Subj : Re: Tariffs have purpose
To   : GREGORY DEYSS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Fri Feb 21 2025 10:43:00

>  MP> DOGE has found some low-hanging fruit (USAID) but they've also announced
>  MP> other "fraud" that involves their misunderstanding of system default
>  MP> dates and would indeed be "nothing to see here" if it were not so
>  MP> worrisome.
> Low hanging fruit?  - I think its more than that.
> Several initiatives - many of them were outside the the United States.

It was indeed low hanging fruit, an easy target and an easy win.

> It is also concerning that there are Millions of people on the Social
ecurity
> rolls that are past 130 years old and older.
> One of them is older than the United States itself.

I will wait to see how many of these people were actually getting paid.  I
won't hold my breath, though, and suggest you don't either.  Some might be
data issues, but a whole lot of it is going to turn out to be default dates
that the system was likely built to interpret as a NULL value.

If the system was using IBM DB2, Elon would have announced a bunch of 124
year olds because, in DB2, a "null" date is represented as 19010101.
Programs that find that know not to treat 19010101 as a valid date.  Other
systems use a date in 1875, hence his "a bunch of 150 year olds"
announcement.

>  MP> Just because it is "approved spending" doesn't mean it is not wasteful.
>  MP> The Republicans have also approved many things that are a waste, too, I
>  MP> am sure.  Hint - DOGE is also suggesting cuts to Defense spending, which
>  MP> is typically not something Democrats race to spend money on.

> well, when we see The final List that DOGE has on the who's who -
> that could show who sponsored the spending, as in what party they belong to.

> For the moment it is mere speculation based on who are these people are.
> It is my opinion it is the Democrats that need victims.
> Republicans - not so much.

Again, the defense spending that is on the block is not likely a Democrat
initiative, and has nothing to do with "victims."

>  MP> > The last election makes what liberals want irrelevant. Completely!
>  MP> Not really.  A lot of people voted for Trump because they were tired of
>  MP> seeing their grocery bills go up and were tired of being unheared.  So
>  MP> far, they've not received *any* relief at the grocery store.  Others
>  MP> voted for him as the lesser of two evils... it was either him or someone
>  MP> who was completely incompetent as VP.

> I just remember the Biden Administration telling us that issues from
> Rising Costs at the Supermarket  Illegal Immigration  Inflation
> Other Problems
> That these issues were all resolved. They said "Things were better now."
> They were not.

True.  Explain how renaming the Gulf of Mexico, pestering Canada about
becoming a state, examining what it would take to take over Gaza, or
pesting Denmark about Greenland will fix *ANY* of the issues you mentioned?

> We all eat Mike. People in Blue States as well as Red States.
> We all have stomachs. Help is coming.
> Trump has only been in office for about 30 days.

And yet he has wasted those 30 days having the Gulf of Mexico renamed, and
having a bunch of kids running around "accidentally" firing people.  How
has he had time for that, and golfing, instead of getting to the economy?

Although gas has gone down (and started to *before* the election), the
price of groceries here is still going up, and at a higher rate than it was
right before the election.

> In 30 days Trump has done more positive things then Biden has done in his
> entire Presidency / I would even wage to say that Trump has done more in 30
> days than Biden has done in his entire 50 year political career.

Aside from stopping some of the USAID programs, and shipping out some
undocumented aliens, a lot of it is really stupid stuff that didn't need doing.

>  MP> Only the most partisan of Trump voters were looking for someone to
stick
>  MP> it to the liberals/left/Democrats."  The rest just didn't want 4 more
>  MP> years of what we already had.

> Do I need to play this tune for the next four years, like a democrat pulls
ut
> the same set chapters from their playbook. Every Four Years.
> No. But then again Our Victory Lap - has only just begun.

As I said, most voters were not looking for that.  They want their cost of
living to go down.


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