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🧵 1. The massive fraud schemes in Minnesota—billions in stolen federal funds from child nutrition, autism services, housing stabilization & childcare programs—aren’t just a failure of oversight
These areas (welfare, education aid, health services) lie far outside Congress’s enumerated powers under the Constitution
And they likely represent just the tip of a much larger iceberg—with other schemes going on in many other states
Politicians are vigorously arguing over who’s responsible for the lack of affordability for most goods and services with prices skyrocketing.
President Trump says “The word affordability is a Democrat scam.” Without turning this into a “team” sport, it’s more accurate to say that both “teams” are guilty for the sharp increase in prices, the unpayable debts, and lower standard of living for Americans.
Republicans and Democrats spend money (that they don’t have) with reckless abandon, and it’s the American people who suffer the most. It’s not wages or profits that are the cause; but the loss of purchasing power for the dollar. That is the problem that politicians and special interests will always avoid mentioning.
It’s the unconstitutional and immoral Federal Reserve System that makes government’s outrageous spending possible. The ability to counterfeit dollars should never be permitted to exist. But it does, and it’s at the very root of the affordability problem.
In order to fix our problems (endless wars, corporate welfarism, “foreign aid,” and affordability)politicians would be required to cut back spending in all areas.
But as we can see, with Big Beautiful Bills, politicians don’t want to cut back on spending; in the same way that they always resist giving up power once it’s granted to them.
We have a choice. Cut back voluntarily under our own will … Or be forced to cut back in a severe financial crises, that not even The Fed will be able to save us from.
Empires throughout history tend to always go out in financial ruin.
I’m afraid The American Empire may end up doing the same.
Impressive. This is an estimated 5% of his total wealth. Imagine if every other billionaire put just 5% of their capital into accounts like this for the next generation. Total game changer.
Recessions be beneficial!
What happened? For the longest time, @TheEconomist seems to only promote terrible Keynesian economics. How beautiful to see them quoting Austrians!
https://t.co/zywadf86Yy via @YouTube
Agreed. Is the root cause of this not our fiat reserve currency. Therefore, shouldn’t the federal reserve be item number one on your list?
Honest Money ties the hands of a mischievous government and enables individuals with less capital to build capital and get ahead. That is the American dream, and we can thank the Fed’s debasement of our currency (coupled with government education promoting socialism/collectivism) for diminishing this core component of what has historically made America a light on a hill.
And, I might add, government crowding out charity/religion and diminishing the moral character development that only the exercising of individual free will can build … has, and continues to a road our moral fabric. That has to be top of the list, from my perspective.
Can’t discount Samuel Adams’ insight:
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Which LDS members stated they believe the same as all other Christ followers? 🤔
Seems the issue is primarily Trinitarian Christians believing they have the right to deny members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (restorationist Christians) the ability to consider themselves Christians.
I’m curious why Trinitarians would presume to have that right.
@AryMarie7@morganisawizard@r_tahj True—it’s a key tenet of *Trinitarian* Christianity, which is a subset of Christianity (which intuitively includes anyone who considers themselves a disciple or follower of Jesus Christ). Similar to Keynesians, Marxists, Rothbardians, etc.
If leaders of non-communist countries throughout the world were as principled as Milei, communism would wither and die.
Argentina’s Milei: I will not promote political relations with communist... https://t.co/iBF5I2dnTj via @YouTube
@denalijeff@adalluch Capitalism in healthcare?!? 😂
I don’t believe we’ve experienced free market capitalism in healthcare since maybe the early 1900s. It’s about as crony and as regulated as any industry. Don’t conflate crony capitalism with capitalism.
Grok’s succinct reply:
If the average American’s Social Security contributions (6.2% of wages) from 1980–2025 were invested in the S&P 500, they’d have ~$2.3–2.5M today with an 11.5% annualized return (8.5% real). Including employer’s 12.4%, ~$4.6–5M. Assumes no withdrawals, market risk applies.
@grok if I’m the average American and my social security payments had been invested in the S&P over the last 45 years instead of used to pay benefits to a previous generation and taken by the government to be used for other initiatives besides social security, what would the annualized return have been and what would it be worth today?
@fedesimio@BenRodrigue@evernote This is what I need, plus more (but will be all the better once integrated, of course). Thank you!
Getting the audio recording format to be the same between web and mobile will be another beautiful fix, which is presumably on the horizon. Thanks again!