By Jo Nova
History in the making
According to Doge.tracker Elon Musk has already saved the US taxpayer $45 billion dollars (or $300 per taxpayer). Tonight DOGE officials have entered the IRS building in DC to begin their investigation. Coming soon, The Pentagon which employs 3 million troops and has a budget of $800 billion.
President Donald Trump praised Elon Musk and his army of ‘super-geniuses’ at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as they investigate the federal government for waste and fraud. … Trump said that Musk’s group had gone from 20 people to as many as 100.
Musk has been attracting young coders to work in Washington for months. The DOGE team were looking for 100 full time dedicated people to work in Washington.
The “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries” that DOGE seeks need to be willing to work “80+ hours per week,” DOGE itself posted on its official X account. “This will be tedious work, make lots of enemies & compensation is zero,” Musk personally added. — Forbes
But they were attracting top guns who saw it as a career defining move, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Such is the allure of Musk:
One DOGE applicant pointed to a comment made by Figma CEO Dylan Field on X on Monday as “very good, pro-DOGE propaganda”: “I’d wager that in 10-20 years the group that works on DOGE will be the next PayPal Mafia,” Field posted” – Forbes
One of Musk’s team is Luke Farritor — who deciphered a 2,000-year-old charred papyrus scroll from ancient Greece with AI. He was already working for Elon Musk at SpaceX. Musk has a way of finding the hyper intelligent engineers. I heard a story that one MIT professor looked up his top 10 graduates and found half of them were working for Musk. When Elon Musk heard that, he turned up at the professors door to ask where the other half were.
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FreeVoiceMedia uses AI to create a smashing parody movie trailer. Elon Musk is Sherlock Holmes solving the largest financial crime in the history of the world…
The Real Great Reset
Elon Musk was on X today wearing his “Tech Support” shirt offering advice to the world: Have you tried turning the government off and on again?
But seriously, Musk explains in one minute how to get on top of the mountain of debt.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 14, 2025
And so we find ourselves in this strange moment, where the Trump team Shock and Awe program is in full swing, the Blob has just started to fight back with legal suits, and a new era appears to be dawning:
“I don’t think the Democrats realize that it’s over”
Eric Weinstein talks to Joe Rogan:
I don’t think the Democrats realize that it’s over, and that there was a vast infrastructure that made their feeble arguments viable and that infrastructure is now collapsing…
Watching the confirmation hearings, my sense was that the Elizabeth Warren’s and Bernie Sanders’ were dinosaurs who do not understand the Earth has just been hit from outer space and that they don’t live in the world that they are so used to. Their corruption was immediately apparent and they are not used to that, they’re used to having a whole phony journalistic layer that covers for them. That layer is gone, and the American public is awake and it’s angry and rightfully so…”
Next Target: people who seemed to have made inexplicable amounts of money. Perhaps they are great investors, says Musk, but we are curious:
- Nancy Pelosi Annual salary: $223,000 Net worth: $202 million
- Mitch McConnell Annual salary: $200,000 Net worth: $95 million
- Chuck Schumer Annual salary: $210,000 Net worth: $75 million
- Elizabeth Warren Annual salary: $285,000 Net worth: $67 million
>Next Target: people who seemed to have made inexplicable amounts of money.
That’s one big reason the corruptocrats have tried every means possible to prevent the Trump ascendancy.
They knew he would expose them.
Maxine Waters is afraid of DOGE. ” We don’t know what all they have on us”
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Fauci was cunning enough to secure a preemptive pardon from Joe Biden (or one of his minders) before he left office. The others on this list didn’t obtain their “get out of jail free card”. They will be left exposed to repercussions.
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It’s a bad look seeking a pardon when you have allegedly done nothing wrong. It’s even worse if you get one from Joe Biden.
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” We don’t know what all they have on us”
Whoops! I hear DC criminal defense attorney searches are up 10 fold.
The Shelock Holmes was fun for a Jeremy Brett fan. However this short clip is more accurate. https://youtu.be/4zpyvBNC7SM?si=ZIpTb4gZATT2NOZf
They are not messing around.
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You see Maxine … if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about.
That’s what the guy at the airport says.
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Bring it on here. Please – I just hope Dutton has the gumption to do the same.
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William, #2,
____Won’t happen. At least, not without a bit of active political participation by we, us and ourselves.
____You may’ve heard he’s got his own issues with dust under the rugs.
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HA HA HA with Dutton.
He’s FIRMLY attached to the same bird.
Hell would have to freeze over first.
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Nope, Dutton’s not the answer. He’s been too long in the Canberra bubble. Plus has always been a public servant. First as a copper then a politician.
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Not quite, Ross. Peter began his working life working part time after school in a butchers shop, mowing lawns and throwing newspapers until starting university. He started a small family business which grew to proudly employ 40 Australians.
For nine years, Peter served his community as a Queensland Police Officer. He worked in the National Crime Authority and Drug and Sex Offenders’ Squads, with a focus on protecting women and children.
I don’t know too many politicians with such a background. There is certainly none within the ALP or Greens. Most National Party members come from small business/farming backgrounds. I know that Pauline had a fish shop and Malcolm Roberts was an engineer. (See his Wikipedia entry which is very left slanted).
IOW if you want people with experience outside politics then the Coalition is a sound bet.
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Never said he was no good. Was a police officer first, then in building for a really short period then politics since. Discount his after school jobs because a lot of people have done that. Is he better than AnAl – hell yes. Is he Trumpish? No way.
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I get an email from Liberal hq today advising of the upcoming election.
I replied that Liberal will not get my vote unless they take on the Climate scam. They need to rout out the hoaxers in the ABC, BoM and CSIRO.
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Hey Rick, I have also been doing that with both state and federal hopefulls where I live. So far crickets, sooooo first and second votes will go to someone else. I always fill out the ballot paper to the bitter end. Labour and Greens were down there near 159 and 160 from memory
. Libs traditionally have rated higher but the bottom end is lonely place, there might be a group of three down that way this year!
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I did that too Sambar. There were some funny looks around as it took a long time for me to emerge from the booth! Maybe that happened at the same election? One had a ridiculously long list of candidates.
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Legal charges following soon?
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Elon added in the Tweet:
Such questions should also be asked of a lot of Aussie politicians.
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Pelosi is easy. She has been accused of insider trading for years.
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Some of Pelosi’s trades are here:
https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy%20Pelosi-P000197
And here:
https://www.capitoltrades.com/politicians/P000197
Some people follow a trading strategy of just following her buys and sells. She does the insider trading for you…
Her trades since 2014 have yielded 799% versus the market at 224%.
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Elon must be having a problem with his search engine:
Pelosi – husband runs a venture capital company
McConnell – wife’s inheritance
Schumer – the quoted figure is “fake news” emanating from an Indian website – “using the highest possible estimate for every reported asset value, Schumer and his wife’s combined assets totaled only around $2.5 million in 2023.”
Warren – Law professor, consultant, author
All the information about their finances and assets is freely available online.
Cheers!
[Care to post those “freely available” links supporting your claims? – LVA]
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I wrote about Mitch McConnells shocking, astounding connections and conflicts of interest, but all legally declared.
https://joannenova.com.au/2021/01/mitch-mcconnells-rich-connection-with-china/
Coincidentally I posted that on Jan 5th 2021. I found it chilling, then “the next day” everyone was focused on other things. But to me it was a scandal that the conflicts were so obvious, yet ignored.
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It’s interesting how Elon used to be a darling of the Left, now they hate him as he makes their tiny brains explode.
How dare he question or investigate government expenditure or unexplained politician wealth.
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Former Democrats who are key to Trump’s early successes — Musk, Gabbard, Kennedy come to mind — and the fact that Trump won the popular vote AND both houses in Congress — clearly prove that Trump is a threat to democracy.
At least, I keep hearing on the news that he’s a threat to democracy, so it must be true.
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In Australia it doesn’t appear to matter whether you watch “their ABC” or Channels 7,9 or 10. The contempt that our journalists display for Trump is sickening and cringeworthy .
For the past 4 years we saw an addled Joe Biden bumble his way through his presidency with little or no mention of his obvious decline by these same broadcasters.
Stuff the MSM.
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My son occasionally turns on the ABC radio when driving home from work to hear how his tax dollars are being wasted on the biased dribbling nonsense that comes out. I gave that up a long time ago.
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I only watch Sky these days. Very pro-Trump.
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I Was Wrong About Trump – David Strom
No, I am not in love with Trump. He still makes me cringe sometimes, and I still don’t understand the Canada/51st state thing at all, and want nothing to do with Gaza if he is serious about that.
But there are two vital things about him which I got completely, totally, and without question wrong.
Walter Kirn slapped me in the face (not literally) with a single tweet.
Wish I had a dollar for all the pros last year who told me Trump can’t share the limelight and would never bring on Kennedy and the others
Guy has shared more limelight than most politicians ever
Boom. At least it was a “boom” for me, because I was one of those people who was absolutely certain that Trump was too immature, too narcissistic, and too lacking in self-awareness to put his ego in check and hire the best people and support them.
More than that, Trump has withstood weeks of attacks on his “ceding power” to “President Musk.”
And he has shrugged it all off and pushed his collaborators to the front, empowered them, and backed them every step along the way despite the Democrats and the Pravda Media baiting him hourly on how weak he appears.
As the Democrats and the Pravda Media scream about “President Musk,” Donald Trump invites him to give a press conference in the Oval Office with Little X running around. Trump seems so comfortable in his own skin that the richest man in the world waxing about his role in the government isn’t threatening at all; he invited it, and handed the mic over to him.
Same with Kennedy. Same with Gabbard.
Rather than disposing of his allies like used tissues, he went to bat for them, pushed them to the forefront, and made himself bigger not by crowding them out but by adding their charisma to his.
I was also wrong about another issue that is perhaps even more important: his competence to take on the Deep State and win.
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You will find a lot of the Leftist organisations trying to destroy the United States and the West will be funded by the hard-earned taxes of the very people they are trying to destroy.
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Musk has a lot of skin in the game . If the USA crashes and burns he is going to live in a 3rd world country . If the USA doesn’t curb debt and change its decent into idiocracy that’s where its going . Trump is throwing out ambit claims that he knows are not going to happen while he cleans house . He has managed to get his chosen staff past confirmation and that’s step one – now we get to see what his ultimate plan is . The game is afoot….
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This ids Senator John Thune discussing how they have confirmed Trump’s nominees at record pace desp[ite the p[rocedural hurdles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spgvxz63HDM
The support for Trump is now in the open.
I wonder how many more democrats will come to support Trump administration over the next for years.
Western democracies have burdened themselves with the CO2 demon. Killing the demon will free up a massive amount of wasted effort to be redirected at purposeful activity.
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Thanks R W,
Juat 7 minutes and the budget reconciliation approach gets a mention. Very powerful .
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Very nice, l like the Sherlock Holmes reference.
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How to find an Australian Trump?
They have to be a successful larrikin billionaire that doesn’t care what people think of them.
We also need a First amendment methinks?
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Closest we came to was Clive Palmer. But he made the mistake of being elected to parliament. Arguably some might say Simon Holmes a Court has done it more successfully with his sponsorship of the Teal Party, sorry ahem, “ independents”. I think Gina Rhinehart tried at one stage ( Channel 10 TV ) but probably realized it was a waste of money and resources.
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Except that the Teals are all bought by the same anti-western crowd that we want to destroy.
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Defence is going to be amazing.
Having worked for defence, it is an area full of contradictions, not least in expense. In an ideal world a defence department is a complete waste of money. Every cent. But if you want peace, be ready for war. Si vis pacem, para bellum.
So every cent is wasted, until you find you have not spent enough.
But that is no excuse for paying for too much for anything. Let alone everything.
The Mongol view was that you did not need an economy. You had a standing army which stole from everyone else and the army never stopped fighting wars.
With everyone equally poor and the only other jobs in backbreaking farming, joining the army was the only choice. In fact you had adventure, travel, friends and every now and then, nothing to do. In a world where everyone was equally poor, not a bad existence.
The modern European view was that you won, took all the stuff and used it to pay the soldiers and the debts.
This all changed with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the introduction of Government Bonds which had allowed tiny Holland to surpass the UK. The British were quick learners and set out to trade, not conquer the world. And like the Roman Empire before them, everyone wanted to be British.
However Musk’s men have to separate the genuine expense in being ready for war from total waste. It’s a fine line. And there is certain to be a lot of completely ridiculous waste.
Plus of course the incredible wealth of senior members of Congress who have amassed fortunes 1000x their annual salary while being honest public servants.
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>…while being honest public servants.
Love a wry sense of humour!
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This year Jo, these articles will almost write themselves. The best thing I can see is that coverage of all the new US administrations actions is happening in real time. As an example recent negotiations between USA and Colombia all happened on X. Like you say, there wasn’t some lame journo from AAP, Reuters or The Times putting their spin on the story. Statements from the president himself go out on Truth Social. You can’t be banned off a social media outlet if you own it. Go Big Balls is all I can say.
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Yes, it’s amazing. You no longer have to read what a sneering journalist has to say Trump said. You can read it directly. It’s going to make so called journalists redundant and expose their shennanigans, their truth telling.
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I like how Musk brings his youngest of 12 kids to the White House and other places.
Nothing TRUMP or Musk do is random or unplanned.
As many or most Leftists are anti-children and even sterilise themselves, this sends a pro-family message.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/30/sterilization-women-roe-v-wade-trump
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/these-women-including-an-onlyfans-model-are-getting-sterilised-and-blaming-trump-for-their-decision-election-tied-my-hands/news-story/3eee0275dfab0a1419d8ced221147e17
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/02/08/im-democrat-politician-this-why-sterilised-myself-trump/
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/alarm-bells-women-sterilising-themselves-after-trump-win/video/4a76afdb24b3d3921aca70893d91f829
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/alarm-bells-women-sterilising-themselves-after-trump-win/ar-AA1viMz6
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Yeah, it’s been pretty obvious the Trump 2.0 administration is promoting the nuclear family. The Musk kids, the Vance kids, and Barron Trump and the Trump grandkids have all been very prominent during the campaign and the first three weeks of the presidency. It’s not easy for a (nearly) octogenarian POTUS to connect to the younger generation, but featuring the younger members of the families of the various folks in the White House is one way to drive home the ‘children are the future’ message.
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That’s a good thing. I wonder if these women realise they are helping conservatives. The more leftist know-nothings who don’t have kids the better off the rest of us will be.
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The $45B figure surprises me. I thought they were further into it than that.
The USAID budget alone was around $40B.
What interests me is that there was somebody looking at all of this before the election.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/14/exclusive-sen-joni-ernst-gives-the-inside-story-on-how-doge-was-ready-to-go-in-cutting-2-trillion-in-waste/
But notice the $2T figure. $45B is only 2% of the way there.
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Out here on Canada’s fringes, most people get their news from a TV network approved by, and subsidized by, our federal government. Said government is in the midst of an escalating trade war with Trump, AND in the midst of a leadership campaign. Truth is the first casualty in both, as always.
Long story short, I was in a church council meeting yesterday and the pastor opened with a prayer, as always. Imagine my surprise when the prayer was for the poor suffering American people whose new government is decimating them with all this chaos and budget cutting.
The reasons for the disruptions, the early results, the constitutional validity, and the broad support across the American populace, remain a complete unknown.
I had long believed that the US was doomed, regardless of who was President, because of its ballooning debt and institutional corruption. And that we in the unserious “nation” on its northern border would be dragged under with it.
But maybe, just maybe, our demise will be entirely of our own making while our neighbour to the south staggers back to its feet against all odds. We in Canada will have no idea how they did it.
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I love it.
‘Have you tried turning the govt on and off.’
Also Maxine Waters, ‘I’ve got a lot going on, I wonder how much they know.’
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I am delighted to see that a lot of the republican senators and representatives are getting into the detail of the stuff DOGE is uncovering. It is apparent that they have been aware of some of the excesses but there is no a common voice.
I wonder how long it will be before the Democrats realise that they need to be on the side of smaller government as well.
A few examples:
Getting behind DOGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spgvxz63HDM
Uncovering USAID excesses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI1jsHpgRc4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Pgl07NUE0
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“Where’s the other half?”
Oh! Laugh. Out. Loud!
Tony.
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It aint over till the incubators are smashed. That’s the humanities departments of universities. Peaceable suggestions welcome for how.
Anybody know if Thomas Sowell has anything to say about all this? America’s greatest public intellectual.
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Funding, that’s the secret.
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Elon Musk as Sherlock Holmes: Great trailer. Obama as the evil Moriarty no doubt. We’ll play this trailer at our next patriot gathering.
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In breaking news, Elon Musk donates $5.7 Billion to charity even though the Biden government could have used it to fill 7 potholes.
-Babylon Bee
/true, true…
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Present company excepted, a lot of people, especially Leftists, seem to think that the Government has an unlimited supply of money to supply “free stuff” and to line the pockets of Leftist Elites like the subsidy harvesters.
I think they don’t understand that there is no such thing as “Government money”. Nearly all the Government money comes out of the pockets of hard-working taxpayers. It is OUR (the taxpayers’) money.
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Yes. Another faulty concept is that the solution to any problem is government intervention.
And worst of all, that the solution to government created problems is more government intervention.
And so the real problem is avoiding the last straw which breaks the camel’s back.
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“And worst of all, that the solution to government created problems is more government intervention.”
Worse than the above is when there is no problem so government create a solution to fit the situation. The old adage “lend me your watch, then I’ll tell you the time” is what governments are about
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How big is the ‘Canberra Lobby’, how much money and favours changes hands.
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Regarding the young working for DOGE, reminds me of (from Duck Assist):
Ernest Shackleton’s famous newspaper ad sought crew members for his Antarctic expedition, stating: “Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in event of success.” This ad is often regarded as one of the greatest job advertisements in history, although its authenticity has been debated.
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And just imagine if you specified “men” wanted in an ad today, rather than some multi-gendered, multi-pronouned rainbow being.
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I can’t wait until the DOGE team gets into the really big con merchants and liars and we start to see how they can lower the ballooning debt by many TRILLIONs of $.
For the future of the USA and the West this has to happen ASAP.
Certainly no time left for excuses and from now on only strong action will eventually win the fight for freedom.
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Medicare and Social Security
For several years congress critters – without media attention – have been discussing how to reform the entitlements. Somethings needs doing along with all the waste etc. that the DOGE gang is working on.
Anything that raises the interest rates doesn’t help.
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I hope that Mr Musk’s prognosis on the reduction of inflation proves to be correct.
On the other hand even with zero inflation, I can not see the US banks reducing their credit card interest rates down from the 25+% they are currently charging
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I don’t think credit card interest rates have much to do with real interest rates.
The best way to avoid those is to pay one’s credit card in full, every month.
I know not everyone can do this, but it’s best to try and live within one’s means.
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> The best way to avoid those is to pay one’s credit card in full, every month
The best way to avoid those is to use a Debit card and don’t spend it if you don’t have it.
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All these revelations about massive Government waste and outright fr@ud, makes you wonder how much of the massive US Government Debt is attributable to that.
In other words, all that unimaginable amount of money has been borrowed to line someone’s pockets.
Of course, we have a similar situation in Australia, but no one worthy to investigate it at the deep level Musk is doing, using genius hackers like Big B@lls and our public “service” may be even more powerful and secretive than in the US etc..
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Musk reckons on DOGE being around for two years. Can Aus start saving now and hire the team for three months after that, to clean out Canberra?
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