And the fact that those controllable private companies will charge about five times* what the government agencies did to do the same work, is absolutely the best possible thing in this best of all possible worlds!
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*\ of course the Dear Leader’s cut is crucial.
You misunderstand something.
The budget consists of two parts: the part spent on government personnel and government-owned infrastructure, which is all waste. And the part spent on corporate services. Which is all shiny and efficient and wonderful.
Rest assured the propaganda will all be about cutting the first part. With no mention of the second part.
As @Sherrerd points out just above this post.
Firstly the wage a person earns is not the same as the value that they are providing.
Someone on minimum wage is delivering more than minimum wage value to their employer, likely a hell of a lot more.
And in the case of prisoners, this is much more true, as you basically don’t need to follow any labor laws. Prisoners’ pay is mere cents; so all you need to do is pay for the room and board, which brings us to…
Secondly there’s a difference between how much it costs to live in society independently, including landlords needing to make their own profit, transport, dependents etc versus being packed together in one building and being fed out of date discards from supermarkets. No-one would rent an “apartment” that was a bunk bed in a shared room next to a toilet.
All together it’s somewhat a surprise that prisons in the US need federal funding at all. But of course they are profit-making ventures, so likely many don’t really need it at existing levels, though of course they will lobby heavily.
You thought Trump was gonna give you cheap eggs? Fuck you.
" Although Trump said it would be hard to bring down those prices, he told Time that he believes they would fall as a result of his energy and supply chain policies"
So we’re sticking with ‘don’t worry, the savings will trickle down’?
I’m struggling to understand why if we want to, say, bring down the price of eggs we can’t just put a tariff on chickens.
Yep. And also eventually it will get to when it gets brought up many people’s perception of price points vs. incomes will have adapted to the “new normal” and it will be like “why do you keep bringing up things from the past?” and/or “well, yeah, things have always been expensive but it’s not like when Biden, when it was twice that” [they’ll say with a straight face however high the price goes under Trump].
He probably also got told this would mean reducing the profits of the grocery corporations and the Big Ag producers.
As I understand it, that would mean that China would pay for the eggs.
And while we’re at it, put a tariff on Covid and Bird Flu. Keep all those nasty Chinese diseases out of our country.
Or, better yet, stop exporting critical National Chicken Security Resources to those Commie Bastards!
In 2022, United States exported $5.43B in Poultry Meat. The main destinations of United States exports on Poultry Meat were China ($1.11B), Mexico ($1.02B), Canada ($417M), Cuba ($295M), and Chinese Taipei ($280M).
And you know what trickles down on you when you’re underneath a chicken coop…
It’s true though – no-one can bring prices down, the challenge will be whether Trump can keep inflation at its current low level.
I wish the average Trump voter might learn something from this, but I doubt it. Even if Trump caused Zimbabwe-level hyperinflation it’s likely they could just be told it’s the fault of the deep state (and hey, the new Quintillion note has Trump’s face on it!)
Of course it’s true. But a certain percentage of voters punished Biden for not bringing prices down.
And what’s more, it’s the chickens that pay the tariff!
A large percentage of voters. It was the #1 issue, and should have been a positive for the Biden administration if it weren’t for a number of cultivated misconceptions.
What I am speculating about is what proportion of those people will learn something (basic) about inflation when they see prices remain basically where they are (in the ideal case), or whether the disinformation will win again.
Of course my money would be the latter. It’s the deep state’s fault, and Trump’s inflation number of 4% is really an improvement because the numbers when Biden left office were all fake news.
What do you mean, fault? The economy has never been better! Under the Democrats you were only making minimum wage. Now thanks to Trump’s very special genius, you’re making ten billion dollars a day! And next week, it’ll be five hundred billion a day! Trump has made everyone rich!
I pointed that article out to a Trumper friend on Facebook, along with a caption about how “he was going to fix all of this right away, right?” And I got the answer, “ More of a chance with him than the other.”
You just can’t pierce that cloud of denial and hero-worship.
You really can’t. On election night, the best defense of Trump my MAGA sister could give me was “He’s not as bad as Kamala.” She couldn’t find anything positive to say about Trump but she knew he wouldn’t be as bad as Harris.
That’s your “I vote for anyone with an (R) after their name” voter.