Save Your Pennies If You Can -- Digby

[mucholderthandirt]

2. The whole point of all of this is to put control of the government and our money in Musk's hands.

There's no "inefficiency", no waste, no conspiracy to get at the money except on their side. Musk wants it all, and so do the ultra-rich who made sure he got this chance. No way would Harris have approved any of this sort of thing.

I tried my best to learn COBOL, way back in the 80s and it made my brain explode. I ended up switching to accounting, where at least things made sense to me. The thing is, the language may be old, but it still works.

No, there's no excuse, no justification for this except to allow people who are already richer than they could ever spend their way out of to take our money. I worked damned hard for my SS benefits, worked myself into physical breakdown. Now I think I may not live to collect what I earned.

Fucking bastards. I can't say what I'd like to see happen to all of them, but it's not pretty and it would hurt.