Government Waste Causes Inflation

This cannot be said enough: Government overspending (waste, fraud and abuse) causes inflation. If Trump, or anyone else, wants to reduce inflation it can’t just come from unleashing domestic oil and gas production. While that helps, because every cost includes the cost of energy and the lower the cost of energy, there’s lower prices, that’s not the primary cause of inflation. It can rapidly accelerate it or decelerate it, but the cause, the actual initiation of inflation, is government overspending. What I mean by that is that some government spending actually increases production, but we’re way past that line.

Thanks to DOGE, we know that upwards of $2 trillion is nothing but waste. Money sent to foreign countries for no benefit to America. A lot of it funds the Democrat Party and donors to the Democrat Party; individual campaigns through backdoor NGO funding that provides kickbacks to the Democrat Party or individual candidates including RINOs who present themselves as opposition, but who are not.

This is more than mere malfeasance, the debt at this rate and the profligate needless and even harmful (in the case of censorship, etc.) spending associated with USAID and executive departments and agencies is driving the expectation of default. There are only a few things holding up the economic collapse of the United States: 1) a grace period for Trump to start sorting out the debt; 2) the lack of a viable reserve currency other than the dollar.

The problem is congress. DOGE can show the wasteful spending and Trump can cut jobs, but it takes congress to implement the spending changes. They have to be the ones to bring about lasting change in how we essentially finance our own destruction, including the criminal alien invasion. The degree to which the Democrat Party and RINOs benefit from the waste and abuse is evident by the Democrats and RINOs taking “principled” stands against the gutting of the bloated agencies of the federal government. They have no principles, have shed them long ago, so their caterwauling on television about the inappropriateness of DOGE and computer geeks digging into the web of betrayal and payoffs that have existed for decades rings hollow to anyone who has an ounce of common sense. It’s such a display of criminals defending their crimes and blaming the cops for their discovery as I have ever seen. They do so unashamedly and that attests to the degree to which they are reliant on the waste and fraud to fund their criminal enterprise.

The scary part for anyone is to recognize that the government could cut $2 trillion out of the budget and it would literally have no effect on services. This is all money just thrown about. Yes, it will cause the area around Washington DC to experience a recession of sorts, a lot of newly-unemployed going back home or digging themselves into state government bureaucracy somewhere in the liberal wasteland. Surely, the business of blathering on will suffer cut backs, since the funds for promoting nonsense will dry up, but it’s important to solidify these gains with legislation, with budget cuts to reflect the savings.

This is something that is NOT being done and worthy of calling your representative about. Where are the budget cuts to eliminate the waste? This should be one question that should follow them about until they’re forced to respond. They are intent on passing another CR to cover until September. This only extends the spending at current levels and the only talk coming out of the House right now, should be how to effect those budget cuts to return the $2 trillion to eliminate the deficit this year. Not next, not later, not at some future time. They have gotten away with this for too long.

Granted, there’s a lot of positives coming out of the Executive Branch, but not congress, and not the judiciary. There’s one prime mover in Washington and that needs to change and right now. If Republicans cannot find a way to cut spending it will send a renewed cry throughout the world to disengage from the dollar. It will cost them support from the new alliance centered around Musk and RFK Jr. BRICS will get an enormous boost from their inaction. This is why it’s so much more important than they seem to grasp. Right now, it’s all optics: DOGE finding waste, Trump eliminating or vastly reducing the size of government agencies, but the money is still there, perhaps recaptured, but nowhere for it to go unless congress reallocates it to debt reduction. If they’re going to have one huge bill, this should be it, the “Funds Reallocation to Debt” bill that takes all of that money exposed as waste, fraud or abuse and applies it. More than that, codifies that any “recovered” funds from the elimination of waste, fraud or abuse in the federal budget must be allocated to the national debt until such time as the debt to GDP ratio returns to 50% or less. That can be achieved by growth as much as savings, but if the congress does not do this, the nation is a lot closer to economic collapse.

Nations around the world are right now deciding whether or not the United States can remain the economic power it has always been. They’re deciding whether they should purchase bonds and therefore tie their currencies to the dollar or the BRICS currency. They are, like the rest of us, encouraged by the identification of waste, fraud and abuse, but they’re watching to see if it can be effective in pulling the United States back from the brink of economic disaster. If congress cannot act, when the will of the people has been made as plain as it’s possible to be made, the slope toward disaster will be greatly inclined and almost, if not, insurmountable.

Instead of this, Mike Johnson and the rest of them, are talking about a CR, extending the spending at the current rate. Why? I know there’s some technical aspects to work on ten-year budgets that make acting immediately almost impossible, but that’s what they’re supposed to be doing, overcoming those obstacles. In fact, they don’t seem to be doing anything at all, except watching DOGE and Trump and nodding their heads like bobbleheads on the dashboard of a train running out of track.

In a lot of ways the people are kept out of the process, but we’ve seen public pressure work on Trump’s cabinet nominees. At one time, I gave RFK Jr. a snowball’s chance in hell, but he was confirmed the other day. I thought Big Pharma was too engrained in the congress to allow it, but the phone lines melted down and that’s in the Senate, the least responsive to the will of their constituents. The House is more so.

This is all going to come to a head, maybe with the Democrats shutting down the government (at least the part that actually gets shut down) to avoid congressional action on DOGE’s findings. That’s fine, that actually works for the people. It frames the issue better and reinforces the demand to cut spending.

My take: No CR without massive budget cuts. This is what is needed. The consequences of failure are nearly catastrophic.

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