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George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

Musk says government funded jobs aren’t real jobs. Yet his companies survived on government subsidies. (Also, those savings are bogus numbers.)

@georgetakei shouldn't he pay back the money, with say 4% interest retrospectively...

@georgetakei

He is wearing a cheese hat, bribes people, wants his daughter to be dead, try to fertilize every dumb woman on this planet and thinks he is the best.

He is a lost psychopath and junkie with too much money and people let him do because they think it's funny to be part of the apocalypse.
So that's it.

The more we feed him with attention the more he thinks he is doing something special.

@georgetakei This coming from a guy that never did a hard days labor in his life.

@_Dreugan_ @georgetakei

a man who shows that being "CEO" (as he does it) is actually not a real job

@georgetakei those numbers are also unsubstantiated, there is 0 proof they are rea, and looking at what musker is doing i doubt these numbers present reality

@georgetakei

I did some math.
The estimate is there are 160 million individual taxpayers in the USA (using Filled in tax return data)

if the saving per taxpayer is $2.208
then the math does not add up.

160 million times 2,208 equals 353.28 billion. (353,280,000,000) and not 248,032,612,661.

For the 248.032.612.661 to have a saving of 2.208 per tax payer, That Equals 112 Million Tax payers... (112,363,197 taxpayers to be exact)

so...like i said, The math does not add up.

@georgetakei yes it might be that the shown numbers are older... but that is also why i said they are unsubstantiated

@georgetakei MTG has also said that government jobs aren't real jobs because they don't create wealth. This is a fundamental misunderstanding about what government is for. We have government because we need things that we cannot do individually. We pool our resources, through taxes, to do these things collectively. A government service is not supposed to make a profit. A government worker's job is to make sure that the money that flows through the institution serves the people well.

If we privatize government services, they have to make a profit and somebody makes money off of them. That is basically skimming off money from services we have already paid for through taxes. That is not efficiency. That's a scam.

@jredlund @georgetakei

And it's the same with healthcare, elderly care, and public transportation. In Germany, they've been trying (unsuccessfully) for years to turn hospitals into profit centers – like in the US. It just doesn't work because we have to afford these costs in a just society. Instead, we're knowingly transforming democracies into fascist oligarchies. Hail Musk & Trump.

@georgetakei if these are the numbers they are providing, then the “savings” are obviously less. But let’s just say that those numbers are accurate. If people are ok with all this carnage and destruction for $2k, then we have a bigger issue in this country.

Let me know when DOGE's numbers aren't made up. ChatGPT is jealous.

@georgetakei Of course it makes the Left angry.....because we know it's complete and utter BS that's being peddled as true fact in order to deceive the American public!

@georgetakei what is weird is wrecking havok on a system is only giving back an hypothetical 2000$ to the people without considering how worst their life will be and how much they will need to pay to keep on living.

@georgetakei
The profile icon from Elon is a Black Hole!
No question left.

@georgetakei

Even if those absurd numbers were real, that money pays for government services that benefit taxpayers. The taxpayers will have to buy those services now from private vendors. Private vendors need to make a profit. So to get back what Musk is taking from them, the taxpayers will end up paying more to get, at best, the same thing.

@georgetakei

Elon Musk repeats a meme from one-time WH chief of staff, Andrew Card. Being a govt employee is a contradiction in terms, a loss to the private sector and a waste of govt resources. Their goal is to defang govt, to prevent it from reining in their resource extraction and profit-taking.

Like Musk, Card said that as a WH employee and principal adviser to a Republican president. He spent his career selling bogus ideas to congresscritters - aka, public employees.

@georgetakei

"Billionaire idiot government wrecker" isn't a real job

@georgetakei It does “make the left angry”, blatant lies should make everyone angry though.

@georgetakei
I am a cancer researcher whose salary is fully funded by the US government. As are the majority of scientists in my department. For now, anyways. Our institution is set to lose $100 million annually from changes to indirect costs, which help fund things like internal grants for early-career scientists (now canceled).

@georgetakei

Those people will be getting jobs fighting cancer for the EU.

@georgetakei Maybe it isn't a real job... if so, research would show Elon Musk is a cancer on society.

@georgetakei Yes, those numbers are complete fantasy, just more lies from fElon. The numbers have been debunked by a heap of people so far, including analysts, constitutional lawyers etc, the actual savings are minimal and in fact govt spending has gone up since trump took office.