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@fubah2

 Nice one sided view point. Great copy and paste skills   

What are your thoughts about what you posted? Just wondering so when we come back in due time we can see if the expectation happened. 

@thirdperson

 doubts, could, possibly, may, if, might all words that usually start off your first sentence. It's ALL speculation after that. More propaganda from the left leaning bot. Pretty easy to go back and read all your posts to see a common theme. This is true (democratic) journalism right here folks. 

@wallstreetcappers  Last thing, you are flawed in your friday example...in the government employees sometimes CAN choose to work 10 hour days and then get every other friday OFF but it is not OFF they are working 45 hours a week getting alternate fridays off.  

I'm using your 45 hour/Wk as an example. I never said anything about working every other Friday (you did) because my local govt depts take EVERY Friday off. I just re-read my post and I didn't clean it up as I started and stopped the post while being distracted. Hope you could read between the lines and put it together. I'll proof read next time. The format of working M-Th is ridiculous for a govt body. Private working M-Th sure, that's on them if they want time off. Govt working 4 days a week and taking every ridiculous federal holiday off is ludicrous and theft of tax payers IMO. When I'm trying to get work done with my local govt dept, they would claim "so and so is out sick" as an excuse for being so far behind. Work that would have taken several hours, took more than year and I got excuse after excuse and delay after delay. It's because they didn't want to do the work they are supposed to do. Hence, being lazy because they don't have to take accountability. Who do you call when your local govt is not keeping up with work?  You can't call their manager like you can with private can you? And lets be real, working 10 hours a day is really like 5 when working from home. Why don't they just work 12 hour days and only work 3 days a week from home? Hell, make it 16 hours for 2 days. 

So what, you expect the DMV to run the same old system for the next 5 decades because it costs to much to update? Have you not seen the nations debt? With that logic, we'd still be using horse and buggy. My whole point is, maybe there would be the time and funds available IF the govt were to stop wasting our tax dollars .  A time delay IS because of inefficiency from outdated programs. It took the DMV over 4 months to send a car registration that was paid well in advance. They also screwed up the paper work and took over 1.5 months to fix it and it was their fault the entire time because of outdated systems. So yes, there is a shit ton of inefficiency that can be fixed in time. I'm 100% sure my experiences are not the only ones. If it was, they wouldn't be so far behind. I'm not waltzing down to the DMV to stand in line for 4 hours for the rep to tell me they'll look into it and get back to me with a letter in the mail. Took over 4 months to process the registration and mail out a sticker. Glad you got yours in a timely manor. They were very inefficient in my case. I'll let everyone else bitch about the long waits. I've had easy trips to DMVs outside of big cities in the past. I would purposefully drive further away to smaller cities because I knew there was no wait. The DMV brick and mortar is not my issue, their systems and processing is. 

@wallstreetcappers along with the fact that they are UNDER staffed and their technology is so far behind 

So you're saying they are inefficient? What is the whole concept of DOGE? Why has the DMV been so far behind for so long? Why can the govt not figure out how to fix it? Why does it take a private citizen to come in to catch the govt up on technology so they can run an efficient business, like the DMV? DMV is not 100% customer facing. How does it take over 4 months to ship a sticker out or take multiple months to correct one simple issue? When your business is so far behind, your customers have every right to be pissed. Customers should also know it not the person they are speaking with fault, they are simply doing a job. But the higher ups are the ones responsible and they don't take any of the heat so they don't give a damn on fixing anything. Why work harder and not get paid more is the mentality. After all, it's not their own business, it's the tax payers business, the same people they are pissing off.

Working 45 hours a week in 4 days a week is NOT the same as working 45 hour weeks 5 days a week. While business is conducted on Fridays, govt work is off for 3 straight days. So all that work that piles up on Friday, gets pushed to Monday and they start out behind and are only playing catch up. If the govt is understaffed, they should add more staff to become more efficient. Tired of the excuse that the govt is understaffed. Another excuse is they are just lazy and not held accountable by anyone. They are staffed with tax payers money and we're finding out through DOGE that there's a shit ton of waste. Maybe if that waste was put to good use, we wouldn't have issues in our govt?

@wallstreetcappers  

-keep asking this and no response, why is it that your side thinks government employees are wasteful? 

 Have you ever delt with the DMV? That's all I need to know about gov't workers. On occasion I work with the govt bodies in my cities, they get Fridays off, every odd "federal" holiday off, they can delay as long as they want and there's no one above them to crack the whip to get shit done. So yeah, getting paid for a shit ton of holidays while private is at work getting shit done. I could get into details about my experiences, but I don't want to. My thought is the govt employees are not in a hurry to get work done, they take their sweet ass time and hold everyone else back. I watch how the spend their money on projects and the quality of the work. Have you ever seen companies bid on govt work? Throw the high number out and someone will get lucky. 

I don't watch any news. Period. I turn that shit off.

I was responding to your message as I was reading and I'm going to leave the DMV part there because that is a microcosm of the govt work force (that does not mean 100% of govt employees but you get the gist). How the hell can the DMV be so back logged? Why hasn't anyone gone in and fixed the DMV? I imagine it wouldn't be difficult If the DMV was private, that shit would be dialed in because without efficiency, they wouldn't be in business. There's no unlimited funding waiting like there is with govt work. When it's your own capital on the line, you watch every penny. When you have unlimited funds, you slush that shit around because it's not yours. Just human nature to not give a damn about others money. 

Would you have said the same about Elon if he was running DOGE under Biden and looking to bring more tech and efficiency to the govt? Maybe DOGE is a big FU to the govt for what they put everyone through during covid. With AI taking over private sector jobs (and govt) what's the difference with DOGE getting rid of those they deem redundant and inefficient? I know the answer, we need to keep giving participation trophies, cough I mean checks out. Maybe this is a kick in the ass to those other govt employees to stop slackin off and get shit done in a timely manor so everyone can keep moving forward. 

Remember when liberals loved Musk and didn't get a damn about his help from the govt because they were waiting for the cars to be delivered? All the liberals that thought the "cLeAn EnErGy" was going to be the next oil and they started to destroy the world to make it so? Go Musk. 

@wallstreetcappers

 My bad, that might have been MidNights take on the jab. I just assumed y'all the same.

Maybe gov't jobs shouldn't be as stable if they are so wasteful. There has to be a balance. If stability comes from wasteful spending, is the job really stable or needed to begin with? Every business has to pivot to stay afloat and if trimming fat is part of the pivot, gov't shouldn't be any different that private jobs. I'd have to imagine that with gov't benefits, the pay equals the private over the long run considering gov't gets some petty cush benefits and 401k matches. Not all private has that tax free match. 

@joe pockets

 You do realize that inflation has been going UP since covid, right? We also had tariffs then.  Whatever tariffs Trump is imposing won't be nearly as bad as what happened with peak inflation. Did you make a big deal about inflation back then? Ultimately, supply and demand should have the greatest impact on inflation. NOT tariffs. 

@wallstreetcappers

 If history repeats, ~1.5 years after a significant rate drop (after rates had risen). Soooo lets see if history repeats. T-minus <16months 

SPY420P for the lols

@wallstreetcappers

 But you were ok with people getting fired for refusing the vax, right? So now you care because it's govt employees but didn't give two shits when it was so called Republicans (and libs) who were refusing the vax. So you're ok with the sniper method of picking off those that do not bow to the vax, but you don't like the so called buckshot method? We could have spent time evaluating those that refused the vax to see if they were healthy, had any underlying conditions, were obese etc, but we didn't, did we? 

I'll always remember what someone told me when they were looking for work while in school. They said, "I want to work for the govt because it's easy and you don't really have much to do and you get paid a lot". They knew because their family worked for the govt. I'll never forget that. 

IMO, DOGE is trying to streamline to help with efficiency. 

@unplucked_gem     Some people only want to cast blame and I mostly attribute that to the media and how fixated people are with it. Media is propaganda and has been for a long time. 

@wallstreetcappers

 I never said Trump is responsible for lower gas prices. I just posted what I've noticed with gas prices in my area.  But if Fubduh really wanted to show numbers, he could show the average price for the last, I dunno 5 years. 

Looks like my copy and paste didn't work, lets try it again. Fubduh, have any copy and paste tips for here? 

Since we're talking about national avg gas prices, lets look at the last 5 years, during Bidens term

2020- $2.17

2021- $3.01

2022- $4.90

2023- $3.40

2024- $3.30

Hmmmm practically all higher than the current avg price. 

@WSC why would the media start talking about a possible recession now that Trump is on office? I guess whatever happens in the short term must be Trumps fault, right? Do you find it ironic that the media glossed over a recession during Bidens term while changing the definition of a recession? 

@cd329

 If DOGE is trimming gov't fat, why would you be against that? Why would you be ok with the govt wasting YOUR (assuming you work and contribute to society) tax dollars? News flash people do not believe that DOGE letting people go that may not be fully efficient will lower their taxes. That is NOT the point of DOGE and never has been. People are not cheering DOGE firing people. People are cheering someone holding the govt accountable for OUR tax dollars. It's easy to spend someone else's money. It sucks when it's YOUR money that's getting wasted. It's not a good society to drive around (mostly liberal cities) and see homeless everywhere, trash in the streets, open drug use, crime etc and then watching the gov't waste money. Every successful business trims fat, the gov't should be no different and should held accountable for their finances. Do you know how much the US is paying IN INTEREST yearly? Interest! Please explain how that's sustainable for the long run while not affecting your bottom line. 

My gas is currently lower now than when Biden left office. Our local gas prices haven't actually moved much at all the last few weeks. 

@wallstreetcappers

 obviously the answer is more subsidies. Maybe all the bike lanes these major cities are adding (while taking away parking) will fix everything. We will become a bike nation! Then, nobody will need automobiles. Am I right. Oh, bring back horses! At least we only need to worry about food and picking up shit.

Think it's pretty clear that pricing (in practically everything) will not get back to pre-covid days. Those days were gone once we shut production and turned that sweet sweet printer on.

According to wired magazine .  Lost me with the first sentence. This whole comment is purely speculation and has 0 proof/fact of anything said. 

This was highlighted by those at the top of the party during Trumps speech to Congress. The so called party of "empathy" and "compassion" showed 0 empathy nor a compassion.  It felt like this side of the room was instructed to not clap or acknowledge anything Trump talked about. Bold strategy that seemed to back fire. At least the dude at the beginning got thrown out so he didn't have to be a sheeple. 

@wallstreetcappers

 The weed industry in CA has been going through his influx of business/product when the flood gates opened. Prices eventually crash when there's too much product (or taxes), the fat gets trimmed, the butter churns and those that can churn eat b(u)etter. 

So you're essentially saying there may have been a way to pull natural recourses that the world just so desperately has been pushing to find and all we had to do was ask Greenland to partner so we can harvest these resources and wouldn't have to experience a war that was funded by US tax payers?  If there wasn't such a push for these natural resources, would there have been a war? Or was Putin just bored and felt like fighting? Anyone know why Russia wanted to invade? If seaweed magically became valuable overnight, everyone would be throwing their boats in the water, right? 

@wallstreetcappers

 They may not have created the launch pad, but they sure did keep adding fuel to the fire, didn't they? Hard to walk it back after the tanks been filled. So you can't really hate Musk so much when he just played the game and happened to be the one the benefited the most. Right place, right time. Is the timing with Tesla's launch just a coincidence? ZIRP was a great boom but at what point does it just turn wasteful? Money isn't free and it shouldn't be. Lots of risk out there but a little interest shouldn't crash everything if people were conservative when it came to finances. Those at risk should strap in. Money printer might not be turning on, or maybe it will. Who the hell knows. brrrrrrrr  

@wallstreetcappers

 Time will tell. Why are democrats crying like little babies? Is it because their govt slush fund might run dry?  Maybe Musk and Trump will actually hold people responsible so the govt funds are not wasted. How idiotic is it for our cities that they have to "spend it or lose it next year". Most of that spend it or lose it gets spent on useless shit while there's other work that needs to be done that gets pushed back. Maybe Trump should keep pushing EVs so we can continue the war in Ukraine, Democrats love that, right? Make the democrat voters upset with Russia and Trump while forcing EVs down everyone's throats which inevitability started the war in Ukraine so Russia can do what Ukraine isn't willing or capable of doing because we need more EVs in this world so we can stop it from warming. But shame on you Russia and Trump for being bad guys. Lets not look at the actual reason why Russia invaded and why Russia wants to control the land. Lets keep pushing "cLeAn EnErGy" and lets keep funding (dormant) Ukraine while wanting more clean energy.    Drill baby drill.