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I know these cuts make almost no difference to the massive federal spending, but they are putting a spotlight on our nation's dire financial situation.

Most young people have no hope of owning a home or having kids and our federal government is "borrowing" money to pay for all of these things. Last year it added 1830 billion dollars to the national debt while paying 1126 billion in interest. Take a look at the dollar price of gold chart if you haven't recently. This is obviously not sustainable, maybe even in the short term.

To continue steal from our children's futures to pay for decades of accumulated corruption, appropriated by Congress, is a crime. Can anyone see a reasonable path forward where we don't make drastic changes?

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The NSF funding last year was $9B. Cutting it will stop the US from continuing to have a growing economy in ten years. That’s stealing trillions from our children.

Look at the republican budget. They’re adding $85B a year for better border security; half of which is to deploy the US military inside the US. The other half goes to the national guard and customs and border patrol. So, for every dollar they cut from the NSF, they’re spending $10 to deploy troops against American civilians.

For every one of those dollars, they’re handing $10 out in tax cuts for the ultra wealthy.

This is being paid for by cutting medicare, which we will all rely on, assuming we somehow manage to live through the inevitable pandemics, natural disasters, economic collapse and wars this jackass is going to start.

> decades of accumulated corruption, appropriated by Congress

Is just something assumed by Republicans with no basis in reality. The amount of "facts" that conservative friends post on Facebook that can be trivially debunked that have still been circulating for years is insane.

What drastic changes? Republicans are presently pushing for a $4T debt ceiling increase and $4.5T in tax cuts. The DOGE cuts will not curtail the purported theft from our children’s futures in any way.

Cutting funding for research and development can be considered stealing from kids. Not the current generation but the next one.

I'm from Europe and the current US politics discourages me from buying US products. I guess this will push a new Europe first movement on this side of the globe. Not the scenario I wished for because I quite liked the more open system.

I assure you that in the world where the oligarchs have destroyed the post-new-deal world and established their CEO-king fiefdoms, houses will be less affordable.

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