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Loans for Tots!

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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’.

$65 Billion DOGE Wouldn’t Let Them Waste

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Blizzard of Money

I wish it was ONLY a novel!

Next time you come home tired and frustrated by your job–but you’ve got to keep working, or the roof falls in–DO NOT contemplate the $65 billion of American taxpayers’ money pissed away, by our government, literally all over the world. You’ll never get to sleep.

And that’s just the $65 billion that our new Dept. of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has turned up so far (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/26/doge-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars-were-poised-to-drive-social-and-behavior-change-in-uganda-developing-socially-responsible-behaviors-in-colombia/).

Here are a few gems from the collection.

*Millions for “social and behavior changes”… in Uganda! Betcha never guessed you were working for that.

*Millions for fostering “socially responsible behavior” in Columbia.

Sugar daddy to the world, that’s us! Like, they have no adults in countries like Uganda? No one in Colombia knows  how to behave?

*How about $520 million for ESG investments in Africa? Does that float your boat? In case you didn’t know, ESG stands for environmental , social, and corporate governance by people who think most of you got stuck at five years old and aren’t to be trusted with your own money. That you worked for. And these stunatas in government never even said “Thank you.”

Who the dickens do these people think they are? “Shut up! We’re busy solving all Uganda’s problems!” 

Go, DOGE, go! Cut ’em off at the hips!

MORE Government Waste!

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Did you think I was kidding with that last post (“Embarrassed for My Country”)? I only wish I was!

Now the Dept. of Government Efficiency, spearheaded by zillionaire Elon Musk, has discovered a scheme to spend $21 million for “Voter Turnout in India” and another $29 million for “Strengthening the Political Landscape in Bangla Desh” (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/elon-musks-doge-team-uncovers-21-million-taxpayer/). Along with plenty of other goodies . Hey. people–Uncle Sam wants to fund your governments!

Indian politicians are a bit cheesed off at what they see as a foreign plot to manipulate public policy in India.

Back up a little and click the link. You will be amazed (!) by the list of frivolous, costly projects aimed at other countries. Was the Biden administration trying to buy the world? Was it up for sale?

More to the point–were we, the United States of America, ever up for sale?

‘Your Tax $$ at Work: Bored Federal Employees Watch Porn All Day'(2014)

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And when they’re done watching porn, it’s nap time!

Y’know what? I don’t think a lot of people are as grateful as they should be that Hillary Clinton did not become our president in 2016. Because if there’s any two culprits joined at the hip, it’s the Democrat Party and government employees’ unions. It’s what we call The Swamp.

Your Tax $$ at Work: Bored Federal Employees Watch Porn All Day

We can hardly dare hope that this has ceased since we got a new president who is not a Democrat; but we know for sure it wouldn’t have ceased had the Democrats kept control of the executive branch. In fact, any efforts to put a stop to it–here we have wandered off into fantasy: there would not have been such efforts–would not have been allowed to succeed.

Poison your culture, and it’ll poison everything.

Feds Go to War Against ‘The Gender Binary’

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So you think all that stupid psycho garbage is confined to the colleges and universities?

Wrong!

It always oozes out into the national life, costing untold millions of dollars and making a shambles of the American character. I wonder if the whole point of it is to set up a society that can easily be conquered by Islam.

And so the U.S. Dept. of Labor has gotten into the act, unveiling a new proposal to re-do all its documents and posters–at a cost of several million dollars–to… are you sitting down?–“to avoid the gender binary” ( http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430379/department-labor-anti-discrimination-he-she-pronouns ).

As taught by drooling idiots in colleges throughout the land, the use of the ordinary pronouns “he” and “she” has become taboo. So all the USDL’s printed material must be reprinted, to replace the offending pronouns with gender-neutral language.

What do you want to bet there are more asinine regulations protecting so-called “transgender persons,” and more public statements praising them, than there actually are “transgendered” individuals?

This is the United States government, with our tax dollars, getting involved in academic flim-flam. Removing ordinary English pronouns from all posters in all Labor Dept. facilities–you won’t believe this–is going to provide “an important benefit to society,” according to a Labor Dept. spokesidiot. Oh, really? And what benefit is that?

Anyhow, said the spokesmoron, this expensive and time-consuming project is necessary to reflect “our commitment to diversity.”

The bacillus of Political Correctness aka horseshit always escapes from the colleges and universities to pollute the real world.

It is to our shame that we are governed by such people as this.