There they go again–wasting our money that we worked for.
[Thanks to Susan for the nooze tip.]
I wonder if I could’ve gotten a car loan when I was ten years old. I can’t see my parents consenting to that. But that was then, and now is now–
The Golden Age of Government Tossing Public Money Around Like It Was Confetti.
The Dept. of Government Efficiency has reported $312 million in loans handed out to recipients 11 years old or younger (“children,” in plain English)–“thousands of loans,” says DOGE–almost 5,600 of them doled out in 2020-21 during the height of the COVID scare (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/10/doge-says-children-aged-11-and-under-were-granted-312m-in-loans-during-coronavirus-pandemic/).
How is some kid supposed to repay such a loan? With proceeds from his paper route? A lemonade stand?
Meanwhile, the Social Security Administration has also been approving loans–supposedly–to persons well over 100 years old… who may or may not exist.
How did their records get so screwed up? They couldn’t have done it on purpose, could they? Just askin’.