Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Can Elon Musk Cut Two Trillion Dollars From the US Budget?" video.

  1. ​ @marshalLannes1769 Continued growth and controlled inflation, which reduces all our previous debt loads the longer we sit on it. Macroeconomics don't have the same interests and vulnerabilities as households on the micro level, like how deflation would short-term benefit consumers but on the larger scale is a doom loop that will ultimately devastate us all.
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  2. ​ @MrRedsjack The risk is if they assert being other than American (i.e. entry on another passport) when they're in trouble, the US has no obligation to support them. So no evacuation offers or jail visits when their trip goes tits up.
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  3. I'd bet think tank. They're the scapegoats when an "analysis" (always conveniently aligned with those of their sponsor) doesn't go as planned. Elon is just getting set up to be a mulligan for the bad ideas of Trump and his MAGA Republicans.
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  4. Capitalism in general favors and rewards sociopaths. That's why without the constraints of regulation, the free market M&A's itself into monopoly and charges through the nose the rest of us for the privilege of access to their economy.
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  5. I'd bet the DOGE just turns out to be no better than a sponsor-validating "think tank" that's just directly funded by taxpayers. Elon is just being set up as a scapegoat when one of those DOGE ideas crashes well short of the moon.
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