The military budget is sacrosanct, perhaps because Musk stands to make a lot of money from military spending. From Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com:
The high was nice while it lasted. But False Hopium is an ephemeral drug.
In the first few weeks, we were maddened – but also gladdened – by the disclosures regarding how our money (which is forcibly extracted from us) was “wasted” on various execrable things by USAID and the subsequent closing of USAID. How grand! But the high caused us to forget about our money – which of course has never been given back. What does it matter to a man who has been mugged how the mugger spends the money he’s stolen?
This is the DOGE dodge – and it worked, for awhile. People – especially people who wear the Red Hat – were cheered by the thought that Elon Musk, that arch rent-seeker and endorser of carbon taxes – was making the mugger (government) more “efficient.” This being of a piece with “repeal and replace” Obamacare. Not less government – or lower taxes. Just more efficient government. Including a more efficient (AI driven) system of income extraction. Instead of some wiggle room to “get away” with paying something less than “your fair share,” a more efficient system that knows exactly how much you earned so as to assure you are forced to pay precisely what the government says you “owe.”
Is it not astounding? The inheritors of 1776 now generally accept that they owe a large portion of what they worked to earn to the state. And do not object, provided their money is spent efficiently. How long before they stop objecting to penetrative rape, provided the rapist is skilled and makes sure the victim orgasms?
Back to DOGE. It is interesting to note that none of its attentions were focused on the most wasteful and extravagant expenditures of our money – on what is ludicrously styled “defense” spending. This country not having had to defend itself since December the 7th, 1941.
Interestingly, that was around the time the War Department became the Defense Department and – since that time – has gobbled up about 15 percent of the money we’re forced to pay to the mugger (government). This goes to pay for such things as several aircraft carrier battle groups and an estimated arsenal of 10,000 nuclear weapons – which are as needed for “defense” as traffic cops need full Fallujah kit to hand out speeding tickets.
Eisenhower warned us about the MIC and someone should ask Elon about the DOGE dividend checks.
The MIC is out to get paid not win one for the Gipper.
They don’t care because their bunkers are SARMAT rated while we get an old elementary school desk in the courthouse basement.
They have world class civil defense bunkers in Russia for the little people.