Elon Musk claims that mass layoffs are necessary to prevent the U.S. government from going bankrupt. @johncassidysays.bsky.social does the math. nyer.cm/imvTnSX - ThreadSky

newyorker.com • 71 days ago

Elon Musk claims that mass layoffs are necessary to prevent the U.S. government from going bankrupt. @johncassidysays.bsky.social does the math. http://nyer.cm/imvTnSX

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craziedaizee.bsky.social•71 days ago

F-35 fighter jet program sucked $2 TRILLION from US
it doesn't work, everyone calls it a failure and won't be used because everything is going to be drone warfare (for WW3 likely soon at this rate)

Not only could every single job have been kept but healthcare, USAID, SNAP etc could be fully funded

april-bloom.bsky.social•70 days ago

Where’s the forensic accounting to prove this claim? And where are the studies identifying the most efficient cuts?

the-wise-teen.bsky.social•70 days ago

I think HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF $S OF AI BUDGET 'ITSELF ALONE' can easily make our government that is hiring wanker looking geeks from streets to go bankrupt!

della1.bsky.social•71 days ago

The US government is not a business and Musk is not an elected politician

rjhall.bsky.social•71 days ago

6% of Federal spending is payrolls, so this is Muskian b.s.

vieuxquelquechose.bsky.social•71 days ago

How is Twitter doing right now? Is it profitable?

culturesurfer.bsky.social•71 days ago

Can't decide whether US or russia brings out the most crazy people on this planet, mate.

frayedwitch.bsky.social•70 days ago

How about making billionaires pay taxes to keep Amerika from going bankrupt?

raittafan.bsky.social•71 days ago

And I claim I don’t care about occupying Mars.
Cancel his aerospace contracts!

reneedodson.bsky.social•71 days ago

While he’s robbing the Treasury Department blind

hopelove44.bsky.social•71 days ago

bullshit

justalilbluedot.bsky.social•70 days ago

Quick cancel all of Elon’s government contracts to save money then!!

jrobertshull.bsky.social•71 days ago

As long as all this fuzzy Eloon math is going on, here’s an idea to raise money without hurting our federal civil servants. Given there are 500M guns in the US, if gun owners were taxed $2k annually for each gun they own, that’s $1T right there. 🙇‍♀️

duppy688.bsky.social•71 days ago

Musk/the government funneled BILLIONS of tax dollars into Musk’s own companies. But Musk has no concern with the government going bankrupt because of that. Trump added $8 TRILLION to the debt. Where was the outrage about bankruptcy from the Right and Musk when he was running up the debt?

shanemcoyle.bsky.social•71 days ago

Monetary. Sovereign.

ataraxy2025.bsky.social•71 days ago

No, he is gutting all the agencies so they will fail. Then they will be declared failures and eliminated. Closely followed by a privatization of all Federal assets...to a few select oligarchs. Just like Russia. This is the Techno-feudal plan...Google it. The bible of the architects of P2025.

alitica.bsky.social•71 days ago

We need to stop paying 8 million dollars a day for Elon.
Who approved Elons budget?

pam1114.bsky.social•71 days ago

He's the one that is going to bankrupt our government. The lawsuits alone are going to kill us! They have defaulted on contracts, fired folks without cause, all while Congress is f@cking MIA! Saying they are getting death threats from inside the White House? Chickenshit aholes!
#ImpeachNow

indynet.bsky.social•61 days ago

#2026 Remove, THEN #Impeach and Remove

bklynmichael42.bsky.social•71 days ago

Well, we did elect someone who’s very, VERY good at bankrupting things.

mitsu23.bsky.social•70 days ago

This only makes me worry about what further cuts will be made. As if what we are seeing now is only the tip of the iceberg.

markusgrimmas.bsky.social•71 days ago

Musk is full of shit.

pammypanda.bsky.social•71 days ago

Plus, how much are those “savings” costing us? ROI anyone? Diminishing returns, perhaps?

bobrk.com•71 days ago

$100k is barely surviving in most major cities.

kenem716.bsky.social•71 days ago

This is so ridiculous that it is hard to believe that even a fool would say this. Over a million fed. employees work for Veterans Affairs, Homeland Security, Defense, and Justice. Is he proposing that we stop supporting veterans, patrolling our borders, managing our military and enforcing our laws?

apocalypsenow12.bsky.social•71 days ago

Yes.

jeffhaines.com•71 days ago

corporate subsidies should have an iron-clad payback and revenue-sharing clause

jeffhaines.com•71 days ago

he could easily pay back his subsidies out of his personal wealth

susienicholson.bsky.social•70 days ago

Well yeah but Musk is a lying pos.

mahones76.bsky.social•70 days ago

Alarmist but incredibly stupid of him to say

snowmein.bsky.social•71 days ago

Or we could tax him.

smlrun.bsky.social•71 days ago

should cxl musk contracts why won’t medical trump administration that that would save billions

dolphingretch.bsky.social•71 days ago

Cheap Logic.

snzuluz7.bsky.social•71 days ago

How would you know? You cut and fire theses budgets before you even analyze. You deserve firing and to be held on Treason and violation of Espionage Act!