The Independent's article peddling this garbage about spending cuts ballooning the deficit isn’t just wrong—it’s a sniveling, pathetic defense of a government so gorged on waste it’s practically begging for the axe. This isn’t analysis; it’s a tantrum from leeches terrified their gravy train’s about to derail. Let’s eviscerate this drivel line by line and expose it for the sham it is.
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The claim that slashing budgets and jobs will “in all probability” increase the deficit “by a lot” is baseless, spineless fearmongering. Where’s the proof? Instead, we’re fed Jessica Riedl’s measly $2 billion savings estimate—a cherry-picked crumb that conveniently ignores the Herculean task of dismantling a $6 trillion bureaucratic cesspool. Prediction markets guessing $1 billion? That’s not evidence; it’s the chattering of speculators too busy doom-scrolling Musk’s X feed to think straight. Spare us the crystal-ball nonsense.
Then there’s the snide jab that Musk’s “receipts” are “riddled with errors.” Oh, really? Name one. The article doesn’t—just slings mud and hopes it sticks. This is a cheap smear against someone daring to hack through a jungle of entrenched grift. The $2 trillion goal was a war cry, not a promise, and the idea there’s no fat to carve out of this bloated beast is the fantasy of a toddler clutching a taxpayer-funded blankie.
The IRS weepfest—“revenue to fall 10 percent, or $500 billion” because of fewer tax cops—is beyond laughable; it’s insulting. That agency’s a lumbering dinosaur, shaking down waitresses while corporate tax dodgers sip champagne. Slash the Byzantine tax code instead of whining about headcounts, and you’d rake in more than this cooked-up horror story admits. And the legal costs from lawsuits and buyouts? Chump change next to the gaping wound of overstaffed, do-nothing agencies bleeding us dry.
The Atlantic’s pompous “preordained failure” line and Chait’s smug “no $1 trillion in waste” drivel are the pinnacle of elitist delusion. Waste isn’t just fraud, you hacks—it’s the overlapping fiefdoms, obsolete boondoggles, and sweetheart contracts clogging the system like cholesterol in a glutton’s arteries. Musk’s not “incapacitating” government; he’s lancing a festering boil. This article’s nothing but a whiny, venomless love letter to a status quo that’s been pickpocketing Americans for decades. Cry harder.
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