A list of productive spending cuts Congress could pass in a 2025 budget reconciliation bill

- Public sector wages are on average 17% higher than private-sector equivalents while benefits are 47% higher than those of private-sector workers.
Converging private and public sector retirement benefits could save upwards of $230 billion over ten years.

- Rolling back food stamp increases

- Tighten work requirements for SNAP recipients

- End categorical eligibility (meaning one wouldn’t automatically receive SNAP benefits because one receives certain other social benefits)

- Restrict SNAP food subsidies to non-junk food options

- Restrict welfare for immigrants

- End student loan forgiveness & cap federal student loans

- Introduce block grant Medicaid & stop Medicaid financing gimmicks by State governments

- Remove ACA repayment limits after an overpayment of health subsidies occurred

- Fully privatize Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac

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whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

Mothball most of the US carrier fleet and release all the ships personnel, keeping the air wings for redployment to stateside land bases for defence duties..😷

CedricH · M

@whowasthatmaskedman In fact, the carrier fleet has to be enlarged.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@CedricH And there you have it..America needs more of the weapon that allows it to projrct firepower around the globe that is really only useful to act against smaller, less powerful "enemies" Usually for economic advantage. Carriers for defence are dinosaurs, just like the battleships before them..😷

CedricH · M

@whowasthatmaskedman If they were irrelevant in a great power contingency, I wonder why the PLA is expanding their own stock. 😂

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@CedricH Because the south China sea is thier back yard. I might point out that one smallish nuclear missile or bomb will made a hole in the water where a carrier group and 25,000 men used to be.. As a weapon against an advanced opponebt they are just a juicy target too politically expense to risk..😷

CedricH · M

@whowasthatmaskedman Using a nuclear missile against them in a conventional war would be an escalation that the Chinese are unlikely prepared to countenance, besides, the South China Sea isn’t their backyard it is, however, a critical area where force projection is essential to contain and rollback China‘s aggressive and illegal conduct.

New technologies and especially accompanying nuclear submarines provide a considerable layer of security to ensure the endurance of the super carriers.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@CedricH I know the Submarine story. America is trying to sell us on the idea we should "defend" it for you with the AUKUS deal. You really should do your homework..Countering the presence of a US carrier group on an area like the South China sea is going to break the US budget in a way that wont dent the Chinese. WW3 is an economic war and America has lost, because it still believes in fighting small brush wars to force economic deals. China has the long game in mind..😷

CedricH · M

@whowasthatmaskedman Right.😂

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@CedricH Your highly developed and well thought out response leaves me unconvinced...😷

CedricH · M

@whowasthatmaskedman That‘s alright, I‘m not trying to convince you, it‘s more than enough that members of Congress, the DoD and WH are convinced.

CedricH · M

@whowasthatmaskedman

I know the Submarine story. America is trying to sell us on the idea we should "defend" it for you with the AUKUS deal.

What do you mean „defend it“?

Countering the presence of a US carrier group on an area like the South China sea is going to break the US budget

Your arguments are completely incoherent. Why would the US be interested in countering its own carrier group presence?

WW3 is an economic war and America has lost, because it still believes in fighting small brush wars to force economic deals. China has the long game in mind

No direct US military intervention in the last century has been undertaken with the intention to force economic deals and B. Past US interventions have kept the US military on edge and increased operational effectiveness, readiness and preparedness. The last actual experience the PLA made during a hot war dates back to the late 1970s. Their military is hopelessly depended on theoretical simulations.

Lastly, the US economic might is unrivalled and China‘s economic foundations are already crumbling.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@CedricH OK. Having established your incompetence on the subject, I withdraw, with sincere regret on having tried to inform you. You clearly havent the slightest grasp of reality here.😷

CedricH · M

@whowasthatmaskedman I suppose it is my turn now to point out that I‘ve rarely read a weaker response than the one you just presented. But I wasn’t expecting much from someone who clearly lacks any strategic or historic insights whatsoever.