The Goat Pen

eCat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:37 am you think the Department of Education has improved the quality of our education in this country since its inception?

I guess we're fixin to find out...

"Now almost 50 years later, almost 20% of high school graduates are as functionally illiterate as Cardi-B."

What's your excuse?

"you think the Department of Education has improved the quality of our education in this country since its inception?"

You could ask that same question about every federal department, agency and bureau...

hedge wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 11:33 am "you think the Department of Education has improved the quality of our education in this country since its inception?"

You could ask that same question about every federal department, agency and bureau...

You could.

Which is why Trump is firing everyone and shrinking these agencies.

hedge wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 11:33 am "you think the Department of Education has improved the quality of our education in this country since its inception?"

You could ask that same question about every federal department, agency and bureau...

yea, we could

which make me wonder why you are so dead set against doing anything about it

I believe I raised the question of why not just get rid of the federal government entirely? Except for military I guess. It's so easy to ask that question and, evidently, very easy for ostensible adults to become giddy at the idea. I just don't think it's wise to dismantle something that was 250 years in the making in 6 months, esp. by this cadre of goons who I am absolutely sure have no interest or idea about making the government actually work better for the average citizen. Anybody who believes that that is their motivation is a moron...

They have 36,000,000,000,000 reasons to this.

No one else was willing to do this because they either only cared about their re-election or their legacy in their own library. Trump does not give even one fuck about any of that. Instead, he only cares about Kai and his other grandchildren.

Just horrible

The same people said Biden was coherent

eCat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 2:06 pm Just horrible

The same people said Biden was coherent

That is correct eCat. None of these people will ever be called out for being so wrong for absolutely everything they said.

Here's a great use of taxpayer dollars. Hey eCat, how does this square with your "You can't have the government creating 25% of GDP thru taxpayer money"?

hedge wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 3:47 pm Here's a great use of taxpayer dollars. Hey eCat, how does this square with your "You can't have the government creating 25% of GDP thru taxpayer money"?

Think I will wait to hear from trump himself on that one

Of course you will. No one expects you to form an opinion on anything until Trump tells you what opinion to form...

Now we know what your opinion is, IB...

Cliff Asness: The New ‘Crypto Fort Knox’ Is as Dumb as It Sounds

To create a sovereign wealth fund dedicated to something five times or more as volatile as straight-up stocks is an awful idea.

I’ve been managing money for 33 years now with some modest success. While there are some worthy competitors, it’s hard for me to remember a much worse idea than the U.S. launching a “strategic cryptocurrency reserve.” Nevertheless, on Thursday, President Donald Trump issued an executive order calling for just such a fund. David Sacks—Trump’s crypto czar—tweeted that the reserve would be “like a digital Fort Knox,” perhaps forgetting that the U.S. has been off the gold standard since 1933. In any case, his words do not diminish my scorn for this dangerous boondoggle, as I will explain below.

A sovereign wealth fund for the U.S., which President Trump has also begun planning, is inappropriate, unneeded, likely harmful, and potentially quite corrupt. But a strategic cryptocurrency reserve looks at a “normal” sovereign wealth fund and says, “Hold my beer,” as we are going to plaid.

https://www.thefp.com/p/trumps-crypto-f ... irect=true

hedge wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 4:08 pm Of course you will. No one expects you to form an opinion on anything until Trump tells you what opinion to form...

BINGO!

Jungle Rat wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 6:38 pm

hedge wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 4:08 pm Of course you will. No one expects you to form an opinion on anything until Trump tells you what opinion to form...

BINGO!

No.

Putting treasury dollars into crypto is a stupid idea from a great president.

hedge wrote: ↑Fri Mar 07, 2025 3:47 pm Here's a great use of taxpayer dollars. Hey eCat, how does this square with your "You can't have the government creating 25% of GDP thru taxpayer money"?

I don’t agree with that not sure why you think I would

Silence is acceptance...

Eric Weinstein talks Gen-X

Lindy Li named the TEAM that ran the country during the Biden years