(11-09-2024, 12:23 AM)navyjagfan Wrote:

(11-08-2024, 09:34 PM)mikesez Wrote: Yes.  AI, robots, and simplification is going to bring Medicare and defense costs down 90% within a year.   That will allow us to cut the budget by about $2T without cutting social security.  Thanks in advance, Elon!

I work for the federal government and I can assure you that there are huge amounts of waste that could be cut without really affecting any services. For example, the VA buys medical supplies at greatly inflated prices because they get them from various "small businesses" that are nothing but a middleman for the manufacturer and they add no value.  Private sector hospitals don't do that and pay 10-20% less for the exact same items.  

In Europe, they typically do colonoscopies without anesthesia but in the U.S. it's almost always done under anesthesia so the costs are significantly higher.  

And in Europe you don't have all the artificial colors, flavors, preservatives that you have in America - so people there are healthier with fewer health problems.  Get American to live and eat healthier and healthcare costs will go down.  

Ultimately social security has to be addressed because it's unsustainable.  You don't make changes to current recipients, but you have to adjust the retirement age for future retirees to match receipts.  

The government simply can't continue to spend at the current rates and go further and further into debt.  Hard decisions have to be made.