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It seems like Elon Musk is the only news story in America.

Whatever he's doing, whatever he's saying.

Because you know what? In most people's lifetimes, I think in America. Whatever he's doing, whatever he's saying, because you know what, in most people's lifetimes, I think virtually everyone's lifetime, we've never seen anybody seriously

tried to cut all the wasteful government spending, all the criminal fraud that goes on.

We all know it goes on, and everybody always promises to do something about it.

And I've been hearing a lot of numbers in these various news stories, but you don't want that

sticks in my mind. Every three months, we add another trillion dollars in debt in this country.

Federal debt, federal government, a trillion dollars every three months.

And that's if everything's going right.

There's no economic recession that cuts tax revenues.

Every three months.

There's no like COVID lockdown that that screws up the economy.

So that's $4 trillion a year.

At the moment, we have $36 trillion in debt.

And then by the end of the year, it'll be 40 trillion.

And then the year after that, 44 trillion.

And you know, these things get bigger and bigger and bigger.

And there's so much screaming going on over what Musk is doing.

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