar amount without congress approving it. So the time to argue over this isn't when the president has to pay for things that are already bought, but it should be as the budget is being passed. Every other sane country includes that if the budget exceed taxes, they have implied the approve borrowing needed to pay for the budget they passed. We're the only ones shooting ourselves in the foot like this. Not to mention, it's all just political theater. Neither party is going to allow their own stock investments to tank by crashing the world's economy (nor will their corporate overlords stand for it)
I wish theyd just rip the bandaid off. They are simultaneously trying to collapse the world economy while trying to distance themselves from the controlled demolition The bad part is, it isnt the obvious big bad we need to watch out for. But the bad guy they will use to destroy the obvious big bad. Create the problem then people will beg for the solution you want to have.
Imagine if our government wasn't laundering money to line their own pockets and we, as American citizens, DID something to actually correct their behavior :3
Boggles me that people all of a sudden accept this as unbiased news just because they put it into a "gen-z friendly" format when you can literally put two and two together and see that its the Washington post (Who is one of the poster boys for Mass Media manipulation and propoganda) lmao
I think it's also important to focus on the fact we're one of the only countries that has a legal bribery system that makes politicians overall on both sides of the political spectrum more focused on keeping the people who bribe them happy than care about the common peoples needs, like our stagnating infrastructure, or that most people are under so much economic hardship that most people under boomer age will never be able to afford to own a house, or be able to retire according to studies. Even if you get rid of all the corrupt politicians, they're just going to be replaced by new corrupt politicians as long as he system is full of ways to abuse it, because those kinds of people are attracted to positions of power. What you're suggesting is like throwing out all the fruit cause of the bad apples, yet never washing out the moldy basket carrying the fruit before putting new fruit in it.
Ironically, that's exactly how it works. The idea is you elect someone to represent you, so THEY look at what the spending is for, and make cuts you would agree with. The issue is that the representatives we elect don't do jack shit for us, but people keep voting for them cause "Better than letting the other guy win" mentalities.
The amount spent on social problems is miniscule compared to that spent on military, foreign aid, and everything else the government could cut that would have far less consequences than cutting social programs, which people depend on to stay alive
@@mussolini2525 we already had all of this, giving it away when all it’s doing is collecting dust is better than just letting it be the massive money pit that it is
@@SarumanOrthanc perhaps going to a smaller gov in relation to politicians where it has to be someone esteemed in the community to even be eligible to become a politician, a history of being trustworthy, etc etc. I’m not sure how one would implement that though well.
Imagine telling that to credit card companies "yeah I'm about to hit my debt limit, but that's okay, I discussed it with my family and we decided to raise the limit, problem solved, and we'll pay you interest but we'll probably never get around to paying that debt off, thanks okay, bye!"
@@sirreepicheeprules7443 except and hear me out on this your family isnt the United States government backed by the power of the United States military Who also happens to be the head of the biggest military alliance in history Maybe we have a bit more leeway than your family in the banks
I love how the government is basically the teacher and the student in the sense that they have an overdue assignment but as the teacher, they just keep pushing the due date back forever hoping to never have to worry about the consequences of never doing the assignment.
Basically our own country uses our taxes like an irresponsible teen with a new credit card and they just keep calling the back to extend their max credit rather than pay it off.
If they would not pay any money to members of Congress and their staff unless they passed a balanced budget by june 30 every year, the Congress would magically do that.
@@joelstiffler5137 We want to raise the debt. This is a good thing. More debt means more investment means more revenue potential means more investment in the people of the country. The debt ceiling is simply a credit limit. It is not personal debt. Learn literally anything about international economics before you act like a shithead.
Won't work most of them after corrupt and earn more money from kickbacks and lobbyists. Even old Joe said it was true. He has made a fortune from it. He is a multimillionaire and Benet owned a business or had a job.
No other country works like this. The debt ceiling was created to help the various government departments not have to worry about money that was already allocated by congress.
I understand that something needs to change but it’s hard to compare the US to most other countries. The sheer size and resources needed to maintain the country’s is huge compared to pretty much anyone else except for china and Russia. And most 1st world countries have similar amounts of resources. So copying Norway or Finland or any other country wouldn’t work without us going completely broke. The fact that we’re so big, and high on the freedom index is a major achievement. To be able to copy anybody it would need to be china or Russia, which would lower our freedom severely. And will definitely cause an uproar or maybe even a coup, depending on how bad it is.
@@PokeFan28 and just as the guy was saying, American can't be compared to other countries because of its size and population. Any other country that is "more free" is much smaller and doesn't have a need for laws or mandates restricting freedom.
@@brokengamer9675 "you can't be free if country too big" is one of the dumbest fucking things I have ever read in my life holy shit are you even a real person? i can't believe an actual person would say something so fucking stupid lmao
"and doesnt have a need for laws or mandates restricting freedom" objectively untrue. in germany the things that fall under "free speech" are WAY more regulated and restricted then in the US. Our gun laws are WAY more strict then the US's etc etc etc@@brokengamer9675
1) Cut elected expenses budgets. Most elected officials get 100k+ furniture budgets each year, plus travel and food. It's insane. 2) Might not be able to stop government officials investing but there should be a HUGE tax on anything they make to discourage it and make them focus on their jobs.
1) elected officials getting paid high is often recommended to prevent them being more susceptible to corruption. I know I know, "politicians are already corrupt". But consider the context, 100k+ is insane money if you're living in Montana, but Washington D.C is one of the most expensive places to live in the US. Fucking Chuck Schumer (the majority leader of Senate) shared rooms with others to live in DC for his first 30 years of his service as Congressman from 1981 (81-99, House of Rep, Senate from 99). If you want even the option of an elected official living a decent life on pay alone, high pay is necessary. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to survive without bribes.
@@waroftheworlds2008 giving millions in checks every year that dont get cashed by other countries....i swear thats just a way for them to hide money away like, we literally give millions to brazil for abortions every year. they never cash the check. but we keep sending it. so its like, we have millions in a piggie bank we keep breaking and refilling every year......................
@@waroftheworlds2008 look up how much more we spend for our military than the next country. It’s our biggest drain and it’s not close. When I was still in we would plan training exercises near the border in Korea just for the combat pay, then get their at the 1 day before a pay period so we could claim the whole pay period . Just things like that. We would spend our battalion budget every so they could ask for more money.
What else would they do? Unless you either want all of your benefits cut (in the country which already offers the fewest benefits in the developed world) or your taxes through the roof, theres not really a good option.
@@derpyslurp8779sadly, the big military we have is the only reason why other countries don’t attack us :/ Meanwhile our economy is “slowly” crashing and burning
Its like that one family member that spends all their money on designer clothes, tattoos and piercings, then cries about how no one helps them with their rent or utilities.
@@Mess7739 seriously they need to put into legislation that essential programs get funding first. Anything "extra" can you put to less essential but still useful stuff.
The Treasury Dept is buying time for the govt to take their summer vacations. Remember when that 2nd stimulus took forever to get approved because everyone kept disappearing on vacations all summer 🏝️
@@jonnybaze7449 Just earlier this year a couple months ago for example when House Speaker McCarthy for example decided to push for a 22% decrease in the budget for veterans disablity benefits and pensions.
The audacity of these people wanting to keep the 2022 budget that includes billions in covid provisions, now after the pandemic is over. Or how about the billions we send over seas for gender and diversity?
Imagine if we weren't currently sending millions in aid to a country and continent that's done nothing but talk shit until they want something for the past 100ish years.
@@ConfusedGuardsman you mean Ukraine? If they lose this war, it is most definitely WW3 next. Also this will mean Russia has more land next to nato countries, so nuclear war X2. So I do believe this benefits the US.
@@ConfusedGuardsman Unfortunately, that's where the US is in the grand scheme of things. We have the biggest military, so when someone is a threat to other guys, we HAVE to sit at the table. Our military is our biggest diplomatic asset. If we stopped responding when people asked for help, we'd lose superpower status in an instant. Countries will negotiate with China instead. It's a tragic state of affairs because they know we have to respond if issues arise or we lose everything.
I'm just pissed we gave $500 million to Ukraine, when Ohio is basically Chernobyl right now. I country that doesn't help it's own citizens has no future
There is always a my team is best fan boy under these purposefully generic comments. Dems and Reps are all missing the point. But just wait and watch the loud fanboys come out in droves to help none and cause all the damage.
Congress: Cut your spending. You reach the debt Ceiling. Also Congress: Go spent more money. Don't care if this increase our debt. You have to do this by the laws that we created.
The funny thing is that US government debt doesn't really matter with how the world is structured, but what does matter is the political headache that is raising the ceiling even if that's purely an accounting quirk. All I'm saying is print the coin.
They really should find was to spend though. I forget the number but its ridiculous how much they spend on maintaining empty buildings. Like why don't they just sell them.
@@xiphos8219Realistically, no one, it is in the best interest of the lender to never collect the debt/bonds the USA and instead just collect the interest which the USA sets and chooses to pay.
The argument is that they NEED that money since they HAVE to have two houses - one in their home state and one in/near DC. Which, of course, is the law. But I say that we give them a barracks near the Capitol building. It doesn't need to be a 5-star hotel or anything.
Last time I checked, they make 100-110K as an official salary, off the top of my head. If this was all they made, you could almost argue they deserve more, since doing the job honestly sounds complicated, frustrating and exhausting. Business dealings and lobbying, though...
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"quick we need to do something," said no politician ever.
Literally
I mean, jumping the gun as a politician is a bad idea for everyone... so is not doing anything
Typically I agree. But this would impact the ability to line their own pockets.
So gotta be quick
When it comes to democrats reacting to Trump doing anything at all it seems pretty true lol.
Is that why we're still waiting for the gop healthcare bill that was supposed to replace the ACA?
Reduce all senator and representative pay, do a pay cap for all politicians, NO annual rase, set term limits, No politician can accept money investments or company CEO/top pay positions for 5 years after leaving service. Let politicians be treated the way everyone else is treated and see how may stay in public service.
Is disgusting that these people can spend their whole career in public service and become multi millionaires by insider trading and peddling for companies instead of working for the American people!
I would add in no more come speak at my business for 10 million dollars. Ie how AOC went from a bartender to a millionaire in only a couple years. They all do it just an easy example.
The issue is, who the heck would pass such legislation?
The people who benefit from the current system?
Nope
Lobbying limit should be the first one set
Good ideas bro
good luck with that. They set the rules
Politicians are the embodiment of "ill do it tomorrow"
"We need to do something"
*does absolutely nothing*
They are just deflecting, they are in fact selling us out to banks for perpetual interest based debt slavery.
the higher the ceiling goes the more debt we incur from interest payments every year... which means our tax dollars will perpetually be profit for international banking interests.
a nation that cannot pay off their debts is a nation enslaved to the hand that feeds them.
The Founding Fathers weren’t immune there either.
@@wildfire9280 the difference is the founding fathers had to work for their wealth. Today politicians just add a new a fee or slap a tax on something and sit back.
And then give themselves a raise for doing nothing.
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“Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today”
The capital building floating to the debt ceiling line made me laugh
Capitol*
@@twixmaestr7605 Actually, in this instance....
"Cool, now lets all pat ourselves on the back and give ourselves raises"
Congress should NOT be able to set their own wages. Imagine if we all were able to do that? Money would be more meaningless than it already is
@@Pickled_PoetI mean, they kinda can't. The 27th Amendment sees to that.
> inb4 "they'll just get it when they're reelected"
There's no guarantee that they'll get reelected. Especially if word gets out that particular member voted to give themselves a raise.
Now that's something both parties can agree on!
The only time you will ever see all the politicians agree unanimously. To give themselves raises
How about no billionaire tax cuts?
_"They, in fact, won't sort this out and pass legislation."_
They did, tho
@@ultimategotea oh, really? That's a miracle if I've ever heard one, the US legislature being somewhat timely.
@@1mariomaniacThey sure did! Look up the "Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023"
@@drakerbaker1756 Yeah, that's going to do nothing. 1.5 trillion over 10 years is pocket change to these idiots.
@@ultimategoteaDANG A MIRACLE WAS BESTOWED UPON US THEN
'quick we need to do something!'
What a lot of new words these politicians are learning.
"We literally can't afford all of our spending, and are infinitely climbing into debt"
"We should lower spending"
:"NNNOOOOOO WWAAAHHHH WAHHHHH WAHHHH DUMB REPUBLICANS WE CANT DO THAT WE NEED TO SPEND MOOOOOOORE DONT YOU UNDERSTAND LOOOGIC?!?!?!??!"
Jesus christ democrats are unhinged....Cut spending. It's literally the only solution, sorry you hate basic logic.
It’s literally Republicans who were holding up spending and have been filibustering most bills
Bold of you to assume the politicians knew what the words meant
"what does that mean?"
"we're doing fraud"
"But what's in it for me?"
Every politician ever.
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They already spent the money for their needs and "forgot" about money needed for social security programs, veterans etc.
@@arthurbob3452 your gonna be shocked when you see this
They did not make the most of that time
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I read this in his voice 😂
They infact did fucking Nothing with that time
@zzzetsulive9478 but prepare themselfs with a way out when it falls
Notice they all go out to dinner together 💀
Yes having seen the video I noticed the ending of the video
Like in a courtroom , judges - prosecutors - defence attys , put on a big show , lawyers fighting , the judge acting above it all , impartial ( ? ) then later they're all together at the country club playing golf & wining & dining & having a great old time .
Why cut programs for the people rather than politician salaries, hmm?
because those programs are actively losing money, and they are essentially pointless. A person investing in the stock market will get a much higher return than social security, for example.
@@itsmenotjamesYa but we need to ruin the nations future credit to fund social security to bail out boomers and make Gen Z hold an even bigger bag.
But don't feel too sorry for Gen Z because they want the government to spend even more.
Basically everyone thinks maxing out your credit card to pay for stupid stuff is dumb. But everyone wants the government to do it
They don't make that much from their real salary and would littley make almost no difference in the monry saving it's like not buying a pack of gum one year while doing it once every other year once such big savings they make all their money from lobbyists
There is a serious problem when politicians make $120 million of a $120,000 salary
I know and the same when the ex Senior Advisor to the President received a $2 Billion Saudi Check for "future business" and him and his wife made a whopping $640 million at their time at the Whitehouse 🤔
insider trading
@@davidmonaghan26also his wife received patents from the Chinese
Many don't get rich off of the salary, however the information they have access to and investments, aka insider trading
They do 1000 years of work every year 😂😂😂😂😂
Cut all pay for politicians. Defund the politicians.
Lobbying would get worse
Wouldn't be enough. Gotta cut pay for all government workers
Defund the people that help our nation? I mean some of them actually do help our nation. Not all though
@@Arkansas112 They should be paid reasonably based on their contribution to society. So yes, defund them. They're very overpaid
@@Arkansas112 I'd say less than 10% actually do anything good. The rest are money hungry leaches dragging this country towards disaster. Left and right.
Quick! We need to help veterans, homeless, and struggling Americans by giving billions of dollars to Ukraine, Israel, and Mexico!
Well, because those bills got passed, the others didn't? Kind of how that works.
@@user-uv2bd7ee3qyeah but he’s critiquing those bills passing in the first place, and frankly me too
Or we could just cut the actual military budget, which is significantly more than any foreign aid we provide
Mexico is invading and we are still giving money to cartels love the government
Under-rated comment
Tf did I just watch. It was like Schoolhouse Rock grew up and woke up in a ditch after a bad acid trip.
You know it's messed up when politicians wage has increased 100x meanwhile average worker wage has increased by like $30,000 since the 90's.
if you adjust that to inflation what we earn now IS PAINFULLY LOW compared to PP back then...
Poltications don’t make much, they get it from corrupt deals, a doctor makes more.
Yep, it's all inflation, if the government got its grimey fingers off the print button, then most people would have increased wages and savings and not decreased.
@@clearviewmoai if they get off the print button, they're going to have to ask for more tax. And no one likes more tax.
Lol it’s hasn’t even increased at all. The median income has been 50k forever
"We will make use of this time" im predicting that this will age poorly
That line in particular was dripping with sarcasm
THAT WAS THE JOKE!! THE WHOLE 60 SECONDS WAS FOR THAT JOKE!
@@tripolarmdisorder7696 Unfortunately most people are so stupid they lack any amount of media literacy. The greatest example of this is probably the onion where people don’t realize satirical news is supposed to be reflective of real news as a parody.
It was a joke, so it'll age exactly how it was meant to.
It never happens.. they all wait until the final week before they take there month long vacation… and they not missing that so they are all willing to let us burn then take the time during the rest of the year
Federal spending also includes wasting money in other countries, pointless wars, bailing out massive companies, allowing illegal invaders to cross the border, and much more.
we would get more money by making the invaders legal to tax them
Agreed. And the one about the illegals shouldn’t even be a divisive political issue. Everyone should agree on protecting our own country. Also bailouts are so frustrating when those big companies don’t care about what normal people need but they get handed money just because they need it without earning it.
There prob gonna give themselves a raise despite doing none of the work lol
As a non-American, I am now convinced the treasury department of America is actually just one dude with a cape
Considering how this country runs? I wouldn't be surprised if you walked in there and that's at it was 😂
Thats american left and right wing do you belive
@@yunusaltnsoy2425 there’s left wing in America?
@@M_dMV yes democrats are the left wing
@@M_dMV no
"It's a bird!"
"It's a plane!"
"Close, it's a spy balloon!"
Lol
That's where I thought that was going
it's to late at night for me to laugh out loud 🤣
Is that guy wearing my underwear?!
Shoot it down!
This is the best delivery of usually mundane news. I think my ADHD has fallen in love with you...
Meanwhile, the Military Budget: 841 billion
"You saved the day, Treasury Department" said literally no one ever
Not in atleast a hundred years
Especially not Al Capone...
What's the treasury department, me hearties? Is that where is fellow pirates hide their plunders?
@@adamchristensen8566 Chicagoans when they see their tax forms (al Capone reference)
Except maybe Alexander Hamilton refering to his own administration
I think both Republicans and democrats can agree that we need to defund politicians. They are growing evermore selfish and uncaring for the American people.
Edit:Lmao this got a lot of attention
explain:
On the absolute contrary, they all should be on state funding only and donations should be illigal. You need to fund them, or the oil moguls and friends will happily buy them off you.
You're wrong. Their pay is just a minor portion of their compensation.
They've access to information that allows them to manipulate the stock market, they get money from donors and lobby groups.
Why do you think they spend more time raising money than doing actual work?
@@JohnSmith-um7iy this is why they should have a good salary and be banned from any other sources of income during the tenure.
@@yavvivvay but that good salary still needs to be capped at like 200% of the median income of their state (or 120%+ that of the cost of living in DC, if they are there more than not)
The face the Capital Building has at the very end gets me 😆
There's no way this is made by an actual newspaper LOL
Easy fix. Cut the politicians pay checks. They should have enough.
they dont care they are all already rich
Vasalysa, would you say low wages among police officers in other nations make them less corrupt. Or is earning a living wage means you have to be corrupt, increase the chance of corruption?
That you think politicians are corrupt anyway isnt the point.
Yeah. That's going to fix the deficit of billions of dollars.
That's going to cut like... a million? On billion of debts.
@@user-it2kq4ty9qexactly what the OP is saying
Oh no 2.3 trillion dollars went missing… is that a plane?
💀 FBI on the way
NO ITS THE 3RD PLANE ABOUT TO HIT THE PENTAGON
That missing trillions were on march 2002 and the pentagon found it after 3 days
That joke gets a 9/11 rating
That's funny asf but I'm curious if I'm missing something bc I hear thag quite a bit
Why is social security always out of money??? That forced retirement investment scheme is paid for by people before they retire. 🤷🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Is that a bird is that the treasury department no it’s a plane heading for New Yor-
All Senators and Representatives should earn the federal minimum wage. Maybe all of a sudden they’ll take a stand on worker’s rights.
All politicians actually
Well as a small business owner I’m fine with it as long as the government pays for the wages since my business cannot exist with 15 dollar minimum wage or we are running our business in mexico
@@paulryan2.052 if your business can only exist without paying your employees a livable wage, then that means you are failing at running a business. Livable wage meaning a wage able to cover the cost of living in the city you operate. The fact that you think your employees don’t deserve that… it’s inhuman and evil to value profit over people.
@@BobbyMaler-fy6wh The point is if people in office earned only minimum wage, they would have to experience what it’s like to not be able to afford rent or groceries in the city they live in. The fact that you think some people deserve to live in poverty just because you look down on their profession is very telling. A fast food corporation like McDonald’s makes billions of dollars and employ over 100,000 each year. It’s not acceptable that they aren’t paying a livable wage to the very workers that are on the ground every day in a hot kitchen, keeping the stores open.
@@retrogadget6183off topic, but I recognize your PFP from the Mario 64 ds game. The yoshi mini game to be exact.. sorry
“We’ll definitely use this time wisely”
Famous last words
House Republicans: “Now seems like a good time to investigate Hunter Biden.”
Definitely not enough kid sniffing by biden
I said that same thing when my teachers would give me an extension on a project that was worth 50% of my grade. It’s just as untrue now as it was then
Recess!!
Don’t worry the adults will be back in charge soon
Congress members procrastinate more than I do on break.
“Quick we need to do something”
More like “quick we need to kick the can further down the road preferably until after I retire.”
Maybe they should ask the Pentagon about the Trillion dollars they apparently lost.
Which time, the week before 9/11, or the other half dozen times since the passing of the PATRIOT Act?
@@LobotomyTC yes any and every single time
And they demand my tax money
@@Razor-gx2dqimagine being able to opt out of paying taxes outside of sale taxes if you didn't support where the money was being spent. Our budget would be a fraction of what it is now.
@@Aaroncarter95 it would, but I do think the FAIR tax is a good idea
No elected official should be allowed to participate in the stock market and neither should their family members until they are out of office. Period.
At this point nearly everyone is invested in the market, so that's impractical. Are you saying that if I were to be elected to a local office, then I need to immediately liquidate my 401k, IRA, kids' 529, etc? That seems rather extreme.
How far does "family" extend? Spouses, children, parents, siblings, in-laws, grandchildren, cousins, second cousins, fourth cousin twice removed?
We had a tradition of Presidents putting their assets into a blind trust until someone ruined it.
Good luck convincing Congress to follow a precedent the Republican frontrunner won't.
Have ever filled out the questionnaire most brokerages hand to you? It asks these very same questions.
@@sonicpsycho13
The problem is legislators can intentionally make laws to influence the values of certain stock they may or may not have. They conduct insider trading with classified information they have and never get in trouble for it.
Another major issue is the unlimited anonymous funding they get from major corporations and individuals. The rich bankroll people they want elected, and are successful far too often for America to be called anything other than an oligarchy.
Well now that is a bit unfair, only their direct relatives. Otherwise no one is allowed to participate
"Spend less!" "Nah, we'll spend more and jack up interest rates".
Tell the whole story where the money is going. 😂
If they stopped giving themselves raises in every bill, the national debt would probably shrink overnight
that is pocket change .... most of ther money comes from insider trading
@Lord Unhold I'm confused, when was it mentioned how much their official salary counts towards their overall wealth?
each member of congress/senate is paid a salary of about 200k/year according to the quick search I did. There are 50 people in one of them, & over 200 in the other. Assuming 250 total (which I think is low, but I don't know), that's 50 million a year solely towards their salaries.
@@tjfrye11that’s 0.125% of what they spent on Ukraine in the most recent Ukraine funding bill. Which is also only a small part of what the government spends in total per year. It is pocket change what we pay politicians compared to what we spend as a nation annually. Not saying they shouldn’t be payed less, you’re just wrong about how much they (legally) take up in our spending budget
@hudsonhaas2661 ok, so there's this thing called an exaggeration, right? Where you purposefully make something sound bigger than it is for some reason, be it comedy or whatever. Obviously, they don't make up anywhere near the majority of the national debt.
@hudsonhaas2661 yes, it's not much in terms of the national spending. However, it is a lot when you consider what it could be going to instead. Be it schools, roads, etc.
It's funny how even after they leave office, they still get great health care, protection and a salary
I can understand the protection cause who knows the shir they know
The last thing I desire is a former president kidnapped
After voting against it
Republicans vote against the best interests of the people but vote for the best interest of themselves.
They also get cushy jobs for themselves and their family members by the companies that bribe them to vote against those things for citizens
I mean I'll be honest that doesn't really add much to the 31 trillion.
Debt ceiling? Last I checked my ceiling doesn't rise a foot every year.... it's a debt hot air balloon...
US is in debt no matter what dont you realize how many millions even probably billions in debt for every single country
Ah yes, when paying off one credit card with another credit card is considered responsible.
If a singular person needed to take on more debt to pay their existing debt, they would be at risk of bankruptcy or criminality. Just because it’s the USA doesn’t make it OK
@@mrbojangles4155 You can move credit to another card with lower rates.
@@mrbojangles4155 tbf most of the usa's debt is internal, aka to american citizens, so its not nearly as catastrophic as advertised
Ahh yes the classic “the United States is like a home” no it’s not. The United States has currency sovereignty meaning as long as its debt is owned (mostly) by itself it will not and cannot default. This is all literally political theater.
America runs the world. Theres literally no one who could collect the debts. Superpowers dont run like a household budget.
Both parties have the hand down they pants
Uh the gop is trying to cut social security dems aren't that a huge difference. Fuck parties that's my grandpa and grandma's money that they worked for that the GOP is trying to steal
SSN was stolen by them
I think the sooner this idea get embraced by everyone the better, either side of the isle they arnt working for you, they are just virtue signaling BS whilst lining their pocketbooks, both sides of the isle.
this...
this comment made me die laughing
Always Sunny titlecard: "The Gang Doesn't Make the Most of That Time"
It means we are electing officials to run the government on our behalf, yet they can’t even balance a checkbook.
The officials you voted are not working with the officials they voted ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@dogehohoho Oh gosh....
@trueblue true, everyone is to worried about getting re elected and not about this nation. Not to mention just the lack of representation everyday citizens feel from the government lately.
@trueblue the Communist Party with forever governing until communism is achieved characteristics agrees 😜
It's not even that, though. The debt ceiling as a time bomb that Congress makes, they can blame the president for exploding that only they can fix.
Congress passes a budget and sets taxes. The president MUST, by law, adhere to the budget Congress sets and has only the tax revenue they bring in to spend that budget. If the taxes don't cover the expenses, then the president, being bound by law to adhere to the budget, must borrow money to cover the difference. Except that the president can't borrow above a certain arbitrary dollar amount without congress approving it. So the time to argue over this isn't when the president has to pay for things that are already bought, but it should be as the budget is being passed.
Every other sane country includes that if the budget exceed taxes, they have implied the approve borrowing needed to pay for the budget they passed. We're the only ones shooting ourselves in the foot like this. Not to mention, it's all just political theater. Neither party is going to allow their own stock investments to tank by crashing the world's economy (nor will their corporate overlords stand for it)
"It's a bird. It's a plane. No, it's Capitan Bankruptcy"
I wish theyd just rip the bandaid off. They are simultaneously trying to collapse the world economy while trying to distance themselves from the controlled demolition
The bad part is, it isnt the obvious big bad we need to watch out for. But the bad guy they will use to destroy the obvious big bad.
Create the problem then people will beg for the solution you want to have.
Superman reference?
@@sanandn.r7889 batman
@kubli but I heard it in super dog
Lol😂
Federal Government Building With a Face On It got me acting up
It’s a dog and pony show. They all know they’re just going to go in the back and turn on the money printer
Imagine if our government wasn't laundering money to line their own pockets and we, as American citizens, DID something to actually correct their behavior :3
:3 uwu
do something about it then.
We've been trying,why do you think gen z and millennials only work together when it's to overthrow the government?
Change will come. It might take some time to set up. But it will come. Which side will you stand with?
The guillotine is pretty good at getting a message across
:3
This was the most fed-approved video I’ve ever seen.
Dems good, republicans bad is this whole channel.
If he makes three of these he'll get a free trip to Epstein's Island
Boggles me that people all of a sudden accept this as unbiased news just because they put it into a "gen-z friendly" format when you can literally put two and two together and see that its the Washington post (Who is one of the poster boys for Mass Media manipulation and propoganda) lmao
@@reecethomas1863good
When I heard the democrats in this short calling for veteran funding I laughed
This happens so often that this video isalmost a year old and we're still having the same discussions
why not cut our ridiculous military budgets omg
I think we need to cycle out all of our representatives more frequently instead of them staying in office for decades.
Combine this with salary based on the median income, high penalties for bribery, insider trading and other bs like that and we have a common interest
I think it's also important to focus on the fact we're one of the only countries that has a legal bribery system that makes politicians overall on both sides of the political spectrum more focused on keeping the people who bribe them happy than care about the common peoples needs, like our stagnating infrastructure, or that most people are under so much economic hardship that most people under boomer age will never be able to afford to own a house, or be able to retire according to studies.
Even if you get rid of all the corrupt politicians, they're just going to be replaced by new corrupt politicians as long as he system is full of ways to abuse it, because those kinds of people are attracted to positions of power. What you're suggesting is like throwing out all the fruit cause of the bad apples, yet never washing out the moldy basket carrying the fruit before putting new fruit in it.
And a age limit, there's no reason to have all these old senile people in the government. 50 at the very most is pretty fair I think.
I like the thought of this but we do need SOME people thinking long term for this country and not just thinking about reelection
@@tilburg8683 pretty sure you're the one that's senile if you think 50 should be the limit.
If there were to be a limit it should at least be 60.
I would love to see the Federal government audited and everything they spend money on be laid out so the people can decide what gets cut.
Ironically, that's exactly how it works. The idea is you elect someone to represent you, so THEY look at what the spending is for, and make cuts you would agree with.
The issue is that the representatives we elect don't do jack shit for us, but people keep voting for them cause "Better than letting the other guy win" mentalities.
I have an idea. No more funding at all to parasite red states
Direct democracy would only work at the local level. Maybe state level for some
@@Total0Reverse also doesn’t help the education system is so fucked that it makes most people easy targets for grifters
The issue is that the people are stupid and don’t know the first thing about anything.
4 years later: we're still hammering out the details.
The best part is, all of those programs, nobody really knows where most of the money goes for them.
Maybe Washington was onto something when he said we shouldn't create parties
Oh hell yeah he was
He knew this shit was destined for people will vote by colour not policies
Damn it, Adam Jefferson and Hamilton you screwes us all
Maybe? Just maybe?
@@Oznerock he definitely had a point
@@noah4279 100% percent had a point when he said to not fall into a 2 party system
A party system works fine, but not when it's only two parties.
"We're in debt"
"Spend less"
"No, in fact I want to spend more"
Every country has debt.
@@michawhite7613 Yes… this video isn’t about every country’s debt however
The amount spent on social problems is miniscule compared to that spent on military, foreign aid, and everything else the government could cut that would have far less consequences than cutting social programs, which people depend on to stay alive
I don't know why they don't just cut military spending for a bit. They spend damn near a trillion dollars a year just on that
@@GatesOfAvalon1 cutting milatary spending would hurt our Nato allies because they can't pay for there own military.
I feel like we see some iteration of this skit every year lmfao
Who do they owe money to themselves 💀💀💀💀💀
Casually ignore that military spending is close to 1 trillion 💀💀💀
It would help if we didnt keep giving our shit to other countries, gotta love big brother
@@mussolini2525 and we pay are men in the military less the McDonalds
All of that to fight wars on behalf of Israel.
@@mussolini2525 what
@@mussolini2525 we already had all of this, giving it away when all it’s doing is collecting dust is better than just letting it be the massive money pit that it is
Politicians are supposed to be “public servants” make it that way again.
"Public Servants", I wish man, I wish
They still gave them a ton of money back then, too. Underpaying politicians makes them just as corrupt.
A public servant and and a politician? That's an oxymoron
@@SarumanOrthanc perhaps going to a smaller gov in relation to politicians where it has to be someone esteemed in the community to even be eligible to become a politician, a history of being trustworthy, etc etc. I’m not sure how one would implement that though well.
Supposed to be, yes. Will be, no. Get rid of it all.
“They do this every year!”
My tax money disappears every pay check
"I would pay you back, but i decided to increase my debt limit instead"
Fuckin spot on
Imagine telling that to credit card companies "yeah I'm about to hit my debt limit, but that's okay, I discussed it with my family and we decided to raise the limit, problem solved, and we'll pay you interest but we'll probably never get around to paying that debt off, thanks okay, bye!"
@@sirreepicheeprules7443 *Credit card company nods eagerly* because they're making bank off your interest payments.
I don't think you know what the debt actually is.
@@sirreepicheeprules7443 except and hear me out on this your family isnt the United States government backed by the power of the United States military
Who also happens to be the head of the biggest military alliance in history
Maybe we have a bit more leeway than your family in the banks
I love how the government is basically the teacher and the student in the sense that they have an overdue assignment but as the teacher, they just keep pushing the due date back forever hoping to never have to worry about the consequences of never doing the assignment.
The consequences should be to become unelectable
Oh sure, when the government does it, it's ok, but for everyone else, it's called cooking the books. 😂
Sometimes i get stressed over my student debt but then i look up how much Debt the US has and then go "oh yea even our nation is in debt"
Basically our own country uses our taxes like an irresponsible teen with a new credit card and they just keep calling the back to extend their max credit rather than pay it off.
Not just a teen with credit cards, a teen with credit cards, and a monopoly on violence to force the parents to shut up and foot the bill.
You really don't understand economics
It's not just the usage but also the ridiculous tax cuts for everyone rich
@@thewhitefalcon8539 Yawn.....
Not really. The teen would also have to own the credit company And be able to print the currency that their purchases and their credit are based in.
If they would not pay any money to members of Congress and their staff unless they passed a balanced budget by june 30 every year, the Congress would magically do that.
This would have literally no impact on the United States debt. Please learn what country debt even is. It is NOT the same as your personal debt.
@@Andrew-hx9tz the effect would be to not increase the debt every year. You need to educate yourself before you criticize others.
@@joelstiffler5137 We want to raise the debt. This is a good thing. More debt means more investment means more revenue potential means more investment in the people of the country. The debt ceiling is simply a credit limit. It is not personal debt. Learn literally anything about international economics before you act like a shithead.
Won't work most of them after corrupt and earn more money from kickbacks and lobbyists. Even old Joe said it was true. He has made a fortune from it. He is a multimillionaire and Benet owned a business or had a job.
@@Andrew-hx9tz yeah you dumb dumb trump 2024
We ain't even gonna get social security and we probably gonna be broke af in 50 years
I love these shorts! They are so clever and informative! They also don't hesitate to roast EVERYBODY! 😂😂😂
No other country works like this.
The debt ceiling was created to help the various government departments not have to worry about money that was already allocated by congress.
I understand that something needs to change but it’s hard to compare the US to most other countries. The sheer size and resources needed to maintain the country’s is huge compared to pretty much anyone else except for china and Russia. And most 1st world countries have similar amounts of resources. So copying Norway or Finland or any other country wouldn’t work without us going completely broke. The fact that we’re so big, and high on the freedom index is a major achievement. To be able to copy anybody it would need to be china or Russia, which would lower our freedom severely. And will definitely cause an uproar or maybe even a coup, depending on how bad it is.
@@fgffffugugi8223youre not that high in the freedom index at all. Id say its on the lower mid-table of a western country. 83 points out of 100
@@PokeFan28 and just as the guy was saying, American can't be compared to other countries because of its size and population. Any other country that is "more free" is much smaller and doesn't have a need for laws or mandates restricting freedom.
@@brokengamer9675
"you can't be free if country too big" is one of the dumbest fucking things I have ever read in my life holy shit are you even a real person? i can't believe an actual person would say something so fucking stupid lmao
"and doesnt have a need for laws or mandates restricting freedom" objectively untrue. in germany the things that fall under "free speech" are WAY more regulated and restricted then in the US. Our gun laws are WAY more strict then the US's etc etc etc@@brokengamer9675
1) Cut elected expenses budgets. Most elected officials get 100k+ furniture budgets each year, plus travel and food. It's insane.
2) Might not be able to stop government officials investing but there should be a HUGE tax on anything they make to discourage it and make them focus on their jobs.
Elected government officials like congressmen depicted in this video get paid 175000 a year and acually do have a limit on outside money
1) elected officials getting paid high is often recommended to prevent them being more susceptible to corruption. I know I know, "politicians are already corrupt". But consider the context, 100k+ is insane money if you're living in Montana, but Washington D.C is one of the most expensive places to live in the US. Fucking Chuck Schumer (the majority leader of Senate) shared rooms with others to live in DC for his first 30 years of his service as Congressman from 1981 (81-99, House of Rep, Senate from 99).
If you want even the option of an elected official living a decent life on pay alone, high pay is necessary. Otherwise, they wouldn't be able to survive without bribes.
It's almost like government officials are citizens who have the right to invest their money in a way they see fit
@@istillcantthinkofaname7993 yeah thats an issue though. These ones should be giving up that right when they take that position.
@@istillcantthinkofaname7993 So you see no possible issue where government officials who have backdoor information being allowed to make investments?
There isnt a penny in circulation that hasn't been taxed into oblivion. I don't understand how it is possible to spend so much money.
The loop is perfectly accurate
If you think the things he listed is where the federal budget is going, I've got a bridge to sell you lol
😂 tell me you haven't seen the budget without telling me that you haven't seen the budget.
@@waroftheworlds2008 giving millions in checks every year that dont get cashed by other countries....i swear thats just a way for them to hide money away
like, we literally give millions to brazil for abortions every year. they never cash the check. but we keep sending it.
so its like, we have millions in a piggie bank we keep breaking and refilling every year......................
@@waroftheworlds2008 look up how much more we spend for our military than the next country. It’s our biggest drain and it’s not close. When I was still in we would plan training exercises near the border in Korea just for the combat pay, then get their at the 1 day before a pay period so we could claim the whole pay period . Just things like that. We would spend our battalion budget every so they could ask for more money.
@@adamwehri www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/budget_fy22.pdf
754 billion on defense and 1.4 trillion on social programs.
@@adamwehri more than the next 10? 12? Countries?.
I like how just raising the maximum amount debt they allow themselves is considered a valid response to having no money.
What else would they do? Unless you either want all of your benefits cut (in the country which already offers the fewest benefits in the developed world) or your taxes through the roof, theres not really a good option.
@@personeater747 or y'know... Stop spending 800 billion dollars on military?
@@personeater747cut themilitary budget and beef up social services
@@derpyslurp8779sadly, the big military we have is the only reason why other countries don’t attack us :/
Meanwhile our economy is “slowly” crashing and burning
@@derpyslurp8779 Are you retarded? What's to stop other countries from attacking us or our shipping lanes?
How about we cut down our multi billion dollar defense budget rather than punishing poor people? Wow, what a concept.
Not going to lie when they said it’s a bird it’s a plane I was expecting the F-35 that went missing last year.
If our government was Steve from blue's clues.
"I didn't manage the budget and now I have to pay for important things"
Its like that one family member that spends all their money on designer clothes, tattoos and piercings, then cries about how no one helps them with their rent or utilities.
@@Mess7739 seriously they need to put into legislation that essential programs get funding first. Anything "extra" can you put to less essential but still useful stuff.
The Treasury Dept is buying time for the govt to take their summer vacations. Remember when that 2nd stimulus took forever to get approved because everyone kept disappearing on vacations all summer 🏝️
And returning with huge Omni-bills.
The social welfare is the problem, not the millions to Ukraine and Israel, nor most expensive army in the world
It seems buying time is all any politicians really do
the audacity of people claiming they care about vets then cutting funding for vet care is disgusting
When did that happen?
@@jonnybaze7449 Just earlier this year a couple months ago for example when House Speaker McCarthy for example decided to push for a 22% decrease in the budget for veterans disablity benefits and pensions.
@@cds894 can you show me? Are you referring to cutting disability payments for those making 170k a year?
How about stop giving away millions to other countries like all of are military weapons and ammunition that might help pay for the veterans
The audacity of these people wanting to keep the 2022 budget that includes billions in covid provisions, now after the pandemic is over. Or how about the billions we send over seas for gender and diversity?
Imagine if we hadn’t spent 20 years fighting an unwinnable war on behalf of countries that hate us…
Imagine if we weren't currently sending millions in aid to a country and continent that's done nothing but talk shit until they want something for the past 100ish years.
@@ConfusedGuardsman you mean Ukraine? If they lose this war, it is most definitely WW3 next. Also this will mean Russia has more land next to nato countries, so nuclear war X2. So I do believe this benefits the US.
@@Error_code_1001 it does, and I know it. It just pisses me off that everybody wants to talk shit and then come running to us for help.
@@ConfusedGuardsman Unfortunately, that's where the US is in the grand scheme of things. We have the biggest military, so when someone is a threat to other guys, we HAVE to sit at the table. Our military is our biggest diplomatic asset. If we stopped responding when people asked for help, we'd lose superpower status in an instant. Countries will negotiate with China instead. It's a tragic state of affairs because they know we have to respond if issues arise or we lose everything.
I'm just pissed we gave $500 million to Ukraine, when Ohio is basically Chernobyl right now. I country that doesn't help it's own citizens has no future
Checking back in for April, that 2 million actually was a military plane after all...
“it’s a bird, it’s a plane, or an unmanned F-35!”
Remember, the debt limit is only an issue when the other party is in power
That only applies to the gop. The dems don't play "debt limit chicken" when the gop is in power
Yes they do. Shuuuut uupppp ya swamp rat.
Yeah, I don't remember democrats trying to default the country when republicans have majority.
There is always a my team is best fan boy under these purposefully generic comments. Dems and Reps are all missing the point. But just wait and watch the loud fanboys come out in droves to help none and cause all the damage.
Its called financial responsibility. Stop spending money we dont have
Congress: Cut your spending. You reach the debt Ceiling.
Also Congress: Go spent more money. Don't care if this increase our debt. You have to do this by the laws that we created.
The funny thing is that US government debt doesn't really matter with how the world is structured, but what does matter is the political headache that is raising the ceiling even if that's purely an accounting quirk.
All I'm saying is print the coin.
@@123mickymouse123I mean we've been racking up trillions of dollars in "debt" but who exactly is coming to collect?
They really should find was to spend though. I forget the number but its ridiculous how much they spend on maintaining empty buildings.
Like why don't they just sell them.
@@xiphos8219Realistically, no one, it is in the best interest of the lender to never collect the debt/bonds the USA and instead just collect the interest which the USA sets and chooses to pay.
Threw in federal workers salaries and thought we wouldn’t notice
And how much of that money is embezzled or fueled into the personal affairs of politicians?
Term limits for politicians. One term in office, followed by one term in prison.
Most of them are inadvertently aiming for that goal.
😅🤣😂
Nah
Why would you say that?
What have the convicts in prison done to deserve that cruel and unusual punishment!
@@justenwood368oh that is only cruel and unusual punishment for the politicians. The inmates would relish the chance to get their hands on them.
Maybe we wouldnt be in debt if we didnt pay 535 people $200,000 per year, and that is only congress
The argument is that they NEED that money since they HAVE to have two houses - one in their home state and one in/near DC. Which, of course, is the law. But I say that we give them a barracks near the Capitol building. It doesn't need to be a 5-star hotel or anything.
@@silbyrnwith black mold just like the military has it
A person is paid $373.83 per year?
Congressional salaries are less than insignificant
@@deoxi3207 535 people each get 200k
It’s pretty concerning our livelihood with debt is affected by a argument
As someone who doesnt understand stuff like this, you made it easier
Senators and politicians should make the average salary in the US. They should know what they’re constituents are going through.
Last time I checked, they make 100-110K as an official salary, off the top of my head. If this was all they made, you could almost argue they deserve more, since doing the job honestly sounds complicated, frustrating and exhausting.
Business dealings and lobbying, though...
By "they" I meant congressmen specifically. I'm sure there's some variance between offices.
@@PotatotheTroll yet the average net worth of a senator is like 15 million. 🧐🧐🧐
@@Homer890 who pays them that money if it's way more than their salary...
Why any salary? $0 pay, medical benefits and quick term limits.