@PositivFuturist The federal government burns through Elon's entire net worth every 50 DAYS.
So, why hasn't the federal government "solved homelessness" yet?
Oh, yeah. I forgot. It's always that they just need a little MORE money.
The federal government burns through Elon's entire net worth every 50 DAYS.
Why hasn't the federal government done all that yet?
Could it be that politicians who only TAKE money from people and aren't accountable for profits and debt, maybe, spend it all away with lots of fraud, waste, and abuse?
I fail to see how STEALING from a successful businessman what amounts to pennies on the dollar of what the government already thieves and spends will solve the problems it isn't already NOT solving at the moment.
@drmegroekle@elonmusk The federal government burns through Elon's entire net worth every 50 DAYS!
It spends the entire market cap of the top two to three publicly traded companies IN ONE YEAR.
Now, tell me again how Elon Musk is the reason people are poor.
The federal government already blows through $1 TRILLION every 50 STINKING DAYS.
What do we have to show for it with poverty? I don’t think another $30 billion each year will make difference.
The federal government desperately needs to get on a revenue and overspending diet.
Tax. The. Government.
By letting people who earn money and actually live within the means to keep more of it.
The federal government spends Elon's entire net worth every 50 stinking days!
Bernie the millionaire is the one who "wants it ALL." He wants himself and his ilk to grab what others earn and pilfer it in the name of "fighting oligarchy."
Imagine how many people he could have helped with the tens of thousands he spent on high-class trips and "Fight the Oligarchy" events that have helped NO ONE but politicians and organizers.
Bernie, YOU are the Oligarchy.
I'm outraged the people are outraged about this but not about the fact that the federal government spends Musk's entire net worth every 50 days.
Why don't people expect the federal government to solve poverty with what it already takes without earning it? There's no way the federal government can cut some fraud, waste, and abuse somewhere in its $7-8 trillion budget to muster up a trillion dollars to do the magic people think thieving away from Musk would do?
@clintoptions And, like people who win the lottery, the vast majority of those people would spend themselves into bankruptcy buying vanities that don't grow that wealth.
@RobertMSterling Elon's wealth isn't cash. It's stock in the profitability of his companies.
He never "took money" from you, unless he forced you to buy a Tesla.
Seriously. Rethink your envious childishness.
Elon Musk does far more to improve society per $1 than grubby-mitt politicians.
The federal government already burns through the equivalent of Elon's net worth every 50 stinking days!
What does the federal government have to show for this? Waste, fraud, and abuse.
Coercively redistributing wealth will never EVER solve poverty.
You do realize that the federal government already spends $1 trillion in cash every 50 DAYS. In less than 2 months the federal government burns through Musk's entire net worth.
Yet, we still haven't solved poverty and homelessness.
What makes anyone think taxing 5% of the net worth of Tesla and SpaceX would make much of a difference?
Us "replacing God" is not the issue.
The idea of God not being the only true God ontological is the issue.
The idea of God in any conceivable way in the past being a mortal man who could have sinned and achieved exaltation is the issue.
The idea that we can become like God in the sense of us organizing our own planet, having spirit children who go through mortal probation, and worship us as God the way we worship God is the issue.
Theology and ontology IS the issue no matter how much you co-opt the language of Christians.
Yahweh has always been and always will be the only true ontological God.
We are his creatures and, even as resurrected, glorified, and joint heirs with Christ to reign forever with Him, will never be ontologically and categorically that which God is. Period. End of story. Full stop. Mic drop.
So, why would a Jesus who started off as a spirit child of Elohim named "Jehovah," achieved eternal progression in this premortal existence, then took on a human body via Elohim impregnating his own spirit daughter in her mortal probation, be "the Jesus Christ revealed in the Bible"?
@grok@StefTig1969@BasedMikeLee@johnddavidson And what about the difference in the doctrines of the fall of man (that it was necessary for progression) and of the virgin birth of Christ (given that Heavenly Father conceived Jesus via his own spirit daighter)?
LDS missionaries tell me (and I've talked with them quite a few times) that one of the great things about the LDS church is living prophets.
What's the point of living prophets if they can pontificate doctrine all they want but their speeches and writings aren't "doctrine of the Church"?
@BasedMikeLee, you're one of my favorite Senators, but you need to understand where we're coming from.
The problem is not with the words you said, but the theological dictionary behind them.
What the LDS church means by "God" and "Son of God" are very different.
These are foundational beliefs that affect how we understand soteriology, which is also foundational.
Who's saying that Bass is "rigging" the election?
The establishment who want "Blue no matter who" want to make sure the two candidates are Dems who won't upset the Nero administration.
Bass might want to keep her job, but the Nero administration just want to make sure no one can challenge their grip on power.
We all acknowledge that.
The question is why the strange ballot drops that favor Raman and conveniently keep Pratt out of the runoff?
Even if Pratt were to lose the general, he would have had five months to wreak havoc on Bass' PR and hope for a fighting chance.
But California's Nero administration seemingly can't let that happen.