I think these next 4 years we’re going to see a lot of Americans see how much the depend on the federal government. My brain broke when I saw the woman a couple weeks ago who said “I voted for you, but now you’re cutting SNAP?”
He literally said he was going to. You voted that you wanted that
Seems like these people have no idea what the government does. They just think it’s just things for poor people and minorities.
They’ve been spoonfed for so long that they forget that they’re the poor people. That sounds mean, but holy fuck, I don’t need snap. I personally don’t need welfare. I’m doing okay - but I voted for those things because I know people do depend on them. But hooray I guess they voted to lower my taxes probably? I guess enjoy not being able to afford food when I voted to try to protect that?
Monty Python hit the nail on the head with The Life of Brian.
“Aside from the sewage system, water system, health system, education system, roads, bridges, internet, weather prediction, farm insurance, bank insurance, home insurance, disaster relief, police, fire department, and GPS and space constellation… What has the government ever done for us?”
The Bush era joke was ‘Americans learn geography via invading countries.’
I guess the Trump era joke will be ‘Americans learn what taxes actually go toward after they are starving and homeless.’
oh no.
anyways. 4 years… the usa will be broken
Whenever I see shit like this, I just wish someone slaps them across their face. I’m not a violent man, but damn I want to slap these idiots so bad.
The federal government is literally the same size it was in the early 1970s.
Idiots voting red: “the gubments gotten too big!”
What do you consider “the federal government”.
There are roughly 3 million people in the federal government and that number varies.
I was strictly speaking of the number of civilian federal employees. Yes that number was 3 million as of December 2024. It was roughly 2.8 million in 1970. It has always been around that amount, despite the population and complexity of the country growing in the 55 years since.
It is a lie that the government is larger at least in terms of employees, and any citizen saying they feel the government has “gotten too big” is generally a fucking moron. Especially when those types typically support the abusively bloated and heavily unchecked defense spending.
What do you mean by “same size”? Is it the same number of employees? Same number of divisions?
I was strictly speaking of the number of civilian federal employees. Yes that number was 3 million as of December 2024. It was roughly 2.8 million in 1970.
This also includes a RIF of around 450k people in the 1990s, and I’m not sure about what in the 1980s as I recall reading Reagan was very anti-fed. As a proportion of the population, the amount of people working for the country as civil servants has shrunk.
This is how I learn that Reed Timmer is a MAGA freakazoid? Real fuckin shame, I only ever looked into his storm chasing content
i dont follow him closely but didnt realize he was maga, so lame.
fafo
No, don’t make my bit of government smaller!
they literally had a fuckin manual
others read the manual or at least skimmed through it
read the fuckin manual
these motherfuckers don’t read, it’s woke
being able to understand what you hear is also woke.
Having the magats affected as much as the rest of us is a small salve
It’s ok because a for profit organization will step up right? Right??? /s
Even if the void does get filled it’s some corpos fucking wet dream. Would be stupid expensive and probably completely inaccurate
AccuWeather has been begging and lobbying for this for years. They are poised to profit from this.
Which is ridiculous. Their business was basically repackaging what the government was providing for free. They think it’s better business to roll out a bespoke weather forecasting system that costs millions of dollars to maintain?
Libertarians really don’t understand that the government is what enables them to do business. If you have to pay for all that stuff yourself you’re going to spend a multiple of what you’re currently paying in taxes.
Wait what??? I’ve been using AccuWeather because I enjoyed the way they presented their weather information but knowing this I’m going to be switching immediately.
I have a mutual friend at NOAA who does hurricane tracking in the plane, a lot of them are unlikely to remain employed. You’d think they’d want more people tracking these Dem-manufactured hurricanes, but I guess that isn’t an issue. If they were smart they’d destroy the hurricane making machine
If we stop tracking the hurricanes then the number of tracked hurricanes in a season goes down what don’t you understand
