Notices by The Felon Pope :popephil: (phil@freeatlantis.com), page 2

@ILoveAmericaNews the title, "expert' is hilarious and a great troll of the left.

@p @dcc @dsm @interfluidity when they do, I hope they pat them all down.

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I would have to se extroidinary evidence of this extroidinary claim to believe it.

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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.

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If it weren't for corruption in government, no such blocks would be possible.

Universal health care all comes with problems. All healthcare has to be rationed in one way or another, its an unavoidable reality.

plus a disproportionate percentage of innovation in healthcare comes from the US and there is a cost to that and government makes that cost higher.

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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.

@p @j @interfluidity I'm sure they have to be careful, the government probably taxes their farts.

@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 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

@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 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
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
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.

@mk @icare4america it should never have happened. It was probably about money.

@mk @icare4america the US should have pulled out of NATO in 1994 when its reason for being ceased to exist.

@Hoss @caekislove Well they don't want to have to pay minimum wage to get their toilets cleaned either.